skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are an author of a book on a subject, even if it's not great, your resume gains a lot of value.

Also, YMMV, but for me, repetition in books causes to remember much more, shape and use the knowledge. Unlike a random blog post from HN ;)
George Carlin has a great classic bit on "God-given" rights.
Another place it makes issues is financial modeling, particularly for complex derivatives where the model might be extremely complex and small errors can accumulate into meaningful errors in risk calculations. Fixed point is sometimes used in finance but performance is also a real concern. There’s a lot you can do to reduce fp errors if your numerical libraries are carefully constructed. But it has often made me wonder why there aren’t processor lines with high performance fixed point since the math is extremely easy - even by just shifting the mantissa and working in integer space then shifting it back.
For sure, but that’s where the high reward is. Scared money don’t make money.
Yeah, don't put too much stock in this guy's words. Being a defector, flipping 180 degrees and becoming the USSR's biggest and most popular detractor is a no-brainer. But sadly, he could have said that the KGB had pink bunny guns and traveled around on marshmallow clouds and many on the right would lap it up, because it fits a political preconception.
From your link https://www.sipc.org/news-and-media/news-releases/20220928:

> Distributions to unsecured general creditors with allowed claims totaled over $9.372 billion, representing a 41.2841 percent recovery.

That sure sounds like 58.7259% didn't recover what they were owed. Mind explaining why that isn't the case?

And what about IndyMac? IndyMac depositors only got 50 cents on the dollar.

https://www.depositaccounts.com/blog/indymac-depositors-are-...
Well, they were paying the salaries for hundreds of thousands of people (if not more) and making sure they and their families had health insurance.
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Smartphone usage increases facebook usage. There is a causal relationship between social media usage[0] and loneliness and depression, which kills.

In other words, social media kills in the same way cigarettes kills.

Smartphones without social media do not kill.

[0]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328838624_No_More_F...
The whitelisting is really nice, and it's expanding more and more. I like "login once per device".
They do it because they can. There's not a lot of people creating high-quality fonts. If you've ever tried looking for free fonts, it quickly becomes clear that the quality is often lacking (inconsistency, missing glyphs, poor spacing/kerning). And then you find that it's not even free anyway, just 'free for non-commercial use'.

We'd see similar restrictions on licensing for other 'tools' (compilers, maybe?!), if there wasn't so much competition including open-source options.
Except when I say it's God-given and the state disagrees, then I don't get the right. When states do it, they do it so that they don't become the object of frustration when they don't grant the right. Anyone believing it (god given, or natural, or universal human) is willingly letting the state dupe them into this arrangement at their expense and the benefit of the government.
What’s the next best alternative?
Does anyone know how this fits with (or not) Chomsky's ideas of language processing?
> The main thing that I wanted to address in the parent comment is that needing tools to debug your code somehow means that the code is a mess - no, sometimes it doesn't.

Ah. I totally agree with that. Or at least, it's the sort of mess I don't know how to avoid yet.
Related ongoing thread:

FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35096877 - March 2023 (708 comments)
Then it's federated, so they're still using "decentralized" wrong, which would imply direct client<>client communication (decentralized), rather than client<>server<>client (federated) communication.
I prefered XEmacs, because it was the only thing that could improve my experience versus Borland Turbo Pascal and C++ IDEs, and it was much better than plain Emacs or VI (vim was years away to materialize).

Nowadays only if I am on bare bones installation, I reach out for emacs or vim, on that order.
Ah yes the classic "everyone who disagrees with me is a shill" (non-)argument. Becoming all to prevalent on HN.
Yep... I bet this is about to pull forward a lot of startup death. Gun now to VC heads to save things. Forcing decisions they were hoping they wouldn't have to make for at least another 6-12 months.
All liquidity issues are solvency issues when marked to market.
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35097120, which contains "that tweet".)
What? You're thinking of some other dive. I'm talking about the dive that was done in '78 to demonstrate that we had the ability to fix the underwater pipes at that depth. It's THE dive that made us literally filthy rich as a nation, in the years after. Everything depended on the outcome of this dive. No one had attempted anything like this before, that's why we brought in experts from the US.

Do not underestimate the importance of this event. Surprised you didn't know this.

It happened on February 7th 1978. Skånevikfjorden, Norway. On the West Coast. Taylor Diving Company brought in 3 divers + crew.

David Hoover, one of the three American divers, died in the accident that day. RIP

> It's long enough ago that the knowledge has spread widely and much new equipment has been developed, such as the robots.

No one would disagree. If you're saying that it's possible for these robots to plant explosives - I wouldn't know but I can believe that. In this case it's irrelevant.
This one is largest than the 100 previous ones combined.

And the point is that there may be many reasons why a bank may want to acquire a smaller failed one to integrate it in its operations but "the previous owners used to have a well-capitalized business until they somehow lost it all" is not a strong reason on its own.
Bitcoin is mainly useful for money laundering... or... er... disagreeing with the government. In other words, removing the middleman. Also, depending on inflation levels, it can be a good storage of value.

All in all, I think it's the most useful technology in the last decade. If you live in a bubble you won't realize that, but it's what it is.
I think that means you get to run YC for one day? It's in the TOS.
ADP isn't going to take that paper to cut paychecks. AWS isn't going to want that paper either. The best you can do is take that paper and get a loan with a stupid high interest rate and that's not going to happen quickly.
Treasury bonds are securities as well.
True. We wouldn’t want women to be able to earn as much as men in India. It’s important to take a principled stand against gender parity and punish these guys with your wallet.
I pay £50 a month to live in a skip in London [video]
Damn, that's terrible. Do I understand correctly, you asked the police to give you what they have on you, under GDPR?

Does GDPR make exceptions for police? (If I was a criminal and being investigated, I imagine it would defeat the purpose if they had to tell me everything they knew about me.)
I think what you described is a vault. A bank is where I go when I need money for a car or a house. A vault is where I put my money to be 100% safe.
I started Bullet Journaling a month or so ago...not that fancy arty kind, just the basic layouts. It's working really well for me, because it always feels better having my todos on paper, with occasional electronic reminders. For me, there's no friction between me and writing something down, and the BuJo techniques of page numbering, indexing, etc. work well. Also, my work life and home life are sharply divided, so having a paper notebook to carry between the two is handy.

I just use a composition book and gel pens or Varsity Pilot disposable fountain pen. My only complaint is that the composition book is a little too big to fit comfortably in my work area along with my mouse and ergo keyboard.
We already have a few options in that domain. ipfs, onion sites (Tor).

And to repeat my earlier point, an EULA isn’t going to keep your vision clean. Malicious actors aren’t going to give a hoot about any EULA. And any business that might take an EULA seriously would simply choose not to use such a minority platform anyway.

Also if this “EULA” is targeting how companies use your platform, then it’s not an EULA. What you’re talking about is a different type of contractual agreement.
Oh for sure. LPs would wire money to SVB and that money may be frozen/will be returned at less than par. Loss of relationship will also hurt. But for the biggest funds LPs are like pension funds, and that money will be available. One thing to consider is that VCs may need to call on their LPs to recapitalize their existing portcos which may leave less space for new investment.
Both would be my guess. I’m expecting more smaller banks to fall.
It's the indirect effects that'll get you though. Consider my company has nothing at SVB, but 50% of their customers do. Still gonna be pretty bad when half your clients can't pay you.
What do you mean, there isn't a real problem? It's already been shut down.
There is no serious ideological backbone to it

You are too kind, there is no ideological backbone at all.
I hear arguments like this all the time, and it bothers me that such arguments miss that there is something that people like about social media - connecting with people. It clearly is worth it and that's been around since the beginning of the internet in some shape or form be it IRC, forums, usenet, whatever. There's innovations that constitute as modern "social media," like the feed or social search, but the core notion of using the internet to try to connect people is going to be a demand as long as there are people and there is an internet. The best we can possibly do is identify maladaptive innovations and try to provide some alternative, until one is dominant enough that "social media" is as dated as "forums."
Blaming management seems like a symptom of a larger problem: people continuing to work for unethical companies. If you're not willing to quit due to bad management, they'll just keep having bad management.

I've never heard of a company that cared more about the welfare of employees than the company's bottom line. The natural result is employees are expendable assets, like machinery.
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Just released the .exe file
A useful tactic for your belief or disbelief is to follow the thread of belief to it's origin and see if you endorse that individual.

Many of the pillars of present-day progressivism and conservatism can be traced to a few key philosophers , academics & politicians from the 20s-60s.

Those ideologies will become more grounded when you see the kind of person those thoughts came from.
Strongly disagree, now that we see SVB clients are currently screwed.

It’s very easy to prove good intent when you didn’t benefit in any way. Besides, it’s the prosecution’s burden to improve intent, not the defendant’s.

Transferring $10 million to a personal account for 1 day then transferring again to a permanent business account a day later has zero legal risk when the bank you’re moving away from is literally collapsing.
the person i was replying to said no way a brand new corp can get an account or credit cards, they didn't say anything about millions. That directly contradicted my experience, and despite being "anecdotal", I'm sure i was subject to the same rules and equations as everyone else.

If you want another anecdote - this one has millions in it - my last startup banked with Wells Fargo from pre-seed right up to series A with >10mil in three funding rounds and never had a single problem. Must be my crazy luck here as well!

At any rate, SVB is dead now, so it's pointless to argue whether they were really a startup's best friend or just hyped that up. They are not anyone's friend anymore, they are dead and the only real question here is how to get the damn money back from them.
Asserting that everyone is "seeing it with their own eyes" is kind of weird, since you can only see with your own eyes. It's a certain kind of solipsism that I'm personally getting rather tired of.
DOE asking for ways it can apply demand-commitment-mechanisms
See https://tailscale.com/

You can install the client on your machine and they install the client on their machine and you have a secure tunnel that lets you connect to their db just like that. There are other "zero trust" networking solutions that do the same, but Tailscale is refined and super-easy to use.
He was obviously powerless to influence US politics from Canada, but from Russia..
The facts are:

- All funds in SVB are frozen

- FDIC has implied that insured funds (up to $250K per account) will be released within 7 days.

- It's entirely unclear how long it will take to recoup uninsured funds (above $250K per account).

- It's also unclear how much of uninsured funds will be recouped (although most people believe the figure will be above 80%)

If given the above fact pattern, your company can't make payroll, then it will have to raise emergency cash to do so. Whether or not that's feasible isn't an answer anyone here can provide.
That's actually a significant worry.

Embrace, extend, extinguish: is a standard playbook for monopolists and oligopolists everywhere in tech.

1. Make "cool corporate mastodon server" that all the cool kids play on.
2. Extend the masto code with proprietary extensions for better features, but DONT SHARE CODE
3. Convert people on other masto instances cause they don't have "cool feature".
4. Users flock to "cool masto server", and mastobook is created.
5. Other servers either try to play catch-up or close. A few holdouts straggle on.
6. Shitty company successfully proprietizes a federated system.

Email, another federated system, has nearly gone this route. Sure, you can make your own mail server and do all the right things WRT spf/dkim/dmarc. But when most email is through gmail and outlook.com and they decide you're bad, you're not 'running' email.
The FDIC will pay an advanced dividend next week. We have no idea how much that will be but it is probably conservative. Some companies may not be able to make payroll today or early next week. Some may not be able to pay their vendors for the things that allow their businesses to run.

It may only be a couple day disruption but what if your employees quit? What if your vendors cut your access and your customers leave?

What if you don't get made whole but get back 80% of your cash? Now your runway is 20% shorter in a climate where investors aren't around.

This could be very bad.
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It might not be worth it to you, but you might try a slightly better quality printer paper. I’m using a generic store brand premium laser/inkjet paper (24 lb/90 gsm), and I’m not getting any bleed through or feathering. It costs more than normal printer paper, but handles ink well and goes on sale often.
In the case of both of the topics you listed, there are still plenty of places online you can go to entertain your curiosity about those views. What I don't understand is the assumption that a corporate product should be compelled to host discussions it deems inappropriate in either topic, tone or corresponding action by users.

Through what mechanism do you believe website owners should be forced to allow users to operate by their own terms? Should anyone who hosts a comment section on a personal website be forced to keep all posted comments in perpetuity?
Fresh email from Alpaca (YC W19) on the matter:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35099518
Scope of impact is important here.

A doctor who reveals some information on one of their patients should be treated less harshly then a mugger of one person.

A mugger who robs ten people should be treated more harshly than a mugger who robs one person.

A doctor/company who reveals thousands of patients' information can reasonably treated more harshly than a mugger of ten people, because the absolute negative impact may be greater.
Maybe, which is why I suggest countering with a discussion of neurodivergence.
FDIC only covers $250,000 per depositor per bank per account type, so it depends on how many employees are making how much money. $250k is enough to pay about 20 employees who make ~$150k a year for another month, to give you a rough idea. So it depends on how many employees your employer has and how much they get paid on average. Also it depends on how much incoming revenue your employer has.
Oof, that is not true and frankly terrible advice. Most people who quit smoking try the 'just sometimes' approach and it leads back to the original smoking habit.

Framing it as self control problems is also a non starter. That shit is skillfully made addictive - if your outcomes are a high chance of chronic use and related illness or a low chance of occasional use and questionable benefits then the overall expected value is still deeply negative.
In my experience chit chatting lays the groundwork for extemporaneous collaboration, the kind that turns a week of work into an hour of work, because you happened to remember that one guy said he did something like this at a previous job.
Wait what? Because of 12 hour shifts? Should I not use hospitals either? Or are you referring to other working conditions unrelated to 12 hour shifts?
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Not BofA, but I've done this several times at Wells Fargo and never had a problem.
> the US is about to ban TikTok

There are a LOT more steps to making a bill a law[0] than this, so “about to” is pretty disingenuous.

[0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Otbml6WIQPo
Bring back the whole cast including TJ Miller (sober or not, he brings it) ... but not Middleditch.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/202...
Apple funding 'farm to table' music production company
Do you care to know why I earn the big bucks?

I’m here for one reason alone. To guess what the music might do a week, a month, a year from now. And standing here tonight I’m afraid that I. Don’t. Hear. A. Thing.

Just… silence.
I was first diagnosed with ADHD in 2016 then a year later with ASD. Adderall helped a lot, but there were other symptoms that continued bothering me.

Between me reading and learning more about my problems and working with my psychiatrist we tried many things. Having someone so reflective and motivated led him to be more experimental with treatments for me. Also, he was an ADHD specialist who started researching autism because he suspected his son was autistic too.

That's how we tried memantine. It seems to help in a small percentage of APD/SPD cases, but no one knows how or why.

This thread was how I found a hypothesis for why it worked for me. Six years after I first started memantine.
I like when people use words like inexplicable for things for which they know exactly how it’s achieved, but want to pretend they don’t because the answer is disturbing.
> quite as easy to withdraw money back then, usually you'd have to at least make a phone call, or head over to your physical branch. Now you could just open the website/app and do it there, immediately.

The main reason some of the other startup banks such as Ramp or BREX exist is because SVB was kind of a dinosaur when it came to cash management. Their online cash management apps were very basic and rudimentary. And they were a lot slower than these new online banks at responding to customer requests.

So now you're saying that bank (a very conservative investment bank from what I've been told) was moving too fast?
I see what you mean. I think that despite the noise, one can still tell what's real or important, and what's not, intuitively.
This sense can get distorted when a government can spend billions of dollars/yuans pushing a specific narrative.

What I mean is, I believe one can be closer to the truth when exposed to all sorts of ideas and propaganda, than when one specific entity controls the flow.
s/distant/different
Not necessarily. A lot of prisons these days have pretty good work-release programs.
if you have to make new accounts to post your bigotry, it miiiight be time to re-think your beliefs.
Do you really think that swarms of bots churning out bullshit posing as humans, clickbait, rage posts, arguing people down in forums, and generally drowning out genuine conversation, is a net positive for the world? That's even more of a tech bro attitude than blockchain, sorry.
If you can tell that people are panicking, you're not at the front of the line.
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Moderation and self control is the key to a normal life.
From the UK, there are definitely people in the UK who hunt squirrels for food.
My people!
So SVB suddenly had too much money and too few people to loan this money to, so they had to buy a dangerous asset that could have exactly this problem with a raise on interest rates, where every sane person in 2021 would know that all that stimulus money would lead to inflation down the road and consequently a tax hike from the FED.

"The cheapness of capital gives facilities to speculation, just in the same way as the cheapness of beef and of beer gives facilities to gluttony and drunkenness"

MARX, Karl
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A time lapse video: https://youtu.be/rxconvkLz2I?t=22
Turns out he did not even have to do anything. Russians did it themselves.
I've gotten good mileage over the last 5 years from drduh's guide to using Yubikeys with GPG and SSH. Works great, fully compatible.

The new fangled ed25519 stuff simply didn't work for me.
>The problem is that smoking is pretty much 100% bad

Smoking has far more benefits than social media, especially social benefits.

If you have a pack of 20 cigarettes at a bar, you have 20 new friends you haven't even met yet. Smokers stick together. Sharing a cigarette is a bonding moment for a lot of people.

I could go on. Fuck social media. I don't want to see underage girls whoring themselves out. I don't want to see man children acting cringe for likes. If I WANT to keep up with my family, I'll call them on the phone.
> they’ll also get a piece of paper laying out how much more they’re potentially owed. As the FDIC winds the bank down

That will take months at least. In the meantime they'll have this non-liquid piece of paper. I suppose they could try to pay employees with IOUs, but I don't think that many employees would be able to afford to stick around for very long.
300k mobilized in a population of 143 million, so about 2 per thousand.
> but the large bank, or more "settled" company, or a large consultancy (big4) won't.

This is definitely not the case for applied roles (data scientist, applied scientist, ML engineer), I know many data scientists in large established companies (local and international banks, consulting, retail) who don't have PhDs.
As I said, this seems like a more dystopian future than anything blockchain could ever usher in.
I wonder if bigger banks don't want exposure to the kind of disaster we're seeing play out at SVB. Maybe SVB is (was) filling a dangerous niche.
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If Foxconn is going to follow the campus model, which is likely because Apple manufacturing cities draws labour from across country, that means building infra to house 2x-3x more workers, especially during surge production for new launches. Reality is it's a low margin business and Taiwanese companies have decades learning to squeeze blood from stone, hence their reputation of being slave drivers across Asia for a reason. Of course your system is good for India, but these companies are only in India because it's good for them.