skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Moving Forward. Starting today, I will be making plans to move everything to AWS.” I laughed when I read this because it’s presenting moving to AWS as a completely different future.

The industry has moved beyond depending on a single cloud computing vendor. It’s negligent to put all your eggs in one basket.

I would say don’t put your business in the hands of a single cloud vendor. Either exit the cloud or go multi cloud or run plain old Linux machines on hetzner or ionos. Design your systems to withstand your credit card expiring, or missing an email.
Facebook confirms it will drop news sharing in Canada under bill C-18
SVB was exempt from a lot of the post-2008 stress tests because they were not a National Bank (aka they got their license/charter and everything from CA's Banking Regulators).

It's an open secret that state banking regulators are much more lax than Federal Regulators (eg. Basel III exemption).

This is a big reason why almost all the post-GFC bank collapses are all State Chartered Banks.
Thank you for this! Totally made it click in my head.
"Free market is good for you, not for me"
You could even argue the most idiomatic C# is things.Sum(x => x ?? 0) and there the real test would be if the compiler/jit would match the speed of the for() loop exactly, i.e. not allocating any enumerators on the heap, not boxing any values and so on.
The whole American system of collage sports is just totally strange to Europeans.
Those numbers don't support your statement
I'll offer 1 GBP for this.
The security appliance in question is the SonicWall Secure Mobile Access 100: https://www.sonicwall.com/products/remote-access/secure-mobi...
This article is wrong all over, from where I stand.
Who uses semi-colon in titles???
This seems like that thing with power companies offering varying rates based on demand, then when power failed people's bills went sky high and someone just has to resume them.

What I mean is, all this risk was baked in by design, with some stupid assumption of "well that won't happen." Now it's happened and the response is "well that's not supposed to happen, please rescue."

Rules for me and not for thee.
On some level I admire your level of pedantry but even the CCP calls it the CCP.
In a possibly more pedestrian example, my organization needed a re-mailer service set up and found out that the IT worker previously tasked with administration for that service had the MFA set up for his personal phone. I think they eventually got a hold of him to coordinate transfer of credentials, but knowing him, there was a 50% chance he could have left the company on bad terms and would have made things quite a bit more difficult.
Elizabeth Warren: Silicon Valley Bank Is Gone. We Know Who Is Responsible
A nice big Threadripper in the corner of your office is all you need, I can almost certainly guarantee it. There are very very few businesses with less than 1000 employees that can't be run on one modern high end server.
I’m just excited that sve hardware is starting to be available
I think people took issue with the pretty extreme claim that it is an "arm of the CCP" - by now it is no secret and no surprise that the Chinese government have sizeable investments overseas. They're also the second-largest foreign holder of US treasuries if you wanna go wild with that one.
SVB UK was declared insolvent as well last week: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-10/svb-s-uk-...

So I guess that the booked value of their assets was a lot higher than the actual market value, and so their net value is negative.
A/B testing strategies to drive more adoption of FSD.
That Mastodon server has a load time problem.. took a solid 30 seconds for me to load
Except for anthrax, whose lifecycle explicitly includes killing its host and staying dormant in the soil where the host decomposes.
Which is particularly silly, since Reader comments & sharing had already become a social network.
It's complex. It started as the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and was historically based in Hong Kong. During the 1990s it moved its headquarters to London ahead of Hong Kong being returned to China, and amongst other international expansions and acquisitions bought the Midland Bank, which is now the HSBC UK high street bank[1]. It still has a large presence in the far east (and indeed its current strategy is a "pivot" to the east), it's the complexities around its interactions with China that the original post refer to.

I suspect the main "political" point of the acquisition, if any, is UK domestic factor that its just done the UK government a big favour by solving the SVB UK issues without the government having to spend any money. No doubt they can remind the government of that fact in the future.

[1] SVB UK has specifically been acquired by HSBC UK Bank plc, the ringfenced subsidiary that owns the UK "high street" operation.
Until this happened, I've been using https://github.com/adamjgrant/Buddy-System
It is not.

"Comparing brain volume before and after individuals were exposed to SARS-CoV-2, this study documents significant cortical gray matter loss, equivalent to nearly 10 years of aging." [1]
Nah, go all out and get one of the full rack systems. The SuperSPARC 2000 is a lovely machine that even has pretty blinkenlights on the back of the CPU cards.
By SFP I assume you mean modem or ONT?
> At the same time, this is yet another example of changing the rules in the middle of the game. Yellen has just broadcast that FDIC insurance is essentially unlimited, as long as you can threaten wider disruption to the economy

And it doesn’t have to be that wide a threat. The threat here was pretty localized. Aside from blue chips that everyone has their pensions invested in (which don’t seem to be at risk) the rest of the country doesn’t have much exposure to this.

Maybe I’m wrong but that seems like a significant shift in policy, where the government will change the rules to respond to a localized crisis.
Deutsche Bahn bets on Huawei for railway digitalisation despite security
With cloud orchestration tools it's pretty common to log in to the provider's web console infrequently. A banner is easy to miss, even if it's persistent.
A lot of people will not consider this, or will attempt it and be defeated by simple methods (e.g trying a new email address but the same number, getting _that_ address burnt in the process).
> the UK SVB bank was in significantly better shape

The Bank of England seems to disagree with you. Not sure why they would think placing it into the "Bank Insolvency Procedure" is appropriate based on just rumors, they must sit on more information than both you and me.
It won't pass the IRB if you describe it like that.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/741701.stm

Not the first time it happens.
Show HN: Ed GPT – telegram client for ChatGPT
Hey! I got tired of reloading ChatGpt web interface in attempts to fix bugs so I built this bulletproof interface for myself to chat with AI.

Any feedback or questions are super appreciated - would love chatting about it.
> The taxpayer pays nothing.

Money to cover deposits that didn't previously didn't exist, suddenly exists, and there are people like you trying to tell everyone else that everything is rosy and that it's not going to cost the taxpayers anything.

It sounds like a revolutionary system that you're working with and if it truly costs "nothing", may I ask where I can sign up to have my bad financial investments refunded for free?
or the sweet tax havens that make it easier for management to pull profits out of thin air?
> 20 years ago there were no generics, so you couldn’t have implemented it that way. You could have written a class OptionalLong

That was the actual reason, yeah. Basically having to make IntList and so on.

> Java’s tradeoffs are maintainability in huge teams over multiple years with relatively fast performance

When I did switch to C# in 2003, it was very young. Since then generics have been bolted on and so on, but I didn't find any hit to maintainability due to this. What I do think was sad though is that when Generics were bolted on (and value types obviously were there all along), that the APIs didn't immediately include some easy and obvious wins like Option<T>. Those have been reimplemented since ad nauseam.
The IPCC is famously conservative in their estimates of what impacts climate change will have.
> have an asterisk on their resume

SVB Securities' CAO served as the CFO for Lehman Brothers' Investment Bank https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35122311
> We know so far that human cognition and sense of self is still largely a mystery and no evidence exists to show that it's just mechanical remixing of absorbed things

I'm not saying that ChatGPT is comparable in either capability or design to a human's cognition. What I am saying is that a human brain is just input,process and output. There's no reason a model of sufficient size can't emulate human thought in such a way that there's not much difference in capability (even if the mechanics differ).

I also think you're overstating the uniqueness of "novel" suggestions from humans and that "novel" ideas are some kind of high-water mark of intelligence rather than a fuzzy mechanism with induced feedback.

I can think of a novel idea by randomly mixing concepts I know. What matters is if this idea is good, and that test is done via interacting with the world. This mechanism can be implemented in an LLM now.
Only one email from Google Cloud? That's weird: I got four when my Wells Fargo debit card was compromised on 2/28/2023.

- 2023-03-04 "Your Project: nono is at risk of suspension"

- 2023-03-04 "Action required: your billing account 0028C9-xx-yy is past due or has invalid payment information"

- 2023-03-04 "Google Cloud Platform & APIs: Update your payment method to keep services"

- 2023-03-04 "Google Cloud Platform & APIs: Payment was declined for 0028C9-xx-yy"

Similarly, I got four emails from Digital Ocean, but only one from AWS.
The "commitment" is already betrayed wherever eternal pyramid growth bumps up against reality.
It would only have explanatory value if you could prove that "intelligent" people have become relatively less fertile over time, compared to the population as a whole.

Of course, historically, we see that the rich and educated upper echelons of society have apparently always struggled with fertility. There's also the nagging issue that even highly stratified societies aren't that stable on evolutionary timescales.
DF has been putting ads in feed forever.
> The industry has moved beyond depending on a single cloud computing vendor.

Given how much of the industry struggles when an AWS region goes down, this seems... unlikely.
Not to be confused with https://bellard.org/tcc/, which is a tiny compiler for the C language.
I mean isn't Russian propaganda claiming that most western government are made up of Nazis at this point?
Presume they mean ajar, not fully opened
Huh! That is quite interesting, thanks! I wonder if the Feds will now take a deeper interest in more direct oversight of these banks given the seriousness of the issues that were allowed occur under this climate.
Ask HN: Any solo game developers here?
Hey HN,

I'm a full time game developer fifteen months into creating my city builder game. It's a lonely journey so I put together a very small group of other solo game developers.

We meet up every week (currently Tuesday nights, EST) to relate to the struggle, hang out, and sometimes rotate one person who presents for the night (they can teach or talk about anything game dev related, including their game). It's been a success and motivating for all involved. There's also a second group that meets on Thursday's, but this group is currently full. There's about 10 total people on the Discord server.

I'm looking to add 2 people to the group who can commit to weekly meetups. You must be working on your game full time. Must be serious about finishing/releasing your game.

About the group:

We are late 20s - 30s and serious about releasing our respective games. We are pretty open and honest with each other, and will question each other/provide feedback freely.

About our games:

My game: Metropolis 1998

Person #2 Game: Basketball GM

Person #3 Games: 9001 and It Usually Ends In Nuclear War

Other people's game on the server who can publicly share:

Drift

Reisha Falls

Email is in profile
The traditional name for widow in German typography is Hurenkind , literally "child of a whore".
> "The FDIC is not supported by public funds; member banks' insurance dues are its primary source of funding. When dues and the proceeds of bank liquidations are insufficient, it can borrow from the federal government, or issue debt through the Federal Financing Bank on terms that the bank decides."

If you're trying to say "look, 'taxpayer' isn't mentioned, all good", you're either in self-delusion or you're playing dumb.
It doesn't matter how you dress it - "taxpayer money", QE, Sammy's piggybank - the inflationary repercussions will affect everyone.

> On top of that, SVB has the money to pay back almost all of the depositors. They just don't have it liquid right now because it's in bonds that won't mature for a while and would need to be sold for a loss.

This is a self-contradiction, yet it's written as an explanation.
Bravo.

> You can vote for people who are dumb enough to let the entire banking system collapse because they want to hurt rich people. But of course that would probably put "peasants" out of work while the rich get slightly less rich.

This isn't about "hurting rich people", you can throw away that straw man (along with the twitter favorite "it's not a bailout, the bank equity goes to zero!").
It's about the response to a complex system's failure.
Most would agree injecting liquidity ASAP is mandatory in the short-term, but that does not mandate insuring 100% of deposits.
Any sort of response has negative repercussions, but it isn't a matter of fact that the banking system would collapse otherwise.

Nobody has "the answers", it's a complex system.
The VC tech bro take draws a line in the sand and cries wolf for any approach that doesn't cover them 100%, and it's done under the guise of looking out for others; "the workers", "the banking system", "the economy", "a generation of technological progress evaporated".

Is it possible that the best thing to do for the long-term is to allow a worse short-term outcome (affecting a small part of the economy more drastically), so that the system is altered in a way that actually fixes/improves it?
Even if we grant that hypothetical, should it be done? It's a complex question with no right answer.

The VC tech bro take on technological advancements that have negative short-term side effects, wiping industries and causing people to lose jobs usually falls in the range of "learn to code" to "that sucks, but we must march forward".
There is a poignant sense of hypocrisy when grandstanding holier-than-thou "technologists" who claim in abstract that progress and efficiency trump all, find themselves on the other side and act oh so predictably.

The cynical responders aren't partaking in the question of "what is the correct response", but just because they don't gobble up the predictable VC tech bro take as gospel doesn't make them dumb.
That’s where in my post I said “you need to therefore provide a solution”

Yes, you can’t just remove it you need to provide them with the capability to do it.
It's funny that you generalised a region of 12.2 million but then is offended by someone generalising the US.

You've repeated a cliche about the city.

Did you live there? Anything particular?

That made you decide: "never live there, though"
Dupe, the same source article was previously discussed on HN:

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35049500

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079782

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35109057

4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35086599

edit: formatting
Signature Bank of New York Collapses
90% of deposits are uninsured; FDIC will backstop in full. Of $88 billion in assets, $16 billion was in cryptocurrency
I'm not sure we know that SVB UK was actually in better shape. They made representations to that effect last week, but the fact the banking authorities moved in so quickly implies that all was not well.

Of course if they have sold the assets for well under real value, you'd expect some level of legal challenge from the shareholders who are losing out under this deal.
Starlink was offered for free and then elon started receiving payments from eastern people in trench coats and suddenly he starts talking about negotiating peace. Then he suddenly turns off starlink to try and sway a major battle.

How can you trust someone like that not to betray you?
If people would accept 0% interest on their deposits, banking could be a fundamentally secure non-investment.

But people do like their interest... and in order for banks to take your $100 and give you back $101, well, that $1 has to come from somewhere.
> Plus it has poor Typescript support.

Vue 3 has excellent Typescript support. It's even built in Typescript. What exactly are you referring to when you say that it's "poor"?
Agree on greed and education, disagree on everything else.

At least the US still has programmers - in Europe nobody wants to program anymore - too much work. The big car companies create software centres in Munich and hire thousands on Indians on visas there, because there are no Europeans available.

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.

Well - soft skills are the most basic level - it's just what makes us humans. Some day the non-european people doing the work will figure out that they can do the managing and talking and buzz wording just as good - but that we can't do their work because we have given up on learning the skills.
Let's try spreading cynicism and enjoy the fireworks when the hollow reassurances don't work.
Here's one good reason: unlike most "IDEs", Emacs has been around and it will stick around.

When I started programming, Turbo Pascal was all the rage, I then used Borland C/C++ IDEs. I saw various incarnations of Microsoft's Visual Studio come and go, get redone and rewritten. Every microcontroller vendor seems to try to ship their own IDE for some reason. All these IDEs come and go, and your customizations (or extensions) are lost.

In that same time, Emacs has stayed, and while it is being actively developed all the time, you can have a single IDE that works over a time span of 25 years or more. Parts of my init.el (Emacs initialization file) are from 1993.
yep, i am trying to extend the lease on a flat i own in london, and the contract my solicitor drew up cited the ground rent as one peppercorn. actual ground rent i am currently paying is 100 gbp p/a.
Um "client assets" are liabilities to a bank
How about “the industry should have moved beyond depending on a single cloud computing vendor.”?
By design I would guess
Case in point: First Republic Bank needed a $70B loan this morning to not go the way of SVB.
Ask HN: One time backup/archive solutions?
Is there a service that offers one time backup/archive solutions? Use case would be to have a place for backup of data that needs to be preserved for a period of time and it doesn't change often, eg. storing yearly financial reports/invoices, etc.

Once the data is backed up it will be retrieved only if local copy is lost after some long time (10-20 years).
Maybe it's flawed because Siemans still exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens
Could you tell me exactly what is the issue?

sumNullsValhalla and sumOptionalValhalla returns 584,967 us/op and 572,833 us/op respectively

sumSimpleValhalla and sumOptionalLongValhalla returns 327,927 us/op and 326,949 us/op respectively
> This seems like a requirement you personally came up with that does not mesh with reality.

No, it's actually pretty obvious, if you actually take a moment to think about it. Creativity is about making things in reality, which necessitates the construction of new things, which means that you either need to keep design details entirely in your head while you work (which is infeasible for many things and challenging for most things) or you need to work with a medium (paint, clay, code) as you create, which means that the medium (and tool) need to be interactive.

> Throughout history the greatest creative achievement have been made using absurdly difficult to use non-interactive mediums.

This is completely absurd. Most, if not all, of the classical arts have used highly interactive media. Painting? Interactive medium. Sculping? Interactive. Mechanical devices, like the steam engine and the plane? Interactive. In almost every single creative field, you get the opportunity to work with things incrementally.

Unfortunately, for historical reasons (namely their C lineage), most languages are non-interactive batch-processed monstrosities which inhibit creativity, and Rust is no exception.

> Also Rust compile times are not as slow as you imagine them to be.

I've used Rust, and the compile times are exactly what I remember them to be - tens of minutes for large programs, and tens of seconds for incremental compiles, which is tens of seconds too long.
Depends how disposable the individual servers are. I don't know specifics of the Twitter infra, but I would probably just issue a new cert and begin shooting and replacing the old servers. Hopefully the services are abstracted from the puppet cert and things like Redis and whatnot will safely reprovision and find their quorums.
Does that mean my IQ has been dropping all this time because I took the test a long time ago, like putting cash under my mattress in an inflationary economy?
Taiwan's number of crypto startups relative to total number of tech startups is much higher than Silicon Valley's.

Also, I wouldn't use one. accelerator's lineup as an example because this accelerator might not accept crypto or as many crypto startups.
I'm still holding on to a small bit of hope that the GPU market will normalise this year. Don't think that I'm the only one looking to get something highly capable but for a fair price.
Yes its based on his ADHD instability that causes him to make irrational decisions based on twitter comments and constantly flip flop
Not if they’re photino birds.
That's not what I'm suggesting at all. A tiered structure would be normal banking (checking/savings) accounts with differing levels of risk depending on the owner's tolerance and willingness to pay (no/low risk, charged something like 0.5% per year) or be paid (very high risk, and paid to store money there because the bank is lending it out at higher rates).
It was at risk of a similar bank run, regardless of actual balance sheet.
I would consider this a USP rather than simple preference. Although, in what circumstance would live editing really be value-added?
Leaving stuff like this to be interpreted by the User-Agent is simply a tragedy.
Software Developer Competencies (How to Recognize a Good Programmer)
Really not uncouth. Maybe misinformed but mostly just arguing opposing viewpoint that's been getting somewhat more legitimate with all the other "dangerous misinformation" that turned out to be true.
No, it's not not always, or even usually, that. This reflects that it's a failing business (like Barings) where the real cost to the purchaser is taking on the risks and liabilities and injecting whatever capital and effort needed to extract value from the remaining assets.

Many sales of solvent banks happens regularly too.
AWS might be up for others but could have locked you out