skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like the cops did the right thing there :

>In his testimony, Naccache simply says that the police treated it like a neighbourly dispute and accordingly declined to press the matter further. They were “not keen of processing a harassment complaint”.[11] However, he conveniently omits mentioning what he noted in his written log.

>The log reveals that, to his dismay, the police officer informed him that his brother Ari could have been charged with assault and his father Frank could have been ticketed for driving dangerously. In his notes, Naccache took the officer’s warning as a “threat”. He also complained that the officers did nothing about Mr. Epstein not wearing a COVID mask… outdoors.
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This is why I buy used guitars.
What types of reforms would even be beneficial specifically for Silicon Valley?

Most startups fail. The funding tends to be risky. And really none of that has much to do with the problems at the banks.
I think it's the latter. If anything, this will negatively impact Mercury and Brex in the long run as companies will favor safety above all else.
I don’t think they were complaining about being paid per hour or not, just the expectation in many salaried jobs you work arbitrarily long hours in a competition with the nerd next to you for how much you can sacrifice for your employer.

I later in my career learned you can actually invert it by just being really effective in a shorter number of hours and work 6 hours a day and just leave the nerd next to you to expire from burnout. But it helps being later in my career and knowing how to be more effective in a shorter time.
There is another way, not all AI training data must be sourced from humans. You can loop a LLM with a compiler and set of tests to run, and it will happily search for solutions on its own. Or it could be connected to a simulator, a game or any real life process and let it learn to optimise a goal that can be measured without human work.
That's a problem though, because discouraging low-quality work means discouraging creativity. A notebook is not a publication medium.
Too much money is only a problem if you are greedy for returns, like all the investors who lost money when yields were unsustainably low the last few years. They could have deposited it with the Fed and have been totally fine.

Individual investors don't even have that option and also have inflation to deal with. Banks don't.
Sktch.io does just that, create functionality visually including Database control, you should check it out.
Although it's not great to need to work that much, you can make absolute bank doing overtime.

My mom's a nurse and occasionally gets called in out of the blue if there's shortages. If she agrees, she can get x2 to sometimes even x3 depending on what time and day of the year it is.

As much of a drag it can be getting woken up to work, she still gets excited when it happens because of how good the pay is.
I have a video of a brazilian bystander deciding to mess up a crime in progress by kicking an armed teenager in the leg and knocking him down. Teenager got up and executed him in cold blood for the insult, then resumed whatever he was doing.
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Even if you work for a company entirely banked with SVB (and many companies have a few bank accounts for various reasons) they'll probably be able to make payroll even if they have to take an annoying loan.
I have no doubt that Russia engages in a lot of shenanigans today.

However that back in 1985, what this guy is saying about the USSR managing worm into the US to the point of raising an entire generation that thought what the USSR wanted them to think -- that to me seems extremely dubious.

There may be a kernel of truth there -- yes, the KGB may have had such a strategy, and it might have been successfully executed in some cases. What I highly doubt is that it actually did work on the US in 1985.

You have to consider a conflict in priorities there. This guy defected. He burned every bridge there was to burn back home, and that means he desperately needs to ingratiate himself with where he ended up instead, and given that McCarthyism was right around that time it doesn't take a genius to latch on that.

Also, let's be serious here. This is almost 40 years ago. Many people of importance from back then are now dead or retired. If this interview has anything to do with modern reality it's more by accident than anything.
A $1M deposit adds to both assets and liabilities.

In double entry accounting, you mark any changes with both a debit and a credit. This allows you to see not only why one account changes (a single entry), but also the cause of that change (the second entry).
> social media has some good sides in that it allows you to keep in touch with family and friends who may be far away.

Sure, but there are numerous other ways of doing that without bringing in the problems of social media.
That's why I also lift and do jogs! That's why I'm interested in the lifestyle peace because I have a pretty healthy lifestyle outside of smoking weed. I think I could be doing better micro nutrient wise and get a better omega and mushroom stack rather than w/e veggies are on sale lol
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>they're being punished for not having the money put somewhere it could grow faster.

No, it's because they didn't properly manage their assets to serve existing depositors if those depositors wanted to withdraw. Locking up money for 10 years has obvious liquidity consequences. I knew that when I first learned what a "CD" is when I was like 10.
> What people are you talking about?

People that maintain software.

> Anyone who's on a payroll is liable if they don't upgrade systems when they go out of support.

Yes. Let's make that process easier.

> Did ifconfig foresee bridge interfaces, bond interfaces, vLANs etc?

No, that's precisely why I wrote the comment you're replying to. Yet people still use ifconfig, and wonder why the results don't make sense with their vlanned bonded interface.

> It's not an evolution of ifconfig, it's an entirely different thing.

Yes, agreed completely.

But if we got away from scraping we could have added them a lot more gently.

> There would've been no way to keep any kind of backwards compatibility with ifconfig

Disagree. We can come up with a design here but I don't feel like you're actually responding to anything I write so I don't wish to do so.

> there was no reason to keep the name

To this day people are still scraping ifconfig and wondering why the results are bad.
The USA is approx. 250x larger than Estonia, so there's that. Also, there are vested interests that would fight a USA federal ID, due to politics and etc.
I think it should be both: The $1m that was deposited is an asset, the customer's ability to withdraw $1m is a liability.
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My ego is thoroughly satisfied. What do I do next?
I just saw recent footage of 40-50 people standing in line outside an SVB branch waiting for service (withdrawals most likely).

I would surmise that the news spread fast among the tech demographic the bank services and the run is really bad.
Is this one of these innocent little articles popping up that people refer to as "the SVB moment" in the future?

Or was this bank just uniquely fucked?
My point is that the horrible sorts of working conditions which you mention are orthogonal to the shift length. EDIT: So if they are doing the things you mention (or exposing workers to asbestos, or paying starvation wages, or whatever), then that would be the real problem, which needs to be treated as such.
I'm of the "Oregon Trail Generation" and I can relate to the things you said about video games and instant messaging because we had them as kids and into our teens also. I was still able to disconnect from those things and socialize without the devices aka "go outside". In fact my friends and I would get bored after a couple hours of console gaming or instant messaging, so we'd need to disconnect just to keep sane. That aspect of it has changed these days to where if you remove the devices, it's like removing a vital organ and they can no longer function as human beings.
Ah yes. Cramer, the man who's right about the market so much that there's an ETF that just does the opposite of what he says.

https://www.thestreet.com/etffocus/blog/inverse-cramer-etf-i...
Rippling CEO: Payroll Runs Through Rippling Will Have No Exposure to SVB
I find that to be a chronic issue.
I released a couple of full length albums that got a fair amount of college radio play. I made them while working dead end tech contracts in Silicon Valley. Although I do have a few nice bits of kit and some DAW plugins, most of my setup is DIY. I resist the urge to buy gear by building my own for a fraction of the cost. Using Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Teensy 4.1, and more.

https://lucidbeaming.com/music/

Here are repos with some of my code projects for music:

Camel, an Arduino based synth and noise box
https://github.com/lucidbeaming/Camel

vid2midi, a Python utility to generate music notes from video signals
https://github.com/lucidbeaming/vid2midi
Silicon Valley Bank is a very American mess
Judging by the number of comments, nobody seems to care.
Hey @thewopr.

I'm actually working on real-time measurement transmission of the climate parameters, though at the other pole in the Arctic. I always imagined people working on such things were here on HN.

This article is absolutely a PR/puff piece. This type of transmission isn't novel, unique, or "AIoT"... using that acronym for this is beyond hilarious, I'd challenge anyone on the project to describe how AI is in any way relevant to the project beyond NVIDIA PR blurbs. I've looked through the research and the only thing I've found is a nebulous "we will analyze the data with AI at some point". But! People have been doing these sorts of measurements and transmitting them from these sorts of places for... ever... basically. Also entirely based on open source. The autonomous station I(we)'ve designed uses a custom Linux box/SoC for low power data processing and amalgamation and the results are transmitted in realtime back here to the USA to be ingested by models, without a single chip designed by NVIDIA. From places much more remote than a few kms from a base in Antarctica, we had a station running in the Arctic ice pack during winter. Not to add more criticism, but I also always love how these puff pieces don't actually link to the research of the people who put in the work on the project[1].

As an aside, AI could actually very relevant/important for these types of measurements. One idea I'm working to spin up:

Vertical profile retrievals of important atmospheric measurements (cloud properties, and more) are extremely power intensive and nearly impossible to do autonomously via lidar/radar. However, there are many ways one could imagine designing a low power implementation of those retrievals using a combination of different sensors and a cleverly trained algorithm to get at the parameters of interest.

Anyway, link/tell me about some of your remote monitoring. I'm pretty disconnected from the south side of these things.

[1] https://www.uow.edu.au/media/2023/world-first-mosscam-and-sm...
thank you, this was helpful
Your ignorance is a problem we simply don't have time to address here. Luckily, we don't need to base reality off of your strong suspicions since we have direct quotes from the Nixon administration.

“The Nixon Campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” - Lee Atwater
I asked ChatGPT now about the federal reserve loans alternative:

Why would FDIC take over an unliquid bank instead of the bank just loaning money by the Federal Reserve?

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is a US government agency responsible for protecting depositors and maintaining stability in the banking system. When an unliquid bank fails, the FDIC may step in to take over the bank and manage its operations.

One reason the FDIC may take over an unliquid bank instead of the bank just loaning money from the Federal Reserve is that the bank may be insolvent, meaning it does not have enough assets to cover its liabilities. In this case, simply borrowing from the Federal Reserve would not solve the underlying financial problems of the bank.

Taking over the bank allows the FDIC to manage its operations and assets, and potentially sell off its assets to recover some of the losses for depositors and creditors. This process is known as "resolution" and is intended to minimize the impact of a bank failure on the broader financial system.

Additionally, if the FDIC determines that the bank is not viable in the long term, it may choose to liquidate the bank, selling off its assets and using the proceeds to pay off depositors and creditors.

Overall, the decision to take over an unliquid bank instead of simply loaning money from the Federal Reserve depends on the specific circumstances of the bank and the broader financial system.
Well, you brought up the subject :) I think it's a bit intellectually dishonest to appeal to typical OOP definition when there isn't one (except that your language isn't true OOP but my language, I won't tell which one, is). And there are quite a few different definitions of late binding too.
> But, you can easily argue that "my child should never smoke". You cannot easily argue that "my child should never use social media".

Oh, I think one can so argue. Social media as in "public or broadcast-to-all-'friends' style posting, that pushes content at you in a way designed to maximize engagement above all other concerns", yeah, that stuff's digital asbestos. I'm not gonna take my kids gambling, either, and certainly not going to let them do it on a regular basis. Social media's just as low-value and dangerous.

Texting and equivalents, sure, not so much.
I'd say there is a difference between technical path-dependence/tech debt, and a vendor who's actively able to take technical and legal steps to try and compel you to keep using their services. And obviously you should be getting something for the lock-in, otherwise you're setting money on fire for no reason. The fear is what happens once you are well and truly boxed in - somehow IBM still sells a bunch of mainframes, for instance. (Maybe they're truly amazing machines still; I know nothing about that world).

I do spend a fair amount of time and effort trying to keep my company nimble; we try to use open source software and generic cloud primitives so we can move with some ease if need to. As you say, it is all work.
Maybe go for 12345!

I remember celebrating Unix time 1000000000, and later Unix time 1234567890. There are lots of special numbers out there. :-)
> Did nobody learn the lessons on this?

I'm not sure you learned the lessons. Other than MBS being coincidentally involved, this has literally nothing to do with 2008.
Thankfully there are things like flight recorder and application insights that marry distributed computing monitoring with debuggers.
Well, Apple/Foxconn gonna do Apple/Foxconn. But India really needs to look at growing unemployment problem for its massive population. Working hours need to be set like 30-40h a week. It helps nation (not necessarily companies) in two ways:

1) Employees to not get overworked as a rule.
2) Companies can hire more employees and run more shifts if they need 24/7 work.

Right now there are huge number of young people sitting at home for years unable to find any employment and other few are being overworked.
Just saw a First Republic stock chart in crash territory, contagion?
25 years in the industry. I used the debugger countless times because it was useful.

But I still default to use printf/log/tracing debugging style because it's often easier to get some signal under the conditions I care about and are hard to reproduce where it's hard to attach a debugger.
Alternate would be that she write the actual comments that she has, and not puff them out to meet some artificial "must be multiple paragraphs even if the information to be conveyed doesn't justify it". Concise communication is the only thing that isn't wasting effort for both the writer and the reader.

Reducing internal pushback to customer hostile bureaucratic requirements imposed by management on employees is a harmful effect of ChatGPT, not a benefit.
Obama far more than Bush.
All of them??
GPT 4 coming next week
SVB was the biggest bank in Silicon Valley (2nd in California), and the 18th largest bank in the entire US.

I knew this whole thing was big as I personally know a lot of friends use SVB for their startups, but I failed to realize how big deal this is. How can the 16th biggest bank in the country fail so rapidly?
I think it depends on the people and on the cigarettes. I actually like the taste of one specific cigarette brand. I very rarely smoke, less than a packet a year, if that (0 during 2020 - 2022). I do hate the smell, though.
You may feel relieved - and less confused - if I tell you that deposits are liabilities in the balance sheet.
> Time-travelling debuggers is really a game changer

Core dumps have existed forever. They give you a stack trace and register values at the time of crash. Even better, you don't need a debugger running at the time of crash and you can dig into dumps sent from nontechnical users.

Sure, Bret Victor's demo was cool. But time travel debugging is so completely oversold at this point that I can't take anyone seriously that mentions it.
Ridiculous.

Why are you pushing this dreamed up narrative so hard without a single piece of evidence?

Do you have personal knowledge of something that isn’t included in this story?
FDIC is only good for $250k per account...
Why in the fucking hell someone thought it would be a good idea for banks to use the deposit money to buy securities?
> information hiding

An interesting point, especially at API boundaries.

C and Zig not having information hiding is to some extent a feature.
C++ is notorious for having information hiding without safety. Almost no other language has that combination.
Do you think MBS are always and forever a bad investment because of a bubble 15 years ago?

The MBS wasn't even the problem here. If they had 10Y corporate bonds or Treasury notes paying the same rate, they would have had the same problem.
Is there a quote of link to the "three days to Kyiv" comment from the Russian Federation?
bollocks. plenty of gov regulation works in other countries. European trains run on time and don't spew chlorine gas at people.
Question - what are your thoughts on giving an old laptop instead of iPad? Probably 5-year olds are too young for laptops, but in general there could be more a child could do for safe entertainment on a laptop than iPad/smartphone (theoretically atleast - with equivalent restrictions on accessing social media etc.).
Note that the ACP100 is a pressurized water reactor with the steam generators integrated into the pressure vessel. It's in the same class the NuScale reactor being developed in the US, but the ACP100 is further ahead in development.
Ask HN: Open-source tool to connect to customers' database?
I'm thinking of building an app that would require the user (developer) to connect their database to my app. A wide selection of options would be nice, but happy to just start with Postgres.

Are there open source tools that can facilitate this? I see a lot of apps have this capability but seems pretty complex so I assume not all of them are building this from scratch (storing credentials, IP whitelisting, retries, refreshing data, etc.)

Even SaaS products would be nice too. It just seems like a huge undertaking and I'd rather not try and build it from scratch.
Annoyingly, Rippling had a lot of their stuff in SVB so some companies see the debit from their SVB account but no actual corresponding credit into their employees accounts.
Python and Go are pathologically bad at the things Perl does well.

I still use one-liners all the time, and when I need to implement a non-trivial, but small stream transformation, the resulting perl is << 1/10th the size of the unmaintainable python my coworkers would write.
I don't think anyone is saying this? The decrease in value is due to wrong-way interest rate exposure, not due to a fire sale
Investing in the exact same kind of unsafe assets that brought the 2007 crisis, as well as assets that cause house prices to stay unaffordably high.

Yep, all of SV is truly made of bumbling idiots. That whole solution is truly hilarious and watching all these clowns lose their money is going to be fun.
well they are getting paid by the FDIC now so of course they are going to work
I do thin Xe's right in saying "Most Americans wont notice"

How many of you are directly paid by the Valley tech sector?
> I can't fix

Do not be afraid! (I've messed with quite a few very ancient and messy systems, like Gentoos of a legal drinking age. Dissected their guts, extracted their hearts, made LD_PRELOAD crutches, containerized stuff to run on modern hardware - this kind of mix of software necromancery and archeology. It's not trivial, but quite doable.)

Fortunately, SSH daemons are quite isolated components, so they can almost always be updated without affecting the system.

It's possible to build a completely static OpenSSH daemon binary, and replace the ancient /usr/bin/sshd on the most ancient OS. And it will work. Of course, test ahead of time by running your `~/tmp/your-new-sshd -d -p 10022` and ensuring you still can log in.

For cleanliness (not to screw the system even further), as long as that machine still has a functional packaging system - even if package repos are long gone, I would recommend wrapping this binary in a OS-native package format (.deb, .rpm or whatever it uses), making a quick-and-dirty backport (from a custom built static binary), and feeding it to the low-level package manager. Preferably, taking a backup of the original sshd package from the local package cache (or finding that exact same package in some online archive).

I mean, I've put `sshd`s on all sort of embedded systems, Docker containers and whatnot. Even if you have some Gentoo or Slackware machine from early 2000s (or worse), I don't really see much problem in modernizing an SSH daemon there.

The only exception I can imagine is if someone already runs a patched sshd and they can't (or won't risk) backport new stuff in there.
Also if the wrench is a consideration, you really need to consider at what point you die rather than reveal.

And note that you may die even if you want to reveal; especially if you've setup a system that prevents you from revealing (two person keys, etc).
I believe it's because depositors want a return on their "investment"