skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The wrist support on the Kensington does look weird and uncomfortable but it is quite nice, I left it in the box when I first got it but found the trackball very awkward to use so I gave it a go. That hump sits in the natural contour your hand forms when using the trackball. Without the wrist pad you have to keep your arm floating or end up with your hand tilted backwards all the time which bothers my wrist quickly. Keeping your arm floating is not bad for occasional use and is what I do when I just need to move the cursor a bit but when I am doing cursor heavy work I am quite glad to have that wrist support.

The more common type of trackball you see these days I find awkward and terrible for fine control with the small trackballs they have.

You can get external trackpoint keyboards, just unlikely to find ones with mechanical switches. Lenovo makes a few different USB and wireless keyboards with trackpoints.
So the other driver also had the same glitch happen to them?

>Randev said the other Tesla driver told him he was able to get his number because he had printed out a document, which was in his car and it had his phone number on it.

Or perhaps peeked thru the window?

Maybe the other guy's car was left unlocked and the app just unlocked his car, which was left unlocked after the main guy drove off with the other guy's car?
Hell, restore the exact tax code from the end of the Reagan presidency and call it the “Reagan was right bill”. It would still be a massive step towards a balanced budget
It’s very much part of the job at any organisation.

At any level, you have in front of you people with a lot on their plate, competing interests and different prioritisation abilities and it’s your role as a manager to give them enough information for them to prioritise adequately.

It might be straightforwardly reminding a developer that right now we really have to ship this feature or it might be subtly making a manager understand than it would be in their interest in the upcoming reorg if they were seen as a strong asset in solving a specific issue even it’s not directly part of their KPI and explicite goals.
Fuck Youtube. I fucking hate it.

My son can be interested in an animal, so he'll find some youtube videos of the animal to watch. This is ok because the videos he searches and clicks on are fine, usually some sort of documentary. But then the algo. within like 3 videos he's watching badly autogenerated X vs Y monsters fight bullshit videos and it just gets worse and worse.

I'm seriously tempted to set up some sort of network MITM proxy that blocks any YT URL where the HTTP Referrer is a previous YT Video, so that algorithmic suggestions can just fuck off. Searching for and watching a video would be fine.
Talking about emulation/VMs, I have recently played with multipass (from canonical) to run ubuntu VMs on my Apple M1. It works like a charm! In the past I have tried VMware and Vagrant, and while they somehow work, I’m always running into issues. More recently I tried qemu, and I spent many days trying to figure out the correct set of command line parameters to run linux.
The bad thing about multipass is that it only runs Ubuntu VMs. The good thing (besides working out of the box) is that mutipass uses qemu behind the curtains, and as part of the logs multipass spits out, one can see the complete set of command line parameters that was used to spin up the VM (so that can be used as a blueprint to run other VMs besides Ubuntu)
> In the case you short a bank, why not borrow the money from the same bank?

To short a company's stock, you borrow the stock — although you do use money to pay interest on the value of the borrowed shares. [0]

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortselling.asp
Mazda 323 and Ford Lasers had interchangeable keys. We found this while messing about as kids in the ‘90s.

I don’t think these were communist cars as suggested above.
Da Vinci seems more accurate: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Vi...
I think it would be nice to do this, but maybe by offering a drop-in replacement for an old/proprietary dependency.

Something like a new compiler for some ancient language still in niche use? Or a "DBMS" server that speaks the same wire protocol as Sybase or Oracle... but uses cloud storage for the data?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KspNLO9i9g

A bit like this floppy disk retailer... I wonder what the software equivalents are, where there are businesses with some massive custom applications that depend and still run on platforms that are not being improved? Offering a drop-in replacement that solves some of the platform problems, but does not require reworking the application itself should have an existing market to tap into.
We can see this working in a number of countries, especially the Nordics.

Norway doesn’t count because of its sovereign wealth fund.

How is it working in Sweden though? That country still has billionaires (IKEA founder, Minecraft’s notch).

I think it just doesn’t work in general. If you try to set up a new system to redistribute the wealth, the winners will be those in charge of the system.
Americans share fake news to fit in with social circles, new American Psychological Association research reveals, and fear of exclusion makes things worse.
No; I've been to places that just outright refuse to accept physical cash at all, and I live in America.
stETH also depegged at some point, and I made thousands of dollars by buying it at a deep discount. Then the peg was restored even though there was nothing backing it apart from locked ETH in staking pools. The USDC de-peg is pretty similar.
Interesting you can make money from this sort of thing.
Former VFX developer/artist/analyst & VFX patent holder here. This is a combination of known techniques integrated with a nice UI. I expect current VFX studios are already past this point in their internal tools.
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hehe I'll repeat a cliche, that everyone's either working for one boss or working for multiple bosses. From my experience, working for a good boss can generally give more perceived freedom than working to satisfy investors or customers. When I was freelancing I felt like I was working to satisfy multiple bosses, having to do things that I didn't enjoy (i.e. customer communications, accounting) plus that I was forced to become the boss of myself, which wasn't fun. Whereas as an employee I've always been lucky to have bosses that act essentially like secretaries with executive power, shielding their staff from everyday nonsense, filtering what's relevant, helping prioritize and getting you what you need. Things can feel totally different if you have a bad boss, but at the very least, my take is that good bosses are out there and are worth trying to find.
Why is nobody commenting about the quality of these models?

I totally understand that quantization is decreasing quality and capabilities a bit but I haven't seen anybody verifying the claim: LLaMA 13B > GPT-3. I was expecting LLaMA 65B to be as coherent as GPT-3 but LLaMA 65B (when run quantized) seems to think 2012 is in the future.
The article is good and worth a read IMO.
Wow, "creeps" turning into keepers... Yikes.

Would have been actually great without the "love of my life", and if the "creeps" were just "friends" or something.
>as soon as intrest rates drop

Which could take a lot longer than people seem to expect. If you look at the past 100+ years of economic history, 2009-2021 is a complete anomaly. ZIRP is not the normal state of affairs, nor are negative real rates. There was an attempt at returning to normalcy from 2017-2019 but then Covid hit. Starting last year the Fed is attempting once again to return to a normal monetary environment. Rates are likely headed higher than people think and will remain there longer than people think.
I agree with your conclusion: holding 3-month t-bills virtually isolates you from interest rate risk.

But not because rates do not change (they do, a lot: for example 3-month rate jumped by over 0.5% in 2 weeks of Oct 2022). But due to the short duration such change barely affects the remaining interest paid by each bill, which is what determines bill's price.
I think in the particular case of music the market is saturated by an abundance of human generated content, not machine produced.

Music is one of those human endeavors where it is very desirable to succeed, to the point where many people are willing to do it for free for love of the craft. I can't see the immense profits Spotify allegedly makes by exploiting the artists.

Perhaps we need to accept that the artists are not so much getting shafted, but simply that the age of the superstar is over and most music will be free.
Appending scandal to an event isn’t having the persuasive effect you’re looking for. Finance is also the industry which helps us collectively coordinate our resources, grow our wealth for retirement, and facilitate risk taking. Every industry has issues.
i think voice assistants can perform actions on phones (eg "open app, message Alice, call Bob, turn off Bluetooth"). This couldn't do that (I think), which is an obvious drawback
considering those sorts of salaries usually exist to override people's morals, i'd say having morals. People don't talk about this fact enough.
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You're making a case against solar panels but that is not what my comment was about. If they're worthless they're worthless, but there's more than enough space for them.
No, exposition and context is important, but this is irrelevant l'art pour l'art prose. As the comment said it adds nothing of value.

The journalist could have spent a few sentences explaining why and how this short seller is giving an interview, why this bank matters, etc.
That got me stuck too and it wasn't obvious.

I used to use Celery a lot and find Hangfire lacking. To get the same value out of Defer, you'd need to "listen" to those handles.

And listening may actually mean writing another local background job...
Expect to get downvoted by every left leaning US-suburbia-upbringing city transplant on HN. I've always assumed this is entirely about rejecting their idyllic childhood and parents' lifestyle, since victimhood is the currency of their social circles. An exclusively American phenomenon in any case.

Sincerely,
fellow European with a nearly identical life experience to yours.
Let me guess: Californian incompetent government did not plan to retain this excess water so most of it is runoff?
Let me give you a simple example.

Imagine a bank takes demand deposits and pays a variable rate of the base rate minus 1%. The bank then makes fixed rate, 30 year mortgage loans that it intends to service itself at the base rate plus 2% (portfolio loans).

Interest rates then go up.

Bang: that bank just became insolvent. Is this actually the model of the world you want?
I think he means that the US military has a habit of invading countries who sell oil in currencies other than the US$.

_Libya_

2008
https://www.cfr.org/blog/libya-shunning-dollar (Libya Shunning the Dollar?)

2011 Invaded

_Iraq_

2000
https://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/meast/10/30/iraq.un.euro.reut... (U.N. to let Iraq sell oil for euros, not dollars)

2003 invaded
At 00:37 robot's hand is way thinner than the original actor's, but the missing parts of the background are perfectly reconstituted. I realize that Photoshop could do this few years ago, but here it looks a bit too flawless.
That was an Algorithmic Stablecoin. USDC is not, it was backed by dollars in banks with a 1:1 backing and 3rd party audited.
It was an own goal by the tech industry. SVB had about $200 AUM and a shortfall around $2B but people tried to withdraw about a quarter of the assets in the last few days. It would have been a nothingburger (would have found some kind of financing or support) if it didn’t have clients who were so quick on the draw.

At worst clients will lose a few percent of their money. Access to the money ought to be restored in weeks. For now tread water.

Long term they get more diversified in terms of what bank they use.
My wife's employer banks with SVB. I'm still trying to understand the implications for her and her colleagues. It's hard to imagine they won't be affected.
Yeah but some of my own coins are considered to be 'irreversibly lost', simply because I haven't touched them in five years.

I don't see why I should take this seriously.
I did the unlocking part once. Someone in my work parking lot had the same model and color Corolla, and I unlocked it but immediately realized it wasn't my car, so I just laughed and locked it and went to look for mine.
There is also government regulation, like how they must prove that they are solvent and how much they must have in liquid assets to stop bank runs.
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Sort of related question, if you have a brokerage account in a bank that goes the way of the SVB, what happens to the securities account?

Will it get liquidated and you will then eventually be paid some cents on a dollar of your brokerage accounts value?
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Note taking isn't writing.
Agree with the first part, short duration implies lower volatility. But we know that T-bills are zero coupon bonds, so holders are not receiving interest payments along the way, the interest is built into the redemption price. So forced selling because of a run for example, at a bad time, can mean a loss on the price and therefore no interest.
This is great example , many are using this framework but no one owning it .
how come ?
Ha, I knew this was about exrx from the title alone. Such a valuable resource, unfortunately not as well known as it should be.
QNX and Minix 3 don't count?
There have been CPU implementations of LLAMA (7b parameters, comparable in size) with very impressive performance
Thankfully (and hillariously), Firefox reader mode helps immensely with this specific vision impairment.
Is the interbank lending market just not big enough to provide liquidity in situations like this, or is there some other factor keeping that from preventing a bank failure?
A lot of crown vics that were police interceptors had the same key.
I used it to explore math and computer science concepts. I tried it with one I knew before and then moved forward.
It is frustrating. Especially since their support chat system does not give you the ability to view old chats.

When I was having an issue with my powerwall, I had to explain my story to 3 support agents, including "what the last person told me" which was met with doubt and incredulity and increasing belligerent insistence by each new support agent, until finally my a*holeness earned me the right to talk with a support boss who was able to confirm what the first agent had told me, which was that my software glitch necessitated the complete replacement of my powerwall under warranty (THAT process was seamless though in their defense)
ChatGPT/LLM is driving a lot of hype and is explicitly called out in root comment. Arguments like parent reply specifically argue against that.

You seem to be strawmaning that and bringing up almost tautological "once we advance enough towards AGI we will have human level intelligence".

ChatGPT/LLM has a lot of hype - they are fundamentally not human level intelligence.
In an increasing number of businesses the UK even if you try and pay in pounds (i.e. cash), they won't accept it. Contactless only!
Good post , the key here to find abandon project that companies still use .
i saw it in wordpress plugins and java maven plugins
Former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Attacked and Beaten in Athens
Low-level programming is definitely more meaningful, the problem is it fails the HR speak test - they tend to think it means just not very strong programming.

Basically, don't put that on your CV unless you know the company doesn't filter resumes through HR and has somewhat technical management.
Meanwhile, svb had north of 160bik deposits with an estimated 93% uninsured.

Scope is a bit different.
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Good to see symmetrical meta keys! Modern keyboard designers, take note.
Ha, yes, western capitalism. Corrected.
You already set up that workflow. That can be a major PITA.

Also I don't think this is as much about the "compute" of the background job as much as the nodejs app saying "take care of this for me please, got this? Don't bother me again until I ask for the result".

Endpoint handlers are flaky. They aren't guaranteed to run to completion even through no fault of their own. They should ideally have short and predictable run times, otherwise scaling is much more painful. That's why people separate out certain stuff into those background jobs. And getting that just right, scale it and so on can be quite a bit of work, but yes, something like Cloud Functions or Lambda would serve very similar functions. If you set up all the CI/CD pipelines to make that work.
I would encourage you to learn about what actually happened in the Cypriot defaults.
You understand that this console doesn’t allow you to “cd ..” (or, more importantly, “cd .ssh”)? I’m saying that this is totally unacceptable and should never have shipped in the first place. There are plenty of other providers who have similar consoles which do not have this problem, so clearly a solution is available. The question is, how are they competent enough to run an VPS warehouse yet not competent enough to install a working console?
You’ve got to stop being a router for this kind of main stream news. It doesn’t belong here. We care about interesting tech, science, and startups, not about JPM bankers.
I don't think anyone is arguing about security to board a plane. They're talking about maintenance requirements and safety requires for when a plane is in flight. Things like airplane inspections.
What you're missing is the bailout is part of the system, and counts towards its stability.

In your analogy imagine your SAAS product horribly crashed and deleted customer data. So your cloud provider restored from the backups you had arranged and you were running normally soon after. Not ideal, but you had a far more stable system than someone without backups.
All the small banks are going to face this problem.
You are right. There is no legal contract, it's an insurance policy. In practice this is as good as having a legal contract is what I meant.
unrelated but still interesting fact is Varoufakis used to be the "official Team Fortress 2 economist" for Valve, long ago - ie pre Diem-25 and pre- his government post

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/yanis-varoufakis-valve-game-...
[1]
A non sequitur is a statement that has no connection to the previous statement. The sudden failure of SVB UK is due to the group taking on excessive risk. The person in charge of risk management at SVB UK is therefore highly connected, and her stated priorities are arguably the most highly connected least non-sequitur topic possible. It will certainly be a part of any investigation into what went wrong.

> Yes some people believe in concepts of equality and personal freedom. Yes some people are morally offended by that

Almost nobody is morally offended by those things, which is why you try and dress up your ideology in those clothes. What people are morally offended by is the widespread practice of placing people in critical executive roles because of their woke ideology and not their skill or commitment to their job.

Look at the description she gives for herself here:

https://www.diversityrolemodels.org/about-us/board-of-direct...

There is absolutely nothing about finance here, it's all stuff like:

> She has helped establish and is the lead for the LGBTQ+ network at Silicon Valley Bank; where she works closely with Stonewall to create and promote a culture where all can bring their authentic selves to work.

This wasn't some cute weekend hobby, she was clearly doing all those things on company time instead of what her job role actually required. Now the bank has literally gone bankrupt, meaning she failed at her job in the most extreme way possible. Many, many people will suffer badly as a result of this failure, and those people are justified in asking basic questions. Questions like:

1. Who was meant to ensure the bank didn't take on too much risk?

2. Why didn't they do that job?

3. How did they get their job in the first place?

It would appear that the answers are (1) Jay Ersapah, (2) because they were much more interested in meetings with Stonewall than fighting bad bond purchases and (3) unclear but given we're talking about Silicon Valley Bank, quite possibly due to her demographics.
I see that

> The world needs more software, and there's not enough of us to build it all

... is a paraphrasing of the following from your top-level text

> Moreover, the world needs more software than there are engineers to build it all.

... which I'm very skeptical about. In what sense does the world "need" more software?

What exactly is it that "the world" really needs this additional software for, and is it really software that's missing, or can the same need be fulfilled via other means (e.g. better software, or improved processes)?

And to follow-up on that, if the world does need "more software", is there some level of software that is sufficient? I.e. is there a steady state of software/world, or at least, software/person, or are we "maximizing paperclips"?
I believe to frustrate search engines attempts to give answers to users without them opening your link.
> unless you do something very silly.

DO NOT LICK THE SCIENCE! For the sake of the world, please do not!

https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2021/03/can-you-lick...
I'd suggest that is not unique to frauds. One could say the same thing about any corporation, or currency, or government, or celebrity.
The recent discussion on Slack's stock options showed how few SV startups make employees millionaires these days. It's as rare in SV as it is in Europe now.
then europe is made for you
A Few of My Thoughts on SVB Collapse
I am under the impression that pretty much anywhere in the developing world USD will spend. Maybe not in the west, but places that have a weak currency like africa, the middle east, and south america.

Here are a few cherry picked examples

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/half-payments-caracas...

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g293974-i368-k4798488-...

https://www.voanews.com/a/lebanon-leans-on-us-dollar-to-cope...
Absolutely amazed this isn't littered with ads for supplements. The good ol' days
India is a developing country. Are you somehow under the impression that the US army will attack a coffee shop in New Delhi if they stop taking US dollars?

Even in those parts of Mexico and Caribbean countries where the economy is heavily dependent on US tourism - and the US dollar will be accepted at retail shops; the price difference between paying in dollars and paying in local currency is going to be against the US dollar, and for any significant transaction, you will be better off paying in the local currency.

More to the point, it is true that a considerable part of international trade is conducted in USD. It is also true that the USA tries very hard to keep it like that (more so through economic sanctions than the military might), but it's hyperbole to state that any country that does not accept USD will get attacked.

For example, India and China buy a non-trivial part of their oil in roubles and have not been attacked - so far.
Yes, if some projects depend on Defer and that startup blows up because it's not profitable enough or by one of the myriad reasons why most of these companies fail, that's going to be majorly painful.

I mean, basically anyone paying for this service would have to scramble to find and implement another solution once Defer shuts down.
This is why I hate journalists. "Man leaves keys in unlocked car" will get 0.1% of the clicks so it will never be published this way.
It feels like a decade, but it’s actually 20 years ;)