skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it were possible, the biggest business opportunity would be a turnkey, self-hosted file conversion service. The only outbound internet traffic should be for software updates and responding to incoming traffic - and because it's self-hosted, the business could put it behind a firewall and have complete certainty in the privacy of their information, which would be huge. If you had that, plus an all-in-one, easily-deployable browser plugin which overrides standard file conversion websites to force users to the self-hosted business-approved converter (and, preferably, adds a Start Menu link)...
I don't use the Dock.
It is wild to me how many people view this event as the divider of two eras of Google. And the same is true for me. Before this, I loved Google products - I was a fan of everything they did, I had an Android phone, things were working great. After they shuttered Reader, I never trusted anything they built the same way again.

It's wild to think that something that was not really used for me for work or education had such an impact on my perception of a company. But I'm not exaggerating when I say this had a bigger impact on me than Microsoft's three red lights issue on my XBox 360 or their PlaysForSure debacle.
State level percentage sales tax is simple enough, but the US has gone overboard with every jurisdiction implementing its own form of sales tax, and implemented using asinine calculations.

Sometimes percentage, sometimes flat, sometimes combination, sometimes based on the volume, sometimes based on the mass of an ingredient, sometimes based on time of year, and on and on it goes.

And it could be from federal, state, county, city, transit region, federal agency. I look at my mobile phone bill or hotel receipt and there are 4 to 10 (literally 10) itemized taxes, and I have no idea if I am being scammed or not.

And the items applicable to sales tax and exempt from sales tax is constantly changing. And the entities exempt from sales tax and the documentation requirements, placed on merchants, is always changing.

This is just the website for US federal diplomat sales tax exemption instructions.

https://www.state.gov/sales-tax-exemption/

This type of complexity exists for federal employees, for 50 different state employees, and on more local levels.

I can only assume there is massive amounts of under and overpaid sales tax, with all these avenues for corruption and mistakes. And how much of the country’s productivity is wasted on calculating and auditing all of this?

Edit: this turned into a long rant, but just look at what a simple merchant is expected to know or implement in its systems to sell trivial consumables:

> In addition to the specific text, each tax exemption card bears one of four animal symbols indicating the specific type of tax exemption of the cardholder:

• Owl: mission tax exemption cards with unrestricted tax exemption.

• Buffalo: mission tax exemption cards with some degree of restriction.

• Eagle: personal tax exemption cards with unrestricted tax exemption.

• Deer: personal tax exemption cards with some degree of restriction.
This means that you:

- always have sufficient time and motivation to empty it immediately when you see that the programme has finished, and

- always have sufficient time and motivation to put dirty things in it as soon as you have used them.

I'm jealous.

Also: https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2022-08-17/ryan-giggs-calle...
Conservatism (Belief Revision)
SVB Backstop Revives the Specter of Moral Hazard
Can we quit with the blaming of VCs, especially without explanation?

The management of SVB messed up massively, and some VCs noticed. They would have been every bit as insolvent if the VCs in question had kept their mouths shut, and if rates went higher they would have been even more insolvent, on account of being massively short interest rates.
Yeah this is a good insight. It's likely this lines up with what most customers of laptops would think if they learned about the framework laptop for the first time.

When I first heard about the port changing feature I thought it was cool and useful. But i am now starting to wonder how often it would be used even by myself if I had one.
> As an AI doomer, it would actually be pretty great if we could get this stuff locked away behind costly APIs and censorship.

That is literally the doom scenario for me, rich people get unlimited access to spam and misinformation tools while the lower class gets fucked.
https://archive.is/9dsRa
It was probably the #1 topic over the last 3 days. What else is there really to do but shake our heads and figure out how things work now?
The trade off with system76 laptops, though, is that you’re stuck with underwhelming Clevo design decisions like 16:9 screens.

I know system76 has had their own laptop designs in the works for a while now, I wonder how that’s going… being tethered to Clevo is kneecapping them in a few ways IMO.
That post kind of gives a whiff of victim blaming.

Bank makes schoolboy errors when it comes to investment, but people who wanted to protect their money get the blame for its collapse.

Come on.
> Seems like tech is systemically risky and should be highly regulated.

What do you mean tech is `systemically risky` ? It's an investment and holdings bank, designed to take on certain levels of risk in order to facilitate fast growing startups.

That's why their market was so large, the OG banks who may be far higher risk avoidance couldn't supply the demand.

But that's a financial risk, not a tech risk.

> You're part of the establishment now and should be thankful that big brother stepped in.

This seems strangely targeted to make much sense of, are you referring to someone in particular ?

Regulation can be a very good thing, but highly regulated can be more of a hindrance than a help.
But if it's hidden behind a standard library's 'trim' functions it's all fine to me; I don't need to know how it works under the hood, but want to rely on the maintainer's knowledge that their implementation is as fast and efficient as possible on whichever architecture.

Low level string operations happen so often under the hood in any application that 10x more code and complexity in an implementation is worth it if it increases efficiency.
> A fast modern 16 core machine with 128 gig of ram can meet a lot of needs.

Computation is the easy part, you can pick that kind of performance up at your local IT box store.

The hard part, that what Kubernetes makes easy, is the rest: dealing with failing compute nodes, with isolating workloads, writing load balancer configurations, keeping them up to date, setting up and tearing down volatile (=feature branch) environments...
The problem I see here is where would the "line" be? That is, when does that video you post on Instagram of your family at Disney or someone blowing out candles at a birthday stop being just a family video and starts being content?

I guess the easy way to make that distinction would be if your content is "monetized" but even then it seems like there are many loopholes and gotchas.
More like they're raising rates until the damage from artificially low rates becomes visible.

Rates returning to normal is just the flood waters receding and letting us see the carnage below.
Life is the best teacher to cure arrogance. Once it happens to somebody you are close to or even to yourself, then you might change your mind. I hope you won't do too much damage by then.
Actually, Croissant was invented in Austria according to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croissant
What’s the first thing? Can you expand on that part. Ty
I think it is also necessary to consider that many of the regional banks have more diverse clients - individuals, small business and some mid/larger business dealings.

Perhaps I'm wrong but I suspect a much higher share of deposits are under $250K than the 3% at SVIB. The larger deposits are likely from companies doing a much better job of spreading counterparty risk around, ie traditionally managed companies.
whoever designed the SD card module should be embarassed by that sleep power usage, it's totally possible to drop into microamps during idle periods
Agreed. But the question remains: should the children starve for the sins of their parents?
> Musk fired everyone with access to the private key to their internal root CA,

The way forward is to generate a new CA root certificate.

> and they can no longer run puppet because the puppet master's CA cert expired

They can reconfigure internal tools to use the new CA root certificate, or rather one of the signed intermediate certificates.

> and they can't get a new one because no one has access.

They can simply generate new CA root certificates, and sign or create new intermediate certificates.

> They no longer can mint certs.

Yes, they, can...

> My limited understanding in this area is that this is...very bad

No, it, is, not...

There are two immediate issues that come to mind.

* Twitter was so awful before, that it relied on people to safeguard the keys to the kingdom. This is very bad practice, and one of the many things Musk will no doubt be fixing. For any mission critical assets, and especially certificates, but also passwords... current modern day corporate practice is to have a secure ledger of these that can be accessed by the board of directors, the executive managers, and designated maintainers. At no point ever should the password be entrusted to anybody, but rather a "role" that functions as the one who has access. Say for example, the CIO/CTO and their subordinates.

* The Second issue is the one everyone is fixating upon, and that's firing important people who put the company at risk. This is a big issue, and certainly Musk could have done a better job of scoping out who represents a single-point-of- failure at twitter, eliminate that risk, and then proceed with the culling. In a modern enterprise no single person should be capable of putting the entire operation at risk. It's just that simple. So in a way, Musk accelerated what was probably inevitable at Twitter already. They were probably precariously close to destruction already, and now they can learn the hard way of not repeating these mistakes.
This is how Sony launched Playstation over the resistance of traditionalists in Tokyo not interested in making "toys" -- they set up an independent company in Europe.
> It was killed because Google decided Facebook was an existential threat to them

(citation needed)

This really feels like your (and a popular) reading of the situation, but isn’t as unequivocal as you make it seem.

To me it’s more like the iMac not having a floppy drive or no USBA ports on the newer MacBooks. Google saw that the web was trending away from blogs and written content. They removed one of the tools that people used to keep up with blogs and written content and accelerated the decline of blogs and written content.

People didn’t like it at the time, but they were (for the most part) right.
most of the "startup bros deserve to die anyway" drivel I've read so far claims that the shortfall was minimal and the "bailout" was really unnecessary. In which case this special assessment will be small and likely to be covered by existing fdic reserves without those terrible fees passed on to the consumer.
"The core problem is this: regulators can only protect so much of the financial system. Yet in a wealthy, peaceful economy the financial system often grows more rapidly than does gdp, if only because the financial system is based on the intermediation of wealth, not income. Simple accumulation boosts the ratio of wealth to income over time, thereby creating regulatory dilemmas for finance. Neither “regulating more and more of it” nor “letting more and more of it continue in a less regulated manner” are entirely satisfactory solutions."
Possible, but I don’t think research has ever identified that utility function being optimized.
Economists are the equivalent of the Rock Star Coder. Think they know the right answer and push through a quick "solution" into the system, then they let other people clean up the mess.
No, the nominees were great this year. I understand why my favorite, the coming of age teenager story “My Year of Dicks” didn’t win but I don’t understand how anyone watched Ice Merchants and then this one and concluded this was better animated or had a better story. The Ostrich one is also great.
How about we expect FDIC to sell the assets at market value and then expect companies to take the 30 % cut in assets over 250k.

No one is suggesting anyone burn svbs assets. Only that we do not print more money to make up the difference between the face value and the market value
It has been the top item for the past 24hrs and other parts of the story have hit the front page simultaneously. It certainly was the most important issue by far in the past 7 days.

Judging that something with > 1700 comments (where everything has been said that anyone wanted to say) eventually fades from the top spot feels weird.
« QE1 QE2, the lender of last resort is you

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https://youtu.be/CzvQxQYKO88?t=255
Sure, but why is it any more absurd than creating a fund out of thin air to guarantee SVB deposits?

Money provided to individuals is highly trackable; ask anyone with student loans. And this would give the former SVB's employees something to do past the current 45-day window. More employment for the win!
>This is a dumb Russian PR narrative.

While that sounds super informed and non-biased, let's pretend for a minute that it isn't the amount of military stocks (since everyone uses missiles and drones now anyway) but the location. So let me re-phrase the question. Do you think the US would be super-cool with China putting a military base with one single missle close to us? Let's not pretend that NATO wasn't founded to take down the Soviet Union (and mostly succeded!). So, while I would be the first to admit that Putin prob. has some ulterior motives, it isn't fantasy. Also, we have absolutely destroyed countries for "acting a little too communist-y" in our hemisphere before, so it isn't like this sort of thing can't realistically make people nervous. Again, not defending Russia, but everyone pretending that this is just "super crazy evil guy doing Hitler things out of the blue" is really sophomoric.
Wow, I wonder why they went with a 13.5" screen size over 14.5" or 15".
I'm adding C: the couple in question wanted to feel important and thought about how nice would they appear in networks if they just adopted a difficult kid, so they did that without really thinking about the kid or even their own wellbeing. So, at the moment motivation ran out they bailed out because it wasn't worth it, but they didn't go in thinking to pass the child after a few months.

In other words, there's a third option other than "malice" and "good intentions": narcissism.

But the most important thing, as the other commenter says: making a public spectacle of the child's situation is the question that's being asked here. And it's an important question because the ability to make a public spectacle might be the difference between some people getting kids or not.
"expected". At some point, the FED is going to run out of instruments to tamper with to prop up a fake economy. It's going to crash, that's inevitable. The whole narrative behind the creation of the FED was that private bankers would enact more rigorous economic policies than politicians and it would lead to more economic stability. It's clearly not the case now. The very existence of the FED will be questioned.
I've come to believe that relational is the wrong choice for most apps.

Most people choose a relational db without even realizing what relational means and what the tradeoffs are.

Almost every app dev would prefer that their app reacts to changes in the entities, and updates it UI accordingly. Incrementally computing new query results. This is non-trivial in the relational model.

The relational model is a bunch of constraints such that relational algebra can be used by the system to re-arrange the query plan and get the same results.

Your queries are optimized, yes, but if you want to stream changes, then you probably want a different query plan altogether. And its not a matter of just making SQL cacheable and streamable like with incremental view maintenance - you probably want different queries to run altogether. Most people aren't building analytical reporting apps with SQL. The database size for a single user or team in most apps is such a small size that aggregations can just be done client-side even.

I think a better way would be to have a database that knows about all queries in your app, and optimizes collectively. And instead of relying on the database to do it, give users the tools to build query plans themselves. And also, throw away the idea of relations and just make all query results reference the underlying entities. Instead of complaining about the "ORM mismatch" with relations, get rid of the relations, and embrace objects.
Like I get where this is coming from, but given the UK's history with technology I feel like this will just end up retarding the growth of Self Driving technology in the UK.

Also there's this little gem buried in the bottom of the article

> Lisa Johnson, UK director of public affairs for Starship Technologies, said the company would welcome regulation, ...“There needs to be some sort of national regulation that underpins all decisions because we have invested a lot of time and energy in our safety case. If we don't have regulation, what's to stop somebody coming into the market who isn't as safe as us? ... And we don't want a free for all,” she said.

And there's the push for this, a corporation already in the UK that wants to ensure that there are regulations to "keep people safe" (a.k.a keep competitors out.) and yes I understand regulation can be good and helpful, but regulatory capture can be an insidious b*h
> Really a "tiny c compiler" is whats most pressing right now?

1. HN has an opaque ranking algorithm that isn't just upvotes. You have no idea what HN readers are prioritizing.

2. HN arguably isn't and shouldn't be the "front page" of news for anyone. It's an overgrown hobbyist site. "Tiny C compiler" is perfect HN fodder and should be #1 for a site called Hacker News.

3. Nothing is ever "the most pressing" right now. Should no one read anything else until SVB blows over? Should every site be talking about it, or can some sites get a break?
> And what have non-profits done for me as a consumer or user...That is harder to say

This is such a bizarre thing for a wealthy white dude to say. Non-profits are specifically there to help people who aren't helped by for-profit corporations: the poor and disenfranchised.
> 97% of deposits in SVB exceeded the FDIC threshold. The question is, by how much on average?

That's just a math problem. If you assume all deposits are at least 250K, you can get a floor for that number. If 97% of deposits exceeded threshold, then the average deposit is at least $8.3 million.
We are social creatures despite denying it and pretending to be logical. That means we do things based on who we know. VC is all about who you know. Startup success in large part is about who you know. That isn't to say work isn't involved but there are plenty of smart and hard working young people who have no network and can't break in. This isn't the meritocracy people like to think it is. Groupthink did bring down SVB in ways big and small.

There are more guys in VC named Andy or, to choose a totally random name, Peter, than there are non-guys, and they know who they know.

The point isn't to shame people in the system, but just like diversifying investments is good not for show but because it actually works, we need better tech elites who have a way way way broader understanding of the world and the only way that's possible is to have people in this world from a far wider range of backgrounds.
Bonds in general have a reputation for being "safe" but I think we're starting to see that people are using them in ways which make them very risky (see e.g. liability-driven investment and SVB).
Have you looked into IGDA meetups and support? Having plenty of online channels for discussions with other game devs (solo, teams, etc) with Discord and all is great but having face to face time with folks is better. I basically did what you did. Gather a group of like-minded friends that we can riff and talk about our games while we build them.

It’s been a while for me though. The recipe is still the same. People, find your people.
Sorry, I wasn't clear: Tree maps have built-in indirection, hash maps can use open addressing but they can also use chaining, which has indirection. An array-backed list is the only collection type that obviously requires no indirection in concept. In a world where Java has value types, you could build ArrayList<T> with no indirection (other than polymorphism/dispatch).
Many (most?) Americans have no savings account. Not because they are poor but because a savings account is largely an obsolete anachronism. The common tactic of conflating "savings" with "having a savings account" is intentionally misleading.

Per the US government, the median US household has $1000/month they could invest after all ordinary expenses.
I think you are confusing the work of Frabrice Bellard with this very one.
The former is a C-language compiler. This once is a compiler for a language called "Tiny C".
Understandable confusion, though.
Too many areas:

* Executive-level hiring. How many startup founders bring entire crews of executives that are recommended by VCs. Those transplanted execs then bring in their own "crew", and proceed to not only change the culture, but also repeat many of the same mistakes, pursue the same processes, repeat the same groupthink that has been done before. It reminds me of the exec hired in HBO's Silicon Valley who developed the "box" and brought in those sales and VPs.

* Processes. How many startup founders blindly adopt OKRs, growth strategies, and methods without even thinking if they are relevant to their industry, business, culture, or skills?

* Technologies. VCs push (forcefully sometimes) the use of technology by their other portfolio companies, leading to lots of misfit applications. There's too much cloud-centric thinking which causes problems. The cloud is great, but its not a one-size fits all. Some independent thinking is helpful. Not everything needs to be in the cloud

* Grow grow grow, then fire fire fire. The grow-fast then fire-fast approach mentality is really harmful.

* Following VC recommendations for core business operations, such as who to hire for law firms, accounting, HR, and other operations. Is it a wonder that so many startups make the same mistakes, do the same things, and run the same processes when they are all using the same vendors? Not too long ago, banking with SVB was "just a thing we all did". Look where that group think gets you. Maybe you don't need that law firm, accounting firm, or HR just because every other startup you know is using them.

* Idolization. There's too much worship of enterpreneurs, investors, etc. Yeah some of these folks have done some great things. But don't take every word they say as if it's gospel. It's ok to disagree with PG, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, YC, etc. etc. whomever you idolize. They're not always right, and perhaps they're often wrong. Groupthink often happens when people exhibit cult-like behavior by following the herd or guru.

* Diversify your sources of information. Don't read so much HN or TechCrunch or whatever without balancing that information diet with other sources that aren't part of the same sphere of thinking. Groupthink happens in echo chambers and information bubbles. HN is one.