skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if I'm contradicting myself but LazyVim has a lot of configuration code in addition, lots of custom keybindings and tweaks to each plugin's config.

But it's transparent in the sense that the lazyvim documentation site reveals how each part is configured.
Ill be glad to have an uncomfortable conversation for a few million dollars.
Already discussed:

Catholic group spent millions on app data that tracked gay priests
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35081899

Catholic priest quits after “anonymized” data revealed alleged use of Grindr
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27908921

Catholic Church official resigns after cell data tracked him to Grindr, gay bars
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27902214
It is a legal term.

A contract has to have 'consideration' (an exchange of value) to be legally binding in the UK. HSBC are taking this bank for free, but since you can't do that they say £1.

An even funnier term comes out of free property leases. Due to some historical convention the consideration is sometimes still written as 'one peppercorn if demanded'!
You don't know that a "certain class of society/account-holder is" being bailed out. Maybe you think it's likely, but the only people who really know the deal is the FDIC, and they seem confident that everything will wrap up cleanly.
Is it just me or is google getting a disproportionate amount of locked out issues?
As I understand it, there are enough ambulances if they are just transporting people to a hospital. There are not enough ambulances if they are being used as overflow beds for the hospital because the patients cannot be admitted because of lack of space.
Thanks, I kept thinking it was a typo in the title!
> Just shows that they knew even early SVB was fucked.

Right, that is the only reason why an insider would ever sell stock.

Here's the CEO's latest Form 4: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719739/0001562180230...

He exercised stock options to keep his ownership roughly the same at about 26 Million USD. Wonder why he didn't cash that out.

> But instead of doing something they kept it afloat until they sold their shares which took about month to let it fail after they cashed

What should they have done? How did they manage to keep aflot? Why did they stop?
Thanks for explaining how fascism starts to everyone. :^/

Corporativismo è bella!
Ah the make it more psychopathic button
Decision Transformer Interpretability
Let me try: once you've reached a certain level of development, your priorities change. You don't care anymore about making more money than everyone else, you care about living a life you enjoy, even if that means you're no longer number 1 on something.

Other countries that are still on the first phase and do prioritize beating everyone else, to the detriment of their health and personal life, will start overtaking you... with time, they too will start giving some importance to a healthy life and will start falling behind (China may already have reached that point, as we now see some other Asian countries taking some pieces of the cake - helped no doubt by the West's antagony to China and its authoritarian government)... and so the cycle continues...

The countries that reach the top level in qualify of life, like USA, Australia and most of Europe, tend to still stay quite wealthy, it seems... as they still have a highly educated population capable of creating value for the country and their fellow citizens... so this story seems to be going well so far.
With many online services, if there is something that needs verification (like confirming your email address), every time you use the app you will see a banner at the top reminding you of this need.

Anything that is a countdown to doom should be a persistent banner on the app, reminding you of the importance and maybe even showing how many days left you have to deal with it.
They have no choice, they are insolvent
TIL that most of HN has no clue how banking or finance works.
SVB signed exclusive deals with some clients, leaving them unable to diversify
Well putting more wood behind fewer arrows in this case is desirable for them. The point is there doesn't have to be historical precedent for a figure of speech. It just has to effectively communicate something.

Well I did business studies aswell so it might be management speak.
You can also use &nbsp; between the penultimate and the ultimate word, that doesn’t require additional styling.
I don't quite understand what you're getting at. The current president of Ukraine was born and raised in a Russian speaking part of the country and Russian is his first language.
It's not very convincing to portray an obvious lose-lose scenario as a win for anyone. What can be said is that Russia so far has not reached any of its political and military objectives. So far, the Russian aggressors have even failed to capture a relatively unimportant town of 70,000 inhabitants as part of an allegedly large offensive.
I think it's quite reasonable to look at propaganda motives, since the whole campaign of missile barrages during the last year is obviously primarily for "breaking the will"/propaganda/strategic communication purposes, there is literally no military tactical value for target like a behind-the-lines power plant, only the demoralizing propaganda effect of the population being without power with the expectation that they might pressure Ukrainian leadership towards whatever Russia wants.
Do tell us more. I suppose you downloaded the games to a floppy; did you have to worry about running out of space?
I also don't understand it. From what I've been reading, the UK SVB bank was in significantly better shape... But there was a fear that people might also run on it as well out of fear/misunderstanding... And that is obviously bad for banks in general.
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The sentence clearly means that it was never adjusted from inflation from when it was adjusted to 250K, 12 years ago. You can tell that this is far from being adjusted for inflation since it is now 100K off from what it was in 2010, or 40%. This should be a "neutral" issue with respect to the SVB thing, pegging it to inflation helps everyone in the system.
Trying to lob a few ballistic missiles at a couple of AA sites is not an effective route to suppressing any country's air defense system. Instead you want a systematic role back, which is the opposite of what we've seen Russia do.
You don't have to be an `Atlanticist` to see how bad things are for Russia in term of what they expected vs what they got, in fact even inside Russia many (pro war) voices criticise the pace and results of most operations.

They lost insane amount of men and equipment and aren't anywhere close to their initial objective, and they seem to struggle much more than Ukrainians in term of replenishing ammo and equipment

They're not losing the war but they're clearly struggling much more than they ever expected
All fine and good. Until the new owner just fires everyone over night anyway. At which point, I guess, it is not the previous ops team's problem anymore.
The official name is the Communist Party of China (CPC)
Chicago and Toronto are roughly the same size, but per-capta Chicago has ~10x as many murders. That’s fucked up.
Maybe the people running on the cloud are, therefore, efficient businesses? despite using a financially costly option? or thanks to AWS allowing an immediate setup ?
> Revoke banks ability to invest deposits.

This is literally the purpose of holding deposits for banks.
Could a negative correlation between fertility and intelligence be an explanation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence
bait and switch.

It's so easy, all you need is x. Then when you're far enough in they demand a through w or you're shutdown with extreme prejudice. Do they really need it? Is that what you agreed to? Did you negotiate the change in terms. "I am altering the deal, pray I do not alter the deal further..." They don't blush. They don't flinch they don't even blink. Good luck if you really don't have another choice.

Is the whole "cloud" just a con to trap people with predatory pricing into a massive overspend?
So concern trolling, take it elsewhere please.
List<Optional<T>> is pure insanity fwiw. Filter out your empties before making the list.
I get “IMPORTANT!” in headings from products I brought online. They’re not important at all. You’re aware of this being normal misuse too, because you use the internet.

Suspension, banning or deletion warnings should be labelled clearly as such in the title. Procedures need to reflect the actual environment.
Can you think of any differences in the economy of the 1930s and 40s versus today?
You wouldn’t buy it at face value. That’s what it means to say that its value has fallen.
Exercising peppercorn options is a taxable event.
While sometimes you may get the urge to say fair and peaceful statements, that statement was neither fair nor peaceful.
The curse of our industry: the majority of us are weak communicators, unable to explain why they sense the cloud is a poor choice. Meanwhile, the cloud sales people - picked because they are adept communicators - create a comprehensive reasoning mesh, literally playing with the in-house developers inability to explain the dangers they know and with which they are trying to snare the client.
I'm not sure that even the "AI generated output is not copyrightable" stance will be maintained - as long as "AI generated output" becomes big business. Same way copyright was invented and Sonny-Bono-extended to the max as long as content became big business.

In the model's case, though, it's even easier why it could be copyrightable, as a "baked" model is still created by people fine-tuning it, setting parameters and hardcoded stuff, training it with this or that set and excluding other, and so on.

For example music composed and rendered as audio by generative algorithms (something which doesn't even need AI, just some rules and stohastic processes) has been created and copyrighted just fine for decades...
LazyVim is also quite minimal and super easy to get started with. There are some defaults which are bothersome but you can just turn them off. I've been using it for a while and it is pretty good.

it is by folke I believe the same author of lazy.nvim.
And they did it tax free
It also works against the Federal Reserves stated policy of shrinking their balance sheet due to inflation.
There are some crypto startups but more are in SaaS, IOT, and several other categories. For some sense of the scene, look at Taiwan Startup Stadium's tags: https://www.startupstadium.tw/startups

What startup were you working on here?
Show HN: Chitty – A macOS native ChatpGPT client with custom assistants
Chitty is a ChatGPT client for MacOS, built with SwiftUI. Lots of ChatGPT clients are being published every day, but I wanted to focus on two things:

1. I wanted a "real" native ChatGPT client, not just a wrapped web view. Chitty closely resembles an iMessage like interface, which should feel familiar to most users instantly.

2. Chitty should allow you to chat with multiple AI personalities. These AI personalities can be real people (chat with Abraham Lincoln about his life), or made up.

The app comes pre-loaded with a handful of historic AI personalities that you can interact with: Jane Austen, Alan Turing, and Sojourner Truth. I focused on historic figures instead of more recent personalities, to remedy issues related to IP and plain bad taste. That being said, I also had fun adding some of my own programming heroes, and solving code problems with them. ChatGPT is great at impersonating people, as long as you tell it to stay in character.

I hope you find it helpful. Chitty is free for now, and likely will stay free, but who knows.
That’s $1.21 dollars. With a ‘D’.
Not exactly an "end" but appreciated nonetheless
Or maybe, make a phone call?
What else do you expect? Hollywood told us we can't loose so I guess it should be that.
It's all cope after cope after cope, poor Ukrainian men dragged by force are the ones paying for Zelensky next round of fundings.
It's important for sockets, less so for files, but they inherit that behaviour from the specification of the interface (https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/19/docs/api/java.base...).

See an old discussion about that here:

https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/nio-dev/2018-February/004...
This is my first ever SwiftUI app, and I had a lot of fun building it. I'm usually a web-person, but Electron just didn't feel right for this particular use case. Because I'm using the latest version of SwiftUI, I had to require MacOS 13.1, a fairly recent version of the OS.

I also considered ways to not require users to enter their own OpenAI API key. For friends and family I would be happy to just bake my own key into the app (or proxy calls through my own API), but I don't see how that would be feasible on a larger scale, while remaining free.

I'm here to answer comments, in case someone has questions!
The End of Silicon Valley (Bank)
The UK branch was not at risk, and was in much better shape.

Even if they had to close because their parents company was insolvent, you'd expect whomever is responsible for selling assets would want to get a better deal to get money back for shareholders.
> the reality is that no "intelligence" is sure if what it's saying may be correct or constitute any kind of "knowledge"

This is not true. An intelligence should almost by definition be able to recognize patterns, i.e. when things are similar or are the same. This is why we know that 1+1=2, since 1+1 and 2 are just different names for the same thing.

ChatGPT 'hallucinations' are a lack of this exact sort of consistency that makes it obvious that words are merely symbols and not representative of an actual thing. And how could it even know otherwise? ChatGPT is never exposed to things.

I'm certain in my knowledge of 1+1=2, but even if I wasn't, I know that 1+1=2 aren't just some ASCII symbols; but we're not entirely sure ChatGPT can be either of these.
yes, through depends what you mean with "everything else".

There are "rent a rack" options (you provide hardware, they provide a rack in a datacenter + network switch(es) + management tooling through the network etc. and when asked will replaces RAM/Disks etc as asked). You still have to maintain the OS through depending on the service you get and what you want to do this can be easier then expected (e.g. because networking is handled through their switches/tooling this can makes things easier and if you e.g. just want to run a single application per server there are net-boot options which allow you to do so in a manner similar to running docker containers. But if you want to run your own OCI container orchistrations then it comes with the cost of you having to well do that.).

But if you ask for you provide server hardware and container and they manage all the rest then I'm not sure it exists. It seems like a bad deal for them.
when my colleagues and I bought the IP off of the company we were dissolving, one of them bought a 1kg container of peppercorns for each of us to draw our consideration from.

The peppercorns are still taped to the folder of company documents in my filing cabinet
All military actions are for a political purpose. Sometimes that's long term and sometimes it's short term. Trying to "get a win" to boost morale is quite common. Think Sherman taking Atlanta in time for Lincoln's 1864 election.
-_-

“Oh, right.” He blusters a non-termination argument at nobody in particular. “That’s why we usually think in subsets of Haskell where types don’t have bottom values.”
Canada coexists with the USA, but if Canada has tried to outlaw English and make French the only state language, some different story could materialize.
If you watched Silicon Valley (the series), there is a line where one of the veterans asks Richard what the product of the startup is. Richard is a bit confused but fails to answer correctly. The veteran (Jack Barker) corrects him that the product of the startup is its stock. Richard was shocked for a while.

This guy is not a software developer and might not be interested in becoming one (he straight jumped into AI). However, he is definitively a skilled seller and despite his lack of a good command of the English language, he was able to compile some garbage with minimal technical knowledge and sell it for $65k.

Welcome to Web 4.0.
So awesome! Just tried and it worked great.
The line is a little blurry. You can be underwater in mark-to-market terms on a bond portfolio, but be fine if you guess the timeline for redemption and can hold them to maturity. Banks estimate what percentage of their assets will be held to maturity. So needing extra liquidity causes insolvency.
people will once again try to defend the indefensible. antediluvian fractional reserve banking as it currently stands is not fit-for-purpose and the price paid by society is high and will keep growin.

The other side of lazy private profits from "riding the yield curve" or which-ever else inane business model is recurrent crises and social costs, sometimes overt, sometimes obscure.

Arbitrary and ad-hoc explicit or implicit insurance schemes and put options, obfuscation and complexity, moral hazards and perverse incentives under every carpet.

A fair and democratic society, especially in the hyperconnected digital age must very seriously consider the wiring of the monetary/credit system. The rule should be simplicity, transparency and working hard for the money: return strictly coupled to risk.

Core to a better design will almost certaintly have to be the concept of risk free deposits with the central bank that are not subject to runs. The rest needs to be worked out.
The fee is not the same for all banks. FDIC assessments are based on risk. Riskier banks pay more, safer banks pay less.

Would you notice a 5 basis point change in your savings account?
I think they're actually inherently less accurate, even with a bow suited to them, even with a crossbow.

The fletchings have less of a moment arm to correct things.
Bank 1 starts with $1000 in t-bills and $1000 in t-bonds (face value $1000)

The bonds lose 20% (for simplicity the t-bills gain 0%)

Bank 1 ends with $1000 in t-bills and $800 in t-bonds (face value $1000)

According to some people Bank 1 can say “I have $2000 it’s just that I don’t have them right now”

Bank 2 starts with $1800 in t-bills and $200 in NFTs

In the same period the NFTs lose 100%

Bank 2 still has $1800 in t-bills, sells $800 and buys $800 of those t-bonds which are trading at a 20% discount to par

Bank 2 ends with $1000 in t-bills and $800 in t-bonds (face value $1000)

Bank 1 and Bank 2 are in the same exact situation

Bank 1 can say “I have $2000 it’s just that I don’t have them right now” but Bank 2 cannot do the same?
I like this all upside, minimal downside method of business. How can I set up a nice company that will partially insure the money I get but ensure a bailout will cover the rest should the risks come to fruition?

Also, how do I make it hard for my customers to understand the risks they are taking on so that I can use compassion to ensure such bailouts?
Ionos
I don’t really think slapping a UI on someone else’s library and then pumping and dumping it is that impressive.
5 basis points was the last special assessment in 2009. Would you seriously notice a 0.05% lower rate of return on your account?
It's my understanding that HSBC is a British bank, has this changed?
CCP is more commonly used in English; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party.
Getting set up in AWS in a remotely manageable way is in no way "immediate" - a lot of my income came from that fact (and another large chunk came from fixing setups that had descended into total chaos because people "just" started spinning up resources without properly managing it)

If you want ad hoc rapid setup you can get a managed server up and running about the same time as an instance with AWS too, from a provider that also offers colos and cloud so you can pick and choose and move between the three depending on what is most cost effective for specific needs. In practice, ironically, having that option makes cloud instances even less cost-effective because having the option of spinning up cloud instances an tie them into your environment means your can allow yourself to have less spare capacity on your managed/colo servers.
EDIT: Some could link to Chinese roots because of its name:
Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation

+ the largest shareholder of HSBC is Ping An (whose major owner is Central Huijin Investment = Central Communist Government)
Well, no it's not flawed. For one, he did mention that ASML and NXP flourished when freed from the bad management of Philips.
I think the issue is that 15 years after the GFC, again the government seems to be needed to prevent a systemic banking crisis. What ever rules where enacted etc. had maybe very little effect if a small bank (and the 16th largest bank isn't a mega-bank) can bring down the system without a government backstop.

If lending to banks is too risky for most, then perhaps most should not be allowed to lend to banks. Are bank deposits really the right way to fund banks if they come with these systemic risks or should it all be bonds etc. (and then also have very narrow limits for regulated investors)? Maybe a lot more should be direct lending and not bank lending?
It's like the old "Mission Impossible" reveal where there are nested masks:

1. we'll come in and replace you're idiot government goons with our idiot government goons.

2. we'll come in and punish/kill all the people you don't like.

3. we'll come in and clean things up; maybe have to kill some of people too. Sorry, but it'll be worth it after we finish!

4. looks like we were actually going to come in and kill lots of people indiscriminately, take lots of stuff and your children too. If you don't like it you know where to send a complaint.

5. yeah, we're actually just going to kill everyone here and start over, even the ones who look like they're cooperating. That's actually always been the plan; thanks for your help.

The people of Ukraine seem to know the stakes, and have for a while. In fact, it seems like most of the "ex soviet sphere of influence" countries are aware of what goes on in lubyanka.

In a democracy (to some extent) the government serves the people; in an autocracy the people and everything else in the country exist only to execute and glorify the whims of the leader.
It would have been just as barbaric, but then that would be in line with Russian stated goals of the war i.e. to "protect the Russian-speaking people from oppression", and Russian terror-bombing of these civilians exposes this as obvious lie.
This is my preferred method (now!). Also very simple to write a couple of lines of JavaScript to target P and H elements and replaces the last space with a non breaking space.

But a CSS method is very welcome!
As a layman, I thought stress tests were done on some regularity and were supposed to pick up weaknesses like the ones experienced by SVB. Is little more than a figleaf that only exposes egregious malfeasance?

And, how can not having a CRO not be a critical issue for a bank? I understand another officer in the UK was taking on those duties but apparently they were busy with other roles and didn't give the CRO role the importance it deserved.
>> Sure, but loaning out deposits creates money, does it not?

No. It moves it to someone else and creates a debt. It needs to be paid back.
Except that FDIC considers SVB to be a non-bank financial institution and thusly are not insurable.
They are cheap but the amount of advertising in their products atleast from where I am makes it is a turn off for me.
Cost is relative. If Kinzhals and Iskander only cost $2 million a country like Russia would have been able to produce many more of them.

The low prices that Russia cites for its military equipment is propaganda to push the narrative that they can figh and win wars more effectively than the West. The prices that are listed for their tanks are often the subsidized per unit price of a handful tanks given to some African war lord.