skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whatever works I guess. I use nice notebooks with sparkly covers fashioned after lavish 18th-century bindings because I feel like a wizard when I write in them, and that's fun. I have a few nice fountain pens I use for this and most of what I write is the most banal shit imaginable, just to-do lists and whatnot with the occasional longer-form entry reflecting on my day, or a dream log or whatever.

If you have a hoard of nice notebooks you'll never use then either get over this fear of having to use them for Serious Meaningful Things, or find a broke friend who does not have this fear and pass them on.
For what its worth, my math was ~1 update per 15-minutes was the crossover point between memory-lcd and eink.

There's a lot of different eink and memory-lcd screens that could explain the difference between your calculation and mine. But all else considered, 15-minutes vs 60-minutes isn't much of a difference at all.

For most applications of updates-per-second (or at worst, a few seconds per update), low-power monochrome seems best served by Sharp's memory-lcd.
As fairity pointed out in a comment to this thread, "The FDIC report shows $209b in assets and $175b in deposits."

Unfortunately much of their balance sheet is illiquid (consider loans they've made to venture-backed businesses, and of course a poor choice they made in government debt maturity).

Thus a liquidity crisis; technically also insolvency, but not gross mismanagement and excessive leverage by any means. Unwinding it will be quite routine (see my reply to kmod).
It’s the new kid on an old block.
People who commit fraud at this level usually have a psychosis akin to narcissism. Their brain is dysfunctional and they are literally compelled to lie bigger and bigger -- they are addicted to lying. Do not look into your own brain and think "I'd never do that, therefore they wouldn't either"; you can't extrapolate from a healthy brain to a clinically compulsive liar / narcissist. Once these things start to unravel, you find a seemingly endless stream of lies these people have woven into their lives from their earliest years. We're already beginning to see this with the 2013 thesis being plagiarized. This person's entire life is a lie. It's a psychosis.
Climate Change Threatens Everyone’s Health
Unfortunately debug-ability usually stops when you have a distributed system in which each part of the system is playing a different song. I wish my job was working on a program that I could run on a single machine. Then I'll look into debuggers. For now I'm `print`ing and hopelessly looking into service logs in DataDog :(
Is a nations prosperity only related to its nominal growth and GDP?

Then why don't we send more children to work as well to increase "growth" a bit further?

Are there no tradeoffs involved? Like what it does to a country's demographics and families?

Are there other ways to increase GDP without forcing women into the workforce - with potentially better tradeoffs?
I do have a problem. It's like the sexist language or the N word. Their just words so nothing to be offended by, right? But they just perpetuate and normalise the concepts. In this case non-sensical religious things.
Starbucks sold 2k NFTs in 20 minutes – coffee not included
This sounds pretty silly.

Now fuck Russia and all, but this guy is convinced that Russia managed to worm into American consciousness in the mid 80s, to the point of raising an entire generation of people who believe what Russia wants them to believe.

That just doesn't add up to me. Now not being American I don't know what things were over there, but at least I can recall that in the 80s and 90s, Russians were the standard bad guys in Hollywood movies, and the Cold War, and McCarthyism is somewhere in that timeline as well. Nothing much seems to indicate this "demoralization" step got anywhere close to actually happening.

It also seems very unlikely that at that point in history, USSR would have enough access to the US to raise entire generations that thought the things the USSR wanted them to.

I think it's more likely he was just opportunistically feeding the fears prevalent at the time he was speaking.
I have multiple Solo Key 2 devices. (I bought a Kickstarter 4-pack.) I use one of them regularly, and I successfully added it to iCloud as a security key. It has been 100% reliable.

In August 2022 they released a major firmware update. Maybe that addressed the iCloud incompatibility and reliability issues?
Modern Russian propaganda is not all that similar to anything the Soviet Union was interested in. There is no serious ideological backbone to it. It's all about putting out multitudes of conflicting narratives, giving people the "choice" to latch onto the ones they sympathize with most closely, and undermining the very concept of truth, democracy etc. "alternative facts", if you will.

Timothy Snyder's description is more accurate to what goes on in the modern day state of Russia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um-SEQDQidM (particularly starting around 18m26s and later at 39m19s)

Also the CIA questioned Bezmenov and found that he couldn't answer questions that he ought to know the answers to, about basic things like who his chain of command were.
Just my personal opinion: I wish Google could make money on what I consider their very best services to be: GCP, YouTube, YouTube Music, and Play Books.

I have been done using their search service for quite a while.

One thing I wish they could improve is a consumer version of Google Workplace that did: 1) easily share purchased digital assets with your free Gmail account. 2) Include the most excellent Cloud Search option (without the business/enterprise pricing). 3) Include in transit encryption for everything. - Then charge about $10/month for that and they would likely pick up a lot of consumer customers.
>Is it as serious as selling drugs?

Absolutely. It is 100% worse than selling drugs to willing buyers. How is this even a question?
URLs won't be link-ified if they're in a code block.

https://www.southernliving.com/news/why-disney-cartoons-wear...
https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-14...
Here's an experiment at JHU: https://alperovitch.sais.jhu.edu/five-days-in-class-with-cha...

I'm not fully convinced it was a net-positive, because sometimes asking the "dumb" question shows that other people in class had that question but didn't want to ask, or didn't know they had that question until someone else voiced it.
Recent downloads on crates.io (like npm for Rust)

- Tokio 12.1M

- Async-std 1.6M

It’s an order of magnitude difference.
The war on drugs was perpetuated by the Nixon and Reagan administrations to criminalize being antiwar and being black. Do you think that is what is happening here?
Picasa uploaded photos to picasaweb, before Google rebranded it to photos.
some quick searches:

https://github.com/search?q=llm&type=repositories&s=updated&...

https://github.com/search?q=gpt&type=repositories&s=updated&...
They're already doing it in Estonia [1].

Is it impossible to do in the US? Why? Zero trust in government (at all levels)?

[1] https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/id-card/
Linus Torvalds famously dislike them: https://lwn.net/2000/0914/a/lt-debugger.php3
It did in the last generation of Oracle and this generation of PG.
>> When Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, many people lost money over $100k. So many, that FDIC retroactively raised the insured limit to $250k and made people whole up to $250k. A lot of the money over that simply evaporated.

That's not at all true.. 100% of Lehman customers received 100% of their funds. Secured creditors also received 100% of their funds.

https://www.sipc.org/news-and-media/news-releases/20220928

100% of depositor funds from WaMu (including every penny over the FDIC limit) were safe as well after the Chase buyout.

https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/fai....
Question regarding SIVB shares. So now that the bank is in receivership, are all of those shares worthless (I'm assuming they are)?

Looking at a graph of SIVB share price, this definitely seems like yet another blow to efficient market hypothesis. Many of SIVB's woes have been known for months. While it's obviously difficult to predict a bank run, to see a stock go from a share price of ~270 to 0 in 2 days, with many billions in equity value wiped out, is astounding.
There’s a misconception that bonds are safe investments. They are not. You’re just trading one kind of risk for another. You can do the math, compare 4% and 1.5% compounding for 10 years and that’s why no one wants the bonds yielding 1.5%. Dumping 90%+ of your liquid funds into a single thing other than cash is completely insane especially when it’s not yours.
One definition of victimhood could be how much a person has suffered as a result of the crime. I'd say if someone has lost their job because the data leak, or had their identity stolen with actual serious financial consequences, they are a victim.

True, a lot of people are victims of their own stupid decisions. A society should still try reduce the likelihood of the stupid decisions, especially when there are obvious bad actors actively trying to increase such likelihood.
We got a lot of shit about it at the time from various sources, but I think my wife and I were correct in limiting our son to a flip phone until he was 18. It was very awkward in a lot of ways, because all of his peers had smart phones, and him not having one got in the way of some good things.

However, a couple of years later, now with a smart phone, he seems a lot more grounded than a lot of other young people he interacts with.
The bubble didn’t pop. I would call the situation as a post-covid work force correction.
>Is that what we're dealing with tho?

Assuming both side have the same information? No. But this is would be a very strange assumption.
Muji notepads (if you're close to a Muji) have the distinction of being both reasonably priced and nice to look at IMHO. They also have a lovely selection of writing instruments of all types.
2.a They sold some of the assets bought at step #1 at a loss (dont know why).
2.b Flubbed the PR game while trying to raise to cover the loss
2.c Bank run!
Google Dev Account ban because of Ukraine
That I get but there's literally an entire world in between a family-run bakery and Nestlé. And prices are right now completely idiotic for most normal businesses.

And also, even though I understand the overall concept, why should Nestlé pay more? I'm asking as a general concept.

Should a freelancer charge more money for the same amount of work to a large client just because they're a large client?
It is done.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35096877
> The problem with the text ones is that people think that showing them words mean that they make a model of the thing the words are describing, rather than of how those words go together.

I believe a colossal truth is that the most efficient way to learn how the words go together is to at least make some approximate model of what the words are describing. And our optimization algorithms and model architectures are good enough to find theae solutions.
I think a better approach is to use the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) to create and force websites to provide the relevant information in a standardised and accessible formats. You can do what you want, but substance before style.
Congressman wants 32-hour workweek U.S. law to 'increase happiness of humankind'
As with everything you indeed can not generalize for an entire population. - I’m in the same boat as you with my Russian friends and acquaintances :)
A friend of a friend is exactly like this. Extremely skewed opinions on 'facts'. Whenever I meet them I avoid any topic to do with politics or the war, I just don't have the time or patience, they are too far down the rabbit hole.

An American lady I know, her elderly mother was to the same extreme with Trump in the US... Social media and propaganda is a curse.
That’s because in those situation, SVB didn’t put $91b of its deposits into mortgage bonds right before interests rates soared. Those bonds are now worth a lot less (and will be sold for even less still to other banks that want to pick them up on the cheap).

Every crisis is different, but hedging so much money in one basket seems to be the real undoing here. I’d posit that the bank, which was much smaller in 2000 and 2007, didn’t make those sorts of moves then.
The atomic/elemental model of matter is also a digital infinity, and it existed (unknown to humans, but existed) before language.
Lots of liquidity out there still from the ten year bull market. Depending on how long this downed market lasts we may see companies start to fall when their runway runs out. If interest rates continue to rise because inflation doesn’t come under control I imagine (just from my own startups finances) we will start seeing lots more companies go under in a year or two.

The issue for pre-IPOs is all the VCs are holding their breath.
I haven't done anything with Perl since 4.036 in the late 90s, so I haven't kept up with all the Raku stuff. From that outsider perspective my first reaction to this was "how many languages are they going to turn Perl into?"

There's a perl 5.

There's no perl 6 because it's too much not like perl.

There's a perl 7 but it looks like it'll have two totally different syntaxes for stuff

And maybe there's a perl 8 but maybe with the same syntax as one of the flavors of 7?

I still see no compelling reason to get interested in perl. I have python for some stuff and go for some other stuff. What does perl do for me that these two can't?
If you can't defend your rights in the worst case situation, then you will lose them.

something something essential liberty for immediate security...
It’s a good reason to not unnecessarily distribute your system.
Also, SMEs say dumb things all the time. I know I have in my area of expertise. Not so much in "official capacity", sure - I try to make sure any presentations or blog posts or whatever are accurate. But random ideas I have, or initial reactions to some new tech - sure I've shared my really bad ideas.

Frankly if there was a youtuber out there making high quality, good faith attempts at presenting weird networking stuff - I'd love it and probably link everyone that ever expressed mild interest to that stuff. The folks that make explainer videos well are far better than me at getting the important concepts across to neophytes, and then I can help them understand more if they are still curious. (also - if this exists and I just never came across it please link :D)
I'm missing a few other items on this list that I use daily in Pharo

- being able to open the debugger directly from the program. What the "debugger" command does in JavaScript. Conditional breakpoints are easier to work with if they can be directly included in the source code

- be able to open another debugger on top of the code I see in the debugger. I'm doing the stepping, I'm at a certain point in the method, and I can simply mark the part of the method code that has already been executed or is yet to be executed and start stepping it with the next debugger. This is especially useful for code without side effects. Then I can continue stepping the original method.

- be able to have multiple debuggers open and compare their status

- to have more freedom in the visualization of values and objects. Having them open in other windows independent of the original debugger, being able to interact with them using code (which can be debugged independently)

- be able to save the state of the application and debuggers so that for very hard-to-reproduce errors, I can easily recover the hard-to-retrieve state and experiment with it repeatedly without worrying that I won't get the state again right away
A bond with a 10-year yield of 1.56% has a price of $0.85 on the dollar. A bond with a 10-year yield of 4% has a price of $0.676 on the dollar. So if yields increase from 1.56% to 4%, the bond price falls by 21%.
Would certainly be nice to see some of these PAAS offer a distributed debugger that could track RPCs and breakpoint across machines in the cloud. It seems feasible to "step into" a remote method assuming the request IDs were integrated.
Someone needs to do this but for a windows environment. The documentation is a disaster in that realm. Took me forever to get it working properly with active directory.
An overlap improves things slightly, but it isn't a magic solution. If it was that easy to transfer knowledge during an overlap, then they could also document that knowledge for the next shift without any overlap. And if your suggestion really just amounts to hiring more staff improves patient outcomes, I don't think anyone would disagree with you.
> TanStack Router is built to be extremely type-safe.

This is alludes to my only major complaint about typescript. IMO, something is either type-safe or it ain't. I don't like how the JS bleeds through if you aren't careful.

I'm not a TS hater by any means, I use it regularly and am usually pleased. I just can't help but compare it to the [S,Oca]ML compilers I'm so fond of.
I've always felt there's something very Yakov Smirnoff about him. He flatters western sensibilities too directly.
I just watched it -- aside from the very interesting mechanics of the FDIC coming in and taking over a bank, I thought Sheila Bair (the then FDIC chair) came off as very knowledgeable, realistic, and critical of the risks posed by big banks. She went on to become a university president after the recession / banking bailout.
I would not find it surprising if bank liquidity was actually historically low, especially considering that many banks do maintain buffers _of the same covaried assets_ and that banks _induce covariance when they choose to use an asset class for liquidity_.

Maybe ZFRB was just a really, really bad idea.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deepity
It's pretty straightforward -- if you have asset yielding 1.5% forever, you can make it an asset yielding 3% by cutting its price in half.

In this case it's a little more complicated since you also get the principal back in pieces, but you can calculate the price today to create the equivalent of a 3% yield instead of 1.5%, and you'll get a significant price reduction.
I don’t know that we need a 3rd active discussion.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35096877

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35094466
Is it comparable to sidekiq or a more complex orchestration framework like temporal?
Sorry for a dumb question:

Apparently lots of VCs and startups use SVB as their bank. Could someone explain why would startups not choose relatively safer big banks like BoA or Chase? What are the advantages of using SVB as the primary financial institution?
> Yeah, Cisco licensing is (and always has been) ‘complicated’.

Some of this, too, is due to Cisco’s longevity in the market, the sheer number of product lines they’ve gone through, and the number of companies they’ve absorbed.

You buy a company, you can’t just cancel all the existing licenses for those products, so you have to keep those licensing systems and pricing packages around for those customers that keep renewing year after year. Only after a while, it becomes more trouble than it’s worth to integrate those into your existing licensing packages (especially if you’re figuring you’ll get around to EoLing that stuff when no one’s using it anymore), so they just stick around forever.

You kill off a product line and replace it with something, existing customers say, “Great, I’ll buy the new thing with the options I had on the old one”. Except those don’t map cleanly, so now you’re developing odd licensing packages for people who want the Super-Duper Routing 9000 but only with the same leather trim and manual shifter they had on the Routing 8000. If the customer is large enough you’ll bend for them, especially the big national ones with clauses in their contracts that require the forfeiture of dragon-blanching amounts of gold if you ever can’t sell them exactly what they bought last year.
But if you put in $250k because you're responsibly splitting things across banks, and the interest you've made on it raised you to $252k, you're counted amongst the 97.3% and it's not a big deal.

I'm sure some people are out meaningful amounts of money, but I'm not sure what a typical account looks like.
Probably. Even SVB branch employees are going to work on Monday.
The author seems to allude to a difference between then and now is that it wasn't 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.

Another point seems to have been that Silicon Valley bank have a customer base which is tightly knitted, so if any bad news gets shared in the circle, it gets around quickly. Maybe they weren't as popular the last crashes, or as impacted as other sectors, so it would be easier to avoid trouble. But specifically this time, the trouble was related to them, so they got hit the hardest.
Reddit admins only set some very basic guardrails, typically around things like hate speech. Everything else is controlled by the mods. There are subs that are toxic and many that are not. Which you subscribe to is up to you and will determine your experience. The example often used here is /r/AskHistorians.
BBC suspends Gary Lineker from Match of the Day for impartiality breach
It’s a classic startup mistake – alienate your current evangelical users so you can appeal to the (uninterested) masses. Paul Graham has a line about how you should aim for a deep but narrow well rather than a wide but shallow one. Sad that Kagi hasn’t realised this and decided to plough ahead with this ridiculous strategy.
!remindme 2 months
The federal government doesn't need liquidity in the same way that a bank does, why would they even need to sell at all?
Literally the entire second half of the 19th century.
I cannot express emphatically enough how powerful the concept of classes of service can be for simplifying your production issues.

I think people see the notion of a network neutrality as an all or nothing thing.
Network Neutrality between networks, yes, but within your racks you’re trying to balance a large equation instead of two or three smaller ones.

If they reclassified sketchy pages they wouldn’t have nearly as much of the sorts of trouble you mention.
No, they were not legally required to buy 10 year treasuries
Do you work for a company that has most of its operating cash in SVB? If so you probably won't see your next paycheck or it will be late. Even if you work for a unicorn there's still a risk because they're not likely to hold more cash than is needed for a few weeks (which is now held up beyond $250k.) The rest of the funds are in bonds or other investments that will take some time to unwind to get cash to meet payroll.

So you decide...
Which of these can't visual studio or intellij do?
The whole f*ing point of banks is to hold your money.

WTF is Silicon Valley if they can't make a bank that is just supposed to sit there and not do much - not collapse.

I loathe to say this but maybe the CrytoBros need to come back?

Bank collapses should happen as often as regular buildings collapse for no apparent reason.

It's a bad look if there is less trust in regular banking.
this is the system working as designed

zero risk is not a thing
Discussion from then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20686727
Finding Words on the Tip of Your Tongue with Mot Juste
When I set my ‘Hindsight Goggles’ to 100, I too saw that the Fed would keep raising interest after the initial rounds, because unemployment would stay low despite massive layoffs, somehow, and that prices would keep rising. And I am an expert in finance.