skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because a company is unviable today doesn't mean it will be unviable a year from now, that's the whole idea behind investing. If this had happened to Google in 1999 (a year before they would eventually make money through advertisements) Google would likely not be able to make payroll, pay their server bills, or keep their office lights on.

Second, even if the company is profitable, they might rely on income from other companies screwed over today. Those companies might not be able to pay their bills. If I'm Sentry, Render, Mongo, or any other number of companies that gets most of their revenue by providing services to startups, I'd be worried right now. Even big cloud providers like AWS and GCP will likely take revenue hits. Big companies can float resources while this debacle gets sorted out, but small companies cant. I'm sure there are a bunch of startups out there that had $2 million in the bank which would give them a good 18 months of runway, and are now trying to prioritize cost cutting measures to help make that initial $250k of insured deposits last as long as possible. And that's permanent lost revenue for those companies.

Third, I'm not saying wage theft is reasonable (it's not), and I don't think anyone else is either. I'm simply trying to point out that piercing the veil isn't some magic bullet here. If a company has to close up shop that's probably the worst of all worlds. Employees lose their jobs with little notice and no severance, office owners need to find new tenants (in an already tough office real estate market), healthy companies seeing ripple effects start belt tightening as well. And in the event that the full (or majority of) deposits from SVB are eventually released to the bankrupt company, where do you think that money goes? Right back to the shareholders. Employees are still screwed.

Piercing the veil makes sense in a typical situation where a company has gone bankrupt and they need to find a way to meet their final obligations, but it's a little more complicated in this situation. There are plenty of healthy companies that will be healthy again once the FDIC is able to release deposits.
Video for the rest of us.
> * Easier to navigate?

Resoundingly, the first. The second one is full of huge tiles that take up so much screen real estate, it's hard for me to scan over what is available. Crammed at the bottom are a ton of links, in no particular organization that was immediately apparent. The entire site is plastered with huge images everywhere, that don't really add to the content and just distract from whatever it was I was theoretically there for, and really don't help me understand the site at all. Also, the zoom effect on tiles keeps grabbing my attention when I was really just trying to move my mouse across them to get to something else that I'm now distracted from.

> * Nicer to to look at?

Depends on what you mean I guess; if you came to soak up pictures of smiling faces, I guess the second. But personally, I don't dislike the first.

> We don't live in a HTML only world because no one wants to live in a HTML only world. Some techies might but 99% of ordinary people do not.

I'm afraid this is a really awkward statement. There's no way to argue against it or really say anything to the contrary. You've framed it such that anyone who disagrees with you is "a techie" who in your definition does not represent any norm.
this guy HTTPs
That’s all politicking. There are lots of states with lesser penalties for the same crime including plenty of red states. Republicans just see this as another facet in the culture wars they can use to scare their constituents.
Resign on payday.
There are some companies that are filing 8-Ks just to announce they do not have any holdings in SVB, such as FuboTV: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1484769/000149315223...

Others are indeed disclosing that they have some holdings in SVB, such as Roblox at 5%: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1315098/000110465923...
Aha! Yeah I see where you're coming from now. There's a huge amount of hype around this stuff which is completely unjustified: it's not going to replace programmers! It's (hopefully) not going to put vast numbers of people out of work.

My interest in it is this: given this (flawed) technology exists, what are the things we can use it for that are genuinely useful and help us build interesting things that we may not have built before?

I've been finding an increasing number of areas where it gives me a 10-30% productivity boost... and a few areas like the above one where that tips me from "not going to do that project" to "doing that project". Those are what's exciting to me, far away from the breathless hype around this stuff.
Did he? My understanding was that it was not profitable and that he's been cutting costs and exploring new sources of income (Twitter Blue, API fee, etc.). I don't know if he'll be successful but his actions seem consistent with him caring about Twitter as a business. In fact, he seems to have sacrificed his public image considerably towards that goal (not consistent with him mostly caring about his "megaphone").
No, it's for the areas with excessive insolation - the idea is to use solar panels to create some shadow, reducing the exposure to sunlight for crops and wildlife, which benefits both.
It seems like there are circumstances that make it reasonable, though. And this isn't wage theft. This is where through no fault of the company, their bank closed down and their money is no longer theirs. It is in no way reasonable to make the company owners destitute over two weeks of pay. The corporate veil should remain here.
Sure, the amount above $250k wasn't insured, so, you don't get that immediately - my core point was that the rest isn't gone and in many cases you'll get all or almost all of it back, that just won't happen soon.

In fact, to the extent ordinary bank failures don't result in paying back all or almost all of the sum owed, the regulator has been far too slow to step in and more aggressive regulation is needed.
Well, that's just France for you.
llama.cpp/ggml.h

// GGML Tensor Library

...

// This library implements:
// - a set of tensor operations
// - automatic differentiation
// - basic optimization algorithms
> maximum employment and stable prices

It's a dual mandate. If I'm not mistaken, we recently reached pre-pandemic employment levels. There is no way we would have reached this point without low interest rates through the pandemic.

Other countries have the same inflation rate that we do, but with lower employment rates. Ours is a better position to be in.
Yes, like that new game that an AI just generated the other day. I don't have the link but if someone could link it that would be appreciated.
I disagree - I think juniors should pay attention - but actively moving outside their role is almost always more trouble than worth.

I've seen so many misguided proactive attempts waste everyones time, create noise, break focus.

If there's low hanging fruit, and you're not in a dysfunctional environment, it will probably give you diarrhea.
This is a Lisp for embedded programming, effectively. It isn't just another Lisp.
Sadly, other political bodies do this as well, and it is becoming more common.

That clause, I agree, was a mistake.

Still, the charter has at least been beneficial in many court cases, and caused many laws to be turfed (many of which, are just dropped forever).
Karma police,

Arrest this man,

He talks in maths,

He buzzes like a fridge,

He's like a detuned radio.
You just create spin offs when you hit the end of your initial material. Game of Thrones is airing one right now, but it sounds like they had 3 or 4 planned.

Star Wars is effectively all spin offs now.
> The kernel is armv6l and I still don’t know what the last letter is for.

ARM is bi-endian. I'm pretty sure the 'l' means the kernel was compiled to be little-endian.
Anyone interested in this should read Baudrillard. Simulacra and Simulation is more relevant than ever. A warning, he has great ideas but he is a terrible writer. So bad that I wonder if it's intentional to make the reader think more about it.
Something to note: This list is not exhaustive. There was about 3.8k companies with svb as their servicer. That also doesn't mean all of their money was in SVB.
There are solar farms being installed on previously very productive farm land near me. Between the thousands of truckloads of gravel and the steel piles being driven into the ground as far as the eye can see, I doubt the land will productively grow food of any kind for a century or more.

edit: I apologize if this is difficult to hear.
Read up on account abstraction: https://blog.jarrodwatts.com/what-is-account-abstraction-and...

https://twitter.com/DefiIgnas/status/1633626349226319872

> 5/ Account abstraction is a huge breakthrough for crypto self-custody.

> It enables:

> • Create & restore a wallet with an email or a phone number

> • 1-Click transactions

> • App pre-approvals & limits

> • 2FA protection

> and much more.
I ended up in the Seattle area, and I'm pretty happy with it.

I'm still frustrated by the high price of housing, because I fundamentally agree with the thesis of the article: housing, especially single-family housing, should not be expected to appreciate faster than inflation. To that end, so long as my house's worth when the mortgage is paid off (on a 30-year mortgage) is about double when I first bought it, I'll be happy.

I don't share the article's glum outlook. I think if enough people can be convinced that houses aren't, and shouldn't be, viewed as money-makers but just, you know, houses, this problem can be solved. I understand that's a pretty radical and utopia position to take though.
420...00 as in weed.. Musk doesn't actually want people to have API access.
People do things because they get something out of it and most will weight the risk of penalties vs the benefit. A long sentence would probably be harder to justify in the minds of would be offenders.
To save people a quick search, here is part of the Wikipedia definition of Form 8-K: "...a very broad form used to notify investors in United States public companies of specified events that may be important to shareholders or the United States Securities and Exchange Commission."
> I think people don’t quite grasp what could be coming next.

Agreed on that. The FDIC will make the best deal possible for depositors, but they'll spend a very busy weekend figuring out what that maps to in reality.

We don't know yet.
At a very basic level, more monies in circulation means each individual money is worth less than before. If each individual money is worth less than before, you need more monies to buy something. This is fine if you have more monies on hand to compensate, but generally this isn't the case for individual persons.

Thus, you have inflation: The price of goods inflate(!) because the value of monies drops inversely to the monies in circulation.
> I think it's mutual responsibility on both API provider and user to engage in communication before mixing parts

And I think it is the responsibility of the type system to at least catch if I'm passing too many arguments to a function.
None of these are the gotchas cloud people seem to think they are. The answers look like this.

Who's going to be on-call: the same people who are on call now. HW failures don't need special on-call people.

Who is going to build/manage your monitoring/alerting stack. Same people as now. Your servers are monitored, right? Adding RAID into the mix is hardly difficult.

Will you hire a network engineer? No, colos will often offer to manage the network for you up to the switch and at that point it's just a matter of plugging the server in. You don't need any expertise to do that and remote hands can do it for you.

Redundant hardware? Only if you need it currently. HW is reliable these days and you'd going to have spare capacity anyway, so this really doesn't change much.

Disaster recovery? Take whatever answer you currently have in the cloud for multi-AZ.
This seems to be about the system console built into the kernel.
JEP 439: Generational ZGC
Great, so we can expect to see a flurry of 8-ks come Monday. In the wise words of South Park. “Anddddddddd… It’s gone!”
How does cutting out a free API tier saddle Twitter with more debt?
https://archive.is/Uy7Sy
> It's a breach of contract.

Says your own novel legal theory, which has as much basis as trying to tell the cop that's pulled me over that I'm a sovereign citizen.

> They should repay the damaged counterpart if they can prove they had a sales contract in place.

We give monopolies on copying to encourage production of high quality yet easily-copyable work. If someone can just immediately start selling the good without any of the production costs, that's no bueno for society. It's the free-rider problem.
You're a smart person and I promise life is not what it looks like in this moment. Please feel to reach out to me or 988 if this is serious
AFAIK pi, e, psi, etc are countable. I mean, you can count them: pi is 1, e is 2, psi 3, etc. If you invent a new transcendental real number that'll be 4. etc. Adding all integer multiples and fractions is also countable, etc.

Uncountability starts at the uncomputable reals: these are numbers that only exist as infinite collections of digits and don't have a more concise definition. This includes things like Chaitin's Constant, which is the probability that a randomly-generated Turing Machine will halt. The Cantor diagonalization argument also worked with uncomputable reals - again, infinite sequences of digits. Computable reals are countable.

Physical distances are not uncountable. At the very least we know space cannot be infinitely subdivided: resolving any distance shorter than a Planck length creates black holes. So that would limit us to countable infinities.

The digital infinity is likely not even infinite; just "way too big a state space for humanity to ever feasibly exhaust absent concerted effort to do so". Though, if you want a story that plays around with this, check out Melancholy Elephants[0].

[0] http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html
Could someone please explain what SVB is and what money being stuck there means? Why do companies put money there? For what reason would a company file, or have to file, an 8-K?
Plenty of countries had even worse labour laws. Worse labour laws than, say, the USA and Western Europe, sure, but India is already there.
> They yield less, but surely that's better than "the FDIC seizes your bank and your equity goes to zero."

For the individual banker, perhaps it's not? If rates stay low they get a fat bonus, if they go up they just get a new job somewhere else.
Society has already accepted a light form of this for quite sometime already now. Which is grammar check.
Funny you mention BofA. They have $116 billion in unrealized losses. What all these banks are doing is very typical. If you've ever worked in the industry, you would know that.

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1634025141540732934

http://www.brooock.com/a/svb-collapse-exposes-cracks-in-econ...
That's disappointingly low. 0% is what you'd expect from an entirely unregulated "bank" which failed, so regulators were completely ineffective. Does the US just not bother actually having and enforcing capital requirements on banks?
LSD afterglow/hangover: episodic memory, verbal fluency, cognitive flexibility
Also my observations.

But importance of some of these things changes as you evolve and gain seniority.

Definitely it is a mistake for a junior developer to obsess over hiring people. This is something you should start paying more attention somewhere around when you become senior dev. As a manager/tech lead I really need help to make hiring decisions but for that help to be valuable it must come from somebody with enough experience and also understanding of the project.

People problems are also best left to your seniors if you are a junior dev. You should pretty much be in observation/learning mode. Be respectful and kind to other people and stay away from drama. Don't try to resolve problems for others -- if you don't yet have experience you are more likely to cause more trouble than solve the problem.

On the other hand getting to know other people is always important, regardless of your level.
I really liked Clairefontain Agedbag notebook. But they went cheap from clothbound to bond a decade ago. Currently I am using Clairefontaine My Essential notebook as it is still thread bound (but price is double than age bag).

It’s been 20 years I’ve used their notebooks.
Thank you for that link, it was really fascinating. The Australian government guarantees deposits in the same way, but I never realised this was also true in the US. I had assumed during the mortgage crisis that people lost their deposited money when their banks failed.
YouTube has created a multimillion-dollar dubbing economy
Ah yes, the classic "there can only be one cause" fallacy. Which is almost always wrong, especially in chaotic systems like the economy.

It's just never that simple.
> When this hit pieces some against an entire tech-stack, always check the author's job, past expereince.

What is this, if not appeal to authority?

> Try getting a Job in any sizeable company by building your entire experience with HTML and tell me how it goes.

And this seems to be, "follow the crowd".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_profile

Facebook (and others) make profiles of people that have never agreed to it, nor visited facebook in their lives.

So do the credit reporting agencies, to a different extent.
There are analogues to social media use in every generation. They are problems we’re already familiar with, they’ve just been amplified.

I highly doubt we’ll ever see anything even remotely akin to the risks of tobacco. Tobacco is a medical nightmare. The problems that would likely be caused by social media can be treated and reversed. It’s night and day between the two.

As the commenter stated, it’s an unpopular opinion that social media is as bad as cigarettes.
Apple Silicon uses unified memory so laptops have up to 64GB of VRAM and the Max sitio can have up to 128 GB.

That makes them uniquely “powerful” for inference with large models.
> people don’t let their kids play in the street anymore

Careful not to generalise here. This will vary wildly from place to place and street to street. Here in the Netherlands with limitations on cars I see the streets busy with children year round.

I can't speak for Canada, not having been there, but I read favorable coverage on urban design channels different localities there who have committed to pedestrian friendly designs. It wouldn't surprise me if the street was quiet and designed with safety of children and other vulnerable users in mind.
Is it suitable for real-time embedded programming? How about audio libraries? Does it have microcontroller support?

I've heard about Carp before, but haven't ever tried it. I've longed for an embedded ML language, and I like Lisp and Scheme, so this seems right up my alley. Apologies for all the questions, but I'm just curious about potentially applicability to some things I have in mind.
Articles about the new proposal do a really poor job at reporting what the specific regulation in question is. So here it is:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM:2022...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_to_Prevent_and_Comb...
Nothing is happening on Bitcoin anymore. Bitcoin is not web3. Everything interesting happening is on Ethereum.

Read up on account abstraction: https://blog.jarrodwatts.com/what-is-account-abstraction-and...

https://twitter.com/DefiIgnas/status/1633626349226319872

> 5/ Account abstraction is a huge breakthrough for crypto self-custody.

> It enables:

> • Create & restore a wallet with an email or a phone number

> • 1-Click transactions

> • App pre-approvals & limits

> • 2FA protection

> and much more.
Created a temp account to say please let there be others that cringed when reading this thinking that it was insanely obvious.

I originally went to the comments expecting a big flurry of people trashing this saying that the author was really late to the game, but to my surprise this line of thinking is incredibly common here. And it appears that some people are actively pushing back on this. :(
Email from stripe
Just in case he is reading this...

Thank you man! You where one of my childhood heroes!
Depoch – Unix Epoch for Dates
I can confirm that with the improved auto-pilot it is possible to get a 103.6 point landing after performing 1,151 flips (and reaching a max speed of 504 mph and a height of about 38k feet), if you can spare your phone for 38 minutes.
OK, how about mentioning something that isn't typical in the EU while still adhering to Basel III. Plenty of time here...

Meanwhile, how close is the US to making Chip-and-PIN a thing?

And who still uses cheques these days?!
Failed banks that have been resolved by the FDIC have, in fact, seen depositors lose money on non-insured deposits (i.e. deposits in excess of the insurance limits). FDIC makes payments, called "dividends", to depositors. The history of dividend payments for failed banks can be found here [0]. For reference, SVB has about $200B in assets.

The largest failure to-date was WaMu in the 2008 financial (approx $300B in assets). Depositors were paid back 100%. The largest failure prior to WaMu was IndyMac (approx $100B in assets). Depositors were paid back 50%. No additional dividends have been paid out to depositors.

According to Wikipedia [1], the last three >$1B failures were Guaranty in 2017, Doral in 2015, and First National in 2013. Depositors in each of these three cases received less than 100%, averaging around 80%.

[0] - https://closedbanks.fdic.gov/dividends/
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bank_failures_in_the_U...
This sounds like a reflexive take without any thought about what science actually is.
Although some are filing proactively to say that they're not exposed.[1]

[1]: https://twitter.com/footnoted/status/1634302156303134720
Way better than listening to traffic.
U.S. deficit grows to $262B in February (+21% YoY) as tax refunds surge
I Quit a $450K Engineering Job at Netflix
It's pretty obvious: thinking about hiring is important because you want smart and effective coworkers on your team. If engineers are not interviewing potential engineers, big problems can occur. Basically, you wind up with people who don't know what they're doing technically, but happen to "interview well." It takes a long time to fire someone. In the meantime, you got a big mess to deal with.
So, they restrict my access to money that is mine for less time? I’m not sure I would call this an innovation.
Can you share more about this context? Was this an article you read? Can you share the source for what you agree with Sam Altman about?
That would certainly be better, but companies generally have more expenses than payroll. Lets say hypothetically I'm a healthy cloud computing provider startup and a bunch of revenue comes from startups. If those companies can't pay me, then I can't pay my own costs. That means I have to shut down and all the businesses on my platform get screwed over too.

Bigger companies will be able to float resources for a bit, but if it takes the FDIC more than a few months to sort it out there will be large second order effects.

I hope this hypothetical stays hypothetical, if the FDIC can announce that SVB has been acquired and all the deposits will be honored this will all be moot. But any company with a large deposit at SVB should probably be working off the assumption that they're going to have to make that $250k of insured deposits last for a while. At least until new information is released.
Why is Ethereum not the right solution?
I'd say in 10 years the majority of new kernel modules will be written in Rust, but old code won't be rewritten just for the sake of rewriting in Rust (except maybe a select few where such a rewrite is identified as beneficial)