skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I have left the big city in pursuit of a simpler life and it's amazing. But, I think we're talking about two extremes here. I have lived in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and tiny rural Minnesota communities.

By far, the mid-sized city is the best of both worlds.

When I lived in LA, I absolutely felt like I was living in a dystopian parody of a progressive city. When I lived in small towns, I absolutely was annoyed that everyone knew my relatives and thought we were friends or something because of that. Zero anonymity.

But Minneapolis has historically been good, though it's changed a lot since George Floyd. Now we live in a smallish suburb and get all the amenities without the claustrophobic small town bullshit.

OP, just try moving to a distant suburb, and embrace the wisdom of middle age.
I think we learned over the past few years that things either kill you or you'll be fine. I don't agree with that sentiment but here we are.
> No mention of SVB's high-risk bets that the shape of the (interest) rate curve wouldn't change much.

They for sure weren't good bets, but what part of that bet is high-risk? They're government bonds, you still get the complete investment back with interest and there's (supposedly) no chance it will fail. The only thing that made it risky is their lack of liquidity combined with the subsequent bank run.
Shorter term treasuries would have been more boring.
I guess my point is that if 95% of our news is already controlled/biased/propaganda, increasing that to 99% with AI tools doesn't really meaningfully change how people are influenced. I guess it might make it more personalized or convincing. But it seems like most people are already pretty convinced by corporate news
My buddy exploited this during the "breaking down the door" Chinese wedding tradition. We (the groom's party) showed up at the bride's apartment, and the matron of honor (bride's sister) opened the door and demanded a bribe to be let in. The groom knew the bride's sister was often non-specific, so he got a bunch of Vietnamese currency (dong) from a local bank, and used that to pay the demanded bribe when the currency wasn't specified. As tradition, we were then subjected to mild hazing by the bridal party until they were satisfied the groom was worthy of the bride.

The exploit relied partially on the negotiations being conducted in Cantonese, so the matron of honor asked for "500 lumps [of money]", with most/all currency using "lump" as the measure word. The same thing could have been done in English, had he figured out which of the world's various currencies called "dollar" had the lowest exchange rate vs. the USD. The exploit was helped by the fact that Cantonese treats currencies more uniformly than English, so it's syntactically easier to substitute a different currency.

(My friend just went to a local bank and asked which currency they had on hand that had the lowest exchange rate vs. the USD. It happened to be VND.)
Set up your own server and ban the people you want to ban. It's that simple.
It never fails to astound me how many people think of other humans as actual NPCs instead of, you know, people.
Security around Oakland has been terrible in the past few years. Hope this museum stays around without it getting robbed.
Genuine question: what are healthy long term implementations? gRPC?
This is a great resource
I'm not an expert or a bank examiner but have read a number of explanations for SVB over the past week or so. All of them seem to paint the same picture of SVB owning a lot of "safe" but long-dated government bonds, with the long-datedness actually being pretty risky because it exposed them to risk of interest rates rising suddenly, which then happened. Is there some nuance I'm missing where the "safeness" of the bonds caused the problem rather than the "long-datedness?"
Android app vendors are not writing their own policies. So there is a lot of code between SELinux and "what's actually usable to the user".

Like, stock RedHat does too, it just took a ton of effort (and bugs) to get there.

But then it is complex problem so its no wonder that the tools to do it are complex too

I wouldn't actually mind android-like permission model for out-of-distro packages (snap/appimage/etc.), maybe a bit expanded so I could say set this this and that folder for the "graphics editng app", and maybe save that as a profile to apply to some other similar app to ease on repetition/alert fatigue.

With maybe a layer to abstract some operations to not be just "allow this(remember choice)". Like file opening, if app calls to open a file I "just" want DM/WM specific open dialogue, with app/container name in the title and select the file to open.

Same for editing, I'd want to be able to just get dialogue "open file for editing", with app name and the permission to edit said file saved for the duration of the session so app doesn't need to re-ask me every time it saves the file.
There's always the "VICE news" of wall street...

https://wallstreetonparade.com/
Yeah you can blame Apple for that one. It's straight up non-viable to put up F/OSS apps into the app store. On a basic level, the GPL is incompatible with their codesigning processes and they have no intent of changing that (VLC ran into this wall several times until they managed to work around it).

Putting that one aside (GPL is hardly the only license on the OSS field after all), the App Store model is just plainly too prohibitively expensive to publish a FOSS app for unless you're planning to maximize value. It costs 100 USD every year to just keep an app published (they charge this via their dev license). With F/OSS, budgets often are almost non-existent, so those operational expenses aren't made since they're not justifiable from a hobbyist, donation-funded perspective.

This is also why the platform has so many money-sucking timewasting "games" to be clear. Apple created a perverse incentive to basically ruin the App Store with stuff that extracts as much money as possible, then started selling people a separate subscription service to actually get games people do want to use.[0]

By contrast, the Google Play Store (Androids closest equivalent, albeit slightly different since Android has a far more open model[1]) is just a single 25 USD fee to prove you're a real human and after that there's no financial barriers.

[0]: Thats what Apple Arcade is.

[1]: The one difference between the Play Store and a third party apk installer is that the Play Store gets to ignore the installation request popup. This can be circumvented with root and apparently Google is changing this process to make it uniform when the Digital Markets Act goes into effect.
We have a local community bank. The bank served the needs of a single small New England town and small liberal arts college. Starting with 80's and 90's the banking deregulation caused the bank to start working the college's endowment to the point where the Financial Services part of the bank felt compelled to buy the banking services arm.

Needless to say banking services became unusable. The best example is an 8 year old child had their birthday account become a deficit for not maintaining a minimum balance. Plenty of tears were shed as the mother tried to explain to child the bank didn't take all your money...
By the same token, you could say 'how is Hacker News any different to Reddit except there are no subreddits?'

You say you have the 'overhead of choosing your server', but then you have a similar overhead with every post on Reddit—choosing which subreddit to post it on. You absolutely don't have to make a ton of alt accounts, that's sort of the point of being federated. You create your account on a server of your choosing (even one you own/manage), and then you can follow anyone on any server (even those not using Mastodon, provided they're using an ActivityPub compatible server, such as Pixelfed which is similar to Instagram).

Mastodon encourages short form microblogging with individuals who know each other interacting on all sorts of different topics.

Reddit encourages link sharing or longer form posts with communities of like-minded pseudonymous users.

Both platforms can be used for both use cases though.
For banks, this scenario is much more probable than you think. The US treasuries is paying much more than banks can pay, so people just need to move their bank balances to treasury bonds and their deposits will go puff!
By way of context, at MIT (which I'm much more familiar with), there was effectively a CS major out of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, but there weren't PCs and computing was pretty much limited to Multics in the AI lab. (There was a mainframe with punch cards that you could get a limited account for using with the other branches of engineering. I took a Fortran course then I don't think I touched a computer for the rest of my time as an undergrad.)

There wasn't widespread access to computers at MIT until Project Athena. So CS was historically mostly not hands on. And that's somewhere where CS was in the engineering school. At many schools, it was part of the math department.

So, there's a strong academic tradition of CS being more about math than programming. Even the current CS intro course at MIT is mostly about algorithms and you're pretty much expected to pick up Python on your own.
I did leave the big city, though I don’t really agree with your reasons for wanting to. They sound unrealistic to me.

In the modern world, the news, internet, social media and politics are everywhere, and everyone is plugged into them 24/7. You can’t escape them by relocating to the countryside. They have internet and cell phones there too. You might be able to escape them by leaving the country. You can definitely escape them by choosing to disengage, which you can even do in midtown Manhattan.

The city is a stressful and fast paced place where you compete for resources with lots of highly paid people. It means you need to be running on the treadmill pretty fast in order to not fall off. Outside the city that competition still exists, but the pace is much slower and as a tech worker or former tech worker, you might be so ahead in the race that you forget you are in it. Other people won’t forget.

And there still a need to present the right politics and viewpoints in rural areas, they just might be a different set than you are used to.
This is very optimistic, it assumes way more effort on the side of the recruiters than they are actually willing to invest in one person.

Copying a link to ChatGPT? Huh, who has time for that.

Just use this template with the matching candidate's first name, mention this junior embedded software engineering role to this guy with 10 years on the frontend, and you are good to go.
Funny, was thinking the same thing. The audible version is great. Book 1 is pretty good. If you want, stop it there and there won’t be too much you are missing. I’ve listened to the three that are out, this is my preference but would say I enjoyed all 3 but not a lot of value added after the first one.
Database cryptography fur the rest of us
Running your own single-user instance comes the closest to that. (Also, it needs not be exactly the Mastodon tech stack. Can be other tech stacks like pleroma, GoToSocial, PixelFed, etc.)
> Also, Singaporean of Chinese descent are generally _not_ huge fans of China.

How does this assertion fit in with the polls cited in the Wikipedia entry for China-Singapore relations [1] and other polls [2]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Singapore_relati...

[2] https://www.iseas.edu.sg/media/commentaries/singapore-in-the...
The utility market is generally a regulated monopoly. The market and govt both recognized the economies of scale with public infrastructure. As part of the tradeoff to be allowed to operate as a monopoly, utilities must also ensure rural or unprofitable customers still receive access. It’s all part of the deal and intrinsically tied to your point.
> good middle ground is to move to the outskirts of a smaller town with some sort of draw

Things can be different in Europe to the US but this is still key. If you move to a low cost of living, relatively anonymous town then things are going to be pretty average. If you’re an educated, intellectual engineer than can be kinda stifling. You need people you can relate to, which basically puts you back in MCOL/HCOL.
Should You Stick It Out at This Terrible Workplace?
I enjoy interviewing people who have full-stack engineer on their resume, as it means I can ask them about anything from HTML tags to CPU microcode, or from relational algebra to networking stacks, and they'll be able to give a good answer.
People at 15 doing that kind of work are extreme outliers, I think your view on the range of human capability is skewed
Technically it bought incredibly boring assets with too-long maturity dates. But yeah, blaming this on excess risk is a joke.
"the basket of deplorable includes anyone who is not explicitly left wing."

Nah. It tends to include neo-nazis, neo-confederates, racists, sexists, white supremacists, kiddy diddlers, and the like. It's not a particularly difficult group to not be a part of.
What is a jump shot like?
"Almost nothing works, everyone hates each other, things that are important get ignored because of greed, and most importantly, there's almost nothing you can do about it."

You're going to see some of this anywhere, maybe in different forms.

I don't live in a big city. I like it more than I imagine living in a big city. Basically everyone I know who does, or has, lived in big cities complains about crime, lack of service, noise, etc.
How much bank short sellers profited
Short sellers in first republic made about $560 Million in profit on paper over the past week

Short sellers in western alliance bancorp made about $59 Million in profit on paper over the past week

Short sellers in Pacwest bancorp made $14.7 Million in profit on paper over the past week - ORTEX
Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London
> few millions (presumably in savings) before you are 35 is extremely ambitious

Depends on what happens to the economy.

15% inflation for 10 years will make us all millionaires!
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>> The problem is that doing that will very quickly tell you that modern society fucking sucks. Almost nothing works, everyone hates each other, things that are important get ignored because of greed, and most importantly, there's almost nothing you can do about it.

I find modern society to be substantially better than, say, even a couple hundred years ago when electricity and indoor plumbing was barely making the rounds. Our lives are considerably easier than those of our ancestors because of modern conveniences. I think it's incredible that we can communicate instantly with almost anyone on the planet.

If you think everyone hates each other, I'd suggest that you do either live in a big city where people are more prone to be absorbed in 'the busy', or get a lot of your interaction from the net and news, where yes, the algorithms and ad dollars come from negativity. That's just not how most of the world works, however. I can go to my nearest small town and everyone is being civil and I feel free to strike up a conversation with perfect strangers at a restaurant or bar and learn a new perspective or story. Most people don't "vibe high" as it were, and so if you think you do or can, you have the opportunity to spread that to other people through your interactions.

Working towards a practice of gratitude for what IS will expand your capacity to see the world in a favorable light, and will not only help you but help everyone. Nothing outside of you has the capacity to 'depress' you or make you feel anything else for that matter. Your feelings and attitude come from within. Don't let someone tell you otherwise: it's YOUR power and your responsibility.

That said, I live in a small, quiet, sparse town on some acreage with fantastic well water. My wife raises animals and she grows a lot of our food. It was one of the reasons I married her. Doing the farm thing isn't really for me (yet?) because I love tech so much, but it is peaceful out here and we're a short trip to some nearby decent sized cities if we want entertainment and such. I cannot imagine going back to live in the city again, it's just too stressful. The benefits of living closer to the land are hard to verbalize, but intuitively seem to feel good.

If you want to be self-sufficient, that's a whole other matter. It's very difficult to do in the modern age with the giant conglomerates consolidating resources. But I have hope that more and more will see the need and benefits. Start small and watch videos and read things concerning 'regenerative agriculture', 'sustainable agriculture', and 'homesteading'. You'll likely be able to make friends who want the same things as you, even if you're in a sparsely populated place. You might be surprised how many people are giving it a go. It's worth a shot.

Oh, and get a wife/husband if you don't have one already.
oh this is a great line!

you are so close with the rest but..

> fundamentally non deterministic

thats not quite it.. it is non-deterministic plus the way the parts are re-ordered is flexible in ways that are not obvious, and do result in nonsense sometimes. More specifics are according to the engine(s) in use..
Moved an hour out of my city, and now I work fully remote as a baseline rather than because of covid, so I have both worlds.

What others said about rural being just as cynicism-inducing is very true, first off. If you're genuinely reclusive you'll be fine but if you're social by nature and are seeking a better type of people, you'll be disappointed.

But is it better? Oh hells yah. A flock of Cedar Waxwings came through our yard last week, they were there for about half an hour picking over our trees (end of winter here) and a couple were right outside my window for a few.

The above will never happen to you in a city, so if that's the sort of thing that fuels you, you want to be here. If you want to get out of your car at night and hear a stillness you didn't realize existed, and hear packs of coyotes other nights and learn to really hate deer because they're actually not that cute and they eat all your nice plants...

It's great man. But it's very much what you make it, and you will largely make it that way alone. I scored the jackpot and got a wife who grew up out here so I had a partner at home from day one - makes a big difference.
> Melbourne did lockdowns for effectively 4 months

You claimed Singapore and Taiwan has 'extended' lockdowns. I called you out. Now you're back peddling and trying to justify your statement with "but but but melbourne, you didn't mention melbourne and they had long lockdown!!!"

> It didn’t refuse vaccines, you can get them in HK, and Chinese are free to travel to HK.

It does refuse, and clearly you're not from China or you're just lying because China didn't recognize citizens who returned home with vaccines that were not Chinese.

Not everyone is allowed to travel to HK.

So your statement is completely false.
May I ask which country that is please?
And failed to hedge or prepare for higher interest rates despite seeing them coming from 18 months ago.

It’s like standing at the mouth of a train tunnel, hearing a train, seeing the reflections from its lights, and deciding to walk through it anyway with no contingency plan.
Reddit is thread based. This is more like a feed. I see it more like a decentralized twitter than a reddit with hoops.
I think the larger point is that guaranteeing access ensures they have the opportunity to make that choice.
This is just the expected outcome of too-big-to-fail banks. The small and medium size banks cannot compete with the big ones, and in stress situations people will run from these smaller banks.
"You'll get your money back 10 years later" is not exactly "low risk" for any significant amount of money, even for a bank.
For posterity, some *BSD links that could be useful to gain understanding:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/boot/

https://man.openbsd.org/boot.8

https://man.netbsd.org/boot.8
If a word is "often misused" it usually indicates it has more than one common or accepted meaning, or is just hard to define. It's not like everyone but you is wrong about what they mean by minimalism, but that they don't mean by it what you mean by it.
I agree with some of the people saying you shouldn't idealize rural life. It has its downsides (as everything). On the other hand you won't know until you try.

I moved from a large obnoxious city to a smaller one (65k) and I'm pretty happy with the tradeoffs. It's small enough that walking on foot is an option, it's easier to meet people since nobody is very far away, but we have everything - there's a theater, cinemas, plenty of shops, restaurants, public transport etc. I think overall even smaller cities than this are more viable these days. A big barrier of having problems getting things is no longer a big deal, you can get everything online.
Quora is also very useful, with lots of good answers (and cat pics): https://www.quora.com/What-happens-during-the-booting-of-a-c...
HAProxy Fusion Control Plane
Using a discount rate is a decent start, but it is a vast simplification of how people think. If we want to make it a little more nuanced to capture more of the human condition, I would suggest:

1. Allowing one's discount rate to vary with age.

2. Varying the time horizon.
Exponential decay probably doesn't map very well to how people think across different phases of life.

For many people, their discounting may change roughly as follows:

- When you first pop out, life is only the present.

- When young, e.g. 2 or 3 years old, kids may want things very soon, within seconds, minutes, maybe hours.

- Young'uns start to understand money. They might look towards saving for their first bicycle. Now time horizons look more like 1 to 12 months.

- As people start to develop educational and professional goals, they allow more deferred gratification: preparing for their career or buying a house. This horizon might be around 1 - 10 years.

- Somewhere in a career, people might start planning 5 - 50 years out, often for for kids and retirement.

- As people approach their end of expected lifespan (or face a life threatening illness), they probably care a lot about:

-- personally, living in the moment. This might mean checking off the bucket list as well as high quality relationships

-- financially, allocating money away from themselves towards emphasizing long-term, inter-generational goals, like providing for their family or donating to charity. These goals have 20+ year horizons.

- The ultra wealthy have the means to create charities with 50+ year time horizons via an endowment.
In terms of day-to-day life-feel, it's more about the children being self-sufficient. Raising independent children in cities is the default: as young as 10, they can safely use trains and busses, hang out at city parks or friends places, etc. In rural areas, if you aren't very thoughtful about where you live, the kids are connected to you by the umbilical cord of the family automobile until they old enough to drive.

In terms of actual dependence, I feel equally self-sufficient in both places. Rural people massively under-estimate their dependence on global economic systems and particularly three things. First, the regular weekly flow of gasoline and diesel and various finished goods. Second, the regular monthly flow of social security checks. Third, tax dollars from major metros to fund schools. At least where I lived our school system was almost completely funded by state tax dollars that were re-appropriated from suburban and urban districts; the local tax base accounted to something like something like one tenth of the district's education budget.) These dependencies exist in cities as well, of course, but there doesn't seem to be any confusion about that fact in cities.
Your life sounds really pleasant, serene even. Congratulations!
That's a bit of a surprise given how poor the tech environment is here.
And didn't setup a swap to protect it, which any bank in europe would have done.