skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing is that the members of the group all have different levels of interest in programming, ranging from None to Expert, even if we're not software developers. Just getting everybody to use Git has been beneficial.

It's OK to start out with dirty code. Within a tight team, it's OK to make breaking changes if you warn people and help them fix their stuff. We have just begun to adopt a discipline where nothing leaves our group if it's not in decent shape, and this is going to include testing. In fact, I just took an online course on unit testing, and have applied it to a small library for the first time.

You can see that we're really starting at the ground floor.

At the present time we don't expect our code to be directly incorporated into the production code base, and in fact we use a different language. We're in an experimental group, so we're interacting with physical equipment, and our software guy has asked us to start including simulators so he can work on stuff from home. This is good discipline anyway because it lets us run our unit tests without all of the hardware connected.

I've noticed that the developers love layers of complexity and abstractions. Us normies, not so much. Keep things simple if possible. I've been moving to a more functional style, not due to thread safety but just the ages-old warning against using global variables. A big unwieldy parameter list is preferable to fetching parameters from globals.

We comment our code. I'm skeptical that comment-free code documents itself. At the very least. Scientists tend to be OK at explaining themselves in text, but doing so in code involves a learning curve.
They do? Every single academic in the country supports open-access, lobbies their institutions to pay for the costs of open access. Every researcher will send you a copy of their article if you are paywalled and want to read it. And you, like all academics, know about Sci-Hub, so you should do what most academics do and use Sci-Hub to pirate the article to begin with.
> The crawler is hybrid, using async python requests and puppeteer with uBlock Origin. The way detection works is we count the number of uBO blocked requests on the page, and if too many (threshold is set to 5), we kick it out, leaving only "clean" pages in the index.

Fascinating; cnn.com reports 47 on the front page, npr.org is at 16, developer.hashicorp.com is at 9. I don't think that metric is doing what they think it is, or rather maybe they're trying to target only savanna.gnu.org style sites or something
It is relevant since the tax is low, so it makes it worthwhile. Foreign big corporations that are not US controlled have even better situation.

Countries like UK have for instance DPT (Diverted Profit Tax) but it is discretionary and our tax man tends to look away.
Speaking from my German perspective. Our (European) central bank printed central bank money like crazy the last 10 years, and apparently it was not a problem. Prices only shot up once there were supply shocks due to Covid and Putin. And sure enough, the supply shocks are slowly waning, and hence YoY inflation rates are also rapidly declining.

Yet everyone keeps talking about how the money supply is causing inflation, even though there is no plausible direct connection [1] between the amount of money in some bank account somewhere and consumer prices. The bakery down the street does not look at federal reserve rates when figuring out their bread prices.

[1] I'm guessing that someone will be able to explain this to me. But keep in mind that your explanation should cover how we could have over a decade of near-zero interest rates and the respective money supply inflation without seeing any significant consumer price inflation.
Odd claim. I was introduced to the series by a woman. "People" like these books.
LinkedIn tries hard to prevent scraping, but there are third parties doing it, and then re-selling it. Each user is presumably paying a fraction of what the scraping cost.
> I don't understand why this sentiment is so prevalent. It's like people watch Silicon Valley the TV show and think it's actually representative of big tech.

I'm not limiting this sentiment to just big tech.

For example very big companies tend to have a large number of people who do a lot of talking without saying actually saying anything. I would argue being trapped in those long meetings is "fake" work. The large number of employees working from home since COVID has shown most of those long meetings didn't need to happen.

Now that the four day work week is gaining momentum with no lost of productivity[1] we have even more proof of the amount of "fake" work being done.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/business/four-day-work-we...
This has cleared up a lot of confusion for me!

Slightly tangential, but can people recommend a good site for finding hardware available to purchase for specific ARM versions? In particular, when hardware implementing a new ARM version (e.g. 8.5 or 9) becomes available, where should I be keeping an eye on?

Alternatively, what manufacturers are usually the first to produce new ARM hardware?
Conservation of money in that case. Money doesn’t just disappear. What goes away somewhere has to appear somewhere else.
Roku Form 8-K (Roku had ~2B in assets in SVB) [pdf]
Yields on short-term fixed income securities were absolute shit, barely above 0%. If you've got a bunch of cash and nowhere to put it to work then even a horribly yielding MBS seems like a good idea, and the inflation monster hadn't yet come to roost making the Fed start jacking rates up far earlier than anybody would have expected.

Even at the time it should have been seen as a short-sighted move, however. It was obvious ZIRP wouldn't go on forever and rate risk would bite you in the backside, so I can't call it anything but careless yield chasing without proper risk management.
Thank you for reminding me why I dislike this place so much.

I've literally got the email right here:
"As I mentioned on the phone, we structure them as a monthly subscription based on an annual agreement. Variables that affect pricing are the APIs you use to get data and the amount of data you consume each month. Our smallest packages fall between $5,000-$8,000 per month."

The price they quoted me, over the phone, was 6k. Doesn't mean we took it (we didn't) but that was what they were asking for. I know others that were paying 5k/mo.

And I know others who still had free accounts from way back in the day. Everyone is being swept up now.
The BBC also had Gavyn Davies as a chairman.
Caak.io introduces algorithmic computer code-based secret keys
"Code as a key" (CAAK) is a new web service that has been launched to generate "secret keys" for users that resemble algorithmic computer code. The service, which is available at the domain caak.io, has been designed to provide a unique and secure way for users to generate passwords that are difficult to crack.

The service works by using an algorithm to generate a unique code that can be used as a password. The code is created using a combination of letters, numbers, and symbols that resemble computer code. This makes the passwords generated by CAAK both strong and easy to remember.

The team behind CAAK has created a python-based script that can be used to generate these "secret keys" on any platform. The script can be downloaded from the CAAK website and used to create passwords that are tailored to individual users' needs.

The CAAK team has also created a web app that can be used to generate a password or "secret key" that resembles computer code. The app is easy to use and allows users to customize their passwords based on the length, complexity, and type of characters they want to use.

The team behind CAAK believes that their service will appeal to users who are looking for a unique and secure way to generate passwords. They also believe that the service will be popular among developers and IT professionals who are looking for a way to generate secure passwords for their applications.

"We created CAAK because we believe that passwords are one of the weakest links in online security," said the team behind CAAK. "We wanted to create a service that would provide users with a unique and secure way to generate passwords that are difficult to crack. We believe that CAAK will be popular among users who are looking for a secure and easy-to-use way to generate passwords."

CAAK is currently available for free, and users can start generating passwords by visiting the caak.io website. The team behind CAAK has also stated that they are working on new features and improvements to the service, which they plan to roll out in the coming months.
> Also consistent with his stated goal of making the business profitable.

It was profitable. He caused it to hurtle toward bankruptcy.
I'd encourage you to consult the literature you link before making assertions like that.

If you review the article you linked you'll see that female suicide in Sweden is actually lower in 2018 than it was in 2009. So it' doesn't match the same rise since 2012 seen in America.

https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image...

And sure you can fit an overall rise across all the years, but it's clear from inspecting the curve that this is not a strong correlation, and in fact if you remove the years prior to 2008 that should be irrelevant for the changes due to social media since 2012, then there is no upwards trend. So what is actually seen is likely better explained by relation to the general economic prosperity prior to 2008 and downturn after than anything related to social media.
Your prediction is that we are close. That prediction is founded on your assertion that we aren't missing anything substantive or new in that error margin: and that assertion is circular.

If you are correct about LLMs being a generally complete model, then that is a good prediction. But only if you are correct.
Nowadays? I hope no TLA organizations are making any guesses at what I'm up to based on it because not even I read my email.
Does every public company need to file such a form by some time? Could we use these forms and public companies got get some sense of the contagion risk?
Sure but that collusion actually makes sense from their perspective and is literally the exact opposite of what's being alleged, which is that Big Tech is essentially keeping the cost of talent artificially high in order to hurt their competition.
Why do we have to tell the people what they need to hear? Why can't we just tell them what they wanna hear?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWenPDBtMw4
Ahhhh. So maybe this explains why David Sacks is absolutely foaming at the mouth on twitter at the moment? Crunchbase says he sits on quite a few boards.

He even managed to use the occasion to throw Ukraine under the tank treads, again.
Direct 8-K link:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1428439/000142843923...
CBDC maybe? Let everyone have an account at central bank, then allow transactions to and from that account. No need to involve bank, have whole system paid by government as public service.

Then you could have banks handle the process of matching lenders to depositors. With varying systems...
So don't buy them, rent them. There are plenty of points on the spectrum between buying your own HW and EC2.
The subject of OP's post is the non-insured deposits.

No one, yet, has expressed doubt on the credit of the FDIC.

Sub 10% of SVB's deposits were insured. Meanwhile SVB's HTM bonds have taken a 20%+ loss which will, barring an acquisition, cause non-insured deposits to take a 19%+ haircut.

Combined with an indeterminate period of waiting. So start ups with cash in SVB should expect to lose 20% and find alternative sources to make payroll, pay payroll taxes, and pay suppliers. I expect we will see many startups close us shop when founders are unwilling to bail out their own company's balance sheet with personal money.
The rule of thumb is that for each 1% increase in interest rates, a bond loses its years to maturity as a percentage.

So a bond with five years to maturity would lose 5%, and a bond with ten years to maturity would lose 10%.

If SVBs bonds had a ten year maturity when purchased, that's probably nine years remaining when interest rates increased from 1.5% to 5.0%, so that's 9 * 3.5 = 31.5% reduction in value.

If they bought $80 billion of these, that's a $25 billion dollar loss.

If their shareholders equity was $16 billion, then that's zeroed and a combination of depositors, the FDIC (for insured deposits) and other creditors would have to eat the remaining $9 billion.
Single entry bookkeeping isn't really a thing and isn't really keeping books. It's just an account register or account statement with no totals or anything to check against.

Double entry basically just means that for every transaction on your books, you are showing where the money/asset/liability came from and/or where it's going. If you enter that you paid $100 for the AWS bill, you need to indicate from what account that money came from. So you would debit AWS Expense and you would credit your Wells Fargo Checking Account. With modern software, this basically just amounts to entering the expense and specifying which account it came from.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/20-banks-that-are-sitting-...
Not who you asked.

The reason was the juice. The excitement of sending stuff around the world before everyone else. I never cracked on x86 just a little bit with 6809.

I was a courier in late 90s(anyone recall FlashFXP). Fall of 1999 is when isonews.com(some old schoolers here will remember this website) got their homepage owned by the FBI. I left the scene that day.
Get ready for Pandemic 2: Banking Flu
Nice, but golang has bubble tea.
> It's not that I don't want to make friends at work, it's that I don't want a condition of my friendship to be tied to the workplace. If I'm not seeking that person independently now, then I'm probably not going to do it later after switching jobs.

I've made friends at previous companies who I still see regularly. Not a ton, but some. I have dinner plans with one of them this coming Monday.
They don't seem they elaborate to me, at least compared to any other engineering project that engages the real world. I'm just wondering what took them so long.
Mostly, the idea is that you write it yourself. I suppose there are things such as Markdown converters if you require some level of abstraction.

I thought Dreamweaver was great when I first encountered it. That lasted until I happened to look under the hood at the HTML it was generating. What a horrifying, bloated mess it made of everything...

AFAIK there is no free lunch here; you learn to write it yourself, or you suffer it to be written poorly for you.
I've looked at plenty of perl and even maintained a little, but never fully grokked it, not implemented something from scratch in it.

Though I understand what you are saying, I sometimes feel the same with combinations of awk, sed, and other utils.

Though I suspect perl could be more powerful for that kind of processing.
> by most accounts, the fed is going to do another 50bps hike nex

Is this one possibly one of the 'the Fed broke something' scenarios that might lead to quicker rate cuts ?
> I suggested that it's extremely strange for a gay man to be teaching at an all boys school and it's highly reasonable to suspect that his intentions are unethical.

Your suspicions are unreasonable. As I mentioned before, heterosexual male teachers are not automatically viewed with moral suspicion in all-girls schools (second example: https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/03/the-perils...), so it is unreasonable to automatically suspect that homosexual male teachers in all-boys schools are unethical. You are applying a double standard to homosexual males that society does not apply to heterosexual males.
Yeah, I agree. Here's another way to look at it:

The Planck length is ~10^-35m.

The diameter of the electron is not more than 10^-22m. It may be as small as 10^-88m. (The Planck length sets limits on our ability to measure at such resolutions, but doesn't imply that nothing smaller can exist.)

If "bedrock reality" is granular, it may have an ultimate resolution of roughly 10^-90 to 10^-100m. This is small, but it's very, very far from infinitely small.

Now imagine a circle. In a universe that is not infinitely divisible, there's no such thing as a perfect circle. A circle of any sort will always have "pixels" at, say, a resolution of 10^-95m. Thus we dispense with pi.

And, in any case, you can't divide physical reality past that point -- so if you take a needle with a tip that measures 10^-95m, and you move that tip around a coordinate space, it will always be in a definite location that can be represented as some form of countable number.
Don't get too hung up on the "lisp" in that title.
I think the language would better be described as statically typed, with s-expr syntax, inspired by Clojure|Rust|ML and with a lispy language accessible for use in macros. But that's less catchy.

Source: I contribute to the language.
“The exemption for dumping hazardous materials should still be allowed, as it led to great manufacturing innovations for startups.

The exemptees just need to be f**ing careful with this advanced mode of operation.”

This sounds tongue in cheek I know, but SVB’s situation has created real world consequences even for me, someone who has no money tied up with them. My go-to for bonded cellular networks (so i can run a livestream for my employer, a small tech start up) had to tell all of us who use them to pause payments immediately today as this unfolded and are not taking new rentals in the meantime. They’re literally not getting paid right now. This is not a holding pattern that can last long and is highly disruptive for them and, consequentially, me. A video content guy at a small start up on nearly the other side of the country.
> People problems are as important as “real” problems

I would go even further and say, "all technical problems are really people problems."
It would be fascinating to instrument a programming text editor to capture the entire chain of user input. Then go through that log and determine:

1. How many edits don't preserve the AST structure of a program. Changing a leaf expression to a different expression does, as does, say, changing a `for` loop to a `while` loop. But cutting the `(cond)` part of `if (cond)` out (including the parentheses) and hoisting it to a separate expression does not because now those parentheses mean something different.

2. How often the program is in a grammatically invalid state across multiple edits.

I suspect fans of always-valid visual editors massively underestimate the size of both of those.
The sad part is, it was actually quite good.

I used Stadia for more than a year, and very rarely had issues or perceptible input lag even on FPS games, on a middling internet connection. The problem was, everyone knew right from the get-go that Google would shut it down, and it was just a matter of "when". Without any up-front clarity on the refund policy, people like me weren't willing to spend much in their store on anything new; I basically paid for Destiny 2 expansions and that's it, everything else was free games from the monthly subscription.

If they had said from day one that they guaranteed 5 years of lifespan before even thinking of re-evaluating and would refund any purchases in the event they had to cut that short, they would've got much more buy-in.
> When central bankers make government bonds trade like meme stocks this is what happens

That’s what happens when people buy meme stock. I think the failure of the goverment and the bank are unrelated here.
No, that's not what a competent leader would say. You obviously don't understand how this stuff works in the banking industry.
To be sure, Lehman Brothers was not a depository institution. FDIC insurance protects only insured deposits up to the limits, and thus was not in play for creditors to Lehman.
> I have an audio processing disorder, where I can clearly hear and memorize words, but sometimes I just won't understand them and will say "what?". But sometimes, before the other person can repeat anything, I'll have used my memory of those words to process them properly, and I'll give a response anyway.

What's it called? I do this sometimes also and I'd like to know more.
Which companies specifically?
> and from what I've heard editing is the absolute worst given how time consuming it is. Many Youtubers struggle with burnout centered around how time consuming editing becomes.

This totally depends. If you're an editor, there is a great sense of pride of turning the pile of content handed to you into something cohesive and compelling is quite a skill. Some people just don't like it, and that's fine. I don't like building UIs, but sometimes I just gotta do it. It makes me appreciate those that do the task I don't like that much more. walk a mile in another person's shoes so to speak.

Just like coding, you can get in the zone with an edit and things just start flowing. It usually comes after multiple sessions of sitting there scrubbing through the content thinking to yourself "wtf do I do with this?" when inspiration finally hits. You just start remembering a shot from this clip that flows nicely with this next clip and it suddenly "makes sense". It gets really spooky when you then try to find some audio clip like music and drop it in and it pretty much lines right up. That's for unscripted stuff that's just kind of produced like film is cheap kind of shooting.

When you have scripted stuff that every shot has been logged and tagged where there's variations on delivery or any other slight thing that makes it appear to be the same thing over and over again comes with its own challenges and rewards. Sometimes, there's a perfect delivery but something doesn't line up continuity wise, so it looks like it can't be used. Then, you scrub some other angle or reverse or cutaway and hide the edit so that you can use that perfect delivery or borrow that perfect reaction that otherwise might not have made sense.

There's a reason it's an art. Not liking it doesn't mean you're wrong for not liking it personally, but it doesn't make it the absolute worst.
Only if it's material to the company.
Roku stock is down 2.29$ after hours.

I wonder if there is any money to be made shorting companies wrapped up in this mess.
Did the FBI manipulate Twitter into censoring the NY Post story on Hunter Biden's laptop?
I think that is a difficult call to make this early on. The FDIC's job here is to recover value for depositors and find buyers for its assets. It is hard to organize bank takeovers on short notice, and even in a private rescue there is a lot of regulatory involvement. The story isn't even close to over yet.

There are some possibilities. Perhaps there was no single buyer that also had the (potentially hundreds of billions of dollars of) liquidity you would need to rescue the bank. Perhaps there were buyers who could come up with that liquidity reasonably quickly (on the order of a week or a month) but certainly not in the 48 hours it took for the bank to be completely vaporized. SVB was intending on raising liquidity from the market, and just the act of announcing their intent to do so triggered the bank run in the first place.
Picture of sheep grazing under panels in Australia:

Solar farm trial shows improved fleece on merino sheep grazed under panels

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-05-30/solar-farm-graz...

Note the room to drive between panel rows and for "boom mowers" to spread out behind a medium tractor and reach under the panels.

There are also many types of vehicles used in agriculture from two storey high broad acre heavy duty combine harvesting monsters to small narrow self propelled engines that run through tree trunks in orchard with various attachments to mow (sprung mowing rings), shake trees (to make fruit fall), spray leaves, trench (for irrigation, drainage, etc).

Also, see: "Agri-bots" - a revolution not yet complete in small driverless autonomous helpers to run 24/7 weeding, spraying, picking berries, using solar, etc.