skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ETA

> 'decision given within three days.' (so too long to book a last minute weekend trip)

> may also need to take a “dynamic selfie,”

> eventually require all travelers to submit fingerprint biometrics

I live in France, and used to go to the UK on organised trips, schools trips, holiday camps, or with friends, for a weekend to two weeks, because it was so easy to go there !
We would go to London, to Wales, Baths, Scottland, and all over; i loved that place.

You just needed any ID back then. No passport, no online application, ... And there were plenty of flights, trains, coaches and ferry services.

But that's something we haven't done since Brexit. I'm the only one in the crew with a passport.
Now the ETA adds even more complexity. If any of my friend eventually get a passport, I would have to convince them to get an ETA.

Why is the UK making it so complicated for regional travellers ? Brexit was already a strong signal that they didn't want Polish or mainland Europeans anymore. And now there is some additional vetting you need to do in advance.

In the meantime, you can also go to plenty of lovely places hassle free, and where you're sure to be allowed in : Germany (even Bayern), Italy, Spain, Poland, France, Croatia,...

Why would anyone bother to go to the UK anymore ? Especially for weekend trips ? In uni, foreign students used to know all of Europe better than locals, because they wouldn't want to apply for a UK visa while they had the Schengen one.

Now, it will be all of us.
No one expected interest rate rises like we’ve experienced.

FOMC meeting minutes November, 2021:

The Committee seeks to achieve maximum employment and inflation at the rate of 2 percent over the longer run. With inflation having run persistently below this longer-run goal, the Committee will aim to achieve inflation moderately above 2 percent for some time so that inflation averages 2 percent over time and longer‐term inflation expectations remain well anchored at 2 percent. The Committee expects to maintain an accommodative stance of monetary policy until these outcomes are achieved. The Committee decided to keep the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 percent and expects it will be appropriate to maintain this target range until labor market conditions have reached levels consistent with the Committee’s assessments of maximum employment and inflation has risen to 2 percent and is on track to moderately exceed 2 percent for some time. [1]

Rather than earn the 0.1%, which likely wouldn’t have even covered the cost of servicing the deposits, the more principled stance, which for example Singapore banks took, was to simply reject the extra deposits.

But let’s not pretend that consumers, finding that they can’t deposit money with the bank, wouldn’t have likely bought long duration assets themselves (crypto, NFTs, meme stocks, and tech stocks were the market leaders in inflows over this time period, after all).

[1]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/monetary...
So their bond prices went down and made them bankrupt, how does the math work in simple terms?
Since when was that not a precedent? Hanging tough fails 9 times out of 10.
I have no problem believing you totally missed the point.
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> You can't fault depositors for not doing thorough diligence on a 40-year-old bank with a good reputation

The 40-year-old bank with a good reputation was offering deals that were too good to be true, like 4.5% APR on a savings account (other high yield savings accounts are at 3.5% right now, and those are online banks that achieve those rates by having minimal overhead). Naive startup founders aside, the VCs should have known better than to think interest rates like that were coming from a bank that was playing it safe, and for them to now be asking for the taxpayer to make up the difference between the bank's assets and their startups' deposits is weird.

They knew they were advising their startups to put all of their money into a high reward system, but we're supposed to believe that they didn't realize that was also high risk?
Yep.

There is also "bad person" without scare quotes to consider.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_sp...
> Weights aren't a compressed representation of the data it was trained on because 99.99% of it can't be recovered verbatim.

Cool. So a low quality JPEG isn't a compressed representation?
I’m not trying to sentence them to the guillotine or anything. I appreciate the strong incentives driving their actions. Even the desire for the government to retroactively insure their deposits is understandable, although I disagree. In the OP I said they’re not completely blameless; I should emphasize I also think they’re not completely to blame. (Except for the shrill, nigh-hysterical tone of their demand, and the extraordinary timeline they demanded. That one’s all on them.)
Tucker doesn’t claim that his signal account was hacked. He says that he was told “the nsa pulled your texts with another person you were texting.”

This could mean that the other person was hacked, or even that they weren’t using signal at all and were using SMS.
Colloquially, a bailout implies taxpayer funded. Otherwise, it is known as charity/donation/investment.
It's mostly businesses though, not people. If you have >1 employee you def. should have at least 250K in the bank.
Imported images from /r/earthporn are browseable at https://scenery.cx/

Note to blog author, the 'use IPFS' link ends up pointing to 127.0.0.1, which may or may not be what was intended?
> So people with this much wealth asking for a bailout is literally rich people asking for coverage because they did something dumb

Not people. Businesses.

SVB, to my knowledge, mostly consisted of businesses with some well-off individuals mixed in.

If we want to punish rich people for the crime of being rich, SVB is likely a bad battlefield because zero-ing out its customers will almost entirely hurt employees who are generally not wealthy.
That says more about you, frankly.

Eastern Europeans often drop articles because that’s (apparently) what they do in some Slavic languages. That’s a minor second/third-language quirk, not about an intellectual deficiency (lack of capacity).

Of course, some extra whitespace is even more harmless.
Not sure I follow. SVB engaged in risky behavior by taking decisions that ultimately put customer deposits at risk.

If they were genuinely solvent, their business would have been completely impervious to all sorts of rumours (whether true or false).
I think this has interesting overlap with the concept of illegal numbers [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
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This is the only way.

The moment that the government guarantees or bails out deposits above the FDIC limit, taxpayers assume all risk over the entire banking sector and losses are socialized. That would be the official start of the end of free market economy.

There's a well traveled process to winding down a bank and recovering what is left for depositors. Let's not try to fix what isn't broken.
‘Eternal September’ possibly started as far back as 1993, so this particular nostalgia isn’t unique.
Who’s talking about using taxpayer money?
There's no way that the variance allowed is +/- 20%. That's insane.

Does that also imply that a 30mg Adderall could come out as either a 24mg or a 36mg? In reality that is likely easier for the manufacturer to detect than the individual weights of the active ingredients in a random mixture, but still.
Surprising similarities in stone tools of early humans and monkeys
The asterisk is an approximation of dot, not a replacement for x. They just mean the same thing on scalars.
“Healthy obesity” doesn’t exist. It is unequivocally bad for you
Isn’t that exactly what SVB did?

(EDIT - see replies below for why it is not)
So they will use cash flow or sell assets. The biggest risk is large coordinated layoffs affecting the job market, but there are other ways the government can intervene to protect individuals if that gets too dire.
You misread what I said above:

> similar name to a "bad person"

If you share the same name with someone on a watch list, you may be required to physically attend an interview at the embassy. That's a huge burden and something visa free travelers may not have had to do before.
For sure, the assumption of ignorance definitely doesn’t apply here.
Do you have any links handy?
I think Medium uses hairspaces. And of course there’s some automation since all writers seem to get that thing.

There ends my trivia about that unusable site.
You're not wrong, but the purpose of "moral hazard" is to punish risky investments.

What are you trying to punish here? Founders who didn't want to waste time messing around with multiple banks?
I think some governments prefer to charge for things that cost them money as to not end up like Colombia.
They're not dragged down yet. We'll see this coming week
My first for pay project was modifying a Mac HyperCard, Gopher server in 1993 that used C based XFNs (?) for TCP/IP (yeah there was such a thing) to implement a chatbot.

My earliest post I can find on Usenet was from 1993.

Yeah I learned a lot from comp.lang.c. But there really wasn’t that much of value for research. Sure there was tidbits and ftp Mac archive sites for shareware.
Is here someone familiar with the situation?

Can you explain what the students and DEI dean are upset about? What did Duncan do to deserve the treatment he received?
“ Janet Yellen said on Sunday that the US government was working closely with banking regulators to help depositors at Silicon Valley Bank but dismissed the idea of a bailout.
Speaking with CBS on Sunday, the treasury secretary sought to assure US customers of the failed tech lender that policies were being discussed to stem the fallout from the sudden collapse this week. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporate (FDIC) took control of the bank on Friday morning.
“Let me be clear that during the financial crisis, there were investors and owners of systemic large banks that were bailed out . . . and the reforms that have been put in place means we are not going to do that again,” Yellen said.
“But we are concerned about depositors, and we’re focused on trying to meet their needs.”
It reminds me of the strong feelings about Comic Sans.

The guy who created it said something like, “If you love Comic Sans you don’t know much about typography and should probably get a new hobby. And if you hate Comic Sans you don’t know much about typography and should probably get a new hobby.”

I feel the same about this. The average person has about a billion things to improve in their writing before the “correct” use of different dashes should become something they think about.
It sure did, every part of their business was investment grade and as of last week it was rated A by Moodys.

https://ir.svb.com/shareholder-and-bondholder-information/cr...
I don't think "struggling" is the right perspective here. If you have more RAM available, the browser is built to prefer using it in lieu of re-fetching data or writing to disk. Using RAM is orders of magnitude faster and results in a snappier app across tabs, when you browse history, etc. It's not hungry because the browser is written poorly. There's no magic data structure that can keep us from caching HTTP responses in order to make the browser snappy so the browser uses more when you have more.

Certainly other apps could do better. But I've made peace with the fact that browsers and IDEs, for instance, should use as much as I have available because the whole point is for them to be fast and to be fast they need to cache as much data as possible.
there is a very concerted pr effort to spin it that way, and people regurgitate pr memes.

the underlying issue was that SVB knew they were f'd and so they were begging VCs to stop taking money out because they knew they couldnt cover and those VCs turned around and pulled money faster, because that is what smart money does.

SVBs bargaining chip was that the VCs wouldnt want the books being opened, which is what happens when the fed takes over, but the VCs called their bluff, because they figured they were well enough insulated from any potential fall out.

this is america, so we have the keating S&L scandal, ltcm, enron, worldcom, countrywide financial, 2008. the game never stops.
There's a middle ground here that few people seem to have.

1. There should be no bailout.

2. The bank had a ton of assets and those assets still belong to the depositors.

3. The depositors shouldn't necessarily be made whole beyond their $250,000 insured amount, but denying them the bank deposits is also wrong. Getting 80 cents on the dollar for their deposits seems completely fine for example, or whatever that number turns out to be based on remaining assets.

4. Nothing is deserved to the bank owners/shareholders. If there happens to be more assets than there was deposits, then this money can go to owners/shareholders.
If there's a source that supports using words like "spot" (which implies CV in this context nowadays) and "inadequate" (which implies some dystopian thought policing) I'd love to read it. But the linked article is nothing like the title, so I gotta flag it!
32GB is pretty good for my business case so I don't see the need for more RAMs in the next say 5 years.
The "problem" being referred to here is teacher pay, not academic achievement; and the OP is stating that increasing --not decreasing-- the number of students per teacher would be one potential solution.

But all that aside, how many years do you anticipate your daughter will be in this type of environment before the "school system adjusts to the new normal?"
Everybody used to make content for free in the early 2000s, that's a shallow argument.

That's what communities do, they cooperate out of the mutual benefit the cooperation achieves.

The monetization of content was born out of the ad business model. Someone had to pay the bill of the tools the tech giants were building, not the bill of small content creating communities and individuals.

It was, and still is, relatively cheap to run a blog or a forum. Individuals can pay for it, and a couple dozen people can share the upkeep burden of relatively big forums with no issue. Now, however, everybody wants to turn everything into a profit, simply because it's so easy to do it, so "why not?". If you can monetize your own pet dog, your child, the food you eat, why not?

And now we're all furbed.
This has gotta be one of the dumbest, most self-negating arguments I’ve seen so far. ‘I asked Nature to request that Shi publish several SARS-related coronavirus sequences that had been reported in the journal. Within days, she provided them. The result: no smoking gun; they were all much more distantly related to SARS-CoV-2 than RaTG13.’ Let me get this straight - you are asking a scientist with the most to lose from this potential debacle to hand over evidence of her own central involvement and then using that to refute the lab leak? I’m just boggled by how naive some of these supposedly intelligent scientists are. If you are going to prove or disprove the lab leak hypothesis you cannot rely on evidence provided by the lab because the lab and the government that runs it have a massive conflict of interest with respect to this issue. They may well be telling the truth, but you have to find that out through evidence that wasn’t provided to you by them. Duh.
It’s like asking a suspect to hand over the murder weapon. Don’t be surprised when what they give you implicates someone else.
Given that boys are frequently socialized to swallow their feelings rather than express them, I wonder if focusing on SEL for boys will help bridge the gap.
Doesn't help that Firefox for several years already has had a really annoying leak that happens with random websites (I open FF taskmanager), it starts piling up after weeks of not turning off your PC (I noticed because between Thesis/Work/Warcraft 3 modding and other stuff I just didn't have time to restart all my work every morning) so I'd leave my PC on.

Firefox got to a point where it was consuming 24 GIGS OF RAM, yes, 24, on my 32GB of RAM machine, and you'd say oh but that's still okay, your PC should function properly, nope, once it starts leaking FF starts hogging your PC, even at like 8GBs of RAM it's already hogging the PC.

I don't really know what's going on but FF mods on reddit and such are on denial and gaslight you about it, it's been this way on several operating systems (windows 10 and now 11) and with or without addons (not like I use any special addon, really, just basically Ublock, although now I've started using clickbait remover, sponsorblock and bypass paywall).

For the same amount of tabs open Edge and Brave for example use like 3gbs or less of RAM, even after months.
In that video he calmly replies "You're an appalling idiot" to the person calling him* "disgusting". I was more interested in the alleged shouting at civil questions.

*Correction: The student is calling what he's doing disgusting, not the man himself.

> Your typical Stanford student, assuming they're not a legacy, is extremely hard-working and bright. Top of their class. Whereas your typical judge is a mediocre lawyer who happened to be a known commodity among oily politicians.

The typical judge, perhaps, but Duncan [0] graduated summa cum laude [1] from Louisiana State University, which seems to be well regarded, and earned a Master of Laws from Columbia Law School, which is "widely regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world and has always ranked in the top five schools in the United States" [2].

But more pertinent is engineer_22's comment [3] that he was invited to speak by some of those students you think so highly of.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Duncan_(judge)

[1] meaning "with highest praise", typically awarded to graduates in the top 1%, 2%, or 5% of their class - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_honors#Distinctions

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Law_School

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35121972
> Taxpayers benefit enormously from a banking system that isn't a crapshoot.

I wonder how many people here would be screaming the exact opposite if this was their personal banking account?

Yes, you can spread your money among multiple accounts. However, data shows it's exceedingly rare (1) an individual bank to fail (2) depositors to loose any money when a bank fails.

According to the FDIC list of failed banks [0], there have only been 17 bank failures in the past 5 years. It's been 9 years since a bank has failed without finding an acquirer.

To say this is something you must plan for is a bit of a stretch.

* https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/fai...
It will almost certainly harm boys. Thinking back to when I was in elementary school, most of the boys in my classes would have rolled their eyes and then made fun of this, then they would have gotten in trouble. Young boys need competition and activity to thrive, not cartoons
Israel has a very large startup and VC culture, like California in some ways.
The techniques that control the way electrons flow in silicon is hard to grok. But that gives way to logic gates, that let you build CPUs with branch predictors. The way that branch predictors actually work in CPUs is hard to grok but how to write code that keeps their implications in mind is more approachable. Learning how to use libraries that leverage the above is even easier to grok.

Technology is built upon a stack of useful abstractions, and the ability to understand in deep technical detail the entire stack is a super power. There's no reason why computational physics shouldn't work the same way.
Recipes are not databases. You can repost a recipe straight up. The recipe itself is not copyrightable. The blog post/cookbook/etc which has a recipe embedded could be. (Copyrighted works can contain uncopyrightable elements)
> Unbelievable. Now we're to be angry at (or at least, suspicious of) Eich for inventing Javascript? Because... it can used for evil? Is that really a path we should be going down? Is Tim Berners-Lee next? Come on.

There is literally no good case for JavaScript. It's literally malware: code that runs on your machine without your explicitly installing it and does things that serves the website, not the user. The fact that it's in a sandbox to limit the harm it can cause is nice, but it doesn't really solve the fundamental problem.

Formats such as social media profiles, recipes, etc., would have been better served as document formats separate from or included in HTML.

More complex things like Google Maps could have been done as native apps--and still are, because the web app simply can't provide the same level of experience as a native app.

> They started trying to solve the problem of facilitating an advertising model that respects privacy and rewarding creators (users) with revenue in the form of BAT tokens.

If I want to reward a creator I can pay them without a middle man: BAT complicates that rather than simplifying it.

Advertising is a social harm. An advertising model that respects privacy, still disrespects attention, bandwidth, power usage, etc.

It should be clear that content creators aren't browser's target users, but since you brought it up: advertising generally creates a race to the bottom which incentivizes low-quality, low-effort content creation which creates a filtering problem: now it's hard to find the high-quality content amid the half-assed AI-generated nonsense. Publications which are high enough quality to be paid for, such as the NYT, have obviously been harmed by ad-based business models becoming the norm.

> Say what you want about the execution, or the idea in general — but it's a noble goal.

Their goal is to make money, and they've set it up so that their goal of making money is dependent on pleasing advertisers, not users.

The noble goals you're claiming simply are not true.
That sounds like hell. People need sunlight to live.

The solution is not cubicles, or even closed offices. Just open offices with ~1/3 of the regular density of people per square metre would be good. It also gets you the promised "seamless collaboration" of open offices.
Thank you for the details, and pointer to a solution. I've just installed gopass.

I also (in looking through other threads) found https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass and by reading the code learned how TOTP works.
https://archive.is/sFcBm
Yeah this was first used in Microsoft Edge, it's pretty good
Headscale seems to implement (almost?) all of the current Tailscale functionality, so I wouldn't be surprised if they added support for this too. They even seem to be friendly with the Tailscale folks.
It flickers on a 50/60Hz CRT. As a kid, I toyed with "extra colors" quite a lot on C64, Atari, Color Computer 3.

There are three basic methods:

One is discussed here, cycle between two colors. Low contrast changes are best.

Artifact color is what the Apple 2 computers use, and that is basically using high resolution graphics to get colors when the small pixel size results in frequencies the NTSC color circuits see as color info.

https://forums.atariage.com/blogs/entry/6693-color-computer-...

The CoCo3 had a 640 pixel mode able to generate one byte per pixel, 256 color mode. A very nice find for a kid! The link is that graphics trick reproduced for others to see today.

This method is all about NTSC.

And the third way to get more color was all about PAL and I have PAL CRT displays now and should get PAL hardware to explore this method. Did not have access to anything PAL as a kid, sadly.

This method involved changing colors on alternating frames and vertical alignment of pixels. I could not find a reference image. This was probably not done much.