skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need to imply that SVB is unstable to say that the VCs should have been diversified away from it or cause a run on the bank. It's simply a pretty basic business practice to identify risks and try to mitigate them, and big businesses do this all the time. A massive part of Intel's sales organization with big customers are constantly trying to play this cat and mouse game where Intel will try and sell you stuff that locks you into Intel, and the customer will constantly be making moves to avoid getting locked in to a single vendor.

You say the incentive for co-ordination isn't there, but quite clearly this demonstrates a massive incentive for VCs to be looking at the common dependencies of their companies and mitigating them. They actually do this really frequently with start ups and cloud providers - it's a very strategic decision whether as a small company you go with Amazon vs Google vs Microsoft for your cloud, why? Because you're handing over bargaining power in what is likely to be a potential acquisition. I agree that VCs haven't been thinking about things like that, but they absolutely should. It was always crazy that founders were getting mortgages from the same guys that were doing their business banking.
> By Monday morning? With protections in place against fraud or double-dipping? It wouldn’t be as easy as you think.

But you are somehow convinced that this fund [1] created in 1 day by the Fed to solve "temporary liquidity issues" with vague promises of "loans against securities" and "assessment charged on the banks" will be entirely free of fraud or double-dipping?

Everything involving money has the potential for fraud and double-dipping, and the banking sector has a ton of it. We can figure it out and prosecute people afterwards (or not, it's not like senior management at SVB is going to be prosecuted).

> (And for the nth time, SVB isn’t being propped up. The owners are losing their whole stake.)

Oh sure, three Federal departments make a joint statement on the weekend and create a new liquidity fund every time a company goes bankrupt. Nothing to see here!

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[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...
I was unaware that there were any socialist countries in Europe. Where do you live?
Freddy has become Earth’s most energetic cyclone on record
Yes, but the authors of this paper hold the test constant, so if people get smarter, it’ll show IQ rising
Show HN: YouTube Musical Spectrum – audio visualizer with musical notes
>The federal government’s action is, in my estimation, the right thing to do for this moment in time. There will, though, be long-term consequences for fundamentally changing the nature of a bank: remember, depositors are a bank’s creditors, who are compensated for lending money to the bank; if there is no risk in lending that money, why should depositors make anything? Banks, meanwhile, are now motivated to pursue even riskier strategies, knowing that depositors will be safe.

I don't believe this is a binary issue, but a lot of the "pro-bailout" rhetoric is essentially "well of course we need to know we'll get our money back if we deposit it in a bank." This is clearly the best ideal. But that's not how it works! And FDIC limits were real but ignored in this case!
It's pretty cost-prohibitive.

(... yes, more cost-prohibitive than losing one or two days of business to a SNAFU).
Why did you abandon a (I'm assuming) nearly complete game?
Monetising by adding ads to a content, they fetched from other sites was a questionable back than. So, they couldn't just add ads to the reader easily.

They were believing google plus would be popular.
So, having a closed social network, where they could control everything and put ads without any complains makes sense.

Besides, Reader was not that popular among the general public.
If I taught algorithms these days, I'd put some emphasis on these considerations.
No such thing as "last word" :)

See Jonathan Leffler's comment on SO (also demonstrated by the the top-level parent comment here):

> As noted in the answer by kojiro, it is perfectly possible and legal to start the pipeline with `< file command1 ...`. Although the conventional position for the I/O redirection operators is after the command name and its arguments, that is only the convention and not a mandatory placement. The `<` does have to precede the file name. So, there's a close to perfect symmetry between `>output` and `<input` redirections: `<input command1 -opt 1 | command2 -o | command3 >output`.
True AND the results were major adjustments to the regulatory regime to banks. Without going into politics too much, banks successfully lobbied congress to relax those rules for banks of 50b size. In fact, SVB president argued for it in front of congress as part official testimony.

So.. actions were taken. Regulations mostly worked until they got lifted.
Interesting. Considering the number of MAU to be around 350 million, that's a bit fewer than 1000 persons per server. Of course it's not that simple, because not all servers are the same and more importantly not all users are the same, but it sounds like a bit on the low end.

Anecdotal point of data: infosec.exchange hosts 30k users on 7 servers (https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/109374478717918484). That's a 1:5 ratio. Again, not the same usage and performance requirements, but I find it interesting.
>but maybe China could attack Taiwan as well

Speaking of things that would be terrible for the world...
While what you say is true, maybe we shouldn't allow mergers and other avenues to allow these banks (and other verticals) to be too big to fail. We've made that a target for all companies. Just get too big to fail and you get all the upside and none of the downside for free. That is my main complaint. By allowing deposits to be invested without risk, these too big to fail banks are encouraged to chase the highest yield, highest risk re-investments possible. If it works, another yacht for everyone! If it fails, we must be made whole!
Most are under the illusion that when they give money to a bank, the bank keeps it safe for them. The FED not allowing safe banks but actually forcing them to take unnecessary risks is part of the problem¹. It's completely false that nobody wants safe banking, many asset managers do for obvious reasons because this is a huge risk for anyone dealing with accounts in excess of the insured amount.

Also if you think banks that support full withdrawals (and thus making bank runs impossible) should not exist, what percentage do you think they should support? 50%, 30%? Should they have enough money to at least handle 10% of customers withdrawing? The real legal requirement might worry you if you know the figure. I encourage you to look it up.

¹ https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/safest-bank-fed-wont-san...
Cloud is cheap when starting. Saves time
I hate how the internet age has conditioned customers to expect less.

There is no way a non-internet business would cut off a client of 4-years without actually talking (phone) to them.
This is still a better situation than 2008, where banks were bailed out to the extent that management even stayed (despite deserving prison), and shareholders lost nothing.

So that's the worst possible outcome, today's is probably second worst. But I don't see what would be better. Ben talks about loss of trust now, but we'd actually lose more trust if depositors weren't bailed out, and probably contagion would spread and many banks would fail.

Thinking about an endgame, I think extending this all out into the future, its hard to see banking remaining in any way a free market. Either it becomes state sanctioned and protected profit making, which it already is for the big 4 banks, or banking just becomes fully nationalised, and basically a state run commodity.

You can't get out of it being more and more centralised. I just don't see another way. And when it becomes fully centralised, the question is, does Jamie Dimon actually do anything, or is he basically a state actor with a billion dollar salary?
Yes, but it's still the most beginner-friendly book on implementing programming languages that I've ever seen. It covers VMs on the second part, and going from that to asm is not a huge leap.
Perhaps it's accepting their fate and making sure they take others with them.
... and why the time window was so short. Google isn't triggering this because they want to lose customers; they're triggering it because the Feds breathed down their neck about a suspected violation.
That looks cool so I thought I'd give Neovim a try, first.

First thing I tried -> :colorsc<tab>

Result: got a pop-up with colorscheme options.

So far, so good.

Second thing I tried -> :so ~/Documents/Session.vim

Result: a whole bunch of errors. Caught some about Lua. One file opened, and nothing else.

Verdict: my vim session scripts don't work with Neovim.

Third thing I tried-> :browse confirm e (intending to open my _gvimrc)

Result: [No file name] error.

Verdict: Neovim does not behave like vim.

Oh well.
Worse than ads, they also often have referral programs which causes discussion of the sold products elsewhere to be drowned out by listicles that care more about getting you to buy something that they have a referral link for than meaningful comparison.
There are many fine RSS readers, but what I miss most was the social and community features.

The communities that spring up around things like GReader are like lightning in a bottle. Perhaps the companies that can afford to build things like that have concluded that other forms of social media are more profitable.

There still are niches of the internet that operate like a book club for excitable nerds, but they can be short-lived. Most eventually succumb to politics, lecturers, eternal September, and/or a zero-sum debate-team mentality.
Yes, he was doing books for his parents' pharmacy.
Someone else mentioned the potential flaws with the study, but even assuming the study is correct, people keep sharing the $75k number (in 2010) without adjusting it for inflation.

Adjusting it for inflation[1], $75k in 2010 would be $103k today.

[1] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Thought rabies usually killed dogs?

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6823e1.htm#:~:text=....

CDC says it kills 99% regardless.

Why would it evolve this way?
Show HN: Quickly see which US publicly traded companies were impacted by SVB
After seeing a thread mentioning Roku announcing their impact via an SEC 8-K form, I thought it might be cool to see which other companies were impacted by SVB by checking the other 8-K forms available.

While this only covers US-based securities, I still thought it was neat to see.
Is it just me or has Stratechery gone downhill in it's analysis (or at least put too much mindshare on mid-market B2B SaaS startups, AdTech, and B2C).

A number of the Stratechery articles I've read recently seem to remain in that whole echo chamber and don't seem to extend that well into other segments in the larger innovation industry.
"Deserve prison"? Did they commit a crime?
SVB itself is a FDIC bank company, SVFG (Silicon Valley Financial Group) is the non-FDIC portion of the company.
The Swarm AI system was 87.5% correct, which was better than the profession movie critics at Vanity Fair Magazine who were 81% correct on the same movie categories.
Many old contracts still pay in actual peppercorns.

https://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/news/bath-news/university-ba...
One should point out that there were several previous large-scale initiatives to characterize human tissues and cells on a molecular level. For example, GTeX [1] provides gene expression profiles from 54 tissues. However, thanks to single-cell RNA sequencing, it is now possible to look at individual cell types.

[1] https://gtexportal.org/home/
ChatGPT does not access websites at this point. You want to know if the public data set curators do, like CommonCrawl.

I would assume OP cares about their site being used for training more generally, like with LLAMA and everything else that will come out moving forward?
FDIC typically insures up to $250k. The government is now doing a one-off (well, two-off) to make ALL depositors whole.

"People with in excess of $250k cash" is most assuredly a "certain class of society". Or, maybe a few classes - rich individuals AND small companies. In either case, both groups should be better diversified OR have insurance against banking losses. The FDIC limit isn't unpublished - it's well known among people with even moderate amounts of cash.
But only after spending how long tuning things. This is what keeps me on macOS. I’m not a 19yo with time to compile kernels and tweak my XFree86 config anymore. Maybe when I retire in 20 years…
After SVB failure, regulators close crypto-friendly bank Signature Bank
>NXP (which is not going great neither to be fair)

Out of curiosity, why do you think that?
Nothing insane about it, e.g. you might be using some sort of SoA structure and that specific component is optional.
You forgot good search capabilities, the only problem is its limited scalability. It's great for random notes, but not so much for a lot of structured data.
German Leica is still one of the few remaining digital camera manufacturers (and now world's largest film camera manufacturer).
Adjusting for inflation, (since that number was from a paper published in 2010), that number is now $103k.
Unfortunately, this wasn't a payment issue so this wouldn't have saved you. It's a Know-Your-Customer issue, i.e prove you're not doing business with someone on the US embargo list.

DO, Vultr etc. would have the same issue depending on the timeframe they were given to prove compliance by the feds.
https://twitter.com/GrimDegen/status/1635260668411809794

interesting take "the feds have now closed every crypto friendly bank.. Silvergate, SVB and Signature

this is not a drill.. this is not a drill"
At Google's scale, cutting one paying customer isn't a heavy decision. That's what makes doing business with them so weird; it may be mission-critical to your business, but to them it's a Tuesday.
If you read the words right after the part you quoted, you have your answer
The traditional name for orphan in German typography is Schusterjunge, literally "shoemaker boy".
So? You just unsubscribe from any that are shit. Unlike on google where you can't delete a site from the search results (which you can on kagi btw, which is great).
Google Reader's shutdown made it realize that google didn't understand communities and platforms.

OK, you want to push Google+? Isn't google+ supposed to be a platform (and not simply an application). Let google reader be an application on top of the Google+ platform.

i.e. facebook is valuable because people share things on it. Why would you kill an app that is causing people to share things with each other. Leverage that user base.

Reader should have simply been one app built on top of the Google+ platform. Yes, this would involve rewriting it to some extent, but better to do things that maintain your user base, than do things that give people reason to leave.

Google has repeated this error over and over again since then, especially with their chat/messaging strategies. Don't give people reasons to jump ship. If you force them to migrate to something new, they can just as easily migrate away from you.
You mean like airlines, banks, insurances, utility companies etc.? If anything standards and expectations went up in a lot of areas - e.g., think one day shipping, returning stuff whenever you feel like etc.
Have you tried oh-my-zsh? It's what got me to install zsh on all my servers, even at work. Just run their setup script, let it change your default shell and set your preferred theme in the config.
No, it isn't. RSS is not a search system. It has no such exploit, because it just doesn't work like that at all.
Sure, but it’s not just the hardware. The (integrated)services and reduced development time play a role as well. And help offset some of the HW cost difference.
> Why were you jumping lights though, is that not causing yourself more danger?

The reality is, as usual, not without nuance.

A 2009 study showed a 14.5% decrease in bicyclist injuries after the passage of the original Idaho Stop law (though did not otherwise tie the decrease to the law). A Delaware state-run study of the "Delaware Yield" law (allowing cyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs) concluded that it reduced injuries at stop-sign controlled intersections by 23%.

A study of rolling stops in Seattle determined that "results support the theoretical assertion that bicyclists are capable of making safe decisions regarding rolling stop", while a 2013 survey of stop as yield in Colorado localities where it is legal reported no increase in crashes.[17] Another study done in Chicago showed that compliance with stop signs and stop lights by cyclists was low when cross-traffic was not present, but that most were still performing an Idaho Stop; and therefore "enforcing existing rules at these intersections would seem arbitrary and [capricious]".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop#Safety
Any source for your claim?
Since the music is used without permission, it's reasonable to assume that the liveatc stream is as well.
I wrote a little Arduino app to replace my remote control, hooked up to my media PC that runs my TV. Now when I'm on the LAN all I do is load a webpage to turn the TV on or off. Gets lots of use and has been very reliable, so I'm pretty proud of it!

https://github.com/ijustlovemath/arduino-remote
Does someone know how the outline in the second image is created? I'm using tagbar but I would prefer to get the outline from LSP or Treesitter and only fallback to ctags.
I'm not confused, why are you suggesting this?

I understand the difference between prepubescent and postpubescent and I can read (and have read) both national and state investigations into the Catholic Brothers Institutions here in Australia that took in tens of thousands of post WWII children and sexually, physically and emotionally abused a considerable percentage of those children both pre and post pubescent.

Perhaps you might read these specific reports rather than some airy compilation of "numerous reports".

Here are just two of many

https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/f...

Dr Coldrey stated that the sexual abuse of boys was on a large scale with the existence of paedophile Brother 'sex rings' at Bindoon and Castledare.

http://www.tjhcouncil.org.au/media/140118/Report-of-Case-Stu...

The trust fund operated for three years. It made lump-sum payments to 127 men for child sexual abuse.

Perhaps you're confused about the documented extent of the actual decades of industrial scale child abuse perpetrated by Catholics at post war orphanages globally? (Canada, Australia, South Africa, etc).

Perhaps you're confused because you've never looked into the details?
> consider buying 4 USB-C expansion cards, or at least a mix of 4 USB-A or USB-C cards, as they use less power than other cards and you do want to fill those expansion slots otherwise they snag around and feel insecure

> in particular, beware that the HDMI, DisplayPort and particularly the SSD and MicroSD cards take a significant amount power, even when sleeping, up to 2-6W for the latter two

> you have to do some serious tuning to get proper (10h+ idle, 10 days suspend) power savings

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...

> 296.63mm X 228.98mm X 15.85mm, 1.3Kg

> Battery: 55Wh

Why does such a relatively big and heavy laptop have such a comparatively small battery?
Google is actually uniquely bad at this. The system that displays notify banners for Cloud is a too-many-cooks-in-the-kitchen mechanism that requires multiple layers of authorizations, signoff, scrutiny, and binary changes to their UI.

For that reason, it isn't (at least, didn't used to be) blocking to roll a feature out for that pipeline to work, so a lot of things that should be top-banner messages weren't.
China imports huge amounts of German machinery to run their factories.
I think a big difference is Java you have to switch between `==` and `Object.equals` depending whether your type is a primitive (e.g. int) or a reference (e.g. Integer).

In Python the cases where you’d be using `is` are a lot more restricted, and a bit of an optimisation (although most style guides will require it in the cases where it makes sense).

There’s basically 3 cases where you’d use `is` in Python:

- the standard singletons None, True, and False (and for the latter two you’d usually use truthiness anyway)

- placeholder singletons (e.g. for default values when you need something other than None)

- actual identity check between arbitrary objects (which very rarely happens IME)
I rediscovered my small cli tool that prepends a time to each logline:
https://github.com/Eun/logtimer

I ran ping very often and needed to see when exactly the connection dropped.
I rent one of dedicated machines in Hetzner. Cheap and performant.
what does this mean?

23:30
Lol “quick test”.

Well, I found another way to make nice logos. It’s not what I planned at the begining but it will do the trick in the meantime I imagine. Bed, and tomorrow, let’s test the workflow.
> if you tried to change it to a password you had used before you would get an error saying that the new password couldn't match the last 24 passwords you had used

This was also a case with gmail sometime around 2015. Once one was forced to change their password by some silly policy, one couldn't use any of the 100 previous passwords. Quite easily resolved by 50 lines of Python with Selenium. Nowadays would be much more difficult with many "anti robot" measures.
Can the SVB crisis be solved in the longer run?
it doesn't matter that it wasn't that popular amongst the general public, they should have viewed it as having an enthusiastic user base and since sharing and commenting was part of reader, would be a way to encourage people to add content to google+. A social network is only as valuable as the content that gets placed on it. Killing reader shut off a mechanisms for sharing. I went from sharing articles I saw on RSS feeds via reader to a group of friends to sharing them on facebook.
Wholly owned subsidiaries can have their assets swallowed up by their parent companies debts. So the bad debt can effectively "trickle down" as the assets are liquidated and passed up the structure. By forcing a sale now the BoE prevents American creditors from leapfrogging British ones...
Why are people on here so militantly pro- or anti- On-Prem/Cloud? (Rhetorical question)

It's so god damn annoying. Either works depending on your usecase.
The problem isn't that they are suspending the account due to missing information. The problem is that they apparently consider a single email (that looks very similar to dozens of other emails that they send out) sufficient warning. Especially since most devs probably get dozens of spam emails a month that look more urgent ("Account Suspension" is a popular subject line for phishing emails).

At the very least they should try calling the account holder before suspending the account.

If they can't reach the account holder, they should re-enable the account very quickly after they reach them, and give them an extension with enough time to provide all the required information.
Me too. But for 3rd world countries its mad priced.
TBF, Google definitely doesn't collect KYC data for fun. They'd much prefer not to.

But the Feds are pretty solid on the whole "Aiding and and abetting terrorism is treason" thing.
I don't think this will come as a surprise but God doesn't endorse homosexuality. Quite the opposite. God loves everyone, including gay people. He does not love sin. It is perfectly in line with Catholic values to weed out sin in all of its forms.
Another vote for LazyVim, it's been great.
SVB provided for tech when everyone else ignored us by Mike Moritz