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Barney Frank Pushed to Ease Financial Regulations After Joining Signature Board
> If the savings and loan of Bismarck North Dakota fails, is the government bailing out the car lot owner and the wheat farmer and the home builder?

Yes, the depositors would get bailed out, but the bank itself would be sold for parts. That might constrain the way that retail deposits are allowed to be managed.

A start would be undoing the Trump administration's rollback of Dodd-Frank stress testing requirements for smaller banks [1]. It will probably also mean the FDIC will require more insurance on deposits. This will all hurt profitability of banks, and reduce risk for depositors.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/24/trump-signs-bank-bill-rollin...
The bank was having trouble processing routine transactions for Thiel's fund. That is definitely normal bank stuff. The bank was illiquid to the extent that it was impacting day to day operations.

The events are described here: https://news.yahoo.com/thiel-founders-fund-withdrew-millions...
Yes, however I got this: https://imgur.com/a/Nlf6tox

When I followed the links, HN showed your pre-edit comment.

I swear I've seen "* * *" on HN, but maybe it was just on hw.leftium.com and any other clients of the HN API.
Not exactly AI/ML, but I had some years of experience in Android, then RoR and engineering management. Then got an MS in Bioinformatics and now do PhD in Medicine. Which is really data analysis of sequencing data. I use some “AI” models as well. I’m doing a PhD at a company, away from the academic institution where I’m formally enrolled. So it’s kind of like a regular job.

But I’ve also seen colleagues pivot into data engineering. They’ve done it within the same company by simply asking, I guess? When there’s a role available and you do your homework there’s a chance to change the field.
Lots of cuts to services over a decade before COVID.

Then COVID came and routine treatment is paused, and now yes - we are in a situation where people aren't getting ambulances and at the same time ambulances are piling up outside hospitals as there is no space to take patients.

TLDR - yes, outlet government has been running down the health service to the point people are dying.
They're claiming quite broadly that reality is unknowable, ultimately. That's where you end up if you follow their premise. Nobody can know anything with certainty, in other words.
Libertarianism isn't the same as anarcho-capitalism. If some people are claiming they're the same thing then, well, see above.
You understand the fundamental problems here and have chosen to share your insights for free. Banks have professional employees who are paid decent money to make these kind of risk assessments even more rigorously. Why would we accept the idea that they can get by with being less objective? I am not an investor at all and even I understand that when the Fed is raising rates to control inflation portfolio owners need to rebalance their asset mix as the financial environment changes.

Stop giving these guys a pass just because of your residual (and justifiable) skepticism about fiscal/monetary policy. I have similar doubts about how government manages public finances, but I also know that depending on a low-yield bond purchased before a pattern of graduated interest rate hikes is gonna leave you with a cash flow problem.
Only if you're not fluent in corporatease. Whenever I see an e-mail entitled "Changes in [some organization]", I assume that one or more of the following is true:

1. The leader is leaving.
2. People are getting laid off.
3. They're exiting a line of business.
4. They sold the company.
When was GitLab ahead of GitHub? I've been using both for as long as I remember, I always thought GitLab is more marketing than GitHub. Believe or not, I prefer BitBucket because I don't care much for CI integrations.
There are ways to configure the texture blitter to be precisely 1:1. This is written into the GL/Vulkan standards for exactly this reason, and all hardware supports/special cases it. It is how pretty much every GUI subsystem out there handles windowing.
I was hoping they would announce something like that. I bet it kills off the similarly sized BGAN service from other satellite providers.

I'm involved with disaster response and the size and power requirements of current antenna are problems. Something smaller, slower, and easy to power with battery and solar would be very useful.

Also, new antenna might work well for remote sites. Stick it on pole, power with some solar panels and batteries.
The fully remote approach may have hit its limits.
Can’t wait for the day there isn’t this hive mind surrounding VCs and the tech elite at large. Bank runs, mass layoffs, etc. All of them are just copying what others are doing.
Absolutely. We definitely need to put a spotlight on this and other dwindling fish stocks. Even though there are other populations to draw from, once they're gone they are very, very hard to get back.
We are primarily targeting ducted options. For us, air quality means manage particulate (PM2.5), CO2 with fresh air intake, and humidity in the home.
But that's still "You have to check any facts against expert sources"! You just have the advantage of being your own personal expert.
We use Bitbucket at work. If we switched to some other forge next week I would not care.

Git forges should be expendable.
Story is about Colorado homes, and we all know how affordable housing is in Denver.

Sarcasm aside, I don't want to guess what The Atlantic writers/editors consider an affordable home. Most people can't afford to get a NON net-zero house these days, and that's not anywhere near a millionare budget.
“They are no longer with us” is widely understood and very unlikely to be ambiguous. If you said “they were impacted” I would lodge the same complaint.
You lose earnings. You don’t lose the stake. But when you are forced to sell early, you do lose the stake.
> Both depend on maintaining the secrecy of a specific piece on non-design / non-implementation knowledge.

I would say that Google Workspaces' implementation of "Anyone with the Link" authorization was never intended to depend on secrecy (or obscurity or what have-you).

I would say that we'd need to consider a more expansive and open, permissive model than that. "Anyone who has the link can edit this" should not be considered as "hide this URL from anyone you don't want editing it" but rather "This is a world-writable document. Discovery merely depends on getting the link right."

Imagine if this were a massively multiuser Unix system and not the WWW. Your admin creates for you an obscure, long pathname ending in a long base64 filename. It is mode 6777. "Anyone with the pathname" can edit it! Now is the pathname like a password, or is it just a pathname sitting there in the system? Arguably, Unix pathnames are more discoverable than arbitrary Docs links. But the idea is the same, isn't it? A Google Doc/Sheet/Slide/Drive whose permission is "Anyone with the link" may <X> is, when you boil it down, world-writable, no excuses, no ifs-ands-or-buts.
He vanishes on the horizon and no one has seen him since.
What's not to get?

The news company is in the biz of making money for themselves not for facebook. People not clicking the links and reading the articles weren't generating income for them (nor were they getting informed in any meaningful way) however they were enriching another platform (facebook).

So now the users aren't being given links, which they weren't really clicking to begin with, so the news company isn't losing any significant money but at least their work (articles) aren't being used to enrich facebook.

Thier strategy is that the users will eventually want news from somewhere and either they will go to the source, or they will grow dissatisfied with facebook since they don't show news anymore and facebook may pay for the content to keep their own users happy.

it's a minimal risk proposition for the media companies.
I don’t like semantic games either. I always do my best to resolve a word to mean “the thing people care about when they use this word”. In the case of “bailout” it seems to me that what people care about is whether it will cost taxpayers.

In the case of SVB, it seems that their assets will cover their deposits, and FDIC has an insurance fund that gives them the liquid capital to cover deposits immediately while waiting for assets to sell. So no cost to taxpayers - not even in the form of “higher deposit insurance costs to banks being passed on to bank customers, who are taxpayers”.

(It’s possible to play semantic games until we formulate a picture that does show taxpayers will pay, e.g. “the FDIC’s deposit insurance fund is made up of payments made by banks, and banks would have passed on the cost of those payments to customers in the form of not offering as much interest on deposits as they otherwise would have offered, so the funds used to make the bridge are a bailout the taxpayer has already paid for”. Money is infinitely fungible, you can always tell a story where taxpayers paid the bill. But we said we weren’t going to play semantic games.)
Hilarious that this is posted on a site - tumblr - that itself is full of dark pattern garbage.

"Open in app" whizzing about
"I love tracking cookies" over half the screen.
The article suggests that users install Google Authenticator for 2FA, but I would suggest looking elsewhere. The developers pushed a change sometime within the last year where the app takes several seconds to respond when you first open it as well as when the codes refresh

I have recently switched to 2FAS (https://2fas.com/#) which has been much more responsive so far. I'm also interested in hearing if anyone has other recommendations
Paul Krugman: “Silicon Valley Bank Isn’t Lehman”
It's actually better.
I'd be curious to know how much the savings were vs building new at the time.
GitLab increased their prices significantly in the past two years, which resulted in them being less competitive on price than GitHub and others https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/03/02/gitlab-premium-upda...

As others have pointed out in comments, their features seem to be incomplete but I think it's their higher price points that pushed users away.
Not really IMO. Seems pretty by the books SIMD optimization at the high level (main body vs manually peeled iteration for the tail), just using a nice instruction set. Straightforward vectorization of the original code. I suspect modern AVX is probably not much worse.

You're more-or-less programming in assembly here using these intrinsics, using C for goodies like for loops, and at the moment that's about as good as you can do while scalable autovectorization is still WIP/NIH in most compilers, so it's not really surprising or noteworthy. For experienced SIMD programmers, this is the standard approach to getting data parallelism out of many "boring" algorithms.
Ask HN: Why don't cities have maintenance free neighborhoods via higher taxes?
Some house owners may prefer to pay higher property taxes to have the city take care of all maintenance of their houses.

And if an entire neighborhood is like that, then maintenance can be done by the city in a more cost effective way.
When a building is on fire, no one is going to (nor should they) blame you for trying to get to the exit.

Did Peter Thiel cause the bank to fail? No, their mis-management did.

Did Peter Thiel try to safeguard his companies' bank positions? Yes, so they can make payroll and operate.

Who are these people to throw blame, when the building's still smoldering ashes and the smoke hasn't cleared. Maybe he called the CEO and got bad messages. Maybe no one talked to him, so he said, "F it, pull out". No one yet knows all the factors which caused the failure, but let's start with the company itself, not its customers.
Prisoner's Dilemma:

Two members, A and B, are being driven around Silicon Valley and possesses every modern means of communication with each other. The bank holding their funds will collapse, but only if both of them send a globally accessible message advising everyone in the world to remove their funds from the bank.

I've run some simulations in Python-- the best I can get is for one of the members to learn to refrain from resending the first member's global message 32% of the time. (But be careful with this-- once B accidentally escaped the simulation and shot out a tweet that caused a small ruckus for an investment bank in Omaha.)
When I saw the March "Who is hiring?" I couldn't help but think "truly, who is?".

My friend is on the lookout for a new role and his experience so far is that it's mostly CV hoarders who approach him on LinkedIn. One case we all but confirmed because I used to work for the company which was supposedly hiring, but I asked a person from there and nope, not very actively, no.
Chris, great and i love that you're working on this. We need more heatpumps in this world!

Any chance there's a solution coming for people with hydronic systems? We have a house in rural Ontario that has in-floor hydronic in the basement and hydronic radiators upstairs too. We'd love to get off propane, but there are virtually zero options without us installing ducts (which due to the German wood-frame design is very difficult to achieve without a lot of unfavourable cosmetic alterations)
true story: the last Harley Davidson i bought after I made Journeyman was financed through H-D Financing because in the 21st century vehicle companies are just thinly veiled loan companies. During the sit-down with the moneyman he grunted a few times looking at Experian and Equifax before flipping the screen to me and asking to pull up my FICO score instead from my credit card company. it took ten seconds and i got approved for a pretty good rate. When I asked what happened he said Experian says no to anything without the last name Rockefeller, and Equifax can never find anyone before it crashes.
I remember Gitlab having some features that Github lacked and subsequently ripped off, such as merge queues.
And they wouldn't have been able to do that, if not for the regulations being rolled back (from $50B to $250B by a friend of Thiel and lobbying by SVB). Lots of sowing and reaping going on.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-dodd-frank/trum...
See also cod fishing in Newfoundland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_fishing_in_Newfoundland

Cod stocks collapsed in the early 1990s, with a moratorium on fishing enacted in 1993. It took until 2011 for signs to show that the ecosystem was recovering.
He missed a bet in not describing that as a "powerful human mandibular compression"
Yes, every time I do a double take. My brain is thinking should I press the button that looks disabled or should I press this shiny looking button here...
I think it's fair to think of "notionally" as "not actually".
Or maybe people just aren't interested in news beyond headlines at all and if society wants news to exist it needs to be subsidized. What better way to subsidize than forcing the people who are profiting off it to pay its creators?
He was practically the GOP economic ideologue under Trump.
There was a tiny period where github was a bit stagnant and gitlab felt more capable. Felt a bit like mysql vs postgres. Now I think github got the lead back (slightly simpler UI/workflow). But i don't know much.
good for you!

therapy for me has been about finding subconscious choices like those

on the other hand, sorry for you... why would one choose to feel negative emotions like shame?
Yeah it’s really annoying. I guess I’ve just sensitized myself to ignore it and click through.
That sounds like the worst kind of tech position to be in
Yep - board supports it. Unfortunately even the passive cards seem to be minimum 150 bucks.

I have a feeling that by the time I get round to this 8TBs may be so cheap that dual of those in the mobo ports may be enough haha
First catch is that someone needed to spend the enormous up front cost to train the base model, then release it under a flexible enough license for your use case.

The second catch is that you would get much higher quality out of the 65b model, but would need to lay out a few thousand for the hardware.

The third catch is that you need the fine tuning data, but that seems easier than ever to create out of more capable LMMs.
Good point - $32K per student is actually lower than it was in 1991, and that is likely due to including grad students, whose numbers have increased and whose tuition is often covered by assistantships.

Grad students are still paid poorly however, especially when one considers the amount of money the research they perform brings into the university.
This is a seriously naive misunderstanding of how neural networks (and machine learning "algorithms" in general) work.

Someone chose the features, the model architecture, the training data, and SGD parameters; it might not even be a NN (and probably isn't) — it could be a traditional linear regression model, or gradient-boosted decision trees. Someone analyzed the model performance on a test set and maybe even ran simulations to see how effective the model was at learning a known functional form. Someone made reports on that performance and included estimates like "probability of falsely denying claims on average" broken down by 10-year age bracket. An intern might have helped. A team lead coordinated meetings with whatever VP was running the project and signed off on the model. Senior management budgeted months worth of person-hours on model development and integration/deployment into production systems. And the model could have been rejected or modified at any point. The model training code is probably sitting on someone's laptop right now, and absolutely can be revised at any point in time, either slightly or significantly.

This is no magic in something like this. There are no positronic brains to wonder about. It's just a fucking best-fit line, and someone had to both draw the damn line and sign off on it.
Some of the power management issues have been fixed semirecently with a firmware update for the thunderbolt controller IIRC
Their filter for blocking sites subject to the link tax caught some NGOs and government agencies, there was zero evidence that this was intentional. "Some think X happened" is a vastly weaker claim. Some think the earth is flat. Some think the 2020 election was stolen.
Knowing something is written Rust does tell me that it will be relatively easy to add my own features (possibly upstreaming those changes if others so desire) and fix any bugs I find.

Why? Because a project written in Rust will certainly be using Cargo for package management, which is absolutely delightful relative to just about any other language’s package manager.

I can git clone and start hacking on just about any Rust project almost immediately. If I’m using 100 tools throughout the day (that’s a conservative estimate) I’d much prefer each of those were written in Rust than C or C++, for instance. Otherwise that’s 100 opportunities for me to find a missing feature or bug and end up futzing with autotools and cmake and ninja and distro-packaged but-not-quite-the-right-version dynamic libraries and broken pkg-config files and and and…

As an example, I recently needed to add support to probe-rs for debugging embedded devices via JTAG with a CMSIS-DAP probe. One git clone and I immediately have all of my dependencies resolved, my editor immediately has go to definition and autocomplete working, and I have a host of debug target definitions for debugging probe-rs itself.

OpenOCD doesn’t support the chip I’m targeting, so if I wanted to use that instead of probe-rs I’d have to first set up a dev env for it and add that support myself. That consists of using a tool like bear to trace the build execution so it can spit out a compile_commands.json file so the C and/or C++ language server can make sense of the project. Oh, and I need to repeat that step if I realize later that I missed a couple defines, otherwise the lang server will think huge swathes of code are preprocessed-out. And this is all after I’ve chased down the myriad of build and runtime dependencies.

I find missing functionality and/or critical show stopping bugs regularly in the tools I use, and it doesn’t matter if the tools are commercially funded or super popular or whatever: I opened an issue for a critical miss-linking problem in Google’s bazel build rules for the Go language, and that’s still open something like 6 years later. And ironically, I discovered the bug while working on a project that uses Go, C++ and C++ protobufs — two of those things are Google inventions, and the other is a predominant language in the Google stack! Their own stuff doesn’t even work together.

So no, it’s not a matter of me choosing bad tools, to be clear. I’m just often put in a position that the best course of action is rolling up my sleeves and fixing whatever issue I’ve discovered.

For someone like me, knowing something is written Rust gives me some peace of mind, knowing that it’ll be (comparatively) easy to work on when I inevitably discover a deficiency. Not because the language is great (though that’s also true), but because the package management simply doesn’t suck.

So please, please stop with the fallacy that “it has no merits on its own”. It does have merits, though maybe you don’t personally appreciate them. And that’s okay. But some of us do appreciate those merits — and they very much unequivocally, objectively are there.
And you're describing putting money in a bank as a "blunder," "idiocy" and "hubris." Which is where rational people will likely take exception with your viewpoint.
I've never used anything but vanilla Python venvs, and no they don't work reliably. What does is a Docker container. I keep hearing excuses for it, but the prevalence of Dockerfiles in GitHub Python projects says it all. This is somehow way less of an issue in NodeJS, maybe because local environments were always the default way to install things.
Except when you try to move it, or copy it to a different location. This _almost_ made sense back when it was its own script, but it hasn't made sense for years, and the obstinacy to just sit down and fix this has been bafflingly remarkable.

("why not make everyone install their own venv and run pip install?" because, and here's the part that's going to blow your mind: because they shouldn't have to. The vast majority of packages don't need compilation, you just put the files in the right libs dir, and done. Your import works. Checking this kind of thing into version control, or moving it across disks, etc. etc. should be fine and expected. Python yelling about dependencies that do need to be (re)compile for your os/python combination should be the exception, not the baseline)