skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your ideas get to spread around. You might want to do that if you care about ideas more than getting credited.
Hold on...Circle was just keeping $3.3B in regular deposits? Am I understanding this correctly? I'm not a treasury expert but this seems...insane?
идиотизм
The EU also lacks the equity compensation pop that makes people millionaires overnight after 10 years of hard work. It's largely cultural rather than regulation related, but for example Spotify IPO'd but minted few millionaires relative to if it had been a silicon valley startup like AirBNB or Dropbox or Slack.
If only you know the long queue you have to join now if you want to buy dollars from a Nigerian bank. Not just that you have to fill a form saying what the money is for which had better be one of the things in their list, you have to wait for months to get credited.
How Things Get Done (2013)
The run, predominantly by VCs, is what destabilized the bank.

In a regime of rising interest rates this gives them pricing power on the loans where they were just passive depositors previously. Since SVB loans were essentially only to companies who were already customers of these VCs, you could view this move fairly cynically.
> You jest but that’s pretty much exactly how Russia sees it.

I don't jest, I'm saying that because it's pretty equivalent.

> It’s also a pretty ridiculous comparison at the same time. China suffered a century of invasions from western powers from Britain to Japan, had a several hundred year dynasty collapse, and fought a civil war for over 20 years.

Everyone has suffered centuries of invasions by western and other powers, including the west and including conquest by various Chinese dynasties. Doesn't make imperialism any different or morally justifiable.
from https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/maintain-short-posi...
When an investor has a short position in a company that gets delisted and declares bankruptcy the investor never has to pay back anyone because the shares are worthless. The short seller owes nothing. That is the best possible scenario for a short seller. Eventually, the broker will declare a total loss on the loaned stock. At that point, the broker cancels the short seller's debt and returns all collateral.
“ Without the deposits they could not make any loans to begin with.”

Incorrect, banks create deposits when they issue loans and only require reserve balances sufficient to satisfy net flows of funds between institutions.

They can also borrow those reserves.

So deposits are required to increase profitability, and of course a minimum level of profitability is required to be solvent, but banks in now way “lend out deposits”.
Ask HN: What Happened to Search on Android?
Why is it so dumbed down compared to a decade ago?
The search app on Froyo and earlier (maybe even till ICS, I don't remember) was able to display information from all Content Providers on a device.
Now the Google app only display Web results it does not even display contacts.
That was one of the best features of Android, IMHO.
Google still say search is "at the core of android" (https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/search)
Buttthat does not make it so.
It's not about his predictions, but his admitted market manipulation. I don't know how "in the know" he is now, but all you need to know about his motivations is encapsulated in the first minute of this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DJlogbrDcA.

He's a market manipulator, or was when he was in that hedge fund, and there's every reason to believe that he still would do this now for his own personal benefit if he could. Basically, if he's promoting a position it's probably a really good idea to strongly consider taking the opposite one, or just ignoring it (which is likely the better idea).
I'm sure the competition is just prim and spotless. What kind of movie logic is it that being investigated is bad? Being found in the wrong after being investigated is the beginning of bad.
60% of the time his predictions work out every time
The big thing to understand is that you gain a whole atmosphere of pressure every 10 meters underwater you go. So at 100 meters you are experiencing 11 atmospheres of pressure (over 150 PSI). It's a wonder humans can go there at all without a vessel!
Yeah, but atleast in Svelte it's explicit, and you can if you wish write svelte as if ste were immutable. Anecdotal, but still, I've had fewer bugs (particularly wierd UI glitches) in Svelte than I ever did in React. I just like Svelte for the types of project I work on.

Tangent: the idea that "we all agreed to say no thanks to that" is kind of symptomatic of broader issues I have with web dev. i.e. that there's very little recognition that different tools have different uses and knowing when to pick which is part of the job. Working with wood you wouldn't apply the same practices and methods to building the timber frame of 2 story house as you would to making an intricately carved toy elephant. Why when working with the materials of the web, HTML/CSS/JS, do we assume there's a best and right why to do it: "you must write tests!", "avoid using z-index!", "separate content and form", "immutable state!"; these are all the right answer in some situation and not in others.
The Arm 32 bit EABI spec acknowledgements section credits 9 other companies for their "active support" -- most of them are or were toolchain vendors. You specify an ABI so that all the different companies who are writing and selling compilers can produce object files that work together, which makes it easier for customers to develop software for the CPU, which means you can sell more chips. Nobody will come and break down your door if you choose not to follow the ABI, of course, but if you want to interoperate with others you have that option.

And yes, there's an implicit bias towards C and C++ here, but that is just because that is the environment where enough toolchain developers and customers care about interoperability between different suppliers to make specification worthwhile.
Well, even reserve balances are created out of thin air… it’s all just accounting
Even if you're anti-steroids (which most of the bodybuilding world is not), sculpting a physique like his doesn't happen without tremendous hard work and dedication.

Steroids can make you more muscular. But making sure that every muscle in your body is equally muscular, proportionate, and vascular isn't something everyone can do.
Sugar of Lead
Seems way too good to be true, but I guess we'll see. IF it does end up working as advertised, I can see a very bright future ahead for indie filmaking, as well as a lot of shovelware style CGI heavy movies and shows due to the lower bar for entry, not that that is a bad thing.
This statement confuses me.

There are two ABIs in common use on 64-bit x86. One is used on windows; the other is used everywhere else, and intel has been involved in its specification (I believe its current editor is an intel employee).

Most concerns relating to ABI specification can be dealt with pursuant only to architecture, not microarchitecture; minimising instruction or byte counts, say. And architectures have long lives, over the course of which microarchitectures may change quite a lot. You wouldn't want your ABI to be overfit to one particular microarchitecture.

Not to say that it's a bad thing for a processor or architecture vendor to supply a standard ABI. It's good to have cohesion and consistency, and furthermore, if you have designed an architecture, then you have (one really, really hopes) performed a lot of experiments to see what code for that architecture looks like, so you are in a good position to be specifying an ABI. But that's not to say a third party is per se in a worse position to be specifying an ABI.

And of course, stable binary interfaces are dying (and good riddance!), but that's a separate issue.
If we talk about readability - it is hard to think of a situation when inheritance would be better - it adds an indirection, it hides what's really going on, and at the end of the day the code is also longer and more complex.

However it has some other uses, e.g. when you really want to support adding new cases without modifying the code, e.g when doing a library, you need some kind of polymorphism.

So basically - it is not that abstractions/indirections are inherently bad, but they come at a cognitive cost. And it depends on the context if this cost is justifiable.
No catch, just works. 30B works fine on an M1 Max with 64GB of RAM, had to go for the M1 Ultra at 128GB for 65B.
What a waste of Space.
FYI, the "you" here refers to the author, not the reader. Here's the gist:

"Why aren't I working in BigTech? Why isn't everyone, if the money's so good and the coasting so sweet? Rest and vest is a real thing that happens.

The short answer – I don't think I'd like it."
There's the corp job being unpleasant, but there's also the issue of getting a job through several rounds of interviews that seem to have little to do with the job. Even if you can do 90% of questions, you've got an under 60% chance of running a 5-question gauntlet. It's like a job in itself preparing for the leetcode.
He did take it very well IIRC and put his game face on
Valuable Humans in Transit
M1/M2 Mac or a Raspberry Pi?
No, the banks create money. If you've watched all these explainer videos surely you must understand basic FRB.
The main problem is OPEX versus APEX, not whether you can Terraform your infrastructure. It depends on your business model whether self-hosting is more cost effective than the Cloud. Cloud is more flexible and as a result you pay a premium, however, the cost differences are not as large as claimed in this article
coincidence? I think not
eh. sticking my neck out but never paid for an ebook because until a few years ago, i could not "legally" buy ebooks in my country so what was i supposed to do? pray to corporate overlords to give me a chance to pay them for a chance to enjoy the work they hold rights to?
There are many who are aware of QAnon. A portion of those are aware that it revolves around insane conspiracy theories, and only a fraction of those know the details of how deranged the conspiracy theories are.

Only a few journalists have ever ventured out to explore that world, as it's really not good for one's mental health.
As if one's market value is always coherent with their skills. There are so many variables that plays a role on how much one earns: where you live, negotiation skills, marketing skills, getting competent people to evaluate you properly, micro and macro economics, willingness to deal with bullshit corporate stuff, etc.
They were smart. Too smart, SVB was haemorrhaging funds to alternatives.

It was a bank run caused SVBs demise, the same could happen to any bank regardless of how well capitalised they were. If no one withrew funds they'd have been alive.
Vertical orientation can also make sense if you're trying to bias the PV to produce more in winter, when the output might be more valuable.
This. I also only mentioned that part because “selling” was really “convincing” as I wasn’t asking for any money from them. Only a partnership. My early assumption was they’d be receptive to it because shade would be a big boost to comfort and I’d get free use of land though a mutually beneficial arrangement.

This was a long time ago so I don’t actually even remember what my ultimate business strategy was, only that I talked to over 100 different companies/property owners and got overwhelming unreceptive feedback (that they didn’t care about shading their parking lots) so that was the extent of my interest in chasing the opportunity. I don’t think $10k would secure much land at all. Even back then, maybe 1 acre 200 miles away from a city. That wasn’t economically feasible back then. I think it’s only recently becoming so and some “solar farms” are popping up. I’ve moved on and don’t follow it much anymore.
Not OP, but I'm not convinced by the talking point that a baby has an equivalent or greater petabytes of data because they are immersed in a sensory world. I can't quite put my finger on it but my feeling is that that line of reasoning contains a kind of category error. Maybe I'll wake up tomorrow and have a clearer idea of my objection, but I've seen your talking point echoed by many others as well, and this interests me.
This confusion is easily resolved - just remove "science"
> Tech compensation is funny. Yes there's engineers at Netflix and friends making 600k in "total comp", but that doesn't mean 600k hits their bank account.

I thought the common definition of "total comp" is that 600k (well, less tax) does actually hit your bank account? Is there another definition?

[For the record I've never earned anything like that or heard of any regular software engineers earning that, but I guess it may happen in SV.]
In diving we think in terms of partial pressures. At sea-level, 21% of air is oxygen, and .21 is also your partial pressure of O2. In order to breath at depth, though, we need to be supplied with a higher and higher pressure of gas to fight the pressure of the surrounding environment opposing our lung expansion. At 10 meters, the pressure doubles sea-level, and you are breathing gas at twice atmospheric pressure (meaning there are twice as many O2 and Nitrogen molecules in every liter of gas).

Consequently, the partial pressure of oxygen you are breathing is doubled, to .42. This continues, until you reach a partial pressure which is incompatible with life. That danger-zone is generally considered to be between 1.4 and 1.6, so air cannot be safely breathed below about 60 meters (1.6/.21 - 1 = about 6 atmospheres). Similarly, pure O2 cannot be breathed safely below about 6 meters (1.6/1 - 1 = about .6 atmospheres).

Your description of nitrogen narcosis is correct. To dive deeper than your nitrogen narcosis limits you start replacing some of the nitrogen with helium in the gas you breathe. This works up to the limits of even the most technical recreational diving, after which you will get symptoms of something called HPNS which could mean replacing the helium itself with hydrogen.

Both helium and nitrogen will get stored in your inert tissues and will bubble out catastrophically if you ascend too quickly. With either inert gas you must carefully plan your ascent to avoid the bends.
What makes you think rates are going down in the next 2-3 years? Rates could continue going up and put SVB further underwater
I think it's about the quantization process and loading the model. I needed just above 64GB of RAM + Swap to quantize the 35B model to int4. Not to mention much slower inference time.
A cartography of human histology is in the making
Because most people here are oriented towards entrepreneurship, and don't like working for a boss.
How? The statement is unambiguous. The WWF also confirmed this: https://twitter.com/wwf_uk/status/1634290349098057728
Frame challenge: You already have decided not to care about online privacy. It seems you are not looking to be convinced but rather for selected opinions making it easier for you to justify your decision to yourself.

If I am right, I suggest just moving on with your life. That is your ultimate goal, and your search for the articles and videos you requested is getting as much in the way of that as your struggle for online privacy.
>What’s an example of a fast debugger?

My apologies in advance if this feels like a gotcha, but… Casey ended up swapping to RemedyBG for debugging. He made a video about why. From about 0:50 onwards he talks about the speed and feature set of the watch window https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r9eQth4Q5jg

Also, I don’t mean to be rude by ignoring all the questions you posed; they’re good questions, I just don’t have answers for them (I would hope the developers whose full-time job it is to build debuggers would, though).
> Many abstraction makes it easier to read for human.

Many abstractions are also conventions, just look at the js/react world. There is redux stores, mobx stores, hooks, class-based components, signals. All different abstractions with various performance and readability concerns. Someone used to one of them would say the others are not readable or maintainable. So maybe we can choose the more performant abstractions and teach them, so it becomes institutional knowledge.
Total comp means regular salary, plus bonuses and stock, but pre-tax.
Does Llama model has a token limit like ChatGPT api (4k tokens)?
Are you sure about that?

I would make me very nervous if every single bank had ~50% of it's balance sheet in rock bottom rate 10Y bonds that have dropped in value 30+% in the last year

I'm pretty sure most banks have assets > liabilities even after rate hikes, which is the root cause with SVB, not the bank run
The reality is that "$600K at BigTech" isn't as common as HN would have you believe. It's not easy to be at the $600K total compensation level at FAANG. It's not necessarily uncommon, but it's not like the majority of engineers there are at that level. Just look at https://levels.fyi and search for a FAANG company. For example, Google's L6 total compensation average is ~$450K. L6 (the rough equivalent of principal or senior principal engineer at many, perhaps most, other companies, including the one I work for) isn't easy to achieve at Google and the vast, vast majority of SEs at Google are not making L6 compensation.

In fact, I'd wager (not assert, as I haven't actually run the numbers from levels.fyi or industry salary data), that the vast majority of Silicon Valley software engineers plateau around the $300k mark on the high end.
Do you have some inside knowledge you're basing that claim on?
You know who else freed prisoners? https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-releases-prisoners-combat-e...

Including members of the Ukrainian “Tornado battalion”, previously imprisoned by Ukraine for the rape and murder of civilians (including children) in the east: https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-tornado-battalion-rogue-para...
The tragic part of this story is that none of those who should have been responsible for implementing such controls faced any kind of legal action.
It's history, mostly. The very first Arm design didn't do anything special with r13 and r14, so using them as sp and lr was purely convention (you could have an upward growing stack in r0 if you wanted). The years roll by, and it turns out that in fact everybody follows the conventions, so it makes sense with cleverer hardware to optimise for r13-is-sp, and it's a reasonable tradeoff with Thumb to enforce r13-is-sp in return for being able to make the instructions smaller and save code size. The technical constraints and situation of 1983 are not the same as those of 2003 or 2023.
> The last Republican president Trump, did so many things that invoked echos of the last major wave of fascism...

You know what a moral panic is, right? "Trump is Literally Hitler!!!!" is another moral panic. No, I don't expect anyone caught in the grips of one to believe they are caught in the grips of one, especially when prominent journalists, celebrities and pundits are also caught in it, so I won't try to convince you. iykyk.

Personally, I think a President lying to get his country into two (2) ruinous wars simultaneously, and the resultant, decades-long occupations is far more destructive than anything Trump could manage.

Overseeing FISA courts, mass surveillance, assassination lists did far more destruction to democracy than Trump even tried to do, but we're not ready for that conversation.

So, no, Trump is not heralding a wave of neo-fascism. Maybe if folks who believe so could put down the torches and pitchforks long enough to actually listen to the people who voted for him, we all could work together to vote in a principled President at least once in my lifetime. No, repeating to each other that Trump's voters were all hick white supremacist neo-fascists is not actually listening. Empathetic listening is listening. But, again, I don't expect to convince anyone of that here and now.
Fair enough. I apologize.
Big tech is going to lay off its 600k devs and rehire back the equivalent talent at 180k

They'll do it because they can

I mean, what do you think is being said in the boardroom these days when they are planning layoffs?

"Why am I paying someone 450k + 150k RSUs for six hours of React maintenance coding a week?"

Most people who lucked into one of the 600k jobs will likely never see this comp again in their lives

It was a blip folks

Downvote if you like...welcome to Zuck's thought process....Elon's thought process...soon to be the thought process of most tech CEOs...
https://www.floss-shop.de/en/security-privacy/smartcards/
IANAL, but a finance guy.

Depositing money is lending money. It's presented like some special thing, but at the end of the day you no longer have your dollar, you have an IOU for a dollar issued by the bank. Yes, you have a deal with the bank that they will give you your money back whenever you want.

Now normally there's no point in mincing words, you have 50K at the bank, whatever. But if the bank fails, you still don't have the money in your hands, you are still owed it. What normally happens when a business can't pay back its debts is there's a bankruptcy procedure and everything is frozen until a bankruptcy lawyer parachutes in to handle things. Now keep in mind they are bankrupt because they don't have a way to pay back everyone, so there are laws about how your IOUs are settled. This is called a haircut, because chances are the creditors will not get back the full amounts they're owed. (In rare cases a bankrupt business somehow manages to sell its assets for more than the liabilities.)

If it's a bank, there's insurance schemes in various countries to help out the depositors.

But the deal is basically that, you are lending money to the bank, and they are lending to other people eg mortgages, business loans, overdrafts, etc.

Getting back to your question, there's not a whole lot of meat on the "what does the law say" bone. SVB is dead, carcass is divided up between the creditors.
And in Europe, middle managers will earn 80-90k while senior engineers will earn 70-80k (excepting a few BigTech or Fintech companies.

As an American who much prefers life in the Netherlands to life in the US, I must admit the growing frustration at the pay difference... it's almost enough to make me go back home.

If the European companies don't wake up to this, they will gradually see a brain drain (especially if the US reverses its anti-immigration attitude).

As for TFA topic, to me most jobs are roughly the same. Only when I work for myself or directly with a small client (where I have total control over the technical decisions) is it close to "fun". Otherwise, it's usually 50% useful energy expenditure, and 50% wasted energy trying to improve systems where middle management is too content with status quo regardless of the potential profit gains from improved operations (and fewer engineers working smarter).

So honestly, unless you have your own company and (near)total control, you might as well be working for the highest bidder - excepting in industries you may have moral or ethical disagreements with.
Not necessarily.

https://www.itpro.co.uk/cloud/public-cloud/369521/singapore-...
Working individually can keep a person at a better level in terms of ego. If you have a mind that constantly compares yourself to others, working in a company can make you sad. Of course it varies by company. maybe you can be happier.
Strange to phrase the entire post off "I never have worked in BigTech, but here's anecdotal thoughts of why I've heard it would suck"
What you are saying reported by FDIC as 211B vs 195B was December 31st IIRC

And it appears that wasn't market to market

Since then they have had $40B in withdrawals causing them to sell all liquid assets at a loss and not being able to furnish withdrawals

The California regulator has explicitly stated they are insolvent: https://dfpi.ca.gov/2023/03/10/california-financial-regulato...
No, but the PMs know when to call a UX designer.