skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing that info and the thoughtful reply!

As a bit of digression I do believe at some of these institutions such as the FED they have actual 10x employees particularly for emergency situations, playbooks, and really fucking smart people working there just like many other prominent organizations. They probably worked all-nighters too.

Wonder when the movie is going to come out on Netflix. Who will play Peter Thiel?
> You also need devops resources to manage a cloud setup

Don't you also need them in a colo?
> What this is NOT is control over widows and orphans

> this isn’t an approach you would take to prevent widows at the end of paragraphs

Title is misleading, great to see progress here though.

It can be difficult to get designers to accept fluidity in text however, especially headings. This is "determined by the rendering engine rather than any [...] CSS specification" so I'm concerned this will bring back bug tickets saying headings appear differently across browsers.
I think that's an unnecessarily harsh take on what happened.

People adopt. Some people purposely adopt kids that they know have special needs. Sometimes, people with the best intentions, end up in a situation where they are way over their heads. Before you're actually in the situation, there's no possible way to know how difficult it will be, nor what your limits are. (And until you've seen someone actually overwhelmed, it's hard to even imagine what that looks like.) If a child's needs are beyond your limits, you are doing them absolutely no favors to keep them in your home. Having any child, even one biologically your own, is fundamentally a risk.

So consider some hypotheses:

A. The couple in question genuinely wanted to help a child who needed help; and genuinely wanted to inspire other people to adopt by sharing the sorrows and joys; but unexpectedly found themselves in over their head, and made the difficult (and publicly embarrassing) decision to pass the child on to someone better suited to care for them

B. The couple in question thought that a good way to make a few bucks would be to adopt a difficult child for 6 months, get a large viewership, and then pass them on to someone else

I mean, I suppose B is possible, but it seems like a really dumb way to go about things. There would certainly be lots of easier ways to make money.

Whether it was right to make a public spectacle of the child's situation, even assuming the best intentions, is a different question.
Even if it did, 2008 was more than 5 years ago...
I think the perceived laggard side is less enthused to engage in the debate.

On lots of public forums, there will be plenty of characters telling you to use Rust/Crypto/Serverless/AI for everything. Fair enough, they are cool technologies but don't blow up your business for them.
News sites would start dropping ads into your feed, and currently, there would be no way to filter it out.

Right now, there’s no iOS RSS readers that will filter duplicate stories. I can’t imagine how adblocking would get implemented.
The level of pettiness on the video game warring is appalling.
I see no distinction there.
Sure. But do you know how often I’ve had to do backtracking in 25 years of professional programming? Zero times. Maybe the person is interviewing for a position where this kind of leetcode question is applicable, but in my experience this question is not abstracting real normal day to day problems.
False Alarm Reduction Method for Weakness Static Analysis Using Bert Model
How is it murkier? They're going to fund bank bailouts by making other banks and US pay for it via inflation and passed on fees to those of us who don't store our money in financial institutions run by idiots. And they will keep raising rates because the consequence of letting inflation run even higher is a populist revolt.

And the worst part is the majority of this country and the world are too stupid to realize it. Gotta slow boil that frog.
And why relying on an employer existing and being financially capable in 30+ years makes defined benefit pensions not make sense.
Child pageants are creepy AF. They are perfect targets for creeps - former President Trump, for example, got alleged by five women to have walked in on girls as young as 15 while they were changing [1] -, but even without that level of creepiness, the sexualization of young girls has been closely linked to mental health issues down the road [2].

And this legalized pedophilia industry makes 5 billion dollars a year[3]. Unbelievable.

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/teen-bea...

[2] https://www.apa.org/pi/women/programs/girls/report

[3] https://truthout.org/articles/child-beauty-pageants-a-scene-...
> The problem is not nullable references

Disagree. If you don't PUT the nulls into the language, you don't need a brigade of PhDs to develop the static analysis to tell you whether you have nulls.

I'm sick of worshipping at the altar of backward compatibility. Just because we used to choose to include nulls doesn't mean we need to keep choosing to include them.
It's 8 am. Kitchen deserted. Sink empty.
Dishwasher is off, door slightly ajar, rack full with dishes. No dirt anywhere.

Pop-quiz hot-shot. Are the dishes clean or dirty?

You pick the first glass. Looks clean. You pick a bowl for you cereal an spot some grime at the bottom. The spoon is questionable..water spots?

Answer: Rewash your glass, spoon and bowl and let somebody else handle this.
NASA, Department of Energy Join Forces on Innovative Lunar Experiment
How could end users reasonably solve this?

You can’t know exactly how text will be laid out, so I can only imagine using… canvas and doing your own font rendering? Which sounds horrible for all number of reasons.
Brian Shih would know, but would he ever tell?
I'd even push it a little bit and say not even groupthink necessarily, but really the major issue here was a fundamental lack of diversification. Groupthink may be a lack of diversification in terms of opinions/ideas, which certainly is dangerous, but in the SVB example, there was also quite a clear and real lack of diversification of depositors.

If you go back in US banking regulation history, there used to be very strict rules around branching (which is one of the reasons why there is such a large number of regional banks in the US). This had the side-effect of preventing banks from having a diversified set of depositors, so local shocks (crop issues, weather, etc.) were much more likely to decimate small, local banks, which is one of the reasons why bank failures used to be MUCH more common.
The hardest job in America? Middle management
> Of course, historically, we see that the rich and educated upper echelons of society have apparently always struggled with fertility

They still had plenty of kids, and their kids didn't suffer from early deaths nearly as much as among the poor.
thank you so much. Was starting to read through it and not understanding what the core problem was.
My father, controller at a mid-sized regional bank, was involved in a couple of these when I was growing up, and worked at the FDIC as an examiner in the 80s. My memory from the last takeover he did shortly after this NPR article was that the FDIC had given him the vaguest of hints that his bank was on a list that could be selected to takeover a bank in the next month or so, then called him on a Wednesday afternoon, told him he needed to be half a state over by Friday morning (which I also gathered was a little out of norm but the FDIC person was someone my Dad had dealt with for a while and there was mutual trust) for a meeting, and then they took over the bank on Friday. There was the impression from my dad that they could have tried to refuse, but his bank wanted to expand in that area anyway, the FDIC knew that, and decided it would be best to have a larger, not-in-the-market-but-near-it bank take over this smaller community bank.

My dad also was the lead in his bank purchasing other banks in the 90s, and that was a months long, tiring and stressful process that they knew how to manage, and he said that receiving a bank from the FDIC was a different level of acute stress.

Edit Just unlocked a memory, I think one of the reasons that my dad's bank got selected was also that they ran the same backend banking software, since it was going to be a crash acquisition.
I always found it strange that child labor laws have an exception for acting. From what I've seen, acting is probably a worse job for kids than many of the jobs that are outlawed.
>historically, we see that the rich and educated upper echelons of society have apparently always struggled with fertility

Do you have a source for this? I've read that it was the opposite until the 19th century. (Supposedly the source for this claim is "A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World".)
Ask HN: Do you look down on people who don't use MacBooks?
I have noticed that if I see someone working next to me and they aren't using a MacBook, then my opinion of them goes down a notch. For instance, there is a pretty girl working next to me right now, but she is on a Windows laptop, and I'm just not interested in chatting with her as a result. Do other people also experience this prejudice?
So if you tie a knot on a rope, and pull on both ends to breaking point. Is the claim that the rope would not break at the knot. Not sure how true that is.
> You don't want a morality designed by capitalism.

We're getting one whether we want it or not.
We had these little Sun servers that looked like college style mini-fridges. Sun Microsystems Ultra Enterprise 450 Workgroup Server [0] - that would be a nice retro but super expensive ($700-1500) case to build a custom PC in. Gut it and put some liquid cooled gaming PC build in there, tons of room.

[0] https://dcomcomputers.com/sun-e450-enterprise-450-2400mhz-1g...
My company started with a PM acting as Project Manager, Product Owner, and Product Manager. That was a necessity due to size, but as we've grown we're starting to build those out into distinct roles, and the positive impact it's had on the process is beautiful to behold.
I have often wondered though how many coders worldwide are really comparable to a rock star, I guess in terms of standing out as a super creative outlier. So many rockstar wannabes out there in the wild world..
Dollar drops as Fed rate hike expectations trimmed on SVB collapse
On hacker news
That just sounds like arbitrage, and absent laws preventing trade, if business A does not take advantage, then business B would.

And if country A prevented trade, then country B would take advantage and reap the benefits (at least short term, although the short term can be decades long).
Single points of failure like Cloudflare. Cloudflare gets hacked (or compromised by intelligence agencies) and all traffic is out in the open.

Hypervisor vulnerabilities. It's fundamentally risky to have processes with different security contexts run on the same physical hardware. It's probably just a matter of time before we see some really bad hypervisor jailbreaks. All cloud computing is at risk.

Mass surveillance through smart devices. The cameras and microphones are already in all of our our houses. Just a matter of time before somebody turns them on.
I would love that! I find HN useful to have backed up on my laptop, for freetext searching offline mostly.
Exactly, a headphone jack. Apple disqualified itself from budget phone before they even started.
I thought this article by the NY Time's Ezra Klein was pretty good:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/opinion/chatbots-artifici...

> “The broader intellectual world seems to wildly overestimate how long it will take A.I. systems to go from ‘large impact on the world’ to ‘unrecognizably transformed world,’” Paul Christiano, a key member of OpenAI who left to found the Alignment Research Center, wrote last year. “This is more likely to be years than decades, and there’s a real chance that it’s months.”

...

> In a 2022 survey, A.I. experts were asked, “What probability do you put on human inability to control future advanced A.I. systems causing human extinction or similarly permanent and severe disempowerment of the human species?” The median reply was 10 percent.

> I find that hard to fathom, even though I have spoken to many who put that probability even higher. Would you work on a technology you thought had a 10 percent chance of wiping out humanity?
Silvergate, SVB, and Signature were cooking for some time and I imagine a few others are too – but would foregoing an expected 25bps rate hike really change anything?
Yes!
I stopped buying Philips products and have actively advised people to avoid the brand after owning 2 different products with questionable quality.
At this point I wouldn't buy any of their products, so it's hard for them to convince me again, even if they improve.
Sad.
This is my experience too. I love cloud as individual developer but it seems every company has a just as many DevOps people as they had System Admins.

To me advantage of cloud is easily versioned control and replicate-able environments instead of cost savings.
Mostly because self-paced = doesn’t finish.

Read any of the research on MOOCs and it becomes clear that we don’t have a clue how to write a self-paced course people finish with any regularity.
I suspect the grams are just very close to Intel's reference platforms which is probably why they work so well.
economy might be driven by technological advancements, but inflation is certainly driven greatly by money supply and availability.
Per the article, they are now expected to raise rates much more slowly than they otherwise would have.
Assuming everything you connect to has a remote file interface and you only use your computer affords many conveniences. Knowing the default tool first is for when those don't hold, not for when you need to do something from your machine.
Tangentially related to the file converters are yaml and json formatters that are very popular online. I've seen my team open one and just paste away. Who knows what these tools are doing, and even if it was safe one day, the next day it could have been compromised. I'm sure the org has leaked hundreds, maybe thousands of kb by now. At least we don't have PII or any production data. I have an alias that extracts my clipboard, uses jq to format, and puts it back into the clipboard (macos), as an alternative workaround for these web formatters.
> The biggest goal of this latest major release was to decrease abstraction from our configuration schema. Rather than implementing our own ways of configuring plugins, we expose it to the user in the same way that they would configure it themselves. That way users don't have to relearn Neovim configuration.

Glad to see this! This is one of the reasons I originally avoided AstroNvim and other pre-built configurations.

Overall though, my experience with neovim has been bad. I've tried hand-built configurations multiple times but (1) I could never port my vim config just right, some common features would crash, and it was a sour taste having to research how to build an editor out of all the random building blocks (2) LazyVim finally clicked for me but I still get a lot of configuration errors, intermittent crashes, etc. So far I'm still giving neovim a try though I still use vim when I want to avoid all of that mess (e.g. quickly opening / closing files without a lot of float windows).
> Whether it was right to make a public spectacle of the child's situation, even assuming the best intentions, is a different question.

Um....disagree. That's literally THE question being discussed.
Where do you have the Dock on your MacBook?
I don't think groupthink had anything to do with SVB at all.

People used SVB because (1) It was a normal, trustworthy bank with many years of regular operations, (2) It was one of the few banks that would work with early stage startups that have lots of funding, (3) in some cases they were basically forced to by the VCs that funded them and (4) SVB had a well-earned reputation (and now well-lost).

The collapse of SVB was not made by any group. It was made by a relatively small number of individuals who made bad investment decisions. These is no reason to believe that they bought MBSs because of groupthink.
This has to be the least rigorous essay that I’ve read in a while.

Somehow it manages to claim it’s taking on the huge issue of “do non-profits drive social change” while also:

- never citing a single piece of data or quoting any experts.

- proposing three unrelated “ideas” without even trying to make the claim that the three are the holistic.

- never mentioning the impact of non-profits in the developing world, or on the lower income folks in the developed world.

- never mentioning a successful social movement, or even defining what “social change” is.

- for some reason conflating “elite status” with social change.

- assuming that any non-profits have him as a target population (rich professor at a university) in the first place.

I honestly felt embarrassed for the author (and the editors that okayed this) while reading this essay.

I don’t think this should be on the front page.

——

Edit: I looked up what “Comment” was, since I hadn’t heard of the publication before. This is how they describe themselves:

> Comment is one of the core publications of Cardus, a think tank devoted to renewing North American social architecture, rooted in two thousand years of Christian social thought.
Buying SaaS for infrastructure (databases, etc.) rather than running it yourself
I believe you (I don’t use Chrome) but that doesn’t mean the support isn’t there. It could just be that it’s not on by default or that you need to add feeds manually.
Samsung caught faking zoom photos of the Moon
+ the apparent belief that it's ok that we bail out people who took the wrong bet (i.e. bought long-running treasury bonds and overvalued mortgage-packages AND the people who saw this and then crashed their own bank...) and now still want their returns, because they are special... Socialism for the 0.01% v2. First one was a smash.
Yes, and while less goods were being produced, the Fed simultaneously brought an obscene amount of new dollars existence, resulting in even greater inflation.
Do you use it actively? There have been minor problems on a near daily basis and moderate ones a handful of times. It was only ever average stable before but it was at least always that, it's far less consistent recently.
> consider buying 4 USB-C expansion cards, or at least a mix of 4 USB-A or USB-C cards, as they use less power than other cards and you do want to fill those expansion slots otherwise they snag around and feel insecure

The connectors for the expansion cards are all USB-C too, so if it's beneficial to have connection further in instead of right at the edge, you could go without an expansion card for a slot at all.
Unlike Javascript, this isn't a whole new framework that you have to learn all over again. This is just a set of configurations that change the look and feel of NeoVim - which doesn't take re-learning if you're used to Vi/Vim. The whole point of this is that you can install NeoVim as your editor, install this config, and get started without having to customize things yourself. Most people will tweak it as they go in order to fit personal preferences, but this provides a good starting point.

It's a _lot_ saner than the JS ecosystem in my opinion.
Big Tech on its own will already push this technology very far and they don't give a damn about safety, only the optics of it.

I'm not convinced that small actors will do much damage even if they access to capable models. I do think there's at least the possibility that essential safety work will arise from this.
I have a pet peeve: Founders hiring teams all from the same degree or even same university. Then when the team hits a problem, nobody knows how to solve it, or even know that there's a solution, because they all have the same skillset.
I just took a peak at SimAirport... just insane. As someone whose coding has amount to little else but a few small webapps here and there, it completely and utterly boggles my mind that a single person would be able to accomplish something like that. I was aware of the RollerCoaster Tycoon person, but I figured that was an abherration. Completely amazing and awe-inspiring. How on Earth do you get going on something like this?!?!
I think you are going to rethink the whole idea of “sophisticated founders”. One bit of groupthink that seems to be wrong is that the sv founders, cfo’s and vc understand basic business risk management things like treasury operations.
Like I said, charles schwab is mostly a broker. They do not have tons of deposits with them.
Well played VCs. Triggered bank run, destroyed a whole bank and your reward is getting what you wanted the most: stopping rate hikes.

And as a cherry on top, no depositors lost anything.
I guess the losers are everyone else who get to eat inflation with nowhere to escape it.
I'm not up to date what GNU Emacs does with by default concurrent threads of Lisp code on multiple cores. What is the story there?

I would think that each Zmacs instance from 40 years ago already ran in its own thread.
Umm...no. Just no.

> - Security specialist

You need them in both environments if you're serious about security. Unless you somehow believe that being in the "cloud" grants you some kind of security by default?

> - Hardware specialist (someone who knows how to physically install servers, NAS, SAN, etc.)

You can contract this out to the datacenter itself. This is typically a one-time expense when installing infrastructure that will then last the useful lifetime of the hardware (e.g. 5-7 years)

> - Data center environment specialist (usually can come with the data center, but they still need to be vetted)

What does this even mean?

> - Network specialist (someone who knows how to physically install network cards, switches, etc. + config, setup, etc.)

Yes, true, a truly robust network setup that is colocated in multiple data-centers is probably the most difficult thing out of the entire setup.

> Oh and btw there are 100+ vendors who supply all of this.

You mean Dell? Or HP?

> So not only do I need to find a, for example, a network specialist, I need to find someone who uses Nagios because my infra lead made that decision.

You just need a linux admin on a contract. If they are worth their salt, they don't even have to be full-time.
Actual subject line from AWS email when account about to be terminated. Got my attention.

“Action required – Your AWS account is past due”
Until recently - wage gains were beating inflation by more than usual - obviously not everyone is affected equally.

The main people who should've been fuming about inflation are retirees on defined benefit pensions.
> it could be possible to fly

A bit of an understatement. It could be possible to fly like helicopters, but all the way into lower space, reach an orbit, stop again, go for another one, etc.
If they are professional software developers, perhaps a Windows laptop would cause me to wonder why. If it's running Linux, they actually get points over Apple in my book, even though I use macs myself.

And jeez, don't diss the opposite sex over their computer taste.
It doesn’t specify, but in practice (at least when I was last using it around 11), it is. Stack allocation has very different semantics than single allocation buffers, though I’m not sure I follow your logic.

What is the reason for not making a OptionalLong a 72-bit (or larger if you care about alignment), primitive value but keeping object semantics at the language level? Someone who thinks they have an object OptionalLong is already looking at minimally 112-bits for the class pointer and value on a non-empty value or add another 96-bits onto the if it’s an `Optional<Long>`. What’s missing with the value-type is shared references to the same instance, but for an immutable optional to an immutable long, that doesn’t make much difference in practice. That’s the only drawback I can see. In practice, how often is it important to have identity properties for boxed primitives? That’s already probably caused more bugs than it’s benefits.