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Lenovo does this for their laptops, but struggles with peripherals.

Story time: A while ago Lenovo had bugs in their thunderbolt and uefi firmware, with symptoms like glitches when the devices were plugged in a lenovo ultra docking station. They published the firmware to LVFS and thereby enabled linux devices to apply these patches with fwupd.

However the dock, which is a device on its own, also has some glitches, little annoying stuff like certain monitors on the display ports not working every time when hot-docking. They made patches for that as well, because business hardware, but a microsoft operating system is needed to apply them to the dock.

Sure one can say: that is a problem of the dock vendor, which just happens to make the laptops as well.
> Aside from the crash in 2008

There’s a strong argument to be made that the Fed caused the crash in 08 too. First by keeping rates too low for too long after the dot com crash, then aggressively raising them right up until things started breaking. Sound familiar?

The Fed did a great job after 08 convincing everyone it did a great job managing the crisis, which I think is fair. But there’s also an argument to be made that they played a role in causing the crisis too.
As if giant solar and wind farms don't work on the exact same model...

That happens for a really good reason, it's cheaper.

It's less durable than a distributed system but distributed systems don't get the benefit of scale. People choose to not have solar panels on their houses and windmills in their back yards because the power from the power company is often cheaper and comes with out initial investment or personal intervention. All thought is taken out of the process and customers like that. Dollars converted to energy with the least amount of intermediary steps is preferred.
I hear Lloyds of London will insure just about anything. If you have $10m and you want to insure it, they can make you a policy.
Tell HN: Apple Subscription Trials
A bit of unfair practice from Apple that I thought to bring to HN attention.

Normally when you get a trial on a subscription for any third party app/service, you still have access to it until the end of trial period, even if you cancel the subscription.

For Apple services however, like Apple TV, your trial period ends immediately and you lose access as soon as you cancel the subscription.
This is the kind of petty behavior that shows there is no leadership at the helm. The CEO should be fired, not because of these specific actions, that are likely to be legal according to the US almost non existing labor laws. Instead, because of the lack of management skills and smart company leadership expected from company executives handsomely paid. As a leader, manager or CEO, you choose your wars, and your battles. This shows incompetent execution at the minimum and at worst, a hands off type of leadership only seen in the times of WeWork.

Shareholders, take notice.
Depending on the amount of cash you keep on hand, you may need to be concerned.

Preserving as much value as possible, which is normally a side task, should become a bigger priority.
I'm an engineer now, but am still very glad I had a liberal arts undergrad.
Anyone who thinks that using K8s and running everything on your own makes “cloud agnosticism” realistic has never dealt with large scale migrations and the institutional complexity behind it. (Yes I’m agreeing with you)

Yes I work for AWS Professional Services now. But I’ve seen the same with Azure and on prem in previous jobs. It hardly ever makes business sense not to go all in on whatever your infrastructure decisions are.
If it's a real problem, it'll only be a temporary one that eventually self-corrects.
I actually lead the payroll integrations team at a competitor of Human Interest, and we just finished building out a Gusto integration using the Gusto API.

You've tried reaching out to Human Interest, right? Your 401(k) provider should have direct access to Gusto engineers, but most likely, it's a problem on HI's side.
most colleges are turning away from making shining stars and instead seeking to get the mass in and out, to their respective homes. Scaled grading is so the school can reliably pass students. The credential is literally worth less.
my escapist fantasy exists deep in the sticks of northern vermont / maine. not too many people, necessary cold seasons, relatively decent hardiness zones.
Whenever I read stuff about BBSs, I always feel so glad that I skipped this entire subculture by being on initially Bitnet and then Usenet plus a bit of IRC. Most of the descriptions of BBSs make them sound like an entirely different place, and although maybe more "hacker intensive", certainly less cordial. But then again, maybe that was just the bit of Usenet I was on.
Was SVB actually lending money to companies with no revenue? Isn't that where VCs should be?
As a PhD analytical chemist, about 15 years past graduation I now regret just not becoming a plumber in my early 20s. Basically the same skill set, but the tubes are wider. Also would have been higher life time pay, at least to this point and possibly into retirement
If I was rich I would still make sure my kids worked at least one blue collar job in their teens. There's no substitute for first-hand experience in that world.
"X for me but not for thee" is very much the vibe Go gives me, yeah.

I mean, I have completely replaced my adhoc Python use with it and I'm much happier. But it's terrifying to use to build large systems.
That's not what Carter did. He inherited a bad economy from Ford and Nixon and failed to fix it. We expect our presidents to fix problems whether they caused them or not. At the end of 8+ years of a bad economy, oil embargoes, and leadership that conveyed a depressing message for the country's future prospects, the voters were rightly displeased with Carter.
The bank died with payroll in flight. If they had alternates it would have been faster, but like Monday or Tuesday. 1-2 days instead of 4.

No payroll processor could have made payroll on time in this situation. If you overnight a letter from SF to NYC and the plane crashes on landing, the replacement letter is definitely going to be late.
If the shareholders were wiped out (as I understand they were), then the moral hazard seems limited, no?

The main remaining moral hazard would be that customers would be incentivized to choose banks that offered higher rates as a result of taking on unsustainable risk. But this moral hazard is checked by investors who are directly incentivized to remain solvent and liquid, because otherwise they will lose everything.

This leaves me with two questions:

1. Did investors of the bank literally lose everything? Or did they get bought out by the government at pennies on the dollar? If indeed this was a liquidity crisis, rather than a solvency crisis, it seems like the shares would still be worth something. Did the shareholders have to agree to give up their ownership, and were they compensated for that?

2. Why didn't the 2008 bailouts follow this model? The way this bank failure was handled makes much more sense to me than the 2008 model. It seems right to me that shareholders should lose everything if the institution fails. Why did shareholders get to keep their companies in 2008?
If you consider the entire input for the language model as the state, and consider the output to be the input concatenated with the next token, then it's a markov chain.

But that's only if you don't use BEAM search, which LLMs do use. If you use BEAM search with beam=4 (typical for LLMs), for example, then it does a tree search where it keeps track of the top 4 highest probability outputs, then I guess it's not a markov chain process anymore but it just uses a markov chain.
What makes a great adventure game?
https://www.reuters.com/technology/coinbase-opens-local-bank...

That can't be unrelated, time to dig
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> Nobody realized this until a few weeks ago, and without the government's scramble to respond everyone would have moved their deposits to the big banks, killing all the others.

Hopefully no one will take this as a political endorsement but this is the most exquisite exchange I've seen illustrating your point by Secretary Yellen and Senator Lankford.

https://youtu.be/CX6O--sk48A?t=5430

Based on her response I anticipate we will continue to see the effect you predicted. Yellen was pretty much speechless in the face of presentation that people will start moving their money to banks designated as ones worthy of "systemic risk" designation.
smells of Three Body Problem
Interesting idea. I'd say probably yes, to some extent. Bringing back the human element, I'd say the businesses still stuck on spreadsheets are much less open to change than those who are willing to adopt database technology.

While long review cycles for schema changes are annoying, I find it more worrying that most businesses have zero review process at all for spreadsheets.
no i didn’t. it’s not about the ranking it’s about what you choose to study. if you go to a lower ranked school you need to focus on technical skills. saying it’s not worth it in general is not what i said at all
It's a blanket term that describes a condition where your airway collapses while you sleep, but there are lots of causes. Smoking, drinking and other substances can cause your muscles to relax and bring on apnea, as can being overweight. Lots of body builders suffer from it as their necks become developed.

The biggest "cause" once you remove factors like alcohol is heredity. You get the shape of your face from your parents, why not the anatomy of your airway as well?
Bad news is good news when the only trader that matters is the Fed and his money printer.
> because value depends largely on potential unrealised gain in the future

Exclusively actually. Past performance is only relevant to the price as a predictor of future success.
Just to quibble a little bit, but the entire effort of string theory (et al) was to find a testable theory. It's not that they weren't interested in useful predictions, but just that they didn't find any. It wasn't that they weren't making the effort, but that the effort has so far failed.

But the day is young, as they say. It took humanity 1000 years to figure out how to solve quadratic equations. Physics theory has had a lot of quick successes, but you still never know when the next one will arrive. We might figure it out in a year, or a decade, or a century, or we might never figure it out.
This sounds quite dangerous if someone has apnea.
These companies are about as swiss as an albanian goat herder is chinese.

They are incorporated there because of tax rates and such.
You mean like extra unemployment checks during COVID? COVID stimulus checks? Public student debt forgiveness? Various forbearances during covid?
I think you are probably correctly identifying their argument. I think there's no contradiction between recognizing that there's little you can do about national and international matters, and being concerned for the welfare of those you can actually help, among your friends, neighbors, and community. That's not "I've got mine," but as the prayer puts it, "the wisdom to know the difference."
For what it's worth, one Roman figure who had an insanely engorged ego, relied on huge loans for his business dealings, and assigned Rome's decay to a shadowy cabal of deep-state paedophiles, was Cicero.
Other day i discovered duckdb on HN which allows firing SQL on JSON. But i am not sure if that can take this much volume of data.
Oops. How the FDIC Guaranteed the Deposits of SVB Financial Group – Credit Slips
Chapter 4. A Protocol for Dying
The systemic risk to the entire banking system was real and still is, and VCs banding together to save a single bank would not have helped.

The systemic risk became real simply because a lot of people realized that SVB was not the only bank with problematic assets. The result would have been an outflow of deposits to the "too big to fail" banks because those banks effectively have infinite deposit insurance (because everyone already knew they would not be allowed to fail).
Well, everyone supposedly has a plan until they get punched in the nose. I'm skeptical that any payroll provider would be fully resilient to their primary bank failing. They'd need to have a 100% reserve in a secondary account and have instant failover logic in place to update payment flows for all customers. Doesn't sound likely.
Is that what gives diesels their trademark rattley sound, the injectors?
For another short story in a similar vein, check out "The Frame-By-Frame" by qntm.

https://qntm.org/frame
Yes, I agree Hillary would have won no matter what. That doesn’t mean the DNC primary system wasn’t rigged. It still is. Staggered primaries mean earlier elections influence later elections and superdelegates allow individuals to steal the votes of voters for themselves.

This isn’t like the 2020 election conspiracies. DNC primary rules are demonstrably unfair with no benefit other than to allow party elites to override voter choices.
You did see the part about it only being relevant if the company is a “monopolist”?

There are 5 cloud providers in the US and according to Jassy (my skip * 7 manager) in public statements, less than 5% of all IT spin is on any cloud provider.

Did you even read your own citation?
Why is it useful?
My job at least isn’t bottlenecked by me not memorizing enough things. Or maybe it is! But I’m not convinced
Totally agree that there wasn't much for the plebs to compromise on and I hope I'm not both-sidesing here, just pointing out that the tradition of violence around any proposed land reforms goes back hundreds of years, indeed all the way to the very first proposed agrarian laws of 486BC. The patrician class was conservative and backward-looking by its very nature, and the Roman form of government was almost _explicitly_ created to reach stalemate rather than solve problems in one side's favour (tribunes had the veto too, except as you point out for a few years under Sulla). Obviously in practice that meant the oligarchy had the better part of the deal. But that wasn't necessarily a _new_ tension. So what changed that these old grievances ended up shattering the Republic?
Depends. Have they spent 5 minutes trying and then called or 5 hours? You want them to spend 5 hours before calling.
Why even run for the highest office if you won’t do whatever you believe should be done?

The term limit is there to press people and to make them think that when it’s all over they look back and should be proud of something they have done, not a mere “the pollsters told me to do X and I did X”

Unless you do whatever you want being POTUS sounds like a hellhole job.

All day building coalitions and having meetings , being mostly sedentary, no privacy, constant assassination risk, constant attacks…and at the end of the day a bunch of pollsters are your boss. You get to ride in AF1 but that’s not unlike a Boeing Business Jet and there are some also available for private charter
Vito and Nick's has the best crust IMO
lol even worse. Cutting mobile plan to buy food: sounds stressed, bluffing.
Huh? I see nix more and more in the wild.
In the past 100 years we've had conservatively 17 recessions (not including the current one) lasting 17 years 11 months total time (18% of the time), and with 1,691% inflation...

And that includes all the adjustments to how they calculate CPI they like to include almost every recession to make it look less bad.
There are already banks that provide products to sweep your large valued accounts into as many banks as necessary to keep your entire balance insured.

Insuring 100% balances is fine, it’s up to them to set premiums and banking policy directly.

As long as failing banks fail (stockholders wiped out, assets seized and sold to cover deposits first) there’s no problem with insuring deposits.

I do have a bit of a problem with how broadly bad mortgage backed securities are being bought by the fed to prevent losses from bad investments from failing more banks.

Housing prices are killing our society and there needs to be pressure against the enormous loans nearly every homeowner has.
You don't get paid
I'm sure they weren't lending to zero revenue companies but there are lots of new small companies with some revenue and capital that need some momentary liquidity: credit lines, bridge loans to next equity funding, etc. And loans/services to people with stakes in such companies. Need a loan to fund exercise of options in a private company that's doing well? SVB might do something like that, Citibank not so much.

A knowledgeable bank can safely make such loans but no regulator will.
I had a similar situation where the lack of a specific degree algorithmicly sorted me out of a job where i was not only an expert in some extremely vertical tech, but a known person within the industry for the tech and probably the only person in my metro area with the ability currently looking for new opportunities.

After I got the rejection email i called their HR and asked to just lay my resume on the desk of the COO abd was told “no can do because i wasn’t qualified”

I got so frustrated that their HR dept was so tone deaf, I decided the org was a bad fit for me.

Later on had connected with one of the executives after I moved on to another org and an industry expo. Told him the story and he was horrified that they missed the opportunity.

The moral to the story is you need to get via networking if you don’t have a degree thanks to the rigidity of HR nowadays.
Because other, national/international banks like JPM, WFC, & BAC have a much closer uh... relationship with congress.
I remember this stuff going on but I was very young (8) and just starting out with my ISA breadboard at the time.
You are romanticizing white collar jobs as much as you claim people do blue collar ones.
At the moment SVB stock is worthless and SVB does not legally even exist anymore. The government didn't buy the shares. Every shareholder got wiped out, unless something changes.
Every bank is insolvent today and people are just starting to realize this. They all were loaded with tons of liquidity that they couldn’t loan (due to demand) so they had to do something and they all bought “safe” assets in the form of treasuries, etc. The Fed continued to guide on low interest until they suddenly decided to raise rates non-stop.

All those deposit accounts paid 0% interest. Not there’s 4%+ interest available and everyone is pulling their money to put into those, or other things. The banks can’t actually do this much longer.

If you mark to market the bonds these banks are carrying you can see they are insolvent. As more people realize and pull out this and/or move money to higher interest accounts, they are doomed.

How is this fixed? Hope everyone chills? No it will only get worse. I sure it all? That will cause trillions in inflation overnight. Let all the banks collapse? That will spell anarchy and depositors will lose a lot. Quickly lower interest rates? Inflation continues and accelerates.

We are in grave danger right now.
Great Hanoi Rat Massacre
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Provel isn't worthy of using the word "cheese" to describe it. (said lovingly as someone who worked in STL and was often handed pies of "office pizza" from Imo's.)
I don't think you can convert a string to []byte without unsafe except by copying?
It's almost as if the community has a diversity of opinions.
From about the mid-80s to the mid-90s, after grad school, I was active on another 617 area code BBS (Channel 1). It was a mostly aboveground thing though pretty much all BBSs had dark corners you could peer into. Quite a few of the regulars on the main board ended up getting together semi-regularly in real life.
Nope. QE is a fig leaf over a money printer. The Fed is the bagholder of last resort. They haven't made money in any real sense until they sell those assets (or roll them off) and they never will because every time they try the market throws a shitfit and they go back to printing.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
Hmm sure but I feel like my brain gets too much intellectual stimulation if anything from my job and relationships and reading. If I try to do a leetcode at 8pm my brain is just extremely fatigued and tells me to stop. My body on the other hand just sits in a chair for a very large amount of the day so I need to supplement there
I wish we would try to bring the german apprenticeship program back to its former glory.
It's such a shame that we started expecting university degrees for more and more jobs just to appear more compatible with the international job market.

The german apprenticeship program was a fantastic (and unique) feature of the german economy. Not every job needs a bachelors degree. Quite the opposite actually. Many positions that hire fresh university graduates could fill the position much better with well trained people who already have lots of hands on experience. Instead we have tons of people with bachelors degrees that basically need to be trained from scratch because the education they got was waaayy too theoretical.

Unfortunately the apprenticeship program is now far less prestigious than a bachelors degree (which is also heavily reflected in pay). So anyone who can go to university won't choose an apprenticeship.

Such a wasted opportunity.
actual developer QoL and tooling "Vue 3 has excellent Typescript support." is only a very recently true statement. Love vue though.
> giant movie vault gold bars.

Also called "Good Delivery Bars", typically 400oz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Delivery
Should you be fined for copying an NFT or do your intellectual “property” rules only apply when they benefit you?
How did you bring down the scammy company? Could you provide more detail while still maintaining adequate privacy?
Thank you! I haven’t seen anyone make something like this before (I’m guessing it’s because the calculating formula is simple), but I think the extra features and simply having a GUI does provide value.

I usually don’t know know what to build and struggle with staying motivated on tutorials so it’s been a really fun project to work on :)
I believe Elon repeatedly said that Tesla wanted to do heatpumps at some point too.

As you were working at Tesla before, I'd be interested as to why you chose to go at it alone and what it would mean if Tesla entered the space as a competitor?
Giardineria is the world's most underrated condiment. It belongs at the top of list next to kimchi and sauerkraut.
Yes you can. Sell him something fake at a real item's fair price.