skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s possible to void past transactions, but usually due to fraud, favorable preference, or insiders. I think the preference rule only applies if it is the borrower (the bank) who decides who is getting paid. Making good on transaction obligations in the order they occur doesn’t seem like a decision of the bank.

Having a 90 day window before insolvency to void transactions would probably smooth out the insensitive to make a run on the bank and give the bank time to find funding. More people would keep money in on the belief they already missed the window, perhaps enough for the bank to to stay solvent. But if that money was used to pay salaries you’re now forced to extract it from people living paycheck to paycheck. Incurring an instant debt for the depositing company would be worse than losing access to cash and even more companies will be sent insolvent.

Instead I think banks should have to get full deposit insurance, if the risk premium is too high then maybe they should consider restructuring to be less risky. Instead they get a free ride by shunting risk to depositors which incentivize the banks to leverage up to the max risk they can get away with.
> How do you get back a compromised Google or Facebook or Twitter account?

If you had 16 followers, create a new one. If you had 16M, you get on the front page of HN etc. and they fix it.

> If your former spouse changes your password on google and is able to answer every security question you've set up just as well as you can... what can you do about it?

Have them prosecuted for fraud so they have to change it back. You don't need centralized identity for that.

> On the other hand, when the change of address form at the post office goes in you can walk into the post office and say "this is my government issued ID and I still live at this location. Change my address back to my proper residence and put a hold on future address changes for that address without verification."

So instead your ex files the ID renewal form with an "updated" picture of their friend instead of you, has the new ID sent to your old address (i.e. their address), and then prevents you from filing a change of address form or getting a new ID.
To paraphrase an old saying: When you owe your creditors $1M and can't pay, you're in deep shit. When you owe your creditors $1B and can't pay, they're in deep shit.
>Then raise the tax rates at higher incomes.

Pay and tax are not just some metrics to change to accomondate status psychology reasons...
I wouldn't go down that line. There is code that makes you -think- it's safer but all it really does is add more needless complexity. It's one of those things where the 'safety' result hasn't really been given a good measurement.
Chat Assistant extension for LeetCode
*Leetcode is a site that most developers use to prepare for coding interviews

I'm verifying an idea that developers would benefit from on-the-field assistant build as an extension. Here's a 7 seconds vieo of how it works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_1YMFtHiQs

I believe that this portal has lots of curious devs, so I'm looking for any feedback on usability of the idea and feature requests,

Thanks
The wikipedia page on Permanent time observation in the United States ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_time_observation_in_... ) has a useful table for the state level action.
Since the archive.is page is a bit scuffed for that article: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2...
I love that the official FDIC press release ends with this foretelling fact:

>Silicon Valley Bank was the first FDIC bank takeover to occur in 2023.

Last one was in 2020, so it's not exactly like this is a twice-annual event, typically... but when it's once [in a year], it's usually more than two [that same year]!
It all depends on what you are used to. Its just a standard. We have been switching between the two for decades now. Why did we adopt it to begin with?
I feel like this might be a uniquely American mindset: what we have is terrible. There are better ideas, but they are not perfect, therefore we will stick with the terrible status quo.

See it in our healthcare system too.
His latest anti-hate video is extremely good, well worth a watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsETTn7DehI

He does seem like he's being a lot more open these days, doing more self-reflection and introspection.
I wonder of shellcheck could suggest when its time to rewrite in another language.
They're "the worst" SO FAR....
Can't grow cameras.
There are plenty of other jobs that anyone with a pulse could do and make more than fast food. But of course those jobs make total economic sense, right?
The prosecutor eventually asked the judge to acquit. For which the judge gave her credit. But I don't understand why she prerssed charges in the first place; was she so unfamiliar with the evidence that she was going to have to present, that she didn't realize it was full of holes until it came to court?

There's a missing backstory here. I wonder whether the case was prepared by a junior, and this prosecutor barged in and decided to take over at the last minute, for the sake of personal glory. I can't see why she deserves the judge's approval.
I’m an advocate of UTC everywhere.
Does permanent daylight savings time seem to anyone else like a symptom of a society with a case of light-at-night induced jetlag? Why should the only visible marker of the day---noon---not be approximately noon on the clock? If we need to shift school and work start times relative to the sun, we could you know, just do that...
would be interested in knowing if the us gov just buys the assets, since at the end of the day, (longer term) there seems to be a pretty good guarantee of getting it all back (minus time value of money)
Still better public transport than 99% of the US
Application programming: bug affects user.

System programming: bug bricks box.

:-)
Seems vaguely irresponsible to report on this issue solely from the political lens without noting that medical experts think it is a bad idea (with only some debate about just how bad).

https://www.thensf.org/national-sleep-foundation-reiterates-...

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/11/1162345... (linked for reporting on AASM and AMA's positions which I don't want to go find independent links for)
For legacy reasons, my filesystem is full of files and directories with spaces. Are they impossible to deal with in shell? No. Quoting, print0, it's not even hard. But it's like taking a Sunday stroll through an unburied minefield. I'd rather walk in the park.
thanks fam. figuring that out now.
I am not quite so confident. I would like to see an experiment to test how badly you can distort an image of the moon before the AI stops recognising it.
Why and How to Distribute Your App Outside the Mac App Store
How to Insure Your Money When You’re Banking over $250K (2022)
zettelkasten + vscode + foam extension
It’s common to put together a pilot or proof of concept trailer with some cheap CGI shots to show to possible investors or production studios.

Think of it like an elevator pitch for a film project. It’s one way to get your show or movie green lit.
ActivityPub – WordPress Plugin
Take any household name from the tech sector. Do you think any of their
founding ideas were novel or good? The one I always bring up at
cocktails is Uber. Get in a car with a total stranger? Are you crazy?

It's all marketing and execution.
A $20 billion deposit would have saved them, yes. But that doesn’t make it a pyramid scheme. $20 billion can fix a lot of problems.

If a person is on the verge of bankruptcy and they get a cash infusion that saves them, they have not magically become a pyramid scheme. The fact that money helps fix a massive financial problem does not indicate something is a pyramid scheme, just that they have a massive financial problem.
Bad code is bad code, regardless of language. At least with Python, I more or less know all of the idioms and can at a glance understand what the flow of a program is trying to accomplish. Shell has a lot of esoteric voodoo syntax to replicate better string/path/array handling that is just a given in other languages.
not fully fdic insured
I genuinely can’t recall people saying “hallucinate” with any regularity - in the context of “AI” - until people started talking about ChatGPT.

So, we’ll see what people say in a year.
It uses _parts_ of QEMU, but not the whole thing.
Cornell Updates Their MCU Course for the RP2040
Amusingly the interest rates episode from a couple weeks ago got into the relationship between deposits, customer interest rates, and rising rates on assets:

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cub21ueWNvbnR...
Silvergate bank failed recently too, before SVB. They were another crypto startup favorite. I feel like more are coming.
> Roku (who I have never heard of as a consumer)

You have commented in threads that reference Roku many times over (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29338658) so you will forgive me for not believing you.
So the ends justify the means?

Do soldiers not carry responsibility for their actions while in an active army? What's the difference?
I don't know if you even need AI for this.

"You just took a picture of the Eiffel Tower. We searched our database and found 2.4 million public pictures taken from the same location and time of day. Here are 30,000 photos that are identical to yours, except better. Would you like to delete yours and use one of them instead?"
If wages had risen appropriately then people wouldn't have trouble paying the kinds of prices necessary to keep small places like the ones you're talking about running.
> Most modern programmers have never done the "optimization" that Knuth was referring to in 1974

I don't know the exact boundaries of what Knuth meant, but there definitely is a kind of "premature optimization" which has nothing to do with squeezing out the last nanoseconds at a low level. When writing code it often feels like a good idea to make it reasonably efficient or flexible from the start, for example by using more specialized datastructures or creating more abstractions which makes the code using them a bit less straightforward. In my experience this usually backfires and only means I spent more time writing code before discarding the first iteration.

At first glance this is a different kind of optimization but the outcome is the same and so I think Knuth's famous quote can still be applied. Other than that I agree, optimization at the degree e.g. Casey Muratori made in the video referenced in this post is only relevant in tiny hotspots if at all.
Just pointing out that the top 10% or so of earners pay around 75% of the income tax. So suggesting Main Street as the one who did the significant lifting in the bank bailouts is a bit weird unless you consider millionaires and billionaires part of Main Street.
I agree. That's why we need a currency with guaranteed limited cap that can act as a device both for saving and for spending.
One important con that isn't mentioned: It's so unnecessarily confusing how to write a shell script that can properly deal with whitespace, dollar signs or other special characters in filenames.

Of course it's possible and learnable. But even if you know the tricks, it's tedious, and human error prone. I had a team mate (many years ago) who used to test the local admins at any new workplace by putting files names named "$HOME" and similar in his home directory. He claimed it wasn't that rare for this to crash some backup script.

Yet this isn't inherently hard. In fact it's trivial in literally any "proper" programming language, no matter which one you end up picking. I get why shell is "scripting of last resort", I regularly write shell scripts myself. I don't get why people would choose it over anything else where choices are available.
Anyone writing code in a language they don't know will write nightmarish code. No matter if it is shell, Python, Go, or what have you. I have seen it happen multiple times as well, with all of these languages. And /that/'s the problem.

So, it depends on the context. "Organization" is a very broad term. If the team you are in is familiar with the shell, and the shell is the right tool for the job, there isn't that much of a problem.

I'm not arguing for writing large shell scripts when there are better alternatives. But, sometimes, it's the right choice and it can be written properly. And even if it isn't... 500 lines of poorly written shell aren't that many in any case, and they aren't that bad compared to 5000 lines of poorly written Python for example.
Now, imagine this future:

You got a friend, spouse or someone close that has hundreds of pictures of you on their phone. Their phone has a "AI chip" that is used to finetune the recognition models and photo models with your AI library. Like Google Photos tags images of people you know, so does the model. It also helps sharpen images - you moved your head in an image and it was a bit blurry, but the model just fixed it, because like the original model had for the moon, it has hundreds of pictures of you to compensate.

One day, that person witnesses a robbery. They try and take a photo of the robber, but the algorithm determines it was you on the photo and fixes it up to apply your face. Congratulations, you are now a robber.
The Fed is having an emergency meeting Monday. My guess is they loan the bank-formerly-known-as-SVB as much as necessary to cover depositors needs for the next year, and get paid back as the banks assets are sold off.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/boardmeetings/202...
What? Where you from? I'm from Paraná, and we know Chimarrão... Even other states know Chimarrão, though they don't drink.
I'm not saying there's an issue with it. I'm just saying that if you have billionaires then you haven't actually redistributed all of the wealth.
>Do we have that problem in the US?

We did, until we established labor laws preventing it.
Yep; shell isn't the best tool for every job, but the things it's good at, it's really good at.
Letting USDC go to zero won’t end them up in prison while using customer deposits probably will.

And once the government takes over a bank they make everything alright because they don’t want people to question the entirety of the banking system.
"Privatize profits,
subsidize losses."

It's the global economy way!

Hint: nothing will change, depositors and banks will get bailed out.
Water is wet.
Standard time is fine. Daylight savings time is fine. Stop switching between them. Pick one and stick with it.

It's not number on the clock. It's the switching.
> But if one approaches them thinking that “the shell is a real language and must be written as such”, with solid principles in mind

Then one would simply choose a proper language that had more of those solid principles laid at its foundation
Ask HN: What are people doing today to keep their mind off SVB?
I usually use perl with a combination of cut, grep and sort. If I had awk and sed in muscle memory, I’d definitely use them in some places where I use perl (awk and sed require fewer keystrokes for certain tasks).

I also like using perl for non-trivial stuff. For instance: parse a file, stick stuff in a hashtable or two, then iterate over the keys in sorted order, check a bunch of invariants, and then emit some other wonky format by chasing keys in the hashtables.

Some day, I hope to master the techniques in this book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_AWK_Programming_Language

which includes an RDBMS and assembler + interpreter, and then culminates in a 4 page section that implements make.

At that point, I might be able to switch away from perl.
Dead in the water. Like almost anything that touches partisan politics

While true, and while I think most will agree that there are issues with US partisan politics, here's the thing...

Many people actually like DST. I personally do.

I don't think this is quite as clear cut as some things. It depends upon where you live (the farther north, it seems (to me) there is more support). It also depends upon whether you want light in morning or night.

So to restate, I think this issue is more "people just have opinions for legit reasons", rather than typical US partisan politics.
> IMO mostly on the “willingness to pay” side.

That's nearly always the most important factor, and it always has been. But you also have to recognize that there are different markets even for the same product.

McDonald's is selling their coffee and pancakes to a customer base that is looking for a specific benefit: something hot, fast, low-investment and inexpensive that will fill their bellies on their way to do something else.

A business such as what nobleach is talking about isn't trying to serve people with those needs. It's satisfying a completely different set of needs: relaxation, a pleasant atmosphere, a place to pause for a while. Luxury. They'll want higher quality food and drink, an "experience", and such.

It doesn't matter that it costs more than McDonald's because both of those sorts of businesses are selling different things. Comparing them is apples-and-oranges. Isn't really about the coffee and pancakes.
Algofi not showing updated USDC prices
Under your definition, would embedded programming fall under systems programming or do you see them as distinct areas?
> which makes me believe they must not have known that earlier.

But why not? The evidence that was presented to the court was the complainant's evidence. The case failed on the prosecution evidence. The prosecutor should have known it wouldn't stand up.
> No popups asking you to subscribe, register, or download a mobile app

https://exrx.net/Drugs/Caffeine
> Bailing out these depositors would send the wrong message and encourage moral hazard

This seems to be the way the financial system has operated in the last 20 years. So I’d expect a bailout.

Also, SVB depositors weren’t just random individuals, they are some of the wealthiest people and organizations in the country or even the world. They are going to leverage their power and influence to recover as much as they can as quickly as they can.

> where success is based on merit and hard work

That’s the lie we all want to believe, but reality is that people at the top are a small club that will always prefer their family/friends/network than some hardworking rando from “the outside”.

You are far more likely to be successful (money/career-wise), if you are born into a well off, well connected family, than if you are born poor but super hardworking.
> I really hope some party tries to reverse this and advocates for building a new modern nuclear plant.

If you just don't vote Green/SP you're halfway there.
Think of all the parents taking their kids to soccer, football, whatever. Many of them grab a coffee on the way.
Do Masks Work? It’s a Question of Physics, Biology, and Behavior
>Always such a beast to install it though, definitely keep it off any servers.

I do not follow. Isn't it just a static executable? I have only ever apt-get installed, but I am unsure where the complication rests, unless you are compiling from source.
Pen and notebook.

Look up bullet journal.
Not really! My uncle is a wedding photographer, it is a side gig he does on weekends. He has no sales, marketing..all based on recommendations. Accounting is dead simple. It is actually pretty good compared to his other gigs (taxi driver, plumber).

I think key is to have realistic expectations. Trying to scale it up into "real" business, or insert some artistic stuff would be mistake.
> I think that one of the reasons they're thriving is that they charge a lot more than $2 for coffee and $8 for pancakes.

Yeppers. Here is the price of coffee and pancakes at my local mom and pop in 2023:

Coffee: $4; Pancakes: $13
Not sure what you're talking about. This is from TFA:

> The Bank of England, absent any meaningful further information, intends to apply to the Court to place Silicon Valley Bank UK Limited (‘SVBUK’) into a Bank Insolvency Procedure. A Bank Insolvency Procedure would mean that eligible depositors are paid out by the FSCS as quickly as possible up to the protected limit of £85,000 or up to £170,000 for joint accounts.
Every meaningful financial scheme is the same. Borrow more money than you can be asked to pay back, and gamble it heavily. This is the only way to make money without doing any work. It's theft, very simply, but its hard theft to detect.

This theft is made more difficult to efficiently regulate when a blacklist style bottom up approach to regulation is used. If I have to evaluate every investment strategy that calls itself a bank for hidden leverage, I'm guaranteed to miss some. Its a hard game to play, and investigators are humans with both the capacity to make mistakes and be corrputed.

This is further dynamically complicated by the fact that the government is the insurer of last resort in a lot of these cases. The FDIC was instituted in response to what happens in the absence of government intervention (the great depression), and it doesnt really stop there. The federal government has the authority to bail out overleveraged "banks" that fail, and banks know this, leading them to seek out even riskier (more correlated) investments.

If we cannot consistently identify hidden risk, we need to be taxing the shit out of leverage. We are the ones who are going to be on the hook when the dam breaks, and they file a claim. so we should set the price of the premiums.
This is more about statistics than anything. Anyone who used to do CDs have gone digital, or maybe vinyl. The latter means not only did CDs lose a customer, vinyl gained one.

Both are still relatively tiny compared to historic highs. The news here isn't so much that vinyl has gained, but the CDs are edging into obscurity.
Ahh. I'm in Canada so I'm used to the prices here. $8 CAD is about $5.77 USD so that lines up pretty well.
Funny I'm doing this this morning too and was just thinking I should have bought that 96 GB memory option instead of thinking who will ever need more than 64GB on a laptop... darn
> Do you remember which flags on grep are POSIX-only, and which are extensions provided by the GNU version?

Use the posix man pages as reference. `man 1p grep` and you only see the portable options. Its only one step away from using the regular manpages.
I think of this as a cross spectrum (terrible, good enough, well done, overdone)

I've seen less production code and more discussions on code that focusses on opposite ends.

terrible readability and maintainability with extreme performance.

v/s.

terrible performance with overdone "design" abstractions.

OTOH, I've seen lot of production code that has good enough design, with well done perf and vice verse.

Not much talk about that stuff.
Why I Use Old Hardware
Like "Reduce. Reuse. Recycle." The logic behind "Make It Work. Make It Right. Make It Fast." is very deliberate.
Just an anecdote;
I spoke to a manager at a small coffee shop and he said that they make all their money on coffee alone by 9am (and surprisingly, they licensed Starbucks coffee). Everything else was a pain and barely covered costs because of time, equipment, and effort. But coffee was cheap and easy.
Are you aware of all the lobbying your current bank does? Seems an unreasonable expectation.
As a kid I was taking a photo in a tourist spot with a film camera and standard 50mm lens. An elderly local guy grabbed me by the shoulder as I framed the photo. We shared no common language and he (not so gently) pulled me over to where I should stand to get the better shot.
Could be the inverse:
We could make a brain that is a series of pipes, cogs, electro,...

We can only communicate technology through terms we collectively understand.