skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vim is a tool for editing text, and plugins exist to make manipulating text easier or make it easier to write code. I use vim over other editors because of its editing paradigms. I extend vim because I want to make my life easier. Emulation of vim in other editors is often fine to excellent, but it does make the ergonomics of using and extending the editor a little bit more complicated. Most Emacs modes need to have extensions specifically written for Evil so that things don't step on each others toes, vim's plugins are all written with that already in mind. It then becomes a matter of plugins not fighting with each other for keybindings, though that isn't really that much of an issue for me.

Given this is how I use vim, it doesn't detract from the purpose of vim for me. I'm not entirely sure what you think the point of vim is? Do you use it as your primary editor and just choose to eschew plugins for the sake of stability or do you only use it for quick edits?
The Bank Term Fund Program (BTFP) allows banks to pledge their underwater MBS as collateral to borrow at par value from the Federal Reserve. This lending facility is a stop gap measure and still requires repayment from the banks if they utilize this facility, within a one year time. If the banks do not pay back the loans, then that means they have defaulted and will be seized by the FDIC or Federal Reserve. The Treasury department has promised to cover $25 bn in losses for this program to the Federal Reserve but it’s unlikely this fact will be used. This program is giving free money in the sense of providing below market cost of liquidity but, it is not even close to the Troubled Asset Relief Program in 2008 or Payroll Protection Program in 2020.
> While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage has declined. So, on July 1, 2013, we will retire Google Reader.

Back when Google was an underdog company in the market, they were desperately capturing the market share, and their strategy was basically throwing a lot of things at the wall and see what sticks (in a calculated way). I'd say Google Reader was one if the lucky coincidence they hit.

Sadly, after Google stabilized at it's market position, they no longer need these loss leader products, so they just removed it. A completely normal business decision, if you give it a look today.

I often use this as a reminder when I found myself developed a fan-altitude towards a company, so I can convert my altitude to "Nice product, I hope it make money" then proceed to use their product with an understanding that maybe one day I'll jump to another ship.
> It's not good to make it up as we go during emergencies

Complicated, fragile emergencies are precisely the time to consider exceptions to hard rules. After all, if all our rules were perfect, we wouldn’t have an emergency to begin with.
Materials can be pressurized in other materials. Like a soda can. Curious to see what materials can easily handle maintaining 10 kilobars of pressure.

ChatGPT says Titanium, Tungsten, and Stainless Steel can handle above 10k. Even carbon fiber can. Imagine a tiny resistor-like component where inside is pressurized superconductor. Like a tiny capacitor.
Good catch.
For the 7B model it doesn't matter, but all others will be ruined.
It’s erlend.sh, no a in there :)

But there is nothing on the root domain yet, because the simple page generator I want for it still doesn’t exist!
Neither their name nor history matter to me so, as long as their services are useful and pricing is reasonable, I will continue using OpenAI services.
> Keep in mind that bank shareholders and senior management are going to get wiped out and fired.

And do the same thing again. Wasn't the CEO ex-Lehman?
There's always room for improvement. This is a defining characteristic of the human condition.
Sure but I'm still speaking for the hundreds of thousands of tech people who didnt keep using RSS even when given alternatives. Feedly was around after Reader (started in 2008, the same year of my 14yr old HN account and 5 years before Reader shut down), even I used it for 6 months after Reader. You can pretend Google is why no one cares about RSS but I'm skeptical it's the root reason.
Wasn't the selling point of this bank its "libertarianism"? It's a fairly new bank, why did they switch to it if not for doing some research on it?
We were not successful but the people who “won” lost a ton of money.
That, like, an incredibly low bar as to what's considered "open".

(For all we know ChatGPT might be just an outsourced Indian call center under the hood. We don't actually know how it works.)
I think that's his point.

You are on "a level", historians are on a different level. Reality has many perspectives to it, and people have strong feelings about them.
It's not though, SVB equity holders are getting zeroed out. Raiding the DIF to pay out depositors in extraordinary circumstances and then recovering it through a special assessment is basically the whole point of having an FDIC. The justice is that SVB equity went to $0.
It shouldn’t be. These banks are not sitting on toxic assets the same way large financial institutions were in 2008. The existing programs and powers of the Federal Reserve and Treasury should be more than sufficient to eliminate a widespread financial crisis.
99% of customers don’t have the financial knowledge to do due diligence on their bank. Just look at the thousands of comments posted today on these various threads for proof. For the average customer, due diligence should begin and end with “is my bank FDIC insured?”
It hasn’t ruined anything for me.

For now, AI is not good enough for me to use it (I only use Midjourney to generate illustrations)

The day it will be good enough I will just adapt and add it to my toolbox.

Problems will just become more complex.

I have no idea how we will be working but the universe is a vast topic, I don’t think we will all be sitting together, lamenting about how AI still everything.
It's emergent behaviour: From simple rules interesting patterns appear. Like the Game of Life.

After short thinking I see these rules (without having read the article carefully):

1. When other people stand in your way, you slow down.

2. When someone in front of you walks in the same direction, you follow them.

3. Driving influences behaviour, for example you tend to go around people at the right side (in UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ, Thailand, Japan and so on: on the left side).

No wonder you get interesting patterns (curved lanes). I wonder whether the direction of the curve is pointing the opposite for left- and right-driving countries. And I also wonder if you mix people from different countries whether the curves disappear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_energ...
> increased by over 6.5% yearly since 2010

Could you provide a source for that? Such an increase would imply a doubling of the budget over that time period. I can't find anything that suggests the NHS budget has doubled since 2010.

From what I can gather, the NHS spending adjusted for inflation increased modestly over the time period.

Taking into account the fact that costs in the healthcare sector have increased more than CPI globally, that increase could well correspond to a decrease in purchasing power.

That doesn't yet take into account the UK specific issues around Brexit.
Whether that is a problem is a rather semantic issue. This is *property* of our credit based capitalistic system.

Remove this and you are back at medieval levels of inequality, one way or another.
As a fellow fish user, I agree. Occasionally I write fish scripts/functions, but they're for my environment so I don't expect them to run on other people's fish shells, let alone bash. Then when I am in another shell, I can usually get by on the minimum (glob, pipes, redirection), which is mostly fairly universal. And when I'm not SSHd into some other machine (which is 99% of the time), then I get all the superpowers of fish to use.

It's a bit like the equivalent vim argument. Yes, using unmodified vim means you have access to the same tools in every environment. But I spend 99% of my time in one environment, so I'd like to optimise for that one, whether that's by using an IDE or installing a bunch of vim plugins and customising everything. Then when I do need to SSH into a server somewhere, I can get by on the bare minimum - in my case, usually nano. If I'm using nano for long enough that I start missing my IDEA features, then I've been using nano for too long and need to figure out a different way of deploying/debugging changes in the first place.
I don't know why people keep calling out the CEO stock sales, unless we find out something new this was almost guaranteed to have been done pursuant to a publicly filed 10b5-1 plan which has a 30 or 90 day cooling off period and must be filed when they have no material non-public information. So if the CEO could see this coming, anyone else could have too on the basis of the same information.

These things can come at you fast. They probably put in the trade instructions sometime last year and they are not permitted to make modifications to the 10b5-1 when they do come into material non-public information as that is itself insider trading.

Trading (or changing a 10b5-1 plan) while in possession of material non-public information, whether in your favor or not, is insider trading.
One sillier one I look back fondly on was an undersea themed email signature generator I wrote maybe 20 years ago or so.

I think it was a Perl script connected to a named pipe or similar, so whenever my mutt client read it I got a new sig.

It generated 4 lines of an ASCII art underwater scene, containing a randomised selection of different fish, sharks, boats, seaweed, crabs, rocks, shells, treasure chests, etc.

There was a bunch of code to ensure no overlap, and more natural looking scenes.

There were also certain things that only triggered on certain special days of the year (Christmas etc.), and others that only appeared in conversations with people I'd exchanged more than N emails with.

Sadly it went away when my email client moved to be primarily web based.
Was it? I think I read somewhere that this bank had an unusually large share of depositors over the deposit insurance limit, or in other words a high share of uninsured deposits.
I'm by no means, a typescript expert - but this seems like over-engineering to me, types are nice, but you don't need perfect typing, in fact it can drastically slow you down.

There needs to be a good medium, I'll add as much to my code so my ide can decorate things whether it's php @var docs, or typescript, but typing every string would drive me mad, now -- if it comes from the DB, that's a whole different story.
I know one person who accepted a small amount of fund from a university to help fund a project, most of it was funded out of pocket. When it was completed they tried to claim the IP. It was too expensive to fight in court. So he destroyed the project. Be wary
This is such a flamebait-y throwaway
I once hacked a daily retail data polling script to simply make it carry out retries on failed polls. It succeeded about 80% of the time on retry.

This saved me on avg about an hour a day of manually remoting into retail store systems to gather sales and stock data for the central system processing.

That was a good feeling, and was so simple.
I unfortunately can not find about the hardware requirement. And I am also not able to deduce this from the model used.
Hygienic Resugaring of Compositional Desugaring
Back in the modem days, I tapped into the pins between my modem and computer’s serial port and put a speaker between RX and GND, with a switch of course so I could turn it on and off.

When on, it would make data noises at a reasonable volume indicating the current bandwidth usage. If a download got stalled, it was obvious even if I didn’t have that window in the foreground, or wasn’t even sitting at the computer.

Also, different kinds of data had different sounds and cadences, and I got used to many of them. It was fun to hear an email coming in before my sound card officially announced it.
+1 (something else that was killed by google but still everyone knows that means)

I used freshrss, and got to this article via RSS as well. It's my only source of news. I'm usually the first to know about new stuff in my circle of friends because of my carefully curated RSS feeds.
I run my own pastebin, image upload, image editing upload service that's for me but it's open to public. How about that angle?
Assuming they had fab capacity to produce a hypothetical Epyc 13912k with 4.5GHz base clock, I think AMD still nailed the revenue sweet spot with their current mix. So maybe they're not strictly leaving money on the table, so much as it is a lack of demand for a high end desktop that doubles as a server.

Intel has to produce that kind of beast because they're currently slightly behind in some areas. AMD might lose money if they followed Intel's playbook right now.
Bank balance sheets are very complex. Analysing them is not an expertise that most small businesses have or should have.

Banks are heavily regulated. They have to pass stress tests all the time. The regulator is paid for by the taxpayer to stop things like this from happening, but apparently they were asleep at the wheel.

Also, helping depositors out of this mess doesn’t necessarily mean that taxpayers lose a cent.
Yeah, the community always seems to figure out how to do things more effective.

My girlfriend asked me if I could transcribe some audio files for her with my "programming stuff". I immediately thought of Whisper from OpenAI.

I first used the official CLI tool. With the largest model it took long 8 hours to transcribe a 30 min long file. I noticed it was running on the CPU - tried switching it to use the GPU instead with no luck. Running it on WSL was probably not helping.

Then I found this gem: https://github.com/Const-me/Whisper
A C++ Windows implementation of Whisper. I opened the program, fed it with the largest model and the file. The transcript was done in 4 minutes, instead of 8 hours... Downside? The program has a GUI, lol.

Of course, I could probably get the CLI tool to run on the GPU with some tinkering and installing some Nvidia packages for Whisper to use. But frankly, I have so little experience with that kind of stuff, that installing the Windows implementation was a much easier choice.
There's so much "that was the day Google died" sentiment in this thread, while in the same ten years the share price of GOOG has gone up from $19.87 to $90.63 (adjusting for splits), wildly outperforming the rest of the market. Goes to show that the company considers a much wider audience than just the tech crowd when making key product decisions.
> I've been told all my life

The younger generations are the target audience, who will believe these lies about your education. As old times slip from living memory, they are rewritten into a caricature of themselves to serve the current zeitgeist.

This is not an isolated case, e.g. this article [1] about appropriating babywearing fashion that tried to gaslight us into thinking Europeans simply had no way of carrying their children prior to strollers, and so we should feel appropriately guilty over using modern baby carriers based on "indigenous knowledge".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29150086
It's a small leap from literal vampirism (blood transfusions for eternal youth) to figurative vampirism (burning down a bank to breathe some life back into your bad crypto investments).

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to...
Meh the ad business was pretty established well before 2013 when Reader shut down. RSS was declining well before that. Google acquired Doubleclick in 2008 aka what became the real Adwords in its prime.

I personally don't expect tech conglomerates to be the ideal solution for niche markets. But I don't see many people providing good arguments why alternatives like Feedly didn't take off if there was really a strong market demand for RSS.

And I say that was an uber-fan of RSS back in the day.
>Now Apple won one.

CODA won best picture last year.
I used to run a site for tutorial screencasts. My "video workflow" involved recording, adding an intro and outro, transcoding to multiple formats and finally uploading the videos to the Internet Archive.

I automated everything except the actual recording using a Makefile that's over here https://gist.github.com/nibrahim/2466292. I think I added some sox commands to clean up audio too in a later version but lost the file.

Another one I did was a small script to create ruling sheets for calligraphy. It's a tedious process by hand and having a script create a PDF based on nib width is a great time saver https://github.com/nibrahim/Calligraphic-Rulings
Many employees had all their 401k tied up in enron too.. They were heavily encouraged by the employer, and it saw great gains for years. Doesn't mean that they should ignore financial advices and diversify to reduce risk...
No the real reason Google Reader was shut down was because it was competing with Google Plus, their failed social network/Facebook compete. Vic Gundotra was the head of Google Plus product and was not shy or hiding that Google Reader had to go--at the time Reader had its own social features like the ability to subscribe to your friend's starred RSS feeds/stories and share them, comment on them, etc. It was purely a calculated move to kill Reader so people had to use Google Plus for sharing stories and commenting on them. This would goose the number of active Google Plus users and ensure Vic hit his targets for getting fat bonus payments.

This absolutely was not a case of "the product was finished and did all it needed to do"... people were pissed at what was happening and didn't want to move over to Google Plus (which completely lacked the core feature of reading RSS feeds, despite Gundotra claiming they would eventually implement it (shocker! they never did)).

The story of Google Reader's demise is purely a power grab by a mad exec/product leader that ran his product to failure and eventually was forced out of the company under allegations of being a sex pest to employees. Google Reader died for no good reason other than getting that piece of garbage some bonuses.
My understanding is it's not yet known whether a special assessment will need to be levied. The FDIC is making all deposits available before they find out, and if it turns out they cannot sell SVB assets to cover deposits, they will levy a special assessment to make up the difference.

Certainly open to being corrected if that's wrong. But as far as I know it's a bit premature to talk about this being a "tax on depositors at other banks". It seems like these actions ensuring stability in the banking system may be beneficial to everyone.

If it turned out that all SVB assets were worthless and a HUGE special assessment would need to be levied to cover deposits, I would agree that this could be a moral hazard. But right now I think it just looks like prudent management.
Completely agree. It's often the first "real program" I give to my students when I teach coding and all of them love the high of doing it.
This also probably means that you really need to start writing tests for your types :)
US vs. Google: Google's Motion to Transfer Venue Has Been Denied [pdf]
Getting More from Your Team Health Checks
Should definitely not be synonymous, it just confuses people.
ChatGPT can run on our laptops? How? The only thing I could find was that it can't because it requires 128 GB VRAM.
A new milestone for Letlang, my language targeting Rust – Effect Handlers
> Are simple bank deposits really something we want people to feel shaky about now and in the future??

There is a strong argument for "yes": it will cause people to consider their (now extant) alternatives and some fraction of those people will choose something else, loosening the stranglehold that retail banking has on routine business transactions.
More like, being able to choose when you get liquidated matters. If an individual investor’s leveraged bet goes against them, they don’t get to say “just let me hold for a while so I can sell when the price is higher.”
Takeaways of building a business-critical low-latency microservice at scale
Yes. There are competitors and besides the consumers and future contracts there are also investors.
SVB is a 40 year old bank that's been doing business in the valley since the VC era started.
We don’t live in a socialist society. These companies chose not to diversify their risk. If they didn’t know their accounts had a max insurance rating of $250k, then they deserve to fold.
FDIC insurance is intended for consumers not to be instantly without. If you are a corporation, you are responsible for you own financial risk.
9 banks have failed in the last 5 years. The fed is treating this special and that’s why it’s an issue. Essentially they are telling the public “as long as you are with a large bank that holds large assets, we will protect you”.
Will take this opportunity to point out the following:

- Almost all sites worth reading where an RSS feed makes sense... has an RSS feed

- The Old Reader is basically Google Reader. No weird design stuff going on. on iOS Reeder is a good app to hook it up to.

If you missed RSS, it's not cuz it went away. It's there waiting for you
I was talking about Musk.
Neat! How did you reverse engineer the signal that your microcontroller had to send to the gate?
Are there equivalent 'Advanced Databases: The Self-Guided Online Course'?

Andy Pavlo's CMU 15-721: Advanced Database Systems is similar, where you will hack on Postgres to implement a Foreign Data Wrapper (FDW)
Its because Emacs doesn't really have a way of performing asynchronous io. So lsp ends up blocking on the external server waiting for a reply.

It been the main pain point for addung smarter autocomplete for years now.
Because that's not how modern banking works. This isn't George Bailey lending out deposits; retail banks don't use deposited money at all it just kind of disappears.
We already have this: it's called a "brokerage account", or various other names: "mutual fund", "ETA", "company stock", etc.

If you want higher interest (gains) and risk, you buy stock, or a fund.

Finally, if the bank can't move money anywhere, there's no reason for the bank to exist, and there's no way for it to pay interest (in fact, they'd have to charge you to keep your money). The whole way a bank works is by investing your money somewhere, then giving you a fraction of the proceeds (as interest). You seem to not understand at a fundamental level how a bank works.
The AI could be open sourced, and it is hard to get the data to train the AI. Data brokers should do well to sell the data to the AI to use.
Actually, this is specifically for Taiwan's software tech scene. I've been following it, lived in it for a few years. It's mostly crypto startups trying to pull off the next crypto scam/rug pull.

It's a terrible waste of Taiwan's tech talent.
The second point is so big. Almost all alternatives was not "just" an RSS reader but had some weird crufty garbage over it. The RSS feeds never went away (of course some blogs got quieter over time), but other feed readers that were online were way too much oriented around the social web. Serious RSS readers were available as desktop clients, but that comes with its own sort of clunkiness.
The resolution of MRI/NMR is more limited by pulse sequence design and magnetic gradient control. The cryogenics built into the scanner don't contribute meaningfully to those. Instead, you'd gain a huge amount of portability and/or a huge reduction in cost/complexity.

You can't spell cryogenics without "cry", and being able to sustain a large field without needing cryocoolers or a wet system would lead to impossible-to-imagine gains. Medical/industrial imaging, maglev (for sure), even fundamental physics would hugely benefit from the tech.
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/39

40GB for the big llama.