skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That will make you learn how to write Asm like a compiler, which is useful if all you want to do is read (compiler generated) Asm, but otherwise it only strengthens the notion of "why write Asm if the compiler can do it anyway".

Good handwritten Asm has a very different texture to it than compiler output, and (at least for x86 - perhaps less so for RISCs like ARM) can be substantially more efficient. Many years ago, I remember having to grade students' assignments on writing (x86) Asm in an introductory course, and it was very obvious to see who cheated by using a compiler (probably at O0 too.)
But is it real? It’s more like an IOU, right? They don’t reduce the amount of money in the depositor’s account, but if the loan defaults would they be able to return the money to the depositor? My guess is no, not really (assuming no other outside cash sources).

So even though the amount of currency looks like it has increased, it hasn’t really… unless I’m misunderstanding still. But my impression is this is pretty much what happened yesterday with SVB.
Apple Internals
Madoff looked good for decades.
We should stop seeing systems where people vote people that vote people into positions where there is no reason to act on previous promises as 'democracy'.

If people can't actually vote on individual decisions it's still far from what an actual democracy should be like.

There is obviously little to none power in an individuals knowledge. Without money and/or lobbying no interests are going to be heard.
Tab vs spaces war has cooled off, so we have to start a new one.

A: If I do X, then this happens...

B: Yeah but I don't care about X.

A: You are not a professional if you don't care about what I care about.

Now that this debate has raised some dust, I guess Bob has already started writing the "Clean Performance" book in order to continue to milk the series and stay in the spotlight.
About god damn time too. I really do not understand why tf he hasn't been arrested for taking the ultra top secret nuclear secrets that he was not allowed to declassify. Why did he even have access to them, they are need to know.
Might be more useful to say how you do spend your time. Keep track for a couple weeks. Are you spending a lot of time on your phone? Download a tracker app to see how much time you spend on various apps or websites.
except people withdraw money and the bank needs to give those people actual cash. That's deposits. Of course they could take overnight loans or whatnot but deposits are cheaper.
Never trust a reporter to be numerate. Never trust a press release, ever.
1. This doesn't actually mean anything. It's true by your definition.

2. There is noone running the graph

3. This is true of all econonomic activity in a free market economic model. The assumption underlying market capitalism is that on net rational actors will only perform transactions which add value to them. Therefore the profit of the system is proportional to transactions over time which is proportional to the edges of the "financial transaction" graph. Debt is not required for this observation to be true - it's intrinsic to the model or the transactions won't occur.

4. There is no "they" other than "all the participants in the financial system". On net everyone participating in the financial system is doing so for their own benefit and therefore are invested in keeping the system running.
Hi Alain.

What's the problem? I don't even get that.

The three links point to visual chaos and I don't know where to start looking nor what's the problem at all.

My internal firmware delivers:

What is the question:
"Am I crazy?"

What hints are given to answer the question:
Three links to a website

What is expected from me (brain):
To read, understand, compare and give feedback on.

Brain:
42.
Thanks, I will short JP Morgan ASAP.
Many names missing from that list
The question is equivalent to: "Is ABC a requirement of XYZ"

There is no unanimous definition for either ABC or XYZ, ultimately leading to profitless discussion.

If you can precisely define both the terms, then there will be no need for debate.

And if you can't define the terms, then also, there is no need for debate :)
> The balance of reserves are held in T-Bills

Similar to SVB, from what I understand. SVB parked several billion in treasuries when rates were at ~1.6%, when interest rates went up, that portfolio drew down, they exited with a loss, this triggered a run.

So if Circle has 70% of its reserves in T bills, they possibly took a market to market loss too, depending on how they were hedged.

(Disclaimer: i have not seen SVB balance sheet, nor Circles.)
Unlucky for the UK coffee shop that wouldn’t take my USD this morning I guess? Not quite sure what you’re trying to say, if a country doesn’t want to accept usd…they don’t have to
I am not from US, what is the story? Does that guy consistently make bad predictions?
Which isn't a bad thing when you write books for noobs, writing resonates more with you when it comes from one of your own.
A very useful feature.

In theory xorg has the exact same problem, but I've hardly ever had its process crash. Usually it's the wm that crashes, and that's easy to solve.
The vast majority of money is not withdrawn. It's all transfers. And that is a major point and difference.

Also, if it was all withdrawn it's a bank run, which has not been a problem in the US for quite a while.

Overall it cancels out for the large banks, of course people transfer money they just borrowed from the bank away, but that bank also has customers that are recipients of money. That, and other mechanisms between banks and banks and central bank(s) to balance such things within all the banks in the overall economy. Money withdrawn from one bank goes to another one, and everybody is not just sender but also recipient from someone else.
So you are saying context doesn't matter, switch is always better?
Not necessarily. As more businesses start exchanging USDC for USD with Circle the ratio between the reserves and USDC will get worse and worse. If a bank run happens 3.3 billion will become a big percentage of the total market cap and USDC will go to $0. The value of USDC right now is a combination of how much of that $3.3 billion will be recovered, how likely people think a bank run on USDC is, and predicting what actions Circle will take to try and save this.
It really seems to boil down to that anymore: if you don't fit the mold but do something phenomenal you are dismissed.
> Surely this depends on the context?

Yes, it depends on the context. In this case the context is the switch statement described in the https://www.computerenhance.com/p/clean-code-horrible-perfor.... Too bad TFA never mentions it explicitly (other than in the title and in the video). Recently it generated a heated discussion around here.
Isn't the question though, if you acted on the set of companies/banks that were showing these signs, how often would you be right and saved your money (or made money)?

The analyses that tell you what led to a particular crash are hard to stomach as a reliable bet for the next time.

I just saw this story:
https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20230310718/20-...

("20 banks that are sitting on huge potential securities losses—as was SVB")

Would you short Ally right now? Hard to make such a bet.
Instinctively I love term limits - however they are already in place in many states and there are many studies indicating mixed results at best - see: https://www.mischiefsoffaction.com/post/political-science-te...

A randomly assigned legislature sounds like a recipe to create an unaccountable bureaucracy of staffers and advisors 'guiding' the forced citizen through what must be done / can't be done legislatively. This is where the real power would lie - and frankly we are kind of there today. Most congresscritters spend 45% of their time campaigning, 45% of their time fundraising and 10% of their time looking damn cute. Staffers, lobbyists and think-tanks do most of the legislative work.
I never could wrap my head around long prison sentences. Even assuming a truly humane prison (not a reality in many places), which rehabilitates inmates well, it's hard to map a year, five years of prison on a crime that happened in one moment in time.

The way decisions, actions, arguments and repentance work in real life, as regularly seen with children, is usually on a short time frame. If you really need to punish someone - questionable in itself - maybe bring back the whip, but let people walk with a clean record the next day. If people can't be put back into society, they could be subsistence farmers with a netflix account in a fenced in plot of land or something. A significant change in scenery, and some forced lifestyle changes could be OK as part of a judgement

But putting humans behind bars? Nah...
They are, and this is a full-on solvency issue, not just a liquidity one. Think of it this way: suppose you have an investment that pays out $100 in 2031, plus a low rate of interest that due to interest rates increasing substantially in 2022 is now below what you can get from savings accounts or ultra-safe investments like Treasury bonds. That investment may have been worth $100 in 2021, but it's worth substantially less in 2023 because someone with $100 in 2023 could put it into those higher-interest investments and end up with a lot more money by 2031. However, banking regulations allow banks to not immediately recognize that drop in the value of their reserves by claiming they'd hold the investments to maturity.
If there is an existing font used, it's probably best to see if you can identify it.

I haven't looked at the software available for some 12 years or so, way back when I was sorting out old manual pdfs. For one such manual I wanted to redo it completely, something where I started trying to identify the font, but then got too sick to continue with that hobby. I didn't feel like going the path of if the font was unique to map each character into a font table.

Tools seem to have improved. A quick search found one such tool that might be useful to you.

https://www.fontspring.com/matcherator
Not sure how you come to that conclusion with the happenings discussed in this thread.
The FDIC insurance won’t make the rest whole, the bankruptcy process will. The assets are not fundamentally toxic and someone will buy them, with a haircut.

Play stupid games, win 70 cents on your dollar.
There are open datasets (see the chatllama harness project and its references). You can of course also cross train it using actual ChatGPT.
If the visual chaos irritates you, click on the [vertical] button at the top right of the browser window and it might get better.
Systems programming is when you break-out from your shiny MVC API and libraries, and start reading section 2 of the Linux/BSD manual. When you start caring about process and thread affinity, memory allocation patterns, CPU cache performance, etc.
No rational reason, however during bank runs rationality tends to go out the window and even banks that are perfectly safe on paper can find themselves in trouble.
Nice! I know a guy [0] who might be interested but he's not on here, do you have an email address so he can contact you direct? To pique your interest, he's experimenting with AI-generated videos for his music, and sometimes rents kit which might be a twist on your GAS format :)

[0] https://pinkcliffs.bandcamp.com/

I'm a muso as well, but I've not recorded anything in years. You're inspiring me to dust off the Focusrite Scarlet ;)
I think that guy's financial advice is so legendarily bad that people are using him as a predictor of what will not happen. In this case, certain banks staying solvent...

https://mobile.twitter.com/CramerTracker
I am responding to a post that said

> Bank lending always creates new money. They don’t (and can’t) “lend deposits”.

It's just not true. The banks do transfer literal cash from deposits out of the system through loans. The cash in banks didn't come from thin air.
https://wap.business-standard.com/article-amp/international/...

https://amp.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/300879...

https://enterprise.press/stories/2022/10/09/major-local-bank...

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2022/2/3/lebanon-us-do...

> No withdrawals were allowed from accounts denominated in U.S. dollars, unless the owner agreed to convert the funds into pesos.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corralito
Machine learning recommendations are based on keywords, user activity, and other similar measures that help us define what a person may like. But they become ineffective if the user preference involves thousands of filters and subjective criteria that are specific to the user. So here, we discuss Natural Language Processing recommendation systems. Based on our previous experience, we’ll outline the general idea and limitations of this model, and explain some of the best approaches for how to build a NLP-based recommender system.
In the case you short a bank, why not borrow the money from the same bank?
I know we’re all Extremely Online here, but if you missed this deep cut it’s what Do Kwon said…as Terra was collapsing

https://twitter.com/stablekwon/status/1523733542492016640?s=...
I think those actions worked out of hours because the bank's bosses let the FDIC know they were insolvent before a run happened, though? This time the bosses thought they could hold on.

If so, then the difference doesn't imply much about the banks asset level, just the idiocy of its bosses.
CLIP itself is available by itself (BLIP, etc) via python; useful for "output a csv containing filename, filesize, and description of every image in this directory".

is the stable-diffusion-webui API... stable, yet? I was looking at the json it's chucking back and forth from the frontend to the python backend, and it looks like it should be able to be parsed without a library.
If you aren't going to use polymorphism to vary behavior, but depend on conditionals, what do you use classes for? Just for hierarchical data encapsulation?
Or perhaps the other lesson is VCs shouldn’t create a run on the bank they holds their funds and the companies they invest in funds
> why not borrow the money from the same bank?

That loan is the bank’s asset. It doesn’t go away when the bank collapses.
GCP + GPT => Stadia 2.0

Beats Microsoft's OpenAI ChatGPT derivative at unit cost and user perception of information supremacy. Google Pixel's voice to text technology is impressive.
In this article, we’ll talk about continuous automation testing as a part of the DevOps cycle, and share our experience with implementing it in established and reputable companies from various domains and with various business needs. It’s not just an overview, but insights from practice that can be useful for those who are going to adopt DevOps practices and broad automation coverage.
Sure, if you don't mind constant undervolting. In my experience the only way to get a 3b+ to run reliably is to power it directly from the 5V header pin.
>I'm not sure I have seen anything that has the same sense of optimism to replace them though.

That's the basis of hauntology, that optimism for the future has gone, and we are "haunted" by promised futures lost.
Wasn't SVB in 10 year mortgage-backed securities whereas Circle is in 3 month bills?
That's not inconsistent with "good code will get rewritten until it's not good code." Good code that you need to change is code that can degrade as a result of that change.

Nothing to do with "just changing code because they feel like it".
I don’t know if he consistently made bad predictions, but he had a few howlers during the 2008 global financial crisis. He very loudly declared on his TV show that Bear Sterns was safe on the eve of its collapse: https://youtu.be/V9EbPxTm5_s
GenZ are bookworms but shunning e-books because of eye strain and digital detox
I wonder if the pie has been cooked enough and there aren't other vulnerable banks in the same position. Also I wonder if massive short selling most banks now doesn't make them trip over.
It's interesting that modern markets still have these built-in breaks (weekends) that work as emergency stops. Now everyone can wonder over the weekend whether this will spread to other banks and become another global crisis, or if this is just one poorly managed bank that made risky bets.

In either case, does anyone really think the taxpayer won't be on the hook for these risky bets? Privatise the gains, socialise the losses. The banks have too much power for this to play out any other way. Nothing fundamental has changed in a decade.
I apologise. I admit I was looking for errors which is unfair. Writing about English is a minefield where angels fear to tread (see what I did there).
Don't trust anybody, not even yourself.
Try gallery-dl, it can often get stuff without hitting a login:

https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/

After a lot of downloads you may get a login though.
Well whether or not you think banking / government cooperation is a good thing, the fact of the matter is that even when large catastrophes occur, the system is brought back up on its feet.

You can't say the same for crypto systems, luna / terra being a very recent example.
Yet an operating system is at a higher level, above the kernel. Traditionally, systems have been the middle ground between the low level and the high level.

But ultimately words only mean what ever you define them as in the moment, so system can mean anything you want it to, so long as that meaning is conveyed to others needing to understand how you are using the word.
Every software has a user. Other programmers are users too. In addition, all software is performance constrained, as no user has an infinitely fast computer or infinite time.

Of course it's fuzzy and unimportant, they're just words for categories we've made up, and didn't even make a very good job of it.

Even if we did make it clear which is which, what's the gain from being able to make a clear distinction? Is it any more productive than fighting over who got the best text editor?
Never thought I would hear someone making that argument. You think we should let more people die in plane crashes so that flying is cheaper?

We already know cheap flying with current safety standards is economically viable, with costs approaching the cost of fuel; see low cost airlines like Ryanair. So the most effective way to lower prices is for airlines to downgrade amenities and services onboard.
Sounds like a "no true Scotsman" argument
Glass-Steagall needs to be brought back. It was incredibly effective at preventing situations like this.
Then they should have understood the risk they were taking.
> Most of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet is Treasury securities.

That's true, simply because they're the most convenient way to manipulate the monetary supply. Not much else is readily available in the volumes needed.

But they are not _essential_.

> Saying that the Fed can arbitrarily create and destroy money misses the point, that they then have to buy SOMETHING with those money, and there are strict rules about what they can buy

Sure, the invariant: "money goes out, asset goes in" holds.

But they can buy quite a lot of different securities if needed. E.g. the Fed directly bought about $3T of MBS: https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/programs-archive/large-sc...
Linux puzzles: Linux in a website, running in client-side JavaScript
Strange, my Dad worked for Philips for 30 years, well Mullards, which was a subsidiary. Reminded me of the newsletters, the employee discounts, the calendar type thing to celebrate 100 years.
No. Amazon ships you a product with UPS. UPS notifies Amazon that their driver has eaten the package and they're very sorry. Amazon ships out a new package.

The new package, provided the driver doesn't eat it, will arrive delayed. But Amazon didn't delay it, nor do they "have to" delay sending packages.

"SF payroll firm Rippling finds some payouts delayed" would be accurate. "Has to delay" implies that they "had to" make a choice to delay payments, e.g. because they don't have the funds available.

Yes, it's a subtle change in wording, but it's a very different issue.
That is a great idea! What form do you envision it's in? Video/Article or some kind of an interactive thing? What topics do you think are the most important to present this way?

BTW, here's an article specifically about recording and processing Voice: https://indiscipline.github.io/post/voice-sound-reference/

There's some examples in the part on denoising. Tell me if it's something you had in mind, and if not, in what ways it's not good enough.
I am not fond of Clean Code, but I am fond of Clean Architecture. It's a much smaller set of ideas, for a start.
I don’t think what you should take from this is “always do the opposite of what Cramer says”. Rather that you should not consult him at all when you’re deciding how to invest your money.
I get that other countries are also doing this but “oh this bag is equities is safe because it’s diverse” proving to be false all the time feels like a good argument against this logic.

Granted if SVB had all these bonds that would pay out “guaranteed” that feels pretty strong
Ask HN: How should developer performance be measured quantitatively?
In an ideal world every developer’s performance would be fairly measured in a quantifiable way. But are there any quantifiable metrics that actually correlate with actual value?

What metrics do you look at when adjusting salaries, comparing teams and developers?
Forevermore, whenever anyone mentions Arnold my brain just automatically starts playing Bill Burr’s bit in my head: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JUrMSK8XWFc

Perhaps a bit vulgar for the HN crowd, but I find it witty and hilarious.
I don't know whether you're uninformed or deliberately misleading, but that's entirely wrong. He fell after he confessed his crimes to his kids and they informed the FBI (on 2008-12-10, with his arrest the very next day).

However, people had been informing the SEC with suspicions a decade earlier, as recounted in the book No One Would listen: "Madoff Securities LLC was investigated at least eight times over a 16-year period by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other regulatory authorities."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_One_Would_Listen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoff_investment_scandal
yeah, interesting. Sweden is pretty close to Norway but Denmark is considerably ahead of Norway. Doesn't seem that a high GDP correlates than much with higher salaries in Norway's case (unlike in Switzerland)
> Plenty of large, complex infrastructure is written in Python.

shudders
> could replace the FAA with voluntary certification

How does that work when a plane lands on my house?
Regulators took over SVB: trading was halted. It's unlikely stockholders will get more than a few cents per share so it's a 99.9% drop. The story was interesting because they explained how the bank got into such a bad situation that regulators had to take it over.
"Gavyn Davies ... is a former Goldman Sachs partner who was the chairman of the BBC from 2001 until 2004"

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavyn_Davies

So this ended 19 years ago. I'm sorry, I don't see the relevance of this historical anecdote to what's currently true?
And the GPU.

This is why a "systems" programming language makes no sense. You need many languages to address all the different kinds of hardware in your system.
I though ARM is an acronym of ARM Rephrases Meanings.
"They’re not, unfortunately, already doing millions of students’ homework for them; they’re only seeming-to-do-the-homework."

I don't know if you could make a worse argument. Generating text that resembles homework isn't the same as actually doing the homework. Students had to do their homework for the chat bot so that it can be fed into it, which lets the chat bot skip the whole doing part.