skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > There is literally no good case for JavaScript.

> It's one thing to say that Javascript is massively over-relied on (I might even agree) but this is not anywhere close to a serious, well-considered argument.

Perhaps if you quoted past the first sentence you'd find the serious, well-considered argument you're looking for.

> I'm not interested in engaging further because extremist positions like this indicate that the speaker is not interested in meaningful debate.

Quoting a sentence out of context, calling it extremist, and then exiting without responding to any of the substance of my post makes it look awfully like you aren't interested in whatever you think "meaningful debate" means.

The extremist position is that visiting a website implies consent to the website running arbitrary code on my hardware. The only reason this has become accepted is that it's profitable to powerful people.
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This is not necessarily true, there are over 7000 federally insured credit unions in the USA.

Credit unions are required to maintain coverage for all deposit liabilities.

So it can’t be undone by a bank run, but potentially could be undone by theft if uninsured.
In European countries there are laws that a government take over your car, home, or horse if the military needs it urgently. I learnt about this at schools years ago and I don't know if USA has such laws, but pretty sure such laws were extended to laptops and solar panels. I think this is either NATO or EU regulation. It would be unwise to oppose a military at such times having such powerful tools.
There are many operations withing these industries that are not necessarily dangerous let alone difficult. I guess when you hear of construction or meat-packing you think about 15 years old kids hanging from a harness 50 ft high or butchering a cow. This is ridiculous, there are many roles that would be completely appropriate for a teenager in virtually any industry and we have agencies that could make sure kids are working in safe environments and conditions.
... and tonight, I put out my post about (among other things): Reverse Imposter Syndrome!

Regular "imposter syndrome" is people who find themselves in elite company, and "suffer" from the nagging feeling that they're not good enough.

Reverse Imposter Syndrome is when you think you're good enough to be at an elite institution, but you're really not. cf. Google, Apple, Meta.
Do you know if there's there a good reason to favor 3.11 over 3.10 for this use case?
Three thoughts:

First, elites feel like losers because they define themselves as elite. "Elite" is a comparative description - better than almost everyone else. But that's a game where you can't win; you can only lose. If you're in the top 10%, you know someone who's in the top 1%. If you're in the top 1%, you know someone who's in the top 0.1%. If you're in the top 0.1%, you know someone who's in the top 1000 worldwide. And even if you're in the top 1000, you still lose as you compare yourself to others: "He's better at law. She's better at mathematics. He's got better connections." If you define your worth by comparison to others, all you can do is lose, because there's always someone to whom you lose.

Second, it's both a rigged game and a stupid one. The elites have created a game of competing to see who's elite. And they wrote the rules, and they wrote the rules so that they win. That means that you get to lose. But it's a stupid game anyway. Take social status, for instance. If you crack into the 400 who rule New York society, then you get to attend a bunch of social events so you can feel like an insider. That's great, I guess, but... if you don't accept the premise of the game, then it becomes very difficult to explain why you should care about playing. It's like Santa Claus. Once you don't believe, people have a really hard time convincing you that you should believe.

And third, part of this may be because many people think they're elite when they're not. They've been given participation trophies, and told that they're special, but in terms of elite competition, they're not. Then they get out of college and run into real elites with 30 years of experience.
They have also been marked down already, that is what the big unrealised losses are about.

I am not 100% sure what the accounting rules for htm vs afs are anymore. I believe htm allows you to amortize losses over the term of the loan (which is, of course, still as controversial as it was in 2008). But SVB has already taken fairly substantial markdowns already on securities that were transferred into htm after they dropped significantly.

And the purpose of receivership is to preserve value for depositors. So the problem is that the losses have absorbed the firm's capital, not that other sources of funding have taken losses. A book of MBS is not going to be trading at a 30% discount to the mark a few weeks ago when their financial period ended. All of this stuff is liquid, unless their corporate lending was awful (unlikely) then there won't be a massive discount.

Btw, this did happen last year in the UK. The BoE essentially left the market to sort out problems caused by higher rates/falling bond prices, and hedge funds absolutely rinsed pension funds. Some made hundreds of millions in a few hours. This won't happen in this case because FDIC has stepped in and is running a proper auction.
Indeed. And if Starlink is used in guidance for offensive drone operations, Russia is going to view those satellites as legitimate military targets. I’m not convinced the people criticizing SpaceX’s decision to not do that (for free) have thought this all the way through.
I thought LLaMA outscored GPT-3
Except no one thought the deposits were actually uninsured.

Back in 2008, the FDIC launched the Transaction Account Guarantee Program to provide unlimited insurance to uninsured deposits in non-interest bearing accounts, and then later expanded to low interest accounts, on an emergency basis.

This program protected nearly a trillion dollars in uninsured deposits, and made all of them whole.

After Dodd-Frank, the program was ended. However, if the FDIC deems a situation to have systemic risks, it's within their statutory authority to do this again. And it now seems the Government is planning to do exactly that, should they be unable to find a buyer for SVB.
If you're chucking away POSIX sh just go all the way and use Perl.
But these economic changes aren't being propounded by a majority of the people. They're coming from people who currently have an electoral majority, which is not at all the same thing. The latter can be engineered by tailoring the borders of voting districts.

Go read The Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquite and Alastair Smith, which explains how it's practical to rule a polity with a curated selection of supporters.
Old people use old software, new software are for kids.

In that way the kids never knew it could be better, and when it became better, they can sell it once more or higher price in a separate service.
And what I’m saying is that managers knew this and paid themselves with funds that could have went to depositors. Depositors have the same right to be made whole as any other victim of a crime.

The government has fdic and insures up to $250k. That’s what our taxes paid for. If we wanted to insure depositors for greater amounts, we would have paid more taxes.

This was an eyes wide open situation. Depositors could have managed their large sums of cash better. They didn’t, choosing to save money. Now it sucks.

Another analogy would be that if a couple skipped life insurance and leased a Porsche. And now the wage earner has been murdered and the remaining spouse is asking the government to pay for their dead spouses wages, while still driving the Porsche.
As with the other person, I understand that's a thing you're imagining. I'm just not seeing much evidence for it. It is a possibility? Sure. But not one I see as a major risk. And from what financial regulators are saying, I don't think they see it that way either.
FDIC insurance just means that, if a bank fails, the government will make depositors whole up to a certain amount--printing the money to do so if necessary. NCUA provides exactly the same guarantee to credit union depositors. I see no reason to be any less confident in the NCUA guarantee than the FDIC guarantee; ultimately both are subject to the same risk, that the government will not be politically capable of either raising or printing enough money to make depositors whole in the event of a major financial crash.
I was born and raised in eastern europe before having access to internet. US is much more business oriented thinking by default than eastern-europe (where education comes first), although young people nowdays have global access to a lot more information.
I desperately would prefer the newest generation devote their time to becoming fully educated citizens that will shepherd society forward as I retire. I do not want the newest generation having entering adult undereducated and already disabled/injured from factory work as a child.
Reminds me a lot to a video in the "Low Level Learning" youtube channel. It went through the same path of getting the ref from the chromiumOS site and coding up to a "hello world".

Oddly similar.
What can this do that iTerm2 can't?
There are not really any benign jobs on a construction site. Pretty much everything you listed there requires ladder work, which in theory at a corporate level, you need to do safety training on.
Cathie Wood would play the chief risk officer.
You do realize it's physically impossible for everyone to live so close to the office?
When I pay for one artist’s output, there likely were nine others who tried and failed in a similar style.

It’s like how drug companies have to try nine different drugs (actually many more) before the stars align around one which is safe and effective. For the business model to work, someone has to pay for those other nine.

In pharma, it is the patients (through high prices on successful drugs). In creative industries, it is the failed artists who put in a huge amount of work with essentially no compensation. It was totally their choice, but I can understand the frustration.

I do wonder about the moral culpability of art schools, though…
I like what Plausible is doing, and they definitely know how to make content marketing work, but I'm going to be honest - the pricing model they're using is a bit out of this world. On top of everything else you have to pay (subscribe for) on the web these days, paying $500 a year for 500k monthly pageviews is insane!

Now, obviously, my opinion doesn't hold a lot of weight by itself because it seems that they're quite profitable, but I will never understand that kind of pricing for something so basic.
These are more benefits than perks.

Still, total compensation is way lower for most government jobs.
The corp in question: Begins with V and ends with z and likes to screw customers.

Typo? Maybe ends with n?
The National Credit Union Administration is a US government agency that regulates and supervises credit unions. They also operate and manage the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund (NCUSIF), which provides share insurance coverage for credit union members against losses should the credit union fail. The NCUSIF provides all members of federally insured credit unions with $250,000 in coverage for their single ownership accounts.

So pretty much the same coverage, just a different agency.
Not an FDIC auction, but if you’re interested in what this sort of bidding looks like the book Barbarians at the Gate details the LBO auction of RJR Nabisco. That auction was a lot of bankers squired away in conference rooms on separate floors of an office building while the auctioneers walked bids between the various groups.
Less Than 1% of Earth Has Safe Levels of Air Pollution, Study Finds
https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/fai...

American national had its deposits transferred. The dividend payments were to other creditors.
I'm not sure what the state of terminals is on other platforms, but on macOS iTerm2 is excellent - having every feature under the sun and very good performance. If performance is a bottleneck then Alacritty is even faster, but I've never felt performance limited in iTerm.

This makes me skeptical about new non-native terminals. Usually the pitch is faster development so more features, but iTerm2 already being feature complete makes this unnecessary, and this isn't exactly a fast moving ecosystem. UX also isn't something that can really be competed on for a terminal app as the UX is typically dictated by the shell, tool, tmux, etc. By being non-native they also lose a significant performance advantage, even if some parts are ported to native code.

So while I think Electron makes sense for a lot of apps, I'm not convinced that it's got "product-market fit" for terminals.
There are aftermarket photography apps. Has anybody tried taking their Samsung S23 and photographing the moon /w one of those? I wonder if the "AI assistant" is limited to Samsung's own bundled camera app, or if it's always on & modifies pictures taken via other apps.
Fucking single if statements are called AI these days. That's not a strong argument. :)
Businesses owned by rich people.

I don’t think we should punish the rich for being rich. But we should reward the rich for being stupid (ie, not managing cash risk).

These companies with cash flow issues have rich investors. YC and other VCs. They have ways to deal with this loss in the private sector. Or they can go out of business.
And so we have reached the point of discussing makers on Etsy and people with OF accounts in an article about elites.
The fixed-width microcode instructions with 5-bit register fields is very reminiscent of a classic RISC. It looks like the concept of breaking down instructions into RISC-like uops into was there since the beginning, but Intel only started marketing it that way with the Pentium.

It's worth noting that, had the mapping from segment registers to internal register numbers included i5, it would've been possible to access several of the other internal registers with undocumented instructions.
> mark to market value of their assets should be greater than liabilities which makes them solvent. SVB was insolvent

SVB wasn’t insolvent if they held their assets to maturity though. The issue was that the market to market vale was significantly lower than the hold to maturity value.

The difference was still a liquidity issue. It was magnified by the fact that the market value of their assets was dropping precipitously.
It is shockingly easy for a company to mitigate the bank failure risk.

1. Open account at Fidelity
2. Purchase brokered CDs in denominations <$250K in a ladder matching your cash flow needs (you have a cash flow spreadsheet, don't you?)

https://www.fidelity.com/fixed-income-bonds/cds

It's not like the risk of banks was a secret. Click on the "Risks" tab at the link above -- it's near the top of the list.

This strategy works for raises of up to several million dollars. If you've raised more than that, spend a bit of money on someone to help you set up a treasury ladder, which scales to any size of raise.
>Miura 1 is a suborbital launch vehicle

Next.
Why should it matter whether it's deposits or equity or bonds? The instrument is irrelevant to the logic - if I have to back it on the downside then I want a piece of the upside too.
> Y Combinator calls on Congress to socialize their loses
No, the question is why government is trying to make children to work instead of having company to pay for labour they require to run the business.
It's likely the result of genetic, epigenetic, cultural, economic, and food system factors combined.

As for how it went from 10% to 60% (your numbers, idk if they're right) one piece of the puzzle is that in 1998 the definition of obesity was changed, which made MANY more people fall into the obese category who did not previously: http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9806/17/weight.guidelines/
Oh no, our private VC firm is screwed by a private bank going under, time to get tax payers to help fund risky ventures in one of the worlds most expensive cities to foot the bill so our equity is stable! How else with other startups be able to access improved mail campaign APIs or ACID-compliant IAAS tooling?! The public need us!
According to a comment on Reddit this only happens when "Scene Optimizer" is active in the camera. I don't know if this is the default, it probably is nowadays, but my phone camera's equivalent is labeled AI.

I think the public needs to be educated that modern AI basically means to make up new data based on a statistical model from training data, i.e. fake.
This comment is amusingly self-referential. (As is this one, I guess.)
Defense production act was invoked for several covid things. Total war is not necessary.
I agree with the part that diet is way more important than walking and exercise, in the short term. But not exercising can lead to obesity long term. Here are some other things that can cause obesity / type 2 diabetes aside from dietary choices:

- Microbiome (eg due to bad microbiome passed on at birth): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27255389/

- Sitting the whole day

- Circadian rhythm disturbance, eg through shift work

- Gestational diabetes increases infant‘s T2D risk later in life

- Hypothyroidism

- Hypogonadism / low Testosterone

- Chronic inflammation, eg via inflamed root canals or chronic infections. People can have eg low grade E. coli overgrowth without knowing.

- Low gut barrier function due to drugs or inflammation

- many many more
>Depositors shouldn’t get anything beyond the insured $250,000

My understanding of what I’ve seen people mention is that depositors shouldn’t get more than the insured 250k from the FDIC insurance fund, not that bank assets shouldn’t be used to make depositors whole.

This sentiment doesn’t come out of nowhere. There have been a few panicked and very angry VCs on social media effectively calling for an immediate and retroactive increase in the limit for FDIC-insured funds.

Essentially there are some folks that want the government to step in to make depositors whole will leaving bank assets to be divvied up to make investors whole.

Some folks see this crisis and immediately jump to “how can I take maximum personal advantage?” It is those people that are creating confusion and pushback wrt the FDIC’s involvement here.
Unless you have a link for these depositor bonds, I'll remain skeptical since they weren't mentioned in your previous link, google produces nothing obvious and DIF isn't at all what you'd claimed.
And those employees would be statistically better off working for one of the public BigTech companies that give salaries + RSUs.

I can trade my RSUs for real cash every six months after they are deposited in my account. I know the potential value of my next RSU grant every 15 minutes as it is updated on my Google Sheets.

The VCs make a return by diversifying their bets. But as an employee for a startup, you are not well diversified.

On a related note, Warren Buffett made a bet with hedge funds that he could have better returns just by investing money in an index fund over 10 years - he won
Janet Yellen during Obama's second term didn't want to raise interest rates to protect Democrats. However, she wanted to raise interest rates during Trump. That's why Trump didn't renominate her. Why blame Powell here? Blame Janet Yellen, when she should have started raising rates under Obama.
The problem is that continuing to bail out depositors means that they'll never do due diligence on their banks and therefore bank executives will keep trying risky strategies that increase their bonuses.
The business model that Shoshana Zuboff termed surveillance capitalism did not just ruin the internet but undermined the future of the entire tech industry.

Tech is far, far more than social or search. Most of it requires significant levels of trust between tech provider and tech consumer. It also requires that the tech consumer pays and therefore has some influence over the service, in a virtuous circle of demand and supply.

Despite absurd claims that people just want "free stuff", people pay through their noses for 1) hardware, 2) software and 3) bandwidth - the entire stack that makes the internet (and therefore search and social) possible.

The idea that they don't want to pay specifically for these "last mile" trinkets of search or social (that in reality have no option but to pay with private data) does not stand scrutiny.

The adtech gambit was so lucrative and it managed to buy so many consciences that people have normalized it. Yet it is a disastrous model that does not scale to deliver the promise that we all feel is within reach.

The simple fact is that for tech to flourish somebody must pull the plug on surveillance capitalism. The sooner the better.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshana_Zuboff
I don’t think you can make that argument. Buying longed dated bonds is done in the pursuit of profit. Nothing stopped SVB from buying shorted dated bills with less interest rate risk instead.
Yes, SVB Securities is a separate entity from SVB, the bank. See this press release from PRNewswire: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/svb-securities-cont...

SVB Securities LLC recently - at the beginning of last month - changed its name from SVB Leerink LLC to SVB Securities LLC: https://www.svb.com/de/news/company-news/svb-leerink-llc-ann...

The Wikipedia page states that SVB Securities' leadership plans to buy back the company from its parent org, SVB (the bank): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVB_Securities

It's sloppy reporting in this article that the reporter mixes up SVB, the bank, with SVB Securities; Joe Gentile is the CAO (Chief Administrative Officer) of SVB Securities / Leerink:
- https://www.svbsecurities.com/team/joseph-gentile/
- https://news.yahoo.com/silicon-valley-bank-exec-lehman-00055...

Note that 'Yahoo! News' - f/k/a the Verizon Media Group - was bought by Apollo Capital Management a few years ago, so perhaps Apollo is short SVB and that's why 'Yahoo! News' is amplifying this narrative about the CAO having worked at Lehman until 2007; recall that Lehman imploding in 2008 is largely seen as one of the catalysts for the 2008 Global Financial Crisis.
It's even more complicated as there's an additional near-identical character in Unicode. Copied from Wikipedia:

- is a hyphen-minus (ASCII 2D, Unicode 002D), normally used as a hyphen, or in math expressions as a minus sign
– is an en dash (Unicode 2013).
— is an em dash (Unicode 2014).
− is a minus (Unicode 2212).
You're in spirit asking for a state bank, not modified private banks. Thats the only way you would get the 'result' you're looking for.

Many private banks with unlimited deposit insurance would simply play more fast and loose with your money because there's basically no risk. Why wouldn't you choose the bank that offers more % return on your money? You're totally insured.

The state insuring all deposits would effectively make it a giant bank (and it would eventually consume them all, on top of now having the power incentive to destroy them). If you're not aware of the flaws of state banks, look into China's banks if you're curious. 'Tofu Dreg' projects would be a good place to start. I think its obvious why we wouldn't want someone like Pelosi to be in charge of a state bank.
“Healthy enough for general use” and “healthy enough for your particular use” are…not necessarily the same.
Thanks. I am reading the code now.
I cannot fathom why one time micro payments are not at least commonly found. I would have no problem paying my a newspaper or magazine say 20-50 cents for 24 hours of access. Id probably end up spending >€30 a month across several publications (if it could be done in one click). But monthly? Recurring subscription? No and no.

So I pay nothing. And get mad about the dire content, ad tracking, and state of the internet.
Search or Fabrication?