skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the old 'Ukraine just has to have no agency for there to be peace'.

Remember the Minsk II Agreements were based on the predicate that the 'little green men' WEREN'T Russian soldiers. Which even Russia now admits was a lie. How could a framework based on a lie about one side's aggression work to.... prevent future aggression by that lying side?
You totally can do that, it's not illegal! Schenck v. United States is a pretty odious court case I wouldn't want to be on the censor's side in that one.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
> Which makes me question the point at the end of the article.

To generate controversy, which generates clicks, therefore revenue.
I didn't dive into this part. Looks like this is their real game for preventing spill-over.

My understanding is that the government actually made a lot of money off the toxic assets it bought post 2008. Maybe they can pull off the same trick?

I was sceptical that this was indeed systemic before but I'm reassessing that opinion.
Those don't mean the same thing at all, and the headline is weird for any possible set of facts.

The average mass shooter has no active warrants, but most people would consider it correct for the police to shoot him to end his killing spree. The average wanted fugitive, on the other hand is usually arrested without any shooting.

I read the article linked in another comment, and the headline I would give it is "Police kill man while raiding wrong house".
But it’s all buffered at a bunch of different places though, right? There must be a stream buffer before the DA to compensate for any upstream latency, no?
I don't think the second part is a semantic game at all. This switch to insure all deposits rather than just deposits up to a fairly low limit will definitely impose additional costs to the banking sector which will definitely be passed on to some degree or other. I agree this is certainly not a transfer of tax money to private institutions, and I applaud that, but I still think it is socializing a big chunk of additional risks of an industry where the rewards are large and private.

But more broadly I just don't think "bailout" is as narrow as just "costs taxpayers". This may be wrong, but I think of "bailout" as having its root in what you do to save a sinking ship. The widespread belief here is that there was a significant risk of an important ship - the banking sector - sinking, and government action has been taken to keep it from sinking. To me, we've bailed out that sinking ship. (And I'm glad we did!)

I guess it remains to be seen whether I'm the weirdo with a strange definition, or whether everyone will agree that this was a bailout, once it stops being a question with such immediacy.
US troops are already involved simply by being in the same theater. If you're planning a strike on Taiwan, you would be foolish to assume that the US carrier groups are just going to sit around while you do that. Therefore any plan for attacking Taiwan is necessarily a plan to eliminate that threat. From the US perspective, we are absolutely not posturing: we currently have lives on the line defending Taiwan, just like we had lives on the line defending Berlin. Hopefully these tensions will be resolved by other means, but if not...
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Docker is not the answer to any packaging problems because it's not a packaging tool. I have no idea how people don't understand this... oh wait! I'm talking to Python programmers!

But... I'm not going to hold you in the dark: the reason and the major drive to have a packaging system is that you can define dependencies between packages s.t. users installing package can coordinate and install the stuff they need. Docker simply doesn't do that. You get images. They are completely independent. Whether any two images will work with each other is anyone's guess.
I like to imagine it going down like Margin Call, with Thiel at the head of the table "this is, ur ur, this is, ur ur, it". Maybe with an "overdetermined" thrown in there.

If anyone hasn't seen Margin Call, give it a watch. Fantastic movie.
Yeah, you can't have two deps use different versions of the same sub-dep, cause they flatten everything instead of having a tree. In practice I rarely have issues with this except in React-Native, where it's a common problem, but then again RN is doing some crazy stuff to begin with. Often just force install deps and things work anyway.

Side note, there are way too many React/React-Native "router" type packages, and at least one of them breaks its entire API every update (I think https://reactrouter.com/en/main/upgrading/v5, how are they on version 6 of this). It's so bad that you can't even Google things anymore cause of the naming conflicts.
Today maybe, but a year or two from now? They had 40% of deposits locked in for years at a low interest rate. They wouldn't have been able to offer depositors a competitive interest rate over the next couple years without bleeding money. So they'd have to hope that few would withdraw in spite of an objectively inferior service (which in itself would start raising alarm bells at some point).

Maybe a more gradual stream of withdrawals would've allowed them to make up money elsewhere to stay alive, but they demonstrated such horrible incompetence with this entire situation that I don't see that ending well.
I definitely appreciate that inflammatory articles might push us closer to war but it also seems rather dangerous to cover up anything that suggests war. That feels a bit reminiscent of Neville Chamberlain before WWII.
> I'm talking differences of a thousand fold in query load depending on how one expresses the ORM calls

That doesn’t sound like ORM… More like an N+1 problem. Eager-loading makes N+1 more likely with ORMs, but it’s easy to avoid when you know what to look for.

ORMs are designed to reduce querying, not increase it a thousand-fold :)
If only workers could sign contracts with some sort of 'notice period' allowing their employer time to hire a replacement....
Meta to wind down NFTs on platforms amid crypto bust
Probably because there’s not much new in the layoff story that hasn’t been covered in tens of thousands of comments on previous layoffs. But this is the first time a lot of people have had an outlet to discuss the frustrating linguistic phenomena that have been on display this cycle.
Here is one of them from Friday: https://news.yahoo.com/thiel-founders-fund-withdrew-millions...

> On Thursday, as the bank was beginning to unravel, the firm started what’s known as a capital call. That’s a run-of-the-mill activity in the venture capital world, in which a VC firm asks its investors, or limited partners, to send it money in order to make investments in startups — the core function of most VC firms. It began by asking those backers to transfer the funds to accounts at SVB, as it has done for years, the person said.

> But the firm learned that its limited partners were encountering issues using SVB services as they tried to transfer the funds — they weren’t immediately going through as expected, the person said.
> Why I'm capable of desire has a lot to do with evolution, etc. yes. But that isn't relevant to the meaning of the claim.

If you are going to claim that your expression of desire is fundamentally different from another thing's, you need a reason, not just "because I mean it".

> Consider the fact that a child only needs to touch a fireplace once before concluding never to touch it again.

You can justify not touching the fireplace on a risk/reward, probabilistic basis. The child receives little reward for attempting to touch the fireplace, and lots of punishment. That alone is enough to dissuade you, or cause you to be more cautious in the future. People who receive actual rewards routinely do painful/dangerous things.
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I'm aware of the relationship betweeen SVB and the VCs, but it seems that you're confused about what you're arguing.

You're blaming depositors (specifically VC-funded startups) for "benefiting" from a relationship with SVB they were forced into by VCs, and want to deny making all of SVB's depositors whole on the basis of a bank relationship that, for many, was not their choice. Worse, you want the fact that VC-funded startups over-depositing their cash reserves in a single-bank to be used against non-VC funded depositors (i.e., other businesses in the SV area) to deny making them whole on the basis of a "special relationship" that was simply "geographically closest bank willing to provide a loan and banking services."
Is anyone really equipped to go to war with the USA?

Unrestrained war with the US war machine would be....catastrophic, to say the least. I mean for both parties, but the US out spends everyone by a wide margin[0] and the US military is very advanced and well resourced, and well trained. Even if the fighting was just constrained to Taiwan, it would be pretty bad for everyone, but I think it would be especially bad for China.

Now just for the mental exercise, if we take nukes off the table and assume actual, all out, total war, I'm pretty sure the US can level just about any country on earth, or at least, we have the hubris to believe we can.

With nukes? well, I mean, I had a good life I guess, thats pretty apocalyptic, but I'm certain the US would have more than enough ICBMs and the like to level an entire country in hours

[0]: https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2023/jan/military-...
Your own fine tuning, no restrictions on output, privacy/security, and if you have a reason to produce a lot of output it'll be cheaper. Use ChatGPT if you only want to use it occasionally, you don't care about privacy/security in this context, the output restrictions don't bother you and having the best possible language model is the most important thing to you.
The core problem with ORMs is that you end up having to learn the ORM on top of learning SQL and the particular database. It ends up being like working with the database through an opaque indirect layer.
This is exactly why I find no solution fits all here. For me, I use an ORM as a catch-all and then for certain applications I manually write the queries. It's best of both worlds, and I know what components in my app have custom queries so I can test against them.
I use bash, and yes it's pretty vanilla. I have a custom PS1 line with some added info but no colors, no multiple lines like a lot of people do.

I've been using Linux (or Unix) for 25 years and it works well for me. I can work in large projects with many files and directories. I never even heard of people automatically transferring their RC files to remote servers. That sounds quite convenient to be fair.
> Yes, the depositors would get bailed out,

Above the 250k limit, that is not normally the case. The joint statement is creating a special situation here.
Justice Department Probes Collapse of Do Kwon’s TerraUSD Stablecoin
As a sort-of counterpoint I work at a non-amazon FANG where I am much more involved in model training and evaluation. I still have never needed to define a model myself, but it's much more complicated and far more ownership than someone throwing me a binary. I think that speaks much more to what's going on in Amazon *grins*.
in their earnings call @sytses also announced that he has cancer but is powering thru it working full time even while he receives chemotherapy.

snippet: https://twitter.com/OnodaCapital/status/1635379330498060289

wishing him the best of health. he inspires me constantly.
"War of 1812, when troops from Canada — then a British colony — marched to Washington, D.C., finished James and Dolly Madison’s unfinished dinner and burned down the White House. " https://www.politico.eu/article/us-war-with-canada-cross-bor...
Too late to EDIT: but "literal types" was the word I am looking for.

I used "success:true" and "success:false" as part of the two types I was combining; it seems like "success:boolean" would server the same function, but it does not. The type I created has more information that that.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/literal-types.h...
Same. The whole domain shows up in the list. I have too many lists right now to know which is blocking it. Does Pi-Hole have an easy way to see which list a domain comes from?

edit: it's in the https://v.firebog.net/hosts/AdguardDNS.txt adlist.
Please provide an example of an industrialized nation that became industrialized exclusively from "green" energy.
This little round of prisoner's dilemma had thousands of participants. It would be irrational to assume all the other players are superrational.
I think the problems have been resolved. For my last few installations of Python, I've just used pip install for those packages, without any issues. Linux and Windows, can't comment about Mac. And the important libraries are all in Py3 now.

I haven't tried out virtual environments yet.
Maybe you're overestimating the USA the way Russia was overestimated. How many actual wars did the USA win? Out of Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Gulf War only the latter was an actual victory.
KYC is a big part of it, yes. SVB wasn't skipping it; the Wells/BoA/Chase-type banks just do not want to do the additional KYC work for completely unknown players, which many startup founders are. It's not just that; certainly if you're going to open a corner convenience store, you probably won't have a lot of trouble getting a business bank account with BoA. But unlike a more traditional small business, tech startups often come with a massive amount of money that they immediately want to put in the bank, which raises flags... which brings me to:

When a bank offers an account to a business, they take on anti-money-laundering and terrorist-funding risk. (That is, if one of their accounts is used for money laundering or funding terrorist activities, the bank is exposed legally to that.) That risk is higher for an unknown small company than a more known quantity. SVB specifically said "we're prepared to take on that risk"; the big banks... not so much.

SVB also has built extensive relationships with a bunch of VCs, and will generally accept one of those VC's vouching for a new small company as a signal in favor of it being legitimate. The BoA's of the world don't do that sort of thing.

(Source: a former colleague in the fintech space explained this to me.)
Layoffs are a consequence of business decisions by a specific corporate entity.

If someone died in a mining accident and their employer sent their partner a letter saying “It appears they’re no longer with us”, that would not be well-received (to say the least). Euphemisms are only appropriate in the right circumstances.
I wonder if we'll reach a point where AI can convincingly stand in for child actors.
All this C-suite nonsense is just a bunch of... nonsense, it needs to stop. Let me explain what I mean. After a quick google:

What is a Chief risk officer?

CROs report to the board and the CEO on various issues, including insurance, IT security, financial audits, internal audits, global business variables, fraud prevention, and other internal corporate matters.

That's all cost-center stuff, none of that has anything to do with the banking line of business. It doesn't need to be chief anything and it had nothing to do with the failure of SVB.

A bank's entire business and reason for existence is risk pooling and risk arbitrage, making money on the interest rate spreads between being on different sides of different products. The CEO of a bank cannot afford not to be qualified to be the head of banking risk. He should have quants working for him and reporting to him, but the buck stops with him.

Responsibility works best in a hierarchy, you're in charge of something, you report to somebody who is in charge of you and what you do, but at a minimum, the CEO needs to know the core business cold, and sideline delegate only things that are not of that nature. A bank needs that job description up above, but it's not C suite. Having a C-suite encourages egotism and distributes risk (not interest rate risk) in an un-responsible way, if you have a chief of something, why it must be taken care of, right? There's only room for one chief. In addition to that, COO, CFO, CMO have pretty standard meanings, but no reason they can't be called VP of Operations, Treasurer/Controller/VP of Finance, and VP of Marketing though.

And then, no need for a CEO, just have a President. (that corporations have a president is encoded in law, btw, but not CEO)
Same. They forced GitHub to quit resting on their laurels, at least.
Yes... and you think putting windmills and solar panels on their grazing land won't be an issue?

I'll ask again, how does this get them out of "poverty"????
No laughing here, thanks for sharing.
A lot of people are running Llama using the CPU/system memory.
Thanks for your perspective!

Regarding the overall energy story, do you think decarbonizing the economy should be a national priority, and if so, what is the proper approach to take?
If it's indistinguishable, then how does it matter who/what it was written by?
This is called hyperlinking. The entire web is built on this concept.
What do you think of "micro ORMs" like knex.js, or Dapper for C#? I personally agree with you and my personal projects just use stored procedures, but these micro orms have always piqued my interest since they're just a SQL abstraction for building single queries.
Good? I don't want my package manager messing with my cuda toolkit setup!
Greed communication predicts the approval and reach of US senators’ tweets
This is awesome!
It would be perfect if there an occasional artefact line crossing the entire page vertically could be added. You know, those lines caused by an old crusty ink jet print head. Also a visibly cast shadow by the allegedly scanned edge of the paper due to misalignment on the flat bed would add to the illusion.
How do you setup sshd with ansible? You need some form of access for initial provisioning, Ansible doesn't fix that either.

Sure, you can take that manually configured sshd and replace it with something managed by ansible _after_ the initial setup, but not before.
I feel like, if the government regulated the CRAs rather than the other way around, Equifax wouldn't exist or in any case have a license to collect credit data after what they did.
No, but it's a very sustainable fishery (and way tastier than tilapia IMO, the other popular land-based-farm fish)
We moved to the Irish countryside and hearing the dairy cows wailing for their calves that have just been taken away from them is an uexpected meat/dairy deterrent.
This should not come as a surprise to anyone following all kinds of dystopic salmon gymnastics the govt has been doing to get salmon to our sushi bars.[1][2]

[1] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/773/transcript
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9qA8c-E_oA
Here's one for half that... https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-M-2-X16-V2-Threadripper/dp/B07NQ...

This isn't an endorsement. Just an encouragement to shop more. This one says pci-e 3.0, fwiw, but I don't know how important pci-e 4.0 is to you?
For example, HSBC bought the UK arm of Silicon Valley Bank today for a pound.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64937251
You are very right there, how do we get the EU to start applying that to networking?

Here in AU, we almost have the model you propose (one govt-owned national last-mile network provider), but the services/devices layers are often bundled into the ISP.

In NZ there are multiple companies running network infra, but rules that they can't sell to consumers, they have to wholesale to ISPs. They have a much better network in NZ than AU though.
KYC is not a completely standardized process.

There are ways to go above and beyond the standard SSN/database-based approach that can mean the difference between a (compliant!) approval and a "sorry, but our identity provider says you do not exist”.

These are very likely more costly, both in implementation and day to day operation, so banks generally only do that if they are interested in that clientele.

The same goes for fraud prevention (“Sorry, we only accept customers with a Verizon/AT&T/T-Mobile postpaid plan, and if you ever dare to initiate a transfer from a foreign IP while traveling we will immediately close all of your accounts”).
What do you mean we can't talk about it? You're in one of numerous threads talking about it.

And I've seen plenty of people here argue in favor of child labor, so I don't know what you're worried about.
One common problem with "headphone producers" is that they often spend too much time "cleaning" audio tracks and worrying about audio leaks.

In older recordings those things were masked by other instruments, sometimes even by the room's reverb or analog noise floor, or sometimes engineers just wouldn't care about soloing tracks as much because they were on the clock and studios were expensive as heck.

Now we have everyone with super low-noise digital recording, great headphones and unlimited (home) studio time. So people spend hours obsessing about things that weren't an issue before.
What are specific problems you have with pip + requirements.txt, and why do you believe storing links to wheels is more reliable? Your comment makes your conclusion clear, but I don't follow your argument.
> Murdoch owns 2/3rds of all news media here. His headlines ensured the centre-right election victory in 2011 which was terrible for many reasons.

So then his headlines also ensured the centre-left election victory in 2022. Was that also terrible for many reasons?

> Have a guess who owns the cable TV networks.

Are you genuinely trying to make the claim that pay TV providers like Netflix and Disney Plus and friends don't work in Australia when they plainly do and have done for a long time? VDSL2 was always capable of it.

As conspiracy theories go I think your one needs some revising.
There are steps between do nothing and tell everyone to pull out all their money. It doesn't seem like they spent much effort exploring that middle ground.
It means when the CRO left, the bank would have had to immediately appoint someone else into the position. Which all banks should be prepared to do. That is basic succession planning.

What is especially ridiculous with SVB is the CEO made the CRO give up the position and remained employed there for several more months. This wasn’t a surprise. The CEO forced the resignation on the CEO’s schedule with no successor in the wings.
How does this affect plankton levels? Without predation we’d expect biomass to appear elsewhere, right?
> My worry from debating Chinese nationalists is that they think war is necessary, that it will go their way, and that it will end.

Is this bravado any different than what Europeans and Americans regularly do? Look at the imperialism and colonizing. Why can’t the west leave the world alone? Of course Taiwan and Ukraine are serious circumstances but so are Yemen, Congo, Palestine, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Venezuela, Cuba, Falkan Islands, and the hundreds of coups perpetrated. When the west does stuff, the world stays out of the way. When any one else does anything, all of a sudden it’s about them being unreasonable compared to us. The major exceptions to this have been how the world treats Slavs. They’re slowly getting closer to being part of the west but the treatment vs the hegemonic powers is different.

> They also ignore the consequences like cutting off trade with most of the world.

This is primarily the five eyes, EU, and allies? This generally is what we consider white people and the consequences of colonialism and imperialism. The west is only like a billion people and change. Maybe 1.25B.

> attacking US mainland

That would never happen. Why not be worried the US will invade mainland China?
It’s rare I’d say this, but good for Facebook.
Get in line, I guess.