skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number of founders I've seen screaming about how they shouldn't have to worry about spreading money out between institutions, opening accounts with more than 1 bank is "too hard," and the like is incredible.
If you are software startup, then you don't need all those cloud services. You need a server, install webserver, database, redis or whatever you need and you're good to go. Going cloud as startup is almost always over-engineering. Just go simple. Your total costs will be couple of hundreds $$ and you'll serve a million people with this simple infra. Probably much more.
While I find parents doing this extremely concerning I am personally really hesitant to change anything because I can't think of any way to change it that doesn't seriously hinder normal and not creepy parental uses of images/videos of their children. We are already running into overreach problems trying to curtail the stuff we clearly need to curtail (i.e. that guy having to deal with the police for sending his kid's pediatrician a picture of some problem) I can't imagine what that would end up like if it happened on a large portion of videos shared with your kids in it.
As the article notes, many non-profits are often little more than tax avoidance structures - one sign of this is bloated salaries paid to the upper-tier executives. This is described as 'the economic theory':

> "From an economic point of view, it could be said that a fair percentage of America’s non-profits are phony non-profits of a sort. In these cases, the non-profit isn’t a major vehicle for social change; rather, it is a bunch of profit-seeking vehicles with a tax break, masquerading as non-profits."

The religion and television theories the article introduces are very interesting - i.e. the notion that non-profits are 'seeding ideas into media', and the fact that religious non-profits "have yearly revenues around $378 billion." This points to the role of non-profits in what might be called deliberate social engineering attempts of various sorts.

An addition category, however, could be "the government theory", since non-profits have been heavily utilized by governments as cutouts for state propaganda, often in partnership with private interests. Non-profits are not very transparent when it comes to sources of funding. In this context, they're generally referred to as 'non-governmental organizations' (NGOs). A fairly notorious example is the Ford Foundation and the CIA, dating back to the 1950s, e.g.

https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/FordFandCIA.html

It's hardly just the US government doing this - other actors include Israel, Saudi Arabia, Russia, China, etc. Propaganda-wise, this is called 'relying on independent third-party credibility', aka 'gray propaganda'. More generally:

https://knowledgenuts.com/difference-between-gray-white-and-...
Thanks for sharing! I've yet to go through my C phase, but see it on the horizon, and will remember this and the shebang trick.
Everything I've managed to find out about OpenAI Foundry
On February 21, the information about the new OpenAI offering called Foundry went viral, making its way from Twitter up to the most recognized tech media. Even though it wasn’t officially confirmed yet, it is already widely discussed. What’s the whole fuss about? How does it relate to GPT-3 and GPT-4? Is this the end of a dream about democratized AI? Here is what I've managed to find out.
Still mad about this too, like so many others here. I’ve been using Feedly since then, and it works for the RSS part. But I really miss the small community of people I discussed things articles with in Google Reader. Most of those people I no longer talk to. It was a unique form of sharing and commenting that just worked for us in a way no other products did.
There are a few key differences here. When AstroNvim was originally created it was very difficult to have complete control over NvChad from the user configuration. When AstroNvim was starting out, our configuration engine was the first thing that we wanted to have really locked down. No matter what opinions we dictated from the core of AstroNvim, every single option should be able to be changed from a user's setup.

Next we really wanted to focus on providing a more stable base. NvChad at the time was not following any sort of version releases and had breaking changes all the time. This lead users to updating their editor and things just randomly breaking. We wanted to set up AstroNvim to follow more rigorous software development practices to help decrease this friction for the user. With our updater you can say that you only want to update within a major version release and then you don't have to worry about fixing breaking changes until you have the time to do so.

Along with this providing a stable base was the battle of managing the distribution of plugins that do not follow any set rules. This led us to our current approach to plugin management in AstroNvim. If you are using the stable release channel of AstroNvim we actually pin all of our core plugins to either a known working git commit or to their current major release version if they follow semantic versioning. This makes sure that updating plugins on the user side won't randomly break core AstroNvim functionality. Naturally this doesn't apply to plugins that the user manages themselves, but at least gets us to as "stable" as we can get it.

The main drive behind all of this is a lot of people use these types of tools to drive their work life. The goal I try to keep in mind is I want to minimize the number of work days people use to their text editor all of a sudden not working for some unknown reason.

Some other key differences:

NvChad also sets up a lot less than AstroNvim under the hood when it comes to language servers/etc. so this does lend to a faster startup time in NvChad than AstroNvim, but better out of the box experience (imo) in AstroNvim for an extremely small start up time cost. So if you want something that truly provides a very good base and do all the other heavy lifting of configuration yourself, NvChad is a really great option!
I don't think it is that complicated. I am surprised at the high balances in SVB though from companies that should've known better.
Exactly this. As I was saying as well, we are social animals and we know who we know, so while I understand how the alumni network works, it creates huge blindspots. Some of the most clueless but smart-on-paper students I ever encountered were CS students from a certain top ranked East Coast private university. The alumni network ensured jobs for them all.
"So the complaint amounts to SQLs failure to fully ‘close’ such that the result of any query would automatically be an indexed relation exactly equivalent in capability to a table. Which I guess is something every SQL user has run into from time to time, and is a source of annoyance, but doesn’t seem to have prevented people from actually using SQL to… manage… relational data."

Load up the debate in your mind about the importance of generics and how important Optional is and how important sum types are, regardless of your personal feelings about them.

Now. Once upon a time, people wrote programs with nothing but global variables and GOTO statements. They didn't even have subroutines. They wrote code nevertheless. It was just bad code, for a much greater effort than they would need to write similar code today.

The fact that people solve problems doesn't prove they're doing it optimally and that there can't be any improvement.

The good news is, this problem continues to get better and better. I've been doing some Postgres work lately, and the good news is that, unlike when I tried this several years ago, you pretty much can now switch freely between something being a table, or an array of arrays, or a select statement, etc.

The bad news, is every single path way was added ad-hoc, so they all have different names and even different naming schemes ("unnest" to turn arrays into a table, ARRAY to turn a table into an array), aren't coherently linked together, and the documentation is still fuzzy on the types of these things so it takes some experimentation to work out the correct "spelling" of all these conversions. Optimization behavior is even more opaque. I'm sure that will also get better over time. But it's a work in progress, not a completed job.
> fund bank bailouts

So far no bank has been bailed out. e.g. SVB had assets to cover deposit liabilities (just not in a liquid form).
The title calling this a "material" is disingenuous. One would assume that they somehow tested a "bulk" material coupon even if just a few mm^2. But the image in the article shows them testing a single knot.
I am very surprised about the amount of vendor tie in we are willing to accept with cloud providers. For many companies switching clouds would be a larger undertaking than switching operating systems in the 90s and early 00s. Very few software projects started in that period have survived and are looked upon favorably internally.

The parallels between cloud and OS are wide, as many basic functions that use to be done on host systems are commonly done in cloud. Database, message buses, application state, processing, application logging, file storage, cacheing, user authentication. In twenty to thirty years many of the cloud software being built today will still be running, and still be generating revenue but will feel stifled and limited in the same way working on a 25 year old Windows-only application would feel today.

I'd love to see "a cloud in a box", or a collection of open source tools to provide a full range of cloud services powered by open source software that can be deployed on arbitrary VMs and sanely configured out of the box to interact with itself. This sort of grouped redistribution of preconfigured software paired with an installer could look to Linux distros as an example from the previous generation. This would remove vendor lock in, and insure any critical tools can be maintained by the companies that relay on them.
My understanding is that the bailout cannot simply permanently pull from existing funds (which by the way were also paid by the depositor). There has to be a special assessment for any payout on uninsured deposits.
> OK, you want to push Google+? Isn't google+ supposed to be a platform (and not simply an application). Let google reader be an application on top of the Google+ platform.

They actually did start to integrate them. Google Reader had native sharing functionality for several years. Then in 2011 they suddenly removed it and replaced[1] it with sharing through Google+. My small network of Reader-using friends were split over wanting to join Google+, so that mostly killed our practice of regularly sharing links with each other.

[1]: https://googlereader.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-in-reader-fres...
The earnings call where they said they needed billions of dollars stat didn't help.
Good points.

When I say tryhard, I just meant anything that to me is not enjoyable and therefore requires mental effort just to motivate me to do it.

I don't have an aversion to people that exercise. I exercise. Exercise doesn't have to include going to a gym or running. I used to think I just hate all exercise, but I learned that really I just hate synthetic exercise, like gyms and jogging on asphalt. I love spending time in nature, forests, river valleys. It's great exercise. Hell you could go do calisthenics in the woods if you really wanted to. You can do pullups from branches etc.

My point both for dieting and exercise is that the key is to find something you don't hate doing. I resent the implication that hating gyms is some kind of character flaw that needs fixing. If you enjoy the gym, great, go there! If you don't, find something else! I definitely got addicted to walking/bursting/parkouring around a river valley with some death metal in my ears. In the summer I would do it almost every day for half an hour just because I wanted to.

As for growing muscle, this is certainly also important, and initially I tried to incorporate it, but I found that building muscle while also eating a caloric deficit greatly reduced my options in terms of food. I came to the conclusion I had to cut out almost all fat to accomodate the protein and carbs necessary for that. I decided to postpone this until a "stage 2" where I would change my diet to instead maintain weight while gaining muscle and losing fat, but I never got there. Feeling good about next time though because I know what failed last time and what I need to watch out for.
SVB online banking is back
Does the entire Silicon Valley ethos count? Founder culture. Where nepotists spin up nonsense companies, light money on fire, and congratulate themselves on how intelligent and hardworking they are. A solid 1/2 of the people on this website including the founders, who tried and failed to do a bankrun the last few days.
SVB’s collapse was, to a large extent, caused by herd thinking among VCs that sparked a run. No bank can survive a full-on run.

(Not excusing the bad decisions by SVB management. Obviously they should have managed their investments better).
EpiPens will turn toxic in space
Ironic that on a post about groupthink, the one post that did not properly celebrate and idolize tech got downvoted.

So, I'll add to the OP's asked-for list: Hacker News.

Hacker News is the home of groupthink, because it's where smart people go to appear smart to other smart people. Its tendency towards homogenous opinion isn't a side-effect, it's the point -- because the nicer way of saying 'groupthink' is 'synthesis', in the dialectic sense. (Thesis + antithesis.)

I will go out on a limb and say that groupthink is what happens when the signal-to-noise ratio gets too good. When everyone hears exactly what they want to hear, because annoyances have been downvoted and greytexted.

Parent's tone is admittedly jagged, but, in a year where the ML thought products of my industry now routinely threaten to disrupt not just other industries, but whole social and political order, I cannot disagree.

Regulation is not fun, but we have it coming. Adolescence ends when you discover your fallibility.
This is cool. They have proven one can bring back viruses from thousands of years ago and they're still viable, which is fascinating.

Now stop it while we're still ahead.

Please.
They just commented out the part about checking your balance before saying yes to wires out ;)
I'm almost completely unaffected by this bank's collapse. I live on the other side of the world and I don't work for any American company. At least, if I am affected there's another million things affecting me just as much from climate change to the pandemic to the weather over the last week.

I come to HN for interesting discussion about tech and I have very little interest in the economic system that drives silicon valley.

There's been non stop posts about this bank on HN for several days. Half of the home page has been about it, it feels like this has turned into a tech economics site. I get that it's important to a lot of people here, but to me that post about a tiny c compiler is much closer to what the HN is about - or at least, what I come here for.
There are JS plugins for it, example: https://opensource.adobe.com/balance-text/

There are also the CSS properties `widows` and `orphans`, they behave a bit differently than "the text is rendered so that the amount of text on each line is about the same."
Sure, but that was only one part of the attack and not the clever one. The ability to bypass security, even after following AWS support instructions is what made it so difficult to fight, to the point that only after AWS security team took over the case it did not stop. The problem is AWS security doesn't interact with customers directly (as far as I know), you have to go through tech support and these guys just don't have that level of knowledge.
irrationality. Schwab isn't in the same situation as SVB.
I’m a web dev and I’m wondering if there is really any practical way of levelling up to become an ML Engineer. Seems there are ‘schools’ out there but based on what I read on Hacker News these places won’t remotely prepare me to make that transition.

Not complaining just would appreciate some of your thoughts on what are good options to consider to make that leap.
The problem was their assets are going to pay out over at least a decade. If they wanted to redeem them "now" then those assets would have been sold on the open market below the par value. The fed is stepping in as the buyer of last resort and offering what is essentially QE in all but name again to buy those bonds/MBS at their par value.

Releasing that cash out into the wider economy when it was initially locked up in loans increasing inflation which is a tax on all of us.

It very much is a bailout and everyone who uses the dollar is paying for it.
Ask HN: Rescue of SVB was a mistake? sign of worse things to come?
While I'm glad for depositors who regained access to their funds, specially a couple of founders I know who had recently raised money for their startups and nearly risked loss of everything, BUT deep inside I feel the message and consequence of this move is far more troubling and probably the sign much worse things to come!

My logic is based on the assumption of US Gov and Banking sector wanting to sweep this under the rug so that the smaller domino wouldn't topple bigger dominos or at least delay it.

The rescue move goes against "capitalism" and nature of business. A failing company should fail on the merits of its bad decisions and poor management. Rescues or bailouts signal to the whole industry that it's OK to screw up badly because the GOV is far more scared of perceived dollar value and banking reputation.

If the GOV is rushing to bailout a small bank in such hurry then the bigger banks can fully relax knowing their mess-ups probably won't even make it to the media, they'll get bailed out behind closed doors and no one would be the wiser!

It just exposed a serious fault in policy and now everyone is exposed to much worse world of hurt!
There's Nothing to Learn from Silicon Valley Bank
Show HN: Barz.lol – serverless API for testing that returns stupid rap lyrics
itch.io has been my go to for both hosting my interactive projects as well as finding good community within game design. Not only is it where you can find game jams to work on side projects, but there's some pretty good forums & dev logs that allow you to find dedicated people.

I think it's only coincidental that I'm a game developer & on hacker news. I haven't seen a lot of cross-over until this post. Glad to see it though.
Wow, how long have you been using Mac OS X?
Nice, main.exe seems to work just fine with the 7B quantized model - generates a token every 400ms on an AMD Ryzen 5 2600!

But, quantize.exe doesn't seem to work - any valid command (such as below) pauses for a split second, then returns with no output?

$ quantize.exe ggml-model-f16.bin ggml-model-q4_0.bin 2
Well if you deploy to Kubernetes it standardizes thee APIs you're using to deploy with quite a lot, then you can move around easier.
I'm with you, love the C compiler post and would never want the more diverse interests quelled for a news cycle.
FT Alphaville hits the nail on the head:

The fault, dear VCs, is not in your stars. It's in you.

"As the news of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse reverberates through the technology ecosystem — and investors and founders alike furiously Google terms such as “available-for-sale” and “held-to-maturity” — even some of our most prominent financiers, like ‘PayPal Mafia’ member David Sacks, are learning once again how banks work, the hard way."

https://www.ft.com/content/6ba95c9b-9be6-4d62-b4ac-b12e1e7ed...
( https://archive.is/4cnog )
I think your assumption that “normal people” all use the term “the west” in the same way is highly questionable. Many “normal people” don’t really think about what the boundaries of “the west” are and either don’t have an opinion on whether or not Poland belongs in it, or else have a different opinion from yours.
> A lot of the reputable coverage I'm seeing is saying that they don't want us to think its a bailout, but it's indeed a bailout.

Sounds like the coverage you are reading is either misleading you or is misled themselves.
Two person house here, I just wash the dishes by hand. It doesn't take much effort, just a few minutes after a meal, they always come out exactly as clean as I want, and you can wash the dishes you prepped with while you cook (as long as it isn't an attention-intensive dish). It's also is friendlier to our painted ceramic bowls we usually eat out of.

Dish washers didn't seem worth it for two people in my opinion, either the dishes built up inside it and food dries on them to the point where the dishwasher didn't clean them properly, or I ran the washer with hardly anything inside it and felt like I wasted a lot of soap and water. Maybe it was simply too big of a dishwasher and that was part of the problem.
Pharometer on TLIG – Sampling Pharo Smalltalk Metrics for Displaying in Grafana
In the paper, shows a test of eight knots (two sets of four in series)
We should celebrate diversity.

Except for the WebTV users. Sorry y'all its not worth it get a real computer.
GitHub to roll out mandatory 2FA for users starting March 13
>> Q: How do you make someone fall in love with you? A: Get them pregnant

Haha are you serious? lmao

thanks for the python stuff. looks accurate!
>If you're willing to install a new tool to run your scripts then there are better options, e.g. Deno

A shell scripting language should also have a sort of convenience that allows the user to easily navigate and manipulate the OS via repl commands. Javascript while definetely a more powerful scripting language lacks the power of a repl OS command prompt.

Bash at the very least has the property of being good as a UI, even though it is clearly a horrible scripting language.

So nushell in this sense unionizes the best aspects of both worlds. Powerful UI, powerful scripting.
1) I have so much trouble caring about issues like "typographic widows".

2) Wait, if this is actually important, why isn't it enabled by default instead of being yet another obscure CSS thing we need to know about?

... I realize these thoughts are somewhat contradictory.
Wouldn't it be easier to have gay sex with men when you aren't a priest, so you don't have to hide it? Your scenario makes no sense. What benefit does a gay priest have to get access to gay sex that isn't 100 times better as not a priest but just an openly gay man?
Fuck no.

People don’t need to “hustle and grind” 24/7. All that does is lead to burnout. Anyone who has been through the FAANG churner knows this already.

If anything is groupthink, it’s this stupid mentality forcing employees to work beyond their breaking point to earn someone else their millions of dollars.
I built a similar one to test job descriptions for non-inclusive language[0]. These tools are helpful , particularly for people who are not native English speakers. I use open source tools like retext-equality[1] and retext-profanities[2] to help catch non-inclusive language. Inevitable there will be strings that are mislabeled or just plain wrong as many of these tools aren't capable of understanding context ("communicate clearly" is often flagged as "clearly" can be superfluous or patronising in certain contexts).

Also - kudos for open sourcing it. I look forward to contributing and using the library.

0: https://devscreen.io/inclusive-language-check
1: https://github.com/retextjs/retext-equality/blob/main/rules....
2: https://github.com/retextjs/retext-profanities/blob/main/rul...

Edit: I have just noticed that this hasn't had any commits in 3 years, and no releases for much longer than that. OP: are you the author of the library? It would be good to hear what the plans are for it.
I <3 Packer syntax, this is telling me I should look at a lazy migration. I have a make file that I run ~whenever i kickstart a new machine/vm that handles (most of) the annoyance.
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is a "non-profit".