skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Everything that exists in reality, from the observable beginning to the projected end, follows a pattern of abstraction that is exact and single. Drugs give you access to "suspension of disbelief" in experiencing fiction that is larger than reality.

Thats a fancy way of saying it gets you stoned. You can intellectualize it all you want, but its just words. I can think of any number of ways to "suspend my disbelief": try holding your breath, or slapping yourself silly. Try putting your finger in an electric socket. Really, there's no shortage of ways.
>As a managed platform that brings modern development standards to background jobs (ex: multi-env support, zero-API design), we enable Node.js developers to build products faster and scale without effort and infrastructure knowledge.

Can you please elaborate more on the modern development standards bit? I've always been intrigued by changes on development forefront from early 90's time.
I sympathize the Twitter workers that are on work visas. Much harder for them to jump ship. They have to tolerate the nonsense or relocate back to their home country. Especially difficult if you own a home and/or have a family.
They aren't loaning money to the startups (well, mostly). They handled the banking. This current problem has nothing to do with their clientele, it has to do with long term bonds.

They sell banking services to startups... all companies need some way to manage payroll (for example). Regardless of the balance sheets of their clients, they should have been able to manage assets such that they could fulfill day to day banking needs.

It's that failure to manage assets on the bank side that we're talking about. Startups/clients failing should be a normal event at SVB, given their focus.
This is the big issue. If they can’t get their money lots of startups will fold very quickly.
But fonts are more than just typeface vectors. For example, it's code can cause any conceivable string of characters to look different than simply rendering each glyph immediately next to each other; sometimes it's kerning tweaks, sometimes combinations get replaced with completely different glyphs (like "f" and "i" next to each other often having an undotted "i": look closely at "fi" depending on the font).
It is a solvency issue because they are legally obligated to give people their money back when they ask for it. If none of the customers would withdraw money for the next 10 years they would be fine.

But the customers are startups that have expenses like payroll and AWS. And the climate for raising money is bad, which means a lot of money is being withdrawn every month, and not much new money is getting deposited.
I don't think you're right. Here is an article from 2021 describing this. [1] Everyone has been doing it. SVB is unique in that its customers relied on financing to continue and because it hasn't they have been drawing their runway down. Other banks don't face this dilemma necessarily. Or they do and are coming up next. I don't know if you noticed, but a lot of banks stocks are down massively this week.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/business/banks-government...
> creates unnecessary separation between bindings and their types

I like this in Haskell/Agda/Idris because it makes the function definition easier to read while still keeping the type signature in view. Interesting. Like they say, de syntaxibus non est disputandum.
Because they have no power and need the income to eat, and their despotic bosses know this.

What is happening right now with remote work is that we are seeing very clearly who actually does any work and who doesn’t. The people who don’t do any work are the ones who demand you be in an office hybrid setting or full return to office.
Testing for Posix Compliance with Chimera Linux
I was in the market for something like that recently and had similar thoughts. It also introduces a lot of fear in the buying process (will I end up paying more for the fonts than I do for bandwidth if my project has moderate success?)

I think suggestions for reasonably priced fonts would be very welcome in this thread
You're lucky you don't live in a larger city. It's impossible to keep it 100% scratch/dent free unless you 100% of the time park in your own garage. Even if you park your car in underground, private for-profit garages, it'll eventually end up with a scratch/dent somewhere, somehow.
> What if, and hear me out: we ditch the idea of a better replacement social network and just ditch the concept in general?

Good luck with that. Social networks is an idea that is as old as the Internet. MySpace and Facebook were merely a step in a progression that included IRC, Usenet, email. Arguably hypertext itself. If you're not connecting people, what is the point of the Internet?
I guess, if you think of the internet as being just a gigantic message board or something.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90729862/shopify-exec-the-4-secr...
A little naughty to describe OSM as "partially complete" but not Google. Last time I looked, Google didn't have a fraction of the footpaths or cycleways around here that OSM has.
Exactly and in the US you don't need a drivers license (generally a government-issued ID) to be a person. It helps but it’s not mandatory. The digital equivalent is signatures so digital society needs to be coerced to allow any signature. That doesn't preclude having certificates issued to you when you pass a driving test or meet residency requirements, but those aren’t sources of truth. Your personhood is.
Show HN: Simple web based RGB Monitor Light
I often do video calls for work but don't have access to a cam light. I wanted a simple web site where I could use sliders to set the background to any color to improve lighting on camera. I've just published www.readilight.com as a free service so you don't have to look blue on video calls. I'd seen other similar ideas, but none with sliders and a simple UI. Would love your feedback and suggestions.
Far more effective to just grow kudzu in the backseat.
Well, Bitcoin hasn't had to be bailed out yet.

It's alright if things fail or lose value. That's a natural part of markets. Taxpayers money going to bail out banks, otoh, is pretty much what started Bitcoin.

"Chancellor on the Brink of Second Bailout for Banks" - still encoded in the genesis BTC block.
Ive created a little api to grab images from pages to embed in chats. Was surprisingly easy to control with natural language.

https://aimgsrc.com
Well, my laptop has 64 GB. It can't be that difficult to fit 300+ GB of RAM to a personal computer.
> Just no. I don't want any large corporation to determine what the "news and facts" are -- and particularly not Facebook.

Its... a fairly common thing for big corporations to do.
a good debugger supports different kinds of breakpoints, offers rich data visualization capabilities, has a REPL for executing expressions, can show the dependencies between threads and control their execution, can pick up changes in the source code and apply them without restarting the program, can step through the code backward and rewind the program state to any point in history, and can even record the entire program execution and visualize control flow and data flow history.
I should mention that the perfect debugger doesn’t exist.

People pretends Smalltalk doesn't exist?
Yep, when I went home for christmas and mentioned it off-hand my BIL was like "Oh yeah, we use that for our business to write tweet and some other things" (self-employed, online fitness trainer with multiple coaches working under him and my sister). I talked with him last night and they are paying for Jasper.ai for their team to collaboratively work on documents. All of this with zero input from me. My parents also recently started playing with ChatGPT after a very basic crash course and the next day they were gushing about how easy it was and how helpful it was for repetitive text they have to write.

My entire family fully understands it's just a tool, you need to check it's output, and it's not perfect but it's saved them a bunch of time and allows them to focus on what they are best at by getting a good starting point from *GPT.
Show HN: Export News as CSV file from RSS feeds
Smaller banks are usually pressured into offering higher interest rates to compete with larger banks. Holding cash gives you exactly 0%, and short term maturity bonds pre-2022 basically gave you roughly 0%. So, as a small bank how do you entice your customers to keep money in your bank? If the large banks are offering say 0.5%, you're probably pressured into offering ~1%. And how do you afford to do that? By buying longer term bonds.

OK, now comes 2022, inflation is high and you think the Fed will increase rates. Now your bonds have already dropped in price due to the anticipated rate hikes. The billion dollar question now is whether you believe the Fed's "it's fine, don't worry we can get inflation under control", and keep your bonds, or whether you believe aggressive rate hikes are coming? It's easy to ridicule in hindsight, but as the saying goes hindsight is 20-20.
Oh that sounds like fun, I would definitely play that. You should suggest it to the developer who made the game!

https://github.com/ehmorris/lunar-lander/issues

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35032506
Yeah he has an extreme level of confidence. Tweeting Elon about how to architect the landing fins to use "fish scale biomimickry"? That's ridiculous.
Not the person you're asking, but for me: I've been buying crap tier mechanical keyboards every ~9 months for the last few years to get a good feel for different switches and layouts, so I don't spend a lot of money on a really nice one I don't like. The quality is a big factor.

The other factor is that I'm a key masher. I just don't type lightly, particularly when I'm gaming - my brain refuses to accept that pressing W harder doesn't make me go faster, and my failure mode tends to be one of:

* switch breaks/wears out

* pcb stressed/flexed by my mashing causes traces or solder joints to loosen. Keys will only work sometimes, and sometimes end up putting out the wrong letter. Pushing hard on the misbehaving key will often make that one work but surrounding keys will start misbehaving. This has happened on a few keyboards!

It's a little wasteful, but for the cost of 1 good keyboard I've found out that I would have chosen the wrong layout and wrong switch type if I has sprung for a good one right away. I also learned I need a good key plate and maybe go with wire wrapping instead of a PCB for the switches.
What's the next person with your name supposed to do?
OK so you vectorize some commercial font then release it for free. Haven't you essentially just recreated the software, which is copyrighted? Haven't you still violated copyright just with extra steps?

It seems like a distinction without a difference.
You're going to struggle to get a job or rent a house without using the Internet. That job will almost certainly require you to use the Internet for things like email, while the utilities on that house will send you increasingly absurd volumes of mail about switching to paperless. Some of them may not even have alternative payment that allow you to avoid the Internet.

Seems pretty real to me.
Did you seriously compare constant engagement of phone to occasional MTV or video games?
We can have an AI "winter" without actually having a solid freeze in terms of development if expectations fail to match the reality. Right now, the hype around ChatGPT is unwarranted in my opinion, and if nothing else comes from it we will end up in at least a cooling off period as people realize that.
The more I learn about different types of rockets and all the engineering behind SpaceX, the more I am impressed by what they have accomplished.

Huge thanks to ‘Every Day Astronaut‘ for this YouTube channel, so many good videos.
The fed seems to have never had a problem when all their customers [i.e. banks/hedgies/wallstreet] come asking.
>allintitle: "rightwing backlash" site:theguardian.com

10 results.

>allintitle: "leftwing backlash" site:theguardian.com

0 results.

In my experience, the left-leaning people I know tend to protest and organize a lot more than the right-leaning. In fact the right-leaning mostly seem to whine and grumble and then return to their regularly scheduled programming.
Doesn't Secure Enclave offer a smartcard-like interface on macOS?

SSH already supports using hardware-backed keys via smartcard interfaces, so such an interface would allow it to work without any extra moving parts.

I keep seeing lots of new programs that are basically "Secure Enclave for X", where X already supports hardware-based keys via existing interfaces.
I did something similar. New strings would get Google Translate translations when we merged changes in. Then it would kick off a translation job through a human translation service. We'd have to periodically poll that service to pull translations in. Then once we pushed to QA, our in-house teams could look at the app and tweak the translations.

It worked most of the time, but the lack of context around what the strings were for did result in bad translations.
Not sure why this is downvoted. FDIC-insured accounts have never lost funds in the nearly 100 years since the FDIC was established. And I think there was one? maybe two? times depositors lost funds in excess of the FDIC limits over that same time frame?
> Or have you already found this option doesn't help you with your specific issue?

Just tried it. It exchanges a "slide" animation with a "fade" animation. But it still takes ~1/8 of a second.
> Websites shouldn't be magazines.

Why though? We’re in 2023 and magazines got out of print to move to the web. Telling literal magazines “no, you shouldn’t exist here” is pretty harsh.

But I’ll grant you the mental image is powerful. I imagine you going to a restaurant and shouting “what’s with the decorum ? And that background music ? and all this space between tables ? this should be a warehouse with everyone sitting on the floor with the lasagna served in tupperwares ”
This isn't my experience on iOS / Mac OS. I'm used to seeing videos and animations continue running as they shrink and slide around (IIRC, thanks to CoreAnimation being designed to support exactly this from the outset). The occasions where they pause feel like the exception to the norm.
Fortunately traditional hosting providers like Hetzner won't suspend me even if I pay $10/month on average. That's why I avoid Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and AWS like a plague. I prefer to have a freedom to switch my hosting provider at any time, even if that sometimes means more infrastructure work. That kind of attitude to customers, as GCP usually has, is just not for me, thanks.
> It all makes sense today but literally no one saw this coming a couple weeks ag

The short interest in SVB would indicate that alot of people saw this failure moths ago.

That and SI have been two of the most crowded trades by hedge funds since December. Borrow has been 50%+ for the banks. That would indicate that alot of people saw this coming 4 months go.
The number of tokens is more in the range of 40k to 250k tokens.
Another social network, yay.

I don't see us realizing the star trek utopia anytime soon.
Fines are just “cost of business” for companies.

Either bankrupt the company (fine is 20% of yearly revenue) or jail the executives and everyone responsible.
It's the same situation as observing that people who take pain killers have headache, therefore pain killers are causing headaches.

This is the level where OP's article is at. It's baffling that people upvote that drivel.
This may not be a popular opinion but personally, I like the smell and feel of paper. One day I hope we can mimic it in an interactive format. Until then, I will continue to use paper.
The FDIC is explicitly backed by the full faith and credit of the US government (and thus taxpayers).

In the extremely unlikely case that the fdic insurance fund couldn’t make insured deposits while the tax payer is on the hook.
If you think government is a purely coercive entity, dedicated to enslaving humanity, why would you want the id that it provides? The reason is to access the services it licences.

Government and its ids, licenses, laws and monopoly on force, is not there to help. And yet, despite all the examples of how government is by far and away the cause of most problems we experience, on hn you will find endless discussion on how to best assist it. Eg here - 'what type of id is best?'. It's amazing.

Programmers, technologists, etc seem to be hardwired to develop the enslavement structure of everyone, including themselves, for the sake of some perceived comforts, such as a nice holiday, better car. Its literally turkeys voting for Christmas, as we plan and develop the hardcore enslavement of the future.

Just think - do woodland creatures need id? Does any individual need an id? No. It is only useful if you want to control access to this or that for others. Ie you want to force your control on others who are doing you no wrong.
Google killed it dead.
I tend to use legal pads to write initial drafts. I carry a few A5 kraft notebooks in a Lochby Field Journal. Each notebook has a dedicated purpose, and carrying them in the Lochby means I don't destroy the notebooks while they are in my bag. I don't care much about the brand of notebook, since I write almost exclusively with pencils -- I'll grab whatever is available at the office supply store.
No, I wouldn't describe it like that. It's more that there isn't an ambient, implicit Allocator lying around for stdlib to use. It is explicitly provided by callers.
> Companies build what consumers want.

AFAIK uber/doordash are profitable on a per unit basis in most developed markets, it's just a combination of marketing spend in new markets and extravagant developer salaries that make them lose money.
I might be wrong but I think the issue is that there are typeface extremely similar to each other and so it would be hard to figure out when something is actually a new design.

Arial/Helvetica is the classic example.

Personally, I wouldn’t even know how to approach this issue from a legal standpoint.
I would issue an email memo to her along the lines of: "Due to your allegation against me which stem from a lack of understanding and empathy for my medical condition, I have been advised* to limit my interaction with you to emails, texts, and chats which can be saved and referenced later. You're a valuable contributor to the team and success on this project would be difficult without your input. I hope you understand the need for this precaution and I look forward to our continued professional collaboration."

*You don't really need to say it was some rando on Hacker News who advised you... though if you're really concerned I would be proactive in contacting to HR first rather than being the one to react to an accusation. Citing your Asperger's and that she's being insensitive to your handicap, which is deeply hurtful and is leading to a hostile work environment might work too... allegations can go both ways and I presume you can document your Asperger's and she might not be able to document anything. Of course, you might want to get REAL counsel rather than just mine.
what the hell are you even talking about? what is an "interesting" banking function. I have been a banking client as a regular person and with big banks and sell side brokerages and they were all focused on facilitating our business. if you want stability and not to have your shit taken by cartels when you get big enough to be noticed, you have to operate in a jurisdiction with law and order and rules. there are no "interesting" startups in places with no rules.
Isnt this just the strangler pattern?
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerFigApplication.html

Not sure I agree with the steel thread metaphor
That reminded me a bit of UserLand's Frontier.
Okay, thank you! I had a suspicion it was the SPN but didn't know if anything else was paid. It's very unclear that SPN is the only thing you have to pay for. :/

The whole thing raises big alarms of "there's a catch, there's a catch, they're doing the stupid thing where they put positive reassurances everywhere but don't actually explicitly tell you that there is no catch". It feels so untrustworthy.

I'll make sure to try it out sometime~
My own app concoction, written in Ruby & Sinatra and JS-less at the moment, one of these days going to upgrade and enhance as I wrote it while I was out of work during COVID days. As I age I don't have the energy to keep pace with side projects anymore.

After Google Reader I used Feedly for years, even ponying up for a Pro subscription. But I was forced out as they capped on sub total (even as a Pro customer) and I was unable to add new feeds & the tools to identify and prune "dead" feeds (even there, I treat my RSS pool as a stream to wade in when needed / desired and didn't want to delete even inactive feeds, just feeds that got hijacked by spam farms). So I wrote my own.

Initially had grandiose vision of opening it up to anyone but it needs some UX work 1st (and a better DB model than a SQLite DB on a shared host lol).
I call this a “vertical slice”, rather than horizontal layers

Not sure steel threads is a very good name
We might even look at all social media by all participants the same way we now look at smoking. It is isn't healthy for the adults either.
And this situation is similar. A bad thing happened, so we were going to feel some pain.

Instead of letting that lead to complete chaos we let it lead to some chaos and some inflation.
what's your source?
It can be many things, and sleep certainly is important.

Social media is a lot of things, some of them good, some bad, but young people are not well-suited to handle the bad. Heck, most adults aren't either. You have to be a particular sort of person to handle a couple thousand people all over the world screaming "LOSER!" at you because you said something awkward.

I've seen a lot of "you need to touch grass" comments recently, and it kind of gets to the heart of the problem. We didn't evolve in an environment where every facet of your life is available for inspection from freaking everybody in the world. One can counter that we should train our children to be circumspect in how they manage their online activities--a kind of abstinence education for the digital world--but that is a massive uphill battle.

Digital communications are pretty good overall. I know my kids make use of it to manage homework, keep in touch with friends who are not local, etc. But there is a pretty big difference between texting the folks you met at summer camp and Instagram.
Really glad to hear I am not the only person with this trait/disorder lol.
> FDIC insurance exists for this reason

Good luck to all the startups that might have just lost anything they had in SVB over $250k.
True. Also an A5 size artist's sketchbook - with hard covers, 120g/m^2 off white paper (will take any pen from Sharpie downwards as well as watercolours) and sewn bindings - can be bought almost anywhere in the UK and costs less than two coffees in a nice cafe (£5).

Just keep one with you.

PS: I did think that the linked article was going to be about low specification laptops, and was preparing to extol the virtues of recycled Thinkpads.
Exactly, and batteries of other types are recycled very well here in Europe generally and Norway in particular and have been for many years and it is getting even better.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/275497/20220516/largest-e...
If the law were to go through, would this imply that Swedish VPN traffic would likely be monitored? It seems impossible that the government could separate the traffic of its citizens for spying out of that of foreign nationals.
Yubikey hardware is surprisingly robust. Mine has been on my physical keychain for years, getting thrown around and banged up and it’s fine