skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to protest the existence of Steam DRM by not ever using Steam that's certainly your prerogative, but it is worth noting that the DRM offered by Steam is entirely optional for the developers. Many games on Steam contain no DRM whatsoever and Steam is essentially just another way to download them.
https://www.svb.com/landing-pages/venture-debt
I definitely like to like Framework, but more for experimentation and fun - something I can have that is OK not to be reliable. I might, in-fact, get one just for keepsake but in all honesty, who is the target audience for Framework?
> Would anyone use a bank if it didn't enable certain types of transactions (credit cards, wires, ACH) and didn't include any sort of risk reduction?

That is what I always believed hedge funds are.

It might matter that (in my country) I will likely never have enough money to get net profit from my saving account (interests minus price of services), but if I were aiming for that I would invest, not deposit
Or phrased a little less bluntly: Be a professional and do the best job you can within the constraints.

I mean if I hire a painter and say paint my house like a candy cane - they may think wow that will drop house price by half but will probably go buy a bunch of red and white paint and get started.
Hardly "basic", natural assumption after knowing what say

date > file

does is assuming "there needs to be data source on left side, and target file on the right side

Similiar with

wc < file

"There needs to be receiver program on the left side, and file on the right"

The assumption from seeing it is "program on left, data on right"

< file wc

breaks that assumption completely.

Honestly I don't think that in 15+ years I ever saw that in the wild in any shell script
Microsoft Strung Together Tens of Thousands of Nvidia A100s for OpenAI
The magnetic field of a coil depends on the current, and the number of turns. If you have a sufficiently thin superconductor, and keep below the critical current density, you can ramp up the number of turns until you reach the physical space limitations.

When you're working with a copper conductor, the thinner the wire, the higher the resistance, and you trade off turns for conductance (1/resistance).

Thus, a superconductor offers the ability to put many more turns, or much higher current, into a given volume.

You're limited with steel cores as to the maximum magnetic flux, but you could get the same flux with much lower power levels using superconducting coils. Alternatively, you could redesign your motor or actuator to be a coreless design, and you can then use much, much higher magnetic fields (up to the critical field of the superconductor).
> When you put money in the bank, you don't think of it as "making a bet."

Up to the limits of your insurance, you're not. (Well, even then you technically are, but it's as close to a sure thing as you'll get). Beyond that, though, you are, always have been, and always will be. There is no risk-free place to park a bunch of money. Not even under your mattress. That's why you always need to be thinking about risk mitigation. Not just with money, by the way, but with everything your business does.

If you're beyond the $250k, you should be fully aware that you're making a bet. There's literally signs inside of every bank telling you that.
That's kind of surprising they cared so much about memory use, a lot of one-shot C programs such as compilers don't bother freeing memory and let the OS clean up after them once they exit.
So people rather than banks would now be sitting on hundereds of billions of losses. Instead of depressing bank profits those losses would be depressing consumption or home purchases.
Examples

"Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23290536

"Ask HN: Idea Sunday" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693262

and a couple "what would you pay $X for" threads https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ask+what+would+you+pay
> They are homosexuals who are members of a homophobe group

not a homogenous homophobe group thou.

maybe time for some soul searching/brand adjustment based on facts
SVE and SVE2 are similar to Intel's AVX512-etc for vector, I would use intrinsics instead of hand crafting ASM code, unless it's a performance bottleneck.

And yes if you want to play with SVE, Amazon's own ARM chip is the best one available now, maybe the only one in fact, for the general public.
Dilbert.com has been taken offline
This may be untrue or old news, but perhaps it's of interest.
I think it is better having a separate machine for personal and professional purposes. Even if you have a plan on working in the cloud and not locally on the machine, you could always slip up.

This is to make it easier for both you and the university.
CS program, but depends on the classes you take. For me, the main class was called "computer architecture". Classes about compilers, databases, servers, embedded programming, server clustering can all help to understand the machine.

Of course, it can be learned on your own too. But generally this path is harder because it's hard to know what to study. The CS program will expose you to breadth of concepts.
As I said. They got bailed out.
Does the share price of this bank have any particular impact on its ability to operate as a bank for current depositors?
The short story is that I was becoming quite depressed about my job prospects after running my own web development company for more than 20 years, then starting a startup with a small amount of money and seeing it fail. I was interviewing for a lot of boring and fairly awful positions when I asked myself what I really wanted, and that was to work in games! (I've been playing them since we got an Atari VCS the year it came out. My mom worked for the chip company.)

I started applying to game studios for positions that used my web, API, and data skills. I've worked with JS, TS, JSON, SQL, and NOSQL for years and it turns out all games need some of that stuff. Any game that has inventory, an economy, or real users will need some kind of dashboard and platform tools to bring together that data and let the team manage it. Also, they need a public-facing website. So that's what I do in my current position, build and maintain both of those things for a AAA mobile game.

My favorite thing about being in the "plumbing" department, so to speak, is that I'm allowed to do my technical work in the way that I think it best. Having fewer people in the company involved in those languages and tech gives me more freedom and more of an architecture role and I think our products are better for it. I also love being on the inside and seeing how sausage is made. Games are a fascinating industry and in many ways different from business software and that's been fun to learn about.
> 1) Google Cloud dropped us an email 10 days back that I missed out

You missed a KYC e-mail and they locked your account. If you miss a "Important information about your bank account", what do you think your bank is going to do?
Here are some others - Zenith, and Motorola too - both exist in some form, but are shadows of their former selves. Also, notably - Western Electric.

Zenith was quite successful, and was making TV sets in the US until the early 90's - but eventually the lower cost of overseas manufacturing caught up with them.

Motorola and Western are the saddest though, Motorola made everything, soup to nuts used in their products, and then bit by bit sold off the bits util they were left with two way radios (Motorola Solutions is the survivor of the original Motorola Inc). Western never really figured out divestiture, there are bits of pieces of it left, if anything Avaya is the closest to a spiritual successor to it (part numbering styles and engineering style).
Everyone here seems totally lost on the physics connection. Suppose you have a box of atoms, each atom can be in one of two states, a low energy E1 and a high energy E2. If the box has a temperature T, then the probability that any atom is in state E1 is e^(-E1/kT) / [ e^(-E1/kT) + e^(-E2/kT) ], and similar for E2. As you lower the temperature most of the atoms gravitate towards the lower energy state E1, and as you raise the temperature they gravitate towards a 50/50 mix of E1 and E2.
I don't think those are the only two options though. b) The rich now have less billions but still billions and everyone else now has to budget even harder.
I've done large colo deployments. When you're provisioning your own hardware it's cloud-init, ansible, K8s, whatever. Nothing even knows you're in colos operated by different providers in different regions. Nothing knows or cares you're using five different upstream internet providers (whether your own - complicated or IP blends from the colo).

Have a falling out or big issue? No reputable colo provider is going to hold your hardware hostage (it's the physical world and legal and reputational issues heat up quickly). They'll be happy to ship it out (get rid of you) to another provider, who will be even happier to re-rack. Meanwhile if your architecture is even remotely well designed (load balancer, multiple facilities) you're never down and it's not even that much of a "fire drill". With the capabilities of modern hardware this is often a single 1U redundant HW machine.

All of this, by the way, is a fraction of the cost of cloud solution (a $25k bonkers 1U is ~$700 a month with a three year lease and 1U hosting + bandwidth + power is ~$200 a month). So for $2k a month (and it's actually predictable) you're up in two facilities and have capabilities an order of magnitude greater than a big cloud at equivalent spend.

Companies screaming on twitter and profusely apologizing to their customers due to the most recent "name a cloud" outage demonstrate that multi-cloud (and even multi-region) is extremely difficult if not impossible to do in practice.
There's always the in-between. It's not a manage your own physical server or nothing scenario.
As much as I love Hetzner and can recommend their legal department, they are very risk averse especially with new customers and might not even let you open an account.

Any sort of weirdness from your server will also result in a very harsh email and a threat to suspend your services in way less than 10 days. I had the pleasure to experience their grumpy network admins when IPFS decided that node discovery included dialing 900+ RFC1918 IPs.
Someone spills a cup of coffee on the server?

Are people spilling coffee on your servers at work?
Plenty of companies to that, have rented bare metal, have owned bare metal, etc. It's just not a very visible practice and not backed by armies of marketers.
Sure, but NeXT was basically dead by that time and there wasn't any way they could develop a modern (at the time) game on it (say Quake III). And even though they ran the level editor, I doubt whatever the top of the line NeXT machine was at the time could even run Quake 1 at a decent framerate.
I think you are on to something, but I would phrase it a little differently. Trade policy has clearly been designed to allow large multi-nationals to take advantage of lack of regulation in developing countries - little to no labor, environmental or other restrictions. (You know, the things that generally make western life bearable.) It was clear what the result of this would be: A lot of money being made off the decline of the West. I view it similarly to the way a C-Suite can bleed all the investment out of a successful company, making money hand over fist while they drive it into the ground. (G.E. & Sears come to mind.) Turns out you can do the same things with a country, or even a group of countries. A huge amount of wealth has been transferred to powerful individuals by extracting the decades of investment that built the world-leading economies of the West.
Mostly by migrating to other countries.
The question asked is why socialized losses need to be accepted, not posit a new financial system. The current system requires socialized handling of losses.

If that were what was asked - then yes the answer is crypto. No central bank needed (or desired). It is a working alternative that has survived for over a decade. It is not perfect but there is a ton to learn from there.
The issue now with SVB is that they have asset reserves. The banks don't actually have that much cash in reserve and aren't required to either, especially given interest rate increases. It's just a certain amount of assets.
I still have Reader bookmarked next to Gmail as a reminder.
I often go to https://www.indiehackers.com/products. Sometimes I feel inspired by new projects. Note that it’s just a way to find ideas, not one to know if this idea will work or not :)
okay I'm curious - what are dirty systems programming skills, professor?
If your servers were suspended, how is your website functional?

https://console.onvoard.com/register/
Not so true. Not all remote hands are made equal. Some are there just for simple repairs / maintenance tasks. Don't be surprised that it may need a lot more hand holding.

Experienced it all first hand.
Why does packer somehow suck even more than what came before it? If I put my config on a new computer as you mentioned you need to "kick" it as in running :PackerInstall like ten times... Thanks for letting me know something that sucks less exists
Cosign on the Next Level
>If two people have knives to each others throats you don't win by just not being the first to cut, you win by putting the knives down.

Strictly speaking there are 4 outcomes, according to John Nash.
The cooperate outcome is globally the best, but the 2 defect outcomes are much better for the individual winner. The 4th outcome, 'they fought and badly wounded each other, but both lived', is what's going on here, and the FDIC medics are coming in. This helps now but has the perverse effect of increasing the chances of defect behavior in the future, IMHO.

The angle I want to know more about is Peter Thiel. He's already demonstrated the willingness and ability to execute complex plans to destroy enemies (e.g. Gawker). He likes Trump, so not a fan of self-restraint or basic morality. Is it possible that Thiel has a bone to pick with SVB? Or maybe it's bigger, and Thiel, who famously hates competition, saw a way to hurt ALL startups, including some that might one day threaten him and his businesses. It's the old story about the orphan who makes it, recognizes the positive influence the orphanage had on his success, and then burns the orphanage down to ensure no others get its benefits and challenge his power.
I'm on NixOS, where you have to explicitly state dependencies (which is a good thing, except when... this happens)

Besides make (which I can quickly set up a project environment to make available for), what other deps do you think it uses but doesn't declare or state? ;)
Beyond a certain point money can't buy happiness, but it can buy you time.
Credit unions failed all over the US in the late 1980s. In general it was badly managed loans, but there were cases of self-dealing. The then governor of Maryland, Harry Hughes, was doomed when it came out that he had a year or two earlier received a report predicting exactly what then happened, but had taken no steps to prevent the crisis. He lost in the Democratic primary.
I find the author's stance of "let's move to the competition" hilarious for this reason.

I was trying some VPN services at the time, and logged in to an AWS account with the VPN turned on, after which AWS suspended resources in the account. This took a two days to review and fix, though the only saving grace was that I did not have a paid offering running there.

When pressed as to why they'd flag my account, they'd would evade the question as to why my account was suspended, though I'm pretty sure it's the VPN. (And before you ask, no, my account was not compromised, as I had to review 90 days' Cloudtrail logs before AWS would budge on the issue).
One point is that hsbc might not be acquiring all of the liabilities – they might mostly get customer deposits but not eg some unsecured loan or bond issue. Regulators could be ok with such an outcome because a bunch of businesses losing bank deposits may be seen as worse than a single company defaulting on its debt.

Another is that SVB UK could be solvent so long as they don’t have to sell assets at a loss. Being part of hsbc stops the assets needing to be sold at a loss. And a separate thing is that even if the assets net liabilities are negative, the customer relationships could be valuable enough to hsbc to counteract that. Hsbc get a load of growing companies whom they can try sell banking services to. That assumes customers don’t all flee, but I don’t think they would because there isn’t a particular reason to fear hsbc in the way there was for SVB.

I don’t know what the commenter meant about JPM printing money.
Supposedly targeting the electricity network was also more about taking out AA and disrupting electric train logistics.

It parallels the way that NATO took out Serbia's power grid in 1999 before executing their bombing campaign, probably for similar reasons (AA): https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans...

If the above thesis is correct and these strikes are about degrading AA, the measure of success is whether the russian airforce starts actually taking a role on the front line (recently it hasn't been much used).
As an amateur vim user, may I ask what is the alternative to using file trees or tabs?
I think people also often figure out exactly what they think mid-sentence, by way of actually putting it into words. LLMs can iterate on their ideas as they generate the text.
Combining text-wrap: balance with non-breaking spaces and word-joiners seems to be a good way to go. Also &shy; is good to know.
I sometimes really hate how text wraps in browsers. It really limits beautiful designs. What is the current state...are there javascript libraries that could layout text? Or are the primitives not exposed enough to control the spacing and line breaks?

Every time I use tex I just marvel how well it typesets text and fight with floating figures :)
One could say that the one from this submission is Tiny-C Compiler and Bellard's is Tiny C-Compiler.
It's all about expectations bound to your scale. I worked at a place that spend 7 digits with AWS a year. We missed invoices a lot, mostly because the person who could sign them off was a single point of failure. We never got suspended though, just confused emails from our account manager.
> It's one thing to have features in a language as add-ons and actually having them integrated into the core. The whole optional CL feature & naming debacle shows that there are serious disconnects between developers and the leaders.

Not really sure what you mean. These are not "add-ons" any more than standard libraries are add-ons to other languages. They are fully integrated into core of Emacs, and has been that way for decades already. The naming situation might imply otherwise, but "cl-" namespace is by no means a second class citizen and I think there are practical value in keeping that naming scheme. In any case they are pervasively used both internally and in the community.
I work in gcp as account manager for enterprise, you won’t believe I chase deal for as low as 2k per month, tough time, every dollar counts
Show HN: Web0.cc – Generate clutter, ad and tracker free article pages to share
I recently observed that majority of my family members and friends are not using ad blockers and reader mode
for reasons suck as lack of knowledge about plugins & laziness.

So their online reading experience is not pleasant as a result very less amount of them read anything
including what i share.

Its an attempt to give them clutter, tracker & ad free reading experience right off the bat.
Sadly with "microservices" and "microfrontends" and what not, it does become a CPU/memory expenditure.

Every split service has overhead and requires some minimal allocation to start its own server, own database etc.
Just give us the option to pay. Some might call it an insurance premium.

(And yes my satire detector is triggered, though one can never be sure)
I think it should be DRM free (at least I haven't opted in anywhere for it on the Steam Backend). I might consider to upload it to itch.io as well when I find some time.

I also thought about if I should offer it as Download on my website, but I don't know if anyone on PC nowadays still would install games via an unknown website :-)
This is an area where MacOS, preview and quicktime shine. Except for converting pdf to word, most everything you might need is included. Especially, merging and unmerging pdf files. I never understood why MS doesn't provide similar tools.

On windows, these functions aren't included and for whatever reason, searching the web for tools leads to shady websites and downloads.
>I would be happy to socialize that upside for higher limits on deposit protection.

Glad we agree then, that's pretty much all I'm looking for.
Honestly, there is nothing made by Sun that approaches, even remotely, the performance of a cheap modern laptop. As a Java/Python dev, using one is like typing with one hand tied behind your back.

That said, if you want the retro-computing vibe, for me the peak of Sun's industrial design was the SPARCstation 1/1+ pizza box, with matching style mono CRT, and the matching external SCSI DAT drive, CD drive, and extension hard drive. To me, they're superior industrial design to any of the Apple machines, and are as iconic as the NeXT cube.

From a technology point of view, the sun4d machines (a SPARCserver 1000 is the more practical) are awesome. Load the SS1000 up with 4 CPU cards (8 CPUs), and enjoy what was some of the best performance of its era. But beware, they need a lot of watts and weigh a ton.
I guess the solution is to try to take some of the law's protecting child actors and apply them to influencers? https://www.wrapbook.com/blog/child-actor-labor-laws

I think it is hard, because influences are in random jurisdictions and just arise without much structure. Maybe it can be controlled at the platform level, like YouTube and TikTok as they are the ones funnel money to these influencers? It would require some creativity and a lot of desire.
There's a major element missing from these discussions, and I'm stunned I don't see it in the comments either. And that is,

...what happens when things go wrong?

One of the major advantages of cloud, be it AWS, Azure, GCP, etc, is the ability to bridge across failure domains. Properly architected, a workload can be resilient in the face of data center outages and circuit breaks.

To me, these savings from operating in a single colo are living on borrowed time. Because they're one data center fire or cable break away from failure. Can the workload survive a sudden outage for hours? A day? Will it survive a loss of the data center and implementation of the business continuity plan? (There is a plan, right?)

Every organization is different of course, and not everyone needs active-active failover, or 4-nines of availability, etc. But when figures of $400m start getting thrown around, I can't imagine it's in a state where "oh, we'll just rebuild it elsewhere" is the plan.

Show me where they achieve these savings and still have a viable DR/COOP, and I'll be impressed.

Disclaimer: I'm a TAM for AWS
After 2008 collapse and now this, what has government done to prevent this? Bailing out needs to be done to protect the depositors everyone sympathizes with small businesses. However, what safe guards were put in place or are being put in place for this to not happen again?

I guess none.
Just had this discussion with my wife yesterday. Plumber sounds fine as well.
I appreciate the fact that I have time and everything to spend two whole days doing that but some others out there are on a clock
First Republic tumbles as fresh financing fails to soothe deposit outflow fears
I use tcc for all of my small C "scripts" for doing ioctls, etc. Less bloat, suckless. I imagine most software would be better off using tcc than gcc/clang. Performance isn't that important in most cases.
I'm not actually sure to be honest. It didn't seem clear to me anyway.