skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a bunch of styles based on the OpenMapTiles schema. Is it possible to swap the underlying data with PMtiles?
Wouldn't say not sketchy, they traded interest rate risk and didn't hedge properly.
It discusses papers in two minutes, not sure how that's ironic at all, unless you are deliberately expecting that a YouTube channel somehow has written papers rather than videos. These papers would also take one longer than two minutes to read and might not have context from someone in the field, so I'm happy for the expert to go over it for me.
> Watch the entire interview

In fact, watch more! Here's some:

https://archive.org/details/yuri_bezmenov_all_interviews_lec...
The Sideshow Magician Who Inspired Ray Bradbury–Then Vanished
I think the concept is good, but the name is pretty bad - I mean, we have "green threads," "POSIX threads," "kernel threads," "user threads," etc. Given that this concept from software engineering has absolutely nothing to do with execution threads, it needs a less confusing name.
Show HN: Find words on the tip of your tongue with Mot Juste
Hi everyone, my name is Mark and I'm the creator of Mot Juste. Mot Juste is an AI-driven writing tool for the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. I'd love to get some feedback, thanks and have a great day!
That's a really good point, FDIC usually swoops in Friday night; and this was closed on a Friday during business hours, that's actually insane; they couldn't hold on 8-10 more hours, the run must have been really bad.

Even WAMU (a huge FDIC action) was done after banking hours closed on the west coast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Mutual
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Correct, and with blocklists / opt-in moderation, whatever system that is would do a similarly great job.

With email, you can manually block wherever anything falls through the cracks, and that's effectively what your parent commenter is proposing. I don't think anyone thinks that having to manually block every single person from scratch is a sustainable equilibrium.
I've done a lot of googling on this guy and either the truth is scrubbed, or I'm landing on soviet propaganda, OR there's not much evidence that he even worked for the KGB. The guy was a journalist and played up this narrative in order to get the attention of the public eye. I'm not saying that everything he said was bullshit. Do nation states at odds actively try to stabilize each other? Of course. But seems to me like he was more of a creative story teller than anything else.
Don't forget the cutesy nickname for its employees and users.

"Dear Sveebles and Sveeblettes..."
The error wasn’t that the mortgages defaulted too much (like in the ‘08 crisis) but that interest rates went up, which is a distinct problem, and, from the comments in these discussions, not something that the capital requirements adequately capture.
A bank either pays competitive deposit interest rates, or people move their deposits elsewhere. That can happen quite quickly, and they'd have the same liquidity problem.
Pressure that is well within humanity's capability to produce and maintain at small-ish scales (not intercontinental transmission lines, but within a factory). 100x less pressure than the previous record. If these results were real, it would absolutely be an enormous scientific leap forward and lead to new technologies, and I don't see a reason to minimize that. Of course, it's all fabricated bullshit, so I guess it's a moot point.
Perhaps he has gotten better at that in recent years. I got put off his early content for the very that very reason and haven't bothered to go back.
> Say 1. Open database connection 2. Commit data 3. Close database connection
>
> How would you rewind right before #2 if you've already completed step #3? You'd need the socket/connection you already closed

The key thing is that you're really rewinding the world, as visible by the program

The program doesn't actually know what the network transaction with the database was, it just knows what syscalls it made and what results they returned. If, whenever it gets to talking with the database, you provide the same result as last time then it can't tell the database is gone.

This is self-supporting: if you do this consistently with external sources of information then the program will never go down any new code paths, guaranteeing that you'll always have a ready answer recorded when it needs it.
Criminals try to bring weapons accross the border all the time.

Nothing in the article states that they were protesters or did what they did because of the protest except being at the border during the protests.
Ah, thanks for explaining.

> most LPs didn’t hold their money in SVB.

At the very step of funding, do LPs wire the money to a single bank (SVB) and then the VC dispurses it to the startup in one lump sum? Or do the LBs wire the money to the startup's bank account (at SVB)?

I've heard that UHNW individuals also individually banked with SVB. Wouldn't they have their money at SVB?

Also, wouldn't the VC's long-term relationship w/ SVB give them (the VCs and the startup they're funding) much more leeway with what the bank considers acceptable behavior (ie not money laundering and worth filing an SAR over)? Now that those relationships are gone and the VC has to go through the front door and deal with, say, BankOfAmerica or Chase like the rest of us chumps; doesn't the loss of that relationship materially hurt the broader environment?
TBH, I think the conduct of the cops is fine here. If someone alleges that the other party is making death threats, I want them to investigate. It's not alleged that the cops mistreated Mr. Epstein. Obviously being arrested is traumatic, but the fault here lies with the unhinged neighbour, who will hopefully be prosecuted.

What's beyond the pale for me is that the Crown prosecutor brought the lawsuit at all. She's even a 16-year veteran. I'd be interested in reporting about how this case made it to trial once they had collected all the evidence.
I mean cheap notebooks and a recycled thinkpad are basically the perfect portable tools for thinking.
no it doesn't

fill them up with shitty studies and sketches

you'll never be able to do work that will "live up to the material" if you don't ever use it

it's just raw materials, leaving them sitting in a closet is a worse insult to them than using them for a shitty sketch, at least from the shitty sketch there's something on it and you learnt a little something from the process of doing it

amateur artists often have this problem, pro artists do not fucking care, we will use that expensive paper to take notes on a phone call if that's what's handy, it does admittedly help if you know damn well that the $100 block of ultra-swank watercolor paper is going to end up being used to make multiple pieces that go for 10x the cost of that, but you can't get there without burning a ton of materials

take out every pad and just draw some kind of scribble on every page, now it's ruined, now start filling up those pages with drawings instead of having a stash in the closet that you never touch because it's Too Good
We will then go and use GPG and Tor, where's the problem
Likewise, see the phrase "grist to the mill".

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/grist-t...
Um yes, of course can you see cancer. Just search Google Images for tumour to see many disturbing images of cancers. This stuff was taught in high school when I was a kid, how can you not know this? Cancer is so obvious it was being diagnosed and then described by the ancient Egyptians.

https://www.cancer.org/treatment/understanding-your-diagnosi...

> How exactly do you know someone (or yourself) has cancer?

By using your eyes or fingers to detect lumps.

> If we eliminate oncologists ... cancer won't exist any more. People will simply die from unexplained illnesses.

This is absurdly, catastrophically wrong.
>> Call me crazy

Crazy :)

It's a pretty bog standard bank run. Bank takes a stupid risk, blows up. We see less of them now because of the FDIC, but most of SVB's deposits were non-insured so it was almost an 1890's style bank run. There was nothing "controlled" about it.
should I bother going to work on Monday?
There is an eerily prophetic work by the high-ranking Eastern European military defector Golitsyn called "The Perestroika Deception"[1] in which he says that Perestroika is a strategic retreat because the Soviets know they are too far behind technologically to have any hope of defeating the west. They will however use that retreat to acquire modern technology and improve their economy so they can ultimately conquer the west.

Only one analyst, J.R Nyquist has been taking this stuff seriously, and he was ignored. In fact, the idea that Russia could rise from the ashes was considered paranoid right-wing conspiracy for much of the last 30 years. He has been pretty prescient about the war in Ukraine and developments in Russia over the last 20 years. They have rearmed and have some crazy weapons now like the hypersonic missiles[2] that we have no defense against and the Poseidon system[3] which is a 100mt radioactive tsunami fully autonomous doomsday weapon designed to foil any attempt by the west to win a nuclear war with anti-ballistic missile technilogy.

[1]
https://www.amazon.com/Perestroika-Deception-Memoranda-Centr...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-47M2_Kinzhal

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_Oceanic_Multipurpos...
How would that work with dirt roads? It seems like the filter would get clogged in no time at all.
Not particularly.

You're earning around $2.5k a year (1.8 lpa) which isn't the most competitive even in most of India tbh, especially when factoring CoL in Karnataka. If this was Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, or Harit Pradesh/Western UP (regions of India with the right mix of supply chain and cheap labor), it might fly with migrants from Bihar, Purvanchal, and the Tribal Belt, but definetly not in KN.

You can easily earn that much in farming, or via alternative unskilled labor with better work hours (eg. street food stalls, MGNREGA, etc).
Tokio has won.
> But if everything else gets sold off at 90 cents to the dollar, that's not awesome but it's not like "poof it's gone entirely" either

You answered your own question. People will very likely get most, or even all, of their money back, just after the gov is able to offload some of the assets. Problem is, if you're a startup, you can't just wait a few months for the cash to make payroll.
I don't think it is the rational to come into a situation and assume that everyone but you is wrong and incapable of judging what is best for them.

in India there are hundreds of millions of workers that would love to work 12 hours shifts for more pay and a better quality of life. I'm sure there are advantages to the factory as well.
The whole point of a bank is maturity conversion, the transformation of short-term deposits into long-term loans.

It generally works because while any one depositor's funds are short term, the pool of such deposits is generally stable. A good chunk of today's deposits will fund tomorrow's withdrawals. Banks also have elaborate instruments like commercial paper and the Fed discount window to cover short-term liquidity gaps. A bank with assets it can't sell quickly enough can generally borrow briefly from some other bank to cover the term gap. But there is a limit on how much such borrowing a bank can do, and SVB has hit it.

It seems that SVB made a classic mistake of putting a lot of "hot" money into long-term assets, thus taking on interest rate risk. They probably should have put the surge of deposits into shorter-term instruments, but that would have forced them to reduce interest on deposits or their own profits.
Nothing quite as sad as perfect, mint-condition camera lenses that never left the box to take any pictures.

“A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
The Art of the AI Prompt
Yeah, it is disappointing that something like this isn't the standard but I can code it myself if I really want to:

https://awstip.com/how-to-make-terraform-truly-cloud-agnosti...

And even if I don't, I imagine rewriting a terraform workflow is probably easier than taking cloudformation code and then rewriting it into whatever the equivalent is in google or microsoft land. Atm I'm pretty happy with aws and don't see myself moving but I like to have the option if needed.
Mate, Stallman is still alive.
I read SVB and for some reason my mind kept thinking SBF.. is there some connection outside my mind?
"Yayy women can finally be away from darned prison that we call home for 12 hours a day and even at night to do some bullshit job to help some idiot get a little richer yasss let's celebrate wohoo"
It is my mistake. I'm sorry. I did not read it correctly.
https://nypost.com/2020/12/15/riots-at-apple-plant-in-india-...

this is what apple does. they use their clout, then they turn their back and play ignorant whilst placing unrealistic demands on the subcontractors who then place those demand on the labour.

from: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/14/only-half-of-indian-iph...

> 'Apple engineers told that Chinese iPhone suppliers and government officials have a "whatever it takes" approach to win iPhone orders, work was often completed weeks ahead of schedule at "inexplicable speed". In India, [we] are not running at this pace. "There just isn't a sense of urgency," one Apple engineer remarked.'
Ask HN: Videogame Designers, what monitor setup helps your productivity?
Hello, I was wondering what computer monitor setup helps your productivity for game design. Do you use one curved monitor? Or multiple square monitors? Or some combination? Personally, I use two and had been thinking it is annoying not to have a dedicated area for code, game engine, api, chatgpt. It seems like a difficult balance to see proper information at once.
> And if it needs access to an awful lot of data across the file system or raw devices (which is not uncommon for complex proprietary commercial software), what then?

The same thing as any other framework. You either grant it access, or you don't. The list of files just gets long.

> And that's part of the issue, because you can't count on or only use software which is making pledges, and no commercial software will at all.

Luckily, you can pledge and unveil from outside the process, as the code above does. Once more, that runs an arbitrary command under pledges and unveils.

The thing lost is the ability reduction in access during the program lifetime, which is something that can only be done with the cooperation of the binary running; you don't have enough information to know when (for example) the code setting up the last network listener needed has been run without the help of the binary. You don't get that in most security frameworks anyways, so this is not a weakness in comparison to them.

> With a MAC framework you can. Now the binary has no access to certain parts of the filesystem in a way that is much more secure than a chroot, only has access to syscalls it needs (on par with pledge here), can't execute other binaries, can't make library calls, can't access devices (e.g. tty, network), can't switch user context, can't do anything as root even if root were obtained, can't write to ANY files only append, can't delete ANY files, etc etc etc. You have complete granular control over many more aspects of what

Yes, that's what you get with pledge and unveil.

If you think otherwise -- I gave you a program that runs any arbitrary binary; please show a demo of a jailbreak.
It's possible we haven't seen the first shoe yet, and bank failures like this one are just the canaries dropping dead.

To speculate about where that first shoe might be in this case and who's wearing it, it might help to consider where the buck ultimately stops.
As someone just out of adolescence and born in the tail-end of the millennial generation it's hard to know how to interpret takes like this.

On one hand, I do think social media is deleterious to mental health - I can vouch, for the positive impact on my own the more I distance myself from it!

On the other hand,

>Sit around on their phones watching tiktoks and browsing instagram then making comments to each other about it. They have no idea how to socialize without their phones.

Sounds so similar to the complaints levered at my friends and I for "not knowing how to play outside" because we wanted to shoot bad guys on the PS2 in the basement on the weekend. Or "not knowing how to socialize normally" because we talked over AIM all the time. When my oldest brother was a little kid, similar complaints for sitting in front of the TV. Or the older TV show trope of the teens tying up the home phone line.

I think there is some unique evil to the algorithm/recommendation driven social media of today, but it's hard not to also see that these criticisms all fit a pattern that seems to have been ongoing for decades, and wonder where on the spectrum the truth lies.
Speaking as a application developer (digital signatures solution) which has to integrate with government related entities, i'd love an official government-run authentication. Just give me an OAuth endpoint for the government solution which allows me to authenticate users and it will make the life simpler for everyone.
Only the program state gets rewound, not anything external to the process (or whatever is hosting the program). Just like hitting a breakpoint only pauses the program, not the external world.
Probably the good old federal government. Something something too big to fail.
Without any doubt, if this snipped from Wikipedia is true:

> After graduating in 1963, Bezmenov spent two years in India working as a translator and public relations officer with the Soviet economic aid group Soviet Refineries Constructions, which built refinery complexes.

Soviet citizens could not freely leave the country. All travel was subject to very strict background checks several generations into your family tree to verify loyalty to the state, and travel groups had KGB informants attached to them to keep an eye out for any suspicious behaviour.

Not to mention such foreign assignments, which were under total KGB control. Either he worked directly for KGB or had a curator from KGB. Independently going abroad and working there was unthinkable.

Given that he did public relations and was probably visible more than most Soviet staff, his posting to India should be pretty easy to verify through contemporary newspapers, photos from public events and other similar sources. His major at Moscow State University is also easy to verify and it's a well-known fast-track into intelligence work.
I got laid off in late January and had a job within a month as well as three final interviews scheduled at the time. For now finding employment seems OK?
Not fully related to this post but ...

I think there's a huge opportunity for whoever that can create Spark or Flink like framework that works in Node.js or at least has Node.js API.

It's a huge challenge to create a tool like that, but I believe there's an appetite for such tool. JS community is huge. JS is a flexible language that can conceptualize distributed computing well. JS community and developer ecosystem generally has superior emphasis on developer experience, outreach and education than the communities around existing tools.

Given how economically valuable companies that exist around big data distributed computing are, I think a company that can create an open source Node.js distributed computing tool will be like the next MongoDB, Elastic and Databricks.
Most of them also happen to be in California.
>Duration risk is risk.

Correct, but the GP’s point was that it was not “startup creditworthiness risk”, the thing SVB was most ridiculed for taking on.
The setup I'm most familiar with is ARM-based microcontrollers, here's an overview from their docs: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ihi0014/q/Introducti...

and the debugger from Keil (used to be independent, now part of ARM):
https://www2.keil.com/mdk5/debug
I used to get hung up over having specific journals for specific thoughts -- one for my projects, one for cool stories, one for whatever else. But eventually I consolidated. I stopped categorizing, I stopped judging, and I just started writing. I guess that's kind of the same blocker as the author, just a different spin.
The Notsu pad that I like has the pages held in by some glue along the edge. I like it better than a spiral and I think I like it better than the tear-away style that the Sidekick is using. The glue seems relatively easy to do, so all I really need is somebody to print me 12" x 7" dot-grid pages.
Work for them? Quit.
Considering it? Don't.
Using them? Don't.

Few companies members of this site convince themselves it's OK to work for, have done and continue to do more harm to our society, psyches, and body politic.

Just don't.

No one asked for a surveillance-first Shitter.
> Twitter's decline

Where?
> His audience is fanboys

SpaceX fans?
But recall that Java was once pushed heavily in the form of applets, where code size and download time are critical. That's why Sun developed pack200.
If you could forecast even 6 hours into the future, you'd be the richest man alive in weeks. Nevermind months.
I found https://www.livemint.com/news/world/explainer-silicon-valley... much easier to understand. It would seem the crux of the matter is:

> the bank purchased a large amount (over $80 billion) in mortgage-backed securities (MBS) with these deposits for their hold-to-maturity (HTM) portfolio. Almost 97% of these MBS were 10+ years in duration, with a weighted average yield of 1.56%.

> with the rise in Fed rates, the value of SVB’s MBS plummeted. This is because investors can now purchase long-duration "risk-free" bonds from the Fed at a 2.5x higher yield. Precisely, with the rising US Fed interest rates, the value of existing bonds with lower payouts fell in value.

The second paragraph explains what the original article summarized as "The trouble is that when rates started to go up, mortgage assets got hit hard".
It is my mistake. I'm sorry. I have misinterpreted it.
Founder of Mars Society talks about human future in space
I've recently tried the distribution and I really like it. It's pretty much the successor of Void Linux.
A virus research goes beyond lives saved or lost. COVID was a titanic shift in culture, economies, and foreign relations.

I’d probably take the position that lab leaks are some fraction as probable as novel animal to human transmission. However, virus mutation pressure in labs can take place significantly faster and in a preferred direction.

Labs that make medical breakthroughs through viral research reap the rewards. Shouldn’t they also bear the responsibility of making the world while when there are leaks?
> "Dreamscape" by 009 Sound System

Say no more. I'll go get Unregistered Hypercam 2.
Oof, absolutely terrible idea. The first priority always has to be making sure your business survives. You’re doing a disservice to your investors and employees.
Sounds similar to the famous 8 ft 11 in bridge [1] (since raised to 12 ft 4 in, but still racking up victims). 177 crashes since 2008, most of them caught on camera at that site.

[1] http://11foot8.com/
Will be interested to see why I would use this instead of Envoy or similar FOSS. One obvious thing would be giving the operational work to Cloudflare instead of doing it myself, but beyond that it reads like "we built an internal thing in Rust."