skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where on earth do you get "corruption in the federal government" from that article? It's explicitly saying that they were lobbying to weaken regulation. That's transparently circular. You're saying government oversight is bad because the government can be convinced not to oversee, in which case we get bad results from the lack of oversight!

In this particular case, it's unclear exactly what oversight could have prevented the mistakes. We just won't know for a while. But... yeah, it seems very much not unreasonable that the 2018 Dodd-Frank rollback may be part of the problem.
> What bank ever refused a Startup if what they are looking for is just banking? And what do startups want with a bank? Are they not capitalized by the VC's?

I do not think I said a company does not need a bank? My comment was in response to the statements trying to imply SVB, was the only option for Startups or that other banks would not accept Startups as clients.
There are some use cases where pass and SOPS could reasonably be considered competitors, but for the most part, pass is best suited to personal/user secrets and SOPS is focused on infrastructure-as-code (e.g., secrets in Kubernetes or Nix configurations). There are no browser plugins for SOPS like there are for pass, for example. And SOPS has integration with more deployment tools than pass does.

Like pass, SOPS wraps the CLIs of local encryption/decryption tools such as GPG and age. Unlike pass, it also wraps the CLIs of cloud-based secrets management services.

One thing that potentially makes SOPS nicer for teams than pass is that you can freely mix and match the supported encryption and secrets management tools used to manage the secrets in a single project. So if we're on the same DevOps team and you prefer age but I need GnuPG in order to work with my PGP smartcard, we can still both easily manage and access the same secrets in the same repo together. Similarly, if we're working across teams, perhaps in a large organization or between two different organizations), we can use a single repo as a shared source of truth for shared secrets— even if one team is deploying their application to AWS and so it relies on Amazon's KMS for secrets, but the other team is deploying its application to Microsoft Azure and relies on Azure Vault for accessing secrets.

SOPS works with two layers of keys: it encrypts for various keys that, in some user-specified combination, can be used to decrypt the keys that can decrypt the user's actual in-repo secrets. SOPS supports using GPG, age, AWS KMS, Azure Vault, etc., for that outer layer (which is all the end user really has to think about).

re: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, etc.: SOPS is an alternative to entering your secrets in some web interface associated with your git forge or CI/CD service, so that your source code repository can be a single source of truth for all of the information needed to run your application, including any relevant secrets. In that way, your deployments no longer depend implicitly on the state of applications that offer to store secrets for you: those dependencies are made explicit, and those services are simply used to access part of your version-controlled source of truth about application deployment/configuration.

(If you want to use SOPS for secrets that you also need to access in your GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD, you can do so by making the `sops` CLI available in the environment of a self-hosted GitHub Actions Runner or GitLab Runner.)
I work at a database heavy company as an infra engineer. From time to time we get requests from devs or customer success to run a query on all customer databases to see or certain assertions hold (e.g. If the latest update fixed a problem or estimate the impact of a change).

To automate this process, we have some ansible playbook to automate most of it: give it a query and you'll get a bunch of files with the results.

While useful, the setup and cleanup can get tidious. So, I whipped up a little shell script that creates a temporary directory and symlink it to a location somewhere in $XDG_STATE_HOME. I created a few subcommands to create the directory structure, add a query, run the query, aggregate results and destroy the state. This keeps things simple for me. Even if I forget to cleanup after myself, a reboot will make sure nothing is left behind. The symlink trick to xdg state home helps me a lot to track my state, while I work on a certain problem. It allows me to easily handle multiple request at the same time, when necessary.
Feroxbuster – a fast recursive content discovery tool written in Rust -Interview
If there are fewer bits of weights than original data, and the weights + an algorithm can be used to reproduce the original data (even lossily), then it's absolutely a compression in the information theory sense. The degree of lossyness needed before it's not considered a copyright violation is what humans determine case-by-case in court, but that doesn't make it any less of a "compression".

Just like your neurons "compressing" the gazillions of atoms in the world you experience down to smaller representative models in your head.
This has been on HN previously but it's a couple of years later and pleased to see it's still a very active project https://www.nushell.sh/blog/ with good documentation: https://www.nushell.sh/cookbook/
>the government clearly would have no problem coming up with the funds to backstop depositors since this is an isolated incident.

If you start bailing out banks which take risks, then the incidents become less isolated

Once you're handling millions of dollars you absolutely should be looking into counterparty risk when you deposit funds. Baffling that people are arguing business owners should do no due diligence on a bank or take no insurance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard
Syntax highlighting can not only colorize program tokens, but it can flag syntax errors. The first character of bad syntax is shown in some loud color, like black text on red background.

Would you say that this is also of no help, and prefer to turn it off?

This prevents you from doing a round trip through the compiler for many an error.

(Or, in some systems, it actually doesn't; the compiler may be involved in determining syntax highlighting and pinpointing the first error, but it's done in real time under the hood as you type. You're not running a build and finding about the error in a log message.)
So basically you're saying you don't know or you don't have concrete evidence, but you're going to confidently make a claim anyway.
"Last year" as in the year they had no Chief Risk Officer? Got it.
Actually, cutting potatoes and other starchy vegetables is a major part of weight loss for a lot of people.

High-starch vegetables are a major contributor to obesity.
Thank you for the post. I still don't want to learn & spend mental energy on which of 3 different dashes to use, but now I do see why people would want to (and I think the reasoning is solid, even if I don't personally want to bother with it :) ).

You started by talking about kerning fonts, which is a great analogy.

Building on that - kerning is awesome because stuff looks better and I don't need to do anything for it to happen. Would it work to have my display system figure out which type of dash to use automatically?

Like, a dash inside a word should be short (under the assumption that you're linking the words together) and dashes with whitespace around it should be longer (under the assumption that you're switching context/injecting an idea into a sentence).
Freedom-oriented low-service states would seem to be too good a deal to pass up:

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/spanish-company-signs-50-y...
This is simply not true and very easy to verify via

https://banks.data.fdic.gov/bankfind-suite/bankfind

Most banks actually have most of their deposits NOT insured. Most banks are not bofa.
Yes, I understand that. But I don't understand why we couldn't have a system whereby, to cover payroll, a bank creates a loan to each company every payroll day, transfers cash to the (FDIC insured) bank accounts of employees, and then liquidates some of the company's T-Bills over the next couple of hours or days to cover it. That seems like a way of making sure everyone's paid without companies having to risk > $250k balances at any time.
> I get to eat what I want and sit around all day? Hell yeah!

I am naturally thin. That statement ("i get to eat what i want and sit around all day") is true of my body. Is it such a strange idea that there are as many people who are naturally thin as there are that are naturally fat? Those people aren't making a choice to be fat any more than i am making a choice to be thin. Why should they feel bad about their body?
If huge banks like SVB gets bought, doesn't that lead to an undesirable amount of banking centralization in the long run? Or does the bank end up being carved up into a dozen pieces, and a variety of companies can buy pieces of it?
I wouldn’t consider over-investing in assets that are extremely volatile from a short-term liquidity perspective “conservatively managed”. The timeline liquidity of your assets is one of many forms of risk that needs to be managed by a bank.
I mean, that describes the vast, vast majority of Youtube channels, but...

Esoterica[0] scholarly explorations of occult texts and practices (also see Religion For Breakfast, hochelaga)

Kaz Rowe[1] historical essays, usually LGBT inclined (also see Matt Baume, Contrapoints, T1J)

Secret Galaxy TV[2] toy and tv history (also see Kenny Lauderdale, Pushing Up Roses)

Freya Holmer[3] Math, gamedev and tech (also see gamesfromscratch, javidx9)

Steve Shives[4] Politics, Star Trek and pop culture (also see Jesse Gender, Kat Blaque, Trekyards)

Drachinifel[5] Boats and boat related accessories (also see Dr Alexander Clarke, lindybeige)

Scholagladiatora[6] Swords and sword related accessories (also see skallagrim, shadiversity, themetatron)

Justin Whang[7] Internet culture and lost media (also see sakura stardust, LsupersonicQ, blameitonjorge, wendigoon)

[0]https://www.youtube.com/@TheEsotericaChannel

[1]https://www.youtube.com/@KazRowe

[2]https://www.youtube.com/@SecretGalaxyTV

[3]https://www.youtube.com/@Acegikmo/videos

[4]https://www.youtube.com/@SteveShives

[5]https://www.youtube.com/@Drachinifel

[6]https://www.youtube.com/@scholagladiatoria

[7]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3jdnIP2u5hCJpVZ-TuDrCg

Also prior HN threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32220192 (316 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20385679 (143 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609584 (128 comments)
"at maturity" is a little too far out, unfortunately.
I recall flying LA to London on New Years Eve once - there was about 10 of us on the whole plane, and someone got a cricket game going down the fuselage. When we landed in the early hours, I set my watch to UK time and it was only a day or two later I realised I'd skipped NYE as a result :)
What, are people going to camp out in downtown San Francisco? How would we even notice?
Sutor, ne ultra crepidam.
> Remove "and Python 3.11" from title. Python used only for converting model to llama.cpp project format, 3.10 or whatever is fine.

As @rnosov notes elsewhere in the thread, this post has a workaround for the PyTorch issue with Python 3.11, which is why the "and Python 3.11" qualification is there.
Evidence of Near-Ambient Superconductivity
He is (likely self-interestedly) angling for a system-wide guarantee on uninsured deposits.

He's pretending something like this is true: SVB's failing will have a contagion effect on other banks (though some mechanism that he doesn't explain or have evidence for, although guys like him menacingly gesture towards MBS or something to remind us of 2008, even though it's completely different). By stopping the SVB run, we'll nip this contagion in the bud. There's some merit to this argument.

However, there's really no reason whatsoever to think that SVB's failing will have some causal impact on other banks' liquidity/solvency. To the extent that other banks are in trouble, it's because they have long duration assets that lost value when rates rose. Whether SVB survives or not has no impact on that. So the only mechanism through which an SVB bailout has any effect is through sending the implicit signal that the government will bail out all uninsured depositors.
It doesn't exist. Sumo wrestlers are as you describe, with a large amount of muscle and a large amount of fat. And they die young. Sadly, Kyriakos Grizzly will almost certainly die young.
https://archive.ph/JBWkI
Lol. Advertising and modelling have been normalising eating disorders for a long time. They're just more inclusive about it now.
We're talking here about bailing out startups. The VC investors, founders, and even employees (to a somewhat lesser extent) made a high-risk decision to invest their time and/or money into something that would probably fail.

(Also, it's not like a tax-payer funded bailout is the only way these startups can stay afloat... take a bridge load... find an opportunistic investor. Of course the startup investors would much prefer a taxpayer funded bailout because other options will cost them more money and/or a share of the startup. As many are pointing out: they are seeking to socialize the risks and keep the rewards.)
Seems like it's made with Simple CSS. Not sure.
There's no shortage of mathematical notation and delimiting characters. Eg you could write your machine screws as .25+20i. Obviously you raise e to the power of your screw and you get a rotation rate in the complex plane, and a width of screw in the complex plane as well.

Compounding and numerical ops are basically never confused. Machine screw is the only one of these where its even plausible. Not that subtraction and range are ever ambiguous, but if they were just use "#1 - #n" to denote "the numbers 1/n being used as labels for some range of options, not as a numerical values".

All in all, we have plenty of characters. A minimal set of rules, minimal set of characters, rich in predictable patterns, is what makes for a good language. The existence of a whole slew of specialized characters, all basically indistinguishable and frankly unheard of to most, has to work hard to justify itself right to live on my keyboard. We have parenthesis, commas, colons both full and partial, brackets square and curvy, braces, slashes forward and back...More than enough permutations and code space for anyone's expressive needs. Why anyone would opt for more byzantine characters with more rules on top is beyond my imagination.
> Who has the time or energy to spend interrogating the asset mix and bond duration of the bank with your checking account?

The treasurer should have time as that’s part of her job.
You do this for your business accounts?
A sale of assets to cover liabilities is the normal procedure. It does not constitute 'help' and does not guarantee depositors will be made whole in the end (I understand that another issue is that many depositors need the cash right now, not in 6 months).

The government will probably want do something to prevent contagion and companies from going under but politically the key is how that help will be financed. The political issue is to use taxpayers' money to help Silicon Valley because, obviously, the optics would that money from struggling families is diverted to help millionaires in the Bay area.

Note, I am not in the US so I am a bit fuzzy on whether 'government' means Washington D.C, Sacramento, or both in varying degrees. But I think the political aspect is the same either way modulo how much clout SV has in one relative to the other.

Here in the UK the government is also considering help, not least before the budget is going to be unveiled this coming week, and I suspect the political aspect is the same. There's high inflation, people are struggling, taxes are rising, and so handing out 'free' help within a matter of a few days to people/companies that are viewed as being in the top 10%, if not 1%, may not be popular. Better to show that help will be such that it won't cost the taxpayer.
This is a neat trick especially if your brain got rewired to think about union and disjoint types. I recently had to do something like this to force separatuon of required arams that go into a media control wrapper:

type ControlParams = { type: 'audio' } & ControlParamsAudio | { type: 'video } & ControlParamsVideo

const ControlsWRapper : React.FC<ControlParams> = <>....</>

Boom, you have proper autocomplete and typechecks for audio controls or for video controls depending on your type.
Yes, I too hate Californians. (do I need an /s?)
Yes that’s the consensus. It was a tool to drive new accounts and now they don’t need that tool.

The fact that it’s wildly unethical to do it this way without notice is something I guess they feel isn’t important to them.

Not a good look for someone in the financial services business.

I was a client up until last year but I closed my account because they seemed shady.
There's no indication at the moment that FDIC will put in money to make depositors whole beyond the $250K insurance limit.
Buying an Oculus Quest and using Facebook's SDK is probably the cheapest and fastest option, ironically.
That's right. Diet is the key to "losing weight."
I write a ton of CSS and could not find a command line stylesheet checker. I did find the NuHTML checker from W3C, which also checks the file’s CSS: https://github.com/validator/validator/releases/tag/20.6.30

AFAIK it doesn’t have an option to check a standalone CSS file.

I wrote a script to insert a CSS file into a dummy one-line HTML file, so that I can pass a CSS file to the script, and when errors are generated from the CSS, they are given using the correct line number.

I have written many more complex and perhaps more interesting Scripps, but this is the one I am, by far the most proud of.
Welp time to switch corporate credit card providers.
Better instructions (less verbose and include 30B model): https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/llama-7b-m2

I’m running 13B on MacBook Air M2 quite easily. Will try 30B but probably won’t be able to keep my browser open :/

shameless plug: https://mobile.twitter.com/tomprimozic/status/16348774773100...
While I sympathize with them more than I would a tech bro, the principle is the same.

What would happen if this happened to an employer's bank in Indiana?

Your company's assets don't exist any more and you're insolvent. US bankruptcy protection is very generous, apply for it and try and to regroup.
> People here are effectively suggesting that I shouldn't get my paycheck and that the company I work for should lose most of its money because our CEO used a well-reputed bank?

I'm in the same position as you but this is a terrible take.

No one thinks we deserve to lose money or jobs.

They simply do not believe that other American taxpayers who likely make less than you should have to spend their hard earned money (or risk having it devalued by printing) in order to bail you out.

And they are broadly correct.

It is wrong to demand other people's money due to your own misfortune, especially when the misfortune is a lost business or job, versus something more existential. The reality is that most tech workers will be fine.
"The challenge is what is the closest hack to get around it ..."

I owe it to you to be capable of (among other things): a few minutes of chest compressions, running a mile or so for help, and dragging an adult body a few hundred feet to safety.

I owe that to you and we owe it to each other.

There will be no hack to "get around it".

Conversely: If you can do these things, I don't care what you look like or what your actuarial table shows or what you ate for lunch.
Yeah, that's my misuse of the term "deposit" where I meant something like "total reserve amount".
There are good ones. Chase Sapphire is an example, and I think people like Amex too though I don’t use it.
But we do influence how effectively L1/L2 caches are used. Each time we have a choice to split some fields into two objects or not, they can be allocated/cached together or separately. This is one of the huge outcomes of Java's project Valhalla to have Value objects that live 'in-place' rather than separately, the way embedded structs do in Go.
They won't. And half of those that can, won't, because the intentional obfuscation benefits their talking point.
I don't see where you get "government oversight is bad" from anything I said. I strongly believe that we should have strict government oversight of deposit accounts and that people should be able to have faith in the banking system. I don't think it's depositors fault that banks lobby to weaken this regulation and that the government goes along with it.

I agree that we don't know if the weakened regulations caused this - it's possible the regulators already had the tools in their belt they needed to prevent this and were asleep at the wheel. We will find out eventually.
So, legally speaking what authority does the Treasury Department have to make depositors whole beyond the legally guaranteed $250,000 insured and an equal share up to the amount of their deposits of the auctioned and liquidated assets?

The question I have is do some of the proceeds of the liquidation get used for $250,000 insurance payout first? Or do the tax payers get to help?
Three years all-remote at Gitlab: Know the unknown unknowns (growth, life, work)
This seems really nice! Makes me want to build my own with Gum filters, TBH.
>Less than 24 hours after the bank’s collapse, founders were receiving cold emails from investors offering to buy up their deposits, according to messages seen by the Financial Times.

What instruments are out there for making this kind of deal? Just a straight forward contract or loan?
This is what I do as well - money saved by no car ownership also means I don't work as much, which leads to even greater happiness.
> Who, realistically until now has had “bank goes bust” on their risk list?

Every corporate treasurer. This is a core function of a CFO. I didn’t realise the degree to which this was missing in Silicon Valley so soon after a global financial crisis.
In my experience, even the more wild/exotic patterns in typescript tend to flatten into something rather readable at their usage site. 95% of the time when I use a library that does anything close to what is done in this article I write my code, hover over it, intellisense tells me its type and I say "wow, how was it able to do that? Cool!" And I carry on.
Worth noting though that this list covers everything from cases of incompetence and mismanagement to outright fraud. It's relatively easy to recover money if it is tied up in T-bills. Not so if the bank owner decided to go buy a yacht with customer funds.
Sure it does. I don't know what part of America you live in, but one of my obese coworkers jokes he eats all the processed food "so the preservatives will keep him alive".

Confident self-awareness goes a long way, although self-destructive behavior in general isn't respected, nor should it be IMO.