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Just not remotely feasible. How many companies have dedicated treasury functions? It’s almost always part of the role/responsibilities of a CFO or VP Finance until much larger than the companies in question here. People have really odd ideas about what corporate finance roles entail.
Are those employees of companies whose business model is "driving artists out of business by large-scale copyright infringement and automated drawing based on it?", for example?
> What responsibility did a SVB depositor have in SVB's decision to purchase billions of MBS in 2021?

Was this decision public and announced in a regulatory filing?
> Believe it or not there are a lot of businesses, some quite large, which have been chugging along quite nicely on PHP or Ruby for over a decade.

Sure, and they either follow extraordinary development practices, or they have outages basically all the time (e.g. the famous Twitter "fail whale"). Like I said, in some lines of work (probably far more than people on HN would like to think, frankly) you can get away with that.
There's also a big difference between a startup failing because it doesn't deliver a product that people want and will pay for, and a startup failing because of "random chance" (in quotes because I can't prove that bank choice is a random distribution among startups, but it's not clear that it's a proxy for quality of founder or company)
1) Tracking my mistakes to avoid them in the future (e.g., a list of things I missed in designing or code reviews)

2) Trying to improve foundational skills like creativity (produce better ideas, more ideas, or ideas faster)
Isn’t this quite unusual (a bank run at a large US bank)?

I agree the fdic has done this before and if they can find a buyer or communicate well it should turn out fine next week.

There is a risk of contagion though and a risk of job losses if money is delayed for say 6-12 months. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to be worried about it if you’re impacted.
> Probably the only feature those don't come with that I'd like is quake-style dropdown,

On Linux I use yakuake for that (was in the repo), added it to the startup applications for my desktop environment.

On my Macbook Air I didn't find anything suitable.
For what it's worth, a staff writer at the Atlantic heard there are "multiple potential buyers" for SVB -- according to remarks Nancy Pelosi made at a public appearance today.

"What we would hope to see by tomorrow morning is for some other bank to buy the bank."

https://twitter.com/JohnGHendy/status/1634934773113290753?s=...
> then they realized the fuel economy of supersonic aircraft peaks around Mach 3

As I noted in a below comment, there isn't a way for this statement to be accurate without a lot more qualifications. For "equivalent technology level", Mach 2 cruise will beat Mach 3 cruise in passenger seat-miles per unit fuel burn, and below Mach 2 will be better still.

The extremely questionable economics of supersonic commercial flight were realized by technical people far before the 1960s US programs were terminated. Two excellent sources on this topic are by aviation historian Richard K. Smith,

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26802349 , with text freely available at: https://www.thefreelibrary.com/THE+SUPERSONIC+AIRLINER+FIASC...

and the book "High Speed Dreams" which also covers the 1990s HSCT era: https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/8516/high-speed-dreams

There's significantly more to the problem than just managing heat and "solving" takeoff.
They measure maximum blood concentration and other parameters. Not just how much of the primary ingredient. But the variance allowed for those parameters is 80% to 125%.
This may be a dumb question, but how is this possible?

How can it have all of this information packed into 4GB? I can't even imagine it being only 240GB.

These models have an unthinkable amount of information living in them.
I think your comment is agreeing with what the parent said. If you did it for a $400b portfolio that was only a component of the bank, it was a large bank.

Hiring a team of 5, paying a $100k/year software license, etc are big barriers when you’re a small regional bank with $30 million in deposits.
Exactly. But also for smaller companies whining about government regulation. The “regulation” is what’s expensive, not the government part. If they can’t afford government regulation, they can’t afford self-regulation either, unless their idea of self-regulation is “do nothing and keep the money.”
Okay, but what is the different library...?
The people running SVB seem to never have run a bank before. Do you know how I know that? THEY ARE OUT OF BUSINESS BECAUSE THEY FLEW IT INTO THE GROUND.
Besides it's also a fail-safe way to make sure the program doesn't modify the original file.

random-app ./myfile.txt

The app opens the file on its own. It could decide to write to it.

cat ./myfile.txt | random-app

The app receives chunks of the file from a pipe. It doesn't know where the original file is.

This is especially useful if you aren't sure the program will by default modify the file (such as formatters).
I see, that makes much more sense
https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/fai...

Average is above one bank a year.
What's the story with not having a deb / flatpak / appimage or snap distribution? Just lack of resources to help package?
As explained by Lawrence O'Donnell, the capitol police were out-numbered and could not safely take anyone into custody, and doing so would take them away from their duties to protect the capitol. At that point they were escorting him to a safe place.
it’s only worth arguing with people that you emotionally care about influencing. typically this is not strangers online. save that effort for something that matters. especially if it’s a bad experience.
The biggest problem with GUIs is that there is no reliable standard that works everywhere. The VT100 standard is 45 years old and will most likely work for the next 45 years. It is dead simple to implement GUIs (just write to stdout) and all those programs that use that protocol to render their GUI are immediately portable to almost every platform on the planet and work over the network via ssh without any additional need for programming.
Yeah it can get quite bag. I'm right near the airport as well which doesn't help.
Rob Pike goes quite a bit further than that—don't even use printf or look at stack traces:

> A year or two after I'd joined the Labs, I was pair programming with Ken Thompson [...] Ken taught me that thinking before debugging is extremely important. If you dive into the bug, you tend to fix the local issue in the code, but if you think about the bug first, how the bug came to be, you often find and correct a higher-level problem in the code that will improve the design and prevent further bugs.¶ I recognize this is largely a matter of style. Some people insist on line-by-line tool-driven debugging for everything. But I now believe that thinking—without looking at the code—is the best debugging tool of all, because it leads to better software.

<https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1941206>
Pathogens will evolve to best survive and replicate - for fitness. If a pathogen kills a patient quickly before much chance of spread then yes they wouldn't be very fit and mutations delaying death would be beneficial.

However this certainly does not imply that all pathogens evolve to become 'mild'. Killing the host (or permanently incapacitating them) is not necessarily incompatible with effective spread.

Indeed, we have no strong evidence of a pathogen evolving to become milder. We do have lots of examples of hard won population immunity reducing the harmfulness of pathogens.

Unfortunately it has become a bit of a 'natural is best' trope that viruses necessarily become weaker, but in fact nature will quite happily slaughter us, and it is our artificial interventions that keep us fit and healthy.
Raising the FD limit is the right answer. 1024 is absurdly low in modern context and is a carry over from the past that needs to die.
Can we just cut through the bull and admit the only reason the federal government is even considering this is because all the super wealthy who own all the startups and who had a lot of their own money in SVB are Democrats? If these people were all Republicans, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

That doesn't make me comfortable.
One hit will create thousands of fragments. How many consecutive hits would be necessary to create severe enough Kessler event to destroy most of the Stralink satellites? Dozens?
AI search on Y Combinator podcasts
I've built a quick prototype of a service that consumes Youtube videos (eg: podcasts), transcribes them into text, and index them to a AI search engine.
Got it. So you are unfamiliar with the wire system. Most people are. I actually don't have anything good to say about it. (Sidenote: 24/7 crypto is far better, but crypto is still a bit of a wild west so I don't recommend for people who aren't comfortable being early adopters)

You are learning a lot and sounds like you figured out a way to not have your employees see any hiccup. Well done.

Thank you for replying and providing more info.

Nowadays one must assume ChatGPT bot/shill when talking to a new account.
Doing the stress tests isn't where the cost would be coming from; the issue is more about the distraction of making sure that compliance is in place.

I'd draw an analogy to having breakfast. If we legally required people to have breakfast every day, that would actually be quite expensive. It'd go from a reflex to something that has to be considered, we have to spend a little bit of time creating evidence that we had breakfast to satisfy the regulator, there'd have to be enforcement where parents check on their kids to make sure they have breakfast, situations where it doesn't make sense to have breakfast (eg, really excessive sleep-ins) now need big reworks to make sure that despite that someone rolls out of bed to have breakfast. The police would roll in and muck up people's life because they skipped breakfast one day due to illness.

It'd be a debacle. It is funny to even imagine what mandatory breakfast would look like if we tried to legally enforce it. It would be expensive, both in dollar figures and hours of lives wasted; no question of it. Just because the act itself is cheap and necessary doesn't make legal compliance cheap and easy. There is a huge gap between the everyday "should do" and the legal "must do".
I don't like musk for a number of reasons, but did he sign any legal contract with any entity regarding starlink services to Ukraine?
If you like this sort of thing, I encourage all bay-area HN-ers to visit the Vintage Computer Festival West: https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

The page still shows last year's event, but it's a yearly event, usually held in August at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

I've exhibited my collection of Acorn computers for the past two years and I hope to be there again this year. It's a really fun weekend.
I understand the point you're trying to make, but that was basically the mother working a full time job that now has to be off loaded and distributed to places like schools, child care facilities, etc.

Homemaker labor is still labor. Both parents working is different now in shape but not really that new.
> I’m having a totally different experience than the others I’m seeing here

I also feel like you have a different perspective. It's not just about the actual experience.

Some complain about how hard it was to get a job, when they just needed a few weeks or months to get one.

They were also surprised to have been turn down by some companies, which is healthy. You can't match everywhere. You're not qualified on everything. Job ads are minimalist to ambiguous, so tech teams have to do a lot of filtering to make up with what HR published. You may also want to apply outside of your comfort zone, because you don't risk anything,...

Also, some seem surprised to have to interview. While 8 is definitely too many, it makes sense to do some, when you apply for positions with experience. You're no longer graduate, they want to know about you.

I was also surprised by users who reported to have a lower wage now, which is probably still much higher than the median income in the USA

Such views don't picture a weak market, but a more realistic market.
We're mostly among well paid tech industry workers here, so we can complain about the processes. But out of respect for most workers who earn up to the median wage, it's not decent to call these times a difficult job market.

I hadn't fully realise what kind of bubble the tech jobs used to be over there, before reading this thread.

Anyway, gg for getting a nice job.
Adding one shower/bathroom that's used by one executive is easy, you can connect it to the existing plumbing.

Adding 20-40 bathrooms, each of which can be used by multiple people, will cause a whole new set of problems.
SBF presumably wasn't allowed to bid.
That's true, but we don't even call ourselves elites when gathering with one another. Literally the only time I've seen the word used, is as a dog whistle.
Just to clarify that the Starlink service isn’t being provided for free — many of volunteers (and not just them) are paying for subscriptions with their credit cards. [1]

I’m sure there are additional costs for Starlink operations in Ukraine vs other countries, such as extra measures against jamming etc so the operation is less profitable in Ukraine than elsewhere.

And from what I understand there are some terminals that work without a subscription (although I haven’t seen any info about them specifically).

But it’s not free for many users in Ukraine.

[1]: https://wccftech.com/ukrainians-are-paying-for-starlink-them...
Bidding ended at 2pm Eastern. We would have heard if there was a buyer by now.
Writing an LLVM back end for the Move language in Rust
> is it a headcount requirement?

Headcount and age. Etsy is a +1,000 employee company that's been around over a decade. Practically bedrock by Valley standards. I personally draw the line between "small" and "big enough to know better" at 100+ employees (around where the EEOC draws the line for mandatory reporting). I acknowledge people may disagree on this topic; that's where my line happens to be.

FWIW, I don't disagree on the mechanics of your suggestion for back-stopping SVB enough for most folks to be made whole. I'm more concerned about the mechanisms that led to one bank becoming such a linchpin for the whole system. We should have learned about "too big to fail" already.

> It seems like choosing a random 30% of Silicon Valley companies to put in hard mode is a close approximation to the Vegas slot machine.

Yes... That's what SV just did to its ecosystem due to over-reliance on one bad bank because "optimization is king" is the mantra of the whole machine. For us to not find ourselves in this boat again in 20 years, the people with money power in SV need to un-learn the lesson that's been driving SV for decades. Someone needs to be less-than-optimal for the system to not be so fragile.
I hope Ramp is ready for the massive influx in signups that this will result in. We're considering moving our spend entirely to them because of this change.
Quite frequently? "Oh this operation turned out to take a while, I'll use pv instead of cat", or "oh what I grepped for wasn't in the current log, it's probably in the previous log that's gzipped, I'll replace 'cat current.log' with 'zcat previous.log'".
Venezuela is so useless. Won’t even allow the US to coup them.
> The US largely does payroll biweekly (every two weeks).

Weekly, biweekly, monthly, and semimonthly are all common; In most states, there are rules setting minimum frequency (and sometimes regulating on what days as well as frequency), and they may vary by industry and job type. E.g., for California: https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_paydays.htm
They're not shareholders, they are creditors, by definition. That's why bank statements have a little "CR" next to the balances. In a bankruptcy, shareholders get wiped out first, then creditors start taking haircuts... it's worked this way since forever.
I traveled 30+ hours journeys on train or bus, both usually non AC, bus even without toilet and I would take AC airplane with toilets anytime over these. You can walk in plane as much as in train, same narrow aisle, though with trains there is usually sleeper option for reasonable price (compared to plane) and leg space is usually a bit better even with seat vs seat.

But still 20 hours ain't really that much, not even a full day.
The problem with blaming the government for this failure is that only one bank seems to have been affected. Since we are talking about sector wide regulations and policies rather than anything that targeted this specific institution, it is evidence strongly in favor of the problem being with the bank, not with the environment. Were this is a problem with law or interest rates or something like that, we would expect to see a lot more collateral damage.

Instead, the only thing we see is a single bank that failed due to voluntarily tying up too much of their capital in instruments that cannot be easily liquidated.
There are medicines that change how your body processes the calories you eat, and the balance may be that in order to get the nutrients you need to stay in good health, you need to eat in a way that causes you to gain weight. There are certainly drugs that increase your appetite, meaning you the effort required to eat less increases dramatically.

But... your overall point is that people need to suffer in discomfort for their entire life so their body looks the way you want it to look? Or so that they stay in good health? If someone is faced with the choice of being fat and happy for 75 years, or being skinny and suffering for 80 years (or whatever the lifespan difference is), why do you feel like your opinion about that choice is something anybody needs to hear? Why is someone else’s choice your business? Do you think that someone should be ashamed or embarrassed about choosing one of those?

I didn’t have to make that choice. But if I did i would 100% choose fat and happy, and i would be upset with anyone who tried to make me unhappy for my choice - especially if it’s coming from someone who didn’t have to make that choice themselves
Hm. Why not re-use "tee"?

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/tee.1.html
Carrier catapults violently accelerate aircraft to the point they are going fast enough to lift their own weight, within the takeoff length on the deck.

You could likely lessen fuel burn of a supersonic aircraft taking off (as you could with a subsonic aircraft) by accelerating it via a catapult of sorts, but you have to do so at acceleration levels tolerable to all passengers, which would make for a long, unwieldy catapult. Release speed is also obviously going to be very subsonic.
There is something to be said here about complexity expanding like a gas and parallels with certain amoebas who evolved genomes of enormous size: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychaos_dubium
You want me to google for you? You don't seem serious. Here you go anyway with 5 out of the top 6 links on the first page from Google.com. Hopefully, these links will help someone who is looking for information on how to secure their bank account.

The normal method for this insurance is to call an insurance company and ask for excess deposit insurance. This should be your first step. But, it seems very strange to me that you are beligerently asking people on the internet for financial information that you don't appear to need.

1. Understand How a Depositor Bond Works [1]
2. Depositor bonds for FDIC-insured deposit accounts [2]
3. Excess Deposit Guarantee Surety Bond [3]
4. Bond Penalty: Based on Coverage Requested Excess FDIC Limits [4]
5. Hello old friend – The reappearance of excess deposit bonds [5]

Here is the summary copied from the first link, in case you don't want to load the link from here or from Google.

In summary, the Depositor Bond provides a third
party guarantee (from the insurance company who
is called the Surety) that deposits will in fact
be returned to the depositor. Depositor bonds
are designed to be “Excess FDIC Insurance
Coverage” and coverage begins at the point where
the $250,000 FDIC insurance obligation ends. [1]

[1] https://www.depositorbonds.com/understand-how-a-depositor-bo...

[2] https://www.travelers.com/iw-documents/surety-bond/59375-dep...

[3] https://surety1.com/bond_info/excess-deposit-guarantee-suret...

[4] https://suretyone.com/bank-depository-bond

[5] https://www.cuinsight.com/hello-old-friend-the-reappearance-...
That's for "not willful."
And because they are using it in their planes and within their units. Sure you can argue with Glonass, but if it is working so well, why SU-34s are using Garmin with GPS instead?
So they are earning an interest? As long as that is above 0 and not negative they should expect that some gambling is going on. After all there is no risk free investment.
This is somewhat disputable, but regardless, it has nothing to do with delayed payments.
This is both a really useful trick but also, I think, way too pally with the exact implementation. It feels like Microsoft could “fix” this at any moment. I mean, they probably won’t…
My take is: Starlink just reminded Pentagon they’re a mostly civilian operator, and they’re not ready to defend from direct cyber warfare, it without investment and someone to pay for that. Which is reasonable, IMHO
It’s wrong because you weren’t just trying to avoid it personally; you were trying to scare others away by confidently declaring a problem (“a big one”) while knowing you were ignorant about it.
> there are laws that say an employer is committing a crime if wages are not paid on time.

Unless it is at least willful, its probably not a crime. It is, however, generally illegal and carries a civil cost even when not criminal.
This is an implicit argument for de-privatizing banking. There is inherent risk of losing your uninsured money when you lend it to a private company. If all deposits were to be fully insured we’re talking public banking, or much worse, private for-profit banking that is fully de-risked by taxpayers, incentivizing execs to make arbitrarily risky decisions and, basically, freely take however much money they want from tax coffers.
Everything you've said is entirely divorced from reality.
Not really. It is the risk of getting caught that is a deterrent. If jaywalking was a capital offense but only one person in 300,000,000 a year got arrested and convicted for it, it wouldn't put a huge dent in jaywalking. Whereas a fine of say $75 and a 95% catch rate will pull jaywalking down to almost zero pretty quickly.