skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the end of the road for crypto's intersection with the official banking system. After the recent financial disasters at FTX, Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, Silvergate Bank, etc, etc, I expect that there is going to a long period where and banks and regulators are no longer keen to experiment with allowing crypto to go more mainstream in the financial system. The tide will turn the other way, and for good reason. It's great that you're all having fun with dog coins or whatever but the financial system is an essential utility to the very survival and stability of human civilization itself, like the electrical grid, or GPS, or plumbing, and I think people will get the picture now about what "innovating" with allowing crazy private currencies to intersect with the official banking system leads to.
The stock isn’t being bailed out, but a certain class of society/account-holder is (again), which seems to be just as bad in terms of perpetuating the moral hazard.
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I'm not talking about what's perfect or not perfect. I'm talking about why OP thinks "the wealthy and powerful" are the reason for whatever shortcomings they perceive about the U.S.

Canada, for example, has basically the same corporate tax rates as the U.S. Canada's capital gains tax rate is effectively about the same as the U.S. for high income earners, because of only half of it is included in income. The social services are paid for by higher middle class taxes, including an 18% total VAT in Ontario.
> Accepting the hash lets people with database access perform a real login if needed.

... and if anyone managed to say do an SQL injection and retrieve said hashes, then that then would give them access to your users accounts, right?
I have a Python script, called t.py and a bash alias "t" that calls it. I use it for quick navigation in the terminal instead of "cd" and "pushd/popd".

The basic format is: "t <shortcut" while just "t" prints out all the shortcuts and waits for user input.

So, "t 1" goes to parent directory, faster than "cd .."
Then, "t 4" goes to "cd ../../../.."
And of course "t" will print out all the options.

"t a" goes to my main development git worktree, while "t b" goes to place I build from.

But the real star is the history. I embedded "`save_t_history`" into my bash prompt. That's another scropt that saves the current directory to a history file, then removes duplicates so staying in the same directory doesn't accumulate. Typing "t h" shows the history back to about 25 unique directories. Typing "t h1" goes to the last directory you were in. "t h5" goes five ago. I be working in tmux in one pane, and then jump to another and type "t h0" to bring it to the same directory.

This is basically my bread and butter for getting around.

I would post the code, but a.) it's on a work computer so technically property of my company and b.) it's a mess so I'd recommend others just build their own version.

A hint to get started is that the "t" alias is an alias for "cd `python3 /opt/t.py`"
My understanding was they they were 10 year T notes @ ~1%, which is kind of where I get lost.

There are way better ways to "yield chase" than this, why are we presuming greed here when it seems just as likely to be incompetence?
This concept reminds me of the intro to Sublime - April 29, 1992.
A simple diary script.

`$ diary` to create/open a file for today's diary in vim: https://github.com/Aperocky/diaryman/blob/master/diaryman.sh

Or try `pip install diarycli`: https://github.com/Aperocky/diarycli, for a pip packaged python version that does the exact same thing.

I've actually kept diary and work logs, things I did not know I was capable of.
I don't remember the exact script, but once had a shit temp job doing QA on standardized test software. Basically, Here's the answers, take the test and make sure it doesn't fuck up somehow. Used autohotkeys in a way that I could do 80% of my workload with only 4 keys of keyboard. (Multiple choice test). It was basically just abcd then a bunch of tabs and shift + tabs to navigate through the otherwise tedious UI. I considered bringing in a guitar hero controller and mapping them to that, but got fired for sitting on my desk before I had the chance.

Why it was even nessecary to dothis in the first place rather than a script that also entered the correct answer was presumably some weird thing in the contract with the state who administered the test.
America’s government steps in to protect depositors at Silicon Valley Bank
Oh man this is cool, i would definitely want to delete certain mail after a week or so like the subscribed news or mail notifications.
Would you ask the same questions as the interviewer though? I feel like both deserved each other.
> I'm glad they were all saved.

You are glad that rich execs play Heads they win and Tails they dont lose game at the expense of the taxpayer?
I used paper plates and wooden spoons for over a year when I didn't have a dishwasher. I think I ultimately saved water and definitely saved a lot of time.
And I'm still salty about it.
Other comments talk about the source code. What's interesting is that if you have emacs + the source code on your machine, you can use find-function to jump to not only the lisp source of a function, but also drill down into compiled functions.

for instance, I did it for "(list" and found:

DEFUN ("list", Flist, Slist, 0, MANY, 0,
doc: /* Return a newly created list with specified arguments as elements.
Any number of arguments, even zero arguments, are allowed.
usage: (list &rest OBJECTS) */)
(ptrdiff_t nargs, Lisp_Object *args)
{
register Lisp_Object val;
val = Qnil;

...
You're still not getting it, and your comparison is invalid I think: the Nazis wanted to eradicate the Jews, and they didn't care about how observant the Jews were. Anyone with Jewish ancestry was a target.

Transgenderism isn't like this; it's not something you can determine from ancestry, nor is it an ethnicity of any type. The right-wingers see it as a personal choice, just like homosexuality. Of course, trans and homosexual people don't feel it's a personal choice, but it IS a personal choice for them to act on their feelings. What the right-wingers want is to force all these people back "into the closet". They want them to conform to their cis-hetero worldview, just like they did back in the "good old days" when homosexuals found either other homosexuals of the opposite sex, or unwitting heteros, to legally marry so they could appear to polite society as regular hetero people, and then did their homosexual stuff in secret, if at all.

This is why they want all these punitive measures: not so they can eradicate trans people or imprison them all, but to make society intolerant of an open expression of non-conforming sexuality. Basically, make an example out of a few people, and everyone else will fall in line: this is their thinking.

Again, to be clear, I'm not endorsing their position; I'm merely trying to explain what I believe their true thinking is. The conservatives are famous for idolizing some rose-colored halcyon (and somewhat mythical) idea of 1950s Americana, and my idea above falls exactly into this pattern, unlike your much more extreme idea of death camps.
I still don't understand why people couldn't switch to a different RSS reader. The Google Reader narrative seems like it was just as helpful as the bank run we just had.
Yep but look how hard the Fed has fought to prevent the existence of 'narrow banks'. Cartel logic in full effect.
I can't even remember the year this started but it was definitely what got me into coding.

Virus that turned files and folders on removable drives into hidden system files was a popular thing that antivirus progs just didn't help with was everywhere. Friend's and co-workers would constantly bombard me for help recovering the files. When I figured out essentially how the pesky virus worked (this was before the variants that made reg edits) I coded something to do the opposite in a batch script. Would then just set it to identify the portable drive added and it'd delete the virus....the .lnk shortcut files it created and then unhide and return the folders and files back to normal.

Nothing fancy but it did influence my career direction alot.
I literally stopped reading literature the same way after that. With GReader I used to consume the ToC of 15-30 journals without missing a single abstract. I just gave up on reading that way after that, no other tool came close.
> SVB literally needed a constant stream of new startup customers to cover the withdrawals of their current customers.

Isn't it true of any bank that experiences a sudden and unexpected flood of withdrawals that they need an infusion of cash to cover them? Whether they get the cash from new depositors or by liquidating investments, the cash has to come from somewhere.

I think you're mistaking a bad investment decision for a criminal act and intent, and nobody is claiming SVB of a crime at this point in time; the evidence isn't there so far. Every bank invests cash deposits in a mix of liquid and illiquid investments, and the illiquid investments often can't be liquidated quickly, if at all. (Think mortgages.) As I said, that is the business model of a bank.
This is how commercial dishwashers work.
That's exactly what is happening here. There are two audio streams played by your browser, one being an mp3 file on the server (the lofi track) and the other coming from liveatc.net.
Sure, maybe it is prudent to do. We are bailing out people with extra insurance on money that was not guaranteed to be insured. We are given them free money to make them whole and we are going to let banks sell 75 cents for a dollar to the fed if they really need the cash. If this is the right thing to do lets' talk openly and plainly about it.
so engineering is completely separated from management?
>Sure, but the thing they bought also had almost no yield, so that's what I'm not understanding. Why is shitty 1% 10 year T notes "yield chasing"?

Exactly. the 1-year notes had zero interest rate risk, and almost no yield. The 10-year notes offered very high interest rate risk (remember: rates were almost zero) and barely-more-than-no-yield.

Choosing 1.5% return at high interest rate risk vs. 0.5% return for low rate risk. Either way you are getting almost nothing, but one has the risk of putting you into a liquidity crisis. In a sense you're willing to risk it all to squeeze an extra 1%, It is the absolute definition of yield chasing.

>and apparently have lots of mechanisms by which you can borrow against them should you need to in almost any non-runlike scenario.

If your $1000 bond is worth $1005 at maturity, and it has dropped to $990 and you want to borrow from me against the bond, I will charge you at least $15 in this scenario. That's slightly oversimplified, but lenders (other than the Fed/QE) will loan at a rate where you're essentially locking in a loss, because they have what you need to offset your risk you failed to hedge against (liquidity).

>If the SVB bankers were "yield chasing" surely there were more effective ways of doing so at approximately the same risk.

Not that I am aware of, at that scale of money. There's also high-risk lending to borrowers (which SVB did) but companies might borrow $10M, $20M, maybe $100M. When you're talking $50-100B, Bonds are the only game in town.
How Python virtual environments work
Could you give some examples of the misunderstandings you see between rich and poor in the UK?
The best part of this is that I don't want to have everything here, but I can pick and choose which pieces I'll actually use!
Just because they don't completely redefine economic models from the start doesn't mean MMT isn't a theory. They clearly have different ideas about how policy should be implemented and what will happen.

Their description of how government issued currency, coercion, and tax act as a tool to capture services from the economy (as opposed to filling up a treasury for the government to spend) is extremely underrated in mainstream economics.

> right-wing program they just decided is left-wing.

Why would MMT be limited to traditionally left/right boundaries?
Exactly—- this is why even fully covering the deposits over 250k is absolutely a “bailout”.
Interestingly TypeScript compiler doesn't use types for compilation (that's why you can have esbuild that compiles Typescript without understanding the type system). That is the end result of type computation is... Nothing, always, just like in OP.

Template metaprogramming is all about code generation. You would expect them to look different.
Barney Frank, Co-Sponsor of Dodd-Frank and Director at Signature Bank
It would be great to also understand how one can finetune this model. Thanks for the awesome work!
I also noticed hitting CTRL+S to pause the TTY output seemed to cause a reliable prompt to suddenly start printing garbage tokens after CTRL+Q to resume a few seconds later. It may have been a coincidence, but instant thought was very much "synchronization bug"
i think its very cool but i have to ask a potentially very rude question that is not meant to be rude

was not turbo pascal circa 1993 kind of ... easier to use than the text uis we have now?
It should work with about 12gb GPU RAM.

I got it to load on a GTX 1070 with 8GB GPU RAM, but then it crashed before it could generate a response.

It needs less RAM than regular GPT-J because the weights are converted to 8-bit
I don't know how fast banks can sell treasuries, but I feel like the answer has to be shorter than "all of 2022"

3 is pretty predictable for a bank that advertised itself as banking half of all VC-backed startups in the U.S.
Science isn't about just collecting and cataloging information. It's about observing phenomena, constructing an explanation for it (a hypothesis), and devising an experiment to test the prediction of the hypothesis.

For example, noticing that the sun follows a predictable pattern in the sky over the year is not science, because it comes with no explanation and no prediction of anything else.

Similarly, learning swordmaking through trial and error is not science, it is a ritual. Figuring out why the steps in making a sword work, and thereby being able to modify/apply it elsewhere, is science.

In other words, science is the application of the scientific method.

Religious explanations are not scientific, as they are based on faith, not experiment.

Mathematics is not science, either, that's why we say "science and mathematics". Mathematics is a tool for describing phenomena. Math can be used to describe the path of the sun in the sky, but it doesn't explain it.
Yep, constantly. I used to do it and I honestly don’t know how I had 10% of that cognitive load capacity while I did.

(I still do it now because I inherited a huge highly dynamic set of projects, and just explaining the portion of the universe I remember at any given time is an exhausting majority of all of my weekly meetings.)
I tried to run your NPX commands from the examples on a fresh WSL install of Ubuntu 20.04, but if you don't have build tools installed, they both just silently fail.

I only realized what was happening after trying to go the other route and use it in a package, where I then noticed the NPM install will give a node-gyp error about make missing.
The problem is that expectations shape reality. So if experts are a bit worried, and say so, this may cause a public panic. The panic turned a potential problem that may have never manifested into an immediate disaster.

Given this fact, should experts say things that may cause this panic?
People who cared enough did just that. I also don't think the main problem was Google Reader going away but the signal that it sent ("RSS is going away").

To be fair, the sites I care about all still have RSS support though.
Why be a party of the community if you, as it seems, dislike it so? I don't understand the frequent complaining across various forums where people actively participate in something where they have no obligation to do so.
I switched to feedly. No biggie, in retrospect.

But, that was the first Google product where it really hit home, to me, how even if a product is fantastic and useful, Google will kill it without a second thought.

It fundamentally changed my attitude toward Google and made me far more deliberate about what services I choose to rely on, especially from the big G.

Obligatory link to https://killedbygoogle.com/
> the quality of life of a certain class of people

By that you're talking about the average citizen right? Suff like railroad strikes would dramatically affect the average citizen.
I don't think it's so much a matter as en-dash breaking the rules and em-dash following them. Robert Bringhurst argues, in Elements of Typographic Style, that em-dash is one of several Victorian innovations that he feels impede the flow of text, and en-dash (with spaces) is a more modern, typographically balanced alternative.

I conclude there are therefore two different rules you can choose from (as in many points of style) and I – a hacker, artist, and typographic enthusiast – picked the one I like best.

Though I revert to em-dash when parodying Emily Dickinson—as one should—
I feel like killing Reader was the point at which I switched from viewing Google mostly positively to more skeptically. Which doesn't seem terribly rational, really; it wasn't the first product to be axed, it was perfectly possible to replace... Maybe it was just the first product axing that really affected me? The moment Google went from "provider of great free stuff" to "sometimes provider of free stuff, sometimes kills stuff" is the moment it became unreliable, the moment I had to stop and consider whether their interests really aligned with mine rather than just assuming so. Or maybe I'm just bitter over nothing:)

Edit: Perhaps a better phrasing: Before, if you asked "will this useful Google product be here in a year", I would answer "yes". After, I could only say "maybe". And that made all the difference.
I usually check weather on forecast.gov website, with these bookmarked urls:

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.7983&lon=-1...

The issue I had with these were that, these pages are always in desktop mode even on mobile. So i made a one page static website which takes & stores these urls in local storage, & fetches the one I click upon. On next pageload, it remebers the last loaded city & it loads it again.

All the page is in mobile-first view mode in css.

https://spa.bydav.in/weather/index.html

You might see nothing as you need to preload/populate the local storage with either manually copied urls or simply paste this json.

[
{
"abb": "SNR",
"full": "Sonora",
"url": "https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.98&lon=-120.38&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=json&TextType=1"
},
{
"abb": "RDB",
"full": "Red Bluff",
"url": "https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.1781&lon=-122.2354&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=json&TextType=1"
},
{
"abb": "SFO",
"full": "San Francisco",
"url": "https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.7771&lon=-122.4197&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=json&TextType=1"
},
{
"abb": "ERK",
"full": "Eureka",
"url": "https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.8033&lon=-124.1595&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=json&TextType=1"
}
]
Kinda shitty to not even credit liveatc.net anywhere on the site while directly streaming their feed.
Google reader was also an archive of all the RSS feeds you had subscribed to, or someone had subscribed to before you. So you could get things that were no long let online
Azure has 176 vCPU instances as private preview, but only in the "HPC" sizes: https://azure.microsoft.com/es-es/blog/do-more-with-less-usi...

Apparently they're waiting for the v-cache enabled version to be available and they will buy those in bulk. I heard they'll be deploying them this month.
Moved away from 1929 straight to 2008.
Isn't Thiel a hero role model whatever to "tech startup founders".

Honestly, just looking at random facts about what he gets up to, this person sounds like the Devil incarnate. Paying kids to drop out of school. A foundation to understand the world through mimetic theory. Promises to invest in the economy of a small country, gets complimentary citizenship then pulls investment. It goes on and on.

Not suprising he would leave people high and dry.

Classic. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to...
> Given the importance of the new discovery, Dias and his team went to unusual lengths to document their research and head off criticism that developed in the wake of the previous Nature paper, which led to a retraction by the journal’s editors. That previous paper has been resubmitted to Nature with new data that validates the earlier work, according to Dias. The new data was collected outside the lab, at the Argonne and Brookhaven National Laboratories in front of an audience of scientists who saw the superconducting transition live. A similar approach has been taken with the new paper.
I mean for using POSIX standard (Bourne) shell mechanisms.

If you use nonstandard mechanisms, then whatever.
I remember trying the alternatives back then (feedly, newsblur, etc) and they were just not as smooth, possibly because they were struggling to cope with the influx of Google Reader refugees.
I have the little celebration trinket on my desk for when PWC completed the sale of Lehmans’ assets. They got 130 cents on the dollar for them in the end. Liquidity matters.
I couldn’t find earlier data points, but at the end of 2019 they apparently had $61B in deposits…

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/jamiequint/status/163395616356500...
I switched to different readers since then, but I'm still disappointed because 1. GR was in many ways just better and simpler (before they starting shoving sharing down the users throats), and 2. kind of sad the whole RSS feed subscription thing remained niche, seems like after that most large social networks/blogs started dragging users into their proprietary feeds, and then a lot if that got crushed by ads and dumbass "suggested for you" content which by now got so annoying I don't even want to use most services anymore. We've gone a long way from simple RSS/readers and not in a good direction : (
>Does it? Or is this just how the system is currently designed?

Yes, to both questions. The US Debt is at $31 trillion, it only works as long as the system keeps feeding money into government bonds.

The entire global financial system (not just the USA; the rest of the world is dependent on the USD and US banks) is reliant on this cycle of money.

>50 years ago we might have asked who will provide the Fed with the gold it needs to issue enough currency to avoid deflation as the population grows exponentially.

It was realized the gold standard stifled growth too much, and was abandoned just about 50 years ago as well.

You can have a safe system without growth (everything Tech was built off credit/debt and castles in the sky until decades after the companies were founded) or you can have the tech industry with a debt-credit based system.
No, but you can see their Health Department inspection reports. That's a good analogy.
Which part of Google Reader was the one that no other tools came close to?

There's almost as many good and different RSS reader clients as Todo list apps, so this somehow seems like seen through rose-tinted glasses.
How 'Open' Is OpenAI, Really?
The labor market numbers have been strong despite rising interest rates and inflation has been falling (albeit still somewhat high). The signs seem to indicate a soft landing is possible.

However: widespread bank failures and panics can change the situation in an instant. If belief in the banking system evaporates, its not just a recession but likely a total meltdown that we’re looking at.