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The fact that posix shell is somehow state of the art of concurrent pipeline and filesystem interface is really more a critique of state of the art than a praise of shell.

I'm doing programming language research and it's just infuriating how retrograde shell is. Its design is a fossil of history, and boy did our understanding of what makes a good language evolve. As a proof of this look at the jq tool. It is so powerful and clean. The implementation is simple and reasonably fast. It has been designed by a researcher from functional languages (an ocaml guy). This is a way to build a language around pipelining. At a lesser level, look at how moving from vimscript to lua in neovim has brought so many high-quality new plugins, look at how many people now tinker with low-level stuff and write high-perf libraries now that C/C++ is not the only choice. Surface language and having very little very orthogonal concepts is important.

Some core implementation patterns for PL are very old, but there have been lots of simplifications and rationalizations in surface language. Error handling, values hygiene, scoping, simple datastructures. Posix shell might have been a prowess in the 70s, now it is mostly a hack and this is a fact. Let's be a bit less superficial when honoring the unix mantras and dream about something better (making a better shell for its core ideas(!), that is, handling processes and fds).
Further, the FDIC (a US insurance agency with sweeping banking powers) guarantees that you will be able to redeem AT MOST AND UP TO $250,000, per account; guaranteed by the "legitimacy" of the USDollar (aka Taxpayers and US Debt holders).
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This article has almost nothing to do with what you're talking about; the people you're talking to want to get into IT specifically for the attributes of the job itself, not because they enjoy consuming IT products. They're much closer to the mark than the aspiring coffee shop owners are.
PCIE RAM that looks like a disk would be useful for running Llama and other but models, on systems that cap out at 128 GB max. Using FlexGen or other disk offloading... Interesting idea.
> a small algorithmic challenge

For me that depends on the context:

* A challenge for an interview? No wonder people try to insert structure as if it were a bigger project.

* A challenge for a contest? Probably not a good solultion for most point systems.

* A challenge for fun on hackerrank or LC? Whatever you feel comfortable with works.

For structuring a larger system, separating data ingestion, data output and algorithm to work on the data, seems like a fairly entry level separation.
It could be within 30 minutes of correct for nearly everyone, if we decide that's a goal for the system.
This is a really bad misunderstanding of how governmental monopoly on violence affects the acceptance of its currency.

The USD has value because you need to pay your taxes in USD, and if you don't pay your taxes, the government will take away your freedom. It has nothing to do with people in other countries transacting in that country's local currency.
This is weak argument. You take your money out of a bank who dusts all their equity on a dumb bet. You don't wait around hoping everyone will wait around.
Perl and Python are part of LSB

https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/lsb.shtml
During a 2008 financial crisis it was not uncommon for the FDIC to take over multiple banks every weekend.

* May 28, 2010 - 4 banks

* May 21, 2010 - 1 bank

* May 14, 2010 - 4 banks

* May 7, 2010 - 4 banks

* April 20, 2010 - 7 banks

The list goes on and on:

https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/fai...
The overhead though. Sure, we could decide to move when things start/open throughout the year, but the amount of mental overhead is astronomical at scale. Some people just don't care enough. I don't read half the emails I get. What if the school district email reminding parents about the time change goes to spam? What if my kid forgets to give me the paper notice they received in class? What about the changes from my pharmacy or supermarket?

Not to mention geography also plays a huge part in this. 4pm in the Netherlands vs 4pm in Egypt could look very different outside depending on the local weather. If you live in a part of the world with constant cloud cover, it will seem darker outside than in the desert, but you both share the same clock.

The upside to the way method we use now, is that it only happens twice a year and at most, you might miss something by 1 day. If that happened once a quarter, maybe we could get everyone on board, but again it's highly dependent on where you live. Some places can add 3-5 minutes of extra sunlight per day in the Spring! Over a week or two, that's a substantial amount of extra light/darkness.

While I agree that the current situation is not ideal, there are a lot of scenarios I can imagine being much worse for very little gain.
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Google, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft privacy policy.
Or, as many Silicon Valley startups have shown, there are lots of services that people want but it turns out that a critical mass of mainstream consumers aren't willing to pay the cost of providing them.
> Also site seems to be getting creaky - we may be pounding the server a little hard.

Maybe the help they need is architecture/infrastructure improvements.
A hard drive!
> uniquely American mindset

Doesn't the EU (and various other countries) still switch back and forth between standard and daylight savings time?
This is like Huffman compression on your photos but the AI companies created an exabyte size dictionary and now you can store your photo in a few kilobytes.
If you are interested add me on discord and I'll add you to some rocket chat servers just to look around

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It might be, but how many 0.5x bribes are you handing out at “only” 10x normal salary?

Also locals at least are socialized to think about their community to some extent. You don’t get that when you bring in outsiders who can annd probably will other most of the population from day 1.
From 2nd paragraph:

>>The run began on Thursday, when a powerful Silicon Valley VC—Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund—began advising its portfolio companies to withdraw their money from SVB. Other VCs soon caught wind of the advisory and began advising their own portfolio companies to withdraw funds from SVB.
Supply chain exodus from China to India, Vietnam faster than anticipated
At that point, the stock is worthless and the borrower doesn't have to return it. They keep all of the money from the initial sale.
The experts are the ones who engineered decades of low interest rates so their buddies can get cheap loans and play financial games with the economy. They've never been trustworthy.
A Bloomberg reporter said that Goldman people had told her many times that they would love to own SVB, but that it was too expensive. Not anymore!
"Privacy-First", but also working in a colab notebook - meaning running on someone else's machine? That doesn't seem very private.
This would only be the case if the company didn't benefit society at large. These companies pay taxes, drive the economy and innovation, and help the USA be the superpower it is.

Mostly privatize the profit and slightly socialize the costs.
Premium features and gated content are not inherently bad. We all want to make money. Gaudy and intrusive pop-ups, banners, and things that try to pull me to that content is bad.

The difference between being pulled into it and seeking content myself is an important one. Services that annoy people into doing what they want may get short term results but are generating a lot of ill-will for the medium and long term.

This website even has reasonable advertisements in the side-bar. No floating videos that auto-play, no ads injected right in the middle of the content I'm reading. Just a plain old ad on the right side of the content.
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Our breaks don't have to coincide with the solar maximum. We can set them at any time we want. Which is why "permanent dst" makes no sense. However, calibrating our wall time so that noon marks the high point of the sun is the obviously correct thing from setting up the system. This is why this has been done historically. What we decide as the right time to get up, have lunch, is derived from the calibration. People who live at the extreme ends of a time zone tend to adjust their day schedule accordingly.
generic billionaire logic:

- be richer than God

- don't rescue a venerable, functional institution that is modestly, temporarily impaired, partly due to terrible risk management and partly due to a tsunami of cash flowing in and then starting to flow out. (SVB didn't have to buy Treasurys, could have lent overnight, deposited at Fed and taken interest on excess reserves. Instead they stretched for a relatively puny yield pickup and got badly burned.)

- don't calm the waters. instead, tell people to take money out

- short SVB stock and make a killing

- say it's Biden's fault and he has to do something and bail the startup ecosystem out

- https://tenor.com/view/the-big-lebowski-youre-not-wrong-just...

Bill Ackman didn't do all these things but as a group that's what people like him and Thiel and Musk 100% did. They want to be disruption chaos monkeys and then have the taxpayers bail them out of a mess they created. Remember than when they go bananas about Biden wanting them to pay similar tax rates to middle class folk.
There’s actually a lot of risk and costs when shorting. You need to pay borrow fees to borrow the stock, you need to post collateral that can be liquidated in the event that your position gets too risky, you need to post more collateral as the price of the a stock increases to cover the increased risk, and you can in theory lose an unlimited amount of money. You have to be right both about the stock decreasing in value, and the timing around when it will decrease in value. Otherwise your position might get liquidated before you can realize your possibly correct directional prediction. This is what the phrase “the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent” refers to. Shorting is really hard.
Matlab is still heavily used in sensor development (a good part because of the simulink aspect). For reasons I don’t understand, you’ll notice that Matlab’s camera calibration is better than OpenCV and more repeatable hence why a lot of major camera users still use it.
It's not, because it's not about protecting the people who took the risks. Their business failed and it's not getting bailed out. The tweet, which admittedly is long and lacks paragraphs, is about protecting people who simply deposited money in a bank account. That's not supposed to be a risky endeavor.
And more broadly, protecting the other banks in a similar situation from their own runs. I think there's a reasonable argument to be made that it'd be cheaper in the long run to stop the contagion at SVB instead of watching another dozen banks collapse.
Matt Levine says essentially the same thing [0]:

> There was a run on SVB in part because there hasn’t been a big bank run in a while, and people — venture capitalists, startups — were naturally worried that they might lose their deposits if their bank failed. Then the bank failed. If it turns out to be true that they lose their deposits, there could be more bank runs: Lots of businesses keep uninsured deposits at lots of banks, and if the moral of SVB is “your uninsured transaction-banking deposits can vanish overnight” then those businesses will do a lot more credit analysis, move their money out of weaker banks, and put it at, like, JPMorgan. This could be self-fulfillingly bad for a lot of weaker banks. My assumption is that the FDIC, the Federal Reserve, and the banks who are looking at buying SVB all really don’t want that.

But what it means is, there isn't (or there can't be) "uninsured" deposits, because they would cause unacceptable systemic risk.

Then the next question is, of course: why should there be insured deposits, why pay the premiums, if in effect all deposits are insured by vertue of the necessity of protecting the system?

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-10/startu...
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You can't post nationalistic slurs to HN. Since you've broken the site guidelines repeatedly elsewhere and ignored our requests to stop, I've banned the account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I have RAM sticks already lying around, so the cost per GB in this scenerio would be zero. Also, I presume that a SATA interface to store data in RAM might have better performance than the average SSD.
No, pollution is profitable: it's more profitable to dump external costs on everyone else.

That established, what do we need to do to keep from poisoning the people who live where we dump our costs?
Yep. For all cafe-like spaces I’ve been involved with, drip coffee == free money.
Not true. IndyMac customers got 50 cents on the dollar, even with the retroactive raising of the FDIC insurance limit to $250K.
Thanks for the valuable feedback.

Re your PS: It all depends on your particular gain-staging. In this chain of 3 elements, you NR probably can go first or second, and less likely last. My suggestion of not putting it first is caused by adhering to conservative input levels, in which case the signal is pretty low during the first stages of the chain and may be processed too eagerly by Noise Reduction.
During summer time we should take advantage of all the natural light available, as it is during summertime that we tend to be outdoors the most. So DST.

That leaves the question of winter time - do the benefits of moving the daylight period for winter outweigh the disadvantages of clock switching twice a year?
1h is not enough to make up for the difference in light, yet changing the clocks is disruptive.

Much better to change schedules as often and by as much as suitable in each case.
> Also, SVB depositors weren’t just random individuals, they are some of the wealthiest people and organizations in the country or even the world. They are going to leverage their power and influence to recover as much as they can as quickly as they can.

All the more reason regular people need to be screaming to high heaven that those rich and powerful people will get eaten if they push for and eventually receive a bailout.
Those are reserves, not reserve requirements (which are noted as "discontinued" in the first link). To quote this: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm

"As announced on March 15, 2020, the Board reduced reserve requirement ratios to zero percent effective March 26, 2020. This action eliminated reserve requirements for all depository institutions."
There are people who do, but even when they do they might not talk about it to the other person, because 99% of the time when someone asks you how you are or whatever they aren't really interested in a detailed answer - they're just being polite.

My dad used to like putting sales people off their scripts by answering such questions rudely.

"How are you today sir"

"Do you really care?"

And I promise you they thought hard about their answer to that question too.

Maybe its just because you're focusing on the form like niceties questions and not real questions people deal with. Good Morning isn't even a question, per se.
Sure, it isn't mandatory , but people will want to because they don't like getting up 3 hours before dawn to take their kids to school and go to work.
They were also a victim of massive success: their deposits skyrocketed and they did not have anywhere to put the money. This is not unlike the same problem wealthy individuals had for the past 10 years if they felt like the stock market was over-valued; nothing else was paying any return. Now imagine your depositors start increasing their withdrawl rate and you're locked in 10 year bonds at < 2%. Uh oh...
royalty free I'd assume you meant as well, or are you pitching a new SaaS model for stock photos?
Generally, the FDIC will go over $250k if the bank has the assets for it - the guarantee is $250k, but you could be made mostly whole. People online in the banking sphere are suggesting that SVB accounts may be getting a 20-30% haircut (except those at $250k or under, which are not going to lose anything).

Bill Ackman wants them to insure every dollar held at SVB, but not necessarily make a rule to always do this. He only wants his own bank accounts insured, not other peoples'.

Edit: Clarifying - the FDIC doesn't pay anyone to get to a balance over $250k, but they are the ones who administer the bank when it is in bankruptcy, and they use the bank's assets to cover depositors' interests first. In some bank failures, the FDIC ends up spending almost nothing on the insurance because the assets end up covering the accounts completely.
> Tether, the Sauron of stablecoins, has zero exposure to SVB […]

How do you know?
Why am I not surprised to hear the odd «сука» in that video?
> The “interpreter” is an unconscious process responsible for sweeping inconsistencies and confusion under the rug.

I think it was through Kahneman I first read about this. With split-brain patients, you can trick one of their brain halves to perform an action in view of the other half. If you then ask the other half "why did you just do that?" it will come up with the weirdest of explanations, instantly. It's quite remarkable.
Yes, but you would get more than that if you bought an (equally safe) treasury bond today. So it doesn’t make sense to claim that your bond is “still worth $5”.

Also, $5 today is not the same currency as $5 in ten years.
I can seen the reasoning, but terminals can change settings dynamically from having color support to not having it (I assume that XTerm is not the only one to do this), and if there is an escape sequence to query this information, it would be reasonable to expect whiptail to use it. If no such dynamic query exists, then yes, whiptail has to go off what TERM is set to.

It might also be reasonable to expect XTerm to set the TERM environment variable to “xterm-mono” if started without color support.
Scaling particularly is hard for tech employed home brewer turned pro. It's one thing when you can babysit five gallons at a time, but making quantity takes a commitment to process improvements that few appreciate before they get into it. Not to mention when one beer gets popular, then consistently reproducing it over time.

Or you just sell your IPAs that have such a high IBU that only other brewers can taste all the cultures you didn't mean to be growing in there.
>> almost certainly out of reach for all but the most extreme technical divers.

Diving that deep isn't going to become easier anytime soon. But have a look at the consumer-grade "underwater drones", formerly called ROVs. I wouldn't be surprised to see people in small boats doing youtube videos of such wreaks in a couple years.
Used SVB and cant make payroll does not equal used SVB and can make payroll (because e.g. they have cash stored in more than one bank).
This was also the case throughout 2020-21. And we are now seeing the effects.
> Now if this were Reddit I'd be angrily shouted down and told, "then they deserve to be out of business!".

You'll get very much the same response if you are to suggest that some companies aren't able to get $200k/year of value out of a software developer.

If there's a company that can only get $100k/year of revenue out of a developer and pays them $70k in a low cost of living area (forget about remote work for someone in California) you'll get laughed at for "poverty wages" and that the skills that they have are worth more while at the same time complaining about how hard it is to find a job that pays "what they are worth" (which is the top 10th percentile).
Why are we bailing out the rich people? Again?
> You you can’t be in love with a particular idea or business. You have to be in love with the idea of running a business.

I'm saving this quote. I'm a career Army officer and the application to my world is that newly minted officers compete like mad to get into their preferred career fields / communities, because some like "Aviation" (e.g. flying helicopters) are hot and others like "Ordnance" (e.g. managing the lifecycle of ammunition and hardware) are not, but then find that 90% of their careers end up being the same HR and logistics middle-management with attendant meetings and paperwork and bureaucracy. The result is that the hot career fields actually tend to have the worst rates of retention, as officers become disillusioned when reality doesn't meet expectations, among a few other reasons. So prospective officers should really be in love with the idea of leading organizations of all various types.
What about "regular" people's 401k, it took almost 10 years for it to recover. No protection there. Also if you can have a bank account above 250000, you are not a "regular person".
A young traveller came to visit Emperor Sh, and found him sitting in his
sparsely furnished temple.

“Emperor Sh,” he said, “I am told you are the greatest scholar of shell that
the world has known.”

Emperor Sh made no reply. The traveller continued.

“I have come to ask your advice. I am thinking of developing a character-based
graphing tool. It will interactively change the plot based on key presses.
Which shell commands should I use?”

“Don’t do it in shell,” said Emperor Sh, curtly.

The young traveller was confused. He tried again. “Well… I am also working on
a database audit script. It needs to verify that certain characters do not
appear in any fields in several tables. What should—”

“Don’t do it in shell,” interrupted Emperor Sh.

The traveller began to despair. “I have journeyed one thousand miles, tried
thirteen distributions of my operating system, and waded through hundreds of
badly-written manual pages,” he cried, “and now I have finally come to Emperor
Sh, the greatest shell programmer in the world, and I am told to use no shell
at all! Perhaps I should do what my Python user friends told me to do, and
just pipe together some scripts in venv environments!”

“Good idea,” said Emperor Sh. “Do it in shell.”

Enlightenment crushed down on the young traveller and he bowed to the Emperor,
sobbing with reverent joy.

https://sanctum.geek.nz/etc/emperor-sh-and-the-traveller.txt
You are missing something: the day schedule society agreed upon derives from the average run of the sun. School doesn't start at 8 because that is some special number, but because without DST it is the value which works best. You want it to start early in the morning, but late enough that everyone is awake (at least kind of). If society switched to permanent "summer time", sooner or later school starts would shift to 9am, as in the winter 8am would be just too early.
Exactly. The rules here are well known. If you can't take the hit of your bank failing, no matter how rare you think it may be, you should protect yourself against it

Every single CFO and company treasurer knows what the FDIC is and what the limits are. If your one bank collapsing means you can't make payroll, you failed as the financial guide of your company

That said, if we as a society want to protect all deposits that's actually not a terrible idea. We just have to accept what that means, that banks are going to be even more boring institutions than they are, and we have to structure our regulations to make that a feasible arrangement

Dramatically changing the rules of the game in the middle of the play because we don't like the (known ahead of time) outcome of the existing rules is silly and means we basically have no rules
We're talking about complex social structures here, not fungi. The fact that you bring up fungi is just absurd. It proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have no understanding of what I was getting at.