skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Idk, after a tiring day of building awesome things, the noise helps me sleep.

HN amps up the noise quite a bit. People were loud about the Russian war, about crypto, COVID, Trump, anything. Most of the panic never really mattered; nobody talks about Russian bots taking over HN anymore. No more apps telling you not to touch your face. But it gets amped up like a speaker in a small cave.
I've seen a lot of spam coming from their IPs, so they probably have a lot of headache with filtering out bad customers.
> In fact, I expect to be shortage of programmers even if none of those would happen (and they will)

Did you see GPT-4 demo yesterday?

Seems to me that after a LLM has been trained to the level of GPT-3.5, we programmers not only are not needed, but most of what we can do can be automated.

So how exactly are programmers are needed to automate things with AI? What am I missing?
I don't want to come off snarky, but what exactly do you think you are adding here in your first paragraph? It sounds like you want to correct me, but don't really say anything different. I did not make a claim about most males, but your concern about the matter is noted I guess.
Why do you say this is one of the coolest part?
More like Communo-Capitalism, i.e: quasi-communism operating within a nominally capitalist system
>It should just work when I navigate to the project folder.

You still need to do the setup when you create the project, but once you do you can use direnv[0] to activate/deactivate the venv[1]. I target GCP often, so I have direnv switch over to the correct project [3] also.

[0] https://direnv.net/

[1] https://stackabuse.com/managing-python-environments-with-dir...

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56781493/gcloud-is-it-po...
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/innovation-at-amazon/heres-...
Not necessarily, since the gap in finances accumulated over time. They would have had to acknowledge asset price drops on their balance sheet much sooner. Basically they were allowed to build up a bigger integration risk with their accounting if they ever did have to sell due to not having to MTM in the mean time.
I didn't look at the links, but from the ingredients list you posted, yes those are pure hydrocarbons, nothing chlorinated.
These companies often have a lower turnover and are therefore harder to get a job at.
I don't think it's a big change. I think very few people are qualified to do due diligence on their banks. It's a bit like expecting people to inspect bridges before they drive over them. It's a piece of financial infrastructure that we expect to just work. It would be a big change to not have that expectation, and would likely result in the collapse of the regional banking system as people flock to the Big Four "systemically important banks" which have stricter regulatory requirements and the implicit backing of the federal government. We are seeing a lot of that flocking despite the actions of treasury on Sunday.

Moody's gave SVB an A rating until they were already collapsing. The State of California said SVB was financially sound until March 8.

And the problem is, even if it were possible to know the health of a bank as a depositor, a sound bank that people come to believe may be unsound collapses in a bank run the instant that the realization occurs, so you would lose your money anyway even though the bank was sound when you first deposited unless you got in early on the run.
> We are overpaid for incredible working conditions and devs basically became capricious divas, despite the fact 90% of them are plumbers, and many not very good ones.

I once had a job where we created and supported a bunch of Golang microservices in the backend. Like you alluded to, I couldn't help but feel that I was a glorified, overpaid plumber.
This is why the solution involved legislation and regulation. If it prices the low end out of the market, so be it.
I use it, for autocomplete. It’s great for creating the text for string constants, error messages, autocompleting if statements (which if variables are properly named, works great). Speeds up repetitive work but it’s not useful for actual problem solving.
The army and particularly the navy are looking pretty desperate for recruits right now.
Show HN: A library to capture UX metrics with minimal code changes
> Or "we'll write the bottlenecks in C++"... until you realise that it's all bottleneck.

Isn't this exactly how python works with pytorch, polars, and similar very fast libraries?
Inflation is caused by printing too much money. Taxation does not directly reduce inflation (I suppose you could argue some indirect effect since it means the government will need to print less but then there are other secondary effects we would need to include, etc)
The claim that, "when interest rates rise, all asset prices must fall" seems, uhm, somewhat off. If this were true, it would be trivial to stop and reverse inflation (i.e. deflate) with any increase in interest rates (?).

While it's certainly useful to think about prices as signals that, "embed an interest rate derivative", it seems a stretch to claim every single one of those derivatives is perfectly negatively correlated with interest rate changes.

[EDIT: change "interest price" to "interest rate"]
Hey, nice work. I'll follow closely!

This looks a lot like Stack AI. Someone shared a link to their loom yesterday https://www.loom.com/share/6992025d97bc48f3b3d06429de664b72
There was a financial services company that created a stock transfer service in smalltalk in the mid to late 90's; apparently they had some folks who were very forward thinking. They used IBMs visual age products. The product had some initial success, landed a few customers. But ultimately languished and was shut down. I don't have information on what happened, failure was probably due to mismanagement more than technology. I was at the company after those events, and management was inept to say the least. So that's one data point.
They held cash at SVB. They will probably smarten up and start holding short term treasuries and avoid as much as possible bank liabilities. Just a guess.
I always liked Hetzner. Since the days in which I've was deploying automatically with a CI before the cloud was called the cloud ~2009
Some time ago I learned that Postman Labs that produces a nice but not-a-rocket-science HTTP client raised $433M at multi-billion valuation and has 500 employees. Isn't it astonishing?
Except that 99.9% of people will buy "stable" coins on Coinbase. Not your keys, not your crypto. If Coinbase gets leveraged or goes the way of SFB, you have literally the same non-immunity as a bank run except you also don't get FDIC backstops.
This was the initial pebble that lead to Podman existing via Red Hat. No Red Hat customer wanted to pull or push to DockerHub by default due to a typo. No PRs would be accepted to change it and after dealing with customer frustration over and over...
They can hardly continue chip production as if nothing had happened if NK is shelling towns 50km to the North.
You're right, last weekend, USDC dropped to a low of ~$0.88.

However note

- SVB was closed on a Friday (as is the FDIC's custom). This meant that USDC could not process redemptions over the weekend as banks were closed, and this created fear in the market.

- USDC had 8% of their reserves trapped in SVB. The fair market value of USDC would have been $0.92 if all SVB deposits were lost, which was never likely.

- crucially, USDC operator Circle has acknowledged the need to transition to a "full reserve" model where reserves aren't subject to bank runs. https://twitter.com/jerallaire/status/1635548066185871360

- over the weekend, USDC did lose its $1 peg and trade as low as ~$0.88. However, all USDC holders were able to maintain access their USDC to do whatever they wanted with it, which is a lot better than SVB depositors frozen and waiting to see what happened.
> We recently went through that cycle faster than we thought possible with regards to a bank which responsible people considered very safe. According to the official record, one of the institutions went from being financially healthy one day to insolvent the next. I believe that narrative to be face-saving, but it is what The System currently is messaging as the truth, so let’s accept it for now. If this is the truth, what unfortunate truths might we learn in the near future?

Yeah, this is a good quote, and I find it unbelievable that a bank goes from financially healthy one day to insolvent the next. I also find it far more discomforting than the alternative (that it was financially unhealthy for a while, and many other banks are as well). Is this really the 'official' record?
This article fails to make a valid point. It starts by talking about Thiel as the epitome of the libertarian venture bro, and how they are all asking for the government to step in now that the banks are failing, but then goes on to say that he got all his money out on time, no government intervention needed.

??
I know nothing about what has been implemented by Google/Fastly. All I can point you to is the details of Cloudflare's implementation and RFCs (which we co-authored): https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ohai-ohttp/
Worth remembering is that Docker supports Windows containers. That’s a hard requirement for many enterprises.
That's how you end up with "March 2023 Report (Final) (Edited) (3).docx".

Making users repeatedly upload and download the same file to work with it is clunky.
I remembered a very funny incident sometime ago when I saw Jim Blinn's name in the title.

I had traveled to the US to enable a SoC GPU for a client in California. In my home country, India, good computer science books were a luxury then. So when in the US, I took an opportunity to buy some computer graphics books. Jim Blinn's excellent books were on my list. One of the books was the "Dirty Pixels". During lunch time, I visited a local Barnes and Noble shop to see if I could get the books. I went to the help-desk at the book shop. At the counter there was a young girl, and I enquired about the book "Dirty Pixels". The girl without saying a word immediately went away. I thought she might have gone to check if they have the book in stock. But she returned back with a male colleague. And the guy looked at me in a suspicious way and asked, "Yes, how can we help?". I said, I am looking for a book titled "Dirty Pixels". He gave me a look, and turned to the computer on the desk, typed something and asked, "What is the author's name?". I said, Jim Blinn. He typed something on the computer, and said "There is no such author!" Again giving me a suspicious look. Now realising what might be happening, I said the book is of computer graphics; and the author's name is Jim Blinn with double 'n'. The guy typed in something on the computer again, then smiled and said, "Oh! Computer Graphics! We don't have that book in store." :)
… or sealed classes in Java
Privacy-oriented alternatives to Google Analytics for 2023
In the article they say most speed-ups are in the 5x to 10x range. The paper shows this to be true, particularly when compared to PyPy.

In other words, the acceleration isn't measured against raw C implementations (where the 78x factor I quoted would be relevant). It is measured against Python or PyPy.

How much faster does Codon make your Python code. The answer seems to be somewhere around the 5x to 10x range.

In that context, and in the context of actual applications rather than hand-picked tests (how much can we optimize a loop), "orders of magnitude" seems to be an exaggeration.

BTW, MIT does this kind of thing all the time with their press releases. They have a brand to support with outlandish claims about everything that comes out of there. Those with frequent exposure to this kind of press release are wise to this. I've seen it for decades. It's marketing.

For me, when someone says "orders of magnitude" it means "massive". I tend to say "10 times faster", "50 times faster" even "100 times faster". I probably start using "orders of magnitude" faster at 1000x or when I am trying to explicitly make an impression on a mathematically-challenged audience. "Orders of magnitude" sounds great to that crowd.

I have never, in 40 years in CS/Engineering, heard anyone use powers-of-two when they say "orders of magnitude". Doing so would open you to serious misinterpretation. Engineers might say something like "a factor of 2 to the n" or something like that.
How is that relevant? You said: "It does not have a significant retail presence." Meanwhile, CS does have a massive retail presence, in Switzerland, and has done for 150+ years.
People who need "reliably available quickly" can pay or set up their own mirror. Everyone else can use the torrent system.
Absolutely. And, this idea is not at all new. Here's an example from the early 90s of a similar thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlaer–Mellor_method. It was tried on projects, then failed to deliver. Some people at the time asked Qs like "How would one debug the code that has been generated from UML models?" and were waved aside. EDIT - its the automatic generation of code from that methodology that I particularly took issue with, although, not a big fan either of tons of custom UML-like diagrams
Why would you need to do this? USB to HDMI adapters exist and now that USB-C is mainstream there are adapters for that too and significantly cheaper than a raspberry pi. One use I would like to see is a pi convert an HDMI signal to ethernet and convert it on the other side with a second pi.

Lol basically any DisplayLink adapter would work. Way cheaper.
Where to begin - libraries, frameworks, hiring, third party APIs. Is there even a decent PostgreSQL driver for Smalltalk? Ecosystems matter much more than languages when you want to move fast.
these are unrealized losses so not necessarily significant if just held to maturity or sold when prices are less punishing

they can be an issue if, say, all your depositors decide to make huge withdrawals and the bank's immediate cash needs balloon, or if they have specific payments they need to make in the near term which would force those "available for sale" securities to be actually sold

none of this is an inevitable risk. there are ways to hedge against rising rates. the current rate hikes, although historic in their pace, have also long been anticipated by the market and telegraphed by the Fed. that bank administrators failed to plan accordingly is honestly baffling
The moral hazard risk you mention is real. But likewise no bank can rest easy for two reasons:
1) the lending programs setup to backstop banks (not depositors) in the current situation expire in a year. Not all the bank supports can be expected in perpetuity. Regulators buy themselves time to assess true risk of payroll services, Fintech FOB, and the like.
2) Per recent history the first (Bank) victim may get a pass but not the second victim. Bear Stearns was saved, Lehman wasn't. A complacent bank bets that the moral hazard criers won't have the upper hand at the particular+unknown timeframe their bank needs a handout.
BitTorrent will solve the distribution problem but not magically provide more storage. Someone still has to foot the bill for storing gigabytes (or terabytes) worth of docker images.
> - giving more power to people eventually leads to a disaster (e.g. industrial revolution and climate change)

This sure is a take.

> - jealous because I didn't choose an ML path at uni

Unless by "ML path at uni" you mean "PhD in ML/AI at a good research university", undergraduate-level "ML" is a trash fire and borderline scam. The bog-standard computer science curriculum as it would have been taught in the 80s is still the gold standard IMHO.

Now, on to the question. My fear is that we hyped AI too much. When inevitably the reality doesn't match the sky-high expectation, I fear the general public will associate AI and computer science in general with crypto, witch doctors and other assorted trash, which it very obviously isn't.

I see a skizoid attitude that combines attributing to AI capabilities it doesn't have, and refusing to accept what AI can do very well. Currently, the first part dominates the conversation, but tables can easily turn unless we start being more realistic.

Or maybe I'm just stupid and chatbots truly are that revolutionary, but somehow I doubt it.
Section 230 was just a carve out in the mostly overturned Communications Decency Act to allow for moderation. It isn't special protection, it clarifies that for the purposes of some pearl clutching censorship laws that moderating and hosting comments doesn't incur the liability of having said or published the thing in question. The rest of that law was basically whole sale tossed out by the Supreme Court for being prior restraint on speech. Section 230 is a red herring pushed by know nothing culture warriors.
Who is "we"? You don't have to have anything to do with it.
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SFB? You mean SVB? SBF?
No I don't.

And neither does Mr. Shakespeare.

And because he doesn't, the decision how his works are represented in modern systems, is not up to him.
Ask HN: How do you optimize your notification diet?
I want to be notified instantly on some communication channels, NLP customisable if possible. For example only receiving notifications from Bob from channel Y on Discord X.
Anyone know a service I could pay for this?
You forgot the smiley face. Don't worry though, I'm bing so I can add one for you :)
'The next AOL?': Meta's layoffs raise questions about strategy as morale sinks
I don't expect the efficiency cores to be slow enough to have noticeable effect on response times. Rather they'll just have smaller throughput, and other cores will pick up the rest when the server is loaded.

I'm assuming you don't shoot yourself in the foot by running strictly single-threaded workflow explicitly pinned to the efficiency cores.
I'll add another example. I have a friend who lives in the Boston area and bought an old home about 10 years ago with the intention to gut renovate it. He didn't have enough cash to pay for the renovations without a loan, but the likes of Chase, Wells Fargo and Bank of America generally don't want to deal with mortgage loans like this, because 1) it's a different workflow... the bank gives you money piecemeal as construction proceeds rather than all at once and 2) the bank is basically fronting you the money based on what your home is going to worth when it is done.

For example, say I buy a home for $400k and gut renovate it for $200k. Let's say that the specific renovations are going to improve the value of the home, but it's hard to know by how much. If I go to Chase, they will gladly lend me 80% of the $400k ($320k). But Then I need an $80k down payment + $200k for renovations, or $280k cash on hand to make this work.

If I go to a smaller bank that doesn't do things as algorithmically and knows the local market, they might say "hey, we're gonna give you the $320k down payment and then we think that in that area of Boston and based on what you are doing, the house is going to be worth $150k more when you finish renovations, so we're gonna finance 80% of that $150k as well ($120k). You are still going to need to prove that you have your $80k down payment + $30k (20% of $150k) + $50k (the difference between what renovations cost and what they will add to value of home), or $160k total. So in this example, I need to have $160k in the bank if I want to make this whole transaction work with Regional Bank X, whereas with Chase, I need $280k.
I think oculus is a good and important business but it’s way too early to make it their flagship. Especially since Facebook doesn’t have the hardware chops like Apple. They are fully reliant on mobile phone hardware getting better to make their headset smaller and faster. So they can’t speed the process up no matter how many billions they throw at it. Plus their game/virtual world development efforts have been laughable. Really not playing to their strengths.
> How can we organize so that we can demand proper service

This would take a long time but it’s possible that customer service could be written into law
The GIL improves single-threaded performance compared to other options.
Note that this is a state chartered bank rather than a national one.

Thus, state regulators are the ones with the oversight power and the ability to really do things.

California Financial Regulator Takes Possession of Silicon Valley Bank - https://dfpi.ca.gov/2023/03/10/california-financial-regulato...

> SAN FRANCISCO – The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) announced today that, pursuant to California Financial Code section 592, it has taken possession of Silicon Valley Bank, citing inadequate liquidity and insolvency. The DFPI appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver of Silicon Valley Bank.

> Silicon Valley Bank is a state-chartered commercial bank based in Santa Clara and is a member of the Federal Reserve System, with total assets of approximately $209 billion and total deposits of approximately $175.4 billion as of Dec. 31, 2022. Its deposits are federally insured by the FDIC subject to applicable limits.

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Note California and "state-chartered" in there.
Another system is Cistercian numerals (developed by the monastic order):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistercian_numerals

Proposed for, but not in, Unicode:

* https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20290-cistercian-digits.pdf

* https://www.kreativekorp.com/ucsur/charts/cistercian.html

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34588808

For the LaTeX users:

* https://ctan.org/pkg/xistercian
"If this were true, it would be trivial to stop and reverse inflation (i.e. deflate) with any increase in interest rates"

Well, that is the strategy of the Fed. Raise interest rates when we experience too much inflation.
You refer to a comment I made? It was hypothetical based on whisper.cpp notes regarding 30s max chunk limit, how long that takes, and noting that the latency speedup (x120) corresponded to exactly 120 concurrent 30s chunks vs serially transcribing 1 hour of audio.
Going to art school is a waste for most artists—why not be like Alexander Borodin and compose symphonies when you need to take a break from being a research chemist?
This seems like a good opportunity to plug the American Heritage Dictionary, which in my experience is at least a couple notches better than Merriam-Webster despite their website being stuck in 1999 (maybe that's a good thing?)

https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=desert

de·sert (dĭ-zûrt)

n.

1. (often "deserts") Something that is deserved or merited, especially a punishment: They got their just deserts when the scheme was finally uncovered.

2. The state or fact of deserving reward or punishment.
The two main reasons I see to do a startup in Smalltalk are:

1. You really love Smalltalk, and you'll be able to execute quickly, and be happy doing it.

2. You want to be able to hire some top programmers, and one way is to pick a beloved fringe technology that attracts top programmers disproportionately (in this case, Smalltalk, but companies can also do this with CL, Scheme, Racket, Haskell, OCaml, Rust, etc.).

(My love for Smalltalk goes back to the early-'90s, https://www.neilvandyke.org/smalltalk-chg/ , and in the mid-'90s I put together a proposal to use Smalltalk for Brown's intro CS courses. Today, if I didn't have to make money, and could just do research, I'd probably instead make some changes to Scheme/Racket, or get more comfortable with Rust, since I like both, but for very different reasons.)
Most viable opportunities are squandered because of apathy and failed systems-level cognition like this. Where someone wise knows a path, someone less-capable doesn't look for it, doesn't see it, then announces loudly "there is no way!".
Wordcels vs shape rotators