skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I quite literally said in the message you're replying to "It's not clear what the better outcome is here" so I'm not really opining on what's preferable. It doesn't change the reality that this is going to impact "regular people" in the end whether it's intentional and direct in the form of a bailout, or indirect in the form of layoffs.

To your questions: The companies you'd prefer to see shut down almost certainly will outside of the zero interest rate environment we've recently excited. But there's quite a big difference between businesses running their course and dying, and them rapidly laying off employees alongside one another because they just lost much of their runway. Mass layoffs create a sudden oversupply of candidates and strain the system, making it more difficult for those laid off to find new jobs.

While I'd prefer businesses not die for "random chance" of having chosen the wrong bank, my concerns here are not for the companies themselves. I'm much more worried about the downstream impact of employees who will go without wages or systemic failures of other banks if we can't regain confidence quickly.
Low risk is not the same as no-risk. FDIC amounts will be returned and bank assets will be sold to cover deposits as much as possible. Outside of an investigation into any wrongdoing that should be the end of the involvement of taxpayers. VC firms should protect their investments or the government should get an equity stake or favorable loan terms for remaining balances. It’s really bad for the free market to signal that all banking is risk free for any corporation. If we are going to do that then just nationalize the banks and cut out the middle person.
@jason , @sama , the current CEO of YC, a general clusterfuck of some of the richest and most powerful people in the US economy?
Yeah not talking about bank "disruption" in the classic/rigid definition of the term.

I'm more commenting on how the the general attitude of the tech entrepreneur (willing to take risks, to swing and miss, move fast and break things) has been cross pollinated over to the finance (DeFi, VC tech funds, crypto affiliated banks) to largely disastrous (but not wholly unexpected) results.

What really bothers me is that these "financial geniuses" walk and talk (and in the case of SBF dress) like typical typical tech entrepreneurs, but when push comes to shove they are just the same old reckless wall street sociopaths trying to privatize profits and socialize the losses.

Your classic tech entrepreneur had skin in the game, was willing to swing and miss, learn from their mistakes, and get up and try again. In a forum that claims to be full of "real" true-scotsman tech entrepreneurs, there seem to be a lot of people here that think/talk like wall street sociopaths.

I feel like the last 5-10 years are full of more and more of these "jumped the shark" moments in the tech space (Theranos, WeWork etc). Innovation is dead. Low hanging fruit all picked. In it's place is a new priesthood, full of grifters who preach innovation while robbing us blind and getting bailed out.

To your point about "40 year stable banks", yeah it really sucks that normal people are caught up in this mess. But something tells me that what happened at this bank is unique to the tech/disruption space/narrative I mention above.

Personally I believe the contagion will be limited to poorly run banks making bad/reckless decisions. I guess the next few days/weeks we'll know for sure if this is a limited thing, or a widespread problem.

I sure hope people go to jail over this.
Holding bonds in a rising rates environment also costs money.

Hedging could have been a way to reduce the duration without selling - i.e. without realizing losses as the bonds could still be classified as hold-to-maturity - and avoid further losses.

They chose not to.
Never seen a Color Computer 3 with that keyboard. The layout is factory correct but the colors appear to be custom.
FDIC to “Operate” Silicon Valley Bank?
> the reason for weakening these regulations was that Dodd-Frank is/was extremely expensive to comply with

It would be a lot easier for banks to comply with a reinstated Glass Steagall law, but banks don't want that either. The problem is really just that the banks don't want any restrictions, but as this situation shows, restrictions exist for good reason.
And, humorously, there were months of clamor for increased rates and months of warning from the US government before Russia invaded Ukraine. Bank risk managers can't pretend there wasn't lots of warning for both developments, starting at least ~15 months ago.
How did asteroid (7482) 1994 PC1 get its “face”?
Only because people stopped shaming the term "overweight", but are still adverse to "obese". The range 25-30 isn't called the "still healthy range", it's "overweight". Being overweight isn't a good thing.
You do NOT fuck with ITAR. You are personally liable for any violations and it can result in jail time for you, personally. And the company is liable too.

I would hope anybody in that chain of command knows that, and tells him to go fuck himself if he drops even the hint of exporting it.
Not only conflicts with the Chinese, but also their friends the Russians:

Suggesting appeasement: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1576969255031296000

Entertaining sanctioned presenter: https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-spotted-pro-putin-russi...

Tesla buys aluminum from Rusal: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/14/tesla-has-bought-aluminum-fr...

"Tesla, as the only 100% foreign-owned automaker in China, holds a privileged place, but it holds it tenuously. The risk that China could retaliate against Tesla in response to U.S. or European sanctions or policies China finds distasteful has always been present": https://seekingalpha.com/article/4501080-a-new-tesla-risk-ru...
EasyNostr: Setup your Nostr NIP-05 ID under your own domain (or use
I don't think there's any way to do iteration in the type system (other than recursion), so there's no way around it.

I considered forking the compiler to set a deeper limit, but at some point Typescript itself is going to stack overflow. Also that probably goes a bit beyond what Criss is expecting in an interview...
I think they need to be a member of the FDIC to even make a bid. But even if they did not, I doubt these companies would want to be regulated under banking laws or setup the infrastructure to do so. There's a reason why these companies establish "partnerships" with well known banks (ie, Apple x Goldman Sachs). They are simply not setup to deal with the regulation. It's better to farm it out to a well established bank and let them take the hits from violating banking laws at all levels (ie, state vs federal vs international).
I don't quite get the point. If the function takes an argument of "hello", "world" or string, doesn't it still just take any string?
Good additions!

Few more which I had forgotten, ParallaxNick is a hidden gem:

https://www.youtube.com/@parallaxnick637 | Science, history, astronomy, gorgeous poetic narration, love how he puts science in historical context

https://www.youtube.com/@WardCarroll | Veteran F-14 Tomcat radar intercept officer covers air power, episodes with Justin Bronk are the best open intel on Russia and Ukraine available

https://www.youtube.com/@MakingShorts | Joel Haver's quirky comedy shorts, sometimes sublime melancholic pieces
Generic substitutes for extended release medicines are extended release also. The problem is the extended release mechanisms are judged equivalent when they are not.
The food makes people fat. It's almost all crap now: chemicals, hormones, non-caloric content, non-nutrititive, sweeteners. Eating real food now takes money and initiative. If we went back to the commercial food quality of the 50's the obesity epidemic would end by itself.
If a character is too difficult to type on some specific system, that is indeed a constrained environment.
Thanks for the positive encouragement!
The Bank of London bids for Silicon Valley Bank UK arm as government seeks buyer
i don't think it's as nefarious as that

the issue is that startup founders might have a lot of implied wealth based on the equity they hold and money raised but a "mainstream" bank is going to look at that equity, assess it as non-liquid and highly speculative and reject any loan applications

svb was more likely to extend personal loans to startup founders because -- in theory at least -- they better understood startup finance and they were incentivized to provide good service to prospective customers of their more business focused activities
Stdout is frequently buffered slightly, but yeah, once you exceed it your `print(...)` line becomes blocking, and the execution moves to your terminal until it displays or discards it, freeing room in that buffer.

With large amounts of output, that can be a massive amount of time. As a really simple example, try `time dd if=/dev/random bs=1k count=1000` to print a megabyte of random data, vs `... > /dev/null`.
I have done barely any multithreaded coding,
but if I had to I would look at akka etc. first; i.e. use a framework!
I mostly agree with the quote, in fact, I occasionally see bad works of art that would otherwise get quickly forgotten become more famous because of the negative criticism.

On the other hand, when I read reviews I always go for the negative reviews because I want to be warned about the thing's potential flaws. Even if I disagree with the critics I still learn so much about my favourite works of art thanks to those opinions.

Also, if a critic claims that everything is excellent, then I have no way to act on their recommendations because I don't know what's their standard or taste unless I can compare it with something they didn't like.
I think the downvotes prove my point.
Back in the 80's there was a cola that was essentially old cane-sugar style coke with higher caffeine, called Jolt Cola. I don't know what happened to it.
Recall that a dollar bill is a promise by the federal reserve to pay a dollar. There is no guarantee that that promise holds.
Of course they can go bad, they have insurance similar to FDIC. And just like small banks right now, they also have the problem on getting loans to make interest on. Mortgages have dried up. Refinancing is there too. Bigger banks have larger opportunities, so they may be safer with loans being down.
To be fair, SpaceX offered starlink for free. Then later the man-child twitted some bullshit about ceding large parts of Ukraine to their invader as some weird attempt to mollify the aggressor.

When Ukraine rightly told him to fuck off he decided to pull the plug. It was only later that he made up the thing about cost.

The way it played out could cause some cautious people to look for some assurances. Asking how you can trust someone who has proven himself to be mercurial, thin -skinned and prone to snap decisions, prone to conspiracy thinking, and with a proven track record of retaliation against anyone who questions his decisions up to and including baseless accusations of heinous crimes…

Pretty good question actually.
Sounds like you describe a interactive shell session, not stuff that happens in that script that was written for a specific purpose.
The real question is. Which python3 version does current macOS ship with?

Well, on my macOS Ventura 13.2.1 install, /usr/bin/python3 is Python 3.9.6, which may be too old?

But also, my custom installed python3 via homebrew is not 3.11 either. My /opt/homebrew/bin/python3 is Python 3.10.9

MacBook Pro M1
Thanks for the reply. This looks interesting, and would be useful for building a custom system or an entire application. Was hoping to see if there are any products I haven’t come across yet.
I'm genuinely surprised people buy CDs anymore. Everything is so digital.
"AbstractInterruptibleChannel" seems to be doing this, and the comments/javadocs offer some hint. As to why they're designed this way, that's a good question.

https://github.com/openjdk-mirror/jdk7u-jdk/blob/master/src/...
Textual keeps coming up — a perennial favorite on Hacker News. But I have yet to encounter high-quality TUI applications that use it. Why is that? Maybe I've messed them and people can post their favorites.
Irrelevant - Garmin can receive GPS, Glonass, Galileo and BeiDou.
Just for clarity, is the product you build in the same category as the products you initially reviewed?
> The same situation applies at nearly EVERY bank at nearly EVERY time.

Illiquid is not the same thing as insolvent, so no.
> On top of that, SpaceX asked for the government to fund Ukraine's use of Starlink, and if they were so worried about its importance, they should've just done that.

Exactly. SpaceX was doing a favor, at first, but the service still costs money. For the service to continue, it clearly needs funding. Just about any company will have a limit to how much they can or will provide for free. The answer to the problem, is mainly money. Provide contracts and money for the SpaceX service, and that will likely resolve the issue.
It doesn’t help that you wrote it as a monospaced block. ;)
Well granted they're solving quadratic equations, but neither are the adults.

For instance, if you expose larvae a rewarding stimulus like sugar along with an odour, they will later be attracted to that odour. That is by definition learning, simple learning, but we have to start somewhere i guess.

Interestingly there is some evidence that the memory lasts through to the adult stage, despite the fact that a lot of the brain is actually rewired during pupation.
Librarians are biased like everyone else, it's reflected in the books retained.

It's quite apparent when I've explored libraries in small towns on cross-country road-trips. Ideological influence for sure.
> And are these "interrupts" just the underlying syscall returning EINTR or something Java-specific?

It's something Java-specific: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Thread.h...
Tuberculosis is likewise at least 5000 years old, and kills around 50% of those infected.
Even your article acknowledges that SpaceX "donated a significant sum to Ukraine’s cause." They are just not footing 100% of the bill. It is not clear why they would be expected to do so. According to Musk, "25,300 terminals were sent to Ukraine, but, at present, only 10,630 are paying for service."[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1582098412501364736"
I wrote a quick integration to the GPT-3 API to Emacs [0]. Although it's a very simple implementation, it's made many small things I would've previously done manually much quicker (ie - one-off calls to convert a hyperlink in X format to markdown; abbreviate first names of author lists of papers; convert some "text message speak" messages into a paragraph).

[0] https://github.com/samrawal/gpt-emacs-macro
Yes genetics are not the only necessary condition which means it also is not a sufficient condition. Obviously so. Charles Darwin didn't need to sequence DNA to observe heritable characteristics. I strongly doubt sequencing Jordan's DNA will tell you anything at our current tech levels.

MJ is 6'7", fast, athletic and well coordinated. Several million people in the USA grew up loving playing baskeball, were well coached and well nourished.

We may well have missed a better MJ, or Einstein, Hendrix or Terry Tao or whoever you like due to them never getting a chance for all the reasons that can happen and that is an ongoing tragedy. One we as a species have been steadily and slowly fixing (albeit with some big dramatic setbacks) over the past 100 years or so. Long may that continue.
To be fair, "optimized by AI" doesn't claim that the machine contains AI. Might just be "at some stage in the design process, AI was involved in some way". Which is probably for lots of hardware today.
Java's actually got pretty sane multithreading support. Some classes are doing things that are a bit unintuitive (like this one), but once you grok the Java Memory Model it's actually very straightforward.
“do nothing and keep the money.” That's the best definition of deregulation I've seen.
Oh sure - there are lots of great tools to do it these days. My point is mostly that in most cases you can just skip it all together.
> Intuitively, a hundred billion dollar auction with only a few hours to research, analyze and horsetrade must necessarily result in a lower winning bid.

Maybe. Or maybe the winner's curse will apply.

> Doesn't that mean a bigger haircut for uninsured depositors than would be the case if assets were methodically liquidated over a few weeks or months instead of a fire sale on one Sunday?

Maybe. Equally the longer depositors can't access their deposits, the worse things are. FDIC would rather get the depositors their 100% quickly than get maximum recovery for junior debt or equityholders. Now, if there's no offer coming in that covers 100% of deposits, then that gets more interesting; it's always possible that the FDIC will decide to keep running the bank and purse that kind of strategy.
Rerun make, and regenerate the quantized files, because some new commits broke backwards compatibility, if you recently pulled.
Not sure if a deliberate joke but those are two independent clauses so should've used a semicolon :-) (between "asides" and "semicolons")
I wouldn't expect to hear anything until tomorrow. Evaluating such bids can be quite complex because contingencies and limitations can differ between bids (eg cash injection, equity pricing, liability assumption, time windowing, bridge requirements, backstop guarantees and negotiating the degree of temporary regulatory loosening following the transaction). There will be significant back and forth between the top bidders and regulators following the final bids as they work to reconcile different bid elements against the regulator's ranked priorities.
> “do nothing and keep the money.”

Or “do nothing until someone(s) else gets stung/slapped, and hope that it is someone/someones else not you, so you are around to learn from the mistake”.
Can anyone clarify how to look at this data? There are a few different reports. What would I look for to see how healthy my credit union is?
Specifically for internal tools, this is a much efficient way.

With anything more than html, css the complexity is not worth the return.

We've done away with everything that needs internet to build or deploy (npm, dockerhub, brew, whatever). Primarily for the security theatre around package updates.

So much simpler now. Backend is very well integrated with the entire ecosystem. Exact same setup as production. Folks who build internal admin tools tend to (and they should) know that part much better.

Everything is instantaneous.

We avoided all frontend libs. Some (like moment.js) needed extra work on the API side, but that took an hour at best to find an existing backend method to use.

All of the admin UI stuff is like < 100 kb. In 1 repo. Everything works without javascript, in all browsers (including lynx).

Night and day contrast against all previous versions where we used a mix of jquery, then angular and finally react with all their baggage and unexplainable dependencies to utter dismay.

Clearly the case of using the wrong tools but good lord did it take a while to get rid of the FUD around html only tools.
I understand the question to be whether you can liquidate a 2% 20-year loan paying fifty cents on the dollar or whatever the fair amount is. (I guess the answer is no for the usual US mortgages but it could be yes for some kind of loans.)
Dalai: Automatically install, run, and play with LLaMA on your computer
That's not the situation here. Etsy holds seller payments in SVB in an account, that yes of course, is probably above the FDIC 250K limit since it represents the amount to be paid out to hundres if not thousands of sellers: https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/business/etsy-warns-sellers...

Without derailing the discussion into whether Etsy "should have known better" (which to be clear is an argument that would be made in a simplified vacuum given the complexity of them probably just being an intermediary between a credit card processor and the sellers and thus it being fairly logistically complicated to set up that intermediary as some sort of multi-bank-account system or whatever), but regardless, even if that is the worst way to do it in the world, the point is that that's not the individual sellers' fault, and they shouldn't be punished for it. Again, as I mentioned in my comment, the position that "Well individual Etsy sellers should really do a financial analysis on the host platform's bank, quarterly, to account for interest rate changes, and if they independently conclude that that bank is unhealthy, they should pull their store off Etsy and... ???" is a bit hard to swallow, and I'm not sure if a world we really want to create.
There is crossover in finance with crypto web3 blahblahblah. But I wouldn’t conflate the larger innovation in tech with that. It and VR/AR have gobbled a lot of attention, but meanwhile we’re on the edge of what will be a total transformation in the next 10-20 years with AI. I didn’t think we’d be here in 2023 but it’s quite clear the rate of innovation is now insane. That’s just one area - just about every industry has tech running through it now in a way that wasn’t the case 10 years ago. A lot of it is quite boring so you don’t see it in the news, but that doesn’t mean it’s not happening or these companies are scam or worthless… far from it.

I don’t think SVB was subject to the SBF type person, or certainly it wasn’t the case their money was tied up in a blockchain. I don’t think it’s fair to call them grifters even if they fucked up by building a model for a pre inflation world.

I’m fine letting SBF et al go bust; it was pure speculation. But pension funds, hundreds of diverse startups, wineries and farmers don’t deserve to go down with one of the top 20 biggest banks. The domino effect is too massive.
Yeah, that's consistent with the research. It seems like the body really likes to stay at a given weight, so it adjusts so there's not too much fluctuation. That's why it's really hard to lose weight and keep it off if you've been fat for a long time.

What exercise helps with is making sure that the occasional binge, or change in circumstances, doesn't lead to permanent weight gain. If you're temporarily disabled for 2 weeks and can't move and put on some weight, your body then burns more of that fat when you go back to exercising, or regulates your appetite so you eat less.

But if you're not used to exercising and then suddenly increase your caloric intake, your body has less opportunity to burn the extra fat, so it leads to long term weight gain, and eventually your gut biome and body adjust to the new normal.
I'd point the burden of proof the other way, tbh. I don't see any reason one would be riskier than the other.
Sounds like people cant distinguish between bad actors and actions and the technology sector at large.

It also sounds like they can't distinguish between their own failings (in terms of personal behavior and bad government) and the failings of businesses.
What do they mean

It's similar to FBI "buying people data" they can already access for free

SpaceX is a US Defense program

Similar to how Google got funded

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...
So the guy who claimed that the US Government didn't pay even though it did pay is supposed to be a trustworthy source?
What about sending kids to college to become industrial or IT engineers ?

They could automate or improve efficiency in areas where cheap manual labour isn't necessary !
They could also do research, to keep America at the leading edge of the industry !

Oh wait, it means planning for the future economy. And it means universities, mostly operated by governments. This all sounds socialist, hence is bad.

It also means that children from the minorities will have a future where they're paid better than you, it's inconceivable.

And anyone won't just be able to hire a poor child to profit from is work, so it's bad for the short term economy.

Am I right or wrong, on why republicans want that law ?