skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're going to classify passwords as security through obscurity, then how would you accomplish security through any other means? All forms of digital security require information asymmetry (IE someone holding information not known to others). The only other security I can think of is physical, and most of that is designed around information asymmetry as well (key cards, door codes).

STO to me generally indicates there is some backward engineering process, or some vital related knowledge, that can break it, which is specifically not the case here. Secrets are specifically designed to have common forms and functions, you only keep the value itself, or values they were derived from, secret. Obscurity and secrecy have slightly different meanings.
I meant distressed financial institutions, I should have been more clear.
http://archive.today/a6ep7
Well... I guess. But the price of many of those assets were low because of the run right? So it's a self fulfilling prophecy.

Banks that buy SVBs branches will be making money off that deal I think. Not short term obviously, but long term.
Living in France too, what I ended up doing is setting my ISP (SFR) router in DMZ mode and forward everything to my own OPNSense router. Since I did that, I never had to interact with the ISP router again. I only need to use my router to manage my network.

Then, on OPNSense you may choose your DNS and it bypasses the one on the ISP router. Problem solved !
Scale also. If this happens in just 0.00001% of cases, that's plenty of users to get one or two events a day.
The difference is when something goes wrong at AWS someone picks up the phone, fixes your stuff, apologizes profusely, and give you a credit.

Mutlicloud is great but somewhat complicated to setup correctly.

The value add of AWS is that Amazon has unusually good customer service.
The damages were caused by the invaders. Everything was preventable and they decided to attack. But it's easier to blame the army who dare to risk their lives to defend their country, right? Regarding the Mariupol reconstruction, this is a story pushed by the Russian propaganda and in reality, it will take decades to fully rebuild the city. And what about the life of all the civilians, those won't come back. That's what Russia call a "liberation".
The good old days of SFTP-ing one's .war files up to Tomcat and just have the sys admin team sort out Apache and SSL. Happy times :-)
Nothing is going to change in this country until people start questioning how we have seemingly limitless money for foreign aid, wars, bank bailouts, etc. but we can’t seem to get shit done for working class people. It’s not a left vs right issue. It’s a class and power issue.
>The biggest mask off moment was when Russia targeted civilian electricity and heating infrastructure...

Yeah. What bastards they are. Thank god we'd never stoop to those levels:

https://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/usa1203/4.5.htm#_ftnref99

----

>Electrical Power Facilities

>The United States targeted electrical power distribution facilities, but not generation facilities, throughout Iraq, according to a senior CENTCOM official. He told Human Rights Watch that instead of using explosive ordnance, the majority of the attacks were carried out with carbon fiber bombs designed to incapacitate temporarily rather than to destroy.100 Nevertheless, some of the attacks on electrical power distribution facilities in Iraq are likely to have a serious and long-term detrimental impact on the civilian population.

>Electrical power was out for thirty days after U.S. strikes on two transformer facilities in al-Nasiriyya.101 Al-Nasiriyya 400 kV Electrical Power Transformer Station was attacked on March 22 at 6:00 a.m. using three U.S. Navy Tomahawk cruise missiles outfitted with variants of the BLU-114/B graphite bombs.102 These dispense submunitions with spools of carbon fiber filaments that short-circuit transformers and other high voltage equipment upon contact.

----

Oh, wait. That's "whataboutism" isn't it? That handy defence which means you're not allowed to point that the accuser has committed exactly the same crimes as the accused.
https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/glacier/

or

https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing/
I don't have >$250k in the bank so I'm not doing anything differently. I have some assets outside of banks (the usual suspects) in the unlikely event of a total failure across the banking industry.

Although if something at that scale happens I wouldn't be surprised if most of those went kaput as well, in addition to general civilization collapse. But not all (because some of those assets don't rely on companies existing or not).
> Is it not possible that the difference can be made up by wiping out shareholders

In the US it's illegal to do anything that would be "bad" for shareholders. It's quite literally the law that CEOs must return a profit for shareholders (or attempt to). The FDIC however has no such requirements, so while the bank itself can't wipe out shareholders, the FDIC can do it without care.

Publicly traded companies will ALWAYS put shareholders above anyone else. It's the primary reason I'm very much against banks being publicly held. Just as I feel it's immoral for healthcare both insurance, pharma, and hospitals to be publicly traded entities.
Quite likely for them it was a mistake, letting promising companies go lest you smother them with your inertia. Like parents letting their children leave to live to their full potential. Not that businesses do or should have that as a goal per se, but it seems to have been for the greater good.
> The industry has moved beyond depending on a single cloud computing vendor. It’s negligent to put all your eggs in one basket.

In that case, the vast majority of enterprises are negligent.
If you want to be a solutions architect make a resume that focuses on the work you have done that is solutions architect work and see if someone will hire you. There isn't anything in the industry that marks you as a software developer vs. a solutions architect other than your title. Titles aren't as meaningful as the work you have done so just don't put a title for your jobs on your resume. If asked you can say you were a member of the technical staff with responsibilities that include work that fits in a solutions architect role.

This will let you know if you actually want to do that role or not. In my experience there are a lot of "architects" and "product managers" out there that have no idea what they are doing and are using cargo cult practices to fake it until they make it. Some make it and some don't.

Let go of your anger over people taking credit for your work. It happens a lot, use the experience you gained in doing the work for find a new job where people will appreciate what you do for the company or product. The people who don't know what they are doing and steal credit will soon be discovered, or not, but you will not be there to see it and may never know.
True, but this wasn't a missed-payment shutdown; it's a KYC-compliance shutdown.

Still, I'd bet even money Amazon does the messaging better than Google on something like that.
CueCat! There’s a name I haven’t seen in a while. I still have mine from RadioShack.
> That the assets might nominally cover the deposits in 10 years is besides the point, the depositors don't want to wait 10 years

This would be a problem of liquidity though, which was my original statement.
I don't like it myself. But I want to differentiate "simplify" as in remove non essential complexity, from solving the problem naively, simplistically. Which is what a simple minded go-getter manager does. Lots of accidental complexity from nerd toys gets added in the process. So pretty much the opposite of simplifying.
> Google Cloud have zero empathy for customers

Common to any large company, if you want better service, support small business.
What UX experiments you ran on your SaaS product?
I'm trying to understand the emerging UX in software products.

In the ChatSpot demo video, Dharmesh Shah talks about something called ChatUX. Though NLP to SQL existed in some form or the other, I think the game changer is the integration with generative AI.

Did you try adding something like ChatUX for your software product? Any other UX experiments you have tried? What were your learnings?
Having some background in typesetting and typography, I don’t think in near term text-wrap: balance would be as good as human eye for headlines.

In a sentence like “One year on and what next for remote working?”, “what next” is a stable phrase and breaking it up is jarring. Either of the below reads better:

> One year on

> and what next

> for remote working?

or:

> One year on and what next

> for remote working?

(On the Web you can achieve those with non-breaking spaces, word joiners, and other similar HTML entities.)

— As a hard rule with rare exceptions, don’t break after conjunctions or short modifying words such as “and”, “the”, “on”, etc.—carry them to the next line.

— As a more vague rule of thumb, do not break after a word that is tightly coupled to the next one (this includes stable phrases and short idioms, adjective-noun combinations, and so on), unless intentionally for word play.

Just one of those small things that together make for clean and readable headlines and GUI copy.
Bank of England: Statement on Silicon Valley Bank
With the number of ELI5 guides all over the internet on the SVB situation, this level of willful ignorance you displayed here is just sad. Seriously, stop talking out your arse and go educate yourself, even a little, first.
> The knots were not tied but rather manufactured in a knotted state by using advanced high-resolution 3D lithography capable of producing structures in the nanoscale.

This would be difficult to scale. And it's possible, even likely, that it can't be applied to existing strong fibers, which are drawn at very low diameters. The paper does its best to bury the lede, but the polymer they were using was acrylic-based, and likely very weak in comparison with, e.g., Dyneema or aramid fibers.

There are quite a lot of papers which examine the mechanical properties of nano-lattice and nano-architected materials, made with lithographic techniques, but I think that the commercial viability of these materials is effectively zero. And, in many cases, as here, it's not clear that they'd be superior to the standard high-strength materials that are already so ubiquitous.
The lease for a piece of demised land which is now part of my garden says:

> as aforesaid for a term of Nine hundred and ninety nine years from the date hereof subject nevertheless to the proviso for re-entry hereinafter contained YIELDING AND PAYING THEREFOR [sic] during the said term a yearly rent of one peppercorn (if demanded) to be paid on the First day of January every year

Possibly the most impenetrable sentence I've ever read, and I had to look up the whole peppercorn thing. Nobody's ever requested anything so am yet to post any peppercorns.
Close-yes, Fill-maybe not. Use the dispenser as a marker is a good idea, but it is almost always dump and will ruin you soap. I use tablets which are even more sensitive to moisture, and are expected to stay dry and slowly dissolve in hot water.
That's news to my family in Cyprus who very much think of themselves as living in the middle east.
Perhaps there are fewer Europeans available because they are doing the same thing in the US: making actual money instead of the pittance offered by employers in HCOL cities like Munich?
In that circumstance a CDN would likely deliver the same performance.
It's probably better to call it an interpreter, since it will also run the program and print the values of all non-zero variables afterward.

Calling it a compiler is (to me) really stretching things, I can't see any code to emit any other form of the code, it's all aimed at evaluating (executing) it.

Edit: oops, I didn't read the code closely enough, it does emit code but only internally, that code is what gets executed. Thanks for the corrections!
This policy could also encourage deposit flight at the slightest notion of risk - if everyone is made whole anyway the stability of a bank isn't any consideration for any of the depositors anymore. There is no game theory to moving deposits then.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that we're relitigating an incident from a decade ago, but certainly noted that you disagree with the handling of the Noordhuis incident so strenuously that you are unwilling to acknowledge anything else that I've said or done in the last decade. I personally think that that itself is revealing of your own character, but I think it best to let everything here speak for itself.
You may be thinking of iBonds themselves. Universal banking has been proposed a number of times and the banks squeak each time (the last time resulted in changing how overdrafts were calculated iirc).

Some other countries already provide banking via their postal system. And the US has a toe in there with postal money orders.
This is one of the better articles written about the whole debacle…

Also demonstrates VCs shortcomings (lack of diligence?) in the affair… which is probably why VCs are shouting about it and pointing fingers at others rather than examining their own failure in this
It seems like Google has burned up nearly all the goodwill it used to have years ago. They now have a nearly broken search engine that needs the term “Reddit” appended to get anything useful, and you routinely hear horror stories about them acting badly without any regard to users. I hope they get disrupted and replaced by bing chat and others asap. The only thing that will possibly teach them a lesson is if their business results start rolling over in a big way and large activist investors can cause the board to realize they need to replace Sundar with someone who gets that radical change is needed.
> There will, though, be long-term consequences for fundamentally changing the nature of a bank: remember, depositors are a bank’s creditors, who are compensated for lending money to the bank; if there is no risk in lending that money, why should depositors make anything?

Because if the bank doesn't give any interest, people will keep the money in either a competing bank that gives interest or in cash or in other instruments that pay interest.

What a full backstop removes from the interest is a risk premium. You already see that at Chase or BoA accounts. The risk premium is zero so the interest they pay is much lower than other banks. But this is where other banks get an opportunity to compete for deposits.
> built a bot to automatically answer apartment ads

> Relax and be ready to answer incoming calls :D

And they call you, with Berlin's rental market? Improbable.
Individuals purchasing war bonds helped, but didn't pay for WWII.

The war cost a little over $300 billion. $50 billion of that was through individual purchases of War Bonds, the rest came from banks and taxes.

Bankers and merchants have always funded the United States. A representation of Robert Morris, the "financier of the American Revolution" is painted in The Apotheosis of Washington, the fresco decorating the ceiling of the rotunda in the Capitol building where he is shown receiving a bag of gold from the god Mercury. Soldiers and supplies were paid for with "morris notes" which was a proto-currency of the US that was backed by Morris' personal fortune.

https://allthingsliberty.com/2019/03/how-robert-morriss-magi...

Just about 30 years later, banker Stephen Girard almost single-handedly funded the War of 1812.
So, a long-winded way to say:

"We will bail you out."
Siemens has recently split into different companies so it's questionable if it still exists.
that's a silly typo. Thanks for caching it. I am using Fred Brooks' term "pure thought-stuff"
I feel like it would be have been a lot more intuitive calling it something like "Capriciousness"

It's not "randomness". It's more like "willingness to choose less likely answers".
It’s deposit volume rather than number of accounts that are over $250k. I’m sure that most of the accounts are <$250k, but a single $1m account accounts weighs the same as 100 $10k accounts.
> Mark Cuban says he has $8-10M at SVB via his funded startups. Rich guy bailout to be paid by increased FDIC fees and reduced Fed 'earnings' paid to USA. Everyone is forced to pay so billionaire Mark Cuban gets his millions.

Did Mark Cuban mismanage the bank? Why should his deposits get penalized?
Have you ever seen a job posting asking for white people only? At least in America that sounds highly unlikely.
20gb of what? Ram or vram?
How do they benefit from their gamble? Regular depositors in a bank get stocks from VCs? I don't follow
> The issue is the US public paid into the startup via the bailout and doesn't have the corresponding shares. It's making the general public pay for the down side while having the rich VCs get the upside

There is no tax payer money in the bailout because there is no bailout.
> Cons the 11th gen is out of stock

I really wanted to like Framework laptops. I travel a lot and break laptops frequently.
I really liked IBM Thinkpads, was all-in on Dell onsite warranty when it actually worked...

But I just got the cheapest MSI Modern. It has ok hardware, 64GB RAM, two SSDs, bunch of ports... Repairability is nice if you actually can get support and spare parts next day. Without that its just a marketing BS.

Today laptops are just disposable consumer goods. "Repairability" is a freedom to swap SSD from laptop #12 to laptop #13. Now all I need is a screwdriver and credit card to buy next laptop.
Our fractional reserve banking system is kind of crazy when you really think about it. So much of our economy is built on the assumption that not everyone will want to withdraw their money at the same time.

I'm not surprised that the government stepped in on this one. It is worth it just to shore up faith in our banking system.

If even 10% of business get spooked and started pulling their money out of banks, then absolute financial chaos would ensue.
Yes, this is why I've never considered Google Cloud and have kept everything on AWS. (Even when a client says the choice is Azure or Google... I'll take that Microsoft poison.) I have zero confidence anything Google produces will be around in a few years.

This is too bad too, because I have used Google's Cloud offering for some hobby projects (specifically related to Gmail and spam filtering, because... why would Gmail's spam filtering function?) and it seems really good.
If it didn't happen so fast they probably would have gotten some kind of bailout before fdic stepped in.
I disagree.

I’ve hosted on AWS for ages. They don’t do this. We didn’t pay the bill for two months once because the owner of the card left. No problems. This was a small spender outfit. They could have thrown us on the street as we were a rounding error. Now we’re a big spender and we still forgot to pay them sometimes (sorry Bezos)

But some of your point is worth considering. Design for portability should the worst happen (you are cut off due to geopolitics or other problems) or somewhere else turns out to be a better deal. Stick to IaaS and portable services only.

For the moment I trust AWS though.
MathPrompter: Mathematical Reasoning Using LLMs. New SOTA on MultiArith(92.5%)
Large Language Models (LLMs) have limited performance when solving arithmetic reasoning tasks and often provide incorrect answers. Unlike natural language understanding, math problems typically have a single correct answer, making the task of generating accurate solutions more challenging for LLMs. To the best of our knowledge, we are not aware of any LLMs that indicate their level of confidence in their responses which fuels a trust deficit in these models impeding their adoption. To address this deficiency, we propose `MathPrompter', a technique that improves performance of LLMs on arithmetic problems along with increased reliance in the predictions. MathPrompter uses the Zero-shot chain-of-thought prompting technique to generate multiple Algebraic expressions or Python functions to solve the same math problem in different ways and thereby raise the confidence level in the output results. This is in contrast to other prompt based CoT methods, where there is no check on the validity of the intermediate steps followed. Our technique improves over state-of-the-art on the MultiArith dataset (78.7%→92.5%) evaluated using 175B parameter GPT-based LLM.
I don't use Mercury but I would have to assume your first sentence explains it as simply as possible

Mercury is not a bank.

Any accounts they hold at partner banks are their accounts --- not your accounts. The only way your account at Mercury could be fully insured by the FDIC is if Mercury was a commercial bank --- and by their own statement and definition, they are not.

Therefore, any discussion of FDIC insurance is only relevant to them and their holding accounts. But since they are "not a bank", there is no requirement for them to use said insured accounts to hold your funds. They *could* be investing in crypto or Chinese stocks --- you really don't know. The only reasonable assumption is that how they choose to deploy your funds is entirely up to them and your deposits are not covered by the FDIC.

I'm sure someone will correct me if I am mistaken but unless there is an account at a commercial "partner" bank with your funds and your name listed as the account owner, you are not the FDIC nsured.
> mostly I see deliveroo drivers do this.

In my neighbourhood it's mostly teenagers. Sometimes speeding on e-bikes, those are actually terrifying. A lot of the time when the road is completely free.

They are the minority though, and indeed even though I have seen and been on some close calls, I have never seen one of them actually crashing into a pedestrian.

Bad, but yeah - not as bad as cheese. :D
Stratechery seems to stick to the B2C, AdTech, Fintech, and mid-market B2B SaaS sectors, and at least for Biotech (loose term, Pharma VC is distinct from Healthtech VC is distinct from B2C health apps is distinct from ...) and Cybersecurity+Infra Startups, some of the analysis seems not as targeted.

I've worked in both those industries and the VCs, GTM, Operations, Personas, and Economics for those segments are different from how an early stage Stripe or Uber or Amplitude would operate.
As mentioned COBRA is actually retroactive but even normal insurance can be bought after a diagnosis and before a treatment.

Which would be like buying fire insurance after calling 911 but before the trucks arrive.
...what

I think you are mixing up "nobody want to program in Europe" with "nobody wants to program for peanuts in Europe"
What I'm referring to requires around 67GB of RAM. With 400GB I would imagine you are in good shape for running most of these GPT-type models.
Wonder if their servers all share a common NTP server/pool (that they control).
This is the way. Alternatively, you can be SUPER lazy and just let the clean ones rest while you fill up the second dishwasher.

Not that I'd ever do something like that.
Everywhere in the US is subject to the same dysfunctional government and awful societal design.

Even the best place in the US is worse than Paris
I played with the thing and it felt as it did when I got a chance to log into an old-school mainframe, only to find Emacs, which I could use because of muscle memory! Awesome, unexpected, oddly satisfying!
B is definitely where we're at. Many Americans are tired of watching the rich get bailed out with socialism-for-the-rich-not-for-the-poor. Meanwhile the not-rich continue to struggle in every aspect of life, from food to housing. And blame is placed squarely on the rich, who have a greater voice in the elected government.
I can already see the tweets of people making up ridiculous job ads which are perfectly "linted" while contain some wildly racist text. That'd be highly damaging for the tool, which is what OP is saying.
I actually don't mind the style.
Yup. As a developer who maintains a snap, I hate snaps. Worst packaging obstacle course I’ve ever had to participate in.