skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Managed the estate of my deceased mother… lots of emotional stuff… therapy is good… yada yada… what I want to share today however is that when selling the half renovated (not in a great state to sell, very hard to get good value for) family home … I went against the lawyer’s advice for at least a couple months when we had an eager buyers. His desire to buy seemed genuine and I never committed on my side until he had his money, but I let him spend several months getting his finances sorted… it easily resulted in me getting more than a hundred thousand dollars extra for the property and to this day has served as a valuable lesson in high value transactions… knowing the buyer can make a huge difference. Yes other people will buy a property, but when you see the sparkle in their eye and they tell you it reminds them of their childhood home, how they want to raise their family in the same kind of place, yeah… as long as you don’t let them manipulate you, patience can be absolutely valuable, I never budged on price and every time they had a setback in financing I made sure they knew I was being advised to move on but I was willing to give them more time, and a chance to sort their stuff out… I’m pretty sure that nearly 10 years later even with a rising property market, I got the best price so far for that property… and considering some people literally said it looked like a shit heap and might be able to fetch a better price bulldozed and sold as vacant land… I’m very very proud of how I handed that sale.
Show HN: Complish – Generate Fish-Completion File for Any CLI via ChatGPT
Background

Well-known CLIs often come with auto-completion, while there are still many CLIs that lack auto-completion scripts in different kinds of shell. It's frustrating for me to execute `cmd --help` every time I forget the parameter.

I hope complish (named after fish+completion and accomplish) can solve this problem in my favorite fish shell.

Approach

1. parse help page of a CLI

2. generate fish-completion file

ChatGPT demonstrates excellent performance in text-to-structure. So I use OpenAI's API to parse CLI's help page and then generate fish-completion scripts.

Drawback

1. a little slow since it calls OpenAI's API. It takes 10s to 1min to do this work depending on the scale of the help page text.

2. some help pages are too long to parse in one call, I plan to split help page text to handle this.

After all, welcome to have a try and give me suggestion.
A big fan of railway app. Recommend others to try the product too, the ease of setup and getting your backend up and running is phenomenal. They also have a very generous free tier.

Sidenote for the railway cli dev team:

I tried installing the rust cli tool recently but when i ran the `railway login` command it broke with this error:

`
node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:949
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module 'C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\@railway\cli\bin\railway.js'
at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:946:15)
at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:787:27)
at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:77:12)
at node:internal/main/run_main_module:17:47 {
code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
requireStack: []
}
`

Could you please check it? Or direct me to any docs that may help resolve this.
In my experience false positives are rare. You need to a take some time to actually understand the warnings to know how to avoid them, often there is some edge case lurking even the most trivial code. I see a lot of people are way too quick on dismissing the warnings, because they are overconfident that they know shell, when in fact most people don't have the slightest clue on the amounts of footguns hidden.
The is the most "smoking gun" explanation that I've seen of how everyday corruption caused this.
However, I'd love to see a follow that confirms the law resulted in a change in bond purchases by SVB.
Tangential, but reading about niche domains like this its crazy to think how different the things people do under the job of programmer

Two people could get CS degrees and one ends up building UIs/forms in React the other is implementing “Lagrangian water wave simulation”

Just totally different worlds
> IIRC multiples of 512K

You mean it showed it measured in blocks? If so, that’s been the standard for a long time and not only on Solaris :)
You can trust them because if they issue a loan they shouldn't be able to sell it.
Looking only at excess mortality is pretty shallow. Being European and knowing the differences in health care systems across countries, the excess mortality chart also reflects the quality of healthcare systems in these countries. It isn’t much surprise to see nordic countries being the best here.
I do that with CDs. I like having them in my cupboard but don't actually have a way of playing them. And yes, it is a good way of supporting smaller artists.
A Reverse Minsky Moment
The point in most of my little projects is my personal learning and satisfaction. I’m not going to do much with a fully working 1995 laptop but the process of getting there is the reason I do it.
Because it's way easier to buy a lot of unknown risk than create it by lending.
In your own words, please define what "front-end development" means to you when it comes to web development.
https://discord.gg/v9gERj825w
No need to give it up. Just narrow its application to banks. Or even just certain bank transactions.

If elements in the finance industry keep acting irresponsibly - clearly true - why should they get a pass on personal consequences?
I got around 8% profit in 8 hours. That's enough for me.
Yes USDT has management flaws but these are caused by limitations placed on their access to banking services - they have a long history of making sure they can maintain peg in spite of constant attacks from regulatory authorities, short sellers, and negative media publicity.

No, I don’t recommend using USDT. But with the regulated coins being operated much more poorly than USDT, it may be the best option in certain situations.
Fuchsia has nearly been 10 years in the making but has yet to make any meaningful impact. They probably could have spent a quarter or two with Yocto to create a stripped down linux for Nest devices and called it a day.

Instead they had 400(!) full time staff pulling in $300k+ developing something which nobody wanted and has not had any meaningful impact.

Maybe in 10 more years they will manage to replace Android…
SVB Draws Support from More Than 100 Venture Firms, Investors
I detest Musk as much as the next guy (or more, if my history on HN is any proof). I think he's a despicable human being; I would not be caught dead in the general vicinity of a Tesla, etc.

That said, for the casual user, Twitter works pretty much the same as it did before he took over. It hasn't crashed durably. Makes one wonder what all those people were doing.
The openai chat completion guide has good examples of this
I don’t understand why “AI” is even required for any of this, other than classification. Once classified as “the moon” the GPS and time, from the phone, could be used for a lookup table to a 10 gigapixel rendering, at the correct orientation, using NASA scans. It seems like a moon AI would give much worse results.
So you're looking to hire people you know and people you don't know don't have a chance to be hired? I don't know how to distinguish this from nepotism.
Every asset has some risk. If they were only allowed to own dollars and loans they created themselves there would be no problem.
Now this I understand! I rarely believe the audiophile explanations I usually get when I ask why buy vinyl. I personally can't usually tell a difference with sound quality (at the CD WAV vs Vinyl record quality levels) and most people that claim to I'm suspicious they haven't invested in the hardware to really extract it if it's there so I just think there's some placebo effect going on. I've also read some stats that statistically only a small percentage of people can detect what audiophiles claim to. So again, it's in peoples mind more than anything is what it seems like to me. I liken it to a high school prank where we often told kids at parties a drink was alcoholic, they acted tipsy, and we thought it was funny because it had no alcohol.

Hoarding collectible art is totally my speed though, this I get - I still buy the CDs from my favorite bands, I don't care about supporting them this way because I know they make very little off of it, I just like having "the collection". I also like the chronological album listening experience but Spotify does that, so now I get CDs and toss them in a box still wrapped in cellophane.
It’s amazing how Apple “doesn’t do” anything, but manages to define industry trends over and over again!
Will stick with this for at least a year. I can take classes for free at a top tier university, which I love. Planning to use it to try to get into a well ranked masters program and then maybe FAANG? Pipe dream maybe, I went to a third tier university for a different engineering degree and got about a 2.9 GPA there.

But I absolutely love learning and am excited to take courses. Just hard to decide which 1 course per semester to take.

Maybe also see if I can help with some research in EE or CS or computational biology.
Pay for != buy
"Arguably, being exempt from Dodd-Frank may well have allowed SVB to be more resilient than otherwise."

Wow, that's wrong wrong wrong.

Dodd-Frank would have forced SVB to do and report tests including the vanilla interest rate curve sensitivity values.

Look for "10-year Treasury yield" in this document (it's about everywhere as a parameter):

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/2019-march...

Which would have alerted the authority that SVB management was heavily playing a dangerous game.
You can run llama-30b right now on high-end consumer hardware (RTX 3090+) using int4 quantization. With two GPUs, llama-65b is within reach. And even 30b is surprisingly good, although it's clearly not as well trained as ChatGPT specifically for dialog-like task setting.
His CSS course is fantastic so I think I can safely recommend this one too.
“invest in a bank” it’s not an investment in any normal sense. These people were not equity holders of SVB. They weren’t getting any return in exchange for risk.
When you have a problem that can be solved with a hammer and nails you don't break out the TIG welder
> This is the first time I've ever found malware on retrocomputing media

I have one of those windows 2000 n-in-1 discs that has some viruses embedded into it... it's the only one I can think of off-hand that wasn't actually back in the day. (Which reminds me, I should probably delete it)
Assembly as a language meets all of these requirements. Is there an exception that assembly of some type doesn't meet ?
Oh you're right! I binged everything about 15 years ago and the details have long since run together.
DietPi released a new version 8.15
DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems, with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to install complete and ready-to-use software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts.

The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi
The main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/

The project released the new version DietPi v8.15 on March 11th, 2023.

The highlights of this version are:

StarFive VisionFive 2: New experimental image (our first RISC-V approach)
ROCK 5B: New bugfixed image
XRDP: TLS is now enabled by default
Box64: Optimised builds for Raspberry Pi 3 and RK3588 boards
Fixes for Quartz64, ODROID C4/HC4, Home Assistant, WiFi Hotspot, dietpi-sync, Docker Compose, Pi-Hole, Synapse, Koel

The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v8_15/
> (in fact, in researching this I discovered, horrifyingly, that it’s not uncommon for Treasury bonds to be described as literally risk-free)

Correct me if I'm wrong, they are practically risk-free if held to maturity no? It's only when you need them to be a liquid asset that you can sell for money in a pinch that it's not so risk free as the amount you can get for them depends on the market.
And they literally rewrote a Browser for no reason,
And they literally rewrote a bunch of infrastructure for no reason. And they literally reqrote an operating System (Android) for no reason.
Oh wait...
The next version release now needs to be called "Drunk Librarian". I want it enshrined in law :-)
You should check out the Times Literary Supplement.

Very, very interesting articles. Fiendish crossword.

They don't much cover any technical material, but they cover all kinds of everything else. The reviews are often much better than the original material.
There's not really a lesson here about running a start-up for founders. However there's definitely a lesson here about how societies work that Silicon Valley could better internalize.
All TikTok shows me is people doing stupid things or women shaking their boobs or butts. No political content as far as I can tell.
How did the world become so fragile? It seems the world is heavily intervened. Even a comparatively small domino falling can trigger a hell out of others.

What's the solution? Should there be more checks in place? But, these checks also slow down innovation. So, what's really the solution?
Who would have thought people would be having more fate in synthetic dollars of which the backing value is a total mystery or outright fraud than synthetic dollars backed by actual dollars stored in regulated American banks. This Monday is going to be interesting.
> taken seriously a paper written by chatgpt is a good place to start and would save an educated person a lot of time in just touching it up to make it presentable

If we ignore the minor requirement of the paper having any connection to reality, of course.
I don't know what you consider "long term", but if you asked anyone who stored their wealth in a cold wallet before 2020 they would be at worst, a couple % up right now. The vast majority would likely be up at least 100%.

These completely mindless dunks on crypto on HN are getting out of hand. You can say it's not scalable, or that it doesn't have a future for A, B, C reasons, or any other number of valid complaints. But instead they've devolved to the most degenerate falsehoods that can be disproven with a single look at the long term chart.
Yeah, but your BTC lost 20% of its value over the same period.
But what did you expect?
It is much harder when you are working with other people and need to learn everyone's "tiny libs".
Well it's not capable of dealing with it because they found apple's zoom was unreliable and it contributed to the guy getting off
Imagine a world where people had enough cash to do those things without needing a loan.

No doubt it would be "inflationary" or some other nonsense, but the reality is that banking is a form of deliberate rationing and enforced political hierarchy.

The financial industry exists solely for its own benefit, at spectacular cost to everyone else - not just by making significant capital almost cripplingly expensive for most of the population, but also by acting in irresponsible self-serving ways which everyone else has to pay for.
The NBA sends letters to D1 college basketball players, emphasizing to them the value of their studies, as less than 1% of them will make it to the NBA.

I expect that most arts majors have at least 1% doing that thing.

They may not be rock stars, but I expect that 1% of music majors are at least playing, be it local orchestras or bands or live or canned music (jingles, etc.).
It wasn't "vestiges" for there to be support for the third reich while it was gaining power.

I could see your point if the book wasn't talking about the 30s, but it was talking about the 30s.
6502 serial interface (Ben Eater)
I don’t see where I pretend to be above spectacle: I highlighted a correlation (most movie with those things are not of my liking), not a prerequisite.
I’m actually a big fan of James Bond movies, classic ones (very “shallow” by modern standards and still good imo) and new ones too, and there’s plenty of fighting and explosions in those.

I explained why to me it was a boring three hours in a very comfortable movie theatre armchair, so that you see why some people didn’t actually enjoy it as much as you did. On the masterpiece part, I’ll agree to disagree :)
What is the evidence for that?
Obviously 100% of the engineers weren't just keeping the lights on. The long-term future of Twitter is way more bleak right now than it was a year ago, and that has, in part, to do with the fact that all of the insane engineering talent at Twitter is gone.

Twitter has some insane infrastructure, which was way ahead of it's time, and which is arguably why the company is still doing fine.
The large majority of accounts at SVB were held by businesses. The businesses need to make payroll. The problem is businesses not making payroll for their staff.
If you have a tablet, it’s worth checking out the apps PressReader and Libby. I’m not sure if it works in other countries, but in the UK you can login with your local library card number (which you should be able to sign up for online) and get access to lots of free digital copies of printed magazines (and newspapers) including high quality stuff like The Economist
Unless you’re using it just for type checking js/jsdoc.

Flow is much better in this area.
As an entrepreneur and design enthusiast, I have always been fascinated by the power of branding and design in building successful businesses. Over the years, I have launched and scaled multiple startups, each time ...
A large digression:

"In 2015 researchers Limb, Limb, Limb and Limb published a paper on their study into the effect of surnames on medical specialisation"
Bakelite, probably:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakelite#Collectible_status
I had no clue you could embed video into a GitHub readme, that's really cool
I agree that there is a lot of blabla and that is not beneficial to anyone.
But sometimes things that may seem as blabla actually may not be. You say that you care about technical information and every paragraph should contain some. But there is more than just tech, and it is important to motivate why we should care about the tech topic we are reading about. This will require paragraphs here and there that deal with ethical, social, philosophical considerations, and they may seem like space-fillers, however the contents are not trivial. Maybe you know that recommendation algorithms can have negative impacts, still it cant hurt to see arguments for this position. And other people besides you may not think so, and thus it is important to present them with such positions so that there can be a discussion. Whatever "average intelligence" is supposed to mean, not everyone knows the same things I do, no matter how "smart" they are.
From the article: "[The crypto module is] available in all major browsers. It has nothing to do with cryptocurrencies."

Funny, but sorry state of affairs: we need a new word for cryptography [1]:: mysticography [2]? "About 1 results" in Google Search, that's a first.

[1] https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=cryptography

[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BC%CF%85%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B...
> First person is trying to contrast herself with the "1%" but if you read what her startup does it's literally a concept that caters almost exclusively to people with large disposable incomes. (A service for busy people to give them personal assistant style reminders about things they might forget to do such as buy backpacks and lunchboxes for your children from the pottery barn)

Isn't that like saying waiters working at 5 stars restaurants frequented by 1% are themselves 1% ? Or the guy setting up the wifi and internet for the restaurant is also a 1% ?
The result of a world where cars are nothing more than shells around batteries with brand names on them
Yes, that was their point. Humans have accountability to one another - either legally or in less formal ways (such as being fired if you're making your co-workers uncomfortable).

Current machines simply don't have that kind of accountability. Even if we wanted to, we can't punish or ostracize ChatGPT when it lies to us, or makes us uncomfortable.
I understand but as far as I know, Tether has never refused a single customer for redemption.
>We discovered about 30% of YC companies would not be able to make payroll even after the $250,000 insured amount if they were to wait months for their payments. That is detailed on the FDIC website currently as the process for remediation.

They'll get 40% back next week, enough to make payroll for a while, and another 50% later (possibly much later), and for that second part they can find someone with big pockets to buy them out early at a discount.
The archive at World Radio History has much broader interest, with hobby electronics, professional electronics, radio and TV management and programming, and some popular music history.
My understanding is that US Treasury issues a bit more than 1000 billion USD worth T-bills each month. If this is true, Tether must be one of the largest T-bill purcahser (multiple percentages of total issuance every month). Count me sceptic. Somehow I would assume this would be big news in finacial world.

Edit: how do they claim bying them? I thought they had no us banking access?
...I mean, I learned about the FDIC caps in like 7th grade... And my parents also made sure I was aware of it.

Where are all these people who don't know how the system works coming from? Who is advising them?
In the case of the depositors, they put their own money into an account and want to be able to spend that money to pay their employees. It might easily cost the government even more in lost tax revenue if the thousands of companies cannot make payroll due to a banking failure, thus forcing them out of business and their employees out of their jobs.

In the case of students, they borrowed money that was not theirs, spent it and don’t want to have to repay it.

IMO student debt forgiveness has a major problem of essentially punishing those who did repay their debts and the many, many more who didn’t go to college in order to help those who borrowed and did not repay their debts. There’s an additional problem in that college costs are spiraling out of control, largely due to easy loans that students can never escape.

The solution I’d rather see is to let student debt be discharged via bankruptcy again. This would let people in a tough spot get a reset and it would also encourage lenders to be a bit more judicious and maybe even apply some downward pressure to tuition rates.
But at least the actors have something to work with, rather than having to imagine it. This makes a huge difference.
Yeah the copy here is really cringe. Trying way too hard in every sentence.
In my local city, that's what most of my postings are for too. So, I'd be very open to that.
That's a good idea. I'll look into that
I don't see how keeping the money in SVB is another equilibrium; the payout matrix seems exactly like the prisoner's dilemma.
> It would be cool to see this on a 144Hz refresh monitor

While I can see the flickering on my 60 Hz monitor, it looks like a solid color on my 120 Hz laptop screen.
Neat, thanks for the write-up! Have a buzz/notification ;)
Have they ever accepted any redemption?
Slackware has fairly complete releases from 1.01 (the X floppy disk image sets appears to be missing). Around 1993 onwards so not quite the Ur-Linux. Version 1.20 starts the ChangeLog.txt file that records new and recompiled packages. So you have continuous history for just under 30 years...

http://slackware.uk/slackware/