skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He says he regrets inventing the technology. That statement stinks of arrogance. He gives trite worn examples of negatives while intentionally ignoring the analysis of benefits. He provides nothing new to the conversation and shirks responsibility to provide analysis and work beyond what a scifi writer can do. But, he is risking a panic, risking us into making a reactionary move rather than a move come to by careful thoughtful analysis. All for a bruised ego. He doesn't deserve praise.
Pine RockPro64 NAS – Verdict: Paperweight
I thought I'd try this SBC as an alternative to an RPi but with PCIe. I received 2 units FedEx Express from Huaqiangbei. I planned on using them for distributed storage.

+

i. Fast shipping.

ii. Small form factor.

iii. Holds 2 3.5" HDDs

-

0. The case fan doesn't spin. Maybe there are magic patches, it just doesn't work.

1. Severe Linux fragmentation. There is no one working distro. There are some old Linux kernel forks but they don't work and they failed at upstreaming. I tried a total of 9 images of 5 distros. Absolute hot mess on fire in a dumpster in another dumpster on fire.

2. Build quality is marginal. Lots of screws. Lots of time to build. The case is still warped and doesn't make much mechanical or cooling sense.

3. CPU heatsink in the wrong orientation by 90 degrees and blocked by any PCIe card.

3. PCIe cards plain don't work because the PCIe subsystem doesn't work.

4. The hardware is old. Very old.

5. There are no paper instructions. Putting it together is 100% guesswork.

6. The wiki doesn't have much more than superficial details. https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/ROCKPro64

7. Only works with <= 2m HDMI cables.

8. Confusing UX because it doesn't start video until after it boots. If it crashes or is still booting, you'll never know unless using a serial console.

9. The power supply arcs at the connector badly when plugging in.

10. Doesn't include any spare screws, and not enough to secure 2 HDDs.
Krugman was a lightning rod from 2000 on, like Fauci is today.

The Denver Post ran Krugman in the business section, and offered a special on line place for businessmen to sound off against him. Quite hilarious.
There's a lot more to running your own server than that. I set up a Hetzner VPS just for play one weekend. I forgot all about it and came back a couple days later: it had already been compromised and was being used to mine crypto coin. All because I left something running (related to Docker) which I don't even remember starting.

Hardening your servers, ensuring proper port exposure, ensuring upgrades and security patches, is thought and time you need to spend. It's hard to keep track of all vulnerabilities in all software. That'd before even talking about zero-downtime deployments and all of that.

Running NGINX and Postgres is not the difficult part that people are avoiding. There's a good reason these services exist.
Seems like you would want to install it somewhere that is difficult to reach. Behind the dashboard for example, something that requires some work to access. Maybe wrapped in a bit of sound deadening material to make it harder to locate.
Not unless significant blocks of their shareholders do . . .

Giving a shit about the environment, child exploitation, etc. by larger investment funds has increased in recent decades , there's been a rise in "ethical investment".

Ergo TSX companies care more when third party reports about bad practices are filed at the exchange.
Highly suggest sorting by date rather than size. Putting the smallest failures at the top causes a little bit of an optical illusion making the first tower appear smaller than it really is. It also highlights that whatever is happening here is drastically different than what happened in 2008 - here we have three “big bank” failures while 2008 had only one, but we have zero “little bank” failures while 2008 had hundreds.
Yeah, just like a bank won't leave 128bn sitting around doing nothing the FDIC also prob at least puts in to bonds and etc(I don't know the breakdown).

I wasn't aware of any of this until a few weeks ago had to research. As a disclaimer and promotion of independent research haha.
I love this idea. For a while this has been the filtering function that HN provided for me (in addition to higher quality discourse) but this does it for general news.

Kudos!
> There is not “detailed analysis” for Presidential elections

There is, in fact, detailed analysis for Presidential elections.

> although I guess you mean that each state is a data point.

No, each individual prediction of each of the 56 (enumerated upthread) distinct elections for one or more Presidential electors is a data point.

> Are you willing to abide by that rule? If not, you don’t really believe the probability.

Well, no, not being willing to abide by that rule means either not being rich enough that winning and losing $10,000 are roughly symmetric in utility or not being an SBF-style nutball and demanding a non-zero risk premium. As it turns out, I am in both categories.
I would suggest that the Rails scene is at least worth checking out.

I’ve seen a number of people move from .NET or Node to Ruby and Rails and thoroughly enjoy it, with little desire to go back. For reference, the last 12 years I’ve worked for a company that was traditionally .NET. In the past few years, we’ve been choosing Rails instead. Once you know its conventions, you can really fly. It’s very mature and doesn’t often change in frustrating ways. What I learned in 2014 is still very relevant today.

Especially on small teams or solo, it’s amazingly productive. The out-of-the-box experience gives your users the feeling of a modern SPA without actually being one. Instead, it’s built like a .NET MVC app with standard resource rest routes and Razor views. Significantly less boilerplate. Hard to describe, but very clever. It makes me feel powerful, and I really enjoy programming with Ruby.

But maybe it’s not what you’re looking for if you want a single final frontier to ride off to. Some people really dislike Ruby’s dynamic nature, and Rails’ mysterious-seeming clever conventions. (Though, note, it’s not magic, it’s just clever Ruby code. Everything can be traced and explained). Other languages have a larger market share and perhaps more excitement. But, your described use-case of solo web-dev moots that point.

Consider looking through https://rubyonrails.org/ to sniff it out. Watch that video to see if it jives.

https://gorails.com/guides is a great resource to learn how to set up a dev environment, with tons great modern content.

Whatever you choose, good luck. I hope you find a great fit!
First hand story I was a weed smoker until the dealer had a half a Xanax bar. Struggled w that for the next 10 years…
> we have been repeatedly told that banks are good and they learned a lesson in 08

This is a wholly different lesson.

In 2008, banks were making bad investments.

In 2023, the changing interest rate environment caused good investments to become worth less than their original value. If held to term, things would be fine, but liquidity issues put stress on the system.

These are not the same, and we have better means of dealing with this problem. SVB and First Republic were handled appropriately. Investors written down to zero, depositors made whole.

The future banking system will be even more robust after having learned this new lesson. I've no doubt that we'll have regulations that demand a better mix of investments that are regularly audited and stress tested.

We as a society also have to stop thinking of banks as a means to earn interest on deposits. Chasing the best rate has led to this problem. Deposits are liabilities.
On an AS400 you wouldn't even get a dev stack. Well, unless you wanted to pay IBM for 2 of them. Dev on production is the name of the game for most AS400 shops.
> Again, this has nothing to do with de-dollarization. What makes America economically strong is its consumption demand. Correct. However, we are talking about removing SWIFT and US Bank as an intermediary. Russia and India can decide to fix prices (Rubles <-> INR) bilaterally for international trade (unconnected to exchange rate fluctuations) and commit a certain sum of money in each others banks to establish that rate for a period of say 5 years. And then trade against that rate. There is no involvement of USD here anywhere. Neither is a middleman (US Bank) needed here.

Again i will reiterate that this item will not change the reserves of US dollars in place, since even if dollars were used they would go down, then back up and there would be no net change. In terms of 'de dollarization' it would not have an impact on Central Bank Reserves.

> Again, you are fixated on consumption. Even if I take your point that USD is valuable and is the one currency which is sought after, it is purely on the basis of US Government's benevolence. It can be removed just as quickly if the US Government decides to sanction your country because you woke up from the wrong side of the bed. So de-dollarization has nothing to do with, say, bilateral trade between US and India. We will still trade in USD and INR. So USD won't lose its value vis-a-vis bilateral trade between US and countries it trades with. However, there is no requirement for Russia and India to trade in USD. We can always settle trade in our own currencies.

See point above, for India and China to trade without or with US dollars the reserves dont change. Being in the middle of the transaction in a wasteful manner is not where the power of US dollars comes from.

> All of this makes no sense when US Government decides to sanction my country overnight. USG sanctioned India for conducting reciprocal nuclear tests (China conducted it first and we were forced to retaliate by conducting our own nuclear tests). Bill Clinton decided that China is more favourable than India and decided to sanction us, while not sanctioning China, for the same effing tests. We were subjected to heavy sanctions and had a tough time trading with other countries who had no connection with the conflict whatsoever. And it is not like only India was sanctioned in the past. Almost every country that has gone against US's favour have been subjected to sanctions in some way or the other. No one is going to keep tolerating a bully.

I understand what you are saying and it is correct. And there should be no reason to use US dollars in this case - but again it wouldn't reduce the reserves of US dollars. The only way to reduce reserves is to spend them or to stop America creating them by stop selling to them.
Next.js is incredibly popular in the industry. Some of the largest companies out there use it. Whether they host on Vercel or not I can't say, but I'm sure that number isn't zero.

Of course we are talking more about auxiliary stuff like landing pages, marketing sites, blogs and documentation, not hosting for their core business.
Great examples, thanks!
New Relic Grok, the first GenAI assistant for observability
Isn't the more widely accepted meaning to de-compile it back to source code (of some form), and go from there?
That's not quite what you have said. 3/2 does not have an integer power of 10 as the denominator, but can be written as a decimal. Of course, it can also be written as a fraction with a integer power, for example 15/10.
(You are of course right on the 1/sqrt(2) issue)
I think some of this consideration, and resulting work is already being looked at in the context of Numba. They came up with PIXIE (Portable Instructions eXchanged in Executable), the concept being to compile your functions into a shared library which embed the low-level compiler IR, and can then be JIT compiled, or "pulled" in at link-time.

Modular can do exactly the same with existing Python packages, and lift them into Mojo that way.

Reference: https://numba.discourse.group/t/proposal-development-focus-f...
What exactly do you call a niche? Entire industries are being propped up using it. What happens is because the solvers are written in these things, engineers start building everything with matlab. I have personally made networking implementations, webservers, Apache Arrow clone etc. It's really not as niche as you think it is. For mostly worse, this language is everywhere.
> The list of large corporate banks that charge NSF fees and overdrafts is vanishingly small.

True for NSF fees, absolutely false for overdraft fees.

https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/cfpb_overdraft...
Some Camera Shake
https://eycndy.com/camera-shake

Could also be classified as so called Wiggle Steroscopy,
helping to create a stronger sensation of depth.

There were quite a few of them in the peak GIF tumblr era and later on instagram about a decade ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiggle_stereoscopy
https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/wigglegram

also related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_time
I'm not sure that having a horde of posts trying for '+5 Funny' really helps their discussions. On HN, you tend to get downvoted for posting lame jokes, and even some good ones.
Doesn't that seem like an unrealistic solution? If you actually start suing customers over terms of service, you're going to rapidly alienate your customer base.

As a generally reasonable person, I have no interest in submitting anything more official than a valid credit card number to any company for lack of any legal need.

It seems like it would be wise to avoid any pretense if you want to start selling covert tracking as a premium feature. Either do it or don't, but don't try to offload the moral implications onto your customers by "policing" them.
The only safe investment is a hedged investment, antthing else is up to your priors.

While interest rates going up as much as they did may have seemed unlikely, it was still irresponsible not to hedge their risk.
it's great for contractors with small projects where the customer is happy to pay for less maintenance fees. Not sure I would use it for a company I worked for full-time, though.
Sam Altman’s Backing Helps Community College Startup Raise $29M
The pitch almost doesn’t matter, I’m not going to read it.

My prompt for filtering inbound email is “Summarize the goal of the sender of the following email in 12 words of less”, which then replaces your subject. I almost never respond to a cold LinkedIn message.

Sorry, but it’s tough out there.
A used electric piano. $300, sounds great to my ear and it's a joy to learn to play a musical instrument.
Can we vary the time span? Example: weekly as opposed to daily?
I don't understand why when a bank fails, the FDIC is so desperate to toss the carcass back to the private sector.

Nationalize it. We've already established that the shareholders are getting zilch, so there's no argument where we're "destroying value."

From a consumer/operations level, pulling the bank under the state umbrella instantly dissipates any need for a run. They're backed by the full financial might of the government, so you don't have to worry that the ATM will be taped over and you can't get your $35.19 out of the account.

From a contagion perspective, the state backstop and elimination of investor-centric motivations allows for stabilization and avoids fire sales. If the institution was asset-sound but not liquid, as people claimed for SVB, the state could afford to cut margins and pull funds from other sources while they waited for the maturity-mismatch problems to unwind as they mature.

From a social perspective, suddenly you have a new toy in your box of social engineering tricks. The branches that used to cater to crypto-bros can reopen offering basic checking for the unbanked, small-business loans, and mortgages in historically red-lined areas.

A conceptual equivalent might be the story of Conrail: in 1976, the Federal government took over a handful of basket-case Northeastern railroads; without investor meddling, they were able to take the long game-- rehabilitate and rationalize the system, eventually re-privatizing it in 1987. I'd argue banks are less difficult than railroads in that regard-- you're not as tied to physical place and literally rusting assets.
Alternatively, that's 400,000 working in businesses that actually contribute to the world, and likely plenty of new start-ups as well.

The "in one day" thing would likely suck for the unprepared ones though. :/
Seems like “vercel” should be renamed “resell”.
do remember Oracle Cloud is the devil here: it is the most generous out of all (4C Ampere ARM CPU with 24G memory and 200GB storage "free forever" despite there are clearly no free lunch in this world) at the cost of your dignity and soul.
How many car thieves carry iPhones? That Venn diagram will have an overlapping area, but I'll bet it's not that big.
It’s irrelevant to OpenAI because they aren’t actually on the hook for the leak, the employee is.
Why not just boycott the places with abusive labor practices instead of some convoluted scheme that only signals your virtuous nature to the exploited employees.

You know, like back in the day when people boycotted goods produced in Apartheid South Africa.

Today, unless there’s an app for that…
The reddit founders had no awareness of Digg until a few months after they launched. Also, Digg didn't have downvotes, which was a key innovation, because technically delicious already had "upvotes" based on how many people bookmarked the same site.

And when we visited Digg later on, we (reddit) discovered that we had double their traffic.

Digg had better marketing but reddit was bigger for most of it's life.
That chart is... bad. I'm not sure if there's a legitimate reason to represent the data as "percent change from Q2 2004" or if it was done intentionally to make the comparison to other currencies look worse. I don't have access to look at the data in more detail because the only way to view the full report[0] is to email Eurizon SLJ Capital.

I pulled the data from the IMF for a better chart that shows how the currencies actually relate to each other [1]. Yes, there's been a substantial decline in the use of the dollar, but that's not because some other currency is shooting up to take its place. It looks like countries are diversifying their portfolios, not fleeing the dollar for another currency.

[0] https://www.eurizonsljcapital.com/dollar-smile/rapid-erosion...

[1] It's a bit slow to load, but here's the link: https://data.imf.org/?sk=c22e624f-ce09-4c9e-a70b-647defa5215...
Why are drug addicts not good bets? Coffee drinkers seem pretty successful?
Nice job! The high-rates articles all seem weighty.

0.5/10 might be the sweet spot for best of the worst.

- WWE Draft 2021: Triple H announces draft picks and new brand exclusivity.

- Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson reunite at 2023 Met Gala.

- Vladimir Putin's lover Alina Kabaeva makes rare appearance at gymnastics event in Siberia.

I’d love to see some dials to find even worse news in the future. :)
It’s a problem because people do not wish to learn new paradigms. Put me in that camp - took months to debug a 90 second hang and work around it. Of course, fast boot owes to its parallelization.
Back in the day (like 10 years ago I think) I was speaking with an exec at the company i work for that had just come back from a business trip to China.

He told me an amazing fact that still amazes me.
The two biggest customers of china's exports are (explicitly in the following order):

Walmart

The United states of America...

*in that order*
"time-limited licensing arrangements" != "bricking existing product"

If this was really a good-faith move and suing would not work somehow, then instead of breaking the product, they could have added a nag screen, or 1 minute delay, or maybe only break new products (so they fail QA). Pretty annoying and would definitely cause the company to do something, while not completely bricking products many people paid money for.
Is this supposed to be humor or something? He might as well have posted a gif of a hand wave. His entire refutation is a single paragraph in the middle that says the problem was that this was a bank for rich people and "they are fickle" and they were running a risky business anyway. Zero understanding of what caused the risks and how these defer from other regional banks (hint: many other mid size banks have similar risks on their balance sheets)

Embarrassment of an article.

And yet the one month treasury is trading at a monster discount to FFR as banks scramble to bid for collateral as their balance sheets deteriorate into an upcoming rate hike and deposit run.

Again, total joke
Where can I go that has a bigger payload? When I've successfully opened a site on an unfamiliar WiFi network I'd like to know up front if I'm gonna have trouble loading stuff.
It's trying to increase the privacy of the users while not upsetting the advertisers.
This isn't moderate in my mind. Only a Nazi or a complete fool would try to equivocate genocidal ideologies with current leftist rhetoric.
What lesson are they going to learn? Go big or go home? I don't foresee any kind of legislature becoming law over this, especially with our divided government.
Can you explain what "negotiated power" means? Never heard of it, maybe the hardware on the receiving end needs to have built-in circuits which signal to the generating device that it can handle a certain voltage?
Ask HN: Should I build Triplebyte Screen 2.0?
A lot of startups loved TB's Screen. Now that Karat acquired it, god knows that they'll do with it.

Given current economic times, inbound applications have increased 10x. I was thinking of building similar product and plugging it into our existing applicant tracking system (spicy.hr).

Thoughts?
Yeah I don't understand what the original commenter is thinking if he's going to insist that this is actually some sort of centrist joke. I really don't want to assume the worst here.
As of now you can still access NSFW content on old.reddit without needing to be logged in.
The ability to make no mistakes or adapt from learnings trending mistakes to zero
its kinda lite on details, but i guess "Cash and liquid crypto assets" says enough.

I think the claim they have "recovered 7.3 billion" is an overstatement... but time will tell.
This is such a useful concept. I work in an organization that owns dozens to hundreds of different network services, data pipelines, and other applications. I haven't collected the data, but it seems to me that their useful lifespans follow Lindy's Law. For example, I'm currently seeing a crop of deprecations of systems that were created in the last five years, while systems that are a decade or older show no signs of going anywhere.

I've found it a good career niche to focus on these older systems. Most people are attracted by the new and shiny (LLMs, anyone?) but the older services have proven themselves to have durable functionality. Quite often there are interesting opportunities to improve, augment, or even replace these systems if you only look for it. When done well you can provide a ton of long-lasting value.
There are a tiny number of obsessive people who are essentially addicted to exercise and do it excessively to the point of harming themselves. But they are so rare as to be statistically insignificant. For everyone else, more and harder exercise is a solution, not a problem.

https://peterattiamd.com/ama38/

Your other details are irrelevant and I intentionally ignored them as being unworthy of a serious response.
How does that work given that the binary needs to lug around a CPython binary (unless you want to depend on the OS python)? Also, how does this deal with python libraries?
According to the blog's author, $212B dollar bank lost $100B in customer deposits in a single quarter, and there's "no reason to panic over First Republic’s collapse" because "folks aren’t paying enough attention to the details."

Apparently, this is not a general pattern, just another isolated instance of a bank failing due to risky business. That's 3 in past couple months. Let's hope there aren't more.