skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> invert the normal array-of-structs to a struct of arrays

We need our languages and compilers to give us the necessary tools to abstract away complexity without losing performance, which our current OOP languages don't really do.

Jai for example offers a special keyword, so the code is written one way (AOS) but the memory layout is converted into SOA.

https://pixeldroid.com/jailang/overview/Features/SOA/#/overv...
But is it a harbinger of something else? The last couple of paragraphs suggests something like that.
Years ago, Two Google engineers built a ChatGPT-like chatbot but got shut down
The Europeans might not move but they can starting working remotely. Similarly, Chinese and Indians will start working remote US positions rather than moving to Europe.
Georgi just added support for all models (13B/33B/65B) [0]

LLaMA 65B can do ~2 tokens per second on my M1 Max / 64 gb ram [1]

[0] https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/1634488664150487041
[1] https://twitter.com/lawrencecchen/status/1634507648824676353
This changed dramatically with COVID/WFH.

Before COVID, companies in Paris were offering me 40-50k for a mid-level engineer, no WFH, maybe they'd pay for your commute.

After COVID, similar companies (I talked to around 10) based in Paris were offering 90k + equity (BSPCE), full remote, desk/chair/monitor paid for, lunch card (25 euros/day for a max of 180/mo), insurance, fancy off-site meetings fully paid for, and more

Still not competitive with foreign companies that hire remotely with a French entity, but not nearly as bad as it used to be.

I hear it's similar in Berlin, too.
When I was a kid I had the job of spraying our apple trees with PbHAsO4 aka arsenate of lead to protect the apples against fruit fly and Codling moth.

Mind you, I did have the presence of mind not to taste it to see if it was sweet or not.
>February 25, 2022

>>>/g/
This reminds me of [self-promotion] https://github.com/kisonecat/countdot.hs
which "algebraically" describes some patterns of dots.
They could always build rain collectors.
Is inflation in the US really only 6.4% ?
The entire world is filled with the descendants of people that moved around for more money (resources).
I've also transplanted around the world a bit in different tech markets, albeit I don't have as much desire to return to the California madness, just for the paycheck.

Life quality in Europe is great - sure, you maybe don't get paid raw numbers comparable to the states, but on the other hand (at least here in Austria), if I tumble down a mountain having some fun and break my arm, the state will take care of me so I can go back to paying taxes. :)

And really, can anyone really say they enjoy living in the valley? That commute, man. Europeans sure have that one up on the Americans.
May I ask where in NL? Wife and I (and kids) are looking at moving to bloommerwede.nl/ in Utrecht. I want to walk out my door and not see a car.

I'm an American who moved to Ireland. The month I got stamp 4 (meaning I wasn't tied to my employer) I got a job working for an American company that hired remote (Auth0) and a 50% bump in base, and several hundred k in options (but that was luck since Okta bought us). Since then I started my own limited company and work remote for US clients. I make about 150k a year. What's crazy to me is that European companies pay just appallingly badly, while (many) American companies consider me cheap. I was on a call with a startup and they asked about pay requirement and I said "around 140k" (I shouldn't have given a number but I was pretty sure I didn't want to work there) and they were delighted. Only later did we realize they had heard me as saying "40k" and they thought my ask was utterly ludicrous.

Similarly, accelerators here offer peanuts. I looked closely (and got in to) carbon13, which looks great in many respects since I want to work addressing climate breakdown, but if you get through their phase 1 AND find a cofounder then they will invest.... eighty thousand GBP. To start a company. I could move to America and just save 80k in relatively short order, and not split with a cofounder. I don't want to live in America (every time I go back I remember why we left) but.. still.

If I talk to friends in Europe I feel awkward about how much I am paid, and if I talk to my friends back home in California I feel awkward about how little. I suppose it's valuable perspective but I _WANT_ Europe to be a strong counter to the US making amazing companies and instead they bleed talent to California. It's pathetic that Ireland's biggest business success story is the Collisons, who got the hell out as fast as they could and moved to California to start Stripe. To Stripe's credit, they're one of the only companies in Dublin with not-terrible pay.

I'm sure you've seen https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala... (there are in fact decent paying jobs in NL) but also https://techpays.eu/ is good for weeding out the cheapskates.
And you should add tolerating a bad transport infrastructure where infinite car traffic is normal.
The money is not tied up in bonds. Because those bonds are liquid and can be sold on the market in exchange for dollars. And when depositors ask for their money the bank is forced to sell those bonds at a big loss to get dollars. That results in assets < liabilities. Which is insolvency.
In your worldview, where does the money a bank needs to operate from?

In your worldview, can you explain how it is possible for a bank to have far more loans on their books than they have deposits (see: fractional reserve banking)?
Did it change in the entire France tech sector or did you simply find a much better company than your old one? Correlation!= Cazualisation.

Anyway, I'm glad if it changed in France but it didn't where I live (Austria) where the market is depressing and they're still paying 2020 wage brackets. Europe is very diverse.
Moscow Mole: The story behind Germany's embarrassing intelligence leak
For sure. If you have 300k/yr in RSUs from a trillion dollar company, you may not be able to predict the exact value of that comp 4 years from now, but it’s pretty reasonable to assume its value isn’t going to be diminished significantly, unlike startup equity.
Memo was reportedly found with the documents of a Russian servicemen
This is exactly the reason why Big Tech is in trouble. The candidates cram Leetcode for months to get the jobs, and since their practical skills are irrelevant in that process, we all wonder what the hell this army of engineers is actually doing.

They are building unnecessarily complicated systems that you will need to hire even more engineers to maintain, that's what they are doing. But you pay them well, so there is that.
Because i intend to remain good and believe being surrounded by exceptional enginners is actually more easy, or influenced by my side in smaller orgs. Getting to code regularly is rather important.

+ Tax brackets makes it far less a difference between to earn some high end median salary vs top salaries. So even on the compensation side of benefits along with costs of living, the gap then becomes rather slim/irrelevant
> So the VC thinkbois basically created a run on SVB. Nice job guys!

On purpose. Billions of their wealth depended on FED's easy monetary policy (ZIRP, NIRP, QE infinite) for last 30 years or so.

For likes of Gary Tan, Peter Thiel and Cathie Wood (and Ray Dalio) creating moral panic and trying to force FED's hand to reverse normalising monetary policy is the only possible way to keep status quo and their wealth.

Is The Fed Listening? | ITK with Cathie Wood - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvL2Q0cJLyo

30% of YC companies exposed through SVB can’t make payroll in the next 30 days - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35100743

Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund Advises Companies to Withdraw Money From SVB - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-09/founders-...
free+closed+"offline" what's the catch?

edit: oh, it says only the audio is not uploaded. The srt is.
Are you and sibling responder speaking in code? I’m fascinated and baffled by these responses. :D
>Until I heard about those banks I hadn’t considered “too much money” was a problem.

You can always buy crypto if you think you have too much money. Or find a nice Ponzi scheme and invest in that.
If there was ever an industry that had less support for a taxpayer bailout, it’s tech startups. Lots of regular people loath these startups. By definition, it only affects a bunch of rich VCs, overpaid coastal elites, Saudi money, and elite college graduates. Don’t expect middle America to shed a tear.
I'm surprised to see a complete lack of application of the OSI model to answering this question.

Systems programming is what happens when you apply the OSI model to the interconnections required for you to have a happy user, using your application.

Oh, that's too simple, I hear you say! Not at all. The model just gives you the harness you need to grasp the complexity.

If you're not "OSI ALL THE THINGS!" you didn't quite get the memo that the network is the computer, and thus "ALL THINGS ARE OSI'able!"

The model was developed during the network era, but has been discovered broadly through wide application that it is applicable to all systems interconnection.

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

When you traverse the OSI layers successfully, identifying and creating the components relevant to the layer interconnects, you are a systems programmer.
Sure, and paying with crypto is always going to be more painful unless you use an exchange, which is just a bank with less regulation(ok maybe not in the US, since banks are barely regulated there anyway). Which again means it will never catch on unless it just becomes a conventional currency. Which, btw is a sociological inevitability anyway(I will die on this hill, try me). Decentralisation never lasts, see countless examples of that with decentralised protocols(including crypto! Which is literally why this thread is here).

Is it useful for people in countries with shitty governments? Very much so, it seems to me. Which is great. But that is not an argument for its intrinsic value as opposed to normal currency in a country with a functioning economy and government.
At least in Australia and the UK, if someone seriously tries paying with US currency they'll be laughed at right out of the shop.

Or at least nicely told to go and exchange it for real money (local currency) somewhere, then come back and try again. :)
There's also the fact that most technology presence in Europe (especially US based companies) is essentially sales and services (even if you get a FAANG job locally, expect 3-5 years of shuffling around internally until you manage to move to Engineering, and even then you mostly have to relocate either to the US or to one of their arbitrarily chosen "hubs", which are typically not in well-paying countries).

But I agree that European companies need to get their act together. Not just about salaries, but also about hiring processes--I've had instances in the past where they tried to ape Valley interviews (quizzes, on-sites, etc.) without any of the reasoning behind them (ok, bear with me on the quizzes here--they never made sense), and others where I'd be much more senior (or at least more experienced in running things at scale) than the hiring manager.
>Other programmers are users too.

System programming is about a program being used by another program unlike an application which is being used by a person. A programmer too will not use that program but use an application to develop a program which will then use that program. This makes system programming distinct from application programming in purpose, philosophy and reality.
But working for a bank as a SE means you are part of the cost center, not the profit center
Sell off in US bank stocks after SVB solvency scare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35091505 - March 2023 (22 comments)
> If the European companies don't wake up to this, they will gradually see a brain drain

I wouldn't move to the US for any amount of money.
I think that they are always increasing as the deleted items are still there in the sequence.
Yeah, France is an outlier in many regards (including work-related legislation).
To be fair it is 100m vertical. Stand on a 25 story building and look down. That's not a small distance.
Technically true, but when a distressed bank gets sold where does the money go that's paid by acquiring party? Stock holders are last in line. Employees who are due wages are first in line. We can guesstimate how large the hole is and how much SVB is worth. The money that would otherwise go to stockholders during an acquisition will now be used to fix the balance sheet.
Don't know where you live but Europe's wealth divide is bigger than America's. We just need to make the distinction between income inequality and wealth inequality which are completely different things.

Urban property prices for Europeans are far less approachable on our wages than they are for Americans on their wages. Munich has the same square foot/meter prices as SF but at a third of the wages. I assume it's similar in Paris and London.

When I was working in Germany for an engineering company, all the guys in the Dallas-FW office had bought big houses in the suburbs (yeah, car dependence though) while everyone in the Munich office was still renting (and not living centrally).

Europe had less income inequality, but much higher wealth inequality thanks to decades/centuries of accumulated old-money that keeps growing, especially in real-estate assets.

Europe protects you from becoming homeless but it's near impossible to accumulate wealth if you start from the bottom, while in the US you can easily become wealthy from the bottom if you're savvy and healthy but you can also easily become homeless if you're not.
That's an awful lot of vitriolic words to express: comparing kW and kWp is a type error.

> This is caused by the unfortunate fact which is that the sun doesn't shine at all for at least half of the year

And factually incorrect. Currently sitting in Northern Europe making 5.05kW from a 5.6kWp installation.
Ztick – tiny desktop utility to keep notes written in Zig
Trying my hands with zig, hence wrote a small app for my personal use. I hope it helps others who are trying to learn zig.

PS: Code is not at its best place, so it could use few refactor iterations ( I am still learning zig )
Neither would I, but I also have trouble seeing myself working for a European company given the way they slowly circle the drain when making decisions instead of being more pragmatic.
This is all the fault of the fed and ZIRP. It's the S&L crisis all over again. Any bank that has not hedged their interest rate exposure is a lot of trouble right now. I don't want to claim zero big banks are in trouble, but I would claim that zero big banks are in trouble due to unhedged interest rate risk.
Siri doesn’t seem as fast or responsive compared to Google assistant at times.
Thank you for these helpful notes!!
"The pragmatic Programmer" is one I would recommend.

That, and "Team Geek", in term of relationship with codes and teammates.
I mean if you want my cynical take, it goes like this. Some BBC producer wanted to make the Wild Isles series about conservation and climate change, they couldn’t get sign-off to spend BBC money on it, but they did get charities to pay for it. BBC upper management was okay with this because it was pitched as a “separate companion” film on the same topic. Once it was made the producer pushed for it to be screened as the sixth episode and was told no, so they called up their friends at The Guardian and said “I’ll be your unnamed source if you say this is about kowtowing to the radical right”. The plan was to generate pressure from the left on the BBC to air the film as if it were the sixth episode. That is why the unnamed BBC source and the BBC spokesperson are making contradictory statements.
As a tourist maybe. But try to do it at any place mostly frequented locals in Europe and you will get nowhere. But funny thing. Same does not only apply to USD, but Euros as well. And EU doesn't even have army. And still on my last trip the taxis took the money.
It does matter, because it's very easy to construct an explanation for how you "figured it out" after the fact, if one of your hundred small bets happened to work out. The person doing it may even fool themselves!
IMHO and based on an earlier post about this: Title is misleading, it's not like Koreans have to work 52h/w, the regular time is 40h/w (although you can guess many people are careful to work more than that rather than less). The 12h difference comes from the fact that up to 12 excess hours per week are permissible, but must be exchanged for free time at some point (whether 1 excess h == 1 free hour idk), this gives employers some leeway to allocate working time where it's needed and employees the chance to swap excess hours for more contiguous free time for private stuff. This apparently worked well for them so now the government wants to go from up to 12h to 29h excess hours per week. 69h/6d == 11.5h/d, so that is a rather long work day but, depending on your occupation should be doable in many cases. According to the earlier discussion, this will allow some seasonal businesses to put the work where it's needed while still giving workers job security and free time where they are not as much needed.

Not wanting to paint a workers' paradise situation here, I'd have to know a lot more details. Just to put a counterweight to a "see in South Korea they now have 70 hour work weeks" knee jerk reaction.

IMO more flexibility like this and a greater share of income depending on a business's revenues would benefit employers and employees alike. Not in the currently prevalent situation, tho, where everything is done to squeeze the last penny out of everything including workforce while managers get golden chairs with golden parachutes.
I work remotely from Europe, with a 4-hour overlap with my US colleagues and other folks in India, APAC, etc. I'm not alone, but it is a very rare kind of role, and some local positions pay more--but they are typically in heavily political/lobbied/traditional (i.e., old-fashioned and stodgy) industries.
Come to Ireland, non existing public transport and road infrastructure.
It's all in the annual sec filings. At the end of 2022 94% of SVB's deposits were uninsured. For typical large banks it's between 40-50%.

Silicon Valley is all about high risk, high reward. Saying that something is wrong when risk is realized is cognitive error. SVB took risk. Bank run happened when customers wanted to reduce risk.

High ups and deep downs is the part of the business.
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* emergency-contraceptives..org

* protest-overreach..org
> SVB probably would not have collapsed

Probably is doing a lot of heavy lifting without telling how? Because in the first paragraph, Levine himself says SVB wasn't diversified or large enough to make it through £16b write down on their HTM investments: https://twitter.com/RagingVentures/status/163357916752972595...
Important question is that what would happen if someone started asking pointed questions? About why do you transact in this and doesn't it go against laws. Would the stance actually hold...
This website's tracking consent pop-up is unlawful: unticking each spyware service one at a time rather than a one-click opt-out is not permitted by the GDPR.
I think from a user perspective the optimal way would be for the browser to automatically do all the logins and user just sets up identities he needs.
> ‘Vice’ in American English, still has alternative meanings, like ‘vice president’.

Why do you think it has "alternative'' meaning ? /s
Don't forget that we are entering into a new cold (lukewarm) war over the next couple of years if this keep going which will require a complete re-jig of the entire world economic infrastructure as things are going to have to brought back and produced locally or near-shored to friendly countries.

I can't see this not affecting inflation as cost of goods will increase.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but nowadays any (sufficiently large?) solvent bank can just borrow from the Fed and survive such a run.
HP laptop can't connect to WiFi with letter 'p' in the password (2018)
If you want overinflated real estate prices (relative to local wages/affordability), try Lisbon.
I dont see why this was downvoted looking at some historical examples:

* IndyMac Bank: In 2008, IndyMac Bank, a large savings and loan association, failed and was taken over by the FDIC. At the time of its failure, IndyMac had $1 billion in uninsured deposits. The FDIC estimated that it would be able to recover only 50 to 80 cents on the dollar from the bank's assets. As a result, the FDIC paid advance on uninsured funds of 50% of the uninsured amount, or $500 million, to the bank's depositors.

* Washington Mutual: In 2008, Washington Mutual, a large bank, failed and was taken over by the FDIC. At the time of its failure, Washington Mutual had $4 billion in uninsured deposits. The FDIC estimated that it would be able to recover only 30 to 50 cents on the dollar from the bank's assets. As a result, the FDIC paid advance on uninsured funds of 30% of the uninsured amount, or $1.2 billion, to the bank's depositors.

* First National Bank of Nevada: In 2008, the First National Bank of Nevada failed and was taken over by the FDIC. At the time of its failure, the bank had $200 million in uninsured deposits. The FDIC estimated that it would be able to recover only 90% of the uninsured amount from the bank's assets. As a result, the FDIC paid advance on uninsured funds of 90% of the uninsured amount, or $180 million, to the bank's depositors.

The question basically asks humbly what factors may be special now and are important in this specific case and queries others humbly on how to think about this.
I have always understood it to be the other way round, lower interest rates make for higher employment as money is easier to come by.

Here is a source that confirms my understanding : https://homework.study.com/explanation/what-is-the-relations...

Can you explain the reasoning behind your understanding or provide some source to back it up?
If you want to run flexible apps, I think you'd probably want a Javacard like those sold by https://www.smartcardfocus.com/shop/ilp/se~71/java-cards/p/i... , not a special "PGP Card".
Don't mention Postbank... The only reason why I didn't switch yet is, that due to their IT migration, man did they botch it, I am affraid they botch the account move as well.

That being said, Postbank is actually rather good. They have physical locations in every postal office, before their migration their online banking worked great. They used to be reliable, offered good conditions. Well, I'll propably not move anyway, assuming things return to normal once the migration project is done.
The anime moyashimon tales of agriculture goes into detail on all sorts of fermentation processes around the world including an episode on kiviaq. It's a fun introduction to types of fermentation!

https://myanimelist.net/anime/3001/Moyashimon
I've come to the same conclusion, really smart people who write compilers, name their variables one single letter and the like (the extreme variant) etc., they can actually see the matrix beyond the funny characters on the screen, they have the capacity and attention to understand the messy bits without having to make it neat, those three nested for-loops inside multiple conditionals don't bother them, they can quickly visually parse difficult code without refactoring and sectioning it off.
On the opposite side, there some like me who are deficient in that regard, so I spend my time pimping my code to look nice, nit-picking on syntax style, eliminating else-clauses, trivial stuff like that.
A savings account is not cash…

CASH is cash. Keep it in a vault. The cost of holding it is not nothing.