skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in Germany, we quote „like this“ instead of “like this”

This is also the traditional style in Dutch; it's what I was taught at school. These days many just use "upper quotes". You can still find the traditional style in books and some newspapers, but others have switched over the years.

In traditional Ethiopian you would use ፡ as a word separator, and ። as a full stop. Over time, people have started to "just" use the space as a word separator. There's some Wikipedia pages that mix both styles; for example on [1] you can see ፡ being used for the first three paragraphs and then it switches to a space. I rather like being able to see the evolution of language/typography on a single page.

[1]: https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8A%A0%E1%88%9B%E1%88%AD%E1...
As long as it is not First Republic Bank or Signature Bank, I wouldn’t overthink the decision too much.

What you should worry about is reducing the various risks you face by:

1) Having at least 2 distinct banks with no overlap in who has admin access. This is the most important step. In the US, an insider at your company is way more likely to commit fraud or get phished than your bank failing. Just like you’d never operate your production app from one availability zone, never rely on one bank.

2) If you have $10mm or more, consider having a portion of your funds at each bank going into a money market sweep. These off balance sheet facilities might take a few days or more to access from an operational standpoint during a bank failure, but are not subjected to the bank’s credit risk. However, money markets have their own different risks so I’d never recommend having more than 50% in them.

3) If you have more than 36 months of runway, having a portfolio of T-Bills. While U.S. Treasury Bills are often referenced as “risk free”, that ignores the fact that they can lose resell value, purchasing and holding them often involves some sort of counterparty risk, and there is always operational risk.

Please do not use one of the big four banks. It is just making the system less safe, and there are plenty of times when that decision is going to bite you (a la PPP in 2020).

For specific recommendations:

1) A credit union or community bank with a branch you can readily access. While you should never have to go in-person, it can be really useful to have it as a backup option.

2) If absolutely wanted to go with a big bank, Capital One is not a bad option.
> For my novels, my editor fixed it, because there are the odd pedant that cares and leave negative reviews of these things are not "right".

Which means it is important. At least important enough to be worth spending money on and expect return (editors don't work for free).

Maybe not for articles and internal documents, and even less for HN comments, but there are circumstances where it is, like in novels.
No it really is a lot better noise-wise.
Reminds me a bit of this blog post by Tal Yarkoni, https://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2018/08/18/if-we-already-und.... That is perhaps more consistent with the "we are just really complicated neural networks argument".
I was in a back-and-forth, a couple of months ago, right here on HN.

I was shocked at how people here, pretty much outright accused me of lying, because I mentioned that the typical commute time, from the area I live (and there are many, many more areas, even farther out) to the city, is measured in hours.

They keep whipping out that census site, and telling me that my eyes and experience are wrong, because Teh Internets Tubes says it's only 27 minutes (to travel 35 miles).

I have to assume that the vast majority of folks here, have never had to deal with a typical (and it is typical) US suburban commute.

If folks want to get a real (as opposed to complete fiction) idea of what a US commute is like, most cites have traffic cams on their arteries.
Prolog Programming for the Java Platform
Yes. Agreed. But there is a difference between guidance, direction and seeding (e.g., post fossil fuel energy source); and putting its thumb on the scale to provide favoritism, protect markets that don't need protection, subsidies that have out lived their purpose and so on.

It's ok if we don't have free markets. It's not ok to perpetuate the idea that we do, especially when behind the scenes actions don't seek free markets.
I fully agree that impure views are a path to madness, but you don’t have to abandon React to have pure views.

React components can, and I would argue in vast majority of cases should, be pure functions. You just need to displace state management outside of React.

This removes the need for class components and hooks and returns React to its roots as a view library. Most complications in React seem to stem from its desire to also be a state library.

Case in point: we used MobX with React to build a UI for an entire document management system (essentially a file system with versioning, security and workflows) - I don’t think we have more than a handful of impure React components in the entire codebase.
Hear Hear! This deserves to be reiterated given the statements of information recoverability made in this thread.
I'm on 144Hz and it just looks like a solid purple.
Minsky is not my idol. It's just that it's part of reality that Minskys writings exist, that theses contain certain things and that they were published at certain dates, and that BTW Minsky happens to have built the earliest known learning network.
I'm confused. The article mentions 8 acres (i.e. 3 hectares, 5 city blocks) of open-office space. Surely that cannot be contiguous. And if it is broken up into sub-units, then surely the size of the sub-unit ought to be mentioned. (Not that I think cubicles are all that great, in large numbers.)
Ask HN: Where to look for internships as a Sys Admin?
Tried Reddit but didn't work out. And, most of the job postings on HN are related to Software Eng/Design.
I’d be happy with a PDF version with good layout.

I get Communications of the ACM, IEEE’s Computer and Software that way.

But I still miss BYTE. The articles are half the fun only - the ads painted a colourful portrait of the computer scene back then.
The big problem with basing your system of government on literal autocracy is that sometimes you don't get good autocrats. That said, the crisis of 1905-1917 would probably have overwhelmed a better monarch than Nicholas II.
At this point in time, Siri as a voice-driven assistant has become so totally and utterly useless, its not even worth comparing it to anything else. I wonder how a company can work at a feature like that for 10 years, and manage to make it worse with every release they put out.

At this point in time, Apple should be so embarrased of Siri that I really think scratching the whole thing would have a net benefit.

Scratch it, and start over. And fire everyone involved with Siri :-)
This is just a function of the inevitable decline of custom hardware information storage vs software information storage (where hardware is fungible, could on the cloud, locally or a mix of both).

CDs have finally declined to the levels of hobbyist collectors of vinyl and will soon go to 0 as the reader hardware dies out (as did many hardware formats before it). Vinyl will stay around probably for a long time as a curiosity as the hardware is relatively simple - our kids of a small record player which works on the same principle and it is actually fascinating as a concept - you can see the data stored as bumps in the plastic records.

There really is no reason for CDs to stay around, they are neither attractive nor convenient and haven't been for a decade at least.
They (and BlueApron) were using Lasership in some markets.
This trend of taking reservation money and delivering nothing on-time seems to be all the rave nowadays. This is a very dangerous game. I hope people know better!
I have a student in a school district that spends 24k per student. My daughter's class has 14 people in it. And, they have teacher's assistants. You would expect that this is the ideal public school, right?

Unfortunately, her class is 60% immigrant and none speak English. Both of her teachers spend 100% of their helping time attending to the students who can't speak English.

I don't blame the immigrants or the school. The school system just hasn't adjusted for the new normal.
I made a similar thing with an ESP32, but with an e-ink screen the other day, if you want something that runs on battery:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/making-the-timeframe/
can you share some details, please, for the curious but luckily employed?
How are the basics the same? No one builds their own server.
The Ioniq 6 does not replace the 5. In the Ioniq series, odd numbers are crossovers/SUVs and even numbers are sedans.
Not without taxpayers receiving equity. And not without restrictions.

I’d like to know if the startups were forced to bank as a requirement of accepting funding. That dumb shit needs to be fixed.
To clarify, I was referring to the mere technical fact that only if you type in a character like `“` (U+201C, “Left Double Quotation Mark”) using one font, it isn’t guaranteed to be rendered in the exact same style in a different font.

E.g., when I type a comment on HN and enter said `“` in the input text field, it uses my system’s default monospace font (Courier), which renders the character so that the stroke appears to go from bottom left (thick) to top right (thin). After I submit my comment, HN uses Verdana (the one from my system), which renders the very same character so that the stroke appears to go from the top left (thick) to the bottom right (thin). It’s the same Unicode character, but both fonts happen to render them differently according to how the font maker laid out and mapped the respective characters. (I can observe the same behaviour when I compare both fonts in my word processor, so it’s not HN-specific.)
I'm not so sure about this. Text is the universal interface to almost anything imaginable. You can easily embed ChatGPT into a robot, describe the robot text-based API to it and give it a task you like - and it will walk around doing things. Will it do a good job, that's a whole another question - in it's current state it may easily hallucinate something disastrous, but that's because the text-generating "intelligence" is weak (in some sense, we cannot describe it precisely, we don't know what it lacks - abstraction, reflection capabilities or something else)
I'd be very wary of using a fintech as your window to a real bank. Mercury as a company is much more likely to fail than a bank. In that scenario, you are going to face a similar operational disruption as folks are facing with SVB today. You might go several days or even weeks without the ability to access your funds.

The regulation is very light right now on how to handle the situation when a fintech partner goes under (although is an area of focus and should mature over the next few years.
Pgrok – Poor Man’s Ngrok
A multi-tenant HTTP reverse tunnel solution through SSH remote port forwarding.
You're dispensing outdated advice. Instead of saying "you'll save" and "lots of GPU RAM" start specific listing numbers and you'll soon realize your mistake.

Mac has unified memory architecture that no other mainstream desktop can offer right now. This is the source of having up to 96GB VRAM on a laptop.
IDK, seems perfectly inline with certain demographics aging, accumulating wealth, and business exploiting that.

I don't think it's a coincidence that things from the same era, like super heroes, are also currently popular.

Nostalgia is a strong drug.
Where was YC when thousands of tech workers have been laid off in recent months? Where will YC be when Meta lays off the 10,000+ more they are rumored to be preparing?

It is extremely disingenuous to pretend they care about how the individual is affected. They only care right now because their investments are on the line.

Also YC seems like it should be able to muster the resources to help its companies whether this storm. Where is the rugged, exceptional individualism championed by PG and others when something bad happens?
Perfect uselessness. Plus, they're ugly.
You can follow any user on HN with rss.

https://hnrss.github.io/
Remote hands, maintenance contracts, and employees who will do network/firmware/firewall config, patching and maintenance aren’t included.

Also there’s no software costs… if you’re going to compare with the cloud you need to include VMware/Microsoft suite licenses, maintenance, and operators to have even remotely comparable capabilities. That tips this comparison strongly in favor of cloud.
"there are no libertarians in a bank run"
>I think the whole stable diffusion and ChatGPT thing will come and go, almost as self-driving cars have.

But Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT are here, and the last one has more than 100 million users. Unlike self-driving cars, the excitement behind this technology was not created by the promise of building "Stable Diffusion" or "ChatGPT", the excitement was created by the people who tried these models for free and saw their expectations subverted. I think the difference is abysmal.
Ask HN: Bootstrapping a remote team in different timezones, looking for tips
About to hire a full time remote team and I am trying to workout how to best approach things such as a daily standup and naturing a strong sense of union and bonding. I am not completely sold on there is one way to do it, I just don't want folks to end up becoming secluded and cut-off (for both their mental health and also ensuring we all support each others efforts).

We will of course have async tools in place; slack , google hangouts etc and our development model will support a remote team (CI, Kanban, document everything).

We might have folks in Europe and Seattle, so as some individuals go offline others will start. If we hire in Asia this will add even more of a further reach.
Even a simple charging cable can contain e.g. a HID chip while still working as a charging cable. I saw an unattended cable on a table at work once, I'm sure someone who needs one would've used it without second thought. But our employer is also sending fake phishing emails to make people aware, I wouldn't be surprised if they also plant devices like that.

...and if they don't I should propose it, sounds like a fun project. Leave a random cable or USB stick that just shows a warning that it could have been malicious. Or something that just opens up https://nyan.cat and sets the volume to max :D.
> Isn't it possible to think that both small businesses/startups and average joes deserve to be bailed out when shit goes sideways?

Sure! Either both of them or none of them, that's the point! But we see bailouts for "systemically critical" banks, but not for the average joe.
> people treat it as de-facto zero risk

Silicon Valley was not an investment-grade bank. If you’re running a corporate treasury function, you should have sweep, have a back-up bank account and know how to pull deposits into Treasuries.
> I have the same issue with Slack, that I do with open-plan offices (in the US. They actually work well, in Japan, but their culture also makes it work).

Can you expand on open-plan offices in Japan ?

edit: I just read that article https://manabink.com/en/2020/12/26/why-do-japanese-like-open...
Arguably there's a place for both an em-dash and a hyphen. (For your example, a hyphen would be pretty normal style anyway.) But in a world where double quotes is a massively overloaded punctuation mark we probably don't need an en-dash at least.
Circle’s stablecoin banked at SVB and guess what happened next
https://archive.is/ssSJu
Garry also posted this to HN and forced it to the front page, and readers roundly told him to get knotted and flagged the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35114009

Garry is calling for a regulation. Many respondents cited the precise regulation that would have stopped this happening, which the CEO of SVB had lobbied to remove in 2018: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/11/silicon-val...

Garry hasn't addressed those responses as yet that I've seen.
Use your own dock, not someone else's if at all possible.

I don't think transparent docks would work because a serious enough actor can make it look and work like the real thing.
Useful thread from last year "Ask HN: In 2022, what is the proper way to get into machine/deep learning?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32480009

Edit: I would personally suggest reviewing the basics: linear algebra, optimization, then the classical ML technique. Then move on to deep learning. Look at important research papers and GitHub code, and implement models to really understand how they work.
How to Future (2022)
Maybe because it looked like you were only suggesting the app for monetary gain?
The PAL-M Apple IIs I used in Brazil had an interesting quirk thanks to PAL (I suspect the Europlus has it as well): alternating lines of the same color have different shades - shifted back and forth in the color signal (PAL = phase alternating line). With that, you could get a lot of different color shades on a TV - magenta and cyan were the easier ones, but there were plenty others.

NTSC IIs can also do that trick, but the nature of NTSC makes it more limited.

OTOH, a PAL Apple II has issues drawing vertical straight lines, something the NTSC ones don’t.
Some places I write for use the em-dash with spaces and some without. I try to remember which is which but I often forget.
That appears to show that it can't answer some obscure trivia question to the standards of the blog post author. Nothing to do with generalizing concepts.
Sort of? I completely agree with Casey’s argument that Clean Code makes for poor performance, but I’m not making that argument here, he’s made it for me. I am arguing that many developers are really bad at knowing when performance matters, so if they implement the advice of “write clean code, except when performance matters” they are never going to think performance matters and always write clean code. Does that help?
Envy-Free Cake Cutting
Maybe you can take inspiration from this https://youtu.be/z6ep308goxQ?t=187

It's not an explanation, but show a possible way to cluster (thus classify) websites based on the how they appear, if you want your classification based on content... Maybe you need something different
Not technical but https://www.themarginalian.org/ is a fabulous online publication.
Too bad the quantization of the CD is only 16 bits, if it had been only 20 bits, CD sound could have been above all critics.
Still I don't really understand people that still buys vinyl, such an obsolete technology
Privatize the gains, socialize the losses. Before the government supplies anything, the wallets of those at the top of SVB should be first to be liquidated. Otherwise, it's equivalent to just randomly awarding those top guys with millions of taxpayer money. Easy scheme, honestly. Set up a bank, get some deposits, gamble it away, walk away with gains you periodically skimmed off the top. Let the government deal with the fallout.
Anything that involves working with powerless people, whether it's children/teenagers, sick people or the elderly, will attract perverts and serial killers. So schools/medical institutions/law enforcement etc are prime real estate.

Any domain that promises wealth, fame, or power will attract sociopaths and narcissists. This includes finance, entertainment, and indeed the tech industry.
> How could anyone determine if it contains a keylogger, or an HDMI screen grabber, or a network sniffer, or a reverse shell, or a rootkit installer?

I like to think people that know their trade (electronics, etc) can figure this out; the absence of proof of there being things like keyloggers in these docks is enough for me. Same with the distrust of ZTE devices, has there been any conclusive evidence that there actually IS espionage or remote controls in there, or is it fearmongering to protect the US / western market?
I don’t think that’s fair. I like how he’s at least engaging. And prefer how they are at least being honest about what they are doing and seem to be avoiding weasel speak more than other companies (ie, “we want to unleash the value of empathetic communities to resiliently respond to government billion bailouts”).
I ask for all the taxi drivers who were completely fucked by Uber and Lyft to be made whole:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/nyregion/taxi-drivers-sui...

I ask for VC funded delivery services to stop stealing tips from gig workers:

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/why-instacart...

I’d also like to see social media held accountable for the harms done to children and communities and for our existing laws against anti-competitive behavior and collusion to be enforced against search and software platforms.

The chutzpah of the Silicon Valley influencer crowd over this weekend has become seriously fucking unbearable.

My feeds are full of sociopathic libertarians calling for government to make sure they never suffer any consequences for their failure to adequately manage risk? I mean GTFO.

I’m all for regulation and I in fact do think the government should be heavily involved in preventing this kind of thing and helping if it ends up happening.

But if we’re going to regulate let’s fucking regulate. Any answer to this tweet should start with a quick review of this guy and his friends campaign contributions and lobbying involvement.

There’s nothing special about you. Your lives aren’t more important than the lives of the children of employees at the Carrier plant in Indianapolis, or the workers at the Amazon faculty on Staten Island.

If your values system only applies to you and your friends it’s not much of a values system.
Well said … “ads keep the content free” so says the anti-ad-blocking modal on that site.
A VC asking gov't for more corporate welfare. The gov't owes these companies nothing. VCs & Big Tech is free to pool some of their cash reserves to make these depositors whole beyond the standard FDIC insured amount of $250K.
YC probably is encouraged by the recent BigTech layoffs as it frees managers and engs from the Vortex, and that they may now start companies.

> They only care right now because their investments are on the line.

Of course YC cares more about its startups and founders than others. How is this controversial?

> Also YC seems like it should be able to muster the resources to help its companies whether this storm.

We don't know that, but isn't the tweet you're critiquing is also YC clouting up to help its companies?
I'm just going to leave this here for you https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/firstable
Lol... If you bought a Ferrari 250 GTO for 175k$ back in the 60s (inflation-adjusted) and sold it today for 176k$, you would have technically made a "profit" of about 0.6%. Only you have made a very stupid deal because you could have sold it for 70 million.

The same applies here: these companies would go under without state intervention, the very least you could do is gain a large stake in the equity of those companies, in exchange for bailing them out. That and criminal liability for the people in charge.
Re: #3

The interest rate risk on 4 week treasuries is almost nothing and if you have a four week ladder, 1/4 of your money is always less than a week away.

They are currently yielding 4.66%.
> * Romanian uses these longer dashes when representing lines of dialogue, especially in literature, as in:

I've seen that in English literature. Jeff Noon's Needle in the Groove uses that style IIRC.
I have written and read text for decades without knowing the difference between those, so whatever space one gets when pressing the spacebar seems to do the job just fine. And if in doubt LaTeX etc will handle the rest well enough if I care about sub-pixel precision of some margins.
by limited view you mean fewer visual distractions