skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I understand. You submitted one year of late parcel requests in one go (presumably with the script), and then you had to manually select to 'get money back' or 'prepaid satchel'?
Thanks a lot for sharing.

I have been very happy with restic. It has worked flawlessly. The only thing missing from what I rather to have is error correction and asymmetric encryption.

I might look into Kopia when I have time. I was a bit worried that it’s newer and might be less reliable.
I use vmware with linux on my m1 for development because performance is so much better.
> It actually has a pretty solid financial situation except for that!

Then why couldn't they find a buyer in the auction today? If Silicon Valley Bank had positive equity, someone would have bought them out for an easy profit.
I haven't read the Alphaville coverage yet, but I thought their front page feature was pretty informative coverage: https://www.ft.com/content/b556badb-8e98-42fa-b88e-6e7e0ca75...

I'll read Alphaville next
All banks take risks with the money that their customers deposit with them.

Sometimes those risks are bad, and banks cannot fulfill their obligations to their customers, so the FDIC, which is funded by banks (its deposit insurance) steps in and fixes a bank so that customers of that bank do not get screwed by picking a bad bank.

I dont see how any peasants are 'sharing any risk' here.

Everybody who held stock in SVB, just lost literally all of that. They invested in a bank that failed. Just like if they invested in a company that failed. Nobody is bailing those people out.
I can't pinpoint anything specific they did wrong, compared to peers. Their operating expenses were not that large, for example. So what happened to them, can happen to any bank now. That's why FED are worried.
Well also you lose your job and presumably never work in banking again, no?
1. They did buy treasury bills. Those lost value.

2. It’s literally impossible that other banks did a better job as the asset class for treasury and MBS is the same for every bank. The difference is that SVBs customers were more negatively affected by rising rates after also being more positively affected by low rates than other banks. So I don’t expect a systemic problem here but SVB was structurally unlucky.

3. The fed could have acted sooner to raise rates, that would have allowed a more gradual process. They could also have set up an exchange program as they are doing now. Plenty of banks bought long term treasuries that are underwater now but will recover in the long run. So if a member bank is facing liquidity problems it should be able to access the discount window or some similar facility to smooth the timing risk.

Let’s all remember it’s in everyone’s interest to have safe banks and a functioning financial system. When macro policy has unintended consequence there is nothing wrong with supporting the system.
I wish my school offered something even half good as this.

I've seen it like 2 years ago and it is well prepared course.

>CS 6120 is a PhD-level Cornell CS course by Adrian Sampson on programming language implementation.

I just dont understand why is this "PhD level"
> What would you have had him do?

What ggm and others like him want to say (but don't because they know how stupid it sounds), is that Thiel should have told everyone what he had learned/deduced about SVB's stability ... and not taken his own money out.
Some context:

This is an Australian news site. In Australia, news organizations lobbied against Google and Facebook in the same way as Canadian news organizations. In Australia, most of the mainstream news is controlled by Rupert Murdoch, who has considerable power in choosing which politicians get elected by directing his news paper to write favorable or unfavorable stories for politicians. Ultimately, politicians sided with the news papers. Surprise!
I come across quips and insights that I want to remind myself of; including them in a random message of the day as a ZSH login message is the right amount of "flair" for me. But this is too noisy if it's a new random choice each time I open a shell. Using today's date as a source of randomness gives us a random choice that's the same all day long. So this is in my .zshrc:

motd() {
date +%D > /tmp/motd_seed
sort -R --random-source=/tmp/motd_seed ~/Dropbox/motd.txt | head -n 1
}

motd

```
That was an eye-opener. I didn't realize those QR codes could be auto-detected by Safari (and perhaps other browsers too), and had UI around it.

Thanks for the pointer!
This does not cover compilers. I know because I specifically asked munificent (the author) about this before and he mentioned some other books to look at.
So we can't lay eggs yet, at least we got one. Who knows what might hatch.
Look into HSBC and Ping An
>You just need confidence in the FDIC.

The FDIC insures up to $250k only. You are not asking for confidence but for faith that somehow they'd be willing to guarantee 100% out of their good hearts. That's an irrational thing to do when your money is at risk.

Regarding your second paragraph: hindsight is such a wonderful thing! Also strange to claim that they don't have a bank anymore...
...Arguably, agriculture, the printing press, electricity, germ theory, widespread access to education, and eventually lots of meth has helped significantly more in that regard.

Finance is one of those things like sex and murder. It'll always be there, no matter what state you're in, or what trajectory you're going, and it's always extolling how it alone is responsible for how great your life is. It's humanity's background noise.

And while the Finance people are yammering in the corner, bored farmers are building rockets, discovering vaccines, inventing television, harnessing the internal combustion engine...

Nah. Finance is bs and pageantry, and the inevitable excuse we settle on for why the hell we got up and did something that needed to get done. End of story.

Dollars don't mend broken bones. People do. Then some finance guy shows up and says "you should put a price tag on that" and it all goes downhill from there.
At my school we used the course work of Stanford for the operating system class which was amazing: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs140/projects/pintos/pintos_...

It's really up to the professor.
I can't use it because it does not support multi LSP for one file.

For example if you have typescript and eslint.

Helix right now can't run both.

So you would need to run eslint in the terminal.
A charitable response I think is that depositors did not choose to make risky bets, the bank did. It's a shame really. So, you're blaming the wrong party.

Somehow, the bank definitely needs to be punished, but I'm not sure how or if that can happen in this current system.
If housing prices drop, it's a crisis for homeowners.

If housing prices increase, it's a crisis for would-be buyers and renters.

It depends on which perspective you have.
> The risk of a domino effect of bank runs destroying the banking system,

That's the exact speech made by those people, and we know it because they have money and, hence, they have ideological clout and access to our eyes and ears. Had this been a bank from fly-over-country the discourse would have been totally different.
HSBC acquires Silicon Valley Bank UK, says all depositors’ money is safe
Your frustration with VMs and cloud providers is completely understandable. VMs are essentially entire machines, which makes hardware manipulation quite challenging. However, have you considered using containers instead? They are often easier to manage and offer more flexibility in terms of scaling resources up or down as required. Let me know if you are a developer, as I may have some recommendations to share.
The question is: was it demoed in front of a magician? I'd like a scientist AND a professional magician present. It was the key to debunking the homeopathy story that went into Nature.
My understanding is the FDIC reimbursing up to 100K is fine and what you expect, it's just that many customers had balances exceeding that.
It looks like it helps a lot with building long high speed data cables, depending on how you isolate the wires.
It's likely my PS3000 bash prompt: https://gitlab.com/dzamlo/ps3000

I haven't updated it in a few years because it just works
Who’s the counterparty for those swaps? They sound systemically important.
Had an ancient boiler in a poorly insulated house that would sometimes trip out until manually reset (flip the power off and back on), yielding a cold house and unhappy spouse.

Built a microcontroller driving a normally-closed relay to interrupt the power for 1 minute out of every 120. No more cold mornings. I later added temperature sensing, smarter resetting based on temperature (to prevent power cycling a working boiler), and a webserver to it:
https://imgur.io/a/VM7nD74 (the graph is an SVG; everything was generated on the local ESP8266)
How is RSS even dead today? I can’t think of a useful site that doesn’t still have an RSS feed - including Reddit.
It's much easier to whine about Google than accept trends in consumer behaviour.

Programmers get nostalgic about their pet technologies that even the majority of tech-denographic (and often themselves) don't even use when given the option. I don't blame them but they aren't always honest about their favourite niche tech simply being niche technology.
I built a script that finds appointments at the citizens' office in Berlin. At first, it just collected stats. That was to test a theory that you have to check early in the morning (turn out it's false).

Finding an appointment is notoriously difficult, and people often depend on the results of those appointments to start their life here. So I built a UI for the script and put it online. Not just code on GitHub but a live website everyone can use. It uses websockets to wait for appointments from the script running on a server.

It's been live for almost a year now. Thousands of people got an appointment that way. I got the city's blessing to keep it online, albeit with a restrictive poll rate.

It's really cool to see people recommend the tool to each other, and to work directly with the city.

When I return from vacation, I want to ask the city to extend the tool, and also translate it to other languages.
<< As Yellen and Powell insinuate, crippling a bunch of startups and making a bunch of pension funds etc. have zero returns -- all because of a monetary system failure -- is not a strategically good decision if they want stability and people to continue investing in tech.

So it is not payroll/depositor bailout. It is wall street owner shareholders of those startups bailout. This is the reason some are mildly miffed. That and the mid-game rule change.
At least they publish their papers!
You're describing things that just aren't problems. The sound of people walking on floors is not more disturbing than the sound of sirens going by outside. It's not disturbing at all; it's background noise.
When a company is capitalized that money gets deposited into an operating bank account. Many start ups used SVB, so all of their capital became a deposit at a bank. It doesn’t matter that the original source was a VC firm and wasn’t from other depositors. Because now the company can’t access its capital to pay employees.

This has nothing to do with separating deposits from investment activities, no one is alleging that SVB was speculating in stock or risky securities. They were placing deposits grade A securities as any regulatory body would sign off on.
My point is that now bad behaviors commonly goes unpunished and that leads to the bad students to thrive and the good student to be ruined little by little.

Look at the Saudi and Fifa corruption examples, in both cases the bad states do not bear any bad consequences but here are the ones in the good parts of the world:

- corruption is expanded, giving an incentive to bad actors to have bad behaviors, leading honest democratic countries to the downard path.

- free voices (journalists and co) tone down in the whole world because of fear as it get obvious that bad actor can target you physically or economically wherever you are in the world.
I did the same and ... you lie about content of the article.

The word is there 4 times: once in reference to the White House. Once in mention of Breivik manifesto. And twice in sentence "The classical story is not quite one of white supremacy—after all, if science is to be a universal enterprise, it cannot only be carried out by white people—but it is emphatically a story of European exceptionalism and the supremacy of European thought and values, which it invokes to explain the material prosperity and cultural superiority of Europeans."
Nano is fairly commonly installed mercifully. Micro (which is an actually "normal" terminal editor) is becoming more popular too and is also trivial to install (since it is written in Go).
i think you're talking about liquidity rather than solvency

solvency is when your assets (including illiquid ones) exceed your liabilities
Existing HVDC technology can easily span the US with negligible losses (less than 10%).
According to:

https://towardsdatascience.com/run-bloom-the-largest-open-ac...

You only need 16Gb of RAM:

"A BLOOM checkpoint takes 330 GB of disk space, so it seems unfeasible to run this model on a desktop computer. However, you just need enough disk space, at least 16GB of RAM, and some patience (you don’t even need a GPU), to run this model on your computer."
I guess I just felt an objection about “[oss] running circles around OpenAI.” The reality is that the core technology is still very unapproachable (making these models). OSS solved like 1% of the total problem/difficulty.

My biggest hope is that meta/google/anthropic actually decide to release training code + data + checkpoint. Meta is most likely to do it but still unlikely

Without that it would take eutherai/carperai to really exceed expectations for OSS to be competitive.
Is there an example of a similar crisis that affected less well connected people and was handled differently?

This is a serious question, not an Internet dunk or whatever. I'm not very knowledgeable on these topics.
Spacemacs is also dead. Last release was 5 years ago. Since then emacs has had many significant updates.
Changing the rules is good if evidence emerges that the rules are bad. In this case, the $250k guarantee was thought to be enough to prevent this kind of thing from occurring. We now know it was insufficient. The world has changed since that was implemented. Namely, social contagion, which is one of the causes of bank runs, can act harder and faster in the age of social media.
Realistically the most difficult part of training a LLM is curating a good data set. OpenAI never published their training data.
Why involve the Fed? Doesn't FDIC have existing funding mechanisms since 1933 or so?

Not an expert; just my personal model of history is being violated a little here.

I just don't understand why invoking the Fed's infinite line of credit is necessary. It comes across as a vote of no confidence in existing precedent and process, which somehow got us this far.

There's nothing unprecedented happening, so why is an unprecedented response needed?
I love this theme and how it looks!

If someone is new to VIM/NVIM: I would go first with the basic.

I have seen a lot of people being overwhelmed with this pre-made configs and lost interest really fast. Also if your not into config stuff and making it yours then maybe something like vim/nvim is not for you. If you want to use vscode use vscode. Its not about the tool but how good you know the tool :)

I love vim motions :D
The (home) owner class has a much louder voice.

When the stock indexes go up (get more expensive) it is business as usual. When they go down, its doom and gloom everywhere.
Dang used to call people out for ambiguity as flamewar incitement
Sure, I mean, you're externalising the problem to the environment, but hey - who cares if the VCs keep on pouring money.

Maybe start thinking about the world you leave behind for your kids.
> Google Reader was a product that was crazy cheap to maintain (no way it had more than a dozen engineers working on it),

It’s hard to show “scope” and “impact” by maintaining a product with declining usage. No one who cared about their career would want to work on something that was in maintenance mode.
A lot would depend on the critical current and critical field that such hypothetical superconductor could have. If it's too low, its usage where large currents are needed, like motors or chips will be small.
As example, look into the generation of high magnetic field. In a typical physics lab or MRI machine, the current state of the art is by superconducting coils, but for very large magnetic fields (several tens of teslas) you need to fallback on copper, since there are not known practical superconductor able to sustain such fields without losing their superconductivity
Who are these counterparties that can absorb trillions of dollars in interest rate risk?

My amateur understanding is that this counterparty would need to be short long bonds, ie. be a bond issuer. And they would need to be interested in exchanging their fixed interest rate for a variable one.

If the above is correctly understood I don't see how banks can find issuers of trillions of dollars worth of bonds that want a variable interest rate in a rising interest rate environment.
I've made 2 projects that I use everyday for several years now. Not sure if I'm proud really, but they are such useful tools in my daily life so I guess I should be!

One is a RSS feed reader (GORSS) for the terminal that I use to always be up to date with stuff that interests me. The other is a simple todo-list that I use for work, shopping etc (DoIT).

https://github.com/lallassu/gorss
https://github.com/lallassu/doit
This is not true. Go look at the balance sheets of all of the major banks.
Yes, the GitHub has the Jupyter .ipynb notebook that can be run locally: https://github.com/jarrellmark/chatgpt-j

And even in Colab, it's privacy first in the sense that user input or model output isn't being sent anywhere. The data is local to your Colab session.
Dude, you can figure out Bar without a guide.

Do you complain about angstroms?
It’s a fish function but would be easy enough to translate to bash. It opens my diary, with an optional day offset. It creates the entries with a nice file structure so it’s easy to browse without the command too. I have years of memories captured that I otherwise wouldn’t have bothered with thanks to this script.

`diary` opens the entry for today

`diary -1` opens the entry for yesterday

`diary -365` opens the entry for a year ago

https://gist.github.com/bspammer/12d6b4a8049c69c832df7c4fd1d...
But how? Surely it was worth more than that?
The title misquotes the link:

> stty -icanon && cat mario.nes - | nc play-nes.org 4444

stty makes the keyboard work, and "-" is needed after .nes.
Currently we have the worst of both worlds.
The claim above is that empires are below the threshold where everything runs on personal trust, not that governmental administration is fundamentally different from other kinds of administration.

> But efficiency is required for commercial enterprises. It is not enough to collect money and let your subordinates enrich themselves. You want to track all the money and not let your subordinates cheat the enterprise to their personal profit.

The first two sentences are obviously false; you want to track all the money, but you have no particular need to do so as long as some of the money is making its way to you.
> People are not rational. Homo economicus is a myth.

It's possible to be a rational maximiser of something other than profit.
What? Keeping much of the deposits as federal reserves would have been fine. The Fed pays interest on those balances, so they would have been safe and wouldn’t have collapsed if they’d done that. Instead they made very risky moves to chase higher yield.

Banks make basically all their profit on lending, so they shouldn’t be making risky moves with deposits.
I thought you just ranted but then saw the space between it and you acctually wrote something that contributed to the conversation. Well done.
This is a really clever use of glob expansion.
What do you mean exactly by "compilers"? Because the book features a chapter on how to compile source code to virtual machine byte code.
> Until this event the whole idea of the FDIC insurance fund was to ensure that people (not corporations) with relatively small nest eggs wouldn’t lose the whole thing and therefore starve if their bank made bad bets.

Nope.

"The mission of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation's financial system."

https://www.fdic.gov/about/what-we-do/
Depositors aren't forced to bank with a specific institution. Just like shareholders aren't forced to hold specific shares.

Depositors can pick the banks whose risk profile they prefer.
When it comes to refinancing at a bank, they certainly are. It's a very specific subject that few ever come in contact with. It's like kernel programming, also a topic that indirectly affects most people but is truly understood by very few.
That's like saying "how is IRC dead today" when Slack/Discord/WhatsApp/Zoom/etc exists or Yahoo style portals when Google exists (yes Yahoo is still a real business) or "how are horses a dead transportation" when cars exist in 1930s America because horses can still walk on roads (aka takes a minimal investment to support).

Sure they still work and will continue to work but let's be honest it's a super niche technology and it didn't survive/flourish because it was flawed and fundamentally nerdy option people stopped caring about.

Supporting RSS takes the bare minimum of effort. Yet even in 2013 (aka a decade ago) RSS was declining in usage before Reader was killed.

I support open platforms but RSS had a super noise-to-signal UX and I personally don't miss it.

Google didn't kill RSS, they killed the best RSS product at the time and accelerated a dying protocol that would still be only used by HN's demographic and little else.
It's not so simple.

More bailouts now, lead to riskier behaviour in the future.
Show HN: I gamified a fitness tracker
This is merely an answer. Stock of SVB may ( may because at this point I am not discounting anything ) go to zero, however based on available information, vast majority of depositors ( 90% range ) were above FDIC insurance cap, which makes it a bailout of depositors AND, effectively and likely more importantly, all the smart ( and well-connected money ) that are invested in those startups.

It is a bailout. Its true beneficiaries are not as straightforward as in 2008 though.

<< bail outs keep the stock afloat. Here the stock goes to $0.

In such a case you are wrong about this statement then. This bailout is 100% intended to keep stock afloat; just not SVB's.
Exercise is 100% the best bet to lose weight.

For a simple empirical study, ask every person you meet/know that is fit, and nearly everyone will say they exercise.

Specifically, cardio. If you're goal is to lose weight, you shouldn't touch weights until your BMI < 22. Just run or swim a few times a week.
Icesave was a very different problem. Iceland’s banks, trough the countries membership in the EEA, were able to offer their services in the UK and Netherlands. However when not just Icesave but 3 of their big banks collapsed around the same time their depositor guarantee mechanism lacked the funds to actually guarantee deposits. At the same time Iceland was in a credit crisis that prevented it from issuing more debt to refinance the deposit guarantee mechanism.

This is a very different problem from a pension fund investing money abroad. An investment can always go to 0, which would hurt Swedish pensions but has no ramification outside Sweden. On the other hand the 2006 Icelandic bank sector was flush with foreign deposits that not even the Iclendic government could credibly guarantee deposits at the legal level.

Quick side note, the Icelandic deposit guarantee at the time was only ~20k USD. Not a lot.
Solid except for the time-value of money.