skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Letting inflation run even higher risks a populist revolt?

Inflation hurts everyone. It is particularly cruel to the poor and middle class, but business also suffers because it is an unpredictable business climate. Are you actually suggesting higher inflation would be the smart strategy if not for the pesky mob?
I've been using a Framework as a daily driver on Fedora for over a year. I've had one (pretty minor) issue with the device over that time. The lid spring was slightly lose, and it would slowly close over time when holding it on my lap. They were quick to send a replacement, that was easy to install and totally resolved the problem.
This is the route I'm taking, yet I read for a KickStarter to be successful you need the community first: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/why-your-kickstarter-...
>This almost is not ever true for software startups, who get more value from speed, flexibility, and not needing to pay a team to manage hardware. Just let [cloud services company] handle it for you until you reach that point.

>And then when you do reach that point, you get to write the article about how everyone using the cloud are fools because it's cheaper to self host.

at least read the article, this is about a software company that started in a colo and literally wouldn't be a viable company if they tried to use the cloud. It's more about the fact that if you have the skills you can avoid having to burn a huge amount of VC money by running your own hardware
> Yellen is an incompetent ideologue. I studied applied economics in university, and the first code I wrote for a real application were inflation simulations.

Damn if only the US government could find someone with credentials as strong as yours
Anybody here going to GDC? I can meet up next week if you're interested. I'll play test your game and give feedback haha. I'm based out of Palo Alto.
That is just not true. Apple is the most valuable company in the world, with the largest market cap. Steve Jobs died twelve years ago. The Apple Watch and Air Pods have been huge successes, so has their push into services. They also have the largest profit margins of any manufacturer. They are incredibly well run and have not lost their way. They also didn’t have to have massive layoffs as they didn’t over hire in the pandemic.
What evidence is their that this due-diligence would conclude SVB was any more risky than a different bank? They bought US government bonds, this is not an FTX situation.
Yes it can...
Google Reader only existed for 8 years. The fact that we are still talking about it 10 years after it was discontinued is quite amazing.
I love blue apron and I will miss it when their company fails. It sucks so bad to love a product you can’t save as a consumer.
> The problem I see here is where would the "line" be? That is, when does that video you post on Instagram of your family at Disney or someone blowing out candles at a birthday stop being just a family video and starts being content?

A simpler definition could be how a content is meant to be spread; whether it is "broadcast" vs. "multicast/unicast".

Like, I cannot think of any legitimate reasons a kid's "performance" needs to be on tiktok. Facebook/whatsapp, maybe, if you're sharing it only with your friends, or even YouTube with linked-only if you want to send the link to grandma. But why would you ever want to publicly post a video of your child for five million+ viewers?
I think the biggest concern with SVB was about the contagion risk because we didn’t know to what extent they were the counter party for other banks risk management. If you hedged your low interest bonds via options with SVB holding the other end of that, your options are toast. Now you own all that risk.
Scientists Identify “Pioneer Peptide” That May Have Sparked Life on Earth
https://archive.ph/fHc8f
If you bought SVB on Robinhood then that stock isn't worth anything anymore.

Would it be worth anything after SVB is bought by a larger bank, or does the takeover process zero out shareholders?
Honest question. Schwab owns TD Ameritrade. What happens to customers of TD Ameritrade if Schwab implodes?
I wondered the same thing. I think it's another veiled call for socialism. It would be weird (not the right word) to have government banks buying government and corporate bonds to pay a common interest rate and have no liability at all for bad investments.
I dont know either way but none of that is convincing to me. It wouldn't have legal consequences because no one can prove he wasn't genuinely panicked. He does profit if the FDIC doesn't step in his competitors and startups' competitors are hurt. Either way everyone moved their money to Brex where he is an investor. And as an ideologue he can continue his complaints about government and the financial system.
Looking good. Do you agree with the 1:20 review:sales ratio? BTW plz ignore if you don't want to disclose thanks.
He is listed in the acknowledgements ...

> ... Chris Date saw early drafts and suggested several improvements.
I thought the old $100k limit was statutory. Then in 2008 it was changed by the executive w/o Congress approving it (or has it, since?). Now it's being changed no limit and fees are being raised. These are fees charged by a government entity, so one would expect Congress to have to be involved. Can a depositor sue to have the old fees restored? Can a bank sue to have the old fees restored?
I'm aware. It's still interesting, especially since it all still boils down to machine instructions.
We had one of those at my employer's old office that we used for a while as a coffee table. I wish I had grabbed it when it was being given away!
Absolutely nuts. It’s apparently been 8 months with no CRO.
Covid was deliberately hyped in order to increase monetary easing.. Wall Street controls everyone
Somewhere around $100k/mo or $1mm/year.

This usually requires a term spending commitment and gets you an effective discount of around 5-10%. Higher spends can yield significantly deeper discounts, of course. I think you'll find it difficult to get specifics at higher spends due to non-disclosures.

Google 'AWS EDP negotiated' and you'll find some more info on the process.
Is that really true? I would expect that going from IR to native code would be the hardest part because you have to worry about architecture and supporting different ISA’s. IR can be simple because it is abstract and hides lots of the dirty details of the hardware.
> On the downside, there's a bit of proprietary firmware required (WiFi, Bluetooth, some graphics) and the Framework ships with a proprietary BIOS, with currently no Coreboot support. Expect to need the latest kernel, firmware, and hacking around a bunch of things to get resolution and keybindings working right.

> Like others, I have first found significant power management issues, but many issues can actually be solved with some configuration. Some of the expansion ports (HDMI, DP, MicroSD, and SSD) use power when idle, so don't expect week-long suspend, or "full day" battery while those are plugged in.

Meanwhile, the M2 Macbook Air is $1200 and does run all day (literally 100% more battery than this thing). It's screamingly fast, has a better display, better keyboard, WAY better GPU, insanely better speakers, better proprietary boot firmware, is smaller and lighter, and runs Linux well now thanks to the heroic efforts of amazing hackers.

Yes, you must put $3 pigtails on all your USB-A connectors in your home and office (but the upgrade means you can never plug them in backward ever again).

Unless you're into masochism or work at Intel, why would anyone buy this machine?
> extra interest you need to pay on the money you'll borrow today until you get the full principal back at maturity

Thank you, great concise explanation, lightbulb moment for me. I understood it but couldn't clearly communicate it.

So to make depositors whole today, you need to borrow money today, and the extra interest paid to borrow the money is more than the interest you get when the long-term bonds finally mature. The difference is the loss.

Which is why they had to take a loss on selling the bonds, as it's essentially the same loss. They are out money whether they sell the long-term bonds today, or if they borrow money today. Bonds are discounted appropriately by whomever buys them.

Question is, why didn't SVB do anything when they saw this coming? I've seen articles saying the board was aware of the risk issues for the past year. [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/noahbarsky/2023/03/12/silicon-v...
I love this, thanks for sharing.

I'm doing a similar thing, but with an assistant that has long term memories.

I can learn a lot from how you're running commands.
I’ve been helping college students navigate their job searches through a local program. I’ve noticed a continuous dilution of the criteria for what people consider to be “red flags” in their job searches.

When I started doing this, we had to teach people to watch for red flags like unpaid internships, companies with extreme turnover, or jobs trying to demand full-time employment but paying people as contractors without benefits.

In recent years, I feel like I spend more time talking people out of simple things they’ve determined are “red flags”, such as job postings that don’t use exactly the right words or interviews that don’t proceed exactly like the student imagines they should. In the past year, I’ve had students tell me that their “red flags” include things like any interview process that takes more than 1 hour total (this is for college grads) or any job that doesn’t pay FAANG level compensation, or any job that requires them to do any on-call for their own work. We spend a lot of time resetting expectations to get students aligned with healthy jobs that won’t take advantage of them, but nevertheless can’t match their unrealistically perfect ideals.

This tool has good intentions, but I’m afraid it might contribute to some of these unrealistic expectations about job searching. I often have to remind people that the job posting is never perfect and might be written by someone who doesn’t know how to write well. It might be written by an HR person who was copying things from some bad boilerplate text. You should always be wary of issues in job listings, but if you’re interested in the job it’s worth spending 20-60 minutes communicating with the company to learn more details first.

I’ve also noticed a secondary trend wherein some of the most toxic local companies have become very good at signaling: They know how to say all the right things in job listings, sponsor all the right events, and present themselves as exactly the “right” company to work for, but everyone who goes their ends up burned out and depressed by the toxic environment. Ironically, they’ve become experts at recruiting because they’re constantly recruiting to backfill their high turnover rates.

What I’m trying to say is: Be on the lookout for issues in your job search, but try to get the full picture before you rule companies out or select an employer.
From what I've gathered from listening to and reading from a couple of very successful (at least originally) indie devs that worked alone or in small teams for quite a while:

They all had a day job.

Sometimes game dev related, sometimes not so much. But they all sacrificed a large portion of their free time at least until they started to generate enough money to survive on game dev alone.
Why VCs don’t want to invest in European startups? Or are there no European startups to invest in?
I still don't get why not 30 yr notes, though, if this really was just greed.
obvious gpt is obvious.

I think you meant Charles Schwab there, Mr GPT.
Oh it totally is. But with the number of people in this thread
(and past threads) talking about how nice this is, "all it needs is.." and such, it's not unwarranted to call out the system's obvious absurdity.
Note that Java’s Optional was never intended to be a general-purpose Maybe type or general-purpose replacement for null, unlike Rust’s option. As Brian Goetz explains in https://stackoverflow.com/a/26328555/623763:

“Our intention was to provide a limited mechanism for library method return types where there needed to be a clear way to represent "no result", and using null for such was overwhelmingly likely to cause errors.

For example, you probably should never use it for something that returns an array of results, or a list of results; instead return an empty array or list. You should almost never use it as a field of something or a method parameter.

I think routinely using it as a return value for getters would definitely be over-use.”
I don't think its bar at all. No other tech companies are making an effort. I'm a hard-core Samsung fan, and definitely eats over Apple overpriced decades behind on function.
I don't understand. Is there a difference between those two statements?

There is no known technology that would make it physically possible to fit such a camera in a mobile phone, just as there is no known technology that would make it physically possible to travel faster than light.
> Tell them to take a hike until they come back with a warrant or at least a reasonable justifiable suspicion not dragnet surveillance

The Patriot Act doesn't work that way. Congress passed laws placing some reasonable minimum requirements on financial institutions that they have some sense of the actual identity of the people they are doing business with. Those are part of the "You're incorporated and do business in the financial sector" laws, so they're not a warrant kinda thing; a company's continued authorization to do business by law is contingent upon following them.

If you want to get into the philosophy of the Patriot Act, feel free, but if you're an individual US citizen, you have more power to change it than Google does. Google can push back, but that's a good way to get hauled in front of a Senate subcommittee or have their business practices curtailed unless the law itself changes.
I see alot of comments here who are wondering if they're good enough to join. At the same time, it looks like this group is very picky about who can join.

Perhaps there is another Discord someone could setup where part-time game creators could join. I am making a procedurally generated world simulation game that is a little bit too early in the process to showcase, and definitely not work full-time on, but it still has several tens of thousands of lines of code in it. That's just reality for making a game from zero. I would be interested in talking to other people about game creation.
> bank deposits should be guaranteed by the entire system (not the taxpayer)

Where do you imagine this money ultimately comes from?
This has been evident for years. Shipping refrigerated items via post was never going to get to a workable cost. Groceries have a supply chain that’s borderline miraculous at lowering costs and they’re already close to most people.
> I'm fine with it, as long as the app works

For how long? That’s the crux of the question. If you don’t know what you’re doing and your code “is prob terrible” the app will break in unexpected ways which are hard to diagnose and fix. If you were a carpenter, would you be proud to sell a chair which held up the two or three times you’ve sat on it but which you can’t confidently say won’t break in six months when your client’s spouse is using it?

If you ever wonder why software today is terrible, that’s a big part of it: people throwing stuff at the wall until it kind of works instead of taking care to make it good and correct which isn’t that much extra effort.

You’re far from the only one doing things that way. And that’s a shame, because we’re all worse off for it.
Sounds like the plot to "There will be blood" to me. :)

That was one of the best plots/executions of a plot that I've ever seen!
Help I'm falling in love with Kubernetes
Is BTC up because of lack of trust in banks post-SVB?
BITCOIN EXTENDS GAINS TO INTRADAY HIGH OF $23,558, LAST UP 5.9%
"that was supposed to be our racket!" -Teen Vogue
Regarding the Shipping Trivia section, the "How Overnight Shipping Works" video by
Wendover Productions is a good resource to learn more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3qfeoqErtY
But this is a narrow interest so that depositors at least have access to their money. It does not reward the bank. So long as the bank isn't rewarded, it should be a caution flag for the other banks to take risk management more seriously. Startups have to also have to get their burn rate under control or go out of business.
That looks great! That's the sort of thing I have in my head and never ever would complete. Congrats to you :)
Ah, so what did you use before that? I look down on people who haven’t been using NeXTSTEP since the 1980s..
Not anymore than it has already imo.
> - There's really nothing wrong with this program, but it just feels like a vim clone, and I don't see the point to move from vim in my case.

It's a vim clone that works out of the box with LSP support, telescope, etc. that would require hours of plugin tinkering toil. I don't need to manage, configure, update, and depend on plugin authors.

It's great. I install it on every host I need to interact with. Quality of life things like `helix --health` further reduces toil.
Samsung has a history of deceiving people on the performance of their phones.

>Earlier this week, we were made aware of Samsung’s Game Optimizing Service (GOS) and how it throttles the performance of games and applications. GOS decides to throttle (or not to throttle) applications using application identifiers and not application behavior. We view this as a form of benchmark manipulation as major benchmark applications, including Geekbench, are not throttled by this service.
Ask HN: Fresh C project and newest GCC release. What modern features do you use?
Whoops, or a lack of coffee And phone autocorrect. Thanks, fixed.
No, trafficking in personal data is largely still legal in the US.
It's not that hard to automatically detect when a kid is in some content and automatically de-monetize it.
Boy, this rabbit hole delivers. How about this HDD?

https://librascopememories.com/Photos/Pages/Products.html#14
Why have so many companies been been betting on 200 year low interest rates continuing indefinitely?
I hope I actually sit down and go through this because this seems like an excellent resource. I took a grad level (they just let us take them as undergrad) compilers course in college and it was the most fun I've had at Uni. It was all SML building a functional language that supported a solid type system with ADTs and parametric polymorphism and it was so interesting to see that it wasn't as complicated as it seemed to implement (although time consuming to iron out bugs).

My prof developed a production SML compiler that's fairly widely used, so he was the best resource I could have asked for. Such a humble guy as well. The thing that was most interesting to me was the use of ADTs on the implementation end. I couldn't imagine how much more tedious it would be dealing with the many types of trees a compiler deals with without them.

The class's impact on my overall career isn't direct, as I don't work near the compiler space at all (unfortunately), but there were so many good type level concepts I got out of that course. Plus, it was just a blast. Late nights with a bunch of tmux panes ironing out bugs to rack up test coverage - such fond memories :)

I highly recommend playing with compiler implementation for anyone that's unfamiliar. There are a lot of good introductory resources out there and they're just such a fascinating part of our industry. A beautiful cross roads between CS theory and practical application.
And it becomes easier to read if people have bad handwriting. Cause badly written characters with the same stroke order will look similar to each other, therefore it will be easier be easier to read for people used to reading japanese handwriting.
I dont view Russia as a wholly unified bloc (indeed, for personal reasons it would be a sheer impossibility for me to do so), and I'm well aware of prigozhin's trolling. I would find it hard to take that man at his word if he declared that the sky was blue.

I dont think that there is any evidence that either are relevant here though.

>And what military tactic is there to send inaccurate drones and missiles in civilian areas in the first place ?

To tie up and overwhelm their air defences so that they have to be spread more thinly and can't be concentrated at the front.

I forget the exact numbers but the drones were something like $10k and ended up being shot down by $500k missiles. Indeed it was an economically efficient tactic if the goal is to degrade ukrainian AA.
At least Bank of America is still effectively 0 interest (excuse me 0.01%) on savings accounts. I'm not sure why anyone would bother to maintain a separate account beyond a checking account buffer. My brokerage sweep account is over 4% right now and transfers can be done online and just take a few days.

I assume the only reason for the savings accounts is to convince some people that they can save at their bank without bothering with another account somewhere else. (And, of course, until recently money market sweep accounts paid very little as well.)
Where is USD available in this format? If it is, that's news to me.
A Narrow Bank can survive a full bank run.
This is called DBToaster

https://dbtoaster.github.io/

*"DBToaster: Higher-order Delta Processing for
Dynamic, Frequently Fresh Views"∗

http://vldb.org/pvldb/vol5/p968_yanifahmad_vldb2012.pdf
There's loads of laptops with RJ45 jacks that fold up to take up less space when not being used. There were also PCMCIA ethernet cards where the jack pops out and you insert the cable downwards. I don't think Apple cares enough about ethernet on laptops anymore to bother. Personally I find the choice of SD card slot puzzling. USB A or ethernet would have been far more useful IMO. I have exactly one device with full fat SD and it's a 10 year old Wii U.
What happens after a year? If you’ve locked yourself long-term into a below-prevailing-rates investment, isn’t that going to be a big problem when your competitors can
offer higher rates?

This kinda happens with fuel cost hedging in aviation: if your airline locks itself into a high rate and prices drop, your competition buying at spot is going to offer better fares and you’ll bleed customers.

And vice-versa when you lock yourself into a price that becomes below-market: you’ll be able to offer better fares and gain customers.

Then comes down to whether you have enough equity to bleed (or hood enough marketing) to weather the storm created.
They bought it for £1 and will make a billion from it. What a stupid deal
I think there's a lot of FUD spread by Cloud providers and people who make money mainly out of it ("Cloud Engineers", consultants, etc.) about how hard it is to setup and manage hardware + software. In many cases it is actually easier to do it for a bespoke solution than some cloud Frankenstein.
Or the Fed will just announce TARP 2.0 - like they already did - and allow banks to get unlimited capital by borrowing against MBSes and Treasuries at PAR value.
> If Boglehead retirees can figure it out then why can't startups?

Because every dollar spent on keeping your investors' dollar safe is a dollar not spent on moving fast and breaking things. /s
I think it's a relatively easy line to draw.

If you're posting content to the public (i.e. random strangers), you're on one side of the line. If you're posting content in a controlled manner to people consisting of friends and family you actually know, you're on the other side of the line.
Wholly agree and people do recognize it as such. Also child actors (though they don't have all things in common, one thing they often have in common is exploitation by their parents/guardians as well as industry).
Marcus by GS has been paying 3.75% since mid-February! They've been pretty good for a while, now