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This [1] used to be known as "the most expensive hdmi cable in the world" at over $10k. The vendor has since stopped selling it and replaced the picture by one of a usb power adapter, but the reviews are still there for a good laugh. I also recommend the user submitted questions and answers about the product.

And here is the real sad part: the seller only need to sell ONE, even as a joke or for the lulz, for this scam to be worth it.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-Diamond-2m-Braided-Cable/d...
Because (apparently; I'm just reading from their web site) they deposit your funds into 12 separate accounts at 12 separate FDIC banks so you are insured up to $3M and a single-bank failure can at worst take 1/12 of your deposits.

Seems like services like this should be more popular.
> And how can someone be clever enough to be a software engineer and not clever enough to figure out crystals in bags taped to cables do not affect music quality.

After living through the past several years in the US, this is not a question I ask.
>And how can someone be clever enough to be a software engineer and not clever enough to figure out crystals in bags taped to cables do not affect music quality.

this is why IQ tests are BS. You can be smart in one thing (taking IQ tests) but not another.
Not the author, but this script [0] is used multiple times daily to toggle wifi / ethernet when I plug/unplug the network cable on my MacBook.

0: https://gist.github.com/albertbori/1798d88a93175b9da00b
Mercury just announced a new cash management / CDARS account to provide up to $3mm of FDIC coverage through 12 partner banks, with plans for potentially more. I would hope the lesson from SVB's collapse is don't put your eggs all in one basket, not put them in the biggest basket you can find.

(That said, said service to split your eggs up doesn't need to be Mercury - they're just the VC-backed startup darling here. There's plenty of other banks that offer these services.).
Some people still claim vinyl has the best sound so...
Tried to load in a Yahoo article. After waiting about 30 seconds I hit the refresh button and it said "failed after 1 attempts" or some such. I went to click "report a problem" and the Email client prompt showed up (I don't have a desktop email client), so I'm afraid I couldn't report feedback.

Just some feedback for you here, instead.
> I've come to believe that relational is the wrong choice for most apps.

The benefit of relational Model is that every operation can return a table. Right? That makes it easy to sequence all operations together, and easy to understand what they are doing, and thus avoid errors.
That fine should directly be paid out to the kids in the form of a 529A college fund, or something similar.

EDIT ;

NEVER invest in a 529 college plan. They are money grabbing frauds.

I put $40,000 into a 529a plan in 2004.

In 2022 it was worth $89,000

--

They couldnt even provide a good return over 20 years.

They then berated me for complaining that they "only" doubled my money in !20 years.

The problem is that the banks that this was desposited in ~2004 -- they failed and were sold several times in the 2008-2012 banking grifting.

And they couldnt give me ANY data on the tranfer of accounts or companies when they befuddled the accounts together. They literally treated me as if I was berating THEM.

HN was a laughter of shitty advice.

So take mine with a ton of salt, because thats what you shall be tasting, marinated in rage, when you discover you invested in an institution that literally steals your money and marks it.
Might as well start working on economies of scale for the future if you know the product will be popular and sell.

Starting to get consumer sales started will help to anticipate demand and plan part orders etc.
SVB definitely mismanaged risk.

But I don’t think people realize that no bank could have 25% (and counting) of deposits withdrawn in a day and survive.

If they had still been allowing withdrawals on Friday that number would be much much higher.
Ask HN: Would some professors rather quit than teach an elementary class?
And if so, do you think this is rational behavior?
I think you're missing the implicit point - car manufacturers operate on massive scale and razor thin margins. So you have 4 real options -

1. Massively deregulate, in which case the UK might be a good place for R&D but still not for manufacturing (disadvantageous tariffs to their largest export markets and a second tier domestic market, cars exported would be designed to meet foreign standards anyway).

2. Regulate about the same as other key markets, this is what you'd normally do by default as a country, you get decent safety standards, but costs will be high, because the automotive manufacturers will design for major markets, not the UK, so they'll see extra costs associated with UK regulatory compliance, but all products sold in the UK will match EU standards anyway.

3. Just adopt EU standards. It makes operating in the UK cheap for automotive companies, you can use it to argue for tariff reductions with the EU, but a small group of psychopaths in the UK parliament will collapse the entire government and economy.

4. Have higher standards than elsewhere, likely locking the larger manufacturers out of the UK market entirely, opening the door for smaller, higher cost niche manufacturers, but significantly slowing adoption.

Obviously number 3 is the economically advantageous option, but the politically advantageous option is to loudly claim you're doing option 1, whilst in reality doing option 3.
This is the "Tolarian Community College" (a play on words from the MtG card game).

Without having to watch the video, this Youtuber does a lot of reviews and content on the game. During the course of reviews, he gets a lot of free merchandise. To that end, he then gives it freely to his subscribers.

The problem: there's a deluge of bots that nearly-instantly post on comments and threads in Youtube that redirect unsuspecting users to scammer Telegram channels, Discords, and etc. The common scam is "pay for shipping and you get free stuff". (this youtuber pays for the shipping if sending free product)

To compound this, this is definitely an automated bot driven attack on not only current videos, but also all his historical videos. And Youtube/Google/Alphabet doesn't provide anywhere near the tools to counter these types of botstorms.

He pleas for anyone working at Youtube etc to get in touch and/or make tools available to disable these scammers.
Please link to the policy where the FDIC announced 100% coverage of all deposits in all banks, not the press release where they announced providing depositors coverage in two specific banks.

Edit: this is not debating nuances. Insurance coverage is not what we feel and think it is. It's what is specifically documented and funded. In this case, the FDIC is neither documenting nor funding 100% coverage for all deposits in the nation. They may decide to do so, but they certainly have not at this time.
UPS, FedEx, and others are going to want these trucks as well, so opening up your customer-base just makes sense.
they clearly made a typo and meant the iPhone VR
If someone doesn't comment on their reasoning for a decision they made, everybody else's best guess doesn't become the truth.
I think I read a thread like this almost 10 years ago when I happened to be doing some audio work, maybe it was the same one.

If memory serves, there was somebody saying that exiting the program cleanly sounds worse, you need to crash on a page fault reading the input buffer instead, and that's your end of file behavior.

Someone else said FLAC makes it sound worse, but I suspect they just couldn't figure out how to use libflac.

In other words they were bad programmers writing buggy, half baked shit, and they explained away their broken code as sounding better.

Even the snippet I see in the linked post, right off the bat they start their loop with WaitForSingleObject, that's kind of suspect; the first thing they do is enter the kernel to block at every loop. I suspect they aren't doing that in an optimal way.
When you cannot possibly tell the difference between two things, is when the arguments/discussion can go on forever.
The desire to let it all burn comes from those who played by the rules.

The government's intervention creates moral hazard: those that played with fire got burnt, and those who didn't didn't, but those who didn't get burnt were positioning themselves to take advantage of the opportunities that the crispy bodies would have generated.

But the government swooped in and saved the crispies, without penalty to them, at the cost of those who had proper risk-adjusted positioning.

We see this time and time again. The government is changing the rules after the game is over to change the losers to winners. It's nonsense.
Why would there be a run on other banks if depositors are confident they'll be protected though?
It does read kind of like a complaint to me.

The question the paper poses is ‘why’ are there no relational DBMS’s. And it places a bunch of the blame, it seems, at the fact that Codd left some things ambiguous and the people behind SQL resolved that ambiguity in a way that weakened the ‘relationality’ of the result.

But you’re right, it’s possible to read this more as ‘blameless post-mortem’ five-whying.

Why aren’t there any RDBMSs?

- Because SQL won, and SQL is not relational

Why isn’t SQL relational?

- because it’s creators misunderstood Codd’s paper in these ways

Why was Codd’s paper open to misinterpretation?

- because Codd didn’t think of these particular complexities…

Which I guess is one way to follow the ‘why’ thread.

But it does slightly ignore the important ‘why did SQL win?’ Branch…
That's because Optional.of(null) == Optional.empty()
Optional.empty() is boxed null
Wouldn’t it need to just cover the failed bank?
> 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.

You mean you have raw power an order of magnitude greater than a big cloud at equivalent spend. Capabilities are all DIY - if you want a database, object storage, replicated storage between your two locations, message queue, etc. etc. you have to set it all (and think of the backups, patching, monitoring, etc.) on your own. That's a non-insignificant costs that will easily dwarf that $2k. Source: I've done this at an MSP/MHP, handling a decent chunk of the infra side.
Actually both SVB and Charles Swap have the opposite problem: The fall in value of long/medium term treasuries is what is killing them, not loans to start ups...
There's an audience for kitten crush videos too. Demand for a thing doesn't excuse producing the thing.
reminds me of this wonderfully named library from yesteryear - https://github.com/mogelbrod/widont
What bank would that be?
I think we should socialize the deposits of the depositors of the svb. viva communismo
I sympathize with your position, but if it leads to us saying "I don't think this art does enough good for society, so it should not exist" then I'm out, and if it leads to us saying "you can say what you want, but you can't make a living off it unless it gets approval by a moral authority" then I'm also out.
Rexx was my first foray into writing code using OS/2 around 1994. I then tried my hand at Pascal before getting into college and taking a formal C++ class.
Your position is completely reasonable.

It's just that most loonies like to argue more than most sane people care to respond.
Yeah they are bought by the true believers (or the completely ignorant)
I think this is going to age about as well as everyone who predicted that nobody would wear AirPods because they were ugly.

Even if you are correct, Apple makes products that are not designed to be taken out of the house (iMac/Mini/Studio, HomePod). It is entirely possible that this first generation device is not intended to be "outside of the house" mobile.
I have to think there are some parody/troll comments mixed in with the true believers. Strongly suspect that goto one for instance...
You are being downvoted but there are really people who think like this.

Regional banks do not have a substantive underlying issue and do not deserve to die by a rotating regional bank panic.
Tiny class-d amps, containing barely $20 worth of parts, produce perfect (to my ears) sound. I don't know why receivers are still so expensive, but I suspect it's a total racket (literal price fixing).

On the other hand, TVs, sound bars, and the HomePod mini produce audio so bad I can't believe people put up with it.
I think the fact that cryptocurrency wallets with millions of dollars still exist and are protected by these wallets is evidence that security is manageable. Proof is in the pudding.
I saw the observation years ago that "Normal people use their stereos to listen to their music. Audiophiles use their music to listen to their stereos."

I guess if that's your thing, go for it?
But we also do poorly at guessing the direction or shape of progress.

In aviation, there was Concorde and the 747. Back then who would have thought both those are in the dustbin and one of the most popular vehicles for longer-range flight is…the 737?

We put men on the moon decades ago, still haven’t been back.

In computing, we probably could have voice interfaces like the Star Trek computer, but mostly it seems folks don’t want to be bothered, though maybe the latest chat bot craze is a forerunner to chatty computers.
Because this isn't the purpose of that insurance fund. Its purpose is to cover insured deposits, and these are uninsured deposits.

I'm very open to ideas about how to change the program to better support businesses on the large side of small or the small side of medium. I think raising the insurance limit, maybe conditioned on payroll size or something, and thus also raising the insurance premiums, seems like an idea that makes a ton of sense.

But that wasn't the rule on Friday, and it wasn't what the premiums historically charged to banks to build up that insurance fund were priced for. And it's especially rich that banks (like SVB!) have long lobbied to keep those premiums low, and now want to benefit from suddenly switching the insurance policy to be unlimited. It's like if I constantly pushed to keep my home insurance premium low with the trade-off that they would only cover part of my losses in a fire, and then after a fire I made a big stink about how my insurance company should cover an unlimited amount of my costs to rebuild.

This is the second time in my life now that I've woken up to find that I'm being held hostage by banks essentially saying to my government "nice society you have there, it would be a shame if something were to happen to it...".

They're right, we do have to bail them out, but it's bad that this is the case.
Perhaps I would quit if things deteriorated to the point I was seriously considered the best option for such!
This is just strange thinking to equate decline with some sort of technological leadership.

Counterpoints:

- The US is still at a trade deficit with Europe despite the strength in dominating Internet technologies.

- US society is much more polarized than Europe both in economic equality and political affiliation.

- Europe has some tech unicorns. Some like Spotify or Arm might ring a bell. But then again does it really matter where something is incorporated? Financial markets are very globalized anyway. So a European citizen can buy Apple stock and profit in the same way as an American one. Some holds the other way. The German car makers raking in billions each year are owned by international investors all over.

Last on Greentech: there are players such as Vestas and Siemens very much involved in renewables.
I do it too, also with a toothpick.
> an avid "Elite Dangerous" player, which is a perfect use-case for VR

I wouldn't call it perfect. It's a brilliant first experience for things like docking which does feel mind blowing - true fantasty fulfillment type thing.

However, after that it's better as a non-VR game. It's very grindy with repetitive actions, lots of time spent in menus and then long waits either as travel time or for missions/trades to repopulate. It's also a game where you want to refer to external web tools for trade routes, navigation info, planning ship upgrades etc.

All of this means it's worst type of game for enduring long stints in a headset while nothing is happening. Most of the game is best suited to a small window on your desktop while you watch TV with a web browser and a drink.
Is he Russian? Looks like he may be in Moscow, and there is a war...
Precisely. First Republic is an extremely weak financial position. Given the aggressive nature of the FDIC, in seizing Signature, I would be very surprised if they aren't forced to take action here. The stock should be worth zero, and bankruptcy declared soon.
Huh? The US hardly has any labor laws, and nearly all of them were passed over 100 years ago.
Read over the history of the US settlement. While they came from the UK and Germany, the vast majority are not descendants of the Normans.

One of the major draws to the US has always been the opportunity to do a little crusading of ones own and find whatever opportunity your courage and lack of scruples allowed you to get away with.
Apple is capable of doing more than one thing at once. There is no indication that their financial products or Apple TV are slowing down anytime soon.
this sounds a bit like a leading question. what's the actual question you're wanting to ask?
$1.5M EACH
> I can equally see a scenario where someone on Facebook or Twitter says "Get out of Wells Fargo" and millions of people would do it.

Who has both 1) an interest in bank balance sheets, and 2) enough clout with Wells Fargo's depositors to cause a SVB-style collapse?

Given how large and diversified Wells Fargo is, I think the only people with the reach to get a message like that out on social media (celebrities) probably don't have the interest or credibility to send such a message and have it listened to.
The author makes many sensible points. I see only one solution: stop using assignments altogether, and rely instead on oral examinations, or hand-written examinations that take place in a controlled environment.

This will be unpleasant for those students who have difficulty with the stress of examinations, but the alternative is that honest students will be even more seriously disadvantaged than they are now.

Ironically, the future will mirror the past, with grades reflecting a scary exam at the end of the year, or at the end of a degree program.

It seems that everybody saw this coming, but I am one of those who has to admit being surprised by how quickly it hit us.
Bobby says "Hacker News'); DROP TABLE Users;--"
Nuts,I missed that you asked for more info at the time. If you're still seeing these replies let me know and I'll answer.
It's interesting you should say that, because I was up and running on an alternative platform pretty quick. RSS was and is so core to how I gather and consume information from the web that I'd be considerably unhappier without it.
Hmm. If I'm imagining this correctly, then could the user obtain this data via checkout - through some shared database with the supermarket?

And I agree about the pain point. It is part of what got me interested in this a while back.

I also think the decision of what to eat is also an issue with many people. Present them with a few options based on budget, preferences, and nutritional goals. Base those options on inventory data and expiration dates to reduce food waste (grocery bottom line).

Perhaps target the consumer group of:

1. at-home eater

2. enjoys cooking

3. wants to simplify the process.

Then increase demand by converting other eater-types into the target market.

Ultimately, I think user-experience would be the differentiating factor.
Origin Wireless AI can detect your movements using current Fios routers
Lexicon

You drag wooden tile letters around a grid. When words are formed the tiles burn, the ones above fall down. Try to clear the grid.
Always liked Rexx. Worked at a fairly big IBM shop (mainframes, AIX, desktop, etc) were all Big Blue. Although Rexx was a bit cranky on AIX, almost all system level scripts used (or called) Rexx. It wasn't a world buster, but then I did't have any reasonable complaints about it.

It worked, was fairly easy to learn and teach, and didn't it's job.
I know pretty much nothing abut realtional algebra but I have written and read reasonable amount of SQL. And I find 3-value logic very handy, even if I occasionally see these arguments that it is somehow wrong? Can you ELI5 why I should dislike NULL and what should I do with my database when I do not know the value of an attribute or the attribute is not applicable for the row? (The answer to the latter might be to design a "better" schema? To that my response is that there are other measures for "goodness" that may be more important than ideological purity. Say, you may want to have all your data in one table instead of creating a new table for a thousand different subcases.)
Well, if there is a market of nutcases, people will peddle to that market. I mean... people pay for reading the stars, tarot cards, or for literal chlorine bleach [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Mineral_Supplement
Dilbert's website and archive was nuked and replaced with Scott Adams' linktree.
It's probably the same conditioning that Pavlov discovered. The clinking metal creates anticipation leading to a real and measurable difference in satisfaction. The brain is interesting that way.

Who am I to judge? I will fight you over spaces instead of tabs and don't you dare remove my trailing commas. If it's not supported by the language I'll write a transpiler and add it to the CI flow just before deploy, because git history.
No, because the FDIC would collect higher fees commensurate with the increase in insured deposits. It would reduce profits for banks like SVB which have a large number of uninsured deposits and were able to take advantage of a "fed put".
I'm not sure where to draw the line in order to protect children, but a blanket ban on posting pictures of them would never survive a First Amendment challenge. US Supreme Court precedents have made it clear that any restrictions must be more narrowly targeted.
> take a significant amount power, even when *sleeping*, up to 2-6W for the latter two

What… how, why? I think it’s unacceptable for a laptop in sleep mode to be draining energy at that rate. Must be a bug, I refuse to believe they tested this and though it’s ok?
When you look at the options, they would have been better off just adding all those ports. 2x USB-A, 2x USB-C, SD, HDMI, and maybe ethernet. Sure, you can do more in theory with the modular approach, but aside from USB-C, those are all decade-old ports, so there just isn't much need for arbitrary expansion.
I used to own 20$ headphones for few years, I upgraded to 50$ ones for the next couple of years and finally to 200$ ones. I have felt big differences each time. I don't see whats funny about that. If I upgrade now (I can't quite afford to considering the diminishing returns and my income) but still I expect to get upgrade in sound quality, comfort, build quality, etc.
I wonder if the said version of memcpy did screw up some bits and indeed affect the music fidelity. I mean audiophiles can detect that change right? It’s like the gm/ ford vanilla ice cream bug:

https://www.marketcalls.in/fun/vanilla-ice-cream-that-puzzle...
I think it's strange to expect a professor to teach an elementary class.
And we didn’t talk about wine yet…
Re $15b: the line on the balance sheet about HtM notes that they're counting it as $91,321M for purposes of the balance sheet, but in a paranthetical note that it has $76,169M of fair market value (which is a difference of $15,152M).

But yeah that loss almost certainly continued going up in early 2023 as rates kept climbing.