skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sleep experts largely agree that permanent DST is bad, and that if we're going to stop switching, it should be permanent standard time.
How can you recognise a good software architecture?
One might add: gay marriage was legalised in the UK in 2014 by a coalition government led by the Conservatives.
I do, thank you very much!

Just shows that they knew even early SVB was fucked. I meant it was clear SVB was fucked since JPOW raised rates and SVB had dog shit assets on their HTM.

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 out.
Arent abrupt firings the norm in the USA?

My company had layoffs last year and the US people were gone the same day.
This keeps being brought up since the early days of AWS. Yes, the cloud is more expensive. It simply adds another layer of management, scalability, and flexibility you would not be able to build yourself. And there is a layer of profit for the cloud provider as well. Whoever was told the cloud would be cheaper was being lied to.

I've built cloud, colo'ed and hybrid systems. Every few years this would come up. Now, so many cloud services we use are connected to the cloud providers we don't even need to spin up SSO/authentication servers because it's simply built in at this point.
There’s no default risk, that’s all. “Risk-free” only refers to the risk of default. Every (fixed-rate) debt instrument has unavoidable interest rate risk. And the floating rate ones are just transmuting it into default risk.
According to this [1] Twitter has 500,000+ servers spread across DCs, GCP and AWS.

Which if we assume only a team of your size remains then it would take 300+ days.

That would mean no OS patches etc which would put them firmly in the crosshairs of the FTC.

[1] https://twitter.com/d_feldman/status/1562265193249390593
> They're saving customers

No, they use taxpayer's money to save taxpayers.

I'm fine with that as soon as we save taxpayer's money and punish those who triggered the accident and replace them by people who are paid by taxpayers money, under direct control of the state.
General automation I'm glad I put effort into adopting was the use of LocalStack for AWS integration testing and local runs.
The metaphor is straightforward: higher temperature ~ higher entropy ~ less information ~ probabilities are further from certainty (0 and 1). I think the connection originally comes from Boltzmann machines and simulated annealing that were based off statistical physics.
I can't tell if you're talking about internal rollout of public because the same problems existed internally. One person on your team would request it because they bought the hype but not everyone had access so only that one person would play with it and the social aspect of it just wasn't there. I tried to make it useful for a couple weeks but my impression at the end was the same as when they did the TGIF demo: mostly pointless fluff.
I think some folks are rightfully curious how the depositors are being fully protected here, given that FDIC only insures up to $250,000.

But really there should be no limit on FDIC insurance. Depositors should not be categorized as risk takers. Joe Schmoe should never have to concern himself with where he banks, or where his company payroll banks, for that matter. Telling depositors to take responsibility and disperse their funds across as many banks as possible is...silly. These aren't investors in bonds or stocks. These are cash accounts.

Yellen is 100% doing the correct thing here. And the precedent being set makes logical sense.
Lost Gamer
That's easy to check, and very wrong.

> (A Transport For London camera study of 7,500 cyclists at five junctions found in 2007 that, contrary to popular perception, most cyclists do not run reds: 84% of the cyclists stopped at red traffic lights
LLaMA models licence change to Apache 2.0 approved
Sharing of the model weights should now be fine.
There is a 12 hour old post for the original pull request that was dismissed on the basis of being unlikely to be considered; that links the preferred url.

EDIT; I may have misunderstood the reviewers acceptance. The post should probably be deleted.
Basically exploration vs exploitation
>No losses associated with the resolution of Silicon Valley Bank will be borne by the taxpayer.

Mmmmm, so did the money fall down from the sky?
All plugins run arbitrary code and basically any and all of them gains access to your entire filesystem, home network, etc. Even if you properly containerize and firewall everything (99% of people won't) it can at very least read your possibly private source code. The stakes are not so small.
It's nearly impossible to predict recovery without understanding the system. You would probably need to know how ssh is configured, how secrets are managed, and how files are distributed, both before and after puppet.

Circular dependencies can absolutely wreck you. For example, puppet could configure sudoers, and without puppet config being applied people who would normally expect access might not have it. So now you have to find a privileged ssh key for un-configured machines.

I would be surprised if twitter did not have a physical vault with a USB drive with a root SSH key on it. With that you can do just about everything.

I would be most terrified of machine churn. Auto-remediation systems or elastic capacity systems can result in lost capacity that can't come back until the configuration problem is resolved.
Is anyone able to reach this site? the server seems to be down
Maybe people are questioning why is 85% of every street dedicated to cars, why dont I deserve at least 10% for e-scooters, cycles, or even for just walking with a pram and my child
Did RSS die???

(I get HN headlines via RSS)
As an AI doomer, it would actually be pretty great if we could get this stuff locked away behind costly APIs and censorship. Some fat monopoly rent-extracting too. We are moving way too fast on this tech, and the competitive race dynamics are a big reason why. I want LLMs to end up with Microsoft IE6 level of progress. Preferably we could make Firefox (SD/GPT-J) illegal too. (The GPU scarcity is a good start, but maybe China could attack Taiwan as well and thus torpedo everybody's chipbuilding for a decade or so?)

If LLMs keep going at their current pace and spread, the world is seriously going to end in a few years. This technology is already unsafe, and it's unsafe in exactly the ways that it'll be seriously unsafe as it scales up further - it doesn't understand and doesn't execute human ethics, and nobody has any working plan how to change that.
Cloud was always more expensive (in the short term) than self-managed/collocated servers.

How is this news?

In cloud, you pay for availability, for ad-hoc instances without waiting for a month to install new servers and more.

You only need to hire “software” DevOps, rather than people who neatly lay your cables, journey to DC to replace disks, etc, etc, etc.

Pick a good, cheap cloud. It is a commodity product. Just because AWS is expensive, you don't have to pick AWS.

If going solo is an option, you likely do not use any of them “fancy” AWS managed services. In that case, you can just as well go with any of tens of other Cloud providers.

DHH sang the song and some people take it as a gospel. (eyeroll)
For those wondering 7B model is just a toy, completely useless if your intention is to use it like ChatGPT. I won't even bother to download the other models since I don't have high end PC. So I'll have to keep using gpt3 (open ai api) models for now. Anyway and overall, thanks OP for the great job!
An amazing read, and almost perfect!

There's a bug in the Solve "function" due to which you'll get the right answer only for 1x1, 5x5 and 7x7 (I checked till 8x8).

The base case makes a wrong assumption that there will always be a candidate available for the last row. If there are no candidates available, it should return Nil, and backtrack.

Basically, replace

Concat<candidates, placedQueens>

with

candidates extends Cons<infer x, any>
? Cons<x, placedQueens>
: Nil
The analysis is not accurate. The U.S. completed the bank resolution in 1 business day. That is the news and it's not really controversial.

There are other, systemically controversial aspects (BTFP), but there was no need based on published reports, to drag out resolution of SVBs depositor claims (even VCs'). And next, since the VC community is systemically important, will they be regulated too?
Not sure why you got downvoted. As a Catholic, I've upvoted this. Its perfectly fair, and important, to call out hypocrisy. The church does done some things to address the abuse issue, but clearly it is woefully insufficient. We in the church should be concentrating on loving God and loving our neighbour, whatever their personal beliefs, orientation etc.
As I said, I do agree in principle, it’s just this specific example that is not exactly the best for the argument ;)
You know, you can't hand wave away all the additional costs of having anything in the cloud. You need lawyers to tell you your liability for using third parties. You need all that time and money engineering cloud solutions that work, that can scale, and aren't going cost tons of money. You need to factor all those multi-hour calls needed to get to a real person at the cloud company who isn't reading from a multiple choice book and actually knows what you're talking about. You need a rotation of people available 24/7 to know what to look for in the cloud instance and can handle things if / when they go sideways. All these costs are considerable and will often dwarf the costs of the oversimplified cloud estimate you're first given, particularly at startup scale. With an in-house team of systems administrators and colocated hardware, it's (almost) all well understood and abstracted away.

I wonder if people have actually thought about the costs you mention, or if the marketing forces that have led everyone to believe that everything should in the cloud are why people who've never done the slightest work in a datacenter think the cloud is the way to go. I hear it all the time, but people can't articulate real reasons aside from general handwaving about how much salary a company can save from getting rid of systems administrators. But I've also worked for companies that don't even have a single systems administrator of their own, and trust me - they pay much more money for everything as compared with paying for a good admin.
Sunak was apparently very hands on according to the FT.
For completeness:
There are many reasons to NOT go with cloud. Cost is rarely on that list.
RSS isn't vulnerable to such attacks though.
SVB didn't have a risk management person for most of 2022. The board didn't worry? Looks pretty laissez-faire to me.

SVB is merely the first casualty of the near zero interest rates post COVID. Consider SilverGate, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank. And it's only Monday morning ...
Here's an article about it, for those interested: https://www.sciencealert.com/iq-scores-falling-in-worrying-r...

They try to end the article with some feel-good hand-waiving, but so many things have changed since the mid 1970s, that it feels ridiculous to use lack of formal reasoning as an excuse. Since there's no data on it, nor on "fluid intelligence", there's no reason to assume later generations have more or less of either. If they do lack "crystallized intelligence", they did indeed become dumber.
Works fine for me, but here https://archive.is/mwRR1
What is a "good, cheap cloud?"
You are correct, these are two different kind of risks. The "risk-free" rate refers to counterparty risk (which should be zero when the counterparty has the money printer, or can be bailed out by the money printer.)
> The socialization of losses is the hallmark of a functioning society or social system.

If the "socialization of losses is the hallmark of a functioning society" THEN WE DO NOT HAVE A FUNCTIONAL SOCIETY because in EVERY city of this country there are people who are homeless because of their "losses" and NO ONE GIVES A FCK.

I am one of those homeless. What was my crime? I became ill with an undiagnosable neurological disease.

This is about WHO gets the socialism. What is happening with SVB is socialism for the rich.

Are you seriously comparing the greed at SVB is reay like breaking an arm or a hail storm? Some unforeseen natural disaster or just a whoopsie????

This along with the bilions to Ukraine, while people are being forced into homelessness because of housing costs and inflation, you are all asking for some fascist groups to gain power in the U.S.
My goodness is it Monday already and time for yet another of these articles?

At a given scale and software maturity, it is cheaper to buy your own hardware and pay for your own team to operate it. Generally, this is when you start thinking of your hardware needs in terms of fractions of an entire data center, but in simple cases may be smaller.

This almost is not ever true for software startups, who get more value from speed, flexibility, and not needing to pay a team to manage hardware. Just let [cloud services company] handle it for you until you reach that point.

And then when you do reach that point, you get to write the article about how everyone using the cloud are fools because it's cheaper to self host.
Inflation strongly determines interest rates. You are getting 5% return because inflation expectations are high which caused the Fed to raise interest rates. When you see 5% risk free, you assume high inflation. The price falls because of the risk free rate, which is caused by high inflation, which causes drop in purchasing power.
But it's syntax sugar designed to make you stop worrying and love the null. Would be quite interesting to see how "elvised" Long? would microbenchmark against Optional<Long> and OptionalLong!
My attempt does not work, and now I'm trying to figure out where the 35+ GB of data and files that were added to my hard drive are located so I can clean it all off.
Our society has created a complex set of rules and regulators to prevent bank runs. That system society created failed to detect a problem in one of the top 20 banks in our country. What other problems is it not detecting? The full backstop to the depositors is because this should have never happened - the system should have prevented it.

An organization with over $250,000 in cash is not an outlandish amount. Employers (obviously), but also municipalities, schools, churches and heck even grocery stores can exceed that limit. While it is reasonable to expect some individuals to have some sense and monitoring of the financial well being of the organizations they are directly affiliated with it is extremely unreasonable to believe that those same individuals are going to be aware of the balance sheet risks of the transitive banking partners of those organizations. People expect that money in the bank today will be there tomorrow.

Who wants to live in a world where everyone is keeping tabs on which organizations are banking where? It's a tremendous waste of time.

People don't want bank failures to be a thing, and if/when they do happen they want the damage limited to the senior leadership and investors of the bank.

If you were responsible for managing over 250,000$ of cash what is an acceptable Treasury operations strategy? Put it in a TBTF bank (still socializing losses). Split it into multiple banking partners - that creates operational risk in addition to extra complexity and overhead.
I'm no great fan of Thiel, but it would not make financial sense for him to tank SVB (limited upside vs. the upside potential of his portfolio companies) and would likely in breach of several laws, most notably fiduciary duties as a director.

It's a fun theory but doesn't hold up to more than a few seconds' thought.
I agree with you, though let’s add that different languages have different paradigms/idiomatic patterns and in case of Java Optional is not one, while in case of Rust, it is and was likely optimizes extensively. Of course the niches of the two languages are very different, the whole point of Rust is being a safe low-level language, which can express the wanted functionality more specifically (at the cost of much higher developer complexity).

So this test is as “unfair” as benchmarking Rust’s allocation performance against Java, for example
Cost is only one aspect and infra should know that moving to the cloud will usually be more expensive than running on colo. I assume there were other aspects that played a role in this decision like elasticity, scalability and high-availability which are easier to go for with a cloud provider.
I'd say "Hacker News's".
The fed would have to service the entire population of the USA and provide customer support services for all those individuals.

They could put the onus of control of the funds/account into the hands of the depositor and use a CBDC but trust in government is an issue here.
This is how fascism starts; governments prioritizing the heath of corporations over its people.
I have literally never once worried about whether my family are secretly peeing into mugs, emptying them and planting them into an empty dishwasher.

I guess now I will.
I THINK you should check with a university team.
Which describes for me everything that is wrong with Google these days. How can someone build a good product, if they are not even able to maintain a good product.
Vultr comes to mind immediately. I used Ramnode a few years ago.
> HSBC on Monday averted a crisis in Britain’s tech sector by rescuing Silicon Valley Bank’s UK arm, a dramatic fire sale concluded after all-night talks led by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the Bank of England.

> A sale of SVB UK, which has 3,300 UK clients, including start-ups, venture-backed companies and funds, was the preferred choice of chancellor Jeremy Hunt, avoiding a big government intervention to protect depositors.

source: https://www.ft.com/content/216b193d-62b3-4e5e-8f67-e8eb3d96e...
Pretty awesome collection, I'm jealous!
In nature they also don't eat cookies then.
I always tell people to do the spreadsheet. There is a point at which bare metal or colo becomes cheaper and that point will depend on your work load.

If it’s outbound bandwidth intensive that point will come sooner than say a storage intensive work load.

You always hear stories like this where people didn’t do that and were lazy and massively overpaid on cloud.
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH THAT MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE
It's doable by hand. I wanted to run LSP servers in Docker so I don't need to juggle versions and dependencies and virtual environments on my main machine and nothing out of the box had this. Took a couple of days. It's sad that it's perceived to be so difficult that an extra thing is needed to make it usable. As a result everyone uses those and the actual plugins have poor docs and API, if not that I would've spend less than a day I guess.
> The clergy opt in to being part of this abusive sect. Nobody forces them to associate with the church.

The situation particularly with Catholics is a bit more complex than that. A number of Catholic clergy originate from young boys raised in strongly religious families who discover they're gay and go into clergydom after they finish school in the (vain) hope that God may lessen their sexual desires.

They're not forced into church by conventional means, but rather by brainwashing.

> If they don't like the treatment they receive at a job, they can quit. Having abusive and discriminatory bosses is a great reason to GTFO.

Employment conditions outside of the church aren't great. Your choice is either a different faith (such as Old Catholicism) or academia.
> Your whole story boils down to you not properly reading an email that even says "Important Information".

I get a dozen on those a week, they are never actually important.
I call myself a webmaster, because I run a website by myself, from nginx configs to illustrations.

Is it title inflation or deflation? I know no greater title than master of the web, but it has such an anachronistic flair. It feels a little pejorative among engineers of this and that. Kids these days don't respect generalists.

I didn't notice it at my previous companies. The titles matched the roles. When they didn't, it was more of a salary-related technicality than hubris.
I am comparing states with provinces.

The most populous “city” in Wyoming is Cheyenne with 63,957 people. Ontario meanwhile includes Toronto population City:2,794,356, Metro Area: 6,202,225.

Yet, your more likely to be murdered in Wyoming.
Just Ask for Generalization (2021)
ChatGPT Recursive Cost Calculator
> It's slightly disheartening to see so many people on HN willing to invite a wider collapse of the US banking system in order to punish/hurt a group of people they deem to be "elite".

People are tired of being around rhetoric that students are undeserving of a bailout because they decided to take loans from banks that were more than willing to lend them money for degrees with no prospects of recouping, however, when banks make their own poor decisions the banks plead with the regulators they've been deregulating, defanging, and lobbying, there are calls for yet __another__ round of socialism. Only now we have no choice because the options are a) bailouts or b) systemic collapse of life as we know it. Tone-deaf.

We are now changing definitions as to what a 'systemically important bank' is, apparently it is no longer 1 of the big-5, but any bank that has 200,000 depositors. Why and how is a bank with 200,000 depositors in a position to bring the entire financial system to a halt?

In his Twitter spaces, Jason C. said that he is now a newly minted 'single-issue voter' looking at candidates that call for limiting of spending. Mind you, after he went on his all caps tirade on Twitter in an attempt to stoke fear.

What's disheartening is seeing the complete disconnect in comments like yours with the optics of the situation.

People aren't inviting the collapse of the system; they are criticizing the complete hypocrisy of those that call for financial prudence when it's other people's problems or needs but blame the government when they are now in a precarious situation. Utterly self-serving and shameless.

We're slowly chipping away at the social contract, seemingly all while forgetting the previous times when bank bailouts were given.

Rationalize this however you want, at the end of the day a bank mismanaged risk, it's C-suites cashed out before news hit, those in the know using means such as Podcast at their disposal, used their privileged position in order to get themselves out of harm’s way before others could, and now want losses to get socialized.

These guys will never learn, this will happen again, and in 10 years we'll be right back here, only eggs will cost 30$ a dozen and you'll be financing your microwave.
Like in every utility, at certain point of scale it make sense to cut the middle man and do it on your own. Mcdonald's, for example, own potatoes fields.

In my current working place, the cloud really saves us money. I would estimate 500k$ a year.
Why choose Emacs or vim over an IDE? I'm still not clear on the advantages/disadvantages.
Over the weekend I created a globally distributed CDN pulling data from a globally distributed, auto healing database as a cache. It took a few hours then I tore it all down in 15 minutes, and it probably only cost a few dollars.

The cloud trades agility for cost.
The banks are necessary to run society. The banks are run for profit and this is what causes them to take risky bets. Just nationalize them to remove the profit incentive.
But then you have to laboriously unflip half of them to put them away. Unless you are cutlery pointing in both directions like a Philistine?
If it's like the Cray S-MP, it was a very powerful SunOS/Solaris box. Plus a lot of Cray mystique.

I was fortunate as a teen to visit Cray Research Superservers (a cab ride away), to port our workstation software to it. The port was trivial, and took less than a day.

(One of our marketing people was exploring a partnership with Cray, and I guess no real software engineers were available, so they sent the intern.)