skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I was going to comment on that both code samples are C++, even though they are not clearly labelled as such. List initialization seems to be the recommended syntax to use nowadays in C++ [1].

I'm a fan of the type of optimization and exploration that Lemire often publishes, it's really cool and impressive. I just have a pet peeve about people lumping together C and C++ as if they're interchangable when they are (more clearly than ever, and growing further apart) not.

[1]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/list_initializati...
Reminder: if your level of interaction with a service is putting your credit card in, the service is likely to interact with you at the level of automated emails, and also likely to trust you as much as someone who filled out a web form.

If it's business critical, talk to a human. All the cloud providers have account managers just waiting to talk to you. If this sort of thing happens and you have an account manager, they call you!

Even better, get a contract that prevents them from cutting you off like this, or sets an SLA for getting back online. Again, all the cloud providers will offer this, even for relatively low spends.
It really doesn't matter. He had insider information that this was about to happen. He should have cancelled the trades knowing what he knew. See the loophole is this only works one way: in favor of the CEO.
You invest in 1-2 UPSes and a 4/5G mobile modem data plan that kicks in when needed. If you really want to be sure, get a diesel generator also. Will take some time to setup but it is worth it.

- No one can see your code

- No one can shut you down
> They’re both drawn and used differently

That's still not an explanation for why unifying them is bad. Most handwritten text has more variation in every single symbol than the printed dash vs. hyphen. I don't think anyone able to comprehend written text has trouble with that.

> It’d be similar to unifying 0 and O

Which similarly has no noteworthy impact on text readability because digits and letters aren't mixed in English words. Look at a single handwritten dash or zero without context and you won't be able to tell for any of the two whether it's a dash/hyphen or 0/O. And yet that's been good enough in practice for centuries.

To me your argument sounds more like a spaces vs. tabs debate - yes, technically a tab has a different meaning and usually a different length, but in reality it's completely irrelevant when readability of code is concerned.
For one, an online bank can just be some servers and staff.

No physical locations, no actual tellers, no physical money stored, etc.
We are sooooooooo screwed!

VC money is completely frozen. It's an insane tragedy. There needs to be a bank where we can put our funds above 250k that is insured but also heavily regulated.
The source of the problem is liquidity, not the problem assets. But providing this liquidity when needed has costs. That money should not have been spent by government. Here is a simpler example:

A person deposits $1000 at a bank at 1% interest. Bank buys 10-year treasuries yielding 3%. Rates rise, treasuries drop and the person suddenly wants his $1000 back (say, because he can get 4% at an MMF with checkwriting privileges). Bank can sell those treasuries at $950 and eat the $50 loss. Or use own money. Or get a loan.

But this is not simply "the bank just needs liquidity". It sure does, but no one is willing to lend the bank money at a lower rate, so based on the original price and the current state (rates rose + the customer wants his money back) the bank will be short those $50 that went to the t-bond seller who can now buy the same bond back for $50 less.
> An important component of credit courses is the time limitness

Huh? Why would that be an important component?

I mean I know that it's typical for courses that come with credit, but in my mind it's just a side effect of the administrative side of providing courses, not something that's at all central to accreditation. I.e. if you build up the knowledge over a longer period (which you can still do with e.g. resits) that's completely fine as well.
Probably. I mean the AMA wants there to be few but very highly paid doctors.
It is a compiler rather than a direct evaluator, since it generates bytecode for a stack VM --- and also includes the interpreter for that (look at the bottom).
The point is that if you make a bureaucracy responsible for 100% of deposits it will be very risk averse in the loans it will let a bank make.
not sure i understand how enums work here. but interesting.
Yes, it is called "Uniform Initialization". https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/cpp11-language#uniform-init
Agreed, the iPhone mini is the only thing that comes close to my old blackberry which I still pang over having to give up in 2019. Without it I'll probably invest in a good landline & get my social group to understand they can't reach me while I'm out.
Amazon, Rivian in Talks to End Exclusivity Part of Delivery-Van Pact
Can you elaborate on this? How does a superconductor help here?
>You are better off because the government is helping, and so are all of the people in the country who need to work for a living and need companies to work for. You can't let the banking system collapse and expect it will only hurt the people you don't like.

The only problem with this line is that a ton of people on here are explicitly against social safety nets. Now that they need one, all kinds of equivocation and hand waving.

Safety nets for all (or none)! FWIW, I prefer the former.
>I know it's very trendy to advocated for that, but we do know that the removal of the gold standard was an attempt to keep the United State economy from melting down too, right?

I'd rather it was let to melt down, learned the lesson, and we went for a more sustainable model.
This + your router needs ability to reset power to ISP router. If ping is too long, or network speed is low.
These are memes that are popular on HN, but don't reflect reality outside of the tech bubble. There are of course elements of truth to them, hence why they're so pervasive, but they are not representative of reality.
rent your own $5 a month server from digital ocean and another $5 server from vultr and practice syncing data between the two in a new language you haven't used before. Make it an open source repo. Name it something cool. Tell others you have this cool new solution for X want to see a demo?
There is an awful lot of debates as to the downsides of technology -- you're on HN, killer, it's what we do all day.

The Chinese government restricted video games; the US gov may punt on TikTok. It comes up a lot, it's just that Capitalism is trying pretty damn hard to shove this tech down your throat. By comparison, the Amish are pretty much disconnected from the modern capitalist world, except when they have to be.
Treasurydirect is great and everything you say is true, but the poor user experience and the commonly reported difficulty involved in getting help if there is a problem make it more appropriate for personal finance than business, I would think.

More generally the approach of using a cash sweep account in conjunction with t-bills held with a custodian bank seems like pretty sane advice. I don't think I'd emphasize "one bank," but otherwise, sure.
Of course they have a choice: money market funds and T-Bills. If you're handling millions in cash, you're supposed to know about these.
That's been around since C++11 although it's kind of weird to see it used for a char*
Great timing. I was actually just complaining about this a couple weeks ago.

Wonder how long this will take to land in the OBS browser where I actually needed it.
Hmmm. PyMol is molecular viewer, which has a python scripting interface to various libraries ... but is not a folding library I would say.

There is some research into the topology of DNA (especially circular DNA, like plasmids which is a knot) that considers things like writhe and twist. Not sure it would adapt too well to macroscopic systems though.

There is also the excellent KnotPlot for actually drawing the knots. I bought a licence once on a whim, but rarely use it :)
And maybe some autocompletion if using zsh?

#compdef todo

_todo() {
_files -W $HOME/Dropbox/todo/
}

_todo "$@"
The interpretation you never asked for: The data exhibit a strong preferential attachment [1] behaviour, i.e. you can draw a line in a log-log plot (despite only a semilog plot is shown). This is typical for real world data.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_attachment
It did?

They merged with Gamesa in 2016 (more like Gamesa merged into Siemens).
It's hard to know for sure without being involved in the development of both sides (the line between new features being unimplemented & hw/firmware being buggy is often blurry), but here is some context:
* Linux 5.x does not support most 12th gen power-management/igpu, >6.1 does
* According to a few (unconfirmed) sources, there were workarounds required that first came from clean-linux >6.x (intel's linux fork).

So most likely it's a mix of new hw breaking existing functionality, and new features not being implemented yet at release
Hm.

First attempt (first part in square brackets is the prompt)

[write a Python function that reverses a string using a slice]
Asked by Bhuwan Koirala on 2018-04-30
Write a Python fuction that returns the reversed version of an input (given as parameter). Use slicing to accomplish this. In other words, take advantage that you can return substrings from string objects using indexing and negative indices. Try not use any function for doing so. [end of text]

Second attempt

[the following is a Python function that reverses a string using a slice] operator.
This entry was posted in ´┐¢´┐¢´┐¢´┐¢´┐¢´┐¢þ╝ûþ¿ï and tagged python, slice on November 15, 2014 by admin. [end of text]

Third attempt

[Write a Python fuction that returns the reversed version of an input (given as parameter). Use slicing to accomplish this. In other words, take advantage that you can return substrings from string objects using indexing and negative indices. Try not use any function for doing so.]
The problem is solved if you are able to produce a correct result given the following values: A) ÔÇ£Hello world!ÔÇØ b) [ÔÇÖHÔÇÖ,ÔÇÖeÔÇÖ,ÔÇÖlÔÇÖ,'o'].

Prompt from some ChatGPT example I found online

[can you explain what this regex expression in Python does? re.sub(r'\d+', '', my_str)]
I'm pretty sure it strips all the numbers out of a string but I can only make guesses as to how it works... thanks! [end of text]

All reasonable completions in the context of "what would the next string on a website look like", not as great as an assistant. Maybe the 65B version is better?
I'm not sure I follow.

The depositors aren't lending to banks. They're putting money in a bank. What's the alternative? Have them stash all their money under a pillow?

This wasn't (to my knowledge) an investment bank like Goldman Sachs etc, where people put in money to get upside. It was a bank like any person uses to store their money, cause it has to be stored somewhere.

> [A]gain the government seems to be needed to prevent a systemic banking crisis. What ever rules where enacted etc. had maybe very little effect if a small bank (and the 16th largest bank isn't a mega-bank) can bring down the system without a government backstop.

I mean, the whole original point of the FDIC deposit insurance was because bank runs happen. We prefer people put their money in a bank, it's better for many reasons, but as long as we allow fractional reserve banking (which we should, IMO,) people will always feel at risk, which either makes them not use banks (bad,) or cause a bank run if they do use a bank (also bad.)

The whole point of deposit insurance is to put a government backstop to all potential bank runs by promising people they will always be able to get their money, which causes the system to keep working.

The only difference here is that it's for money corporations put in a bank instead of people (and of course that the amounts are much bigger.) But the same logic applies - we want companies to put money in a bank, and we don't want companies afraid that their bank will fail and they'll suddenly be out all their cash. That would cause worse effects in the long run.

And I'll emphasize, the people getting "bailed out" are the depositors, not the shareholders. They're the people who just trusted the bank to be a normal bank, and that weren't in a position to affect what the bank does. "Punishing" them doesn't help resolve any systemic risk, because they couldn't have acted differently! (Except for spread money across multiple banks, which is against the point because we want people to trust banks and not have to worry about where to store their money, cause that comes at the cost of doing more important things!)
Should have a super emergency mode that shows tactile controls on the screen and allows for steering and stoppage of the car...
I guess all the more reason for Yellen to mandate it.
Easy usage over SSH and on battery-powered laptops, etc.

Like I learnt vi originally because it was the only text editor on an air-gapped machine (since it had to connect to loads of obscure equipment) used for setting up psychology experiments in a lab I was an intern in.

I then used it on an Intel Atom 11" netbook for years as a student (I could only have one app open on a workspace at a time - everything had to be full-screen).

And then used it loads over SSH when working with a remote desktop and build server at a FAANG.

Both Emacs and Vim are so versatile in that respect.
> how Dated it is

Is this… a Chris Date pun?

You should have said it “Codd also be of interest”.
Our company tried that and was huge waste of time. Resulted in us wasting a lot of time trying to make our stuff "generic" so we could switch off of AWS if we ever wanted to. Eventually 1+ years later someone finally realized how much time we were wasting designing for some hypothetical event that they finally told us to stop doing that and fully utilize AWS directly.
I think it is true. Not sarcastic at all. Curios why you think it's not?
SVB Doesn’t Deserve a Taxpayer Bailout
Database Cryptography Fur the Rest of Us: An intro to database cryptography
And llama in wasm the day after
What about the models that are out already? Will men with guns raid my home and confiscate my computer?
Is there an accompanying textbook for your course or only the papers that are listed?
That’s not what they did with svb.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-12/fdic-auct...
I mean there probably isn't much of a way out. It all comes down to funding.

It is very rare for MedTech startups to have funding to actually establish themselves in mature market, most of them will have funding to get pass regulator hurdles or just create an IP moat around the business, then the VC's expectation is that another giant will buy them out who will then have the purse to take products to market at scale.

My worry is that more and more the bigger companies are buying or owning parts of startups sooner and sooner in the technology readiness pipeline. That will probably limit how much we actually innovate, both from the startup side that now has oversight and from the internal R&D ranks at big corp, that become glorified PMs and strategists rather than researchers.

The only way forward is for VC's to stay for longer horizons, but specially in MedTech if you are selling something that involves a widget or hardware it will probably never scale in a way that would make it an interesting business for VC's. Perhaps the exception now is MedTech with SaaS type business models or cloud based services.
Crazy. I wonder how this will play out in the market.

First Republic continues to drop. Trading at ~$28/share (previously ~$80/share on 3/10).

Schwab is also feeling the pain. I guess their investments are tied up mostly in the tech sector?

Either we will see a dead cat bounce in the next few months or continued hemorrhaging. I can’t say for sure.
SEC feed for Form 8-K filings, many referencing SVB
Same with uptime.

I come from a healthcare and telephony background where "five nines" (roughly five minutes and 32 seconds of cumulative downtime in a year) is actually still a thing. I'm absolutely amazed at the number of companies that just accept each region/service/control plane/networking/etc outage in the big clouds. First you wait an extended period of time for them to even acknowledge the issue (rarely even updating their status dashboard) and then you stand around powerless waiting for your business to come back online. Time and time again.

Yes, multiple region deployments are encouraged (still not even five nines) but when AWS and others give you the ability to create really convoluted architectures (which they love and encourage - it's sticky) using at least a half dozen of their products (IAM, VPC, RDS, S3, etc) for the simplest solution that make it virtually impossible to deploy, debug, and maintain multi-region without a dedicated "AWS Architect" role. Downstream outages for solutions/companies building in clouds because of region or service issues demonstrate just how difficult this approach is in practice.

Then you sit back and wait for the almost inevitable "where did this $50k invoice come from", "we ran through our monthly budget overnight", "Oh they don't like us anymore and are closing our account", "What's the spend going to be this month - no one knows" and other scenarios discussed in this thread.

Can't figure out how to wrangle costs? Sick of the outages? Good luck getting your cloud Rube Goldberg machine migrated out (especially because by now you've hired based on cloud of choice).

Depending on a variety of factors any of these scenarios can kill a company.

This isn't normal. This is regressive. It is unacceptable.
And the people who adopted a disabled kid from China I think, made their content and found them a new home when stuff got too hard.
It's not my take - I'm just describing what people have told me. I completely disagree with those people which is sort of my point.
> This faked data, submitted by users as "real pics in real places" is further used to train AI models

I am begging people to find a new gotcha for AI other than "training it on data created by itself or other AI."

It's an obvious issue with obvious solutions. If it happens, it will be due to ignorance. It is not inevitable, and it shouldn't even be likely.
VPNs and hybrid architectures exist for a reason. If 99% of your IT infra is boring crap but you have this one special unicorn machine, maybe throw it on an employee's fiber connection and set up a point-to-site VPN for that machine.

Does it make sense to abandon the entire cloud because of 1 use case?
> So far it seems their mistake is buying "risk free" bonds when they shouldn't have - but then again who could have expected interest rates to rise so quickly

Over a period of 10 years which is the duration of the bonds they bought, I would say that the chances are pretty fair.
Working in larger organizations means your role as a software engineer isn't making decisions on technology or even how an entire solution comes together. You are going to run into all sorts of personalities, deal with it and do the best job you can within the parameters given to you. Its very possible your role isn't exposed to the trade-offs, compromises and agreements being made with stakeholders to fully understand how they arrived at whatever the direction it is that you believe if you were in their shoes you would have made better decisions. Is it possible many of the complexities of their decisions just aren't exposed? Not in any secret way or that you are "lowly dev" or anything like that, its likely in a larger org not wanting to drag engineers into endless marathons of meetings because it takes away from their time building stuff. Its simply not in your job description like doing the bookkeeping isn't either.

You could see if the product/architect folks would let you tag along to some of these discussions as career development and so you can get a deeper understanding of what you're working on. It sounds like you dislike working in larger organizations where you feel more like a cog and would rather work in a much smaller organization where you have multiple roles. You'll need to think about if those smaller companies/startups can match your financial and lifestyle needs (I assume you spend time with your kids and aren't going to "no-life" a job). I came from an organization numbering in thousands of people to one where the entire size of the company is like 500 and about 100 engineers, totally fits what I want, much less BigCompany bullshit. Sounds like you need to find an organization where you can wear multiple hats and have some decision making capability, another thing to explore might be managing a team - multiple hats, some decision making on solutions, lot more involvement with product/architect folks.
When I had it nearly finished I asked an artist if he could do a mock up. I liked it so much that I thought "Cool, I'll let him remake all the graphics quickly and release it then".

Then when I replaced the graphics I continously added new features as well and a popular video game musician (Chris Hülsbeck) joined the project. Now with so much talent working for the project I felt like the gamedesign wasn't a good match for it anymore, so I basically started over (I thought about this for a month or two, then finally throw away all source code and restarted without realizing that I have basically threw a nearly finished game away). This sounds pretty dumb in retrospective, but back then I just didn't saw it.
There are many more economists building on MMT than just them, at many institutions globally.

Describing the job guarantee/transition job as equivalent to "workfare" reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the JG. Two ways in which it differs significantly (but not the only ways):

1/ it pays a living wage / socially inclusive wage, unlike most current (un)employment insurance programs

2/ it is non-coercive. You have the promise of that job, not a mandate to perform it. Other social programs remain available for those unable for for a variety of reasons.
You get lower rates for sure and I think you have to agree to lock up the money in 1, 5, or 10 year CDs. When I looked into it I found just using banks like

https://www.emigrantdirect.com

https://www.capitalone.com

savings got you a better rate and no lock up required. But you have to do the 250k chunks yourself.
Possibly lithography was used to avoid stress concentrations and kinking, which can potentially be troublesome in mechanically-tied knots. (Presumably, especially at that scale.)

With respect to knotted and woven fabrics, there's quite a lot of interesting research in "3D-woven" fabrics for high-impact applications like body armor. 3D fabrics are pinned by fibers running through the weave top-to-bottom (Z axis) and are effectively macroscopically knotted. They're also commercially available:

https://compositeenvisions.com/product/fiberglass-e-glass-3d...

Interesting stuff, but still very niche and not always clearly superior to plain woven composite materials.
First Republic Trading Halted
If they are per-capita then you don't need similarly sized cities. I was comparing Chicago's per capita numbers to the US's
TBH: Pretty good :) I know it's not the best game ever, but it feels nice anyway...
Why do you use a hosting solution that you yourself call "Google Clown" ?
I got a crash at quantize
The FDIC limit comes into play when there are no underlying assets to distribute to depositors. If the bank has no assets, it's likely all you'll see is $250k.

If there are assets, they can be disposed of, and the depositors with over $250k can receive dividends. The fact that the FDIC is confident that the deposits will be available says to me they were able to successfully sell enough assets to ensure liquidity for whoever took over the deposits.

This isn't a "government two-off to make ALL depositors whole". This is how these bank failures happen.
I thought banks were were forced to have large reserves after 2008.