skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did you procure a list of feeds worth following? I really enjoy RSS, but I have had trouble finding enough content to fill a feed I can regularly check.

An example of the perfect feed for me is https://ciechanow.ski/atom.xml.
The https://www.nand2tetris.org/ is pretty neat. The compiler in part 2 isn’t very advanced (it doesn’t cover much in the space of optimization or the state of the art) but taken as a whole you end up designing the chip, ISA, VM, language and compiler, so it’s pretty good for that aspect.
I like Scheme's semantics the most of the "popular" languages. What makes Unicon notable? Nothing on the wiki page linked stands out.

Python does crazy things with scoping and is too keen on implementing modules in C, but could be worse.
I think nowadays Intel CPUs are more planned obselence that any other hardware, so behind.
Or because he's quoting the comment in his question.
FWIW on the reliability front, I’ve used mine as my daily driver for over a year now and haven’t had a single issue.
You use more than one colo. Nothing about not using AWS says you need to not care about HA.
Or they're not aware of the options. AWS has massive marketing and market share. A lot of businesses aren't even aware of AWS savings plans and spot instances. That's even why there are companies that purely offer to optimise "cloud costs" as their core business.
That's not how you use foundation models. You have to give a prompt where the most likely completion is the one you are looking.

You can find longer prompts online, but this one might work.

Q: Write a python function that adds two numbers
A: ```def add(a, b): return a + b```
Q: Write a python function that reverses a string using a slice
A: ```
I think that isn't how it works. The fed just yesterday added the ability for banks to borrow nearly unlimited amounts against their assets. I do not think this existed previously. It is an emergency measure.
No, but what if China started setting up military installations in Canada on the US border with Canada's blessing, or even insinuated that it would? How do you think that would go? Not simping for Russia here, but this is not a simple and straight-forward issue.
It's management job to plan for run over by a bus scenario, not the people whose job is to actually implement things.
> What's natural about cat on only one file?

It's about building the query, really. Here is example:

cat file.log

"Oh, it's too big, I only care about these messages"

cat file.log |grep error_name

"don't care about old stuff, show me the new one"

cat file.log |grep error_name | tail

"hmm, show me when it started, and let's ignore monitoring checks"

cat file.log |grep error_name | grep -v 'user: mon'| head

"okay, but maybe log was rotated ? Let's see last week"

zcat file.log.1 |grep error_name | grep -v 'user: mon'| head

"hmm, it's some old error, let's search some more logs"

zcat file.log.{10..1} |grep error_name | grep -v 'user: mon'| head

(zcat will auto add .gz if not passed)

You can't for example do

< file.log.{1..10} zcat
Ok, so you find an idea this way. But guess what, it is already taken by most probably another startup/small company.
Is Setting Up a VPS Worth It?
I switched to EdgeDB couple of years ago, and after writing EdgeQL I never ever want to go back to writing SQL queries again. SQL now feels very unexpressive and clumsy, but I didn't have that feeling before I had a chance to compare it on practice.

Also, "HTML won" not because it made practical compromises, but because it was literally the only first-class option available in the browser, and as web platform has exploded everyone wanted to move to the web, so they had no other choice but to build their tools and products with what they got.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io#Controversy
> As a founder, especially at the start of your company, you're responsible for _everything_.

I know, I've been a founder more than once. You are responsible for everything. When it comes to the things you don't have expertise in, or don't have the time for, you need to bring in people who do. I wouldn't even begin to entertain the thought of starting a business without having an accountant and attorney at least on retainer.

> you need to get one setup RIGHT NOW because you just landed your first investment check and you need somewhere to put it!

Those checks don't come without you knowing they're coming, though. Surely you'd have already have made a plan for what you're going to do with them.

> We went to the Mountain View branch of Silicon Valley Bank because someone told us that they would know what to do with us.

You had no actual experts to consult about this?
Ideas are a dime a dozen. It’s execution that is valuable. So don’t feel too in a hurry to generate ideas.

Take the Google Analytics competitor. Personally I was bothered that GA got a monopoly in the space so fast and that it took so long for real competition to come along, if it has. The interesting questions revolve around “why did GA have a moat?” and “how does a new entrant overcome that?”

Wherever there is a market leading product there is a narrative that

* Google docs sucks
* Microsoft excel sucks
* Adobe creative cloud sucks
* Facebook sucks

It is very possible to take a bite out of this kind of firm but it is not easy. Look at at Figma as a detailed case study —- it is the ability to execute that puts an idea like that on wheels.

(My current side project is something that I was thinking about 18 years ago thinking… why doesn’t this exist? But it still doesn’t, except on my server.)
AI can now forecast the next food crisis
> I don't know if anyone on PC nowadays still would install games via an unknown website

I do it all the time, assessing trustworthiness in a heuristic fashion. Game looks legit, website clearly belongs to who it says it belongs to, etc.

What really does itch.io or Steam offer in the way of protection if a developer wants to be malicious anyway?

P.S: This game and its sequel are really good, and as far as I'm aware this is the only distribution point: https://silverspaceship.com/promesst/
React (or similar) is ok for page components, not for the whole portal
I don’t think in near term text-wrap: balance would be as good as human eye for headlines

It's apparently very good for reading comprehension.

I've had a lot of training in this area, and while I don't understand why it is, all of the materials I've read — especially in the last ten years — say that orphaned words make sentences harder to understand.
What… does this have to do with anything? You said Poland isn’t part of the west, it is.
We have noticed, 10 years ago today.
There is always an NFL team that needs a quarterback of any caliber!
IDEs make sense when you have one or a few large year-long coding projects. If a lot of your time is spent focussing on Ops and Sec, jumping between directories all over the file system and making little changes here and there, firing up an IDE, configuring it and navigating projects is not efficient. I use a different editor for small quick edits and dealing with large projects that need building and all sorts of tooling set up.
I'm in a Master's (and possibly jumping to PhD) program at a Big Tech School that you've probably heard of -- and that's my feeling as well.

Fairly underwhelming. Lots of online resources to chase after to catch up to the state of the art, but a lot of the courses are things like the history of, and developments of, the technology. Worth knowing, but I don't need multiple, year-long adventures in this stuff -- get me to modern, and then let's solve some actual problems!
I have a somewhat basic question that nonetheless seems to be difficult for a non-specialist to answer with just internet research. I am hoping someone here can answer it:

I have my liquid savings in a local credit union (which therefore isn't insured by FDIC, but by NCUA). Will the bank fees mentioned in this letter ("Any losses to the Deposit Insurance Fund to support uninsured depositors will be recovered by a special assessment on banks, as required by law.") apply to my credit union?
That's an interesting perspective, I didn't consider how the indoctrination plays into it.
This will save your time:

https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUIHRvcExld...

Takeaways:

- .org is 50% better than .com;
- .edu and .gov are really nice;
- .io is cool, and much better than .uk;

PS. I don't remember any rate limits of the API. Here is how I downloaded the data: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/29693
That's literally what my long post was about though. Overly restrictive diets never work. Finding a healthier relationship with food is precisely what I was trying to do, and I would say I succeeded. I just failed to solve the problem which is more unique to me, namely that I completely cease to function as an adult human being for several months at a time almost every year. This has mothing to do with dieting per se and isn't the case for most people.
Chicago’s per capita murder rate is much higher than the US.

In 2021 Chicago had 29.6 per 100k people where the US averaged 6.5 per 100k in 2020. The 4 least dangerous districts in Chicago are actually slightly below to the US’s average murder rate. https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Ander%20testi...

The point of roughly equivalent sized cities is small entities can be much larger statistical outliers. A small city can go from a higher rate than Chicago one year to 0 the next year. Meanwhile Chicago’s numbers don’t really change with a single mass shooting etc.
This always assumes these applications are built by competent people who value efficiency. The job market is full of people that think they need high scalability but then underestimate the cost of an HTTP request or the memory footprint of keeping an entire dataset in memory. It has happened several times in my career building platforms that I have to double check that packet capture I just took from that single Kubernetes node is accurate (my favorite is 22k DNS queries, all A IN s3.amazonaws.com, in a 0.2s span). Similar things happen with memory and CPU.
If anyone is making net money on Stable Diffusion already, they're either small scale or not going to be around for long, probably both. Anything in it for the longer term is going to be in the buildup phase.
Who cares? The way normal people use the term “the west” includes Poland. Some bureaucracy saying it doesn’t is irrelevant.
>And they'll be pushing for EKS and the whole AWS stack.

Nah, I'd recommend serverless for the vast majority of use cases. But otherwise, yeah it gets heavily into the AWS stack with SQS, SNS, Kinesis, S3, DynamoDB, Aurora, etc.
Your linked page has no reference to wait times on category 1 calls exceeding 48 hours (nor anything close). Neither do any of the results I clicked through on the _extremely_ helpful SERP link.

I did find this page[0] which says, referring to category 1 calls:

> In December 2022, the response time crossed 10 minutes, the worst performance on record.

So it certainly sounds like an _average_ wait of 48 hours for a category 1 call is not at all grounded in reality.

[0]: https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/ambulance-response...
I’ve had Vultr and Digital Ocean accounts for years. Never got a KYC request from them. This is driven by the lawyers at Google.
It's author's choice to run Debian on a laptop that provides first-party OS.

It'd be like blaming Apple for Asahi Linux issues, but with even less of a substance (at least Debian doesn't have to reverse engineer Pop! OS improvements).
> Why is the Framework so much worse at these than e.g. the LG gram series? HDMI, 2x USB-C/TB4, 2x USB-A, micro-SD out of the box, no serious tuning required...

I could be wrong, but I don't think anyone at Framework is hacking on Linux and upstreaming drivers that implement efficient power management correctly. I also don't think they're hacking on custom firmware for components, either.

Looks like System76, for example, puts a lot of work in to get white label Clevo laptops working pretty well with Linux. Framework is likely working with whatever the kernel already supports, and often times it's hard to implement good power management for components because the documentation isn't available, so you're lucky if someone spent time trying to reverse engineer anything at all.

Also conjecture: I don't think Framework is designing low-level hardware, either, and the boards they design/buy aren't optimized for power saving versus actually shipping a product.

I'd assume that LG has more resources dedicated to power efficiency when it comes to time, money and manpower, and they have kernel hackers on their payroll, as they roll and deploy their own Linux-based OS.

It could also just be chance, where the LG gram just happens to be built with well supported components.
Poll: What is your opinion of US Gov’s response to SVB?
For context, see: Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1337
Do Not Care
Yeah same. I'll probably spend a some more time with Emacs, having fun toying around with it, and then realize all I really want is a fast, snappy editor. Then I'll be back to nvim. Wash-rinse-repeat every couple of years.
Do Non-Profits Drive Social Change?
May interest you https://www.dbdebunk.com/
FDIC insurance is paid for by FDIC members (i.e., by banks), via an insurance premium. In this case, the FDIC is providing extra coverage, and charging member banks an extra assessment to pay for it. So the money comes from all the other banks.

"The taxpayer will pay for it" only in the sense that maybe member banks will try to pass this on in the form of fees.

"Bad financial investments" are almost 100% not being "refunded" to the bank shareholders. Their shares are, I assume, going to zero. The only way in which they are being protected -- the "almost" -- is in the fact that their shares go only to zero, and do not become liabilities.

Let us also consider what the investments were that went bad: Government bonds. So you could say that value flowed from the bank to "the taxpayer" (or to "the government") the minute those bonds lost value, i.e., the minute the Fed devalued them by hiking rates on newly-issued bonds. In that sense, the bank was already the bagholder for the Fed ("the taxpayer").
That's the use case for Julia.

Anything performant will require compilation. Interpreters are inherently slower. But some languages do the compilation implicitly for you and that's usually close enough.

No explicit compilation often means no ahead of time error reporting though which is a really useful feature for run-once programs.
So, print more money to cover assets valued by fairy dust? Sounds like good policy.
Federal Reserve Path Is Murkier After Bank Blowup
I tried to get LSPs properly set up in Vim but I think with the help of the these "distributions" in neovim, I finally found something where neovim works much better than Vim. For me, neovim is finally showing its net positive value.
This is a bit of a strawman because IQ tests today rarely rely on language comprehension.
...And an article that supports everything you just stated: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64887890 [Life in Mariupol under Russian occupation]
Show HN: A real estate orbital display engine
Shadows in the Big Bang Afterglow Reveal Invisible Cosmic Structures
I’m so confused. I open the dishwasher, if the door is sparkling clean the dishwasher is clean and I empty it immediately.

How are people incapable of identifying a finished cycle?

Why would dishes pile up on top unless the dishwasher is actually running?
I will get my mom to send me a picture of the production floor of her factory, you get me a picture of an Indian Foxconn plant, and we will see how different they truly are.
> HSBC is a British bank with most of the profits being made in Asia (specifically Hong Kong)

Funnily that's where their name comes from - Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, HSBC for short (it's now the official name, HSBC does no longer stand for anything, probably to lessen the obvious imperialistic past in it's name).
I think at least a part of the solution is to increase regulation as banks get larger. Since it is clear that the fate of very large banks is tied in to the the fate of the economy itself, they should be appropriately regulated. In particular, short term asset/deposit ratio requirements should be modified as a bank gets larger. That could reduce the need for the FDIC to step in when depositors get nervous and provide disincentives to getting too large.

I think something like this could make large banks more of an asset for the economy rather than a liability. I wouldn't want to just set a maximum size. If a bank wants to get huge and maintain conservative and safe asset/deposit ratios, good for them.
If you will have less than $250,000 in the account for the foreseeable future or don't mind splitting your money, you have a lot more options. We chose FirstIB for their free outgoing ACH. At the time, they also offered higher interest rates than the larger banks.
This is a great list! It applies to every kind of software job, language, and process. Kudos!
Ask HN: Did SVB collapse change your stance on Central Banks Digital Currencies?
I was thinking that in a far far future if Central Bank Digital Currencies become the norm the phenomenon of Bank Runs would be a thing of the past because the Fed could not possibly engage in the role of credit intermediary and fractional banking , so every dollar would be just laying there and not be ‘put to work’ in any shape or form and thus it would always be available to be redeemed .

Of course people will still need loans and credit but that also means that each and every citizen could become a bond issuer and try to convince the market at large in the same way that they are now trying to convince their bank to lend them money to finance purchases
How I would’ve loved to have this available when I worked at The New Yorker!
Self-paced is the tough ask. Part of the value of formal schooling is the forcing function of deadlines to make you actually spend the time and absorb the material.
> Like how in Germany the government guarantees every German bank balance.

It does? I didn’t know about that, and looking it up brings me to 100k per person guaranteed. Do you have a source for unlimited?
It looks like a knee- jerk reaction. Not sure if Amazon will provide any more benefits. At least they'll get some alternative hosting
You can turn autoscan (fetch from git repos) off, update should normally be opt-in already. You can use a lockfile and only update on demand. That's a more sane option. But yes, auditing 50+ git repos is not something I've attempted.
Yes, they keep on inventing all kinds of new rules that effectively transform the assets that banks happen to be holding onto assets that are worth more. It's just printing money in an obscure way.

The bottom line is that letting banks invest their clients deposits, while clients - even startups that even know in advance they will need this money in short duration - will keep on blowing in our faces. It might be mortgage backed securities, or treasuries, or anything else.

It's always the same story: banks are leeching money getting rich from taking risks with everyone's money, and the risk is bailed out again and again and again by the government.

They are given government mandate to be the only way to hold money. And then a government privilege to gamble that money on whatever financial instrument that we currently pretend has no risk. And then when we discover it had risk after all, the government pays for the risk.

All the while, banks were leveraged 10x or 20x on the fake "no risk", paid 0 interest rates on deposits, and got to take all the profits from that risk.

The fact that even startups couldn't co opt away from this madness speaks volumes. They were getting leveraged with 10yr duration instruments with depositors base that they knew is burning cash.

If those startups wanted to buy 10yr bonds with their VC money, they would've done it. But the bank just got permission to gamble their clients money.

It's even worse because more than getting bailed out, the thing these VCs want the most is for the rate hikes to stop. They got to both break the system with their actions and get what they wanted.
I'm super excited about Framework as a company. They're doing all the right things imo. Their next product announcement is in ~10 days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccpsyRipHlk
No, GP is just foolishly conflating liabilities and assets and bank deposits and enterprise value among other issues if you read this and their other comments.

tl;dr - GP doesn’t have a clue what they are saying.
Another aspect, not mentioned in the article, is that you can arrange to have machines with hardware resources specifically tailored to your workload. e.g. AWS can't get you a box with 20T of NVMe storage. So if you have a workload that needs 20T of fast storage, hosted on AWS the system architecture is different : you're using NAS which has much higher latency so now you're probably using more machines, which is less efficient, and of course much more costly.
You trivially and quickly lease them from Hetzner, OVH, or literally any of the other shops that lease out dedicated servers? Or large cloud instances.

I don’t understand why you’re artificially constraining this? When we had colo’d servers, we still used cloud services where it made sense (especially S3, scaling storage sucks). I don’t think people are arguing for never using anything but your own equipment.
Is it that hard to believe? If you look at Stable Diffusion, I'd say a lot, maybe the majority of the volunteer effort was focused on anime girls and "realistic" pictures of anime girls (which amounts to young faces on adult bodies).
Suspended by valid reason, and your fault, as I could clearly see 23 words into the post.
But we're talking about businesses here. They are certainly well-incentivized to properly handle the money in these amounts. The risk of losing it (and potentially the business) sounds like excellent incentive.
I don’t know if your are just ignorant or if your are intentionally misleading people but this system is widely abused. A stock sale can be schedule in your plan at the end of every month and you can elect to cancel a planned sale at any time. The CEO used exactly this type of sham plan to unload his shares. Look at the plan he filed this year and the plan he filed every year for the last three years.
It’s quite simple, really. Startups should buy hundreds of millions in gold, then stash that under 160,000 different mattresses to diversify risk of a systemic bank collapse.

If Bogglehead retirees can figure that out, why not startups?
> It was the result of hubris, and self-inflicted destruction, by VCs who are rich, jewish and arrogant

> It was the result of hubris, and self-inflicted destruction, by VCs who are rich, black and arrogant

Geez I feel like I'll be banned from the internet just for posting this for comparative purposes. Why is it open season on me and nobody else?
It looks like the loop of the knot permits slack which in turn causes stress on the fiber to be taken up by straining neighbouring weaves, rather than causing the stressed fiber to immediately strain to its failure point.
I can also pretty much guarantee that very few individuals with >$250K of savings are keeping it in a bank. It's in a brokerage account in some combination of bonds, money market, and equities.
I kinda hate PMQs but I also don’t think it’s very relevant. In particular, the style doesn’t depend much on who is prime minister. If the jeering and cheering can be kept to an hour a week and most everything else is terribly dry, that feels ok to me. I think it’s important to judge people based on what they do that matters and not the things they do that don’t matter but are easy to point out and deride.
> Performance isn't that important in most cases.

Optimizing for storage space is…better?