skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bank run comes from people running to the bank to withdraw all of their money from their accounts to keep it as cash and essentially bankrupting a bank, causing shockwaves in credit markets.

It's not really the same thing as the money suddenly nullified which I think the original commenter is describing. A better analogy might be to say it's like everyone waking up and seeing their 401k suddenly says 0$.
I work for a bank in the US, and not one of the names you hear associated with scandals all the time. The level of redundancy and HA built into our everything is why our jobs are so boring and slow. We also use a core banking platform that lots of other banks use and it's properly engineered for the kind of enterprise performance we'd all expect. There are certainly problems in banking, but the FDIC protections are also there for consumers. Let's start with a reasonable premise, not a fear-mongering one.
Stockholm used to be like that 10-15 years ago, but these days all places accept card.
> Just because someone benefits from something doesn’t mean they aren’t being taken advantage of.

Doesn't it? If you have some kind of objective measure of fairness, I would like to hear it.
Military bases, especially in the austere / remote environments where some of them are, have a few differences from most civilian areas.

- Specialized personnel, who are required to fulfill the base's mission

- Substantial logistical costs for additional personnel or materiel

- Limited medical facilities, often lacking in higher standards of care, supplies, and with substantial evacuation distances

Since Diego Garcia is a major airbase, some of these are lessened, but they still all apply.

If someone is injured, they have to be rotated out and someone with the same specialized training rotated in. If something is needed (say, medical supplies), they have to be flown or shipped thousands of miles.

Each doctor/nurse/piece of medical equipment thus has a logistics footprint several times what a mainland one would. Which means a bare minimum medical presence.

Which means if something really bad happens (major trauma from a shark attack), someone is probably dying.

Weighed against that... a ban on surfing for recreational purposes seems fair.

At the end of the day, when you're deployed in a remote environment with the military, you're there to serve the mission. Fun comes secondary, or not at all. :(
you should be able to see their CS syllabus online.

in me experience.. essential math is single variable calculus and multi variate culture usually taught over 1-3 separate courses. linear algebra..discrete math (more of CS class than just pure math).
There are some design decisions mean Rust can't work with generational references and regions, unfortunately. They're incompatible with their form of borrow checking.

In Vale, each struct has a generation in theory, but they are often merged with their parent struct. It requires some pretty interesting logic which can't be implemented in Rust.

Regions require truly immutable references, which Rust doesn't have. Their shared references are unfortunately foiled by the RefCell escape hatch.

Additionally, the rest of Vale's future design prioritizes developer productivity more than Rust has, in my opinion:

- A coroutine-like mechanism instead of Rust's async/await function coloring, and structured concurrency which doesn't involve the Sync/Send "data coloring" problem.

- Vale's borrowing is done on the region level and on an opt-in basis, so users can decide to only use borrow checking where it makes sense.

- Linear typing ("Higher RAII") which allows for different static checks which aren't quite as infectious as aliasability-xor-mutability.

I love Rust, but it has some quirks that make it much more suited to low-level development than these higher user cases. I don't see how Rust can fix them, but there are some smart people working on it and I hope they figure out a way, because the world needs a fast and safe language that's easy to learn and focuses on productivity, even if it's not Vale ;)
> I can start a business without an investment round, but not a startup?

The answer around me seems to be that a startup comes out of an idea without the capital worked out. That the equity they have to offer is worth nothing, unless they execute the plan with money they don't have.

If you have the capital worked out, you can go ahead into the business phase of the process right away, where profitability is king and there's no plan needed to answer the "how to raise more?" question.

A lot of what we associate with startups is the justifications towards raising and a lot of what we see from a "business" is geared towards margins.

For instance, better margins by extracting more profits on a lower revenue is better for one, but looks bad for the other.
There is a also a different subreddit dedicated to the advice r/loseit.

It would be interesting to see which type of thinking has better weight loss outcomes.
The barrel may be part of the point. It may also be useful context for anyone who is wondering how much time to invest in learning about Diogenes.
Why do some Norwegian fjords turn green?
I have my whole Linux desktop machine, two laptops and a few servers fully codified now in Ansible.

Everything is in there. Every library and piece of software, every config and preference. User creation (minus any sensitive data). Everything.

Made a bootstrap script I run on a fresh install, and then I can push the ansible config onto it from a raspberrypi ansible server on my LAN.

Wanted a different file system in december. Wiped the system, changed filesystems, resetup. Took less than 1 hour.
Go's crypto libraries are all native, and a good example of why corporate backing is very useful. It's unlikely that you would get someone like agl to develop such excellent cryptography libraries in the first place without being sponsored to do so. Yes, there are some talented developers who will donate their skills, but I would wager that the majority of the most experienced developers are going to be busy with work, and large contributions are only going to happen as part of that work.
My advice is to run a real process and track every application. Expect around 100 applications to 25 screens to 10 interview loops to 1 offer. Best case.

I would say directly reaching out to hiring managers and recruiters is your path forward, but they get a lot of inbound, so the odds of a cold outreach getting read is low unless you have an intro.
The Critic is a slightly upmarket alt-right publication for establishing more culture war content and contrarianism in the British media landscape. Co-Founded by a strategist of the „European Research Group“, that far right Brexit group in the Tories, and funded by conservative millionaire donors as part of what some describe as pundit welfare strategy - financing enough weird cranks and their media projects to influence public opinion.

In general whenever such a publication is talking about a foreign locality, the aim is always to influence the local (here British) discourse, not taking something foreign on their own merits, but using it as a mirror for the authors’s pet peeve in their own locality.
Practically, it's just as often merchants that prefer the option of not paying tax on a given transaction.
The key phrase is "in a downturn". When it is not a downturn, VCs encourage startups to grow at all costs. And it's extremely difficult to change course. VCs can change advice overnight but companies don't have that flexibility
HN likes to trash Bitcoin, but at least you can understand where the pro-Bitcoin folks are coming from. If a cashless society is inevitable, would you prefer that all such transactions be mediated by a small number of large corporations? Or would you prefer the option of at least some of your transactions happening through a peer-to-peer system that no corporation or government controls?
Yes, the somewhat unfavorable view of LaunchDarkly is that it is If-Condition-As-A-Service. (They add a lot more value than just that, of course. Just that's the raw nutshell of what they do.)

I have had too many conversations complicated by the fact that when I say off hand "well just use a feature flag for that" or "maybe you should wrap that in a feature flag" they picture massive abstractions and infrastructure and often what I mean is simply "add a configurable variable somewhere, the environment or the user table in a database or a JSON file or something else, then add boring if statements checking that flag". Sometimes it is okay to just start with the basics.

(Again, not to disparage LaunchDarkly. Having "proper" infrastructure for it can provide a lot of nice-to-haves and there are definite benefits to the tools that they value add. Just that sometimes the marketing of tools like that does come at the cost of over-complicating the discussion of the basics of the thing.)
All employees get 60 days notice, so it seems like there will be 30 days of uncertainty. Maybe I'm optimistic.
> I view politics as the science of cultivating power, and policy as something measurable and scientifically testable.

My use was definitely loose. I agree, with an additional separation: politics is the science, policy is the reality, and propaganda is a corrupting force, influencing both.

I think the science and propaganda are too intertwined to make sense of, leaving the reality as the true signal.

I believe that if we were very careful, and removed all data relating to "propaganda" and "political science", while training an AI, and just feed it reality, both the propaganda (the outcome of this policy is "better") and science (this results in this) would be emergent in anything we considered "intelligent".

I guess my basic point was that avoiding politics is not possible, because we're living in the result of politics, and an understanding of the abstractions of the world results in politics. It's a strong feedback loop with few degrees of "rational" freedom, causing the emergence. An "intelligence" that could look at policy, and create a scaffolding of understanding for why it was built, wouldn't be "intelligent".
I could definitely feel the propagandistic nature of this piece of "journalism".
Pre-PMF companies need to experiment and nail down their PMF. So what should they be spending on, and what shouldn't they be spending on? I assume conference booths fall into the latter category. Is there anything other than product dev and design that falls into the former? Where does marketing land, in order to make sure enough people are in the funnel to be able to meaningfully experiment and gather data?
Wait so these layoffs are still only a smallish part of the employees added over the next couple years?

While obviously bad that seems like... as far as speaking for the entire tech industry not really that bad?

Do you know if the other big tech layoffs followed a similar pattern.

Or am I missing something here.
Ah, perfect, just in time for the DoJ announcing they're going after cryptographically sound and undisputable transfers of value.
Please add musl build here:

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/releases/expanded_assets/bun-...
Is you Bot?
I could be wrong, but I think these are solid capacitors, they don't leak.

https://www.gigabyte.com/webpage/8/article_02_all_solid.htm
https://www.noon.energy/
Managing Data with Conversational AI
Isn’t aging engineered into an organism? This seems self-evident because rats and humans are made of essentially the same biological stuff, but rats live for 2-3 years (and then die of old age) and humans live for 25x that. Maybe this theory explains how organisms “create” aging. It also implies that aging can be slowed or reversed, and the mechanism for doing that is already present in any organism.
It's the same wierd argument why they got rid of 500€ note - only criminals use them for drug deals.

As if the drug trade slowed because they banned the note. No, the trade will continue as long as there are buyers and stuff for humans to trade.
Back in the days when I first moved to Berlin, my landlord commented on a motorbike dealer with the words “we didn’t buy there, they were too friendly.” That’s Berlin.
The Carbon Con
Problem is Facebook and Instagram are global entities.
What a weak interpretation.

> The author of this article seems to make some very obscure points here. First and foremost: "You have to work pretty hard to find a bar serving traditional Germanic beverages and food." What does the author define as "Germanic" beverages and food? As a german that has lived for some time in Berlin I'm quite sure that there are more than enough places to grab "Germanic" beverages and food at. They just don't stand out much. [EDIT: For those who don't know, Germanic doesn't mean German. Germanic means something different]

You yourself admit that these places "don't stand out much". Does this not support the authors point that he had to work hard to find these places?

> I also like to mention that many places prefer cash only in Germany for tax evasion reasons, not because of some made-up "grassroots pushback" against the big, scary globalism of.. foreign restaurants. (???)

Private payment processors (like MasterCard and Visa) can for any and no reason refuse their services. Ridiculing and dismissing the author's concern by pulling out the "big scary globalism" straw man is disingenuous.

> Another obscure point is that "eager-looking under 18s try to get in [beer breweries], only to be politely turned away without any fracas." which is again, a very stupid point to make, since you are allowed to buy beer at 16 in Germany already.

18 and older for beverages over 1.2% ABV (which is most beers).

> Then he quotes a person of supposedly Eritrean descent saying “But the people coming now, they don’t learn German and they don’t want to work.” which sounds pretty much like your average alt-right talking point, that has been disproven over and over again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
> Just because a group of people is accustomed to poor working conditions doesn't make it any more right or ethical

I think this kind of moral puritanism is an enemy of real social progress. Maybe we shouldn't or can't expect some supreme, pure state of "ethical", maybe all we can or should expect is "better".
I'm guessing its a little like FreeDOS. Its not really going to siphon users away from Windows, but it will find little niche uses. Weird embedded system type things where somehow it manages to support drivers that unsupported combinations of drivers and software that real Windows versions don't, for example.
There are (or were) places in Berlin that accept Bitcoin.
A lot of so called "SJW" rhetoric is in support of being able to support yourself.
That works okay only for fixed-sized structs that don't require any transformation of their members-- otherwise you'll need to write a traditional parser.
Sounds like a good way to get banned. Yes, it will work a couple of times but do not except to be able to visit a place more than once or twice.
Is there a migration guide for Deno users?
The Lottery and Personal Finance
Apply to lots of jobs and don't fear rejection. Each process has learning opportunities and it's a chance to hone your interviewing skills.
Is it not possible to point BW Android to your Vaultwarden instance?
"Please drink verification can to continue."
Can you help my understand why this article cites a higher per capita burglary rate in Texas than California (it claims the data is from the FBI)? https://www.thezebra.com/resources/research/burglary-statist...
Even before instant transfers, standard SEPA was quick and easy. The big step forward was when they let us add beneficiaries from a phone app or a website rather than by sending verification codes over snail mail, but that was a while ago now.
3D Rust/Raft kind of survival game in browser
The article was written by a Londoner for a British audience. The man literally served in the British armed forces and didn't emigrate to the US until the 2010s. Not sure what America has to do with any of this.
[on GitHub trending] Cleanlab: Data-Centric AI Package
cleanlab is trending on github daily python packages --- https://github.com/trending/python?since=daily

It is a data-centric AI package for data quality and machine learning with messy, real-world data and labels.
You can't do that for GIF. Each frame can be composited on top of the last frame (ie. no disposal; this allows storing only the part that changed), so to seek to a random frame you may need to replay the whole GIF from the start.

The reason you can seek to any frame is GIFs tend to be small, so your browser caches all the frames in memory.
This was late USSR, all the way up to its dissolution and privatization of housing in 1991. I was a small kid at the time, but I don't recall the standard being different depending on age.

The allotment of living space (counted as bedroom area per person) varied depending on the city, and sometimes there was a difference between the nominal and the actual number. In Moscow and Leningrad the designated minimum was around 7 m^2 per person, but in practice applying for a new apartment would be unlikely to succeed if you had more than 5 m^2. In some of the provinces, it could go as low as 3 m^2 per person.

And keep in mind that this is the minimum that entitled you to apply for a new apartment. Which means that you'd be put in a line to wait your turn to actually get one when one is available, say, 10 years later.
I've seen terminals "temporarily broken" for many months in Berlin.

Taxi drivers are supposedly notorious for having terminals (which are mandatory, as far as I know) that often break – and mysteriously start working again once you reveal that you do not have any cash on you as a passenger.
Ive just tried this (web app on iPhone) and it’s still there for me.

I use this a lot too for similar reasons to you.

Edit: I don’t know if this is different behaviour from before but the “Latest” tab didn’t appear until I performed a search.
Scale/performance. The interface is also straightforward to use. Puppeteer or any nonembedded process is just unnecessary hassle/overhead in a lot of cases.
Why does Texas has so many reported burglaries though?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/232539/burglaries-report...
> I'm not so sure about the openness of D-lang so I've left it out

D is the most open language you will find. It is Boost licensed, which has the least restrictions of any language you'll find:

https://www.boost.org/users/license.html

The compiler is 100% Boost licensed.

Nobody pays me a dime for D.
Synthetic Identity Theft and How to Protect Yourself
And yet gargantuan financial institutions keep getting fined for various kinds of misbehavior, on a what seems to be a regular basis. The one that sticks out in my mind aside from this kind of failure was the systematic fraud perpetuated by Wells Fargo. Are any execs in prison or was it just financial fines (i.e. cost of doing business) and job losses for the lower level peons who executed the (plausibly deniable) orders?

You will have to forgive me for being entirely unsatisfied with that level of accountability.

Re: ease of use, I think crypto skeptics tend to intentionally overstate the knowledge and skill required. We're not exactly at the "grandparent safe" level yet, but framing it as something only for the "techno-elite" isn't fair either.
Don't forget that people are supporting part of this whenever they buy an .io tld.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io#History
I'm not sure that's true. I know it sounds like it could be true (darn those big COs!) but, is it actually true? I don't think it is.
WebAssembly Tail Calls moved to Phase 4, soon enabled by default in Chrome
The last time I looked into adding musl support, there were some difficult to narrow down crashes in bun's linux aarch64 build

it's worth revisiting though since its been a little while
The site dismisses trains as an alternative to IOT highways but doesn't seem to go into details about why they believe improving highways would be more cost-effective than improving railways.

It kind of comes off as "this concept that's been talked about for decades is the solution to our traffic woes despite the lack of implementations"
Not a question, mostly a comment. Excited to see the crypto speed improvements. Makes me hopeful about projects like scikit.js[0] toppling Python's ML dominance

[0] https://scikitjs.org/
How Aurora Uses Kubeflow to Accelerate Autonomous Vehicle ML Model Development
There are a lot of features here I think even experts would find valuable - for example, I wouldn't mind having the step-through expression evaluator, the debugger, and even the variable panel on hand.
What are some good resources to learn zig?
This also means creation of billion dollar global platforms that Europe and other parts of the world have never accomplished. Trade offs.
LastPass would have also led their customers to believe that "brute forcing was not possible" and that they were taking extraordinary measures to keep vaults and data safe.

I think one distinction between services like KeePass and 1Password is end user perception of how easy it is for an attacker to acquire an encrypted vault to begin with. For many, they consider a KDBX database sitting in their Dropbox account to be less likely to be stolen than an encrypted vault being held by a company like 1Password, a high value target to the most sophisticated attackers including state actors.
Are we all this fucking dumb man, you can’t tell these things are ads? You think this stuffs okay to do?

Followed by him talking about targeted ads

https://youtu.be/ohB4lC8Q4Sg

This guy has no respect for us lol.
Speculating, it could also be for chemistry reasons as well. For example, I understand that if you freeze a covid rapid access test it ruins it.
Initial reactions from watching the gif, coming in cold, having not seen the new design:

2003: Ouch. Yeah, that's bad.

2005: Great.

2011: Not worse. Maybe a little better. I have a vague recollection that some things that aren't well-showcased by a still got better with this one, but the still is at least not-offputting compared with '05.

2022: LOL are you serious? You cannot be serious. Please tell me this is unfinished.

All that padding. WTF. Someone accidentally hit "0" too many times in their CSS editor.

[EDIT] I mean I guess you need enormous swathes of empty space when you remove all other indicators of section division, but... like... just don't do that, then?

[EDIT 2] OK, I was like, "whatever, it sucks, but I'll get over it" until I read this: "When you are logged in to Wikipedia, the updated header will move with you as you scroll." Thank god when I try it on the site this doesn't actually work, since that'd force me to have custom CSS for Wikipedia. {ah, I see now it's because I'm not logged in. Great, easy to avoid then, no problem} Also: I'd love a before-after on page weight. Everyone always seems to add like a full MB of junk to the damn page when they add smart search like that, for some reason, even though it shouldn't require anywhere near that much (see: Github, whose pages bloated a ton when they made their search field "smarter"). One of the nicest things about WP is that it's semi-usable on a potato connection and I wouldn't want to see them sacrifice that in the name of almost any other improvement.

[EDIT 3] Being the change I want to see in the world: I checked with caches disabled and it looks like transfer and weight are damn near identical compared with the "wikiless" site that someone else linked, for the same article. Very nice, happy to see that. However, it appears to use double the memory of the Wikiless version (which I suppose represents something closer to the old design?) which seems pretty bad to me.