skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're sad about all of your RAM being eaten, you'll be despondent if you think about about your poor L1 and L2 caches--they're all being 100% used all of the time! But seriously, RAM should be used for caching purposes and a lot of the RAM usage you see in various monitoring tools is just that.

Likewise, with SSDs being so fast these days, the strategy of just bringing everything you need "into RAM" and then letting the paging system handle the loading/unloading as you actually need it is a reasonable strategy.

To your original point, honestly, it kind of seems like the "hunger for RAM" kind of has been satisfied! Mainstream computers have been coming with 8/16 GB of RAM for a decade now and it seems like there isn't much upwards pressure on that. More RAM can be useful for special use cases like intensive graphics/media tasks, running VMs, etc. but doesn't really make a difference day-to-day, where the RAM is just acting as a layer of caching, and no normal applications have a big enough working set to cause an issue.
If we could encode every permutation of weights, then it's like the Library of Babel for ML?

I guess we cannot copyright (GPU, CPU, algorithmic) effort in that case.

https://libraryofbabel.info/
You get an excel sheet with all the assets and their current mark. Then you typically have until late sunday to put the bid in so they can resolve the bank before market opens on Monday.

Source: was part of a team doing this valuation analysis over a very fun weekend in 2008 for one of the famous bank failures
The version of the X-15 that got the most impressive speed records was coated in an ablative paint designed to burn away while in flight to protect the plane.

With a rocket engine, reaction control system and ablative coating, the X-15 almost had more in common with a space ship than an airplane.
Using LLaMA with M1 Mac and Python 3.11
Seeing all of the “screw them, they are VC’s & tech bros, they took a risk they own it” sentiment on Twitter makes me sad. It’s a hard realization of how little clue so many people have about so much of the way the financial system works, and who would actually be impacted by these losses.

Also seeing finance bro hot takes like, oh those companies took the risk and should have done due diligence on the bank. SIVB was given an investment grade rating by both Moody’s and Standard and Poor. What due diligence are founders scrambling to find product market fit supposed to do in their spare time that is somehow beyond those organizations?
What does this mean? T-bills are already readily exchangeable. The problem arises when treasury bills are only worth 60 cents after you paid a dollar
You're being overly pedantic. It would be equally pedantic to say the Bobby Tables xkcd comic is "wrong" because an SQL injection ought to start with table enumeration rather than hard coding the 'Students' table name.
I don't see the link "they" and dashes. This seems like two completely separate matters / whataboutism.
Thanks for the link. That should be a top level post - submit it.
I suggest you try "TOTP applications" in Google. There are hundreds of alternatives and it is not difficult to find one.
> why 10 year bonds are much riskier

Yes, and why they yield more.
I think he continued precisely because he sees them as future lawyers. If you cannot engage people with such aspirations, we are doomed as a society.
> Are you really suggesting they open up 20 different bank accounts?

No. I said that putting all the money in one bank account is not extremely prudent, which seems obvious given the circumstances.

I'm pretty sure that there are individuals paying attention to this, so I don't think it's too weird to ask businesses to do so as well.
The evidence is all out in the open now - there's really no hiding from it any more.

In randomized control trials of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines here in the UK, we now know the risk of serious adverse effects was 12.5 per 10,000 vaccinated i.e. a ~1 in 800 change of serious adverse effects:

22-Sep-22
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36055877/

The UK government has now published its estimate of the number of people needed to vaccinate to prevent a COIVD-19 hospitalisation:

25-Jan-2023
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

For example in the 20-29 year no-risk group, the number needed to vaccinate to prevent one hopitalisation is 168,200. To prevent one serious hospitalisation requiring oxygen or ventilation you would need to vaccinate 706,500.

Even in the at-risk group for 20-29 years, the numbers are 7500 and 59,500 respectively.

In fact there was no group except for 70+ where the risk of hospitalisation (not severe requiring oxygen), came close to the risk associate with vaccine injury.

It's for this reason, that these mRNA vaccines are no longer being offered by the NHS.

Look - I'm sorry you were lied to, but at some point you've just go to hold your hands up and admit the truth of the matter.

Edit: plenty of downvotes, but no refutation.
Remembering reading about Elektro as a kid — had a whole children's book from the 70s detailing various robots that presented them as in-use for a range of activities from security to factories, which in retrospect seemed selling the capabilities quite a bit.

Surprised that this wasn't a Mechanical Turk-style set up, but it did seem to actually respond to "voice commands," though with some clever (if brittle) hacks:

> An operator gave voice commands to Elektro through a microphone, but the robot didn’t actually understand the words. According to an article in the August 1939 issue of Radio-Craft magazine, the voice commands were carefully timed syllabic codes, which were turned into electrical pulses by a grid-glow tube [PDF]. The pulse opened a shutter in front of a lightbulb, sending a flash signal across the room to a photoelectric tube in the robot’s control unit, located offstage. This “electric eye” translated the signal into an electric current and transmitted it through telephone relays to start Elektro’s gears whirring.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/elektro-the-motoman-had-the-bi...
I did not see any video where he responded at all, except the “you are an appalling idiot” spoken with composure. Are there others I can watch?
I mean there are some people who believe people shouldn’t pull their money out.
But Zagreb quite certainly does not have laws that prohibit living where offices and shops are. Or disallow offices and shops where people live.

Yet this is what happens in the US.

You can probably grab a tram, metro or bus to work. OFC leftovers from "city planning" under Tito/socialism means there's more distinction between "living" and "commercial" areas than most of Western Europe. But its quite certainly nowhere near as bad as the suburbanism in the US. Which was my point.
So, going to dinner on a Saturday night is now... a luxury?

And catching a new movie on a big holiday weekend is now... a luxury?

And going to the gym after work is now... a luxury?

Doesn't this feel like a "winner-take-all economy on steroids"?
Use "unknown" and TS complains that you're treating something as an object.

Use Object.defineProperties and TS complains because that stuff is invisible to it after how many years?

I think you're right, of course, but TS is hardly perfect and treating its ways as gospel is not an improvement over JS. The "right ways" change over time and beliefs are not shared among everyone.
Would you suggest that every small business in the US with working capital over the FDIC limits do something like this? It would be a massive waste of resources. FDIC insurance exists to stabilize this part of the financial system.
That's why I used the dash...
One day someone may come on this message board and say:

Perhaps you are too young to remember what life was like before SVB failed? Before banks were made to be more responsible with depositor money so people wouldn't be hurt, and before the sociopathic fake-libertarian culture of Silicon Valley elites was finally dead and buried along with a few of their Tahoe cabins and a couple companies that advanced innovation by tricking people into ordering food from existing restaurants on fake websites?

I remember, they will say, how there was a bank that was so dominated by cronyism and collusion that they were forcing companies all from one very narrow sector to keep large uninsured balances in one bank while they bet all that money on long-dated securities for some inexplicable reason.

Remember how the bank got people to go along with this insane plan by giving the people with fiduciary responsibility for these company treasury decisions mortgages, even when the banking market in general had deemed them too high risk?

Wow that was crazy. Anyways they died. This is the nature of disruption. Entrepreneurs have a negative experience with an entrenched crony-driven legacy industry, have a lightbulb moment, and then build banks that don't do shit like that.

So the quaint pastoral notion of the innocent startups and VC podcast hosts being obliterated by the terrible negligent actions of the government is just wrong. They knew they were mispricing risk and they just didn't fix it. Even after their bank failed they sought -- are still seeking? -- to defend the status quo rather than realize a justified loss and create a better and safer banking experience.

I look forward to reading these comments in the future.

Just for reference I've been building on the web since about 1994. It's a lovely perspective that makes it much easier to realize just how fundamentally full of shit all these guys are on this topic today.
I'd say it's "inspired" rather than "translated".

The part about using the typescript language server to compute the solution, and the protagonist claiming the code is "concise" because only 4 lines of javascript were generated, was absolutely brilliant. Cracked me up at least.

Glancing at the actual code, I admit I'm with Criss in my ability to follow the logic, but it doesn't look like a direct translation from Haskel types to Typescript types either.

At any rate, very well done.
> SVB’s was basically as high as possible

Borderline investment grade isn’t “high as possible.”
'Byrne then emerged as a leading figure in promoting conspiracy theories, including the "Deep State" conspiracy theory. In 2020 and 2021, he repeatedly promoted unevidenced claims that Donald Trump had won the 2020 U.S. presidential election due to voter fraud.'

involved with...

"Maria Butina worked as an assistant for Aleksandr Torshin, a former member of the Federation Council, a member of Vladimir Putin's United Russia party, and a deputy governor of the Central Bank of Russia. In this role, she worked to infiltrate conservative groups in the US, including the National Rifle Association, as part of an effort to promote Russian interests in the 2016 United States presidential election. The Senate Intelligence Committee later concluded that she attempted to persuade the Trump campaign to establish a secret communications back channel with Russia."

Two sides of the same coin these days...
You’re the guy in corollary 1 in this article.

https://yosefk.com/blog/people-can-read-their-managers-mind....

Either you’re successful AND your managers have an epiphany that you were right and they were wrong, or you fail and your managers will punish you for ignoring their instructions. It’s a risky strategy for an employee.
They were shut down because they were insolvent to the tune of $950M. It's not just that liquidation wasn't fast enough; liquidating assets also meant they needed to mark-to-market their 1.5% debt notes which they could previously account as hold-to-maturity. This transitioned them from kinda insolvent (but not in an accounting sense) to fully insolvent.
Using × or ∙ for multiplication is, IIUC, a cultural differentiator – just like English uses . as a decimal separator, but many Europeans use , for the same purpose. But in Unicode, × is “MULTIPLICATION SIGN” and ∙ is “BULLET OPERATOR”, and * is more visually similar to × than ∙, so I assume that’s where it originates.
What I've noticed is that it's optional for most places I applied to. There was this time where I applied to a startup and added a cover letter. The interviewer remembered of me as "the guy who wrote a cover letter".

That made me realize that since most people aren't doing it, a cover letter would help me standout. Seeing a cover letter is rare enough that people value it more. Nowadays, I make one for any role I'm very excited about.
Easy one: he pulled his money and then triggered the run https://mobile.twitter.com/jonsarlin/status/1634712724117794...
funnel is still in alpha stage, you have to join the waitlist to be added to the testers, could take a long time…
This is the second completely detached from reality statement you have made. The US government requires that banks spend 90% of their deposits on tbonds so that they can continue to fund the process of money creation.

The strategy is mandated by regulation post 2008. The mistake svb made was buying 10 year instead of 3 month. Hard to explain that one other than the fed said inflation would be transitory and it wasn’t.
> or however you spell his name

Sacks is spelled with a CK.
Unfortunately from the businesses point of view it doesn't work necessarily. Small creators make proportionally much less money than big creators, specially in platforms such as Spotify. Also platforms such as Spotify aren't even profitable (at least not yet) [0].

I would love to see a better internet, but I'm the first to admit I have no idea how to monetize it in less invasive ways that keep it accessible.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/technology/spotify-beats-revenue-for...
Something tells me you don't understand the difference between the bank, its shareholders, and its account holders. Unless you just think its peachy that a bunch of businesses lose everything because their bank made some actually not all that risky investments and some people got spooked. This isn't 2008.
Might have also been that recreational places were mostly closed or on limited hours, and many people forced into working from home didn't have adequate physical space or time management habits to create boundaries.
Continued use of the word “safe” and “safety” was strange. What about his appearance was unsafe? Can’t you leave the room if you feel unsafe?
> How could this be 3x the price per square foot of private office space?

It was designed by Frank Gehry and built by Gensler for a client that had an open pocket book. You'd be surprised at how much a pane of glass can cost when it's glass that has to go into a Frank Gehry building.
Oh for an even better example -

My mom gets pneumonia fairly frequently and gets very severe cases of it. She is an absolute tank who could be on deaths door and would look normal.

She currently is extremely ill with pneumonia. She went to her doctor last week and told them she was coming down with it, and explained to them that everytime she gets pneumonia she has to have X Y and Z medications in order to treat it. The doctor refused to prescribe them, gave her a much much weaker antibiotic and no steroids, and sent her home instead. She came back two days later after not feeling better and they sent her home again. She finally came back a 3rd time and waz given meds X and Y but not Z. Still not better, she went a 4th time and was given X and Y again without Z. She has fought tooth and nail to be properly treated and has STILL not been given the meds that she knows will help her. She is currently on hour 35 of sleep in 48 hours and is still sick as a dog.

This is just routine for american docs in my experience. Perhaps I live in a medical care desert, but this is just not even remotely unusual.

Doctors ignore your cincerns, fail to address them, and then when you play thr squeeky wheel in order to get some grease, act like you are a burden on their ability to care for other patients.
I have a windows machine for sim racing that has an I9 10 core processor with 64gb of ram across all 4 slots.

I’ve never seen the ram usage exceed 25%, even in the most demanding uses such as VR sim racing, or developing full stack code with a bunch of IDE’s and vms running.

I believe 32gb will be the next standard, as is 16GB is today. I don’t believe the next hop to 64GB will happen anytime soon in the next 10 years. I believe 32gb will be enough resources to hold over the next computing wave.
I’m boldly assuming that interest rates will change in the future. There’s no denying that SVB have fucked up, but equally it’s possible they would have survived if a bank run hadn’t occurred, and they had sufficient time to unwind their bonds, and raise needed capital to cover their inevitable losses.

Or maybe they would have managed to limp on long enough for interest rates to drop just low enough for their bonds to recover enough value to be sold without bank ending losses.

But who knows. There was a bank run, facilitated by VCs, which ironically, is now going to really hurt the very VCs that fanned the flames. Now we get to see how SVB gets unwound, who gets fucked, and who ends up picking up the tab.
It’s from the hubris and excesses of recent SV culture.

And most Americans have no conception of being able to have 250k in a checking account.

The vengeance attitude can be taken too far however but as depositors are ultimately made 80-100% whole seems a reasonable outcome.

Bottom line uninsured means uninsured. Read your contracts. Although shouldn’t be angry if they can be made whole.
Simply because "depositing" money at a bank is not supposed to be a safe operation. You're lending money to the bank. There is risk involved. If the government made it look like there's no risk, then someone is paying to offset that risk. I don't want to be the one paying for it.
Fizz-buzz in Tensorflow is a delight.

The ending is perfect.
There’s really no getting around the fact that you need to live an active life of consuming things in moderation to be healthy.
The politicisation should be obvious from the "eat the rich" rhetoric currently floating everywhere on Twitter. The government is mostly concerned with the stability of the economy and preventing cascading bank runs, which this climate is less conductive to. That much should be obvious to a slightly keen observer.

While it's well and good in theory that deposits are capped at $250k, adhering strictly to that rule right now will cause cascading consequences much more serious than the price of this guarantee.

Sensible realpolitik right now is to guarantee the deposits to prevent cascading wealth destruction that will very much hit Joe Average, then adapt the system to prevent moral hazard and ensure that this insurance premium is collected in the future. There will probably be a way to recoup the cost of the guarantee from debt holders to SVB, but right now the real concern is putting out the burning crisis of confidence.
This has been my experience with FF as well. Which is a pity because I really like to use FF instead of Chrome or anything else.

And here I thought all major browsers have implemented the feature where unused tabs are unloaded from memory after some time.
Obligatory throwback to the Xerox incident: https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...
Is the latest Joe Rogan podcast out already?
>The bad startups should just fall.

The bad startups that... failed to do due diligence on which bank they chose? Do you really think that we should add "financial risk analyst" to one of the competencies required for a startup founder?
What about all the businesses that provide a free tier of their service with advertising but offer a paid version without advertisements? Many smartphone apps are free but ad-supported, but you can purchase the app to remove the ads.

And to be clear, the personally targeted advertising based on harvesting personal information is fundamentally different than the audience-targeted advertising in mass media. That and the interaction with the service to grab and sustain attention is what has led to Cory Doctorow's "enshittification" of the internet.
There were also short positions on SVB taken out after some of those financials.

Startup founders/teams should not be spending their time reading their 40 year old bank's quarterly financials, analyzing various short positions, or hiring resources to do so. Then there's (as always) the absurdity of making significant financial decisions for your startup based on a more-or-less random fund/personality twitter account that may have an undisclosed short position spreading FUD (or just be flat-out wrong).

Hindsight is 20/20 and even the most sophisticated actors taking short positions have failed spectacularly. For cases as dramatic as this ($200b bank failure) it's the stuff they make movies of ("The Big Short").

The fact remains that other than a few hawks this came out of nowhere last Thursday, and as the article and other sources describe not even Thiel and other sophisticated insiders were that far ahead but as we all know when it comes to a bank run those hours are precious.
I don’t see a usecase where a non dev should expose some local resource to the internet.
These people don’t run local webservers, nor know how they work.

ngrok is a developer tool. I don’t see why marketing a dev tool to non devs is a good idea, maybe somebody can explain?
This is the exact lack of nuance that OP is talking about. Do you understand what is actually happening here? A bank is going under and potentially taking a ton of startups with it, not because of any poor decisions or lack of legit business model by the startups. It’s purely due to an internal implementation detail of the (until now) we’ll respected bank that holds their money.

I swear if it was called “generic bank” instead of “Silicon Valley Bank”, we wouldn’t be seeing all of these knee-jerk “good because they’re bad” responses.
People in general who are not good at something or didn't find success in that field, in order to feel their salt's worth have 2 options - either build something that's far greater than what they are not good at, or disparage what they you are not good at. The latter is a lot easier.
I mean flipping burgers doesn't really help as much in the long run. My college teammates and friends that I met through sports ended up being a pretty solid network. So many CFOs, VPs, etc obviously. But one Federal Judge, one Secret Service agent, one FBI Agent. The Secret Service guy actually walked onto the practice field his first day (this is D3 small school) having been a 2 way all state player in high school and said "I'm literally never going to touch the field" because everyone was so much bigger and more athletic than him at even a non-scholarship school. He stuck with it all 4 years though. That kid had grit as they say.

Interesting, what was the prep school? My school required 4 years of math/science in HS which is a thing many US schools don't require but if you're a top student you can go for. One kid I played with only had 2 years of HS. He spent the whole summer on campus from like 3 days after HS graduation to 3 days into football taking stats, physics, chemistry, and college algebra to get him up to snuff. I think that may be similar to the prep you're talking about. He ended up doing fine (average grades) in the B school, and I believe is a arson investigator now.
"Why did this happen?"
"Our UI was bad."
"Why?"
"No, that's the root cause."
As I say, most of those are in extremely elderly or obese category.
Are bidders expected to forget or "un-see" such knowledge afterwards? Or is the information not that detailed / anonymized in some way?
It's probably a lot less exciting than you imagine. Wait for the movie in a few years.
#new repo for learning KQL. Also provide out of the box queries for hunting.
Absolutely. They would have a digital record of everything available in real time. If they didn’t then they were never a real bank.