skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty obvious that media companies are not ok with simply recouping cost plus a reasonable margin but instead all try for a recurring income stream with little recurrent effort to earn it. No amount of profit is enough if more can be had and with the current copyright regime they can legally get away with it too. Plenty of old games are still sold at prices way above zero even when the companies that originally made them have long since stopped existing. So no, digital content is not priced around recouping costs but around maximising profit.

And going back to the original topic, a lot of advertising infested sites on the web still have their content created for free by users and those profiting from the advertisement are merely the middlemen that handle the distribution.
Also that would really have been an example of arbitrary changes to the rules on the fly.
I suggest a large part of this is Google's longstanding strategy of outsourcing as much non-product, non-sales functions as possible to vendors. There's a strong disconnect, and also strongly antagonistic incentives, getting in the way of closed loop alignment (not to mention being able to flexibly/reactively adjust business processes based on market needs).
My wife requires that we have cutlery pointing in both directions, in two neatly sorted piles, to optimize space usage and look good. But we also sort into the drawer not the dishwasher (I have to sort at least once, so it seems faster to me not to do it twice by sorting the dishwasher too)
I am not a fan of "The Cloud" for ongoing production. I understand the case for it but I never liked the risk of someone else, with a different agenda and incentives than me, running my critical infrastructure. The Cloud does alleviate some risks with hosting your own servers, but it introduces new risks. This reminds me of a slogan I saw many years ago: There is no cloud, it's just somebody else's computer. That somebody else can complete shut you down when their interests no longer align with your own. No thank you.
Ligatures typically change the appearance of a character, they do not change the meaning. Merging the hyphen en the n-dash into the same character and then derive the correct one from the context (spaces around it) would be a whole new use of "ligatures".

From a software "separating of concerns" viewpoint it feels wrong to me to have your font renderer infer meaning. A pre-processor that replaces hyphens with the correct dash – like Word does – feels more sane to me.
I did my CS degree at umontreal and this was an assignment in a second year class. This was a pretty interesting introduction to compilers, and even if this is a toy subset of C, this was challenging, at least for me. We would get 0 if there were any memory leak, so we were pretty paranoid about it.

The second assignment was writing a Scheme interpreter.
Understood, but where is the protection for workers who suddenly lose their job and can't pay rent?
Could get the best of both worlds with a small, but symbolic haircut. Like 95% back.

Now everyone knows that money in bank is not risk-free, and you limit any systemic fall out.
You could probably look at protein folding libraries like pymol. Although not exactly the same, it’s generally close enough to ropes and it has enough knobs where you should be able to run the simulations you want
Does this REPL support all of the features that traditional, batch-processed Rust does? Last time I checked, I found "REPLs" for Rust that were hacks, just putting code into a file and re-compiling and re-running the whole thing - didn't support all of the features and super slow.

> incremental compile time is often very fast

I tried Rust a few years ago and got incremental compile times in the tens of seconds for medium-sized projects, which is excruciatingly slow. Unless compile times are sub-second, it's not fast enough, unless the REPL is somehow faster.
It's a shame the industry can't agree on a basic SLA:

- Solicit a hard limit when you open an account. People can only afford so much, don't bankrupt them.

- As soon as we see your account heading for a 10,000% increase on last month, we'll send a SMS, GIVE YOU A PHONE CALL, even send a letter and confirm everything is okay.

- If you're about to trigger a suspension, we'll send you an automated SMS, and if you're a paying customer, we'll do you a solid and spend $5 calling you to make sure you understand what's about to happen to your business.

- You get one 7-day extension. People get sick, go on holiday, have life in their way and often haven't figured out how to juggle business critical credentials amongst people.

Just imagine the quality of life improvements if people felt safe using a cloud provider. Instead we see stories like this and withdraw back to colocation and flat-rate VPSes.
I got a bill on GC that was less than a cent and my bank couldn't process that. GC closed my project (free tier) and then I paid the minimum amount that my bank allowed.
Well in that case you must be ok with losing money that comes with the risk. Which many people surely are not ok with(Want bailouts).

Makes perfect sense to me. If you are ok with the risk of losing it all. You go in for an investment vehicle. Or you go in for a vault.
I love Hetzner and keep a couple of machines running for prototypes and running scripts. But I can't use it for production or as my primary remote development environment because for someone in India the latency is way too high. I really wish they had Indian datacenter or any similar alternative. The ones in the country are at least 4x priced with still worse specs and much worse reliability and service. If anyone knows any good option in India, I would start using them for me and clients in a heartbeat.
Until then, I am stuck with AWS.
This is a surprisingly common recall.

Ford: https://www.endurancewarranty.com/learning-center/news/ford-...

Nissan: https://insideevs.com/news/656231/2023-nissan-ariya-recalled...

But it's only news when it happens to Tesla.
> It goes to the companies who employ them to make sure the employers are ok.

No, it's so that payroll continues...
> I see no reason why we shouldn't all open a bank, be imprudent, and ask for a bailout, citing system-risk to the financial system should we not get it.

How is that a good plan when you would lose the bank? The owners of SVB lost everything!
Sharp TVs are also made by hisense
> Like how in Germany the government guarantees every German bank balance

… up to the amount of 100k per customer, so less than the FDIC guarantee.

There are additional, voluntary, insurances given by groups of banks. These are also limited and customers are not legally guaranteed a payout.
Big Data Is Dead Long Live Big Data
If it was just that perhaps the OP would see it.

Problem is solution architects often play their own political games or have absolutely no idea about this field. A lot of solution architects come from networking or other "less in-demand" jobs and transitioned. They often know nothing about the web today or the current practices.

The worst 1s still are the 1s that come from 3rd party vendors who act like an expert but in reality just try to sell you something.

In larger companies solution architects might not even be on your side. It's a different team / department so incentives aren't even aligned. They try to stop you from having a good solution to improve their own KPIs.
You're talking about the gold standard, there's better things to do with gold.
These crisis are like car crashes, they happen. But in the end, it's still fun to drive cars really fast, overloaded on wet, winding roads at twilight.
makes me wonder if dishwashing as a service has been tried. DWaaS. use your dishes, put them in a bin, on a schedule someone picks up that bin and leaves another with a weeks worth of clean dishes. i think it could work until the VC money dries up
Whereas IMHO pollyannaism is a product of some combination of denial, naivete, and privilege, and mumbling about cynicism instead of engaging with the point made is nothing more than an expression of cognitive dissonance or worse simple childishness.
Probably negative interest rates for customers
Combine it with another novel idea: the gold standard.
This is such an absurd idea to implement in a weekend, you have to see that, right?
But why is anyone holding $1M in an account insured up to $250K?
> "the answer will almost certainly be far more stringent regulation on small banks"

And that regulation won't look kindly on lending to anything new, different or weird.

A lending model like SVB's won't be supported by regulators.
> Then it was 24-48 hrs. See https://imgur.com/a/i0OHXcI

Usually I don't care much for grammatical errors, as long as the point gets across clearly. In this case I don't know why it irks me.
Boring bank
Maybe startups shouldn't blindly follow Silicon Valley recommendations and make their own decisions on operational matters like who they hire, where they bank, and what systems they use. There's too much groupthink and cult-following especially in the Silicon Valley venture community, where the investor's word is taken as Gospel to be followed to the letter. A bit of independent thinking goes a long way.
Out of curiosity, did anyone ever believe the "rainforest" metaphor for Silicon Valley, that entrepreneurs and investors were more interested in global/"community" success than their own individual wins, and that they wouldn't react egotistically when real money was at stake?

Stratechery asserts this was "probably true" in 2012 but not longer true, and that Uber was one of the first cases where short term/individual wins became more important, even if they destroyed trust.

I find it hard to believe this "let's all of us win together" was ever true.
I'll add on to that idea. What if that is considered a basic human right. One line in a database with your name and a number. And governments, the most powerful entities on earth offer it for free.
Doesn't seem very expensive to offer compared to the amount of times we have to bailout banks....
Yes, and VCs have been exposed for the leaches they really are. Years spent being actively hostile to government and regulation, encouraging their companies to break the law at every turn, only to come begging when it all threatened to implode.
It compiles to a sort of byte code that is executed by a stack based virtual machine.
I don't see a reason why the lithography method is necessary here. One could design a manufacturing process which ties the knots mechanically, just like woven fabrics.

Caltech probably already has the lithography equipment and expertise on hand, so they did it that way. They aren't trying to do their research in a manufacturing-friendly way, just the way that is easiest for them.
Companies could insure funds over the $250,000 limit
You're very close to how it works.

In big business it's called Treasury, which derives from Trezor or Safe.

For example Apple will have a Treasury department to manage it's cash. They don't put it in safes anymore, because, well you seem like an honest person, but your predecessors had a tendency to steal the money from the safe.

You generally don't put it all in one Bank either as they have a tendency to either steal it or gamble it on the markets.

A treasury I worked at had software that would pull money from banks across the world into more trusted banks. That's called cash pooling.

Then traders in the treasury market would buy up government bonds from stable governments.

This costs money and is big business.

So perhaps there's a market for treasury as a service (TAAS).
A planned sale that was filed and broadcasted back in January.
It's still a little weird, since the bow is mostly ahead of the arrow, and only "behind" it in a metaphorical supporting sense.
Same 100k limit applies in Switzerland too
Why?

You can recklessly make money off it for years then when you eventually get it wrong the government will step in and fix your "Oopsie"

That sounds way more profitable.
> char * init_out{out};

Are the curly braces in the initialization some new C++ syntax? I haven't been keeping up with C++ developments in the last decade or so.

Based on the code that follows I would expect

char* init_out = out;
Random internet tip: if you have any significant savings, and you don't need liquidity, it's been waaaay more profitable to buy 6 month treasury bonds
Neat!

I'm porting a game I wrote 20 years ago (source comments date to 2002) for an early handheld. It probably didn't age as well as yours.
Sam Altman literally called for more regulation on banking (and also AI) today, though I think may be misplaced and self-serving.

The regulation of SVB doesn’t seem to have been particularly lacking. The shortfall is not very large and should be covered by asset sales and some fairly small industry levies.

What exactly is the moral hazard here?

The executives and investors should lose everything. That will send the right signal to other bank execs and investors. And regulators should make some minor changes to balance sheet requirements and perhaps insurance thresholds/charges.

What do we expect corporate depositors to learn, aside from that their deposits are never safe, which would crash the whole banking system?

I share your concern about moral hazard. What I think you’re doing is letting your desire of an idealized outcome eclipse consideration of the least-worst workable outcome, which is realistically all we can hope for.
Imagine if, instead of simply shutting down Reader, Google had gradually and subtly integrated it more and more in to Google+ over time. Things could have turned out very different!
That's the thing right at some point you should have an account manager.

if your spending maybe 4 but definitely 5 figures you should have an account manager. I would argue same on the publisher side.
I think everybody that has bare metal does this. It's cheaper to use DO or whoever for the small stuff than to manage your own VM hosting stack.

The integrated network stuff imho is just for people who can't implement proper transport and application layer security.
It absolutely is true. The ?. operator is nominally different to map/flatMap. It does not extend to other monadic types and neither can you abstract with map/flatMap over nullable types. Not to mention more advanced type system features like higher kinded data that Kotlin can only dream of. Option can be mapped over types, ? can not. Option can be handled by sop-generic programming, ? requires a special case. Option is bijective, ? is not.
> I will likely not respond further as this will quickly become non constructive.

It was non-constructive from the moment you made your comment with highly manipulative phrases like "Seems like a very weird way of blaming a well defined system for your unwillingness to meet its prerequisites", "You are capable of this, just apparently too lazy or unwilling for some unclear reason", "For those of us who managed to", and "Just bizarre." Your comment does not meet the HN guidelines, was not constructive, and was downvoted and flagged accordingly.
The more things like this happen, the more I get the sense that the medieval Muslim world did this right: your market can only be free if the state does not intervene whatsoever in matters of debt or interest. Someone doesn't pay, that should be the creditor's problem, they shouldn't get to use the government as a recollection agency.
> A narrow bank takes deposits and invests the money in interest-bearing reserves deposited at the Fed. Because that’s all these banks would do, they would be very low cost and hence could pass along to depositors the interest earned on reserves, minus a small fee. Narrow banks could attract many large depositors, who currently receive much lower interest rates on their deposits at ordinary commercial banks.

This does not sound like keeping all the cash in a vault, this looks like reselling a service of the government not meant for this use.

It could be interesting to see if a service oriented to very low interests (or even negative) rates would be (in theory) feasible.
Ask HN: Getting disillusioned with DevOps job. How to find Joy again?
Recently I feel very tired about the work that I am doing.....the feeling of building something new wasn't there anymore.
There are many ways a business can practically manage cash to avoid bank risk.

This has been pointed out so in the past 48 hours that I am beginning to think people are just willfully ignoring it.
It's so annoying reading --comments-- that use "Luddite" in the purely pejorative usage when this is a forum of people who stroke their egos with how much smarter they are than redditors. The concern was that the looms would be used by owners of capital to pay their workers less and hoard more wealth, and they were right.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34961501
Tweet author is reposting a 2 month old image from this tweet[1] because I assume he didn't find anything more recent to stir up controversy. Already discussed in [2] and others.

[1] https://twitter.com/preneh24/status/1619889507133976580

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34586495
Here's one data point (330km, 700MW, 880mln EUR):

https://balticwind.eu/higher-cost-and-potential-delay-for-su...

That being said the Baltic sea is shallow, averaging less than 50m in that area.
On the other hand these days[1] we run OSs within OSs via virtualization. And we can run apps on bare or virtualized metal without an OS. So the I think that the distinction between app platform and OS is almost non-existent. Given virtualized hardware, even OS as an hardware abstraction client is not so clear cut.

I'll say it: the browser is an OS, sue me.

[1] we always could of course, it was just not mainstream
I can relate to this a lot, especially on picking clothes!
If you're using an SoA pattern you're already optimizing for performance and, imo, should be using null to begin with.
> probably contagion would spread and many banks would fail

I see this mentioned a lot, but I have still not seen a valid explanation of why this would be the case.

Do we think a lot of companies in random industries will run and pull out their cash from banks to put it... where?
They can make those rules and preparations beforehand, for the next SVB, Signature etc. Banks would definitely want to optin under such a protective regime and have their systems ready since it alleviates customer panic in an event of a liquidity crisis.
I imagine that people are paying for insurance for these kind of things. A less risky bank is worth at least a fraction of that.
Oh, that's an important correction! If this magical superconductor has a higher critical current density than current tech, then a larger field would be possible.

Also, the new Bruker systems run at 28.2 T, which is a mind-bogglingly large field. This badly structured headline made got a real double take out of me too: https://www.bruker.com/en/news-and-events/news/2022/bruker-a...

3GHz is a lot
Doubt if any risk management book would cover bank failure for small businesses.
Your money becomes less valuable in a bank too, as a bank account is not an investment vehicle anyway. It's just that now you also have the added risk of the bank defaulting like SVB.

If you want to invest, invest. If you don't, you shouldn't have the added risk tied to your "sitting in the bank" money, just inflation.
All of my early experiments were about increasing conversion rate for Travelocity. I learned a few key things from this:

* Placement of content is extremely important for sales.

* Ultimately the three qualities that define success are product durability, product speed, and inventory. If you get those three right you will be ok. If not, nothing else matters even if you have the best marketing and branding in the industry.

Lately I have been experimenting with full stack performance. I wrote an article about my learnings to an 80ms milestone: https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/performance...
Fair point, so I will flesh this out a bit. The typical pattern we see in PMQs every week is this:

1. Valid concern from the opposition

2. Rishi ignores the concern

3. Rishi says something about "the member from Islington North"

4. Jeering from the back benches (both sides)

5. Opposition moves on to another topic

Or perhaps this:

1. Government back-bencher asks "Does the PM agree that we are doing a fantastic job on X?"

2. Rishi agrees

3. Rishi uses the time to grandstand about some other unrelated accomplishment

Perhaps this is more a criticism of the system than Rishi?

Still, I see no evidence that he is using his position of power to improve on this.
Very impressive. I was a xerox of you sans coding skills and entrepreneurship. I recall falling asleep while my C64 and Hess modem were being used my a ‘war dialer’. I did make a friend on a BBS who worked for Bell telephone - so we used UPS each week to ship each other envelopes of double sided floppies stuffed with fun games and utilities. I still get goosebumps when I hear a UPS truck pull open outside my home.
In what way does online banking change things?
The article describes exactly what the safe choice is: short term treasuries. The option that SIVB ignored in order to yield chase.
We do similar things in the US. AT&T doesn’t allow you to use you own modem and neither does Comcast on certain plans. Most allow a “bridge” mode but I’ve had to do with a DMZ before.
It's not that weird. It's basically a checking account. Lot of countries those have fees attached. It's also the historical origin of banks. strong men with vaults to store your coins. It's no longer attractive because of fiat currency, which has strong inflatuonary pressure; and because of the fish-in-water effect of two
centuries of capitalism, people no longer can distinguish between savings and capital, the divider between those two conc3pts is no longer part of the mental model of forms of wealth.
Llama.cpp can run on Macs that have 64G of RAM (40GB of Free memory)
this seems like something that should be left to end users to come up with a solution for. I would guess that a large percentage of web designers don't even know what this is, so adding it to the spec itself is just further bloating an already bloated spec.

one thing I like about the Go language team, is they are not afraid to say "no" to proposals. it seems W3 forgot this tactic, long, long ago, and just rubber stamp anything coming from the Chrome team. Sad.
I remember when Google was the best thing because they were saving us from MS.

Now they behave like this. I doubt even MS would have done a thing like this back in the day when they were the baddies.
Realising that my formatting is difficult to understand if you have not used JMH previously. I've cleaned up the numbers:

Pre Valhalla | Valhalla

sumSimple 328,110 us/op | 327,927 us/op

sumOptionalLong 1201,987 us/op | 326,949 us/op

sumNulls 570,800 us/op | 584,967 us/op

sumOptional 2223,887 us/op | 572,833 us/op
NeXT was their existing workflow, they built the content on tools running on NeXT and then targeted DOS.
Or I understand the insured limits on my accounts and make arrangements accordingly.
Because money. Yes to any reasonable person your bank account is money not intended for gambling, but that's not how bankers see it. They're in an industry where appearance is everything.

As long as you drive a Tesla and never have to cook in your Italian marble kitchen (I don't know and don't care if it's a thing, just making a point) it doesn't matter if it's all debt. The entire point of our economy is to kick it downhill and have someone else pay for it.

Nothing grows indefinitely, we all know this, but we pretend economy is different.
> ctrl+x cltr+e
> Works on every terminal. Vim and EMACS do support the mouse, you can set your editor to a graphical one.

It didn't work on mine (iterm2 + zsh)! But in any case, I want multiline text input without losing the context of my terminal (so I can still see the command history and the output of previous commands, and can scroll back as necessary). The functionality I've seen before to drop one into a an editor (either TUI or GUI) doesn't allow for this.