skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment is very ironic in context, especially with the makeup of comments on the article.

There are passionate people on both sides and usually pretty good reasons for both.
> a words are merely symbols and not representative of an actual thing. And how could it even know otherwise? ChatGPT is never exposed to things.

An interesting argument, what does it mean for the disabled?

Eg, if a human had a fully functioning brain, but from birth could not sense anything except text sent to their brain, which they could only respond to with text, would this mean they're equivalent to a language model?

> but we're not entirely sure ChatGPT can be either of these.

Here you seem to agree with my point. We cannot be sure. Why?
Spreading deposits around is not abusing a technicality. The limit incentivizes diversifying deposits because it reduces the risk of a single bank. Retail banks benefit immensely from the fact that much of their deposit base is smaller accounts that are less correlated. A bank handling only large deposits from a small number of highly correlated depositors is exactly what FDIC caps ought to prevent.
I can go buy a fireproof safe for a few hundred bucks. Or rent a safe deposit box. My money becomes less valuable the longer it sits in either.
The class is quite clear -weathly and risk taking and/or stupid/doesnt read the fine print.
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Some machines, even very cheap ones, have an indicator light for the cycle finished. Some just show if the cycle is finished and so it indicates if someone has opened the door since then, but better ones keep that indicator lit until the next time the door is fully closed giving more control over the light.
I don't want to have to worry that my bank balance will disappear unless I spread it around

If you have enough money to worry about having to spread it around, you have enough money to buy additional insurance for it, and/or enough money to hire someone to take care of those things for you.

"Oh, no! I have $250,000 in savings and now I might have to open another bank account to hold even more money! Woe is me!"

Can you even hear yourself?
I'm not sure if I'd never work in banking again. It's a brotherhood, we take care of our...friends.
I work in marketing and branding and I agree with you. But I think it should also be mentioned that the quest to distill complex meaning into a simple, memorable, scalable logo that also achieves many other specific brand objectives sometimes leads to delusions of grandeur.

Case in point, the now infamous 2008 Pepsi logo redesign manual:

https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pepsis-nonsensical-logo-redesig...
How about a search engine: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ambulance+wait+times+uk&ia=web

E.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/world/europe/uk-ambulance...

The waits are crazy long because hospitals are full, so the ambulances end up outside the hospital entrance for a long time, waiting for a free bed for their patient/passenger.
> He didn't want to work on Windows? I can emphatise.

You didn't really have a choice when it comes to making games. Other than the consoles.
> Why does such a relatively big and heavy laptop have such a comparatively small battery?

I hope they provide a beefier battery.
Coincidentally I was looking into simulating rope and knots for a side project, and I don’t know how to really research this other than googling, does someone interested in these kinds of things know? I’d like to simulate friction and tensile strenghs, and other mechanical deformations (pulls, obviously).
I’ll give this a try. That’s a neat workaround.
One way this could create moral hazard is that large depositors are happy to lend to quite risky banks at high rates because they know they will be made whole in case of a bank failure. Btw., this could also make deposits less sticky as moving for opportunity has no downside in such a scenario.
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"depositors lend their money to a bank, for which they are paid interest, and banks lend that money out"

... isn't how banking actually works.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...
So by keeping my money with you I lose spending power at a rate of your fees PLUS inflation? Where do I sign up?
in case anyone is wondering, it's called a custodian bank

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custodian_bank
It is really sad to see comment threads like this that devolve into shallow and petty dismissals devoid of any actual content or substance!
That is a big difference from what you said.

The reality is that all serious outfits either host on AWS, or keep some level of AWS account at the ready, in addition to bare metal Linux servers in colos or hosting providers that they can move onto if needed.

Your statement is confusing simplicity and flexibility with multi-cloud. No one wants to deal with the confusing mix of random hosted services that 3 different cloud providers try to sell you, with one of them (Google Cloud) being this opaque horror story that the article is talking about.

Host on AWS, and mostly host your services on EC2. It's dead simple to migrate elsewhere if needed. You will likely never need to.
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Yeah IDK, I feel like a lot of people were on the other side of this and for... what reason? They wanted startups to fail?
> He did not use the word 'Nazi' at all, he compared the language used to the language of 1930s Germany

This is a distinction without a difference, as you well know.

> a comparison which is justified.

And yet you're unable to actually make such an argument. The argument, of course, isn't the point. The point is associating your political opponents with Nazis.

> The asylum "issue" is being exaggerated by right-wing media to distract from the many bigger problems that have either been caused by or exacerbated by the Tories mis-management of the UK.

The Tories were elected in large part to address immigration issues, remember? Who convinced you that enacting their platform is somehow nefarious?

> Personally, I think that refugees need to be shown some empathy and kindness.

The ones who are safe and sound in France or Germany, who're affected by this new law? Why do they need your empathy when they're in a safe third country? Is this refusal of empathy sufficient to brand someone a Nazi?
Chicken and egg, maybe? If ops are more important to me I will not be owning my own infra.
Well that aged badly
Limits were not "ignored", the companies simply have no other choice. The problem is systematic and by design. A medium sized startup/business handling only 25 million would need to bank with 100 different banks, obviously that's inconceivable in practice.

And now look at some of the more prominent customers. Pinterest, Shopify, CrowdStrike Holdings, Beyond Meat, Andreessen Horowitz, Founder's Fund, Circle. The latter is of particular interest because they are confirmed to have had around 3.3 billion dollars with SVB (of the $40 billion they manage in total). So some quick math, they should have used 160000 different banks to be safe, no problem. Apart from the fact that there are less than 5000 FDIC insured banks in all of the US.
After trying quite a few, I started using multiple tools without worrying about sticking to one tool. This automatically free's up my mind space and allows me to focus on what notes to take rather than how I should format or which tool to use. The core point is that tools will evolve continuously, and it's hard not to switch.

I've learnt a method called CODE (Capture, Organise, Distill, Express from a book - Build Your Second Brain. It changed how I organised my information and helped me be more productive.

You can have a look and see if that methodology works for you.
All of Europe is regularly dismissed as socialist whenever the EU enacts regulations that a certain part of the HN population does not like. I would consider the label "socialist" an epitheton ornans here.
Right, it is the output from JMH (Java Microbenchmark Harness) which includes the number of non-warmup-runs before the actual score.

The original article included them as well so thought I would just post the numbers in the same format here.
> I have recently talked to many young people about ChatGPT and their conclusion is that technical skills are irrelevant and they should focus only on soft skills.

This is a hilarious take. I can reason with a junior programmer and walk through the steps to get a result. I can’t lead of team of ChatGPT bots. The only thing going for ChatGPT is it’s hubris.
I’d guess “PhD level” just means it’s intended for graduate students in a PhD program.

For example, they read and discuss papers rather than just working out of a textbook.
Has the low cost of online banking removed the need for fractional reserve banking? Why does a basic checking account need to have economy destroying risks?
I like the metaphore.

Politicians are exceptionally great at it, filling up conversations with nothing
This is an interpreter for a super restricted subset of C and it looks well written from a pedagogical standpoint (keeps thing pretty simple, fairly easy to read). But it's slightly awk to strip-down a language (what features do you keep, what do you lose?). I think it's more fun to build an interpreter for an actual tiny language. In my next book I have interpreters for Brainfuck [0], an obfuscated kind of joke of a language, and Tiny BASIC[1] a real tiny language that was used on early personal computers. These are pretty common first projects for folks interested in doing an interpreter.

Here's why real languages are better than stripped down languages:
Anyone with programming knowledge can implement a Brainfuck interpreter in a few hours and run any Brainfuck program. Anyone with a tiny bit of CS knowledge can implement a Tiny BASIC interpreter in just a day and then you can run any real Tiny BASIC program from the late 70s. It's cool to run real programs people actually used. With this stripped down C, there are no pre-made real programs...

0:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
1:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_BASIC
If you think this created a multi hundred billion dollar hole, then I’m not sure you’re following what actually happened here.

SVB had assets to cover most deposits, if not all. FDIC needs time to sell those assets, but depositors need the security of their cash now. FDIC pledged a larger portion of their pool, which is funded by banks, to cover withdrawals while assets are sold.

By most reasonable estimates, FDIC will recover at least 80-90% of deposits at no cost to anyone. This means that, at most, there’s a 10-20B hole to plug, if any at all. If needed at all, that hole will be plugged by a special assessment on other banks. Given the relatively small dollar amount, it’s my personal opinion that banks wouldn’t bother trying to pass down the fee, be that’s the primary way this would impact regular people.
This happens in my company as well.
How is barebones svelte an alternative to Next, when the latter is a full stack framework?
The problem there is the idea of "money". You can keep your float variables safe in a big vault called a distributed acyclic graph, but there's not much we can do about how people view what those numbers mean compared to the price of a toilet seat.
> Many Amish are permitted to ride in cars that they don’t own or operate themselves, which means it can be common to hire a driver for specific trips.

I grew up in Knox County, Ohio, just next to Holmes County. I heard of many Amish families owning a van, but not driving it themselves, usually opting for an "englishman"[0] neighbor to drive them into town or wherever.

[0] The Amish term for non-Amish people.
The adhesion of the gecko’s foot is caused by van der waals forces, not the Casimir effect, just fyi
Combining Collections with Zip in C++23 for Efficient Data Processing
A hacker who got into your laptop can piggy back on your SSH connections (and also extract all sort of vital data).

Not being able to extract SSH keys helps very little.
I wasn’t 100% naive going in, but I wish someone had sent me this article before we opened an arcade bar. The economics of retail small businesses that pay living wages is break even at best unless you’ve somehow hit the jackpot on rent/location. Markup on alcohol is 3-500% and we still barely covered expenses. Games made just enough money to cover their repairs. I’d probably do it again, but it’s definitely irrational.
Come again? Hasselblad still is, and always has been, a photographers dream. A niche product, desired and out of reach for most. That didn't change. Olympus is one of the current mirrorless brands, an isn't doing to bad, at least their cameras seem to be good from what I hear.

The entry level and point-and-shoot camera market is more or less dead so. That segment was completely taken over by smartphones, for valid reasons.
Did you get to a root cause of how the “crypto hackers” “took over” your account, or of what the “very advanced” scripts did?
yes, they 100000% did. They defrauded their clients, the government and each other. They committed multiple levels of fraud and all got away with it.
Yeah like terminals are perfect. The current state of terminals is more like an octagon wheel to me, it works but the edges are rough. Like, why is it so hard to copy the output of a command? Why can’t I just right click anywhere in the output and select « copy stdout », « copy stderr », « copy output »? Right now I have to scroll like a caveman, hoping my configured scroll back is high enough, and that I don’t select too far ahead
> You simply can't count on the baseline configuration of your account and instances provided by AMS, you need advanced knowledge on how to secure your resources beyond basic stuff like MFA and monitoring.

What advanced knowledge are we talking about here?
It's essential a thousand times over that money goes to banks instead of mattresses. Letting bank runs erase savings is a really terrible idea that would be a repeat of the 1920s era mistakes.
> Like how in Germany the government guarantees every German bank balance.

Up to 100.000€, they don't guarantee it without limit, and they don't guarantee it for anything that isn't insured.

Greensill's insolvency recently got lots of media attention since local governments deposited large sums and were not (fully) covered by the normal mechanisms that protect private and business customers.
As pointed out a totally avoidable problem. Glad Fed backstopped. Also dont like calling this a bailout - it's not.
if you're serving static assets
Tell them to take a hike until they come back with a warrant or at least a reasonable justifiable suspicion not dragnet surveillance. You know like google is a goddamn american company? What is this "Oh it's ok, we're just going along with the government's presumption of guilt to justify yet another power grab so that's fine."

TBF Google are big enough to display some spine if they'd "prefer not to" I'm pretty solid on that. So I flat out don't believe you when you say they'd prefer not to because if that were true, they wouldn't. Are you sure I'm wrong to think that way? Looks to me like they're quite happy to.
Is the suspend and power managment problem a OS independent HW flaw or is there still something to fix in Linux?
There are lots and lots of ways to use 10b5-1 plans and still trade on insider information, I.e., selective cancellation or trading on longer-term insider info.
I can't figure out what they did? Web scrapped hacker news for domain ideas?
The Commodore 64 had a client-server model for the 6502: The 1541 disk drive was attached by a serial port and ran on a 6502, and provided a "command" to write to the 1541 RAM so you could run code on it.

(Yes, this isn't entirely serious, but people could and did make use of it)
Not to mention all the useless spam that Google send themselves. The SNR is abysmal.
> I simply version my entire Emacs [...] config

;; -*- eval: (git-auto-commit-mode 1) -*-

For the win.
It's called "narrow banking" or full-reserve banking.

It's been tried, and was rejected by the very same regulators who now had to bail out SVB:
https://www.econlib.org/why-does-the-fed-oppose-narrow-banki...
> This almost is not ever true for software startups, who get more value from speed, flexibility, and not needing to pay a team to manage hardware.

Exactly. I cringe every time I look at the AWS/Azure running total, but at the same time I realize that paying a separate team would be even more ludicrous at our current scale.

Right now, I can single-handedly administer 100% of our IT infrastructure as barely a side-concern because nearly everything is inside the Azure/AWS bubble. Delegating IT management tasks to non-wizards is actually feasible too.

The moment you start racking servers on-prem, you need a very specialized workforce to keep them alive. I suppose you could vendor parts of this out too, but then you are really splitting hairs regarding why you brought crap on-site in the first place.
There are better monetary instruments (like short term Treasury Bonds) to keep money at scale. Most startups don't have a team (CFOs etc) but I am sure the larger ones don't keep cash like that.
2,000; 4,000; 16,000; 32,000; 64,000; and 128,000 are my favorite thousands! We don't talk about 8 anymore, black sheep of the thousands family.
I think we have to be approaching the "thousands of miles per year" stage. The TF magnet demoed at CFS/MIT had 166 miles of tape and "contained close to 10% of the world’s supply of commercially available HTS" at the time. SPARC will have 18 of those magnets.

While HTS magnets may be "state of the art" they are still substantially more expensive than LTS magnets and it will be a few years before they start showing up in MRI machines.

https://www.psfc.mit.edu/sparc/hts-magnet
> Most SVB customers, unless they are finance experts, are not in any position to do due diligence

Someone wants to have it both ways - they are sophisticated investors and entreneurs when it suits them. Leaders of our time, telling the rest of us how to live.

Other times, they can't be expected to have basic financial literacy or consult a financial adviusor accessible to a regullar joe
Interesting behaviour, usually any normal rope knot makes the rope weaker at the point of maximum curvature/choking etc. Would be enlightening to get a comparison why the different behaviours, just a scale/friction non linearities?
I crashed the school server several times with a bomb fork long before I even knew they already existed. It was a very simple script.

I stopped doing it because every time the server crashed through no fault of my own, everyone turned to look at me.
The businesses you refer to that need more than $250k in an account can purchase additional insurance. Example: I work at a financial institution and when we offer a $1m CD, the FDIC covers the first $250k and we purchase additional insurance to cover the remaining $750k so that the entire product is covered.
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The only "interest" I've gotten from a bank in probably decades is a free checking account which money can be deposited into and withdrawn from (via paper check or a couple different online payment mechanisms), the very rare notary service, and ATMs (also increasingly rare). I regularly sweep any significant excess cash to a brokerage account. I understand companies keeping larger pure cash accounts but how many individuals are keeping $500K in a bank deposit account?
I feel terrible for kids like this whose entire lives are put on the Internet and there's nothing they can do about it. Like that poor autistic kid, whose mother used him to make videos and make money, and then "re-homed" him like he was an animal.
Your question is so vague, so it's no wonder a list of generic answers doesn't fix you. What would you consider necessary for your life to be "amazing"?

Also, drugs or alcohol can be positive influences if you are capable of moderation.
If you can't make a substantive contribution to the conversation, perhaps silence would suffice? This sort of surly mud-slinging is unbecoming.
That's just a waste of capital and leads to zero business investments. It's exactly what happens in crypto because it's deflationary, and it's the main reason there is no crypto economy beyond the price speculation.
If you had deposits with SVB's UK arm before, congrats, you're now an HSBC customer.

There is a much lower chance HSBC experiences a bank run. Not to jinx it but the most likely outcome is that most customers are satisfied that HSBC is a well-capitalized bank and keep their money there, while HSBC gets to use their deposits and the bank's assets to sit comfy earning yield.
CDs are more valuable to banks because they prevent you from making a bank run by requiring you to keep your money deposited for a set amount of time. They're still investing that money. They also invest the money in savings accounts.

Putting your money in a bank is essentially the same as investing it, but with a few more safeguards that you're exchanging for losing out on profit.
In 2008? I think it was fraud yes. What would you call packaging mortgages you know are worthless in pretty wrapping to be able to sell them to the next bagholder?

That it temporarily works and it's how everyone does business isn't an excuse.
Wow, the engineering team wanted to delay the headset by 3 years!? That does not bode well for the product.
Deploying firmware at Cloudflare-scale: updating 1000s of servers in >285 cities
In this particular instance, the CEO had ~26 million dollars worth of shares wiped out.
Is OpenBSD for You?
How does one even come close to such wizardry
I’ve seen a lot more sub €100k programmers respond with salaries on HN and Reddit than ones close to €100k.

A quick google search says the average is 65k in Berlin and around 60k in the UK. London is probably higher for sure.
lol yes, that's definitely going to happen. However, in this case, I think it's warranted. I've had so many incidents with designers, where they don't like how a line wraps, and want it to break at a more reasonable point. If the text is static, just toss in a <br> and you're done. But with dynamic text, it's just not practical at all to try to fix, so I tell my designers that they have to live with it.

I'm excited about this feature!
Yes, a better title would be:

Compiler for the Tiny-C Language (2001)

In fact, that is exactly how the source code describes itself in the comments.
What would it take to formally increase this limit to USD 250 million for everyone?
I should mention that I like what Framework is doing and have been tempted to buy one. Don’t mean to take anything away from them. It’s just not for me right now.
How did Russian companies mitigate the effects of cloud services hosting being blocked by sanctions
Ah...was missing the -t 8 part...no wonder was so painfully slow when I tried this
It it the number of non-warmup-runs for the benchmarking tool (JMH). The original article included them as well so thought I would just post the numbers in the same format here. But I totally understand that they are confusing if you are not in the Java ecosystem.
Does anybody have experience with hybrid cloud?

It seems to me that having colo machines for your base loads would be the cheapest, having cloud machines available for flexibility would alleviate scalability / business continunity concerns, and then having them all on cloud networking would allow integration of the managed data services, etc.