skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The transformation back into feudalism is nearly complete.

Calling bad stuff "feudalism" is extremely tiresome as well as showing ignorance. It's unfortunate you have to muddy-up an otherwise OK rant/summary with this confused terminology.

Conventional agricultural labor on the land wasn't easy but it extraordinarily different from low-paid factor labor. This a return to Factory Capitalism Classic, which was a new system in most places starting in early 19th century. Peasant children might well have worked along side their parents in the fields at times and the work might have been back-breaking at times but the growing season then dictated everyone got substantial time off by virtue of there being nothing to do. Factories, mines and workshops were the first places that could impose relentless 18 hour days because they the organization, technologies and market to do that.
> For additional clarity, the world will be at about 5 billion at 2040, without war or plague.

I can find no immediate evidence that any demographers actually claim this.
> There is a lot of stuff that just doesn't happen unless somebody is working on it full-time. And since people need money to live, the people making that stuff need money.

I definitely agree. And even for people doing it solo as a full-time job (email newsletters come to mind), the quality tends to be less than what would be possible if they had even one other person sharing the work.
You shouldn't lie and enable them either.
I know, sarcasm doesn’t work on the internet. DOM level 2 with getElementById was released in 2000 but it was all hit and miss for a bit.
I can't remember all the specifics, but after the 2008 crash banks with a certain levels of holding have to pass stress test showing they can survive scenarios like this. I think the old limit was 50 billion but go changed to I think 150 billion which puts SVB below the threshold for the stress test.
I've seen back breaking poverty, kids as young as 5 breaking rocks into 50 pound bags of gravel making less than $1 a day. My heart weeps for them and I do help them financially by sending them to school.

I don't believe in magical thinking. People will do what they need to in order to survive. I understand why people have such a visceral reaction to kids working, but action is generally better than waiting around for someone to save you.
Not quite the same thing. Setting up a Tailscale network and installing/running the VPN client on your laptop takes an order of magnitude more work and system access than just running a script to open a local HTTP port (which is how ngrok, pgrok, Cloudflare Tunnels etc operate). The use cases are very different.
> you can reach that pretty easily if you're a man and you weight lift consistently for a couple of months

and also have significant body fat. Having a BMI over 25 and being lean is not something you can achieve by just going to the gym a few months. It takes time to build muscle.
Another interesting trick is to have a capslock layer (or any other "useless" key you may have, but capslock is much easier to reach obviously) with something like:

; ahk v1 code
CapsLock::
KeyWait, CapsLock
If (A_PriorKey="CapsLock")
SetCapsLockState, % GetKeyState("CapsLock","T") ? "Off" : "On"
Return
#If, GetKeyState("CapsLock", "P")
u:: ; convert selection to code in markdown by pressing CapsLock+u
SendRaw, ````
SendInput {Left}
Return
; ...
#If

I also find myself with way too many obscure Mouse button {1|2}, Ctrl, Alt, Capslock, F{1|12}, etc. incantations I never remember and end up opening the script to search them. I thought about adding pie menus based on context but never got to it. Would you mind sharing a minimal example of your right click menu? Sounds much simpler and accessible. The keyboard hook à la vscode chords also seems pretty useful, will definitely implement that
Mine goes to sleep after 3/5/10 minutes (configurable). There's no option to disable the sleep.

You can set a custom screensaver image, so if what you're looking for is something truly static you might be able to do something with that.
> It's simple enough: before the rise of front-end frameworks in the 2010s, web developers were indeed more of a single group ("full stack").

They did not call themselves "full-stack" though, did they?
At any company, your job is to do what the company needs done and that is rarely your choice.

It's gonna get much, much harder to find the kind of laid-back company you favor, where you can work on whichever part of the code base you want, when you want. There's much less money sloshing around, and what's there needs to be spent on priority items.
People, in the long term, eat as much as they need to not feel hungry. Whether they are slim or overweight.

Asking people to ear less than they are eating now is thus asking them to be perpetually hungry. It can be done, even for a year or two if they have willpower, but eventually they will get sick of being cold, tired and irritated all the time --because that is what chronic hunger does to you-- and they will go back to the normal behavior of eating until they are no longer hungry.
At this point I actually handwrite an asterisk to denote multiplication. If I think about it I know it's "wrong", but I do it anyways.
Hide Others for Ubuntu and derivatives https://gist.github.com/svandragt/d731081c660d374ddab846e7f4...
"Exercise" is a bad way to lose weight because what is traditionally considered as exercise is 30 minutes to 1 hour of high intensity activities. If you live a sedentary life, exercise isn't going to help.

Passive exercise, that you do throughout the day, though, is a great way to expend calories. Walk more, bike for transport, use a standing desk, etc. That's the difference between 1500 calories and 2200.
There's also the modern 'anti-capitalist' crowd that nebulously always blame everything on 'capitalism' while also unironicaly enjoying, you know, owning private property, choosing their own jobs and investing in stocks, while at the same time distrusting government. Because we don't actually need to implement Marxism or state ownership or any other alternative economic system, we just need to not capitalism. Or something. I'm sure they're loving all of this.
> You can make a very solid argument at the risk here is actually risk that was forced into these companies by the government.

I don't think so, this is a failure of proper risk management, specifically interest rate risk.

Banks, with a proper risk management system, routinely do stress tests to assess their exposure to different scenarios and hedge accordingly.
There's a third possibility: "get our rewards terms stable and sustainable before we have a massive influx in new accounts so we don't shock the new accounts by clawing things back any time soon."

I have a feeling Brex was quite prepared for this whole thing to play out. With the degree of polish on https://www.brex.com/svb-emergency-line, and the ability to double in a single weekend the number of banks they spread deposits into... whether it was simply because their own analysts saw this happening at some point and had a proactive play-by-play of what to do, or something more coordinated with the VCs advising their companies to move their funds to Brex, is something that I'm sure will be of interest to many in the industry.
In a nutshell, the savings are "virtual" (you will save on gas and electricity bill but need to pay the heat pumps, solar panels and the water deposit + the needed works) the (calculated, possibly a bit optimistically) break-even point is around 20-25 years, the expected life of the heat pumps being stated as 15 years.

So there is the need of incentives/financial aids from the state.

And all this may apply on an "ideal" self-standing home (not particularly common at least in Italy and Spain AFAIK) that has enough roof surface for the panels, has space for the heat pump radiators and for the hot water tank[0]).

[0] a 400-600 lt hot water tank is "huge" (and heavy)
This looks extremely interesting! Is anyone using it as a daily driver on Linux? How has your experience been?
some past HN discussions:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20783006
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27525031
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33419944
It has aspects of a prisoner's dilemma either way, but what happened to the SVB is indeed different from the classic "It's a Wonderful Life" style bank run.

In "It's a Wonderful Life", the bank has the money, but not right now. If the depositors all wait, then they'll all get their money. If they do a bank run, then the first movers get their money, and the rest get left with nothing, as good assets get liquidated at heavy discounts in a fire sale. So compared to waiting, the bank run is negative-sum to the depositors in aggregate, and zero-sum to the first movers. (It's positive-sum to Potter, who wants to buy the bank's assets at a discount.)

In either a mark-to-market or a net-present-value sense, the SVB doesn't have the money. When interest rates increased, their long-term bonds lost value. The hold-to-maturity accounting treatment saved them from reporting that, but that accounting is a fiction; it's a real economic loss, same as if they'd lent to a bankrupt startup. If the depositors all wait, then they'll get the right number of dollars in ~ten years, but those dollars will be worth less by then. So a bank run is positive-sum to the first movers, who can get their dollars now and buy Treasury bills at five percent (or put them in a better bank, or wherever else). It's roughly zero-sum to the depositors in aggregate. That makes a bank run relatively more attractive.

I think there's confusion because in both cases, "if you wait then you'll get your money". They're completely different reasons to wait though, the first economically rational, the second not.
> Which shows you it's not "AI"; it's more like some hacky code running right inside the phone which detects a plausible moon-like object in the image

The hacky code runing right inside the phones detecting objects, identifying faces and whatnot is often called AI.
Building an Analytics API with GraphQL
> the business was probably too conservatively managed. The problem here was not holding safe assets

Duration, duration, duration.

Their failure to recognize this as a risk even with “safe” assets is the problem. Hedging interest rate risk is not uncommon or difficult.
For 25 people making $200k, you get maybe one payroll run out of $250k.
> My 12-person startup gets a $10M series A and my first priority should be to find 40 banks to put it in?

Your first priority should be to assure the safety of wherever you put it. Whether that is diversification to the point where all the funds are insured or inquiry into the finances of the institution where you plan on putting all the eggs, or a mixture of lesser diversification and diligence, it should be done.

> my job is to spend that money in the next 18-24 months, not save it.

Well, your first job is to make sure that money is still there when you need to spend it, otherwise, you aren’t going to be spending it.
> The lesson here is sudden interest rate increases can cause bank failures. This was a mostly unknown unknown.

What? It's only unknown if all you know about financial crises are from 2008.

A google search on "borrowing short and lending long" gives this in the first page:

http://www.bondeconomics.com/2015/09/banks-borrowing-short-a...
,,Dickinson said that the Pentagon needs to make sure that all sides understand their legal obligations and have a full understanding of the military’s expectations before those moments occur.''

I'm not an American, but as far as I know US is not in war with Russia. Executives are smart enough to know that whenever US gets into war SpaceX will have to take part in it (and get compensated in contracts).
"half the library" - half of textual, you mean?

Also - can you elaborate on how the CRLF vs LF broke your app? Give a code snippet as an example?
I inadvertently caused a VERY VERY large corporation that is a household name to change its TOS through one of my little automation scripts. By little, I mean a few dozen lines of code and some ingenuity.

The corp in question: Begins with V and ends with z and likes to screw customers.

All above board, approved by several levels of various teams/depts. The head of a specific dept sent me several strongly worded texts/voicemails. He was rather expressive to say the least over something that cost $0.

I could go in more detail but there are a few NDAs I signed.
This has nothing to do with giving kids opportunity and volition. This is about giving corporations leverage to continue exploiting workers.

Having children compete with adults in the market is going as far backwards as possible, leading to the US--what should be a very rich nation--to start utilizing Chinese and rural India manufacturing ideologies.
Paying adults more does not really cover a labour shortage, it just ensures the ones that can't afford to do that go bankrupt or relocate so it's a false equivalence. Whether this is the right solution people will have to figure out for themselves. Personally I'm not against it. For a lot of people school can be pretty pointless.
This is smart. SVB has been a valuable part of the startup ecosystem and it would suck to lose it.
Subjective experience of the world around us. The one thing I'm 100% sure I do have, and it would require very special pleading (or solipsism) to insist other humans are anything other than almost certain to share that trait.
My suspicion is that there is some threshold of cerebral complexity required for it to occur, and is pretty unlikely to apply to all animals with central nervous systems. Whether insect brains are sufficiently complex I really couldn't say, nor am I sure what test could be done to determine it (though one day we may have enough understanding to do such a test).
As someone who also worked fast food the second I could and not because I had to, they had very explicit rules about what I could and couldn't do.

I wasn't allowed to even step foot into the kitchen area because it had knives but most importantly, two large spinning blades to shred meat and hot stoves.

The problem isn't children working, the problem is allowing children to risk their body when they might not understand or appreciate the risk they are in with those machines.
For fare sales or awards?

If anything, I find it is the opposite. The US Big 3 have very little inventory open - and what is open is super expensive. (Let’s say $10k worth of airline miles for sake of argument.)

You’re better off using CC points for tickets through the card’s OTA where you can get the above $10k itinerary for $2k worth of points - and since the value per point is known and fixed, this price is never a surprise.
Linux is the exception that proves the rule.

While it is completely free (beer + libre), Google and Facebook exploited numerous Linux-related technologies to turn the internet into a planet-scale ad machine.
It's because there is a cost associated with this insurance. It's not a bottomless pit of money, as FDIC pays out using the funds it collects from the participant banks and receives no funding from the government (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Deposit_Insurance_Corp...). I think it should be possible for the bank to get better coverage, but they should be paying much larger premium if they want insurance up to 250mm instead of 250k.

I also think that similar to "FDIC insured" labels in bank branches, FDIC should require posting "13% of deposits are FDIC insured" to help assess risk for those clients that have uninsured funds.
I am interested by your sources, the most generic world population projection I see online for 2040 are some kind of peak between 8-10 billions and then it is slowly decreasing until 2100.

But I am really interested if there are other projections with lower numbers!
A typographically correct minus sign is “−”, not “-”.
The idea that our two choices are “abandon capitalism” or “allow children to be devoured by it” is… unhinged.
What is your age? Let’s see in 30 years. Most young people have these strong opinions, but life happens and they end up differently. Being lean and mean when young is a lot easier then when you are 50 or 60.
Aw come on, those little hands are just perfect for getting into and cleaning all the nooks and crannies of industrial equipment.
As I first read this headline I was hoping for an IT crowd joke about how the 3 day blip in access to deposits is causing a bit of a reboot for startups.

“Silicon valley Bank turned Silicon Valley off and then on again”
> The risk of a top 20 bank failure is small compared to the myriad other existential risks being managed by a new startup.

Its small, but also easy to at least partially mitigate.
I wondered if anyone would spot this :)

There's a recursion depth limit of 500 on the TypeScript compiler, which prevents this solution working for N > 7

Even Aphyr's original Haskell solution only demonstrates N = 6, so in some sense this is an improvement on the state of the art for type-level N Queens solutions /s
FIFA probably used to be about balls at some point in time. Now they're all 'bout tha moneh, after funeh, in a rich man's wierld.
(Almost) Zero Additional Latency UDP-over-TCP
People don’t think businesses have more than 250k in accounts? How do restaurants buy inventory, pay workers etc?
I'm struggling to understand how taking the risk of "uninsured money at a bank can be lost in sudden market shifts" can reward one handsomely. Is there some way I can make spectacular gains by depositing money in a mismanaged bank?
Minus wasn't mentioned in the article, but the distinction between hyphen-minus (U+2D) and minus sign (U+2212) is very important.

When you put plus and minus side by side (+−) such as in a financial context, the two horizontal lines should be in the same vertical position and both characters should have the same width. Whereas plus and hyphen-minus (+-) will have the hyphen-minus narrower and higher/lower.
In a war the DoD could just take control of the satellites. If enough men with guns then up at Starlink HQ what is Elon going to do?
>If there are less working age adults, there should be less demand for goods and services, so some businesses need to close.

I'm not sure how that follows. An aging population wants a different basket of goods and services but it's not necessarily smaller and is likely to be greater with respect to e.g. healthcare.
FYI, you might want to check out the study. It seems a little suspect in some ways. For example, it took place in 2020 and doesn't necessarily represent the same environment today, mainly due to the larger tax credit and stimulus during that time. It also seemed like the people surveyed were people who already had jobs paying the same or more than the average meat packer. No shit they don't want a job thar pays less. This shouldn't be about nabbing employees from other jobs but increasing labor force participation. Higher wages could help with this but I imagine there are other factors to look at too.
Your point can really be expounded on a lot. I am one of those people who, as a kid, hunted various types of game. I also worked a summer as a 17 year old at ritewood egg in southern idaho. Although I wasn't butchering animals, the mental toll of watching where the 2-dollar-a-dozen eggs came from was more noticeable than hanging and gutting a deer in the woods.

I have no issues with children (14-18) having jobs, but there are industries we should strive as a society to keep them from. I wouldn't want kids working in animal food production for the same reasons I wouldn't want them in coal mines. It is important to consoder that those _reasons_ to start to dissipate as one matures and gets older and able to hold their own.

As a society we really should be striving to give kids the best opportunities to engage in constructive play and school before jobs in my opinion. Not that my opinion matters at all though...
For companies with publicly traded debt, it is definitely possible. Whether it is advisable is a different question.
I can see the logic of that, "Let's act irrationally together and force the government to bail us out next time we make a run on our own bank." Or they can act rationally, distribute (manually or through existing methods) their cash across multiple banks so that their risk exposure is lower and they don't have to depend on the government maybe, possibly, bailing them out. You know, the thing they'd have done if they'd hired financial managers in the first place (which obviously they didn't, or they hired incompetent ones).
En dashes are ugly bastards that have very little benefit. Word and Google Docs inaccurately convert hyphens into en dashes, and I never have gotten a satisfactory answer why. I used to see en dashes to connect a compound modifier to yet another word, like “billiard-ball–size hail” (that’s an en dash between “ball” and “size”), but I could never trace this “rule” to any style guide. Another popular case was a proper noun connected to another word, like “New York–based author.”

Computers require contortions to create em and en dashes (especially on PCs), so they’ve mostly gotten ditched. The choice of spaces or no spaces around an em dash created with two hyphens is largely stylistic, but I see spaces far more often than the closed-up version. (Oddly, in books and magazines it’s opposite, at least in the U.S.; the closed-up version of the “true” em dash is more prevalent.)

Hyphens and hyphenation rules really do deserve more attention, in my opinion. I was an editor in the publishing world before moving to tech 15 years ago, and a lot of the hyphenation could get really stupid in that universe. E.g., nobody’s going to misread “ice cream cone,” but some copy editors will insist on “ice-cream cone.” Same with “credit-card bill.” But there are lots of very technical documents I edit now that scream out for clarification, and the humble hyphen has been a godsend in making this painfully boring and headache-inducing matter easier to read.

Also, I’m on mobile so can’t verify, but it looks like the author is using an en dash throughout his post when an em dash is called for.
The book “Robots of Westinghouse” has a lot of information on Elektro and several predecessor robots Westinghouse built. The book is uneven and needed an editor, but the technical content is fascinating. Elektro was built largely with components (motors, relays, wiring) taken from Westinghouse appliances. There is a picture showing a bundle of cables like those used on kitchen appliances, with braided cloth cords and Bakelite plugs at the end. My mother’s electric skillet had one of those power cords.
Oh yeah eating mostly junk food is not gonna cut it.

But I also managed to lose 30kg eating (lean) meat, full-fat dairy and almost no green vegetables, just a lot of oats for starch/fibre and nuts for extra protein/vitamins/minerals and healthy fats.

But it's also just really hard to tell what food is actually healthy. Some foods are obviously healthy. Some are obviously unhealthy. But a lot is in the middle somewhere, having both healthy and unhealthy aspects.

Some foods are even controversial in the research, like butterfat which many people lump into the group "saturated fats", which is universally thought to be unhealthy by laypeople. But there are multiple types of saturated fat(ty acids), so it's actually really complicated.

My rough intuition based on reading a bunch of research is that dairy fat is actually quite healthy in small amounts(it's very calorically dense). I could go into a lot more detail on why but the gist is butterfat has a lot of short- and medium-chain fatty acids, which are good. It's the long and very-long you want to avoid.