skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You missed emails asking for verification"

Did you saw the title of the email? "Important Information for your Account". It reads more like an informational email. How many important emails you've received this week?
Could've been worded "[Action Required]", "Account Suspension Notice" etc. And they didn't even drop a notification when my servers were shutdown.

"This will happen to you again on AWS or any other provider."

Can't really agree to this. I read all the horror stories and GCloud is the only one who would suspend you for something like this. I need to be very clear, the suspension is not due to fraudulent issue. It's due to "missing some paperwork". I've been paying using the same card for the past 4 yrs.

Then voila they choose to suddenly dropped you an informational email and suspend you 10 days later.

How many saas apps are you using? 10, 20? Imagine if everyone pulls up something like this would you even have time to run your business?

See similar horror stories below. AWS doesn't pull this shit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32547912

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33737577

And lastly, when something like this happens, the minimal they could do is to get my servers back asap. But you know what? I've been trying all my means to get them to it back at least temp but nobody there gives a fuck. It's all the "none of my business" attitude between their teams.

Here's one more thing that I didn't mentioned. I replied to their verification team 3 times within an hour last friday. You know what happened? Their support team told me "their verification team" already replied to ask for more details when they haven't even read my replies (done all checks on my end can 100% confirm my msg was the last one out). And they've been dead silence over 3 days already. They don't give a fuck about screwing you and don't understand or care about the criticalness of their role.
Would be nice mash with the OG lofi: Music for Airports by Brian Eno
> giving the bankers a ski jolly

What banker got a “ski jolly” here? The bankers in this case are in exactly the same position they would have been in if the bank were allowed to fail without supporting depositors.
> You could not patch 8086 microcode though. On this CPU was just because it was simpler and maybe smaller than random logic.

From what I understand, when the 8086 was being designed, the design was still mostly being done by hand, and the transistor budgets were still really small, so those two reasons for microcoding still applied. Things today are high much more automated and have much higher transistor budgets

> Most CPU have a form of microcode in one place or another, often sequencing transfers between registers and buses.

You need a control state machine, and you have two basic choices on how to implement it: microcode or random logic. Either way you will need registers (or something equivalent) to store control state

> Also, ISA compat is still crucially important. Maybe slightly less than before high level languages prevalence, but only slightly. You can only just recompile high level code if: * you have the source

Some of this is because OCO (object code only) software took over the market. I say “OCO” because in the 70s it was common for proprietary software to come with source - nobody called it “shared source” because it was just the norm which didn’t need a name. Indeed, when (in 1983) IBM stopped allowing customers source code access to their proprietary mainframe products, they had to invent a name for it (OCO). OTOH, unlike mainframe/minicomputers and commercial Unix, “secret source” became mainstream on microcomputers much earlier in their history. Also, in part this is because technologies such as OSF’s ANDF (aka TenDRA) never really took off, although WebAssembly may change that

> * you have a compiler for source to target

Not that big an issue given open source compilers (LLVM, GCC). Historically most vendors with their own CPUs had their own compiler development teams too (IBM, Sun, DEC, HP, Intel, among others). An incompatible ISA might nonetheless be just a small variation on an existing one so the necessary change to the backend might be small

> * it is completly generic (e.g. no specific accelerator used)

Many apps don’t use acceleration directly only through libraries (like crypto libraries using hardware crypto instructions)-again, a vendor with their own CPUs and compilers likely has these libraries too, and is responsible for changing them

> In practice Windows on ARM shows that few people do it - even less so in a timely manner.

Some of that’s because of the nature of the Windows ecosystem. Swapping CPU architecture on Linux is generally a lot easier, because many Linux hosts are 100% FLOSS except for the in-house apps they are used to run
Not disagreeing with you, it was basically a decision they had and they went with the wrong one.
> I switched from viewing Google mostly positively to more skeptically

I think I share the feeling. I feel more and more disconnect from their stuff every day. Same thing with their hardware. Original Google Wifi was great, the Google Nest Wifi Pro is not. You cannot listen Rage Against The Machine's Bullet in the Head in their Youtube Music Premium without popups, that you cannot disable. The only answer from their customer support seems to be: "please, unsubscribe". The search engine feels also worse and worse. If you put anything more specific, all the links lead to fake sites. Youtube is still quite good, mostly because of the content not found elsewhere. In general I care Google a lot less these days, and I feel it is a mutual feeling.
Partially disagree. Cutlery of the same shape (e.g. spoons) might stick together and not get cleaned properly if they are all in the same compartment.
It's a shame that we are trying to shield depositors from all risks.

It's better to have more people watching out for danger.
You are questioning Chomsky’s premise, which is almost certainly supported by implicit citations (that do not appear due to the medium they are presented in); your arguments, though not entirely unreasonable, are presumably not
I've never seen nushell as a daily driver -- more as a data exploration tool. Have a random export you want to go splunking in? `nu` from your current zsh session and go wild. When you're done, ^D back to your main zsh session, job done. Whereas `jq` is only useful for json, and `xsv` is only useful for CSVs, `nu` offers uniform syntax for exploring many different formats and producing structured data out at the end as well. Neat!
Nice!

I gave up on bookmarking so I now use an alias to quickly find what I am looking for with fzf and fd:

p () { cd $(fd $1 $HOME -d 4 -i -E Pictures -E Desktop | fzf) }
Only a potential buyer would lose. Not SVB - for them the price and return is locked if they can wait. The problem comes when they are forced to sell (as they were).

This is why the bond price falls - an outside party will not buy the SVB bonds because they can get a better return on a different bond. The bond price falls to make them equivalent.
Market cap wise Europe looks equally worse. The market cap of the US top tech companies is greater than EU's tech sector combined. Ouch!

Europe's biggest tech companies leaders in the field are Airbus, SAP and ASML.
According to wikipedia [0], ATC in Germany is subject to the Fernmeldegeheimnis [1]. It’s the same law that protects snail mail and other communications. Anyone who wants to even listen to ATC has to be certified [2], and then has to comply with that law.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flugfunk
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernmeldegeheimnis
[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprechfunkzeugnis_(Luftfahrt)
So you're saying they're just raising an existing tax by that logic (since FDIC is already using this mechanism and all banks already pay into it for the base FDIC insurance)
Thanks. Initial test:

main.exe -m ggml-model-q4_0.bin -t 8 -n 128 -p "The Drake equation is nonsense because"

The Drake equation is nonsense because it takes parameters that can only be known AFTER the conclusion is reached. It would be like saying "I'm going to prove a theorem by starting from the conclusion, then making up the proof.
The Drake equation uses the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence as the conclusion and then making up the parameters. It is nonsense.
Making depositors share more in the risks would hopefully make them more risk averse, causing them to move their money before it's too late.
It's kind of important to realize though that they didn't have a choice. Apple had a magical thing going with Steve Jobs and Johnny Ive, they were/are generational talents, you can't find yourself in a situation where both of those people leave and say "Well, I guess let's just slot another generational talent into Johnny's old job". They need to get the organization to work with the people they have. If their innovation starts to decline it's not really helpful to say "go back to design led" because that might not be what works in the future.
HSBC is a British bank with most of the profits being made in Asia (specifically Hong Kong). They may be selling off their unprofitable subsidiaries but the UK operations are pretty stable.
I just remembered remembered that I had read something about the history of this phrase, and I found it: an answer on Quora from five years ago.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-phrase-putti...

> The background seems an oft-used phrase in Sun Microsystems by the former CEO, "all the wood behind a single arrow" which means focus on a single product and be the best in it.

> When deer hunting .. "Real men bring only one arrow. They know how to aim (and they remember to take plenty of time when aiming), and they put all the wood behind that one arrow."

They even managed to find a usage of the same space of metaphor from Apple!

> While the layoffs are intended to reduce operating costs, Apple said it trimmed its technology portfolio to streamline development efforts. “Time to market is very important to me,” Amelio said. “With the narrowing of our focus, we can put more wood behind the arrow.”

> —Stephen Howard, “Narrowing tech focus, Apple cuts 4,100 jobs,” MacWeek, March 17, 1997
Might as well give everyone an account at the Fed instead of tinkering around the symptoms. Commercial banks can then fund via bonds, CDs, etc., but not deposits (as they are inviolable). Basically, have a risky commercial banking systems and a riskless payment/checking account system.
The problem is not that big corporations fail - they inevitably will and they arguably should. The problem is that there are no new ones, or at least not enough to make up for the losses.
People used Scottish banks just fine during the Scottish free banking era.
I would consider myself a reasonably sophisticated financial advisor. however, within thousands of pages of SEC disclosures and fine print, I have not the time nor the resources nor the skill sets to do due diligence on a bank's daily operations.

I just consider that my zero yielding no interest deposits (not investments) are safe and in a competent banking system this should be a fair assumption, should it not? especially for a bank that wasnt investing in subprime mortgage loans or car loans, they literally got punished for investing in long-term US treasuries!

a fair financial system should be afforded for everybody, and the idea that they should only be presented for the poor seems baffling
This isn’t a random event or act of God. If the person said they would take care of everyone’s food while taking whatever share of that food they wanted, then broke their arm after finishing off the last steak, how do you think the tribe would respond?
> China is low end manufacture and has not moved meaningfully out of that niche at all.

Eh, just about everything is manufactured in China. It's hard to find anything that cannot be manufactured there. It's however easy to find things that cannot be manufactured in Europe or America anymore (at least at scales above lab volumes).
"Manufacturing and innovation in Western countries are now in a state of malaise and they're being quickly overtaken by Asian countries such as China. Like it or not, the West generally is in a state of decline."

I think this has a lot to do with ever stricter environmental regulations; construction is hitting the same roadblock, environmental assessments are onerous in many places of the West. As a result, manufacturing moves to Asia and housing doesn't get built at all.

Software, which doesn't face the same hurdles, flourishes in the West. A typical consumer combo is Asian hardware with European/American software. I don't think we are out of innovative spirit just yet, we rather have to prune the regulations a bit, because well-intentioned or no, one can regulate himself to complete stagnation.
Balance sheets mix maturity very often.
Outstanding loans to others, unpaid invoices, issued bonds, loans with banks. All of these are on the balance sheet, none of them represent dollars now.

A balance sheet does not show "what is left if we needed to liquidate now". It shows some approximation of "what do we own, and what do we owe". If you fully intend to hold something to maturity (either bonds you own, loans you made, bonds you issued, or borrowed money) then it doesn't make sense to value that at market prices when you know that the price will converge to 100cents on the dollar before you sell it.

If you borrowed at 1% interest and interest rates rise, you don't mark down your debt in value. Even though the 'market value' of that loan definitely dropped.
The whole home appliance business is now owned by Bosch (it used to be a joint-venture between those two companies previously).

Consumer electronics so, everything from cameras to radios and TVs, was eaten in the 80s by Japanese companies. Then Korean companies stepped in, with actual manufacturing being outsourced across East Asia, from China and Taiwan to Vietnam and Thailand, and everyone between, left and right. Now Chinese companies entered the market not just as suppliers, but as actual brands, e.g. Huawei.
Separating out the LSP process from the editor is a good idea. One sure hopes the blast radius is small enough if there’s a vulnerability. My beef is really with the auto-update culture. If I can specify lock files for plugins, it helps, but no way most people are going to have the time or expertise to audit editor plugins.

I guess it’s the classic security vs. UX compromise!
>...joke about honest men

I guess you've never heard of the many paedophile priest scandals then?
I love the name!

I know that the comment is empty, but I had to say it!
> Why aren’t academics complaining about the absurd costs for the public accessing their information?

They are. Loudly and consistently. Academics largely abhor the academic publishing industry, but feel trapped by it.
> Future risk is something that can be addressed once SVB is stablized and contagion contained. On the other hand, unrest following multiple startup blowup is a lot less predictable.

We had exactly the same arguments during the last bailouts. The future of back then is today.
I had a Siemens-labeled (and I guess Siemens-manufactured) desktop PC in the early 2000s, crazy to think about it now.
Yes, it's tragic, and unfortunately, there are homosexual men who seek access to young boys via a "vocation", same as any who would seek access through the foster care system, pediatric medicine, teaching, coaching youth, Boy Scouts. The list is endless. The thing that can be done is organizational vigilance, by making all aware of the signs and methods of reporting, and removing barriers such as shame or retaliation.
SVB still has employees that are apparently going to continue to get paid for a number of weeks (years for the ktlo people probably). The creation of a separate entity for all the assets makes me think that they've separated the two and that SVB itself isn't shut down just yet (although clearly it's a carcass as I said before with a value near zero).
Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Air Takes on Emirates with Boeing Fleet
> You are better off because the government is helping

If they believe they are helping, why does the response always emerge suddenly on the day of the crisis with no debate or well explained contingency plan being activated?

The whole system seems to be built on one group revealing a sudden crisis that have obviously been building for a while. Then another group of people explaining that they have a plan, there is no time to explain, no need to explain and the objections are all mean-spirited fools who don't understand the plan. The plan which will be clearly explained sooner or later.

They're acting like people running a scam. None of these crisises are that surprising. Raising interest rates were likely to lead to this sort of fireworks display at some point in the short term. If the panic is genuine they should all be removed on the basis that they can't spot a tree in a forest. This has to be a long-planned contingency.

> You can't let the banking system collapse and expect it will only hurt the people you don't like.

The hurt happened a while ago now; banking collapses are the market recognising that it was mistaken about actions that it thought were wealth-creating but turned out not to be. This isn't a question of trying to "hurt" rich people, whatever that means. This is about concentrating the pain on people with skin in the game.

If people with skin in the game eat the losses, losses will happen less often. If the losses are diffuse, then losses happen more often. They're trying to cover up for incompetents because they meet them at parties, go to the same schools and have the same friends. And invest in similar assets, one suspects.
They bought £5bn of assets and liabilities and bunch of admin work integrating it all. I highly doubt anyone is bothering to break out the champagne for this one - it is a rounding error at best.

This isn't 4d giga brain chess stuff, its adults walking into the room. A meaningless tiny bank with assets and liabilities broadly matched has gone under - the regulator has stepped in, phoned around the market and somebody had to take it. £1 is the best they could do - and I expect that it is going to, directly at least, be a loss of money for HSBC all the same.
To add to that list two iconic German brands: AEG and Grundig.
been using Pint and it's great if you like python:

https://pint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Java's language philosophy is simple - everything must be an object. This simplifies a lot of things.

Rust has optionals built into the language. Rust's philosophy is to be a super powerful tool, language complexity be damned.

I find it hard to say java sucks in this context. Each language is making trade offs that align with their vision.
It is not inept. People aren't however pointing out the actual switcheroo here: by the definitions everyone was using just 48 hours ago SVB was not systemically important nor did it post systemic risk. That designation was meant to be for financial institutions that were directly depended on by other financial institutions. Nobody is saying that's true here.

What Yellen has done now is redefine "bank that poses systemic risk" to mean "any bank at all", which in turn shows that the insurance limit was never real, and that in turn the winners of the system are those who don't believe in the rules, but rather those who gamble on duplicity and the socialist leanings of government employees. Those who tried to believe in the honesty of the system got burned, again, and those who bet on it being meaningless won, again. The long term consequences are fearful.
The risk profile of cash and bank deposits are wildly different, and largely incomparable. It is a personal decision which you risk you like more.

Certainly, cash has advantages over bank deposits. My point was that it also has downsides.
> IMO where Philips went wrong is selling off their name for everything they weren't interested in to cheap brands, totally undermining their name.

I'm curious, to which companies/products has Philips sold their name to?
I think the person you replied to was being sarcastic. They were pointing out that the ideas presented in the movie are anything but generic for major blockbuster movies.
Do you want to learn it because it looks interesting, or because you think it's important for a Real Programmer to know?

If it's the former, go for it.

If it's the latter, don't worry about it. I have a CS degree, did 6 years on a team writing C++ at Microsoft, and only briefly flirted with understanding this stuff. A couple of the wizard devs on the (very large) team could do it, but they also knew that code needed to be simple above all else, so it was effectively banned in our code base.
Probably. The worst for me are still the "test your password strength" websites though. So painful to explain to end users why it's NOT a good idea to use this.
Given the non zero risk of an accidental nuclear launch I’m not so sure.

It’s like balancing a piano on a ledge above a busy street and saying “well if no one pushes it then it’s not dangerous!”

Nuclear war and climate change rank far higher as threats than rogue AI to me right now.
Their point entirely is the opposite - that a pull of deposits on Monday would have destroyed banks that are small. and deposits would get consolidated into the big 4 "too big to fail" banks.
Yes. Though as a normative statement, I would prefer if they would abolish FDIC.

That way small time depositors are also drawn into the ranks of the watchmen of the financial system.
So do the deposits the bonds are backing. That's irrelevant.
What is the purpose of having non Government owned banks in this scenario?
I didn't ask about SVB.
Is there an irony to the phrase "virtual analog"?
I had the same response. What exactly should I be outraged about?
Netherlands joins US blockade of Chinese chip industry
Way fewer people hate you at the end, which is a meaningful disincentive otherwise.
I think they started selling off their name after and because they where in trouble, not the other way around.
It wasn't erased, it's in peoples pockets in the form of cash, a la "bank run."
to add, note SVB did "fail". investors, shareholders, executives (bar the insider selling) lost everything. so clearly they weren't "too big to fail".
I'm sorry, I don't follow the logic here. Do you mind elaborating?

I see some correlation between SV remote working and COVID, but don't understand how mortgage backed securities play into this. Are you suggesting higher inflation on the way, lower property values, higher rates, and that it was intentional?
Where I live most checking accounts have transfer limits you'd run into when trying to pass the money out of your personal account again.
I enjoyed the self-flushing toilets and hiring non-Jewish people on the sabbath, since they’re going to hell anyways. ;-)
I've been self-hosting tt-rss for the past nine years. Can't recall a single issue.
Can they go back and change Option though? Will we get a separate ValueOption type? This could get messy.
Same, but the fail-state of a car of plane is a block of steel with an indoors, markedly less useful than a heavy-but-functioning bike.
You can increase more than others and still be funded less than them. The EU on average still spends dramatically more per capita on health.

The spending argument is nuanced and complex. Declaring that it's "not from fact" just reveals your partisan leanings.

https://www.health.org.uk/news-and-comment/charts-and-infogr...
Yes, thankfully Jetbrains have gone to the trouble of solving that by considering nullability annotations and relaxing type checking when encountering platform types and failing at runtime instead. [0]

[0] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/java-interop.html#null-safety-an...