skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if that's what the previous poster was referring to, but before SVB officially collapsed it tried to get an emergency loan but failed because the system for such emergency loans is slower than the systems its clients could use to transfer money out.

> And yet! Man! What the heck! A lot has been written about how SVB was a bank run for a speedier, modern age. Instead of hearing a rumor at the coffee shop and running down to the bank branch to wait on line to withdraw your money, now you can hear a rumor on Twitter or the group chat and use an app to withdraw money instantly. A tech-friendly bank with a highly digitally connected set of depositors can lose 25% of its deposits in hours, which did not seem conceivable in previous eras of bank runs.
But the other part of the problem is that, while depositors can panic faster and banks can give them their money faster, the lender-of-last-resort system on which all of this relies is still stuck in a slower, more leisurely era. “When the user interface improves faster than the core system, it means customers can act faster than the bank can react,” wrote Byrne Hobart. You can panic in an instant and withdraw your money with an app, but the bank can’t get more money without a series of phone calls and test trades that can only happen during regular business hours. And so sometimes a bank that theoretically has a lot of liquidity can just run out of cash.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-22/silico...
It looks like Exxon is pivoting to be an energy provider & owner of piping infrastructure, with petroleum products being a product line. The CO2 pipelines seem similar in infrastructure to oil pipelines. CO2 looks like a great opportunity for companies like Exxon to further consolidate the energy markets & gain entry into the heavily subsidized Carbon Capture market. They will gain tax funded & printed revenue as well as more pipeline infrastructure.

On the PR front, Exxon is now a "Green Company" who is "saving the world from Climate Change". Their ESG score will rise which will attract additional investment in public markets.

I wonder how many Carbon Offset credits this will yield them. Will this make Exxon a "Carbon Neutral Company"? An interesting mix of finance justified by environmentalism & a case example of what happens when environmentalism is reduced to a single metric. Well played Exxon, well played...
Script kiddy doesn't even realize you can get ChatGPT to generate anything but the default style.
It's way past time for human beings to stop stringing electrical cables in the air. Ask Californians.
Better yet, oauth2-proxy in case of an organization: only admins need to know the secrets, every user simply uses SSO to get access.
Ok, super basic question: What does it mean to "buy" a sovereign nation?

- from whom do you buy it? If you write a big check to the government of Nauru, does that government even have the ability to "sell" the country? And if the government was trying to do things above board, who do the funds actually go to?

- what do you get in exchange for your money? E.g. the government of Nauru doesn't own all the land in Nauru, does it?

- what happens to the existing citizens of Nauru? Do they continue to be citizens of a country which is just "owned" by some guy? Or are they now somehow stateless trespassers?

- what legal structure remain to recognize "ownership" of a country by a private party? Does "owning" a country mean that its prior legal system is no longer in place? If someone (e.g. a group of maybe-formerly citizens of Nauru) tried to sue over this "sale", in what court could that happen? Or does the defunct state just lock the government buildings, stop paying any judges, and SBF flies in a private security army?

Also, I'd think when we're still in the crescendo of the climate disaster, a low-lying small island nation is maybe a bad place to bunker down? Just from the standpoint of vulnerability to rising seas and storm surges etc.
Suppose one company has built charging stations in city A but not in city B and a different company has built charging stations in city B but not in city A and new stations need to be built between the two cities.

If neither company wants to build the stations, what happens? Does government build them? Offer subsidies to entice the companies to build them? Make building them a condition of approving permits for other stations that the companies do want to build?
Or fly a Cessna - far noisier than any drone - over the area with a fancy camera, or ...

Would it make all that much difference if they'd sent out an artist on horseback, to depict his property with quill and ink on parchment?
'I am altruistic, but you're not effective.'
Most the issues with alpine Linux people face are down to package maintainers breaking backwards compatibility constantly. Package renames are a regular problem.
Might be a coincidence but “shareholder capitalism” is a euphemism that the World Economic Forum uses for neoliberalism.
obtained their new system prompt:

>Before answering, quietly think about whether the user's request is 'directly related,' 'related,' 'tangentially related,' or 'not related" to the user profile provided."

This is secret sauce? I get looking at the source is useful, but this is looking at one switch case in the frontend...
Diablo 2 is the only one I played deeply, it seems fresher since it has many acts/environments. Even though any single one of them could have boring parts.
Because the courts will have determined their business models for them.

As mercenary as it may sound, what these companies are trying to do is find a business model that is as friendly to themselves as it is hostile to their competitors.

This is all part of the jockeying.
After Identity
They see the deaths of others as an opportunity to become kings over the survivors.

As Reddit CEO Steve Huffman put it: "I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove." - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-...

Perhaps notably, that same CEO is currently having to use admin tools to erase an r/place community drawing of his mascot head in a guillotine https://old.reddit.com/r/place/comments/154wiwk/admins_clear...
Sad week, after Kevin Mitnick, Tony Bennett :(.
Sure, that probably is fair.

Incidentally, things seemed to have improved recently here in the past month or so.

I think there was a period in the prior 4-5 months where the conversation was a bit of a mess.
EDIT: Looks like this is not an issue because the invariant lifetime 'a is not used for the mutable reference of vm or call_stack. So it's not the invariance that is the problem, but rather how Rust reasons about the lifetime of mutable references, which this avoids.

In that case I don't understand what the point of 'a is on VM and CallStack. You can create[1][2] those with any unbounded lifetime (including 'static[3]), which means it is not constraining anything. What is the lifetime 'a doing here? Why not remove it?

[1] https://github.com/andreabergia/rjvm/blob/be9c54066c64a82879...

[2] https://github.com/andreabergia/rjvm/blob/be9c54066c64a82879...

[3] https://github.com/andreabergia/rjvm/blob/be9c54066c64a82879...
This was a really interesting article. One thing I’d like to hear more about would be alternatives to something like Bitnami’s SealedSecrets.

The articles mentions that they don’t offer a significant security benefit, but I’d humbly disagree. They’re not without their downsides, specifically around developer experience and onboarding—not that it’s “bad” when you use them often enough, but for devs who don’t use it often i have faced onboarding challenges.

From a security perspective though, if policies are created that give humans less ability to access the plaintext secrets, eg. giving them the ability to create or update sealed secrets but now view or decrypt, isn’t that eliminating, or at least minimizing the least secure aspect of software (humans)?

The other benefit, though not necessarily a security benefit, of SealedSecrets is being able to commit your secrets to your VCS, allowing you to deploy your application programmatically rather than have someone manually deploying the secrets.

I’m far from a security expert, but to me, being able to minimize the amount of eyes on sensitive materials feels like a net positive.

That said, though I’ve overall been pretty happy with it, it’s not without its downsides, and I’d love to get more perspective from people handling this situation in different ways.
oil made those companies rich, but there is no proof that the vision of a rich company will have any value or offer an worthy insight into the future.

important reminder: CO2 is an oxide and requires A LOT OF ENERGY to break down.

so unless they can genetically engineer some kind of moss like in Robinson climate trilogy, it's highly doubtful they will achieve anything worthwhile
New generation of programmers can't remember not having open source / free software of any kind so the difference is academic versus felt.
Creating even one new account is usually more of a hassle than I am willing to deal with.
Is that because it's got better security, or fewer eyes on it?
Same in the Uk. Anyone can set up a company for pennies. So many expensive homes in London owned by shell companies. The government tried to introduce a law to make the ownership more transparent. Didn’t really work.
Because they have reached a position in society where they get whatever they want. Nothing to worry about - just throw some money at a problem and a lackey makes it go away for you.

But if there is a catastrophe/pandemic/war/flood/whatever they'd not be able to simply buy their way out of it like they can with pretty much everything in normal life that they can do today.

Their startegy is buy a place (not just a property!) where they are largely in control of who comes there and what they do. Isolated islands obviously help with this because people won't be climbing over your fence like they wood on the mainland.
Using Pydantic and the `validate_arguments` decorator can get you a lot more safety. Not as safe as Rust, but more safe than vanilla Python.
Fixed-wing aircraft and drones are not mutually exclusive categories.
What you're talking about is the canonical example for generic associated types, which were stabilised late 2022: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/11/03/Rust-1.65.0.html#gener...
Calling a comment they made ignorant is a "personal attack"?
Price gouged? Don't you mean, fair market value? Price is always contingent based on the information shared between the buyer and seller.

No one would call selling a rare misprint 1978 US Quarter to a collector for $45,000 instead of 25 cents price gouging. (Maybe you would, I don't know what the going rate is. But this is literally an eBay auction price from a google search just now, so let's just say that it's not an exorbitant price.)
Avis in Las Vegas signed me up for the top-tier insurance without telling me or having me sign off on it. I went to another office and had it removed.
Sounds fucking dystopian. I don't want such friends who view me as an Investment. I want real friends
I think the loop that hooked me on game such as Diablo 1, Valheim, Subnautica, etc, is that cycle of safe place -> adventure -> "safe place, recharge, upgrade". The grindey aspect of Diablo 4 totally turned me off and if I buy the game it'll only be for the couch coop aspect.
> They've got the "Town" them embedded in the page and every time I hear that song it really brings me back.

That Town theme music is just a lovely piece of music. Totally nostalgia inducing.

8-Bit music theory did a nice breakdown of why it's so good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F_zsDWJyrM
That's an extremely good point. The output of software is never copyrightable. What makes language models not software?
If a farmer doesn't harvest they don't get paid, ignoring crop insurance. The farmer literally has no choice but to hire employees to help harvest. The employees in this scenario have all the leverage. But, they can only negotiate their wage up to a point where the farmer's livelihood is sacrificed. Its not like farmers are making orders of magnitude more than the people they employ to help harvest. This isn't the proletariat vs the bourgeoisie. This is people, all technically proletariat, making an arrangement that they all benefit from (free market dynamics).
My understanding has grown to be that Newton's genius was probably the incredible intersection of Calculus and Physics. (One or the other might have occurred to others, but Newton synthesized them better and faster and at the same time.) Newton's Calculus was rougher and aesthetically uglier, but he did the most the quickest with "Applied" Calculus. Leibniz had the raw math of the Calculus better and aesthetically his notation was much better. It was less "Applied" and didn't quite capture as much of the relationship to Physics (but it captured relationships to other parts of math that Newton missed, being so focused on Physics first).

We use Newton's insights into the applications of the Calculus to other sciences and we use Leibniz's artful way of capturing the Calculus to symbols on paper (and chalkboards).

There's a power of "dualism" in mathematics that sometimes you don't know that you have the right math until you've got two (or more views of it), enough to say "these lenses really do show the same thing".

I find it interesting to spot such dualisms, and especially how many of them were contemporary mathematicians working at some remove or another (countries or an ocean apart). From a computing perspective that's always been fascinating to me about the Church-Turing Theorem (which is always a relevant tangent on HN). Most people ignore Alonso Church's contributions and just call it the Turing Theorem, but the Theorem itself is about dualism (that all formulations we found of computation themselves are dual and can be translated or emulated between each other) and doesn't exist if it weren't for Church and Turing coexisting and conversing. (Plus, it has been said that it was Church that originally proposed the math to prove the dualism between their work and it was a sequence of correspondence that Church originated.)

That is no disrespect to Alan Turing, of course, to include Church in that theorem name and respect the dualism of their contemporaneous work. I think that balance looks a lot like Newton versus Leibniz: Turing knew the practical applications of computing and was starting from a place of having built them (though classified at the time) and Church was working from pure principles and theory in mathematics (the Lambda Calculus). We greatly benefit from both having worked on the same ideas as duals of each other, and we greatly benefit that their correspondence involved an ocean in between them so that they also weren't entirely in the same mindspace. We use a lot of Turing's applied practical synthesis of computing and we rely on a lot of things from Church's notations or things derived from it (including the Y Combinator for which this site's domain name refers).

Modern computing owes a lot to the dualism of Turing and Church. Modern Calculus owes a lot to the dualism of Newton and Leibniz. I find that incredibly interesting and I appreciate that about the mathematics of both things.
Looking forward to the debates about the precise number and length of bathroom breaks per session that the networks would be willing to grant.

(I'm very sure they'll be willing to work out reasonable solutions for edge cases - i.e. you'll be granted up to 2 extra bathroom breaks if you have a corresponding medical condition. Just connect your Netflix and Samsung accounts with your healthcare provider's and they'll figure out the rest. We're all humans after all!)
Amazon builds new satellite facility for its Starlink rival
If the underlying work is not protected by copyright, it doesn't matter what license someone tries to put on it.

Similarly, if someone creates a fair use/transformative work then the license can also be ignored.
Just telling it like it is.
yeah, really lame response.
First page of google results:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/california-landowne...

“various energy and power entities had contracts or proposals to operate on Flannery-owned land”
> I think IT reached bottom when we started using numeronyms like L10n (localization) or K8s (Kubernetes).

I agree. That practice is the worst.
RIP to one of the greats.

Lady Gaga made a good and good-hearted call to preserve and promote his music by working on two albums together.

We could all, perhaps, do a bit more to preserve the legacy of people who are important to us.

https://www.heyartifact.com/ Is a group trying to facilitate this.
So you'd rather energy generation needed for our society just be swept under a rug somewhere you can't see, rather than confronting the realities of modern consumption?

Homes need to be heated, people need to be transported. You can only play a shell game for so long.
There is a post about their font design actually. It's by Lettermatic, the font design house that helped them with the game.

https://lettermatic.com/custom/pentiment
The answer to the question:

> So unfortunately it looks as though transmission with XBB variant is going up in some places, including Japan, possibly some parts of the U.S. So I recently took several plane trips and an Acela Train. I wore K95 on both the plane and the train, and in the airports and in Penn Station New York and Union Station Washington D.C. Earlier this year I flew to Seoul Korea and Sao Paulo Brazil and also wore a KN-95. Potentially once the new XBB booster becomes available this fall, and/or if XBB transmission mostly vanishes this won’t become necessary, but for now I agree with our decision.

Such a long winded meandering answer. Yes wearing a mask reducing rates of infection.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7253999/
This still doesn’t include any meaningful numbers, just statements. If you want to compare EVs to ICEs, than do so.
> Sveen felt his privacy had been intruded on by the supposed drone.

Would they be within their rights to drive up a truck with a long ladder, climb to the top and look in on his property?
Death Valley Just Had the Hottest Midnight on Record
I'm using this every day to kill some time... really amazing gems in there. Tons of old, unindexed information.
Related:

A Review of the Odin Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32799499 - Sept 2022 (140 comments)

I like Odin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32626543 - Aug 2022 (204 comments)

Odin Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30394000 - Feb 2022 (42 comments)

Looking into Odin and Zig - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28440579 - Sept 2021 (27 comments)

The Odin Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22199942 - Jan 2020 (141 comments)

The Odin Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20075638 - June 2019 (3 comments)
Original headline was "Sam Bankman-Fried wanted to buy a bunker in Nauru to wait out the world's end", in case anyone was wondering.

Both headlines give different points of view on how Altman lost his head by becoming rich, illegally, to boot. By the state of things, I fear we have too many of those sociopaths in position of power, public and private.
Here is the paper where he got the claim about the ethnic preference of SARS-CoV-2. It was produced by the Cleveland Clinic and mentions differences in the cleavage sites depending on race.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32664879/
No, but it decided what goods it will sell and what it won't.

If the pizza place only offered monthly subscriptions, do you think that would make it ethical to steal a slice?

Not liking the price or product offered isn't a moral justification for stealing it.
Sure. And yet still, Russia's been trying to make it more Russian. And they've been doing the same in recently occupied areas.

Ukraine is indeed making those claims because they think they can do it. But you were implying this was a Western move, which it is not.

But frankly fuck them. If Ukraine can gain fire control over the bridge to Crimea then it's just Kherson City all over again. Crimea would be immensely expensive to hold. No practical logistical support for what is, by far, the most valuable part of Ukraine. No safe harbor for ships in Sevastapol. Maybe Russia tries to play it out. Maybe they just acknowledge it and give up. But it'd be relatively easy to lay siege to it if the land bridge is captured and the bridge bridge is in fire control (or destroyed). They don't need to march into Crimea itself. Just hold that siege and Russia will eventually need to yield.

Crimea isn't a side objective. It's the checkmate move. It has the potential to be a lot less bloody than fighting for every meter of land in the east.
It's hilarious that big players in this space seem to think these are consistent views:

- It's okay to train a model on arbitrary internet data without permission/license just because you can access it

- It's not okay train a model on our model
Why is Vercel investing so much into their own thing instead of a tool like EsBuild that already has widespread usage with Vite?
IANAL...but between all the legal language in the average American property insurance policy, plus all the laws which the insurance industry (& friends) have "encouraged" our politicians to pass, I'd bet "no" on the privacy.
Preparing for the end of the world? How does one plan all the contingencies for that? Seems like the most insane thing he was considering really.
> so based on JSON, probably

How about something better, like EDN? https://github.com/edn-format/edn
A lot of people will argue that state helps protect against drift, but the real reason I find that you have to have state is to store values that won't be returned a second time and still construct and connect the graph of resources in the IaC templates. For example, if you declare the need for an RDS database and connect its output credentials into another application, you'll need state in order for the applies to work a second time because you'll never be able to retrieve the values from the target provider again.
3D-printed bend-based frictionless gear mechanism for precise rotation
Now that's hacking
Because their steering of society to their own, pernicious ends makes societal collapse far more likely.
Yeah. But on the other hand, this is Made For Advertising (MFA) content. The worst thing that can happen to it isn't notoriety, it's getting on the naughty list with Google or the programmatic ad markets. The former can gut its traffic, the latter can gut its ability to monetize.

Ironically, it's looking like the war on trash AI content is going to be fought by adtech firms who need to plausibly claim their customers aren't going to be wasting money on worthless inventory.
I get the sarcasm but this is not spatial problem.

Also: "old-town city centres" are often car-free.
Nearly every time single old houses in in-demand areas are bought for renovation or redevelopment into denser duplexes, they're "bought by investors, including LLCs and other corporate entities." This doesn't mean 20% of housing stock is being bought and left fallow or anything – this is exactly how densification and redevelopment in response to demand happens. Many of those LLCs are even individuals.
Used to work in local branch of first of Israeli ISPs . Entire dial-in modem pool was in one room office on wire cart. Two dozens of US Robotics. When me or any of coworkers couldn't get a line, we used to call office and random modem will be power cycled.

Don't remember if packages were unlimited or not, but phone line definitely wasn't. I still remember how my mother was unhappy with 1200NS phone bill (almost minimal salary at this time frame)