skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is worrying as the BBC is supposed to be impartial and yet seems to be moving rightwards. There would seem to be a pattern of events: Richard Sharp made a loan to Boris Johnson and then was made the Chair of the BBC which has been described as "an error of judgement". More recently, there's been the criticism of Gary Lineker for calling out the Home Office's use of language (he compared it to Nazi Germany). There certainly seems to be a trend of the right-wing not allowing freedom of speech or criticism of their more toxic policies and lies.
A similar approach I've heard (but never brave enough to do) is when you get a new car, intentionally scratch the paint yourself.

Then you won't be as concerned about the inevitable dings and scratches it will accumulate.
The fed will take over all of these assets and shutdown the bank and make a profit doing so.

The fed has a huge advantage in that they can just print money, buy assets that deliver 1% returns and when those assets mature delete the printed money. The fed is basically leveraged to infinity.
Compared to average YouTube, TV or magazine content he is excellent and in depth.
Except you forget that when democracy was first unveiled only white, land-owning males could vote because they supposed that they were educated and self-interested enough to make good decisions. The founding fathers were well-known to not trust the public for making decisions and thats WHY we (in the USA) have laws written up and argued over by the House and Senate and not popular vote...
"Full control" by being forced to engage with a protocol they never designed in order to authenticate their own existence? That sounds more like full submission to me.
Hmm, idk, I had two accounts in the past and I wasn’t even using them for anything nefarious, but I got a reply from dang asking me to not use multiple accounts, so I went back to using just one account.

Seems from my experience that at least to some degree dang is on top of making sure each person has only one account.

But again, the situation may be different when people intentionally try to do sketchy things. If someone uses separate browser sessions and separate VPN connections then there would not be much HN could do to discover that multiple accounts belong to the same person, except if the person with the accounts made the mistake of displaying voting ring behaviour, i.e. a number of accounts upvoting each other, and that sort of thing
> should have foreseen the coming inflation and the following interest rate hikes

That's putting it lightly. Powell has been saying over and over again "more inflation, more rate hikes." Even giving us approximately how many they are planning on doing in a given timeline. I don't understand why so many people think it's a good idea to prepare for the opposite of what the government is literally telling us it's going to do. That does not seem like a smart bet, but maybe that's just me.

You can blame the government for some stuff but at some point companies have to own the decisions they make in the face of not just evidence, but also clear statements, that run counter to how they are operating. SVB made their bed in a large way here.
Heavy fines
Self-hosted fonts load extremely fast for the user if you are conservative with what you include. The fallback system font should be as similar as possible, so that text doesn't jump around.
> since its really just the promise of social networks that people like. In practice it has not worked as a means of connecting people to each other.

I went off FB for a year or two, only to come back on when the pandemic started. I definitely missed the connections and conversations I had with family and friends across the world while I was gone. If I could have that without feeling like I was contributing to all the shenanigans, I would do it.

For work I created a Mastodon account, and so far it seems very nice. There are lots of cool people posting interesting stuff, and no ads. Unfortunately I'm not interested in the "public-only microblog" experience for my personal life, and fine-graned access control in a federated system is a tricky problem; and my experience with the systems that are attempting to address that issue haven't been very positive.
Cartel suspected of American kidnappings issues apology letter
Isn't Reddit what Google wave tried to be?
> I never traded cash bonds but would struggle to imagine it would be hard to liquidate

Bonds are actually well known for having terrible liquidity. It's common for corps and munis even with good credit ratings to be no-bid, and even Treasuries, once they're off-the-run, aren't easy to move without moving markets.
There is that economic adage attributed to Keynes: In the long run we're all dead.

If you need money but your current assets in whatever form can't furnish that fund for you, I am afraid you're broke.
Just seen your replies and joined your Discord.
You might like to read this if you're looking for causation: https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media-mental-ill...
> While Hamlin was digging into the CSH data, he came across familiar-looking sentences in the paper that presented the raw CSH data—lines that he recollected writing in his 2007 PhD thesis. On a hunch, he pulled up Dias’ 2013 thesis and fed both his thesis and Dias’ into a plagiarism checker. His computer screen lit up; the two documents contained numerous identical passages.

Oof. When the guy investigating your paper is the same guy you plagiarized for your thesis.
I think the concept in general has been proven to be terrible on pretty much every count, so yes, I advocate ditching the idea.

> Should we go back to the days of communicating to each other via letters?

Or email, or phone, etc. There is no lack of other communications channels.

That said, I'm not in favor of banning these services. I just think society in general, and people in particular, would be better off if they stopped using them.

I haven't used social media for several years, and my life is in no way poorer for it. I miss out on nothing.
> I can control my own temperature, my own noise levels

Holy hell... I have been working remotely for so long that I forgot that those were prominent problems in offices...
Alternatively:

const print = @import("std").debug.print;

pub fn main() void {
print("Hello {s}!", .{"World"});
}

Or using the logging API:

const info = @import("std").log.info;

pub fn main() void {
info("Hello {s}!", .{"World"});
}

(I'm actually not sure why Zig doesn't have a simple way to print to stdout, but I guess there are 'reasons')
In my defense, I did say "to the best of my knowledge" :)

I'm just a designer/developer so I don't have deep knowledge of most of the tech world and I'm sure there are some crazy stories out there I am unaware of. But as I said, I'd be more than happy to hear them.
I use this brand as well. I really like the paper. And I’ll throw in an endorsement for the Pilot G2 pen, too. I like the 0.7 the best.
I think it misses the nature of America Offence Culture, which very much defines both sides rather than just one.

There are some underlying processes which allow both (supposed) progressive academics and conservative critics to advance their careers by covertly agreeing that - for example - the battle is going to be over race and gender issues. When in fact there's a whole lot more going on.

This is very obvious with the Timnit Gebru controversy. We're supposed to agree that the ethical problems with AI come down to race/gender bias in training sets and a lack of diversity among researchers.

This is a very fashionable but also extremely superficial take. The ethical issues around AI are much, much wider than that. Fixing bias in training is like sticking a band-aid on an incoming asteroid.

So IMO both sides have agreed on comfortable terms of debate, and neither is going to dig deeper into the underlying generators of power imbalances and social injustice. And is certainly not going to investigate the problem of consistently self-harming limited-scope decision making in academia, business, politics, technology, and media.
This is why I'm bullish on Hotwire, LiveView, Livewire, etc. It enables you to keep the majority of your logic in one place (the server). It's a magical place where everything you want to do is a method call away. I've seen so much time and energy spent on translating data into intermediary formats so the backend and frontend can talk with one another. You just dodge an entire set of problems by rendering on the server and sending the HTML to the client.
There are: for quite a famous example see Monotype's Arial which is effectively free for Windows/Office users and is mostly indistinguishable from Helvetica by people who are not typography experts.

Most free clones are not as good in various ways, and good clones that are charged for probably get earn their creators a letter from a foundry's legal team that makes them decide that the cost (time and money) of defending their position (even though they should eventually win) is not worth it.
I don't understand why they would be fined/forced to remove erosion abatement measures. Sure that might reduce beach access, but without it the beach will go away? I guess there will always be a beach, it will just move inland over time. I wonder how the California Coastal Commission will deal with the universal access requirement when the beach literally eats its way into private property.
There’s been a clear right wing shift since around the Iraq war. It’s only gotten worse under the Tories, with party members in senior positions.
You can watch the whole thing from the very genesis of the turbopump powered liquid fueled rocket. The British did a very thorough documentation project on the German A4 / V2 rocket after WW2 and it's all accessible to the public.

http://www.v2rocket.com/start/chapters/backfire.html

In particular, the pyrotechnic igniter that is mentioned in the article as still in use by the Russians was copied directly from there. Here's a direct link to the spot in the video where it is assembled for use.

https://youtu.be/V_fPdXLx48c?t=2097
I write on both sides. I used to not for fear of ink bleed, or seeing the other side. Ink doesn't really bleed through and what I can see on the other side is faint, so it doesn't bother me as much as I thought it would.

I use Leuchtturm notebooks and I really like how the paper feels under a fountain pen (nothing fancy, just a Lamy Safari). I don't think I can use cheap notebooks now since I can tell right away that the paper doesn't feel as good when I write.
First generation to be exclusively raised on social media/smartphones/constant tech engagement is not simply, old man yells at clouds.
There's always the risk of it just being "old man yells at clouds"....except in this case it's the kids themselves telling us there's something wrong. Self-reported mental health and suicide rates are trending in a bad direction.

Obviously the leap to causation needs to be taken very carefully, but "kids these days" are definitely a bit more sad and suicidal for some reason.
> it was impossible to right-size the stimulus

This is wrong. DETR, the Nevada Unemployment Office, gave out 1.4B too much [0]. I am absolutely sure this is not an isolated case. The absolute level of corruption disguised at absolute incompetence is too high to let the government off that easily. 2020-2021 was the biggest wealth transfer from the poor to the ultra rich in the history of the world. The stimulus didn't even have a clawback attached to it.

[0] https://www.ktnv.com/13-investigates/detr-sent-out-1-4-billi...
I'm more sympathetic too h&l's General point, but I think both positions are wrong if treated as absolutes.

Half of the problem is the ambiguous nature of the term harm itself. It is a undefined suitcase word and I wish we could use something more specific.
Ditto on the timeless appeal.

Watching this auto pilot reminded me of landing Getaceiver on Barsoom in Heinlein’s Number of the Beast, which has a very long passage describing the (fictional) orbital mechanics landing on (a fictional alternate reality version of) Mars.
> As a European I was really surprised why SUVs are so popular in the US, making biking extremely dangerous.

Sadly SUVs and giant pickups are slowly becoming more popular in Europe as well.
IIRC, that's not how the FDIC capping works. It's a unique((account_owner, account_type)) operation, not just by total number of accounts. The "account_owner" can get a little creative, but by and large, just splitting accounts won't work.
The Big Lebowski Turns 25: “People Didn’t Get It,” Jeff Bridges Says
Hmm, I suggest reading about some of the pre-fed crises to understand better why these modern problems are much better to have if given the choice…
This may be true but you are discounting how hard it is to create your own font from scratch. If one could do it, they probably wouldn't be in the market for a font license in the first place. The vast majority of website builders want/need a 1-click solution.

Kinda like saying hey, every SaaS service out there can legally be rebuilt in-house with the same look and behavior, so why pay for any of them?
Not only the privacy issue, but the point where Google decides to charge for fonts, or drop it completely, and your website suddenly gets ugly. I always download the font and serve it myself.

Arguing with designers about fonts isn't fun. I totally understand how they want the pretty thing to fit in with their artistic vision, but the pain and cost of paid fonts is such a huge drag that I refuse to do it (especially if they want to install a tracker - that's an absolute no). It has got heated in the past.
The target bytecode/standard library version can also be specified on a per-file basis (we have both -source and -target options). But while the VM can load a classfile of any version since the beginning of time, the javac compiler supports only a certain number of versions back in terms of source version and target version (e.g. you can't use a JDK 19 compiler to target JDK 7, but you can ask for the same language, API, and bytecode level as 15).
> Do you think you could vectorize all the pages in a book and magically get around the copyright?

No, because the text content is what is copyrighted, not the physical structure of the words on the page.
I think you can buy cheap and get by if quality is not a goal. I buy expensive art materials because I have used cheap materials and I can really, really tell a difference in the quality. I buy mid-grade Ryobi instead of Dewalt tools because I'm not great at carpentry and the extra value of Dewalt tools is never going to show up in my work in that area.
So you think that a greed-based demotivator will truly impact greedy behavior in any positive way for society at large?

The greedy will just find ways to hide their greed.
Of course they won’t. The BBC is a government organ, with the sole purpose of disseminating government messaging. Criticism of government or policy is non-existent, and when it does appear, microphones are cut and apologies are made.

Reminds me of an email I had from the home office recently - “we welcome all positive feedback”.

“If you don’t have approving comments to make, keep your mouth shut” is the ethos of Britain in 2023. It’s rather like Germany in the 1930s.
Because it’s an aggregate of a number of different resources types and custom logic not exactly the same as deployment.

I can see you don’t like operators and that’s fine. Many folks find it’s a useful pattern to follow
Try https://old.reddit.com

The day they disable it, I’m not using it anymore.
Let's be a little more real here. Very, very few font designers are getting rich off of their fonts. Since these are digital objects piracy is a big factor. The reason they have the page views in there are usually so giant corporations like Coca-Cola can't buy a $500 license and serve it up to millions.

There are thousands of cheap or free options out there. This isn't a case where there's a limited supply.
30 years is really far beyond any kind of reasonable window of any potential prediction. The exponential acceleration of technology will make the world 30 years from now likely incomprehensible.

With the rapid changes we are seeing, 3 years out may be difficult. Maybe even 3 months. I recently saw a thread of someone who stated every AI related project they had worked on recently became obsolete before they could finish.

Recently the only job Neil deGrasse Tyson could recommend was plumbing or any manual labor job. But 30 years out, might have robot androids.

This leaves the big question nobody can seem to answer, what will people do? If all creative ventures are dominated by AI as well, then we have much uncertainty around the concept of meaning and purpose in our lives.

I've spent a lot of time in contemplation on these thoughts. If you are curious of something much more in depth ...

https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things
This sounds like a typeface is not copyrightable but only because the mechanism for protection is different (patent system). So by doing what the GP suggests you wouldn't be violating copyright, but you may be in violation of the design patent on the typeface?
All that plus interviewing is broken as shit. Then just the thought of changing jobs is stressful enough, but looking for work while Elmo is breathing down your neck has to be some next level stress. I can see where they would be paralyzed into staying a while.
This is why—if I can—I design my sites using OS fonts that are honestly quite good.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/is-larry-summe...
> Obviously the utilization of social networks is fundamental to social engagement in modern life.

That is not obvious at all. I think it's not even true.
FDIC convers a single person per account type up to 250k, not per account.

If it were easy to get around the rule, why have a limit at all?

Folks who de-risk by staying within the FDIC limit do it by splitting their money between multiple financial institutions.
Definitely. There's three blinky light boxes on my desk right now that hardly ever get used because I can do exactly the same thing in software. But they look nice.
You are right about it not being a fintech startup, and 40 years is a lot for those (as well as tech companies). But even then Apple, Intel, Oracle are all older than SVB. And in the banking industry, 40 years is nothing really. The "oldschool" banks have usually gone through a history of mergers and acquisitions for hundreds of years. Usually this means founding dates somewhere in the 19th century, say Deutsche Bank which was founded in 1869.
> decommissioning

Sure, but they were losing 50 feet per year. It's reasonable to try to slow that down.
What made SVB so attractive to startup founders? All the news reports I'm reading is saying that's their target customer.

What advantages did SVB provide that other brand named bank didn't? Wouldn't it have been safer to put your startup's money in Bank of America, or JP Morgan, etc? I've never heard of SVB until the crash.
Belgium bans TikTok from federal government work phones
I don't think this is uniformly true.

Some startups definitely deposit $X-$XX MM directly into an account at SVB. Depending on a bunch of factors, these funds can be risk for availability in the short term.

SVB's assets are not liquid enough to cover all of those funds, obviously. If depositors panic in a meaningful way (they have, and will continue to do so), then SVB will be under new management by Monday.

Startups' $XX MM will not be lost. Today's payroll might fail. Next week's will be fine.
Oh yeah, the author of the game said he made use of a similar tutorial:

http://students.cs.ucl.ac.uk/schoolslab/projects/HT5/

from the readme here: https://github.com/ehmorris/lunar-lander
“Put another way: class components have a single instance per mounted component, but function components have multiple “instances” — one per render. Hooks just further entrench that constraint. It’s the source of all your problems with them”

I see this a lot, it’s probably the misunderstanding that drives most of the dissatisfaction with hooks.

Having a single instance that exists for the whole lifetime of the mounted component was a major advantage of class components, the major drawback being that you kept losing immutability.

The big advantage of functional components is they give you all that immutability, their drawback is you no longer have a single instance that corresponds to the mounted component’s lifetime, because functions are just executed and then they’re gone (until the next time you execute them).

The way to think about hooks is that React will create a internal virtual instance that does correspond to the lifetime of the mounted component, and it will let you hook into that virtual instance from the function (to store state, effects, refs, etc). The idea was that way, you can have both immutability and single-instance-per-lifetime benefits.

Because React is managing all of these internal virtual instances itself, it can do some nice magic like letting you use a clean top-level “useState” function and it Just Works… because behind the scenes it is pairing up each call to that function with each internal virtual instance (using its order in the call stack, which means the magic fails if hooks are called conditionally, hence the rules of hooks).

That’s fundamentally the concept that lets you work with hooks fearlessly. You no longer had to provision each of your class components with their own instance and make sure they were maintaining it properly, instead your function components could just clock in and clock out and React would take care of making sure they were handed the right instance to work with.

If I had to pinpoint the exact mistake React made with Hooks, it was this: saying you could emulate componentDidMount with useEffect(fn, []). It completely obscures this idea of a virtual instance you’re hooking into. They should have been explicit about the virtual instance model and given developers “useDidMount(fn)” and “useWillUnmount(fn)” hooks, explaining that for each function component you write, React is managing an instance for it behind the scenes and React will make sure it runs the provided mount and unmount functions at the appropriate moments in that instance’s lifetime.

One can imagine a hybrid option, a lightweight class definition (so you could set state in constructor, define DidMount, make refs, etc., in the natural way) that would then return a functional component. That would make the long-lived instance explicit, but I think the ergonomics would unfortunately suck: “render() { return function (props) { return <div/> } }” is hideous, for example.
I love notebooks until I have to find something in them.
I'm guessing the puts expire today, maybe this afternoon we'll know more.
Is it possible for you to keep most or all of your communication in writing, via email or chat, where it can be produced by either side if there is a complaint?
Does your database run on NVMe storage?

I ask because NVMe has neutralized a ton of performance differences across data related products.
Couldn’t there be a common cause, like lost sleep? Considering the role of sleep in washing away the daily damage to the brain.
Middlebrow dismissal, as it's often called on hn. ("Shallow dismissal" in the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
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