skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When does computational photography count as "fake" or "AI generated"?

I don't see the line.
I can’t agree with this. You may be describing the formalization of science, but science was occurring well beyond the bound of the scientific method.

Ancient science generally gets broken down into mathematics, astronomy, medicine, and material. If we skip right to medicine and material, there was a huge amount of recorded “knowledge” of chemicals that either functioned as medicine or manufacturing, dating back 5k years. The people absolutely knew “these combinations worked” but still didn’t completely distinguish chemistry from magic and ritual and God.

There’s still science occurring there. Some combination of knowledge being applied and passed down through generations. There is precursor to our scientific method happening in parts, and it was still science.
Many of these vim distros (haven’t used AstroNvim specifically) with plug-in managers automatically download and execute random code on your system anytime you start the editor or open a new file type. I just want my own secure config that doesn’t do random network calls when I’m trying to open local files.

Piping shit to bash and running npx whatever has really normalized this and it sucks. Your editor should be a safe haven.
Huh, how are strikes still widely legal, then?
> Really no. A small business manager doesn't have time or expertise to read a bank's financial statements. SVB's did show serious problems but most businesses don't have the capacity to spot this.

But surely smart VCs with millions / billions invested are capable and have capacity to do this?
From a clean state almost everything is better than Bash. I don't think many people seriously say that Bash is good. We use it because of the insane network effects that come from it being preinstalled almost everywhere (except Windows).

The question is not "is nushell better than Bash" - it obviously is. The question is "is nushell better enough that you are willing to install it on every system you use, deal with naysaying colleagues and idiots that have been brainwashed into thinking Bash is great, learn a new tool, deal with all the incompatibilities with software that assumes everyone uses Bash, etc. etc."

As much as I hate Bash I would say it isn't that good. At least currently. If you're willing to install a new tool to run your scripts then there are better options, e.g. Deno. If it catches on and gets installed by default in more places in future (hopefully!) then that might change.

Basically I would say for interactive use Bash is not great but fine. For scripting use you shouldn't use Bash anyway.
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Attention was shifting from basement blogs and projects to professionally made content for the web. Which would only have one paragraph or a title on the RSS feed and the rest was on the site with ads.
8640 words/day is couple times faster than some of the best novelists in human history, if even quarter of that will be usable it could work as an autonomous paperback author.
Does the peasant share the risk? From the article:

> No losses associated with the resolution of Silicon Valley Bank will be borne by the taxpayer.

> As with the resolution of Silicon Valley Bank, no losses will be borne by the taxpayer.
> Exercise is a bad way to lose weight

Exercise is not a bad way to lose weight.
Their bonds average 1.9% with a 10 year maturity. They pay out when they mature. But because rates are so much higher now, if they sold today they'd take a massive haircut.

The bank made mistakes, and their startup assets are a big ? of unrealized losses. But they do have assets, just not liquid.
I feel that is an unfair interpretation because there was one phrase spent on the word "distraction" and then a long paragraph included comparing stress tests to breakfast. If you feel breakfast is unimportant then more power to you I suppose, but I disagree.
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Yes, but depositors are generally not expected to be sophisticated investors in the context of bank liquidity abd solvency. You don't get a prospectus of the bank itself when you consider opening an account.
And the average US doctor has student loans of around £207,340, so the point stands. UK doctors do pay towards their education, but it’s heavily subsidised.
UK Government and Bank of England Facilitate Sale of Silicon Valley Bank UK
When I read the first sentence of the statement, but knowing ahead its generic content from news summary, this sentence:

> Today we are taking decisive actions to protect the U.S. economy by strengthening public confidence in our banking system

I laughed.
When you were 12? Wow.
I should've said "terms", I suppose. They were offering package deals where you have to exclusively bank with them and in return you get below-market loans, line of credit and potentially investments, and allegedly also for your personal financing needs. Give all your cash, accept the FDIC-limit risk, get favorable terms in return.

Why else would anyone put all their money into a single account, and why would VCs even enforce doing so contractually?

When someone offers you something the market doesn't, you should understand that there's risk attached, especially when you're a company with millions or hundreds of millions in cash. When someone falls for some crypto "18% per year, no risk" scam, that's how we view it.
Funny you mention glass cracking because tempered glass has the same kind of internal pressure. Safety glass on a car has nearly a kilobar. It breaks up without blasting apart.
Thanks so much for this tool; it saved me from untold frustration when I moved to Germany. I’m happy to see that the city blessed it.
Unfortunately words evolve over time whether we like it or not.

For example how in many contexts "crypto" now refers to cryptocurrencies instead of cryptography.
I never understood why Google doesn't hire B teams to do the maintenance work, or outsource it. It's normal that if you hire only top players that no one wants to be stuck doing tickets.
The problem is that that shoring up comes at the cost of enabling bad behaviour. Banking right now seems to run on the assumption that you’re allowed to erode the stability of the system for your personal gain, because governments world-wide will shore it up from the other side.

It’s important to remember that SVB lobbied hard to gain an exemption from banking stress test regulations. Their “inherently low risk” business clearly wasn’t, and they failed to defend against the inevitability that was the fed going up from the anomalously low rates of the 2010s.
Ok, that's great, because those are the people most likely to break a good thing. Maybe we can instead hire at least a few people (and given that Google uses shared database storage, build engineering, deployment, etc. I can't imagine we need many such people) who care more about things like a predictable schedule working on a low-stress product so they can have good work/life balance, to essentially just keep working software working correctly?
I often wonder how much data they would have accumulated with Google Reader and Google Code that would now be a gold mine for training AI. Short sighted management!
Not ChatGPT, but LLaMa. Not as good as ChatGPT, but seeing the pace of progress when performance has been demonstrated, we'll have ChatGPT running on our laptops by summer. End of the year at the latest.
The prospectus is easily available, for all the good it would do.

In any case, you don't need to be a sophisticated investor as a depositor. Ordinary market participants manage 'flights to quality' just fine, even if they are not sophisticated investors. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight-to-quality

If you want to have a stable financial system, you shouldn't suppress the incentives for people, including depositors, to look for safety. Just the opposite, you should have them sensitive so that they make moves (on the margin) long before danger is serious. Have people move their deposits _before_ it's too late.
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Why do I care if it’s a “niche” technology as far as other people subscribing if it is still supported by publishers? I can’t think of a single site that I go to and say “I sure wish this site supported RSS” and doesn’t?

Using NetNewsWire and subscribing to subreddits with NNW on one half of my iPad and the Reddit app on the other half is still a great experience for instance.

I click on the date on NNW and the post opens in the Reddit app.

HN also has an RSS feed.
AFAIK it was in SVBk’s Nov 7th public filings
Your original post said NHS budgets were undergoing austerity -- meaning spending cuts. Now that that's been shown to be utterly false, your terminology has evolved to "stagnant".

NHS funding increases are over 2,000% higher than France, a comparable first-world country, since 2010 -- according to World Bank data.

If the UK has "stagnant" spending increases, what's happening in comparable countries with way less spending increases? France has 0.3%/year healthcare spending increases in that period.

6.5% is not stagnant. It's not austerity. In fact, it's OVER DOUBLE the rate of inflation, contrary to your claims of "erosion by inflation". NHS funding is skyrocketing in real terms and in per capita amounts, over and above inflation.

To claim spending increases are eroded by either inflation or population changes is a lie. It's rising per capita at over 2x inflation. Zero erosion, except perhaps in the fever dreams of The Guardian journalists.
I’m not sure that’s the case. My partner works in the NHS and the vast majority of her colleagues are European or Commonwealth immigrants: Romanians, Polish, Nigerians, and Indians in the main.
The purpose of Vim for me isn't to be stable, it's to help me edit text in a very efficient manner. Lots of great plugins improve this for me.
Just note that the FDIC provides deposit insurance up to $250k per named individual on the account. So joint accounts with married couples would be $500k. You can add children to increase as well.
Roughly analogous process to the temperature parameter in simulated annealing, I think. Low temperature equates to a greedy algorithm (i.e. always take the most likely next word fragment) - higher temps. increase the probability of taking a lower probability fragment.
Those who took the risks are losing their shirts: the shareholders and debtors of SVB and its executive staff.
Yes, it was something I used, but also I think Reader was what drove the linkblog ecosystem, behind the scenes. Linkbloggers subscribed to interesting feeds, and amplified whatever they thought was interesting.

By interfering with that ecosystem I think Google received out-sized negative feedback. They would have been much better off just leaving it running.
Remember Stadia? Google doesn't give a fuck about their users or customers. I would rather trust my money with Bernie Madoff than Google.

I'm a 4 yrs customer with Google Cloud and they shutdown all my servers last friday. 3 days now and they still haven't gave me a resolution.

Context: https://www.onvoard.com/blog/our-production-servers-was-susp...
I haven't heard the phrase "more wood behind fewer arrows" before, but I am pretty sure that never in the history of the evolution of projectiles was that tradeoff ever taken in that direction.
Anyone having a bank account will pay for it trough the banks fees/rates etc. Yellen avoided directly using tax money for the bail out, but it just is the next closest thing.
I used to do this, but then found emacs/tramp and that has worked better ever since.
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We don't know who bought SVB yet it will likely be announced tomorrow (EST/PST timezone) probably. The US gov announcing the full confidence of deposits wasn't merely an altruistic move, they likely had a buyer at the time of announcement and maybe a secondary commitment to support the mortgage debt which caused the whole thing.
Our system too! Glad to see we're not the only ones needing a solution to that problem.
No, it didn’t have a liquidity problem, it was insolvent.
The value of all its assets marked to market are less than its liabilities.
What are international implications of changing Russia’s official name?
I’d be interested in this too.

Seems a bit daunting to move from an existing neovim setup. Lazy.nvim does look good so it’s a little tempting. Any hints to smooth the way?
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I would give up a fair amount to listen in on those conversations and negotiations.
It's sold to MyMoneyBank, formerly known as GE Moneybank... not exactly local :)
Just for reference, the PowerShell version of this would be:

ls | where Length -gt 1mb | sort LastWriteTime
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I've mapped the extra buttons on my mouse to macros for the software I use, mainly Solidworks. The most useful one is control, it allows me to select multiple items wile only using the mouse hand.
Somebody at HSBC will be able to wine and dine off of this for the rest of their life.
I love this! Robin Sloan has been encouraging people to think in these directions this year, and is trying to help these inventors find each other: https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/new-avenues/

I have my own contribution to this conversation but I want to explain it in a big splashy blog post.
Remote controlled plug in the socket behind the machine?
They must pay salaries - about 2% of deposits. They must pay interest on deposits - now people are demanding 4%. They must pay some dividends too. So they must invest in something.
And then they get laid off and when it comes time for the behavioral interviews at their next company, they can’t discuss anything they did significant in STAR format.

And their skills are too rusty to pass the DS&A section of the interview and they didn’t do anything significant to show off their system design skills.

I work at $BigTech in the cloud consulting department (cloud app dev/“application modernization”) and the equivalent of “doing tickets” is being put on a project where you aren’t actually doing “consulting”, you’re doing “staff augmentation”. I avoid those like the plague.

Even though I’m not chasing after a promotion, I want to have something to show for the time I spent here when it comes to my next job either inside the company or outside.
> Then they learn the better and end up having to learn bash anyway coz that's what runs on remote machines.

unless you are the person to push for it to be installed on the remote machine.
They’ll be taking on some debt too.

They’ve paid £1 (symbolic purchase price) but it’ll cost them a lot more.
> Upon the departure of design chief Jony Ive in 2019, Apple's design team now reports directly to Williams. While design led the direction of Apple's products under Steve Jobs, employees have noticed that operations is increasingly taking control over product development under Cook's leadership. One former engineer said that the best part of working at Apple was devising engineering solutions to meet the "insane requirements" of the design team, but that has apparently changed in recent years.

My take on this is that change isn't necessarily bad. The shift away from design leadership at Apple may limit product innovation, but it has given us (back) MacBooks with usable keyboards and HDMI ports. We might lose something valuable as this shift continues, though. I think the true test will be whether Apple notices when that has happened and course-corrects, or if they continue into commodification and stagnation.
> Still, I think that's only part of the problem. Manufacturing and innovation in Western countries are now in a state of malaise and they're being quickly overtaken by Asian countries such as China. Like it or not, the West generally is in a state of decline.

Not really. China is low end manufacture and has not moved meaningfully out of that niche at all. In fact they are losing their advantage with no alternative to fall back on. Chinese assembly is not nearly as cheap as it was and their playbook is being copied by other countries (India, Vietnam).
Yeah: they essentially deleted the early Android community and all of the knowledge and history that was built up around it, because all of those people were organized on Google+. And I think it is also important to note that shutting down that particular service felt like a particularly frustrating insult given how they had essentially rammed it down everyone's throats and forced it to get integrated into every single Google product in confusing and sometimes horrifying ways... and then it failed anyway.
Yes in my case I was a 4 yrs customer with Google Cloud and they abruptly shutdown all my servers last friday.

Any decent human being would at least try to rectify things ASAP, except for Google. 3 days now and they still haven't gave me a resolution.

They're the most dysfunctional organization I've seen in my life. It's like communications between teams goes with a "none of my business" attitude.

Context: https://www.onvoard.com/blog/our-production-servers-was-susp...
For me it was Google Talk. It hit the sweet spot of a lightweight chat app that didn't take any configuration or convincing for my non-techie friends. I still miss it.
Im skeptical of their dedication towards trying to advance humanity versus more mundane objectives. It's a tale as old as time that noble initial goals are corrupted by power and greed when opportunity presents itself.
> Also Britons who live in areas with large immigrant populations are the least concerned about immigration.

Maybe if you define immigrants with passports as Britons. There's a reason why the BNP, British National Party, won the two seats they ever won in counties most affected by immigration. This effect would also be exact opposite of that in Sweden, which is intriguing, because here the sub-urb ghettos are split between social democrats, which the immigrants vote for, and the nationalists, which the few non-immigrants left vote for.

The fact that you are trying to argue that areas affected are the least concerned, when the case is exactly the opposite across Europe; says a lot about your "reality". Modern leftists are a scourge.
You may be right, but the news coverage I've seen implies that the full backstop of all deposits regardless of size was announced because there is no buyer for SVB. Basically, there just wasn't enough time for buyers to feel comfortable with pulling the trigger.
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Yes, and 30 other countries had bugs in the same room.
So what?
But someone that has over 250K in a bank can be expected to understand that FDIC insurance is (or better was, effective now it is unlimited) 250K, right?
I think it's 'dead' in comparison to the way it used to be used.

I was actually just looking for RSS feeds for some of the top news sites, and a lot of them have specialized RSS feeds for a certain category but not for the entire site. (I had to eventually settle for Newsweek)

I genuinely don't know, so this is an honest question. Nowadays, outside of podcast feeds, what's the incentive for media outlets to provide RSS feeds? Isn't it just a fringe assortment of techies still using it? (To be clear, I'm part of that fringe.)
Banks that may face trouble in the wake of the SVB Financial Group debacle
This is one of my favourite rants when people point to Instagram and bank python et al as evidence of people using Python being suitable for high performance use cases and those same posts amount to "we hired huge numbers of deep language Devs at likely huge cost to make an effectively custom version of python to partially address its baked in shortcomings". Its a very concrete example of the difference between "simple" and "easy" in software.
This is really impressive. Having finally cracked a Vim workflow, I've spent 6 months trying to replicate this by hand.
On the other hand, not trusting banks with your deposits causes less people to use the banking system, which is also (presumably) bad.
Google Reader was a lot better than an RSS client. I went away on vacation once and left Thunderbird running to capture RSS feeds. When I came back, my computer had shut down.

That didn't happen with Reader.
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Don't we consider ASML a tech giant? A spin-out of Philips btw, as is NXP for example.

Edit: Should have watched the movie first. To answer my question: I guess we don't. And, it's electronics not tech indeed, otherwise it could have included Siemens for example.
Maybe you should become an ATC if you're that fascinated from listening to it
Your comment really amused me.

"Hold on, let me just... I'm sure there's a Good Reason around here somewhere..."
- Hot Take Taylor
It has been at least 20 years since I plugged my Timex 2068, and I am not plugging it ever again, the chances that it will burn out just by seeing electricity after all these years is quite high, specially given how condensators detiorate over time.
Over the long term SVB may have a positive net value, but unlocking that is likely to require short term cash injections to meet current liabilities (not to mention restaffing/integrating the bank). Those costs are the real price that HSBC is paying for SVB.
A hypothesis is not necessarily an explanation. There are fields of science where you "shut up and calculate" to get the prediction rather than try to interpret and explain.
It should clearly take a photo and blare the warning siren.
Google is extremely bad at increasing the scope of existing projects. Like, rather than kill Google Reader to support Google+, maybe they should have merged Google Reader into Google+ and evolved it as the onramp to convince people that Google+ was awesome. Only, no: the people who work at Google fundamentally don't seem to understand product design, and so they consistently introduce a new unrelated project (or multiple at the same time) and deprecate, kill, and finally delete the old one (which will experience the same fate), often with no transition or migration plan for end users :/.
communism -> capitalism -> cronyism -> socialism

America lead the world 100 year
"Optimized by AI" is the 2020's version of "Fuzzy Logic"
I loved that article. It partially inspired this writeup, although the idea of Weird predates that piece. I tried to take him up on his offer to showcase projects of this kind in his newsletter, but haven’t heard back yet. (No hard feelings! Maybe he’ll serendipitously bump into this and be reminded.)
Any accountholder at SVB is a debitor to SVB. They are getting the bailout, while they clearly took the risk for anything above 250K
As anyone who has played Civ4 knows, everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

But yeah, they surely should have been able to find someone willing to pay 100-10000% more than that.
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Reminds me of the various 'loopholes' Orthodox Jews use to get around their rules/laws regarding the Sabbath.
Or perhaps the experts at Treasury, FDIC, etc, actually made this decision because they think it's true in their expert opinion, not just because VCs said so?

They're the officials appointed to be the experts at these things by the people elected to run the government, what better mechanism is there for making this kind of decision?
Seems like a great deal for HSBC? Presumably the competition regulator gives deals like this a free pass.

> As at 10 March 2023, SVB UK had loans of around £5.5bn and deposits of around £6.7bn. For the financial year ending 31 December 2022, SVB UK recorded a profit before tax of £88m.
Username isn't accurate - you should be called rational.