skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many other experienced devs (me included) who simply don't see debuggers worth the effort in most cases. There are exceptions and every competent dev should know how to use one, but to me it is like using crutches - I run faster and better without them. I did use debuggers at the beginning though, a lot too. Then I learned to think about problems and to simplify design of the code, making debuggers much less useful.
The one redeeming quality of corporate Democrats is that they have zero sense of personal loyalty. It’s why no one of the left or right respects them. It sucks when they turn on a good man who made mistakes like Al Franken. But it’s fun to watch them fail to circle the wagons when it’s Theranos or FTX or Y Combinator.
This is and has always been nonsense. FAANGs (and more) all compete against each other and if they do not derive significant value from these hires, it doesn't make any strategic sense to bloat your headcount just to prevent your rivals from also bloating their own headcounts.

In case someone goes "but what about the startups" - it doesn't make sense for any individual large tech company to hire people just to prevent them from starting startups or being hired at startups, given that most startups don't compete with them and often help create moat for their own business, not to mention that their own hiring (as opposed to big tech hiring as a whole) has a negligible effect on the talent pool as a whole.
If you remove fractional reserve lending there's almost no loans available. Access to capital is one of the keys too allowing a company or asset grow.

All growth stops and you get deflation. Which isn't healthy either.
Every bank would be in trouble if everyone took their money out
The value-based price model at Cloudflare is a big turn off. Don't expect that all the Enterprise features are ready to be used in your Enterprise account. I can't remember that I have seen this feature in any Enterprise account.

With GCP, Azure and AWS you at least have an idea of what you are paying for. Cloudflare is more up to how lucky you got with your AM.
Thank you. The post author seemed to assume every reader should have known this
This is nowhere NEAR 2008. The financial crisis affected pretty much every bank on Wall St. This is localized to a small network of regional banks. Absolutely nothing indicates contagion.
So that's it, all 6500 employees are out of work? Is there any severance in this situation?
As of right now, yes. Give it a week, and it will get sorted out. In all likelihood, the bank will have a new owner by coming Monday/Tuesday and everyone will be able to make the transactions.
A Macbook Pro M1 would have the base M1 CPU while he was referring to the M1 Pro CPU in something like a Macbook Pro w/ M1 Pro. It's confusing naming by Apple.
Right. Everyone's a libertarian when the upside favors them and then suddenly a socialist when they actually experience downside.
I was obviously very wrong. I've never had an HN comment age so poorly, so fast.
This has been revolutionary here in Norway. We have gotten a lot of third party banking apps that lets you manage all your banking across differenta banks in one app etc. it has also forced a lot of the older banks to step up their online services, due to competition
Oof. Currently at Google. This feels very real.
Another bank will acquire the company and make depositors whole. Government won't actually do the bailout, just facilitate/force it.
Well, the situation was created by the government (fed raising rates). I don't see it as hypocritically as you do.

SVB is kindling a bank run right now.

https://nypost.com/2023/03/10/nypd-called-to-silicon-valley-...
I've accepted I don't have time to do everything I want. IN spite of that I feel like a lot of time is just disappearing. I've started tracking time over the passed couple of weeks using timery on ios and looking at my screen time usage on my phone. Turns out I spend a lot more time on Youtube and podcasts then I thought. Work is not more then 40 hours either. I haven't done anything about this data yet but at least I know what's happening.
Innovative for 1993 perhaps, when the design was written.
Looks mostly like a selective blur to me. You can get a very similar effect in Lightroom which can be tuned the other way, I took a photo of my son on the playground and emphasized skin imperfections so he looked like he had smoked 1,000,000 cigarettes and we thought it was a hoot.
sure, but they made it seem like they really just need a round of payroll for their companies and stuff can get sorted out after, or did I miss something?
I don't have any PR concern or disingenuousness, reality is that this is an exceedingly hard task to actually pull off with little or no payoff in the end.

For it to work, you have to know exactly which monitors could go into exactly which states (or range of values, etc) such that it constitutes a user facing outage that should be displayed publicly.

So you have to have automation around: How many users are affected? HOW are they affected? Is our homepage down but APIs still work? Is 1 API having issues but the other 100 just fine? Is there just some elevated latency but everything still works fine, or is it so elevated that we would call it an incident? Is it an internal tool that's broken? Is this a real alert or just an incidental alert due to a planned failover or a deploy and the metric loss is not indicative of user experience? Etc, etc.

It's truly an impossibly hard problem.
> Capital is just people doing the job they were hired to do

No, that's the people that are employed by the capital.
If you do entertain this worldview, then at the very least do it correctly.

The few people usually described as capital are the owners of the vast majority of wealth in the developed world.

And they're most assuredly not following the state. They're constantly pushing for unequal legislation and exploit as much as they can get away with. That's how they gain this kind of wealth
You write with authority, but then admit you haven't used this stuff for 8 years.

8 years ago you could already set up RAID or change BIOS settings using LOM, and KVMs were obsolete. The slightly janky Java remote access tools have been replaced by HTML 5 ones, and at least HP and Dell provide tools to script setting up a fleet of similar machines.

When I set up new servers, I photograph the sticker with the serial number, MAC address and LOM password, mostly so I can be sure exactly where each machine has been racked. Connect power, ethernet, LOM. Check the DHCP server log on the LOM network to see there are the expected number of new MAC addresses present, then go back to the office to finish the setup.
Putin didn't say it, but then he said he's not planning any invasion anyways. Here you can see various Russian tv personalities, we well as Lukasgenko, saying just that: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SuR7axsnUjw

And here is Sharij, a pro Russian journalist from Ukraine that's extremely popular, mocking all the reports of destruction of Russian forces on the first day and believing all the Russian lies, such as having destroyed all the anti aircraft systems of Ukraine:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7gO6vuI2-BQ

You must also understand that in Russian culture it was common to mock Ukrainians as dumb farmer hicks, while thinking of themselves as highly technologically advanced.
... it's only a little over 20 years old? You think it's been going down hill since early 2000s?
I had the exact same experience, and ended up replacing the battery myself. Not a difficult job, but extremely tedious.
Designers sure love gradients+noise. And dang does it look good.
Damn that's impressive! Wonder if it opens up an ssh port haha
I do see he gave an update, but it wasn't DreamHost.

>Update: thanks to the very kind involvment of the widow of our wemaster, we could provide enough private information to Dreamhost, who finally accepted to reset the password and the MFA. We have recovered evrything! Many thanks to everybody who helped us!

Sucks that DH wasn't able to offer more.. it is often my concerns for when I pass too. I run quite a few websites but once I'm gone, they will be as well. Wish there was more support on helping those with this.
Why exactly can't they make payroll?

Because their funds are frozen? Or they assume their funds are completely gone?
To be fair, this sounds a lot of to do items that I don't want to do.
techbros.. did we get too cocky?
I think you're replying to the wrong thread.

This one is talking about removing lending in general.
What isn't being discussed is that SVB was probably seeing an initial drawdown in deposits because VC funding has locked up and startups are just burning through cash and can't raise money. SVB was likely a bet across the entire startup economy that funding wouldn't dry up.

This probably foreshadows waves of startups failing as they run out of runway.
You're literally saying he shouldn't be listened to because he's a defector. You're not engaging with anything he said, just writing him off for being a defector. That is really stupid.
>Let's be clear, the issue wasn't that the Fed raised rates to a historically average level, it was that they were manipulating the bond market in 2021 with trillions of dollars of QE.

One of the principle, statutory purposes of the Federal Reserve is to conduct monetary policy to achieve maximum employment and stable prices. That means it's the job of the Fed to manipulate interest rates.
right, fixed it
This is not true, there've been multiple cases where entire neighborhoods were summoned to submit DNA as part of some investigation (usually involving abuse of a minor).

Also, all license plates scanned by speed cameras (very prevalent on the highways here) are stored for months.
Show HN: structured-ripgrep – Ripgrep over structured data
But it’s fun to watch them fail to circle the wagons when it’s Theranos or FTX or Y Combinator.

Ummm...one of these things is not like the others
Exactly if we don't let the market fail it can't self adjust.
Anyone who wants to do research will just end up using Twitter's data from non official sources.
Last I checked web scraping and using undocumented but public APIs used in web/apps is still legal.0

Ex: Nitter operates without official APIs.
> FAANGs (and more) all compete against each other

That didn't stop Google and Apple on agreeing to not compete against each other on talent [1].

[1] https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-tech-jo...
Working in a bank and running a bank are slightly different I would assume
*in American English.
Both are ‘vice’ in English English (UK/NZ/AU) as far as I’m aware.

‘Vice’ in American English, still has alternative meanings, like ‘vice president’.
He said the subversion was already planted in the 60s counter culture stuff and it was coming to fruition in the 80s.
If it was caused by the government why wouldn't other banks be experiencing the same issues SVB are?
i prefer the moleskines because they don't get ripped or bent when i slip them in and out of my pocket, the ribbon lets me open them to where i'm writing, and they don't fall apart when i get rained on

by the same token, water-soluble fountain pen ink is not an option for me; the best option i've found is 0.3mm mechanical pencils with 2h lead (though i can only find hb these days) but cheap ballpoints are also an acceptable option

i go through about a notebook a year. here's a scan of a couple pages from my notebook last year, which was a hannemühle because moleskines had become unobtainium here in argentina; there's an english translation below the spanish scan

http://canonical.org/~kragen/fragmentos

i made the mistake of buying brügge once, never again
Saw kids playing on my last walk around. It still exists in some places.
My guess is, if you look at what a subscription would actually cost to cover what ads do right now, it would be a figure so large per person that most people wouldn't pay it.
This is a symptom of the problem of middle class single family home residential real estate being treated as an unreasonably-price-increasing bubble inflated investment and not a place for people to live in.

The irrational exuberance in price increases in this segment of the market over the past 4-5 years is not sustainable.

It is not logical, sane or normal for houses that were valued at $150k five years ago to now be valued at $400k in some suburbs and metro areas.
No, I'm saying let the fat cat VCs fund the payroll, not a quasi-governmental fund backed by taxpayers that explicitly said uninsured deposits are not insured.
Not to let the banks off the hook, but

>They did a pretty good job during COVID

One word: "transitory".
Apple Pie Position
One bug to steal it all
Show HN: PullApprove v4 – accelerate pull requests, stay compliant
Shouldn't it turn red if it's acidic and blue if it's basic?
https://archive.is/pe8MY
i challenge you to identify a single actual human whose life he "ruined"
Level of detail.
As is often the case in CS, there are no definitions for plenty of concepts. FP is simply “programming with functions”. Most languages are multi-paradigm, and in my book any language that has lambdas is already functional - but it is a spectrum. Java has ways to express functional programs, but it is of course much less functional than, Haskell - which itself is also not 100% pure FP.
Traditional manufacturing is described as "low mix, high volume" (ie. same part in great quantities). Modern manufacturing tends towards "high mix, low volume" (ie. different part each time).

This is partly because, ultimately, it is more cost efficient to produce multiple parts using similar processes on the same equipment than to produce all parts on dedicated equipment using a broader mix of processes. It is also partly because outsourcing fabrication makes sense for many people, which means the fabricator themselves is receiving a range of orders that has to be executed in rapid succession on a given equipment line.

While this transition presents a challenge for everyone (design, management, HR, etc.) it is also a huge opportunity, particularly for we software people.
she's my girlfriend, not my property, she can do what she wants

i'm not in a position to 'let her' or not 'let her'

also they've been together longer than we have
This is such a refreshing and neat way to use Twitch.
Per another thread, it may in fact be 2.7% of deposits insured rather than accounts.
I'd like that plan a lot more if there were any normal way for build systems to communicate about build requirements and outcomes and the zig toolchain implemented it.
It's MVC. Having your views driven off models is nice in theory, but a disaster in practice as the number of models proliferates. You lose control over how and when your views render, which results in all sorts of subtle and strange bugs that are difficult to debug. Each view may have its own logic for what to do when the model changes in specific ways, and what controller events to fire in response. Without unidirectional data flow, trying to even reproduce a bug becomes a nightmare.
That's all fine and good. But to do anything useful, you're going to want a powerful GPU (RTX 3090, RTX 4090 or A6000) with as much VRAM as possible. Unlike the diffusion models, LLM's are very memory-intensive, even at 4-bit GPTQ. The larger models like llama-13b and llama-30b run quite well at 4-bit on a 24GB GPU. The llama-65b-4bit should run on a dual 3090/4090 rig.

Coupled with the leaked Bing prompt and text-generation-webui, the results are quite impressive.
That's a rather presumptive over-simplification of what effect software cracking had and has on employed programmers' livelihoods. It's not a direct 1 to 1 relationship between a cracked installation and lost sale, nor does piracy prevention guarantee market relevance. I don't condone consuming pirated software when OSS alternatives exist, but that's not out of sympathy to tech megacorps.

http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
Could someone with experience explain: what's the theoretical minimum hardware requirement for llama 7B, 15B, etc, that still provides output on the order of <1sec/token?

It seems like we can pull some tricks, like using F16, and some kind of quantization, etc.

At the end of the day, how much overhead is left that can be reduced? What can I expect to have running on 16gb ram with a 3080 and a midrange AMD processor?
30% of all YC companies, or 30% of YC companies banking with SVB? The phrasing implies the latter.
> Then the bank could make money by providing services to their customers.

The point of a bank is to loan money. That's it. This is how they make money. They need deposits so they can loan money. They pay the depositor a part of the interest on the loans they write. They don't exist to sell services because that's a really bad business. They provide services to attract deposits so they can write more loans. That's what banks are.

> ...and then invest that money trying to make a return on it.

No, they don't do that. They loan the money. If they can't loan it then they put it into a variety of safe places that can earn some interest, among other things. But they don't gamble depositors money. Investment banks may, but that's an entirely different thing.
Though it is widely publicized that he was pretty aggressive at getting YC startups to move their money out yesterday.

It's not altogether unlikely that other groups of startups, without an aggressive push to pull out of SVB, are in more trouble.

That is also a lot of startups in a very short window of time. Startups don't exist in isolation, and, for better or worse, often actively try to purchase each others products when possible. It is an ecosystem.

I work at an IPO'd SaaS company, but a lot of our customers are startups. If 30% of our startup customers suddenly can't pay their bills that impacts us in a big way. On top of this, like most companies, we were already concerned about how we were going to meet profitability goals.

And again, the short time frame means not a lot of time to respond and adapt.
I truly don't get Telehealth ... Who TF is using this stuff?
Given the # of startups the YC program creates with every new batch, and proportionally the success of YC to all other types of startups, this seems more fair to say, though it does seem a bit hyperbolic.
Tim was trying to be too knowledgeable and not letting Musk shine enough.

I would be surprised if Musk gives him another interview any time soon.
There are a lot of middle to late career developers who write code that is difficult to debug. It's a feedback loop. You write garbage code, the debugger is confusing, so you use the debugger less, so you get less feedback on your garbage code, until eventually other people can't debug your code either, or only invest the energy to do so when something has gone horribly wrong.

Or you write debugger-legible code, you use the debugger, and you get feedback when the code you wrote confuses the debugger, so you refactor it to be easier to diagnose the problem, then you commit those changes.
> Annoyingly, we're moving it because everyone else is moving it. I know it's a really dumb, self-fulling prophecy but at this point you don't want to be the last in line.

On the bright side, Ronnie James Dio wrote a song about your current predicament.
The most recent numbers indicate that they're still making a healthy profit. The usefulness of their search engine has been declining for years, to the point that I no longer bother using it, but I'm not sure the guys calling the shots care - their job is to make money.
> Having a status page that can automatically say "Everything OK" or "Something seems to be not OK" would even be enough, but most companies don't offer something like that.

Any medium to large sized company will, at any given time, have dozens or hundreds of alerts going off. How do you know which ones should equal an "outage" on status.myco.com?

edit I just checked, my company currently has 2079 monitors in an ALERT status. Some of those are probably real ongoing issues, maybe even some customer facing issues...but there does not appear to be any reason to update our status page.
Thinking back to the financial crisis when the idea of protecting home owners was floated and we had to endure finance guys ranting about greedy home owners and their 2nd bathrooms.
Awesome, please send me an email. As well as fab, we do a lot of embedded, too.
My favorite are the reporter style notebooks - skinny and bound at the top. They're like barely a step up from post it's, but do the job for me.
We also just elected a documented drug trafficker and very corrupt individual [1] as our next President, so there's that. We are poor and sliding back in every statistic that tracks economic and material wellbeing, and yet keep voting in horrible leaders (blame the Northern part filled with people more concerned about tribalism than their economic wellbeing). But, sure, open banking!

1- https://westafricaweekly.substack.com/p/bola-ahmed-tinubu-fr...
Ah, PARADOX. Nostalgia when hearing the Photoshop CS2 Keygen music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYvjFOKOP7c
"taken"?
Cops signed up for the job knowing they might get shot at. Avoiding a bad day at work isn't grounds for violating people's rights.
SVB's failure means that anything over $250k that a startup had there is not currently accessible. They'll probably be made whole in a couple of months by FDIC, but payroll, along with rent and the cloud bill won't wait and can't be paid via IOUs.
An authoritative digital address increases the power of the private sector. At present, I think it will always be easy to find a new ID-card provider if your current one locked you out for your cat-video-hating ways. Having a permanent authoritative ID could actually make it harder to get services because it would be easier for the private sector to share information about you.

Imagine you got that address assigned, 42@id.tld. Now, every private company you want to do business with wants you to register using that ID. Now, when you get banned, they can share that ban throughout their network. Because every company requires you to register using your national email address for password recovery, you've created a system that radically expands the power of the private sector to profile you and control your reputation, if not your identity.

Maybe very careful regulation could prohibit companies from asking you for your government email address, but I recall the (apocryphal?) quote by LBJ, "You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered."

I prefer your proposed solution of some regulation that treats email like phone or utilities so there are a few protections before services are terminated.
Privatized profits, socialized risk. The VCs have plenty of money to backstop a month of payroll for their portfolio companies, taxpayers should not be paying for this one.

It sucks for customers that SVB chose greed over risk management, had they invested in short duration treasuries they would be fine. It’s time to let risk actually have consequences instead of big daddy Fed/Gov coming to the VCs rescue.
I don't think this is really comparable to 2008. Grossly simplified 2008 for me is more about bad debt, while this is around bad risk management...svb bought too many long term bonds which was a bad bet given current rates and an industry "correction" as you put it.

They just didn't manage the risk of a market "correction" and high interest rates. The tech sector was/is due a correction, but this isn't 2008
Going to the nanny state to bail them out of the consequences of their bad choices