skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many did, but:

1. The retirement of Google Reader sort of signaled the death knell for RSS. No, every RSS feed didn't shut down immediately. Yes, there are still zillions of RSS feeds live today in 2023. But it was a sign that any RSS feed you cared about wasn't likely to be around forever.

2. Many did switch, but Google Reader had some basic (but nice) social features. I think about 99% of my friends never made the switch to something else. So I miss seeing what my friends starred.
This is a fricking miracle! Wonderful! Thank you US government for saving the depositors!
I don't care about multiple types of parenthesis per se, I do care about there being a spanning set of grammatical constructs. I don't think period and comma alone would be enough. You need to have constructs for compressing and abstracting. "John/Paul/Ringo/George were in the Beatles." Notice how I just made 4 sentences for the price of one. I could have written "John was in the beatles", "Paul was in the Beatles" ... all four statements fully unrolled. You need constructs which let you FOIL sentence structure just like in math class, presenting (option A, B and C) to (you, and everyone else). You also need a handful of "client server type" interaction structures. Header information. A thing to indicate if the content is a question, request, demand, greeting etc. Grammar is not about encoding literal speech pausing, its about encoding how to deserialize the linear sequence of words.

In theory you could just make "(" and ")" the universal sub-context denoting symbol. You would just need a different extra symbol to clarify between what a parenthesis means. The three systems makes sense. One for data agnostic compression like a JSON object / foiling a math expression, one for relaying text itself as an object in the domain of discussion rather than as the thing being said (aka a "quotation"), and one for scopes that are part of the discussion per se (not quotation).

Context suffices when the parts of speech have no chance of being in the same slot. Compound words and numbers.. your machine screw example was pretty rare. I think the dashes are too specialized in meaning and too hard to tell apart to justify code points in the docs and buttons on my keyboard. If need be, distinguish the various flavors of hyphen with some rule about touching the letter or having two in a row. Our symbol set is reasonable. Not as succinct as Hawaiian, not so bloated as Chinese. 13 chars fits in 4 bits. 26 chars fits in 5. With great strain you can maybe find a workable set of grammatical symbols without blowing past 32 chars, but will probably end up using a 6th. I'm against bloating the raw number of symbols and rules everyone has to rote learn, not dashes in particular. If its already in frequent use like all the paren styles then fine, but lets not make anything worse than it has to be.
The notion of one Dark Age followed by one Renaissance in Europe is another one of those myths.

Perhaps it would be more accurate to talk about multiple periods of extreme turmoil (wars, plagues, etc.) followed by a flourishing of art and knowledge when things start to settle down. Over the centuries, this happened a bunch of times in different places all over the Mediterranean and Europe.
Anime Character Python Logging Using ChatGPT
thus my statement > It's combination of multiple factors. I think education has the most pronounced effects on fertility/birth rate, though.
I've been using this now since it was posted but I'm realizing that it often stops the music (Safari), once I visit the tab again it continues playing.

Bug?

Edit: Now that I switched to the tab I could see for brief second a "Music could not load, try refreshing" message flash. After a brief moment it started playing again.
Not exactly what you ask for, but "the NHS budget has traditionally risen by an average of 4% above inflation each year." (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-64190440)
If the two options are a) everybody except the rich get hurt and b) everybody including the rich get hurt, then I think the majority of Americans would go with b.
I thought when the amish reached adolescence they were given the ability to leave the community and investigate the world on their own before deciding if they wanted to join the church:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa
I was mainly enquiring from future prospect- to insure against SVB kind of episode. Last few days have been nightmarish for many in startups.
Off the top of my head:

MaxSafe - https://www.wintrust.com/business-solutions/mid-market/banki...

A cash management account - https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/what-is-a-cash-manage...

Or

Many banks participate in IntraFi

https://www.intrafinetworkdeposits.com/how-it-works/
This is not what happened to plane/automobile manufacturers. The banks, you could argue yes. But these were collateral damage.
One of these times where you can see how the concentration of quality reasoning on HN decreased with time and popularity. People think hurting businesses will not affect them. Incredible.
I've done three worth mentioning.

One is GenFortune: https://github.com/EternityForest/GenFortune
Which is like fortune, but it generates them using a MadLibs style algorithm from data files.

One is a candle flicker simulation algorithm. I did not make this demo, I wrote the original for the PIC, they adapted a version of it for JS: http://blackdice.github.io/Candle/

At the time cheap LED candles weren't very good, but it seems many are a lot better now. I used a model assuming that the flickering was wind driven, that the flame always wants to rise towards it's maximum at a certain rate, but that depending on the current wind speed at any time it can get randomly "toppled" to a lower value, while then wind settles down to a baseline but can randomly jump up in a gust to a higher speed.

Of course, now we have multicolor multipixel flame algorithms that do way better, but this is pretty good on a single pixel light.

I still use mostly the same algorithm for DMX flame effects in Python, but I apply then effect less to the red channel so it gets redder when the light goes down for a little added variety.

The other is this RNG. It does not even have a full period for it's 32 bits of state but it's very fast on PIC10 type chips. I can't think of any reason I'd use it. I was like 15. But of everything I've ever made, this gets the most attention, and I'm not entirely sure why. It doesn't even pass all statistical tests. I'd probably use it over LCG though.

```
uint8_t x,a,b,c;
uint8_t randRNG8() // Originally unsigned char randomize().
{
x++; //x is incremented every round and is not affected by any other variable
a = (a^c^x); //note the mix of addition and XOR
b = (b+a); //And the use of very few instructions
c = ((c+(b>>1))^a); //the right shift is to ensure that high-order bits from b can affect
return( c); //low order bits of other variables
}
```
The startups are the ones that get the funds now, right? The startup now is guaranteed to have the funds to pay their employees etc. Mark Cuban gets money if his investment in the startup is a success, and only then. I’m happy the startup can now survive. What exactly is the issue?
This is probably the inflection point in history where I lost all trust I had in Google. I don't know how much they saved by shutting it down (probably nearly nothing) but I know that for me and people around me it was a such terrible signal that I never trusted again Google for anything serious/business. Well done guys
statistically, you did. or if not, you thought it. i spent many years watching this space and i very, very rarely saw someone who was correct about the next several years in 2017. even in 2018, when it was obvious that something might be up, a vanishingly small number of people realized it. so if you were in that 0.01% then thats great dude.

im spiraling? what does that even mean? what about answering my question? thats just gone now? people always resort to saying that i have mental health problems even though theres nothing in my internet comment that would indicate that. what do you even mean im not putting myself in a good place to do contribute to that effort? it would benefit the effort if i told everyone that AI is nothing to worry about?

yes im bitter. im bitter at having to deal with this stupid issue. i would much rather not have this problem looming overhead. i would even prefer to be blind to it. its very frustrating when people shortcut the whole thing and question my mental health rather than admit they are wrong. i already feel crazy having an opinion that most people disagree with. dont need those comments.
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> Imagine a world without lending against liabilities

FRB isn’t creation of wealth, it’s plain old redistribution. In other words—welfare for those who can haul in the biggest loans, at the expense of those who earn, work and save up. What would those people do, if they got a chance? What are the compound effects of that over time?
My powershell script to create new post for hugo with good file name like 2022-12-12_my-awesome-title
https://gist.github.com/AucT/5e685d4bca9bce6abcfa8d797df148b...

Usage is hugonew 'my awesome new nice title'
Not only do they have FSD, but also FSR (replicating)
It's news that Thiel is a villainous, hypocritical sociopath? Since when?
The Apple Watch doesn't have a good built-in note-taking app, for a long while much to my annoyance. But it turns out the reminders function works great for taking voice notes. So I wrote an AppleScript (of all things) to scrape the reminders app for all the voice notes I take when I'm out. I use this every day and this little script has brought me such peace and joy.

https://gist.github.com/michaelterryio/478f5b93111f5f5fc57c0...

To practice my marketing copy, I wrote a not-for-profit one page site about how I use it:

https://drivingwithworkflowy.com/
There seems to be a difference in opinion on this point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35116402
Kill all the chat apps Google...

and stop starting new ones.
Most of us alive are thinking of the last 75 years.
There are plenty native terminal ships sailing nearby, so feel free to dunk on the ugly one
Do you pay tax on personal bank interest where you are? Here in Aus you'd be paying tax on the interest at your marginal rate, but if the car is personal that interest is not a tax deductible expense. So you will be ahead at twice the rate, but not by as much as you'd hope so you have to be careful if it's lower.
If I have any advice for Taiwan tech people, build something that actually benefits society and is useful instead of trying to pull off the next scam.
I have to say I never had the problem everyone here seems to have.

Starting the dishwasher is a decision we generally take together (and if unilaterally decided, we do tell the others that we programmed it for the night) and in the morning we all know the dishes are clean, and we empty the dishwasher (or hear it being emptied).

But more importantly, if the dishwasher is closed, full and not on (or blinking to indicate programmed for the night) then it has to be clean. If it's partially full then it has to be dirty? unless someone is emptying it right now which you would certainly notice.
That's a ridiculous take.
I predict that in the future there will never be another SVB kind of episode so you don't need to worry about it.
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Case is better at pure string comparisons, but I believe the -x example is wrong. Test is PRIMARILY influenced by the argument count, so [ "$x" = "value" ] always does a string comparison for equality, never anything else.
While this was a pretty monumental moment in how most of us viewed Google, and was probably bad for things like RSS adoption (it's fallen a lot since), I can't but help think that Google moving out of this field opened it up for some actual improvements

I use inoreader, and it's got features Reader never had, and probably never would have grown. If Google was still king of the castle, it probably wouldn't exist today
Given the choice between bridging some cash (knowing that the full faith and credit of the US government backs the funds being bridged), or having the possibility of getting dragged into proceedings in the future, which at best would increase my liability insurance premiums, I'd pick the former.
There are plenty of necessary reasons for business to have money in accounts above $250k. There should be no exposure here, this is the US banking system - bank deposits should be guaranteed by the entire system (not the taxpayer). Let the shareholders burn, fine... but cmon man, what does anyone get by letting depositors lose capital when placed in US banks?
Almost all sufficiently complex software leaks memory. If there is a reference to a piece of memory, what is stored in that location will likely last forever.

You could imagine someone doing things like creating a global variable with a queue in it and then putting log lines into that queue, but never taking items out. Because each log line has a reference to it from being in a data structure, and that data structure is referenced by the global scope, that memory will never be released.

In big tech co infrastructure, almost all server software will have memory limits set on the process. The process will either try to allocate more memory and fail or it will be restarted by a process that is watching it.

The other thing to consider is caching. When there is data on the hard drive that your computer needs, it will ask for it. If you ask for the first block of a file, your computer predicts you will probably ask for the rest of the file and optimistically starts loading it into memory before it is asked for. As long as your computer isn't busy with something higher priority, it will likely try to do things now that you might want to do later in order to appear faster.

Web browsers have been known to also optimistically pre-fetch files, although I'm not sure what the current state of optimistic web requests is: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Link_prefe...

Your browser might keep all types of extra data so it can serve your request quickly (form memory) rather than slowly (from some server half way across the world).

Another thing to consider is quality of data. In the past it would have taken forever to download a simple picture, so they were highly compressed and blocky looking/pixelated. Now we can stream things in 4k. As ram increases, so too does the fidelity of our media.

So to summarize, without doing any research at all, I expect the answers are:

Memory leaks (programs bloating over time)
Caching mechanisms (exchanging space used for speed)
Higher quality media (exchanging space used for higher quality)
In which case we should not blame the illiquid event because it is eventual as the bank was insolvent ever since the feds hiked rates.

You are assuming that the rates got hiked, and never again will fall.

Had the rates fallen in a year, then they would have no longer been insolvent. And could have recovered. Indeed once they got stuck, they would have had every incentive to hunker down and pray for that outcome.
>Yes, you have brought this up before.[0] And as I have said before[1] -- and will presumably say for the next 26 years as well -- I very much regret that quip.

Do you also regret this post? I'm genuinely curious.

https://web.archive.org/web/20131203011310/https://www.joyen...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6845286
My guess is because this is supposed to be a core competency of a bank.

If a doctor unknowingly took out your heart instead of your gall bladder, it may be incompetence but that's unlikely.
After reading "how to play" I think the title of the game would be clearer if it were "Strike or Psych" (or 'psyche'). It still rhymes and it communicates the intent much clearer (IMO). "sike" seems like an "eggcorn".
People could and many did.

However Reader was a useful, beloved, and rather… intimate product, it was one which closely held your interest and part of your daily workflow.

For its users, its closure sent a clear message: Google has stopped caring, it doesn’t matter how important something is to you, or to an ecosystem.

Personally, it’s the moment I stopped being comfortable using google products for anything essential.
I use Org mode in Emacs, so I have a follow up:

Do you have a format in your text files to track when things are done, like a checklist?

In Org, you can give things states like "TODO", "INPROGRESS", "DONE", "CANCELLED", add checkboxes (like "[ ]" and "[x]"), have sub-tasks/lists, etc.

I have really gotten into Org, and I have found there are a few other checklist formats/programs in plain text. Just wondering how you do it.
HN's practices around this have been well-established for many years. Flamewars tend to get demoted off the front page (mostly by software) while sensational or repetitive stories tend to get demoted by moderators.

The current thread spent 9 hours on the front page, which is a lot. It did set off the flamewar detector but it looks like we switched that off. Other than that, moderators didn't touch it.
we have mass production. if you could mass produce fine woodwork then people wouldnt do it professionaly. if you could mass produce clothing then there would be no sweatshops. cloth is really hard to manipulate apparently. i mean, the only things that humans do professionally are things that machines cant do. and all that matters is what people do professionally because thats what keeps us locked into the economic equation. when the task-space of humans is totally saturated by machines, 100%, thats like dividing by zero. everything will change and, in the long term, not for the better. and thats just the economic aspect of AGI.
>There are way better ways to "yield chase" than this,

Such as what?

There are not, if you have $50-100B. Your options as a bank are either treasury bonds or mortgage-backed securities.

As a private sector investor (e.g. Warren Buffett) you have the additional option of equity investing, but it will take many years to move that much money.
some payouts is not no payouts. it's an amount of payouts

> definitely still coming

aka delayed

or in summation

"payouts are delayed"
A small workflow that I come back to all the time is generating curl commands with dynamic values through SQL queries to run something against our API. People don't always think about that so once you have it in your tool belt it's a great tool you'll reach to often.

Something like the following, then just copy it in a shell script, chmod +x it and execute it:

select 'curl -XPOST localhost:9090/apis/some-service/' || p.technical_name || '/locale/' || l.full_locale
Multiple things can be true here. Thiel didn't start the issue, but he did act in a way that would make things worse for the group, but best for him. Perhaps he felt that if he didn't do it, others would anyways? Probably needless to say, this is perfectly on brand for how he'd act.
I think they made a mistake, It was also supporting google ranking. they had a chance to build a social network on top of the feeds.
New study on monkeys using stone tools raises questions about evolution
I'm in Australia and it's a pretty chill place and most criminals don't have guns. Of course there's some that do but it isn't anything like the lawless wasteland you describe.

My feeling is that most criminals that have guns use them against other criminals, like bikies to control drug territory or whatever, not for stealing random stuff from 80 year olds huddled in their house.

I don't want more people to have guns here.

I do sort of understand how US citizens could feel different though, there are SO many guns everywhere that definitely every bad guy has a gun. But I also think that those people vastly underestimate how successful laws can be to get rid of the guns. It would take some time but it could definitely work. How many automatic weapons do you see used now they have been made illegal?

People get up in arms even to make the suggestion that you don't need semiautomatic rifles for target shooting, like it's the biggest burden ever to have to use a bolt-action, which might actually slow down today's school shooter a bit...
We've banned this account for posting flamewar comments and ignoring our request to stop. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The opposite, and customization doesn't prevent things from "working well", but it does allow you to reach "working great"
It's so boring to see people get blamed for taking their own money somewhere else in time.
Why let depositors in the US banking system lose capital when there's an insurance fund covered by the banking system itself for this purpose? The investors in SVB lost everything, isn't that accountability enough? You really want businesses with payables and payroll that exceed the FDIC limit by millions to be exposed to risk for relying on the US banking system, to what end, why?
I don't think you have a realistic understanding of "taxpayer money".

You know the budget hasn't been balanced in years, right?

Let's guesstimate that over the last 20 years, for each dollar taxed, the government has been spending 5 more.

Those 5 dollars came from private investors and commercial banks. They gave USD money to Treasury, and received an IOU note from the Treasury. So:

1) The money is national debt, not taxpayer dollars.

2) The QE and other "unusual" things done by the Fed in the last decade means many of the Treasury notes are now held directly by the Federal Reserve. Treasury can and will magically convert the notes to USD currency over time, which the Fed disposes of by sending USD back to ... the Treasury.

3) The debt and Fed actions don't necessarily cause inflation. Also, inflation is a form of a "sales tax", which isn't what people consider "taxpayer money" (in the US, there is no general sales tax, only federal income tax)

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TREAST

[2]: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2022/06/01/what-if-t...

[3]: https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/how-do-you-solve-a-pr...
> These changes are never easy (ten years ago)

"But we've had a lot more practice now, so it IS getting pretty easy." (now)
instead of trying to pull off the next scam.

To clarify, my guy intended this as a general admonition unconditioned on
nationality.
Dangerously close to a dog whistle there...
Come on now. The "experts" do know more than the public. Half of the public is below average, in fact.

Now, what could be quibbled with is who is actually an expert. Having a lot of money and having founded a successful tech company 25 years ago does not make you an expert at everything.
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If you use Emacs and you are curious how something works, look up the function/command/keybinding with the built-in help. It will usually contain a link to the Emacs source code implementing it.

At least I have learned a lot from reading how these things fit together in the code, and occasionally replacing a definition entirely or creating advice around it.

It's a very easy environment to do so in, because the documentation is automatically linked to the relevant source code, so you never have to get stuck at something because you don't know what it does under the hood.
I don’t think that’s how `any` behaves in any position, but I’d be happy to be corrected. Please show me how `any` is treated as `never`.
As a 20+ year vim user, I love seeing new configs come out still.

Although I won't be using Astro because I like my current setup, I really enjoy looking through other people's configs.