skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Non-rich people get bailed out constantly. What else is unemployment, Medicaid, welfare, social security, etc? Plus things like eviction moratoriums, foreclosure protection, FMLA, etc. The social safety net often protects those that made bad life decisions… or were just unlucky, but are we sure SVB isn’t in the latter category?

To be clear, I think it’s a good thing. Just let’s not pretend the government is only ever helping the rich.
So Meta should rename itself "Tech du jour".

Zuck is steppin' and fetchin' like his head is on fire and his ass is catchin'.

In other words, there is a noteable lack of direction, focus, creativity and originality. Most entrepreneurs are allocated at most one or two really successful endeavors. Zuck may have already used up his allotment.
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I applied for US travel visa as a citizen of Poland in 2012 and was denied travel due to "wrong type of visa". I was planning to visit my employer and spend 1-2 weeks traveling across the country. Apparently both business and travel visas were inappropriate for these purposes. To add, I was questioned in a US consulate/embassy (can't remember) in Warsaw by a person who repeatedly refused to speak in English, insisted on Polish and I, as a native Polish speaker, had issues understanding them. Poor experience.

This was not a case for Swedish citizens, which is mentioned at the beginning of Daniel's linked post. Sweden is a member of ESTA[1] and Daniel traveled to the US multiple times before being denied travel (with still valid ESTA) and only then applied for a visa.

[1] https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/
You're right, stablecoins held custodially in an entity could be subject to similar contagion.

Yet, non-custodial holding is becoming much easier and safer.

Crucially, wallets are improving a lot, and a spectrum of custodial options is developing, with rich tradeoffs in eg. safety and self-sovereignty.

For example https://www.coinbase.com/blog/how-smart-cryptography-makes-c...
It’s the lack of fully compatible compose that matters most.
Which just further reinforces the bubbles everyone is in...
Thiel is entitled to a lot of criticism, but this is dumbest possible criticism. If Thiel took his money out of SVB, then he didn't receive a bailout. That's 100% consistent with libertarianism. But then he's a hypocrite because he's a "tech bro" and some other "tech bros", who the article makes no effort to explain why they are libertarian, asked for bailouts.
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I have nine accounts set up in GA and I've used it often for a few years. I've never seen any sort of behaviour like that.
That would be a part of the terms – we didn't get it, we knowingly took the risk.
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They wouldn't have looked at it as a one-off $35M deposit though, but as one of many increasingly large deposits into a tech company that could all be traced back to a VC firm - all of which could be verified by information the bank has available without needing to query the customer, not least a series of effervescent PR pieces by said VC funds about their new investment
there was a time when the government had the guts to actually regulate and break things up.

capitalism works when there is competition, otherwise it's just an oligarchy with ever-worsening terms and conditions.
It's funny because I would almost say the same but to actually make the case *for* Smalltalk and not against it. And precisely for the same reasons.

I'm using Smalltalk in both the startup and corporate world and it's a good fit for both. Main current challenges are not in the language or tech stack if you architect the right thing for each case. The main challenges are in finding what's your path to walk a profitable road that makes you incrementally grow without too much drama.
Long story short, Microsoft chose the wrong horse in this race. The fallout from this decision should have been apparent when WSL came into being - I would be shocked if the WSL didn't use Ctrl-C to send a keyboard interrupt.

In your use case, I would put that down to "Enterprise entanglements" where the thing driving the development of Windows features is the needs of business customers and not regular users at home.

People need to print far more often than they need to deal with presentation modes in PowerPoint.
Thank you, that looks like a great book, and I'm impressed that they made it open access.

I'll try to find the time to go over it in more detail later, but from brief skimming now, I failed to find the "bottom line", saying how long we have until we run out of energy sources, and it seems to be advocating that by moving to renewable sources, we are good to go forever, at least unless population growth continues exponentially.

So with population growth declining across the world, and the gradually accelerating shift to renewables (and continuously improving tech), I don't quite see a big cause for concern. While of course it's true that there is some limit to how many GPUs we can run on Earth, I don't think we're anywhere close to that limit, and I don't see a particular argument against the option of seeding the rest of the universe with compute infrastructure too (other than that we should stop to think whether we should).
Tangentially, I wait for a day when an AI will ask a similar question on a forum like this, unnoticed, and receive a bunch of helpful answers (mostly) from humans. That would be a more real version of the Turing test.
If you don't trust Google, you can't use Chrome. It's as simple as that.

Remember that the Chrome binary is closed-source and can't be reproduced from Chromium source code.
Let's not forget what makes those amazing profits.

1. very copyright friendly regulations, EULAs

2. poor data privacy, transportability/migration regulations

3. Section 230

4. lack of good antitrust laws - especially in market places and advertising markets.

5. and lets not forget the complete anti-union sentiment and lack of "professionals" to unionize

I forgot about the complexity of stock options and transparency around compensation.

Imagine if startups had to disclose as much as a franchise or mlms regrading how the compensation works.

public funded research that's given away to "tech" companies

Tax incentives with no strings attached.

universities that provide the labor force for the companies to cherry pick the best from figure out whether someone should swipe left or scroll up.

This was almost cathartic.
that's called socialism
Facebook is the classic example of this. Hackish procedural PHP that REALLY worked.
If you saw sexism in that comment, then I'm pretty sure you're the one with the sexism issue
Why do most companies prioritize time and cost over the quality of a project?
I have got a feedback from old developers that most companies prefer cost and time over quality.

Give me your honest opinion
1) Is this correct?
2) If yes,then why?
Gay people can be cis. Cis describes gender identity vs biological sex not sexuality.
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Sad news for Mint customers. Big carrier monopoly continues.
> X-mas -> "christ"

Technically:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_(letter)

> The 'X' comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word Christós (Greek: Χριστός, translit. Khristós, lit. "anointed, covered in oil"), which became Christ in English.[1] The suffix -mas is from the Latin-derived Old English word for Mass.[2]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmas
Interest rates hurt everyone. Taxation targets only those who are profiteering.

The inflation we have now is opportunistic and self-referencing. "We have to raise prices because prices are rising". In truth it's really "we're raising prices because we can".

At least taxation would encourage companies to use those profits to invest in the business, possibly even pay people more (God forbid) and not necessarily profiteer. All instead of just using those huge profits for share buybacks.
>Sorry if I framed it confusingly, this isn't only for artists, it's for everyone.

Ah, OK, that was what I was wondering. Some social security schemes for artists that I am aware of require proof that you are in fact an artist, which can be problematic.
I hope you understand that not everyone shares your pre-occupation with the current era of culture wars that you show here. To one not in your "space" this comment reads very odd indeed; as in attributing malice where this is, implying things that aren't reasonably implied, manufacturing conflict?
Okay then, how would you build a trustable banking industry without some certain central authority?
What if all characters other than waldo were just dressing the same because they were trying to ape each other to get fictitious points on social forums. Internet has trained an entire generation to make arguments to get validation on social media that definitely reflects in the ideas that are put forward.
Banking as well as food industry. Almost all of food industry seems to be captured by a couple of mega conglomerates.
This is not retail.
Not even the Big 4 of banks could handle 20% of their deposits leaving in a matter of hours. No bank can survive a run.

Now, in the case of the Big 4 being run on, they are too big to fail so the Fed would just extend them unlimited funds (probably).
I should have said “web” and not “internet”, yeah.
Yeah, you could just run rsync and spin up a CA...
Seems like more like a scaled-up garbage producer than garbage collector...
Great point. More volume in explaining the same thought is more GPT like.
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> The claim that, "when interest rates rise, all asset prices must fall" seems, uhm, somewhat off.

It’s a necessary condition of the discounted cash flow asset pricing model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discounted_cash_flow?wprov=sft...
Podman winning is good. Red Hat consistently does things right, for example their quay.io is open source, unlike Docker Hub and GitHub Container Registry. The risks of not using rootless containers weren’t blown way out of proportion, because rootless containers really are much more secure. Not requiring a daemon, supporting cgroup v2 early, supporting rootless containers well and having them as the default, these are all good engineering decisions with big benefits for the users. In this and many other things, Red Hat eventually wins because they are more open-source friendly and because they hire better developers who make better engineering decisions.
I meant: no one knows how long the last one that was eliminated was eliminated. But that sounded awkward (and I thought it would be obvious).
> The banker there practically sneered at me, acted exasperated like I was wasting his time and he had much bigger clients to tend to

I had a partial version of this experience with Charles Schwab. (I've been a banking customer for many, many years and have been very happy with them). When I left my first startup after the many year run up to the 2008 crisis, I decided to roll my fairly substantial 401(k) balance to my tiny Schwab brokerage account.

Waiting for the rollover check to arrive was nerve-wracking enough, so I decided to deposit it in person at my local branch in a major city rather than mail it to them and wait again. When I walked into the branch, the reception person looked me up and down and was warming up to tell me that no, they don't have public restrooms. Once I gave my account information, they became very friendly and once I plopped the check down on the counter for deposit, it was all coffee, juices, and pastries from then on. ;)
If this is like a multi trillion parameter model, then you know to replicate it it's probably cranking up the parameter count. If this is a <100M model, then you know there is some breakthrough they found that you need to find out, instead of wasting time and money with more parameters.
No, it's because we live longer, have fewer children to support us and increase the population size that doesn't contribute net positive to the welfare state. It's pure economics.
You seem to be conflating "necessary" vs. "sufficient".

Elon's inherited wealth and excellent upbringing were necessary for his Tesla and SpaceX success, but far from sufficient.

If a good rich childhood was all that's necessary to commercialize electric cars, reusable rockets, and fast satellite internet, then we'd have a lot more of these kinds of amazing products as millions of people have good rich childhoods.
Really hope Hetzner expands their US offering to included dedicated servers.
it feels a bit too late to do that, though
Pretty sure people complain about it in every single HN thread that uses the term
Competition is a central tenet of capitalism. Collusion, particularly collusion between govt and private enterprise, aims to modify the system to reduce competition. So it follows that such collusion is a perversion that goes against the central tenets of capitalism. Which is why is gets a separate name, like crony capitalism, to differentiate it.

It’s no different than saying “dictatorial socialism”. The fact that a rather simple distinction has to be explained multiple times by multiple people becomes a chore and a Sisyphean task when it is clear someone doesn’t want to acknowledge the difference.
Rapid dedollarization and announcing a new currency (e.g. BRICS currency?) Gold purchases suggest some countries are preparing for the post-dollar world.
Can't say I'm a fan of this one. I get the idea, but I don't like the execution of this.

It's a very myopic view of python package management; python packages are also often just used to distribute complete applications (ie. youtube-dl), not just libraries. This is one of the reasons why pip nowadays warns you if you do a sudo installation to site-packages and otherwise defaults to user; binaries need to be installed to the right place and all this will likely end up doing is further mangling the amount of PATH fiddling necessary to get those packages working.

I also don't like that we're getting yet another expected reserve name for virtual environments. Originally it was virtualenv, then it became venv and now it could end up being .venv.

Python's package management could use quite a bit of work, especially with versioned dependencies co-existing, and venvs are a useful solution to that but this isn't the answer.
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Might be covered by your bullet points, but is worth bringing up:

- Shady licensing practices

- Dark software patterns
I was trying to say that what most people say is mostly unoriginal and is very reminiscent of GPT style writing. What data GPT trains on or pays attention to is another question.
I use Colima. https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
True, but one continues to be used long after it's invention, and the other was dropped from almost every single one of its original use-cases, because it sucks as a system to write numbers; It's hard to sort, it's hard to read/parse, it's a sign-value notation system making it suck for large numbers, its similarity to letters of the alphabet adds to the possible footguns, there is no zero, and it has no concept of values smaller than 1.
> Has Docker forgotten Remember leftpad?

Anyone who takes even a brief glance at the absurdly yolo identity, upgrade, and permissions model Docker encourages should be able to answer this with an immediate "obviously they don't care".

The faster this implodes, the faster we get a safer setup where we don't blindly trust everything.
> And when GitHub starts similar shenanigans

The difference between GitHub and Docker is that GitHub is profitable.
Possible I am missing something, but your response appears to assume the securities will recover their loses prior to being sold and/or that these unrealized losses do become actual losses, should banks need to sell securities to meet liquidity needs.

Without additional context, seems like wishful thinking to believe such losses will ever be recovered. In fact, while I might be wrong, those unrealized losses assume current market conditions; meaning they do not represent the actual total assets at potentially at risk; might be wrong about this.

Am I missing something?
Being polite to others costs nothing and makes this a better place for everyone.

Personal insults are particularly destructive to civilized discourse.
That scenario is a can of beans and hunting deer with my 30-06 kind of situation if it really gets that bad.
It already is though. Python loads modules from the current directory. As soon as you import a non default module, its already over.
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Vastly superior except there is zero insurance, reserves are held within the traditional banking system and it can depeg at any time…
This would be a mess with python updates fwiw. venvs in my experience break when the system version of python is updated. By solving it this way, you open a whole other can of issues.
Check the view counts that they now publish. Every Tweet has orders of magnitude more views than likes, comments or retweets. Those are all of the lurkers.
What's probably going to happen is GHCR becoming the main registry for everything, further strengthening GothUb place in the FOSS world.
Browsers don't have the same access as native apps, and shouldn't. There are permission prompts, privacy controls and access limits. For example the File System Access API is not unfettered access, it's limited to only files and folders manually selected by the user and nothing else. This is not at all "random access to your computer", which is in fact what traditional desktop apps tend to have.
The Fed strategy is to reduce the rate of growth (1st derivative) or prices, not reduce the actual price level (which would be deflationary). And that's non-trivial for many reasons, including the fact that not every price signal responds the same to short term interest rate movements.
That's a fascinating list and far beyond my capacity to argue, so thanks for that.

> To claim GPT is therefore 'meeting the mark'

Pretty sure the vast majority of people who are attributing some kind of personhood to GPT aren't doing so from an analytical perspective, but because the conversational generation exceeds whatever human-detection threshold they have that is inbuilt. Asking for evidence of genuine inductive reasoning won't make a dent on those feels. The nature of the systems involved lack any reasoning, deductive or inductive. It's all statistics.

The rest of the positive camp is claiming that "the mark" is the production of useful work, I think. At most, this is seen as a step towards AGI, not the finish line.
No, both the client (moonlight) and the server (sunshine) support AMD/Intel/nVidia.

Might be useful:
"System on a Chip - Benchmark for Moonlight Game Streaming Project" - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WSyOIq9Mn7uTd94PC_LX...

lists the Pi3 as having about 10ms latency at 1080p 60fps.
So opening a directory picker and allowing access to user-selected files is fine, however opening a serial port picker and allowing access to user-selected serial ports is not[0].

My use-case is a web-based system which includes, among other things, a payment function. I'm building an interface based on WebSerial to initiate transactions on a USB-connected Pin Pad[1]. This works beautifully in some Chromium-based browsers, but nowhere else[2].

This bothers me because it represents a dependency on Chromium and they could pull the rug out on WebSerial support any time. If other browsers supported it at least I'd have a fallback plan.

[0] https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#webserial

[1] For reference, the USB connection only exposes a control channel. You can initiate transactions and monitor their status, but the Pin Pad has an ethernet connection for actual communication to the payment processor. There is an option to use REST services provided by the payment processor to do the same thing, however that is significantly more development effort in our application.

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Serial#brow...
I run desktop (not mobile) Firefox with an in-memory cache only. My opinion is that on-disk cache with several days (or weeks) old content is almost entirely useless, and that the most beneficial cache use is what you fetch/reuse through a single day of running browser.

Here's how you can "make the switch":

First of all, clear your disk cache entirely. Then, head into "about:config" and change accordingly:

browser.cache.disk.enable -> false
browser.cache.disk.smart_size.enabled -> false
browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl -> false
browser.cache.offline.enable -> false
browser.cache.memory.enable -> true
browser.cache.memory.capacity -> 512000
browser.privatebrowsing.forceMediaMemoryCache -> true

The number 512000 is in kilobytes. Adjust to preference. Firefox will still do some caching to disk, but these settings stop the most pressing disk writes. You may confirm the change by visiting "about:cache".
There need to be a separation between funds transaction and investing. Just like the separation between Church and State or Investment Banking and Commercial Banking.

Currently there isn't because you are forced to invest if you want to be able to transact. As a matter of fact the figure you see in your checking account is expressed in dollars but that is false because those are IOUs from the bank exressed in dollars. You are defacto investing in the loan portfolio of your commercial bank.

It's a very different thing.

Maybe CBDC will allow all of us to 'bank with the Fed' so we will know for sure that those dollars are real and not being put to work in any way , shape or form.
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Many things. Many, many things. I have a pet theory that the primary thing that has been preventing the Ukraine conflict from expanding is precisely that all sides understand the economic gun pointed at all the participants, much moreso than the military situation. (I can't prove it and I won't even argue for it much; I'm calling it a "pet theory" after all. I don't even put a huge amount of stock in it myself.) The economic damage that could be done by each side is theoretically less than an all-out military assault, but in terms of cost/benefit, you get a somewhat similar result with a much smaller effort in the economic sphere right now.

It's a rather bizarre game theory situation. China in particular can easily trigger a huge crisis from what I can see. Selling off their treasuries more aggressively would do damage. They could also simply stop trading entirely unilaterally. Or both. And that's not even my complete list of things they could do to tip over the West as a whole.

However, it will hurt them as well. It becomes a super complicated analysis of the relative damage of the collapse, the probability that the current ruling classes can weather the damage, the assessment of the other side going nuclear, the true beliefs of the parties about relative military strength... I can tell you how the participants are publicly posturing and a certain amount of visible public jockeying on the issue (pay attention to the BRICS and their posturing and actions around non-dollar international currencies), but your guesses about the true internal beliefs of all the parties or the objectively real situation are as good as mine.

Note this is not unilateral. I think China's economy is dangerously precarious too, and the West could probably tip it over... but again, that would hurt the West as well, and all the previous paragraph applies in both directions.

(And note how I distinguish "posturing" vs. "actions" on the non-dollar currencies, because there are both things. And I also distinguish "internal beliefs" from "reality" because history shows that the two are often detached in decision maker's minds. One of the most dangerous situations for war historically is when at least one side's opinion is highly divergent from reality.)