skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every few months I switch from digital notetaking on an iPad, to using notebooks. I think it's rooted in some weird anxiety or something, and I resolve it by saying "fuck it, I'm switching everything".

My current routine:

I use Muse on iPad for thoughts I don't need to share anywhere or worry about searchability of. Project ideas, etc are what go in there.

I use Nebo for handwritten notes because the OCR is better than anything else, and it can actually OCR notes in outline form (I don't know of any other apps that can do that reliably). I take my notes there, convert handwriting to text, then paste it into Notion in a semi-organized way.

When collaborating with my colleagues, I use either Google Suite, or Miro.

I'm sure in a few months I'll switch back to pen and paper, but it is quite nice to only haul around an iPad for a change.
Not now, Maciej.
Disrupt disrupt disrupt! Those old stodgy banks just slow us down with their old-fashioned risk-averse ways! The cool kids can do it better!

If I had a nickel for every time I heard this from actual friends in the past couple decades, or for when I said it myself a few times... :)
future AI systems based on LLMs and other foundation models might think less like individuals and more like companies. Ironically, LLMs might finally make symbolic AI possible! The way I see it, symbolic AI was always missing a small sprinkle of "general intelligence" too amooth things out, to grease the gears and connect interfaces. I feel like LLMs have that little bit of magical "generality" so we can start building "symbolic" AI systems which produce work by managing a number of black box models. It is like a company: protocols and management structures are a sort of symbolic AI that connects black box humans to eachother.
Just heard that the payroll company Ripping is down, as they use SVB as their partner. What a rippling effect...
What does the "takeover" mean? Will people's deposit still stay intact?
It's still life-changing after!
Inquery co-founder here. Great question regarding performance implications - we're working on an article exactly like you described. Additionally, we're exploring a few updates to significantly reduce the impact to the database: (1) adding the filtering at the trigger level, and (2) using the WAL instead of triggers.
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say here.

Sexism in the workplace is very different than nepotism.

And, you contradict yourself with your example. If nephew is minimum qualified, then he's qualified, yet you go on to assume people are hired because of their demography. Hiring based solely on demography/diversity/whatever isn't a thing because it's an unprofitable decision. Businesses aren't charities.
When a bank fails, it gets put into receivership and you get (some of) your money back. There's enormous protection working in your favor provided by the FDIC. When a crypto token enters free-fall, there's no one to stop the market, and no one to help you get your money back. It's gone.
KDE Wayland's hidden zoom shortcut
Here's why task groups may be a good idea
https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...
Ricky Gervais' Twitter account has been hacked
Yes it's just as bad. Long shifts are hard on the mind and body regardless of profession
Visual Studio supports conditional and printing breakpoints for both C and C++. I tend to use them rarely because they really hurt performance, though. I only use them if I need to be able to turn them on and off at will, which hardcoded __debugbreak()s don't allow, obviously.
I'm not sure if this helps answer your question, but coverage is automatic if you have your funds in an FDIC insurance bank (most all of them) and if it's in a normal savings type account and then any amount 250k or less.
At the $100m amount people may confuse FDIC with SIPC - https://www.sipc.org

What SIPC does is similar to FDIC but it basically comes down to "If you buy stocks via Vanguard, Vanguard guarantees that those stocks actually exist and that if they fail you get them, and SIPC helps with that".
I can't find the tweet where he suggests to Elon how to design the sides of the rocket. Elon just shuts it down. I've never once heard EDA push back on anything Elon says even though Elon can say some outlandish things every now and then. That blind fanboyism is annoying.

While not public, my friend was his liaison at Blue origin when he toured. He was extremely rude to the team at Blue. It actually surprised the media team how condescending he was.

In my personal experience, most people at my company don't like EDA. On the other hand they love Scott Manley. It's not about what you know it's about what kind of person you are.
So they took assets from an unreleased game and built on OpenRA. Here's hoping they can implement the user created environments.
Vibratory Bowl and Linear feeder [video]
You can also now play with it in Nostr.

Many of us send like 1000 sats (20 cents) instead of pressing the like button, which is a much better signal for posts than on social media, and lots of fun.

Jack Dorsey explained many times in the interviews that social media companies are captured by advertisers because of their dependence upon them, and talked about how they had to take a different direction of the product that he wanted because of advertisers.
Ask HN: Any startups here who didn't pull out their money in time from SVB?
What now for your startup?
The another, more reputable source says exactly what I said.

"The deposit itself is a liability owed by the bank to the depositor. Bank deposits refer to this liability rather than to the actual funds that have been deposited. When someone opens a bank account and makes a cash deposit, he surrenders the legal title to the cash, and it becomes an asset of the bank. In turn, the account is a liability to the bank."

The ACCOUNT is the liability, the CASH is the asset.
It may well be the thing that is causing them to do so.
'Design simple and robust systems...' and 'never proceed without confidence in your understanding...'. When I was a freshman, I would have said that. Then I entered the professional world. Complex problems are solved using complex solutions. Complete understanding is non-existing. Robustness is a relative term.
If a company has a loan out to SVB does that get sold off to basically another lender?
Yes, if you owe money to a bankrupt organisation, the creditors of that organisation now have your liability as their asset and will still expect payment.
We really don't have competition anymore. The auto industry is another example of of this. There are only a few players and they all kind of meetup like ok leather only costs us an extra $200 but we're going to put it as part of a package with a bunch of other shit no one cares about and sell it as a 6k add on.
Yes but supposedly if you mark their balance sheet to market, the net is approximately zero, i.e. they have just enough assets to cover liabilities with no reserve. In this case you could say that the reserve requirement is serving its purpose. The stockholders may be wiped out (depending on how much a potential buyer values the goodwill), but the depositors should get all their money back. Worst case I think depositors would take a small haircut.
Yeah famously the feds step in and cover your deposits when a crypto exchange collapses
stop posting this paywall garbage on here.
Please reboot Silly-con Valley...I mean the show. With everything that has happened with crypto and the current mayhem I think two solid additional seasons can be made.
You're talking about the web, which could indeed use some revision. The Internet is just fine.
Okay, I think I don't know how swap works on Linux. Is it:

When there's no more ram, swap is used

or

When ram hasn't been used in a while, it is sent to swap

Or maybe a mix of both?
Maybe it isn't as you say and that the layoffs were hyped out of context. Seems most of the layoffs are turning back over hiring. Most tech companies still have more employees than before covid
Most nature documentaries don't leave it at that, though. They present facts, but then weave them into a narrative. I don't know why this "weaving a narrative" is something they all do.
...maybe they teach that at film school or something. Science itself has no narratives.

And at some point in the 90s, it seems to me that someone decided that the narrative for all nature documentaries was going to be: Man is destroying nature.

It's all this same weird psychology, where man loves to set up systems to keep reminding him that he's a sinner. The political right, in the U.S., gets their weekly fix in church. The political left works the message into nature documentaries instead. I wish both sides would stop evangelizing. I really kind of want to just say "No, thank you" in the same way I would say "No, thank you" to a Jehovah's witness knocking at my door.
It is actually exactly an FTX situation

Not as extreme maybe, and less fraud got us here, but $assets < $deposits
This is how quickly a bank run can happen. They announced they were seeking funding, people started withdrawing all their money, and the investors all pulled out, leaving SVB high and dry. Now it's dead.
I'm a bit confused. (Haven't followed in detail) Did they not mark to market the bonds they bought and ended up insolvent in reality but not in their books? Shouldn't the regulators have pulled the trigger earlier, then? Or is this just a liquidity issue and the bank is solvent, but the assets need to be sold?
The good news is that utility scale solar farms require less labor per megawatt hour generated than legacy sources like coal. The current jobs boom is because installation is rapidly increasing. See this post of mine from 2017 for a comparison of labor to operate already-built generating facilities:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14173844
... my guy what are you talking about. the regulations _saved_ the depositors. if the FDIC wasn't around the little guy would be getting screwed right now, as it is, the big guys are the ones taking the brunt of the damage. if this had been crypto it would *all* be gone and the little guy would be the one holding the bag
Linked at the end of the article is something that I can't believe I haven't come across already (as a designer): https://www.fontshare.com

I initially assumed the author had linked it simply as a commercial type foundry with reasonable web licensing, but I did a double-take when I realized these were all free (beer rather than speech, thus distinct from the OFL community), in what appears to be a rather expansive freemium project from Indian Type Foundry.

While I'll have to spend some time using these to get a real sense of them (font quality often comes down to kerning pairs), my first impression is that these look absolutely top-tier, in the same league as both leading commercial type families and the best OFL projects.
Is it cheating? No. Are these now plenty of people who are incapable of doing basic math without their phones? Yes. It'll be interesting to see what effects this has once everyone outsources their long form thinking and communication to their AI friend.
I can't agree. I've never worked with people that don't understand a convention like "put actions in actions.ts and selectors in selectors.ts". Nor is that really a big deal because Redux is very easy to refactor, it's just pure functions.
Thing is, it's probably true for 1% of the cases, that things are slow for no good reason. Trick is how to identify that 1% of times when you can truly make something better. But 99% of the times, it's all shit and ends up like this, or similarly.
Large burn? You mean any burn at all…

Money there to to be spent over the next six months is now not available.

Payroll in Silicon Valley is going to be a mess this week.

Companies that lend to startups short term are going to have a busy time.
I believe they didn't think that the biggest risk to their investment would be the bank the co-founders chose.
All of them that need to fundraise.
>> I asked ChatGPT to assume "word" is a number, ignore numeric digits (ie 0-9) and assume the characters in "word" are digits. Also assume "word" contains the largest possible digit. What would it conclude the base to be.

For your intended use-case (as explained in your comment) shouldn't you be phrasing the second part of this specification as "treat the characters in "word" as if they are digits"?

The way you worded it introduces some ambiguity. The ambiguity can be resolved by a process of elimination - I had to think of what could possibly happen if I "assumed the characters in 'word' are digits" and realise that it doesn't make sense, so it must mean you want to use the characters as digits.

ChatGPT and LLMs in general really can't be expected to deal with that kind of ambiguity, not least because it's not the entire story (you also need another little logical jump, from "treat characters as digits" to "treat characters as denoting their positional values in the alphabet" or some such).

I'm saying, you're asking ChatGPT to take many reasoning steps, when everyone is having a big debate about whether ChatGPT and LLMs can reason _at all_. To make any heads or tails of ChatGPT's abilities, one needs to start with simple examples, and then get to the more complex stuff.

On the other hand, I expect that if you clarified your question more, or perhaps stated it just the right way, there's a good chance you'd get a correct answer. After all, the idea of counting with characters is very common and it's hard to believe ChatGPT hasn't seen a few thousands of examples of it during training.
will companies with money in SVB even be able to make payroll? Seems like this could cause huge issues in the short term and long term
Buying your own server requires an upfront investment. AS 90% of start-ups fail, hiring your computing resource flexibly is far better, even if it comes at a higher cost. Once your company is mature and relatively stable, it is worth considering if hosting your infrastructure is more cost-effective.
Thanks for this comment, I hadn't thought to try and sabotage my trajectory prior to engaging autopilot. I thought for sure it was gonna fail, but it managed to set me down gently right at the last moment quite brilliantly.
there are no "good ones" because "luxury" appliances are basically the same as the cheap ones with a nicer finish or luxury brand name

ask ANY appliance repair person...they would howl at the comments here

they've told me that people who think Bosch or Miele are "good" are just remembering what they were like twenty years ago and today they are just as likely to fail as Kenmore

ask ANY appliance repair person, don't listen to HN on topics like this
Hospitals are a little different in that society has more of an incentive for longer shifts since shift changes end up killing people as the knowledge transfer isn't perfect from one shift to the next. That incentive makes it reasonable to treat healthcare workers a little differently from a legal perspective when compared with jobs with less societal benefit like making iPhones.
Mummies of Llullaillaco
basically but the FDIC usually comes in real quick if they think a collapse might happen. Rumor is there's enough assets to cover the loses but it just couldn't handle the run happening.

I believe SVB will be open for business on Monday
I think facebook realizes that their uptake among younger audiences is way down and their userbase is aging. They've buttressed themselves so far via instagram, but I imagine they are maybe seeing a bit of the same trend. A generation seems to, more or less, engage with some social network and it becomes pretty sticky for them. So maybe this is just their 'next wave' play.
I'm in favor of allowing profanity, while the comment I replied to is calling this a "misstep" because advertisers want a cleaner environment for their brands.

I'm saying that they need to get with the times and embrace the cultural shift towards less censorship and more tolerance.

How does that make me "puritanical"?
I was wondering how us tax payers would end up paying into the crypto ponzi scheme.
Thank you!

Right now, you will need to ensure that your background functions are idempotent but we plan to introduce an API for “retried execution” so you can clean up.
Also, by default retry is an opt-in configuration option to avoid any unwanted side effects, the same goes with concurrency.
It's somewhat confusing to me, because a $100 treasury note is only worth less than $100 if you try to sell it today. You still will get your $100 back if it matures.
You're not supposed to keep your money in exchanges
I read TFA and didn't notice an answer to my question below.

Do men already have this permission? If so, I don't see why women shouldn't.
The deciding factor for that next-day sluggishness, in my experience, has been whether or not I fall asleep while still noticeably under its influence. If you wait it out and then sleep near the end of the come-down, you may avoid it entirely. But then, I never use it to sleep, so YMMV.
They are? All doctors I've been to in the past 10 years have them digitally and will transfer files digitally to your new doctor -- they won't even ask you if you've asked for them to be transferred. It's enough to tell my new doctor where I've previously been and they'll contact them and handle everything else.
You still get homoiconicity from the syntax which is nice since you can easily transform data into code into data into code into data... At build time.

Metaprogramming in C or Java is not fun. It's either code generation integrated with the build system, preprocessor (yuck), annotations processors or runtime weaving. Which all suck at different levels.
What's happening at Fukushima plant 12 years after meltdown?
I’m thinking more about evolution within the space of automated configuration tools.

I use Ansible at home as a replacement for the 1990s style of sysadmin where you manually managed your servers (which I did until the mid 2010s). Yet, I’m aware that Ansible is not declarative. It’s looks declarative, if you take your glasses off and don’t think too hard about it, but the key to understanding Ansible is really that the configuration is idempotent (not declarative).

Servers are cattle either way, it’s just that with Ansible, your servers will keep changes that you made months or years ago that have been deleted from your playbooks. That, to me, is what makes it old-fashioned.

I don’t think old-fashioned is bad. I’ve gotten into arguments where people have told me to manage my personal server(s) using K8s and I, politely as I could manage, told them to fuck off.
If tens (or hundreds?) of thousands of rather well-paid American professionals are also working in the conditions mentioned (12-hour shifts), then I assume that the headline is "anything that says 'Apple'" clickbait.

Or a symptom of sheltered & pampered western office workers - who at times seem to view normal, physical work as a human rights violation.
Literally no better time than now.
I've found the opposite. I can be 100% tuned-in and focused in the classroom because I don't use my phone because it's disrespectful to the speaker.
A big +1 for legal pads. They lay flat, the margins are useful for notes after the fact, and you can find them in dot grid or lined with good quality paper for quite cheap. I absolutely understand the "I don't want to ruin it" anxiety the author speaks of but I've not yet had that problem with my notebooks. Instead, I have it with my laptops haha.
Unfortunately it doesn't translate to other countries. The sloped Rio de Janeiro facing 40C (104F) and a thermal sensation of 50C (122F) is a big no - unless you're biking for fun, at the beach, in a Sunday morning.

I understand you can cross the Netherlands, end to end, by bike, within 1 one hour or less. But it's not my reality.
Presumably VCs have only a tiny fraction of their fund as available as cash, so I guess it won’t be too brutal.
> I think there was a russian engine that literally had 2x4's on fire stuck in the combustion chamber in place of torch ignitors or TEAB.

Yes, this is mentioned in the article with a picture.
Wrangling JSON Arrays: Zed vs. SQL
This ridiculous conversation was already destroyed.
Using all of them, and switch between them? Maybe doing some AB testing to figure out which ones work best with users?
Just a clarification: it's per depositor per bank.
When and where does the next shoe drop this time then?
Mentioned in TFA is "rr"; it serves up to gdb the history of the program and you can use tracepoints (also mentioned in TFA) to essentially retroactively add prints. Gdb is ... not particularly ergonomic, but it is eminently scriptable and writing programs to generate arbitrary logs post-facto is a useful skill.

Undo is another one for Linux programs, and I think I've seen developers from them post here.
I believe you, and as a counterpoint I've known many Russians and they uniformly were _not_ like the Russian guy you know. Those I knew expressly mocked the incompetence of letting essentially mobsters pretend to run a country (their country). It reminded me of a much larger scale version of old mobster tales from big cities in the US, long before my time.
Yes, I know that argument. So I'm curious: Would you support the initial restriction to only white, land-owning males as reasonable? Do you think, for example, that US women's suffrage required women to be educated first?

And, as you seem to assume, this skepticism led to more indirect forms of democratic institutions: Would you argue against direct democratic institutions in the U.S. on the same basis?
If the company's payroll is under the $250K FDIC insured amount, they can make payroll on Monday. If the company's payroll is like $1 million a month, maybe not.
They made some bad-in-hindsight bets on low-interest, medium-duration debt, rates went up 4%+, and also startups have less cash in this environment, so they were obligated to realize losses on the debt to pay withdrawals. The end result being they were undercapitalized or at least not well-capitalized. They attempted to raise funds by selling equity but this incited a run on the bank.
> Manufacturing behaviour through creating habit loops from notifications and scrolling for dopamine hits is an issue beyond social media.

I agree, but they are mostly intrinsically linked.

> So far, the smile from a screened expreience doesn't compare to being outside.

Yes, this is wisdom. It also reflects that beyond the manipulative algorithms, there still remains unfavorable outcomes of living life online.
A Better Way to Visualize Your Organization: Trees Instead of Squids
They weren’t insolvent because banks are allowed to pretend treasuries haven’t lost value so long as they intend to hold them to maturity.

Across all banks, there are over $600b in such losses. If they can hold those securities until they mature, all is good. If they need to sell them earlier, the losses become real.

https://twitter.com/grdecter/status/1634091448743219201?s=46...
For those who want to geek out, here's a great memo that describes the liquidation process in great detail: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/0...

Someone holding a receivership certificate likely can sell it or borrow against it.
Yeah that’s the sales pitch. As soon as reality sets in and you need to integrate with an existing identity service for example, things can get pretty complex quickly.

AWS & Co. use cases always look nice on paper, in reality it’s often not as easy as advertised.
I love my Bosch 500 series but the best feature on it, by FAR, is the simplest.

Bosch calls it AquaStop, it's a plastic tray underneath the entire mechanical assembly. If there is a leak in the system water will accumulate here first, saving your floors. A simple float switch puts the system into always-drain mode to try and purge the rest of the water as fast as it can.

That little thing alone saved my wood floors from being ruined on an overnight inlet valve leak. And the valve was a $25 part from Amazon, a 30 minute DIY fix. That's some great engineering.