skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No private institutions with hard cash are going to be willing to take the portfolio because of the opportunity cost of investing that money at higher rates of returns. Any institutions that would need to borrow to buy the portfolio would need to borrow at higher interest rates and earn lower rates generating a loss each month. There is now way to take the portfolio without a discount and not have a loss.

If there was a way out of this without a loss the bank wouldn’t be insolvent (bankrupt).
Tether is better run than any other stable coin. Yes, it could go to zero for many different reasons, but the main reason it gets so much flak (compared to other stables) is because it is less compliant with US regulators than USDC and the other major stable coins. Being less complaint with US regulators is also the reason it is used more than any other stable (highest volume by a wide margin); because people without US bank accounts can actually use it. Tether is a very helpful resource to a lot of people that otherwise would not have access to USD.
Veterans Affairs and medical assistance in dying (euthanasia).
Regarding parallel processing, I have to disagree. It is bad in shell, because it makes best practices such as "set -e" impractical. The usual failure mode is a script that does not stop correctly on SIGTERM, and its children have to be hunted down and killed separately.
> Over time, everyone will probably get most of their deposits from SVB back from SVB assets.

> What people (the ones who know what they're talking about, anyway) are asking for is closer to taxpayers covering the costs of getting that money back sooner. There's a definite cost, but it's not taxpayers writing checks to cover deposit values.

Except it's literally asking the taxpayer to cover the costs to cover these funds for some indeterminate period of time in the HOPES that SVB will "probably" be able to make their depositors whole, someday.
You’re right but then again they seem to be far away from that situation as all they have is an advisory board.

How they present themselves and what they have at this point seems exaggerated to me and makes me cautious.

This is not how startups and solutions look that turn into success stories in the future. It just doesn’t feel right.
I don't particularly believe in donations, but I think there's a better way. I will certainly be reaching out to the author.
Same here, I used to have a rule that at certain times I’d switch to those subreddits as soon as I opened HN.

/r/AskAnthropology is a decent sub btw.
Yes, but that's less convenient. At home, anyway, you have to make it. That's more effort at a time when many are in a rush to begin with. You can have it at work, but many prefer to have some coffee a bit sooner than that and not have to make a trip to the break room.

Convenience is a very powerful motivator, and these people are prioritizing it over minimizing monetary expense.
These appear to be cases where government regulation was imposed to limit access to foreign currency. Not, as you seemed to be insinuating ("but don’t properly hold reserves for them"), any problem with banks carrying insufficient reserves.

So, there was neither a technological problem moving fiat in our out of the country that would be amenable to a technological fix, nor unintended weaknesses in the regulatory regime covering local banks. Rather, it was deliberate government policy.
> Example, the first abstraction is to use functions, if/else, and loops instead of plain goto everywhere like the CPU like.

CPU likes if/else and loops just as much as it like its gotos. If/else and loops are just conditional jump (with a comparison done before the jump), and gotos are uncoditional jumps. Both are very much machine code constructs, that's why they're in C (which is basically a syntactic sugar over assembly).

Function calls are slightly more involved, but basically also very, very low level.
I don't know if the financial intermediation theory of money has its own definition of M1 and M2 but the one given by seanhunter is the standard one. If we're using the same definition [are we?] then it either changes or it doesn't.

If money supply is "currency in circulation plus deposits[, etc.]" how does bank lending not increase the "currency in circulation plus deposits[, etc.]" amount?

(Of course lending between friends doesn't: the $100 bill in circulation is the same as before and the friendly IOU is not a deposit nor included in the [, etc.]")
Every time a crazy workaround for node.js's shortcomings arises I think about how hardware engineers must feel. Your magnum opus is giving people 2, 4, even 16 core supercomputers and then the software engineers come along and start using this hot new single threaded tech called node. Sure, run multiple processes and then you get to spend most of the cycles passing stuff around. I think if I was a hardware engineer I'd want to quit and become a potato farmer.
You can run it headless but with JVM, that’s pretty much the actual usable equivalent now.
> Roku (who I have never heard of as a consumer) had two Billion USD in cash ? wtf

This is arrogant. There are many billion-dollar businesses you haven't heard of, most of them in boring industries. For instance, have you heard of Vitol? Likely not...but they made $279bn in revenue in 2021.

https://www.vitol.com/vitol-2021-volumes-and-review/
Stablecoin USDC breaks dollar peg after revealing $3.3B SVB exposure
> I was around when supporting Solaris, HPUX, AIX, and Irix was a real concern.

Back in the 90s it was surprising to not find gnu userspace installed on the systems I used.
Great guide. Super helpful. Debating moving any amount we have over $250k into new accounts at other banks
On black market, USDT frequently trades higher than 1 USD, because it's easier to transfer.
I'll add one more thing while I think of it. You might be a good "lone wolf" programmer, but not good at working on collaborative software projects. Those projects are "big" because of team size, but also the expected lifespan of the code.

I've been asking for some mentoring on how to manage a shared project, where more than one person is modifying it. For instance, learning how to handle things like pull requests and merges, rather than just using git as a backup drive. I'm still at the front end of the learning curve on that.

I already know that there's a tradeoff, just from being adjacent to a real software team: Software product development is painful to watch because it seems so slow and bureaucratic. And OMG the meetings on top of meetings. But the devs have to strike a balance between reacting quickly to changing needs, and maintaining their sanity over lengthy project lifespans.

The devs think what we're doing is painful to watch too. ;-)
I fail to see what difference in impact you mean. Sure, Houston gets a later sunset, but it is still only a relative gain of an hour. Minneapolis gets the same adjustment. How is the adjustment's impact on people's lives any different?
We are living in a REAL CLOWN WORLD!
Precisely why I bookmarked under “brr” — things I open when I’m too lazy to get a blanket.

All jokes aside, this is very cool.
I think I am the crazy one, because that UI looks more futuristic than some of the ones we got right now, with look like a kindergarten.
It’s not really though - your brain has a circadian rhythm, for instance, which is closer to a clock than to an LLM.
How'd that work out for it.
Don't mix privacy and security!

More than half of info you mentioned I give ona daily basis to different merchants and services I interact with.

And guess what — it is Okay.

The security part (passwords etc.) is a different story, but as I see it — most just buy into this privacy scam without real understanding what exact goal they're trying to achieve.
I use AI to help me brainstorm for my fiction sometimes. Sometimes for basic things like names, other times to help me reword certain sentences. Possibly the most useful so far has been getting ideas to visualize a sparring scene. Knowing nothing about fighting or different types of holds and such, I described with a lot of specificity how the two characters were positioned. How character A was restraining character B. The idea was for B to instruct A how to get out of the situation.

I first got some ideas for how this could be done by straight up asking for different methods character A could use to get out of B's grip. I then got it to write some ways that B might explain this, or instruct A. It went so far as to have B offer encouragement at strategic parts and such.

The final version ended up being heavily edited of course, but it helped greatly to visualize the scene and the physical actions.

I also used it to help me brainstorm my way out of some plot knots I got myself into. Like "Imagine such-and-such situation. What would be some possible reasons why so-and-so would choose NOT to perform this particular action?"
6502 Serial Interface
True, though there are at least 3000 banking institutions that exist that this doesn’t apply to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35110141
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This is from 2022.

Anyone who starts thinking along the lines of “who else is going to pay for it?” or “is he expected to do everything for free?” I suggest to look at the situation closely and even past the arguments of the Lakota and to consider what happened directly.

This wasn’t a business that showed up, made some recordings and people didn’t want to pay the bill. I actually think a for-profit organization could be more ethical here. At least the tribe would have a clearer picture of what was going on and appropriately have their guard up.

This is a non-profit organization. Multiple tribes have been surprised when they didn’t have access to the created materials. When this happens to so many people, the only conclusion can be that the NGO is misleading them. If after the first time this happened they didn’t make it extremely clear to the people they’re helping “we will own the copyright on everything we write down or record and sell the books back to you for $40” then they don’t deserve to be called a charity.

These non-profits are taking millions in federal money and paying the co-founder a combined $210k. I’m actually all for higher charity pay if it gets people in the door who can deliver better results. But when your charity isn’t just giving to but also taking from marginalized communities while you’re paying yourself quite a handsome salary for a linguist, I don’t think that’s okay.

I personally find this distasteful because I have created recordings and gotten translations from the Shipibo people in Peru and it is not that hard to act reasonably ethically. This isn’t some moral hazard minefield. You tell them what you plan to do with it, get permission, then share it back.

The last piece is that by capturing this language and selling these books to outside schools, they make it harder and less likely for some other organization to come in and do it right. Another charity would have less opportunity to use book sales to outside schools as a source of funding.
So, just like any empire at the time.
I only know about Roku for three reasons.

I had to work on third party software supporting their boxes nearly eight years ago.

They were a meme stock for a bit. I made a small profit since I bought a few shares after I first learned about them.

And some eng director there randomly added me on LinkedIn years ago.

I would have never encountered them as a regular consumer, because I don't watch TV or use any streaming services.
Timing is exactly the challenge! The share price of $SIVB actually climbed pretty significantly since the prediction back in January before collapsing this week.

You don't need to look too hard to see examples of share prices doing weird things despite reality ($BBBY most recently)!
You are mis-quoting the tweet. It’s not >=30% of YC companies. That 30% is the percentage of YC companies _that have exposure to SVB_. So that could be 30% of 5% of YC companies or 30% of 80% of YC companies.
I worked at the company that makes MATLAB, and the majority of engineers there ran it that way lol.
Ask him to describe it. I have not scanned any space-art specific books but also enjoyed those when I was young. I may know of it?
'cause, yeah, what the world needs is YASIS, yet another stock imagery something. i'm way too outside the SV bubble to be affected by its reality distortion field to think that would be a good idea.
If you loan someone millions of dollars, yes you should probably do some diligence on them.

(The limitless extrapolation of HN never ceases to amaze)
Possibly related recent discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35106488
Generally speaking most data science stuff appears to mostly be Python with a little R and then a very very small amount of many other ecosystems (e.g. most of the elite banks do a lot of kdb+ in addition to a lot of Python).

In engineering fields, it all just depends. Control systems (via Simulink) is still pretty rooted in Matlab last I checked and is a lot better documented than Python. In power systems (my field) most "programming" is either at the application level (like C, C++, or Fortran) if you're a vendor and at the scripting/API level with 95% of that being in Python and the other 5% probably being something like C#, Java, or shell script. All data analysis is either in Python or SQL. SQL is better if the data is already in a database. We deal with such large quantities of data that pandas usage is relatively rare though. It's more common to use a Python script to push a bunch of data to a SQL database to then do analysis.

I do know some places that do post jobs with Matlab as a requirement and those are mostly the little R&D sections of those companies that tend to hire workers from academia that haven't been exposed to Python as much as Matlab.

Comparing the two language ecosystems (what matters), I'd say that Python is much easier to do general programming in and ML, but Matlab has easier and definitely more consistent facilities for charting and graphs. I prefer Python for a lot of scripting work, but Matlab is still pretty nice if your company can afford a license. I wouldn't want to just be stuck in Matlab, but there are plenty of cases where I might reach for it over Python if available.

At the end of the day though, they're both scripting languages and aren't very hard to learn. Any sane hiring manager should accept candidates with experience in either one as long as they don't need to hire a super expert to lead a big effort on day one.
I’ll bite. Show me the equivalent of this in python, including error handling, parallelism, disk footprint, and real-time status output:

#!/bin/bash -eux -o pipefail

TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d tempdirXXXXX)
trap “rm -rf $TMPDIR” SIGINT SIGTERM ERR EXIT
(
cd $TMPDIR
foo | grep x > foo.out &
bar > bar.out &
baz $TMP | tee baz.out &
)
wait

tar -cf - -C $TEMPDIR | zstd -6 -z - | pv | ssh server.com bash -c “cat - > out.tag.zstd”
Try GetOutline (https://www.getoutline.com/) : Though its meant for Knowledge base purpose, I find it handy since I prefer markdown support for taking my general notes
True. Also, the devops salaries are much higher than hiring a system admin to watch over your servers.
What is wrong with eating only Burritos? The $4.15 Guac is the real travesty there.
Unless I’ve misunderstood, the FHLB credit lines charge about the interest rates you would expect. For example:

https://www.fhlbboston.com/fhlbank-boston/rates#/long-term

If a bank’s portfolio of long-term fixed income instruments has a mark to market value that is $27bn less than their hold-to-maturity value, and the bank borrows $27bn at market rates to cover the shortfall, they will pay approximately, wait for it, $27bn (present value) in net interest while waiting for maturity to happen.

If the bank can manage to borrow the money in the form of non-interest-bearing deposits for the entire term of these instruments, then, sure, they’ll end up okay, because they will effectively make enough money on these deposits to cover their losses.

But the whole industry of non-interest-bearing deposits is a bit odd. When interest rates are around 2% and banks are offering maybe 0.75% interest, it may not be worth their clients’ time to try to earn interest. But when FDIC-insured banks are paying 3-4.5%, convincing a client to keep holding $2M in a non-interest-bearing account instead of spending an hour a week shuffling assets between checking and savings is a much harder sell, and much of those $27bn of required profits may well end up in the pockets of a bank’s customers. Which makes the effective value of the bank’s equity look bad, and maybe negative, and the bank may be toast.

Put another way, if you are actually insolvent, credit at market rates cannot make you solvent unless you have some other source of profit.
But preventing bank runs is the main point of deposit insurance in the first place.
Can you share where you find hardware like this?
Way to go, I approve! Been running bare metal for my SaaS since 2007.
I'd rather have false lints than miss lints
CXL could be used in this way, if you are unfamiliar with the tech., ServeTheHome on YouTube has some good videos detailing it.
I think embedded is a distinct subset of systems programming. It definitely deals with hardware resource management, but is a bit different because it tends not to build the high-level resource management abstractions on top of the hardware for other application code to use e.g. what a database kernel is to a database.
Twenty odd years ago (I can't believe it's been that long), trackballs were one of the first things I tried and I used one for a few years.

But over the years, I have come to approach ergonomics in terms of full body.

Hand pain is a symptom of more than what my hands touch.

How my legs and feet and shoulders and back feel changes how I sit and that changes where and how my hands are positioned. If my back is aching I shift my body, my shoulders and neck compensate, and that changes my elbows, wrists, and hands.
Very well worded and helped me clarify my thinking on these models - thanks! Definitely agree, tho I don’t have experience in this particular domain. “Replace humans entirely” seems like a foolish goal for professional art; not only would audiences have an aversion, but LLMs by definition aren’t deterministic/symbolic so you’re going to end up fixing small details anyway.
I have to laugh at this as I’ve seen this happen a lot, timezones be damned.
It reads a bit like a loaded question. IMHO Javascript is fine and so are dozens, if not hundreds, of others. Maybe you can join the discussion with your background and context. I see the HN account is 8 months old without a comment yet.
Cool but frustrating when you want to get a different direction than the scroll is leading you.

I wonder if you could re-hijack the scroll and scroll the page to locked-in points so someone can follow different red strings. Might be nauseating though if there is no transition.
The salient point is that a $600k/year salary is uncommon or even rare even at FAANG. There are a lot of engineers who could work at a FAANG or FAANG-like company, but most of them will never see $600k/year in compensation.

Also, sure, there's a distribution of ranges at a given level across FAANG (and all tech companies, really--though I think it's bimodal in that there is "FAANG" (and FAANG-like or near-FAANG) and "everything else"). Also, Netflix has a rather unique (for the tech world) approach to employment, in that they will absolutely let someone go if their performance is even slightly off or there is a pivot in strategy (rather than, say, relocate an engineer to another team). Employment there is a riskier proposition than at other FAANG companies. They have to bake that premium into the price they pay for labor.
Missing the point by a country mile. No-one complains about AWS licencing because it's easy: create an account and pay for what you use. Most commercial software is a pain because you have to keep track of licenses.

Oh, and working with Open Source software means I get paid approximately double what an equivalent Microsoft specialist does. Learning Linux has been the biggest payoff of my career.
“Patterns is the platform for any exec looking to prepare for the new world of AI, stay ahead of the transformation it will bring to their business and start building core AI features into their product and operations,” Van Haren told TechCrunch in an email interview. “We help companies to handle the incredible rate of progress of AI, which involves adapting to new models and paradigms quickly.”

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But how?
I’m a sucker for nostalgia, but this site is completely responsive. It has a spartan design, but it’s a long distance from what you could do in 1999.
SVB Financial Group $SIVB Q4 2022 Earnings Call
That's crazy how many options you have in the states.

I wonder what are the options in Europe (but there is not that much money over here).

Gov protection is 100k per person and all my friends who need it just open accounts in different banks.
It would be great to have a managed solution to automatically shift money around.
Was this a well established joke or an indifference and rude manager? It could go either way, and is entirely dependent on your perception of the person.

Regardless, I find myself as I age unsure of how to respond to people and default to similar behavior. Unplanned pregnancy? Is that a surprise miracle or an unwanted interloper? “Wow you’re in for an adventure, I’m happy to support you”.
Pristine deserts are. Invasive species, drought, and human development are all damaging desert ecosystems, which take much longer to recover than less arid biomes.

Just because deserts appear barren doesn't mean there isn't an ecosystem there that isn't important.
I find it interesting that you came into this with a concern for lives, but now think that saving more lives is a bike shed opinion.
Look for a ThinkPad T480, I recently bought and upgraded one - much to HN's rage: https://maxrozen.com/replacing-my-macbook-m1-with-thinkpad-t...
> whereas systems programming aims to produce software and software platforms which provide services to other software

We have the word "middleware" to describe that.

If you look how the word is used, "systems programming" does clearly not mean that (personally, I don't remember ever seeing it used that way). It's more used as an architecture paradigm, where you don't expect a lot of things to be abstracted, for whatever reason. The word choice is obviously because the underlining system that provides those abstractions is architected this way.

The distinction is actually relevant in a lot of contexts. As we get better languages and compilers that provide lower cost or more expressive abstractions, it is getting less and less relevant, but it still has a lot of relevance. And yes, it's a fuzzy concept like any other software architecture one.
Prior to joining SVB, CEO Gentile was CFO for Lehman Brothers GIB
The countries that develop, build, and sell solar panels? Not surprising.
> What is irresponsible about placing cash on deposit at a regulated bank?

What's irresponsible about under-insuring your business-critical equipment in an inspected building that meets code?

Answer to both is regulations can only prevent some failures, and the solution to unexpected failures is insurance, which the Free Market(tm) is adept at providing - and businesses should be paying for to keep all of their money safe, not the bare minimum afforded by the FDIC
Two tradeoffs to be aware of:

1. Slightly longer compile times at package install time, but that is ok since it is a one time cost.

2. During package development, building a pkgimage every time will lead to longer compile times because of native code generation. That is easily disabled during development with `julia --pkgimages=no`.

The popular packages are already preparing for this.
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That would be the Fed pursuing the "maintain the stability of financial markets and contain their systemic risks" part of its statutory purpose.