skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this had happened in 2008 I don't think the government would have reacted as quickly or as well. We would have seen a wave of bank failures.

One of the lessons learned from 2008, especially after the collapse of Lehman, is that acting too late or sending mixed messages can make the problem worse.

The SVB run started on a Thursday, and the government announced a plan to stabilize the banking system the next Sunday before the markets were about to open. It was a pretty fast reaction all things considered.

What we didn't learn well enough from 2008 was the extent to which small bank failures can create systemic risk for the entire system. It's not like SVB was the only bank with long-term investments that lost market value after rates rose. When people realized that, they freaked out.

The other thing people realized too late was that we have had a two-layer system of deposit insurance since 2008: the too-big-to-fail banks effectively have infinite insurance (because they can't fail) and smaller banks didn't. That creates an incentive for depositors to run on the small banks and move all their money to the ones that cannot fail. It seems like nobody understood that until a few weeks ago, including the regulators.

Another problem, which is older than 2008 but needs to be fixed, is that our current system of deposit insurance doesn't make sense for the way businesses use banks. If it did, we wouldn't be in a situation where only 60% of deposits are insured nationwide. That blunts the effectiveness of deposit insurance for preventing bank runs. The solution may not be more insurance, but perhaps caps on account balances or limits to the percent of uninsured deposits at a given bank.
It would be nice to have this displayed somewhere prominently. I tried adding a lisp project and it sort of just spun around indefinitely until I clicked back.
I'm not sharing an api key over the web.
Thank you for the previous Previous discussions. Im looking forward to the next Previous NeXT computer discussion.
You selected the relatively modern definition from the dictionary. That usage is fairly recent and is very broad in definition. The verbal and literary definitions are usually the ones that pedants are protective of. I specifically said that it fits that modern definition. I was actually criticizing the parent for calling out your usage, as if his example was more ironic than yours.
I never used AWS (and am just a peasant using GCP so don't know everything). What differences did you find to be extremely helpful?
Then we should set strict laws about what kinds of data apps can harvest from their users and hold all of them responsible, not just the ones from scary china.
Cash deposits in banks are supposed to be “low risk, low reward”, but at First Republic they’ve suddenly become “more risk, low reward”. Individuals will decide for themselves if this causes their portfolio to be unbalanced (and apparently for many of them the answer is “yes my funds in First Republic are too risky, I must rebalance.”)

Large banks have different portfolios and may have funds available to assign to these (now riskier) investments.
You should check out Lustre RPC. It's basically RPC over RDMA, and based on Portals. It uses RDMA for bulk data. The actual RPC call/reply headers are all essentially a flavor of FlatBuffers before that existed, using C and recipient-makes-right for byte endianness.

If you want an RPC that is not over TCP and which takes advantage of RDMA, then Lustre RPC is what you want to study first. I wouldn't necessarily copy Lustre RPC but only because one might want to use a better encoding for headers and a better language than C. But I would copy Lustre RPC in every other way unless a different choice of RDMA technology made that impossible.
> 9 cents per gigabyte out if you’re lucky - that’s a startling price.

For plain S3. Other methods have lower prices. All methods have automatic volume discounts and almost everyone has a free tier.

> Machines are old and out of date and left behind.

A problem I've seen on every single VM stack, regardless of where it is hosted.

> Vendor lock-in is a real problem .. you probably can’t exit even if you want to.

Build your model first, then map it into services, don't start with the services and map your model based on them.

> And worse, clouds often don’t even have the computing resources you need with “requesting quota” and waiting for your “quota” to be granted some time in the next 24 hours, the opposite of elastic and scalable.

I've only experienced this on services that have a potential for abuse. DNS and SMTP being all that I can remember.

> Or buy a couple of fast fiber connections and buy some 16/32 core machines with 128 gig Ram.

And "requesting quote" isn't a delay item here? I don't know anything about fiber, how to price it, or how to receive it... and the capitalization process on all this is going to eat up a bunch of my departments time.

> And honestly it’s not hard to run modern Linux machines, that’s an old crones tale.

It's much easier to just run a lambda. It's a great compute environment. It does 90% of everything I've ever needed.
https://archive.md/nk1VZ
>will inevitably lead to the deaths of millions

You are being generous. Historically, tens to hundreds of millions would be more likely.
LLaMa GPU Benchmarks on Windows
Technically you could, but they'd all be run on the same CPU core.

You could spawn a Web Workers for each core, in theory, although some browsers will lie about the number of cores.
Somewhat ironically, the only time I've had a symmetric broadband connection was in a flyover state. I live 2 miles from the Pacific ocean and am stuck with the same "Cable or DSL" choice that much of the country has.
Chef – Make programs look like recipes (2003)
But the article itself lists less drastic procedures as options:

> As technology has advanced, bringing with it cheaper, and less invasive procedures like injectable fillers and Botox, the “superhero jawline”, or the “GI Jaw”, as one surgeon has marketed it, is increasingly available to all.

Perhaps even if one agrees in principle that people should be free to pursue cosmetic surgery as they see fit, one could still have qualms about massive operations that are medically unnecessary?
This is a very competent set of supported languages for a startup. I think it would be stronger marketing to just list them out, and to omit the repetition of JSX/JS, TSX/TS.

If I see "10+ languages" but it's actually 10, no wait, actually 8, then I'm just getting progressively let down.
I use it as a replacement for Stackoverflow. I can such ask it questions like `how to unzip a zip file in memory using php` and it just gives me the code (instead of lecturing me why I shouldn't do it).

If that doesn't work, I can ask follow up questions or tell it things like refactor the code for me. It's so much better than sifting through garbage on Google with the SO clones and outdated answers. That is actual value for me.
Not yet... don't jinx it.
Sure, but I don’t think that’s necessarily helpful in the context the OP is describing. If you bring up concurrency in a software engineering interview, you’re probably hoping the candidate can speak to different synchronization techniques, their pros/cons, how to implement them and how to use them.

Anyone who can figure out timing in a complex digital circuit can learn how threads and mutexes and message queues work, but there’s a good chance a CE grad would not be able to speak to those topics very well compared to a CS grad.

Again, this isn’t a criticism of CE. I just doubt OP would have their socks blown off in the areas they mentioned if they started interviewing engineering students.
I only turn on my machine when I'm using it. My only real metric is how long my machine manages to boot into an OS. So far, no drives have failed, the PC manages to boot and has done for 10 years now. Obviously when that changes, I'll just buy a new laptop.
And JPMorgan Chase?
> It is funded by fees levied against the banks themselves.

I'm sure that's not passed onto the customers at all.
I have a question for those familiar with cloud storage.

Even I, as an ordinary user, won’t put my data without strong client side encryption in the cloud (even then there is a risk). How come major international (say, European) companies store their data in servers of the American countries? What prevents US intelligence agencies and even corporate from snooping into valuable business data in order to stay ahead?

It’s like I back up my data to my competitor’s computer. I think there was a decade where the situation was not as clear as it’s now, and cloud companies could collect a lot of data. I don’t think it’s that easy anymore, with the spread of client side encryption and so on (although e2ee has limitations too).
More btc is printed per year than eth.
Why would that make the works more appealing?
Matt Levine makes this point in today’s Money Stuff column, suggesting that the CFTC might consider it market manipulation.
...started a long time ago when garbage collected languages became popular.
This was possible before LLMs were even invented. Creating 100s of variants of hate speech and emailing them out is trivial and doesn’t need any machine learning at all.
Unobtainium? Doesn't actually seem to be for sale anywhere?
Context? What "pointless stuff" do you photograph?

I'm partial to taking pictures of graffiti, especially on trains. It's like a mobile art gallery with the occasional unskilled swear word thrown in.
It's the little things.

A couple of hours ago I posted a question on Stack Overflow, relatively niche stuff. In 5 hours it got 7 views and no reactions.

After waiting for around two hours after posting it, I posted the same text into ChatGPT and got three different answers, two of them cropped due to network errors, but one through the API managed to get answered (even though the API is also having outages). It solved my issue.
Unfortunately console.log(foo) calls foo.toString() if and only if the console is open, and there is no way to disable this in Chrome or Firefox.

Edit: You can redefine console.log to be a noop, but that's also detectable.
Does the screen actors guild promote mediocrity? Does the national basket ball players association promote mediocrity?

There are a lot of ways to do a union, you don't have to set one up exactly like a detroit auto factory
I found the trick was to get a job in software development. That solved the problem of trying to find things to do, other people do that hard work and bring me requirements.

They even pay me for it too!

I don't know what you're after, but if your aim is to go into software development as a profession then read on. Otherwise skip the rest.

Honestly, if you have the fundamentals down you can probably find an entry level job and learn the rest on the job. No tutorials will prepare you for real experience in software development.

Programming is only about 20% of software development in my experience. It's a critical 20% that you can't do without, but the rest is hard to prepare for and best just to get real experience of.

There's no point spending forever learning to be the best in the world at that 20% without discovering if you even enjoy the other 80%. There are even far too many who hate that 80% and often will not be scared to share this disdain freely.

The trick is to ignore them, fully engage with the whole job and you'll quickly out pace them in career development, and you'll likely enjoy your job a whole lot more too.
The web is a much wilder and less controlled place than it was a decade ago. All kinds of stuff the government doesn't like is being published all the time.
The PowerPC machines never did reach actual 5 hour battery time, 3 at most, on a good day, with the display off.
This sounds like Yogi Berra's complaint of "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

Real estate in cities being expensive is evidence that people really want to live in environments like that.

Will be interesting to see if other municipalities try to build similar housing and work environments (more walkable, less parking lots) to attract the people looking for a city life style.
So they still have the good recreational chemicals in SF.

Still not enough to tempt me to go there.
FOSS License Compliance Enforcement
Somebody just bought this one.
It's amazing that pathogens capable of living on surfaces haven't wiped us out already. Thanks immune system.
Goes without saying: Please do not apply this frustration to American citizens. Most american citizens don't realize or have experienced how difficult the government has made traveling to the US. It is incredibly frustrating as a native citizen to be interogated for, having the right, to return home. It's insane about how aggressive they have become for selecting out and collecting biometrics for visitors.
Thanks, I guess I just need more experience. But first let me move to a real cloud admin position...
False, 35C is described as the highest optimal temperature not the maximum in your link. Yields do slowly decline with increased temperature. For specifics, “Germination occurs within the temperature range of 50° to 107°F with an optimum temperature of about 87°F.”

https://www.uaex.uada.edu/publications/pdf/mp192/chapter-2.p...

Further, it’s exactly the kind of reason to chose a new variety over an old one.
Backupery for Slack is a tool to back up and convert Slack data
> I'm curious how much extra perf we could squeeze from GPUs if the applications driving them were running in kernel mode [...] could rely on directly building kernel-trustable data structures and handing them off to be rendered.

Probably not much. Applications already directly build data structures in userspace and hand them off to be rendered by the hardware; the kernel intervention is minimal, and AFAIK mostly concerns itself with memory allocation and queue management.
Hi, how do you position yourself relative to products like Workato, Tray, AppConnect, etc.?
isn't this robo-calling?
The same way as you. Most of these services support client-side encryption or server-side encryption with customer-managed keys with services like KMS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/developerguide/concep...

Now if you want to get your tinfoil hat on and say "If it's server-side, then what's stopping Amazon from just lying", the answer is independent auditors.

You might not be able to get a tour of the inner workings of these services, but multi-billion dollar customers absolutely ask for it and get it under NDA's.
> Isn't this spying on the user without user's consent?

Yes.

> Is it okay to collect this kind of info and use it to block access?

No. It's not okay.

> Are there no regulations against this?

Probably not.
In this case the remedy is to just use another service, or DIY.
And I also think that's a pretty reasonable remedy, which will send a message to others considering such actions.

FWIW I would like to see regulations around intrusive spying on client machines via the browser or any other path.
Ideally we'd get new, specific legislation around it.
Something might also be done at the executive level at the FCC.
Legislation is unlikely because of America's current flirtation with 3rd world style politics.

In terms of advocacy, I would assume that the EFF is of a similar view.
Other human rights groups would be supportive of such measures, since in addition to protecting consumers, they protect journalists and their sources as well.
The people against will be state security services and all businesses powered by a targeted ad engine.
Twitch has made some weird design choices lately, like the paid feature to put a "superchat" below the stream video... (Yes below the video, not in the chat box)

Except that the streamer can't see them because it doesn't show up on the dashboard.
The term “too big to fail” is actually well defined. It refers to a Systemically Important Bank, either globally or domestically. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_systemically_important...
I de-clouded 40TB this past year, so it is a thing. I think for cloud it became too easy to just spin things up and never delete.
> Well supported by mainline kernels, thanks to reverse engineering undocumented proprietary Lenovo hardware.

Such as? What "proprietary Lenovo hardware" is obfuscating my boot process, I'm really curious now.

> Intel supports Linux as a business decision

Yes. Intel supports Linux because the concept of selling Unix doesn't work. Take it from Apple, who gave up on selling their OS after realizing that people were really only in it for the hardware. If Intel is the begrudging neighbor to Open Source software, then Apple is holding them in a Mexican standoff with their userbase. Somehow, Intel's "business decision" manages to be the more civilized relationship between the two.
They’re just very complicated.

A good exercise is to think of all of the computations required to point at something across the room. From a biomechanics perspective, there is a lot going on. Even if you just model each muscle in your arm/hand/finger as attached at two points and contracting, the force diagram of all the bones/joints quickly becomes exhausting.

The biomechanics of what humans do for basic locomotion is extremely complicated to model/recreate. While robots don’t need all the details (wheels, for example, make things easier) there is still a lot to deal with to make machines that can interact with our world.

It’s one thing to design an assembly-line robot that performs a single task. Making a robot that can do multiple useful things quickly explodes in complexity. There is steady progress in the field, but it’s slow.
I consider myself a pretty strong cyclist, and I was huffing and puffing trying to keep pace with my wife and kids on the ebike.
I struggled to find a better way to express what I meant tbf. I want to avoid making general statements re the discourse here, so I try to respond with a specific comment in mind (e.g. the joke above). Otherwise it's just more of the same (depressing) noise.

I'm looking for alternatives, but the best I have at the moment is chatting with random people via my Calendly.
What does this offer over the usual suspects brew, linuxbrew, apt… ?
Build walls to keep out refugees.
Does the computer really send requests to their server when I open dev tools? I checked and I couldn't find any request that was sent from Firefox or Chrome when I opened dev tools.

Aren't they using a JavaScript based detection mechanism like listening for browser events on the client side or latching on to debugger to pull this information? Sounds to me like they are going out of their way to pull private information from my system that I or my system or my browser had no intention of sharing with them.
In a recent post he said that people couldnt handle the scientific fact that black people are more criminal.

Let me just dig out the exact quote so I'm not paraphrasing:

> True facts can be hyperstitious slurs. “Black people commit more crime” [...] This leads to another sort of vicious cycle: half of people understand it’s a true fact that they’re not supposed to say for signaling reasons, the other half have never heard it before and assume it must be a vicious lie, and you end up with situations where someone notices that some police department arrests more blacks than whites, accuses that specific police department of racism, and everyone is afraid to explain what’s going on.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/give-up-seventy-percen...

It's a classic from the "I'm not racist, black people are just scientifically interior and I can't let that fact go unacknowledged" school of race-"realism".

And how you get people like Steve Sailer to be regular commenters, saying things like:

> It's OK to be white" was created to be a wholly unobjectionable statement that is still widely objected to. The goal is to demonstrate that wokeness is driven by anti-white racist animus. It works.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Steve_Sailer
Tidbyt – The Retro Display from the Future
Die? I think it's die. Look at Biden, Putin, Xi, and Rupert Murdoch they range from old to really fucking old.
I think it can be easier to give a napkin sketch / whiteboard image / wireframe to get to the right UI faster, than having to verbally give very specific directions for every little element.

I was wondering the submit pic option on GPT-4 actually would be this well and perhaps out HTML/CSS to do it - maybe not possible today, haven't tried it yet.

Or who knows - maybe it will be be a like a senior product design who will just figure it all out, but that would require a long convo / submitting a design brief / customer profiles, etc.
I understand your concerns.
The Key will be saved only in local storage.
But anyway you can remove the key in OpenAI profile in any moment
If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread. If there's not a workaround, it's not ok. This has been the case since 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 and is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

As the current submission appears not to have a workaround, I've downweighted it.
Celebrating Cerebration: On Creativity by Isaac Asimov
Art's value stems from exclusivity and the pretense of meaning, which
necessarily get cultivated by a coterie of critics vouchsafing for each
other. Kid art would seem to defeat all that.
...and is more recently making great inroads into places where garbage collectors (and other features of those popular languages) aren't desired.
This is cool. I’m in mobile. My phone has a grayscale display. There doesn’t appear to be anything that shows me whether my mic is muted or not when I press “Mute Mic” nor is there anything that indicated whether my connection is reset when I press the corresponding button.

If this could accommodate around 8 people or so and I had a reason to trust that the communications were secure, I’d have immediate use for it.

It’s Nice though! And the stack sounds cool.
Ground-init – Install a Linux machine with something that is almost cloud-init
For murder to be comparable to piracy, it'd have to involve materialising a dead copy of a person who then keeps on living their life, possibly without even being aware. For the most part it'd just be creepy as shit and violating, but fairly harmless past that.
Like high tech Electron apps?
Right? It's always just "I got on Horizon Worlds and it sucked" like completely ignoring VRChat and RecRoom and all the really cool stuff a VR headset can do in favor of just bashing Meta. I'm all for bashing Meta but it's so boring at this point. Yeah, they suck and Zuck's stuff sucks but VR isn't the metaverse. Zuck kind of ruined VR to some degree by buying Oculus then locking it to facebook accounts then doing all this garbage branding about The Metaverse making it sound like some sort of dystopian nightmare for him to mine data from when realistically VR games are COOL AS HELL.

Like I've killed the battery on my Q1 multiple times playing Minecraft in VR (vivecraft + a host app for Quest) or the TWD games. Heck even beat saber. Sure they're not all magical social experiences but I hate that Meta turned VR into that. That's why I didn't want to link to facebook. I don't play VR to play with people I play it to be immersed in the game I'm playing.
Is that a common structure? Seems a bit odd to me to want a backer for the middle bit, but I suppose be so confident that it won't be worse than that that you're happy with the tail?
It’s open to interpretation.