skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like due to chatGPT the software world will see lots of money-grab schemes and low-effort garbage. Pretty sad, we have enough of that already.
"Eighty per cent of priests working at the Vatican are gay, although not necessarily sexually active, it is claimed in the book, In the Closet of the Vatican."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/12/four-in-five-v...
I have a small Perl script that has been useful for the last 20 years.

It uses OLE to open Word documents and print them to PDF. Nowadays Word has a save to pdf option, but initially the script would print to postscript and then convert to PDF with Ghost.

It runs from IIS, but over the years it has been used as a CLI tool or with Apache.

So far nothing has shown to be as reliable as this script at converting to PDF. It would be great not to depend on Word or even Windows, but there's nothing that can convert with the same level of fidelity.
If in the end the government is needed to (at least temporarily) backstop any deposits anyway, then why have commercial banks for deposits in the first place? Might was well give anyone an account at the Fed or something like that and fund loans and other assets at commercial banks out of bonds, CDs, etc. and never deposits.
Don't mean to be a snob, but you mean "hackernews' 9/11" :)
Is it feasible to keep active cash flow spread across multiple financial institutions? (Honest question)

Being insured for $250k is payroll for about 10 people for a month. If your other funds were in a line of credit that abruptly closed or in equities that may not be worth as much when everyone shows up on Monday, what options are there?
IMO where Philips went wrong is selling off their name for everything they weren't interested in to cheap brands, totally undermining their name. TVs (Philips CRT tubes) were legendary in the 80s, now they're made by a budget OEM from Hong Kong. Pretty much all home electronics in the end. Very bad strategy, with minor short-term rewards and killing the brand long-term.
NB. I don’t think SVB-UK had £25billion in deposits? Reporting says high single digit £billions. It looks like the BoE forced them to create a UK subsidiary anyway if they wanted to keep their UK banking licence.
Google reader died because Chrome to this date don't have a native RSS support. When Chrome was taking over the world, other major browsers (I only remember Firefox and opera) had native RSS support.

As people moved to Chrome, they started to forget and use RSS less and therefore the decline and the death of reader.
Regulators face questions over missed warning signs at Silicon Valley Bank
https://archive.is/YJXp6
In the process of “shut up and calculate” (SUAC) you often come upon much deeper insights about the involved processes and quantities than you ever could with wordy and “understandable” explanations. Of course simple, explainable models are great, but they have limited ability to describe the world, which is much more complicated. I don’t see how successfully handling this complexity (and getting the successful predictions) could take away from understanding.

It’s not like those SUAC disciplines don’t have simple explainable models. In my opinion It’s just that in order to describe phenomena really accurately or if the described phenomena are complicated enough the only way to get reliable and improvable predictions is via complicated SUAC-type calculations.
For a solvent bank, assets >= liabilities. Customer deposits are liabilities on a balance sheet.
But the reason why they'd take a massive haircut if sold today is that when they get the principal back in 10 years it will probably be worth a lot less. Their assets are completely liquid, they're just worth a lot less right now than what they're owed, and for good reason. That the assets might nominally cover the deposits in 10 years is besides the point, the depositors don't want to wait 10 years. Whoever pays to make depositors whole, be it FDIC, tax payers or other banks/bank customers, is transferring real value to the SVB depositors.
HSBC just restructured, I've been an HSBC US customer for 10 years including business banking, they're not going anywhere, just only serving high net worth and business now. I agree it would have been nice if they bought SVB, they'v been great for me with my startups, they're really good at business banking.
Look on the back of your iPhone or MacBook. Where does it say it's manufactured?

Apple and others don't build their stuff in China anymore because it's the cheapest option. Far from it. The electronics supplier I used to have as a customer would assemble stuff in Ukraine(pre-war) because the worker wages there were lower than in China. But they didn't assemble iPhones there or anything close to that quality, complexity or volume. If you just need a country to assemble pre-made components as if it were LEGOs, that's not dealing with super high volumes and high complexity, like white goods for example, then even Eastern Europe is cheaper than China.

They build stuff in China because of the entire supply chain supporting the manufacture and assembly of such cutting edge devices in high volume. Stuff like machining millions of small aluminium/steel frames, batteries, tiny screws, custom flex cables or connectors. It's much easier to ramp up production of iPhones when a lot of these parts (outside the semiconductor chips which need to be imported) are developed and manufactured right next door to the final assembly and testing plant, instead of another country. Also, it makes your prototyping much faster since you can have the next iteration of a part on your doorstep in less than 24 hours.

Now China is already gaining significant market share in cutting edge OLED display market to muscle out Samsung and LG. Look up BOE. Apple used their displays in the iPhone 14 series and will use even more in the iPhone 15. China was also pushing strong in cutting edge chip manufacturing but US & allies made sure to knee-cap them in time to slow them down.

Scuffing off China as just a country for cheap manufacturing is a gross underestimation that hasn't been true in over 10 years.
Why is there a secret meeting? can they meet in public?
Lol.

Has a market cap of twice that of netflix but not a giant?

Where do you draw the line?
This is so far away from my perspective that it's genuinely shocking. My gut reaction to your comment is outrage honestly.

Footsteps approaching definitely distract me, 100%, every time, especially if they're distinct footsteps like heels or boots with a solid sole on hard wood.

I don't suffer any known cognitive conditions, perhaps ADHD (but I am not diagnosed).

If it is ADHD then that affects a DIAGNOSED 13% of humanity[0], and far more people are undiagnosed, though we get better every year at diagnosing it. So if I have ADHD and this is the cause then I am far from alone here.

However, in Coffee Shop settings I can tune out the background, I have less anxiety from being disturbed, watched or expected to listen in. So, take from that what you will I guess.

[0]: https://chadd.org/about-adhd/general-prevalence/
https://archive.ph/uh0MO
If Google cared about RSS, they would have had RSS support in Chrome. They don't have it to this date. When Chrome launched other browsers had RSS support of some sort.
Surely the whole point of AWS credits is that you're paying a vendor with them.
So to sum it up, it is never an individual's fault, but rather the environment acting on him.
If you enjoy it, it is like playing games for 3 months and make 65k.
I might be missing something, but not sure why this was downvoted.

Deposits <$250k are FDIC insured. One could say those accounts didn't evaluate the institution that held their funds and didn't really need to. But were they aware of FDIC limits? IMHO, they should have been and likely were.

Depositors >$250k are well aware of FDIC and the risk associated with money in their bank. They really should think about the banks they work with and understand their risk profiles.

Subjective, but I understood how FDIC worked when I opened my first bank account that was no where close to 250k. If it was greater, I would optimize my holdings across different institutions and instruments.
10% is not negligible and it would be way more across continents around the globe.

But if one could build indeed a global lossless energy grid, than this would mean solar power for everyone all the time, as somewhere on the planet, the sun is always shining.
The issue will probably be solved this year with value types in Java.
https://openjdk.org/jeps/8277163,
https://www.baeldung.com/java-valhalla-project,
https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/java-jdk-18-evolu...
I'm not sure this is a very good measure. It is worrying, for sure, but the top 100 is cramped

I'd argue the total market cap (or maybe revenue, etc) of top-500 might be a better measure. Surely it has gone down but maybe by less

Also China's growth was the exceptional thing here

(but yeah European management of those classic big companies fumbled a lot)
Sure .. if by "super-rare" you actually mean common-place and the norm at Christian Brother Institutions for orphaned boys.

https://kelsolawyers.com/au/paedophile_offenders/brother-kea...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39078652

NB: These are just the orphanages in a single Australian State - if you'd care to read the various lengthy Royal Commission reports you can find such abuse by Catholic Priests was widespread across the country.
The 2008 financial disaster led to regulations on banks which largely seem to avoid the need for govt bailouts of the big banks, but these regulations only patched up the type of issue 2008 posed, in particular working for banks where the majority of holders have below $250K.

In the cases of SVB you have a totally different kind of bank with 90%+ of the capital in accounts well above $250K. And the size of the bank was right below where regulations kick in, so the issue here is not that the bank in itself was too big, if anything it was too small, it's that if this previously top notch regional bank failed in a way that hurt depositors, a slew of other regional bank runs would follow.

Not sure what the long term solution is, but there will probably be additional regulation to patch up this kind of issue and at the least any VC will ask startups to prove that their capital is diversified as a condition for investment.
Public perception and whether or not they pay FAANGM salaries? Just a wild guess.
Obviously the regulations need to change, and frankly bad regulation is probably complicit in this whole affair. SVB is almost certainly NOT the only bank that invested money like this without the government knowing.

What really worries me is that the regulators might have seen these investments and not understood they were risky. Government bonds are pretty safe, right? Duration risk is sneaky and even though it’s obvious now, SVB was locked in back when rates were super low. Realizing the risk anytime after they got locked in is too late!

Applying the same stress tests to all banks regardless of the amount of deposits they have would be a good start.

Also, the FDIC insurance limit would be a lot higher than $250k if it followed inflation, but even if it did, a lot of businesses need to keep a lot of cash around to make payroll and float expenses. It doesn’t make sense for them to have the same type of insurance, and the same limits, as an individual person’s checking account.
I am French so I know pretty well what's happening at least in one major European country. It's got its issues for sure (including very recent strikes) and it's definitely been hit by inflation and the energy crisis, but is nowhere near as bad as what's happening in the UK. Critical infrastructure isn't (yet?) collapsing there.
Using a narrow/full reserve bank.
There aren't enough Catholic priests to go around anyway. So the priests are often hopping back and forth between parishes, figuratively and actually.

So its no real surprise they don't want to go after the straight ones, and yet, they must figure blowing off a few toes won't hurt too much.
VAT as in Value Added Tax? How so?
I've worked with i-enk devices before. High-refresh mode nukes your battery worse than normal LCDs.
But in the future we can avoid such situations on deposits: Why should commercial banks be allowed to fund themselves via deposits? If deposits are inviolable, they really shouldn't be with commercial banks but rather with the Fed etc.
> FPGAs are basically big fat lookup tables

I never said anything about FPGAs though. If you are telling me how microcode might be useful in overcoming limitations of FPGAs, I’m not sure what relevance that has to most microprocessors, which aren’t implemented as FPGAs
Bunki, a C Coroutine Library
Most of the abuse in the catholic church is against young boys. The priests are literally homosexual pedophiles.
Why shouldn’t parts of a functional financial system be allowed to fail without massive contagion? Part of a healthy market economy is providing ways for weak businesses to fail and be replaced with new competitors.

Why are some businesses more equal than others?
Where injuries are, to use a morbid phrase, ‘incompatible with life’, a paramedic can declare them dead, but a doctor needs to issue the certificate with the cause of death.
Just do some basic functional programming. And/or do some of these challenges and don't feel like a cheater if you look at other peoples solutions: https://github.com/type-challenges/type-challenges
So, if I understand correctly, that's what you need to run the best model?

With GPU:

VRAM + RAM >= 68/2

Without GPU:

RAM >= 68/2
I'd kinda sussed out the first option myself. It's still too much of a hassle to bother, most of the time. And it's ridiculous that we have to jump through these kind of hoops just to render the comments in a sensible chronological fashion.
I think it's great. I picked it up on a whim, and it then managed to turn into my default (code) editor.
The good:
-Closeness to Vim and the floating option menu (if you eg. press g, it shows you what options you have in the lower right of the screen) make it really easy to learn and be productive with
-Some amazing defaults. m (for select inner word, delimiter, function, class, etc.) is great, the multi-cursor mode is absolutely amazing and wipes the floor with Vim's "search and replace" functionality for all sorts of reasons.
-Multi-cursor mode and the s-key (take a selection, filter by regex) is absolutely amazing in general. Makes it incredibly easy to perform repetitive edits.
-All sorts of stuff just works
-Built in treesitter for movements and highlighting, and built-in LSP support which works great
-Helix makes NeoVim look old and crufty. When loading NeoVim it was common to run into annoyances with plugins, where it felt like various plugins or functionalities are "fighting" each other over control. Helix feels very slick and modern in comparison,
-you don't need 90% of the classic vim plugins most people use, since they're already built into the program

The bad:
-Still lacks certain features, apparently softwrapping lines at screen-width is currently being worked on, and that's a feature I've been waiting for
-Can't do some of the fancy stuff you can do with vim plugins, eg. LaTeX support with PDF-viewer connection, or Jupyter notebooks, or whatever sort of highly specific thing you might want to do
-Not as good at editing plaintext as Vim. Vim has eg. das ~ "delete as sentence", Helix doesn't. Couple that with lack of softwrapping (for now), and it's a pain

It's pretty great, and I see no reason not to use it. I run into situations where Helix isn't suitable (eg. LaTeX or plaintext), and then I just switch to regular NeoVim. The keybinds are close enough that it's easy to switch back and forth
My anecdata: the reverse is true for me. I have a bank and a CU. My bank is responsive, friendly and efficient. Fewer fees, better returns, more products and better suited for someone with my finances.

CU is inept, long hold/queue times. Every transaction is a comedy of errors. They messed up my SDB 3 times. Their OLB web app once leaked private customer information about 2-3 other members into my inbox.

I aimed to totally ditch CU, but once I got the bank all set up, realized I absolutely couldn't, so now I juggle both.
Certainly, but what should be clear here is that we are not rescuing a failed investment. We are not giving out money to those who lost on crypto or whatever other risky asset. People are getting furious because they think something analogous to that is actually happening, when in fact all those companies are not at fault and did not benefit from SVB's suboptimal resource allocation.
Not necessarily, the govt is still shopping for a buyer. You can looking into Wamu+Chase for a historic example. SVB has an even more attractive client base, ripe actually for even a rogue nation-state to sabotage.

Note also although TARP was as derided as it was, the govt and the public made a fantastic return on their investment
As SVB UK is supposed to be ring-fenced and isolated from the US entity, then real title is "HSBC spends 1 GBP, and gets a company worth 10B+ GBP, no liabilities, and 1.4B profit on its balance sheet".

"SVB U.K. had loans of around £5.5 billion and deposits of around £6.7 billion, with £88 million of full-year profit before tax in 2022, HSBC highlighted in the Monday statement. The bank expects SVB U.K.’s tangible equity to be around £1.4 billion, but added that “final calculation of the gain arising from the acquisition will be provided in due course."
What Happened to SVB – A Notebook
Well, I already mentioned one, implicit choices. The "opsec safe" way to work around this is usually to just use a different --homedir. Another big issue I have is how easy it is to make assumptions as a user that aren't neccessarily true. Like that an encrypted message is usually signed, and that it isn't trivial to strip off signatures from encrypted payloads. I would absolutely never assume journalists know the threat model of GPG, which properties what message has, the potholes to avoid... I'd wager that even veteran users would occasionally fall for one of the many usability issues. And if it's just "sorry I lost my key".

I consider UX issues crucial to a security product, when fucking up can have severe consequences depending on what you do with GPG.
The highest rate is 42 cents for 100$ per Year? After 240 Years of insurance the cost might be covered? Why don't i get such deals? ;-)
I think Siemens fits in the list as well.
> It's said that no bank (even the best-managed) can withstand a fullscale bank run

I keep reading this but this should not be true

Any bank will hit liquidity issues on a full-on bank run, as not 100% of a banks assets will be marketable, but central banks will provide emergency liquidity in these situations

But banks should not hit insolvency issues like SVB did
Genuine question - why doesn't it matter?

If I buy $1000 worth of bonds at 2% interest rate for 10 years, my expected return is 1000 * .02 * 10 or $200, making the bond worth at maturity $1200. This bond is worth $1000 today and will return $200. If the bond price falls to $.80 on the dollar or $800 and I am forced to sell today to make my depositors whole, now there is a realized loss - $200 from the original price and $200 from the eventual returns.

If I can wait I have $400 more. If I can't and have to sell then I lose $400.
> And when other business can not pay salaries because of events they could not control

Can you give an example of such a company? I can’t think of a way in which an otherwise healthy (long term viable) company could suddenly be unable to make payroll in such a way that assistance would not be available (e.g. inexpensive bridge loan), or the company should not have bought relevant insurance.

Literally the only thing I can think of is if smaller banks failed and companies were stuck with 250k + haircuts and didn’t get this same deal. So did that actually happen?
One has to keep in mind a lot of them aren't too bright. The fifty dollar children's edition encyclopaedia on whatever technical topic trumps someone who's written a good page into the deeper workings that has not found its way into commercially available literature, of whatever electronic internals which might be only of interest to a few hobbyists and sounds about right by others in the same field. Equally any text deleting hound needs to light up after removing a rather important and valuable to some, still in the process of being completed, identification key that surpasses anything else yet published.
C# does indeed produce a rather tight assembly

https://sharplab.io/#v2:EYLgtghglgdgNAFxBAzmAPgAgLACgACATAMx...
The prior course involves implementing a code generating compiler with optimisation passes etc for a language.
It's also protected in Germany by Datenschutz I believe.
HSBC made a deal too good to be true, that it sounds like it may be hiding something.

Nobody can buy a profitable, stable, multi-billion company for 1 GBP, without a good cause.

Yes, SVB UK is legally fenced, but in terms of management and daily practices, why wouldn't they have the same issues as their parent ?
Its extremely easy to criticise Thiel without making weak arguments like this. Criticise his investment choices or his company or his political affiliations, there's actual substance there. Blaming someone for doing the stock market thing correctly is just dumb.
Catholic priests can't quit being priests. It's a permanent-sin status like divorce.
That's the same problem, though, isn't it? Like, you are clearly not one of those people (based on your response there). And that's great: Google probably needs as lot of people like you to care to come up with new features and products. But the vast majority of jobs in this world--including ones that pay quite well, such as "doctor"--are not activities that are going to involve "scope and impact": they involve doing maintenance work using the established protocol--preferably with careful, predictable performance--on an existing system that someone designed or scoped potentially a long long time ago... one would expect most of software engineering would be the same way.
It's an in extra cost that the government is forcing people to pay against their will, in order to achieve social objectives decided by the government. It's a tax and making banks act as the collectors doesn't change that. I really hope the tech community doesn't try and pull this sort of stupid word game on the rest of society because everyone will see through it.
It's surprising to me that a 90% backstop wouldn't have been sufficient. Make 90% of balances available today and commit that any residue will first be paid to those that leave their money behind.

Having no consequence for those with a $3.3b balance creates too much moral hazard.
where is there any indication that money is being printed for this? if anything trillions have been printed to support the so-called "peasants" (hate that term) that kick-started the avalanche.
I had the same thought. Kotlin and TypeScript have a good approach here. Don’t avoid using nulls at runtime, just beef up the type system so you know at compile time when they might appear. (The only wrinkle in both cases is that you might have to interact with Java/JS code that might not be null-safe.)
You should use it because it's a super cool language, it's open source, and if people used it more to develop the package ecosystem a bit more, it would easily end up trumping all the others you mentioned.

Anecdotally, I used Octave during my PhD and it was a breath of fresh air (where matlab wasn't, for reasons I cant quite explain myself tbh).

I have also used (and still use) R, Python, and Julia. Octave is still the language I go to first to get things done fast.
> In my district in the UK, there were occasions when average wait times for an ambulance for a Category 1 incident (eg. person not breathing) reached 48 hours last month.

This is a pretty shocking number. Where can I read more about this?
But all weekend SVB UK has been claiming that SVB UK has no issue and is totally safe.

So if sold for 1 GBP, it's literally a steal.