skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this and it rings true for the most part to my experience.

But I find 2 parts of it troubling. First ‘patio11 seems to have bought into the goalpost movement around depositor obligations in the banking regime. It maybe that as a society we don’t want any depositors, no matter how big, to have no concern about counterparty risk (or maybe move the bar higher) but that’s not the assumption built into the system now and it’s not obvious on its face or in the essay that it should change.

Second, the appeal to FBO operators falls flat. Large custodial firms have existed for decades and being able to provide a beneficiary list on the weekend is something they build and staffed for. That it is difficult for other technology firms to do so says more about the choices those firms are making than an intrinsic problem with the existing system.
Right but “tech bro” is literally used to describe stereotype of a type of man in tech rather than all men in tech. Presumably female founders aren’t included in the same way non-bro male founders aren’t. In particular a tech bro doesn’t even have to be a founder.
Russia’s allies are a motley–and shrinking–crew
https://archive.ph/orI5X
That, plus not being willing to accept Purchase Orders, doomed them with my employer.

It's as if they had no idea how things work at large enterprises that are older than most Docker employees.
Does that mean it would be a good idea to start moving to the podman ecosystem?
RedHat/IBM seem to have this figured out better.

I m doing that personally but I m very hesitant about mentioning that to $job.
I was unhappy with my answer above right after I sent it, but that's pretty much how it goes in 2023 speak.

Back in the 90s my professor would have failed me for saying that, as he felt so strongly that Smalltalk has no types and that any reference to types is not Smalltalk, but particular implementation details that account for performance optimisations and concrete references to the VM being used under the hood.

But in 2023 what types have grown to mean would pretty much include Smalltalk classes and those include all sorts of checks both in theory and in practice, right from coding-time (compile time not to be considered at all in Smalltalk) in the form of "respondsTo:" "is___", "isKindOf:" and the often avoidable "isMemberOf:"

What static typing has come to mean has also shifted a couple of times since the 90s. It's now mainly meant as a software engineering tool, and as such Smalltalk really doesn't have this problem as the function and classification of variables is so much richer and explicit in purist OO than it is in any modern popular language. In terms of efficiency, SmallTalk no longer competes mainly with assembly and C as it used to in the 70s, 80s and 90s but languages that also run VMs and have often a lot more overhead than the ST industry-standard VMs.

The kind of type magic that SmallTalk really is not designed to do, except perhaps as a system on top, is Hindley–Milner (HM) type systems. But those really only shine in Haskell, ML and related languages. Those are certainly also in the "secret weapon" category and will very likely remain there for quite a while for similar reasons as SmallTalk. Reasons that I mentioned in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35165801#35167103
The first time I saw Hetzner's pricing - I assumed it must've been a scam - since it seemed like such an incredible deal, and yet I hadn't heard of a single person that ever used it.

Glad that I'm regularly seeing how awesome this company is lately.
Long time. Wed need a system that reliably understands rules. We don't even have a roadmap for developing that kind of AI. BSing will take you surprisingly far in life -- as demonstrated by many humans before AI -- but it can't do everything.
I suspect their relative memory efficiency depends on the size of the program and the size of the data it's processing.
Everyone’s a libertarian with respect to their own liberties.

It’s only the liberties of others that are up for debate.

So when I see “libertarian tech bros”, I laugh, because it’s clear that it is only envy speaking.

Enlisting the arm of the state to protect your liberties is always “just” - when someone else’s liberties are protected, it is “unjust”.

Bearing the consequences of one’s own actions is now widely considered as fundamentally unacceptable - the consequences must be borne by society: ideally, by your political adversaries, to be most “just”.

This is unlikely to end well.
a collection of distributed systems. start your own. connect with other enthusiasts in your area to get them connected.
> what's stopping you from raising a seed round for your new company

Knowing what’s true and being able to convince some investors, who are not universally omniscient and reasonable and open to conversation from people they don’t already know, are different things.
The usecase makes sense even if actual buyers rarely use it. It's an offroading rig and being able to charge a buddy who's battery died getting stuck on a knob or some mud is a good thing. It's like the equivalent of carrying jumper cables to help others rather than to help yourself. It's nice helping out.
quay.io is a pretty popular general-purpose repo, it replaced docker.io for many projects when they started rate-limiting.
>Why would any bank look at SVB and NOT think "oh, time to take more risk for more profit; the government will prop up the FDIC limit if we fail anyway".

This makes zero difference to the bank. The bank doesn't get saved by the FDIC limit, as you know. What happens after the bank fails - whether the depositors are made whole or not - is immaterial to the people who owned the bank, who now see their asset (the bank) worth $0.

If you want to make a moral hazard argument with respect to the FDIC, you'd have to make it with respect to the actions of depositors.

Also, WRT the $250k limit, that's the minimum they will guarantee. They have always tried, and in recent decades always succeeded, in making depositors whole one way or another, usually without spending much (if anything) from their insurance fund. The $250k is the worst case scenario.
Yes, but that hasn’t been established in the case of Cramer. That is, it hasn’t been shown that he is worse than other knowledgeable people. People need to be in the prediction business because it is prudent to try to plan for foreseeable outcomes or likely outcomes whilst knowing that things are always murky and the prediction can be wrong.
quay.io and ghcr.io are popular free options.
There is really no one in charge over there. They haven’t had an actual CEO since Sandberg left. Mark thinks he can run the business from his private island, there are major problems in the core business and he’s screwing around trying to build his own version of Roblox.
My team used ECR for some stuff and it’s not great. We want to move on from it.
OP, since you're in the thread:

Did you install a GUI on the Pi?

If not, how does the mpv or ffmpeg command know how to output video to the HDMI port?
Oh wow. I (non-native) never realized it only had one s, I always assumed it was "just desserts", as in, you are getting the dessert you deserve, after the food (the evil you did) :D
Britain’s economic record since 2007 ranks near the bottom among peer countries
https://archive.ph/L9VBZ
You state multiple times that the Raspberry Pi 3 does not support hardware accelerated h264 decoding, but that's simply not true.

All Pis (except Pico series) support both accelerated encoding and decoding, and have done so since 2012. The Broadcom VideoCore IV in RPi 3 Model B does hw decode at 1080p30.
We have been running Zalando's Patroni in K8S on Hetzner and couldn't be happier.
Nobody is going to accept worrying about whether the torrent has enough people seeding in the middle of a CI run. And your usual torrent download is an explicit action with an explicit client, how are people going to seed these images and why would they? And what about the long tail?
"Tech bro" isn't just a generic reference to tech founders. It refers to a particular negative stereotype of a person, usually male, who works in tech and subscribes to "bro culture." Bro culture itself usually comes from fraternity culture (as in "frat bro") and it's often associated with misogynist beliefs.
My opinion is that of all the countries you've listed, they're much less likely to give their populace access to such systems. So I think it's less of a problem, albeit a problem.

North Korea, for example, if they developed an AGI or whatever advanced AI, aren't going to give it to their citizens to play with, it's again, 1984 there already, and it will continue that way.
> Given the progressive income tax, those who are billionaires likely pay more in years where they make money than just about anyone else.

Nonsense. Rich people assets (i.e. stocks) aren't taxed. That's why Amazon doesn't pay any taxes.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-taxes-1-2-percent-13-bil...
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Oh, no, you mis understand me: I know what the rule is. I just think it is arbitrary and stupid and was a hack when it came in decades ago before most people actually used banks.

Why does someone with 250,001USD in an account deserve what they get but someone with 249,999USD here and 100bn elsewhere get bailed out? Why is the only way to transfer cash to take counterparty risk? Why are the amounts for businesses and individuals the same (250k is huge for an individual but tiny for a business!?)? Especially since it is individuals that will miss their salaries when their employer finds they're bankrupt, and is that also their own fault for not assessing counterparty risk?

We could avoid all these contradictions by just having "basic function" accounts that let people/companies use banking services that pay no interest and have no risk (fully insured). Then separately offer "investment" accounts for people that want them (with no insurance). If I want to use a hospital or an insurance company, I just use it and pay accordingly. Why is are banking services the only thing where to access the service I have to become an investor in the provider!?

Bailout SVB, or don't. I don't know if people deserve it or not. I make no moral judgement. I just think this whole system makes no sense, is unfair/arbitrary and is not effective. It should be changed irrespective of what we do in this one case...

Edit: I should have been clearer in my original comment. I didn't mention the 250k limit because to me at least it doesn't matter. I can see being an investor (risk AND reward) or not (no reward but no risk) at any amount...
It has always worked. It uses Google Speech-to-Text APIs to solve the audio captcha. You need to get your own API key if you want it work all the time, rather than use the dev's key.
> And their entire marketing strategy is built around free hosting for public data

1. Embrace
2. Extend <- you are here
3. Extinguish

it's bonkers when people innocently trust Microsoft to do the right thing
Most people in southern California just hang the helmet on their bike and walk away. There's not a huge black market for stolen bike helmets.
GPT-4 Is at Code
I've always thought of it as in analogy to System V.
I'd be surprised if a rabbit has enough skin surface area to be in contact with more than about 1Kg of salt. How could the skin contact test continue past the point where extra salt wasn't in skin contact?
The way you model systems in ST, with objects and messages being passed between them, matches some physical models very closely.
Mentioned in the article, Chart 7 from an FDIC report [1] is concerning, specifically that currently there are “unrealized losses on available–for–sale and held–to–maturity securities totaled $620 billion” — which appears to be not only a recent trend, but roughly 10x more than any point in recent history, including during 2008.

Is anyone able to provide more context and clarify how significant these losses are to the US banking system beyond what’s covered in the article?

[1] https://www.fdic.gov/news/speeches/2023/spfeb2823.html?ref=b...

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EDIT: For the unfamiliar, OP article’s author is a notable user on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11
Wow, that's hilarious!

I wonder whether people will start getting banned because their search happened to hit websites that have been compromised in this way.
> lives in your filesystem but is only available via the browser

Strange implementation if that's the case. While I don't want my browser to give a page arbitrary access to my files, a use-case I can see is sharing files between apps and websites. Say, obsidian for organizing, vim for editing and some cloud for backup.

You must have confused the part of it only being available to the browser, I don't see how that's even technically possible.
Do you think there is a universal objective answer to this?
Ukraine is building up its forces for an offensive
Just wish they had more of a US presence. Latency is a killer for me.
https://archive.ph/BcVOc
What is the weight of the batteries in these vehicles?

Don't they weigh more than a small car?
GPT-4’s successes, and GPT-4’s failures
Gosh, I've watched an old school mechanics clean misc items and even their hands with brake cleaner many times...
Not to mention their default DDoS protection by default. AWS DDoS team costs about $6000 last I checked here in hnews. Of course most corporation chose AWS because of permission management console.
Following up though, my impressions from the original Hummer EV and other electric trucks is that they're so heavy, they easily get bogged down in sand and other wash. It's a real concern and I'm not sure what the solution is. They weigh so much more. Maybe big floaty tires?
As a long-time Mint Mobile customer, I am wary on two levels: cost and security.

The FAQ implies this purchase is in name only, so far, unlike the Sprint purchase. No immediate change in cost or support.

T-Mobile's security, however, I am not comfortable with.

I'll be keeping my eye on other MVNOs, but how long until they're bought out by the competition?
The next SVB then knows to cash out early and treat the stock as zero-value.
I've had enough malaria,'maybe its time to try ebola
Interview with OpenAI's Greg Brockman: GPT-4 isn't perfect, but neither are you
Obsessively. HTH!
I think the term you’re looking for is frat. Like a frat guy/boy, or a frat bro. Those are the guys who wanna go tear-assing during spring break. Tech bro borrows from there and applies it hamfistedly to guys who are more interested in making a quick buck, getting high on the newest go to drug, chad around, rip investors off if that’s what comes and live it up like there is no tomorrow, while the going's good. Most males in tech are not like that.

His legacy is mixed, on the one hand he did democratize computing, on the other hand he had monopolistic tendencies. And now feeling guilt, he's trying to use his wealth for philanthropy to make up for his past transgressions.
Since nobody else mentioned it: Often you'll want to have multiple consumers of a given topic for load-balancing/failover - that's on the consumer side. The support for this in the MQTT standard is poorly defined, and popular libraries handle it poorly to the point that I can't recommend trying it. Message queues right-and-proper load-balance consumers by locking the entire topic once per delivery; Kafka does it by assigning "partitions" of a topic to different consumers, and thus you have faster, lock-free delivery (Kafka is essentially a "hot-rodded" message queue, just like hot-rodding a car by removing certain "proper" guard rails).
Americans lost a record $10.3B to online scammers last year, FBI says
Justin Schmidt made a lifetime study of insects that attack us
https://archive.ph/P8zx4
It’s either the techbros or the wokes, choose your own adventure
So basically if you care about accessibility, you should not use the Unicode Roman Numerals but rather instead use the ASCII symbols.
Last time I played with Smalltalk, most computers were single core. What is the current multi-threading situation in Smalltalk? Can I spawn a thread to send an object a message, which in turn might send more messages in their own threads?
To prevent bank runs.
Haha, this is a brilliant marketing technique. Create an external website to demonstrate the problem.

It's also an interesting model that you either waste $19/month on something that gives no alerts or waste $50/month on unnecessary hosting. Or do neither and waste lots more money on lost customers.
Because you don't like Roman numerals disabled people should be unable to read then? Is this some supervillain origin story?
Wouldn’t it have just made them insolvent earlier then? How does it actually prevent the problem?
They don't have to and have not been paying higher interest rates on deposits.

One concern is that depositors will realize they can get better returns on money market funds and withdraw from banks en masse.
Follow your example: someone did create something better at some point. Hence, someone will create something better at some point.

Automating people away without taking care of them has been given a pass because so far, the people being automated away were not People Who Matter.

Let's watch.
It's an artificial censor which I thought you were against.
There has been, over the nearly century we’ve had the institution, many many waves of feelings regarding it. That said, three prominent ones: the amount one needs to reserve, and therefore the rates one needs to charge banks to build the reserve, are sensitive to what portion of the sector is actually insured. There exists a sense that rich, sophisticated people and entities can arrange for their own risk management at their own expense rather than a society-wide program with implicit government backstopping. Finally, there is frequently strong disinterest in either the reality or the appearance of public funds being used to backstop the banking industry.

And so that is the reason for the limit. It gets bumped up every few years, partially due to inflation and partially due to the increasing wealth of the upper middle class and retirees, who the insurance fund is primarily aimed at motivating. It would not be effective in its aims if “local elites” at the typical community bank felt like they still shouldered run risk, and local elites in 2023 are substantially wealthier than they were in 1945.
ÆRTH is a digital twin of Earth
For those who don't know much about SK, Yongin is a city of over a million that's right next to/south-east of Seoul -- considered sort of the major suburb region. It's about as large as Seoul area-wise, but is one of the fastest growing urban areas in the country. Thus it has generally better infrastructure planning, roads, newer buildings, slightly more affordable housing, etc. making it very desirable as a location for families to live in with not terrible commutes into Seoul if needed (about an hour).

Seoul, while an amazing and dynamic city, can be a bit of an urban snarl. The layers of urban development, especially the post-war decades can be a bit dodgy, expensive and not all that great to raise a family in.

Living-in, or commuting to Yongin is far more desirable than Seoul at the moment.
I would argue this could tip it the other way around, if peacetime allows for such loose monetary policy imagine what the wartime would allow for.
...if they are poor they would be under FDIC limits and would be the FIRST to be bailed out?
Why go for a hard default when they can soft default (as now), and nobody cares?

Yes republicans in Congress will try to force a crisis, no it won't actually mean government bonds become worthless.
Hehe, I am developer first, teacher second. So I only found it half-shuddering, half-inspiring if I am being fully honest.
decentralization provides certain benefits at the cost of pure efficiency. People with your mindset are why our supply chains are still fucked up years after the Covid lockdowns. Maximizing efficiency kills durability and reliability
Prompt Injection Hidden on Website Tricks Bing Chat
If we want that I feel like there should be a community buy out. Just so that they have something to return to investors. Just so that they have incentive to play nice and not Hudson-up the process. You shouldn't be able to build a critical piece of infrastructure and have nothing to show for it. Community buy-out should be a viable exit plan.
I've been playing around with it recently on macos and Podman is still a bit hit or miss. It seems mostly to be around assumptions of permissions. I switched over to colima (which is specifically for macos) and have had next to no issues though. Hopefully podman is able to tick off those last few boxes and make it properly stable in this use case.
>Captchas are a cancer and I don’t even use a VPN.

Not to mention an accessibility nightmare.
What if our brains are just carefully arranged statistical inference machines?
> purposefully put furniture because it can be a utilitarian box, or a custom carpentry art piece. Why is your brother art more valuable than a custom table? Or a delicious dish? Or the portrait I buy from the street artist that cannot rent-seek from it? With the best intention, it seems you are biased because we are talking about your brother's lifehood (but I'm still happy to discuss politely).

I really didn't get any vibe of bias from them.

Either way, it seems you miss their point entirely, which is that you cannot equate a creative idea as the same as a product.

The furniture example all boils down to if the work is allowed by the author to be mass produced (if it even can be done) but the creative idea is still theirs.

>I've never ever heard of someone going to art school "because of IP protections".

Similar with my first point you misunderstood their point.
Their point is that thanks to ip protection they can invest the time needed to become a successful artist within their lifetime.
In the run up to the 2008-9 financial crisis, Sheila Bair at the FDIC and Brooksley Born at the CFTC were making alarums about the banks and the housing market, but the dudes at the Fed, Treasury, and the Comptroller of the Currency were like everything's fine, go back to the kitchen.
They (well, we) are not underpaid.

Some time ago I used to work in a large organization on the very bottom of the food chain. I was making, say, $100k a year, which was quite decent money. Sitting there, doing same thing I could've grown to a "senior bottom of the food chain" of $150k. That was the limit. A soft one, but still the limit.

The organization was quite picky in selecting their workforce. Think FAANG. So in every team you have a bunch of quite smart opinionated folks, who somehow have to be steered in the same direction. With that I see it kinda reasonable for the team lead to make at least $200k a year. Give or take.

Now we move one step up. Someone has to pull all these "creme de la creme" cats together and herd them, so that at the very minimum teams don't work against each other. Ideally work together for some common goal. And I can understand team leads who is not willing to go to this snake pit for 30% salary increase. Why would they? 50% - may be. 70% - that sounds interesting and worth consideration.

Bottom line: according to my humble experience in "the organization", the salary roughly doubles each time you get up the ladder. And being on different steps of this ladder I can understand why.
Thanks for clarifying, and I totally agree.
Apologies in advance if I'm missing some context here but from my understanding it's pretty straight-forward: in the U.S. an individual is insured by the FDIC up to $250K. So anything you have over that in the one account is "susceptible" to bank failure losses (and even then it's not guaranteed that you'd lose your $...just possible).

So if you have $1M parked in one account then you're at risk. $250K parked in 4 accounts caries zero risk.