skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After reading the headline I thought to myself, "sounds like Ron Amadeo wrote that." Hard to find a tech journalist who has covered a company as long as he has and still takes every opportunity to lampoon them. The man is a treasure.
Link broken, should be https://github.com/vector-of-bool/pitchfork
Tale as old as time. Heard the same with exchange, MSP contracts, etc etc some suit somewhere always has some CYA reason no matter how silly or wrong it may me.
Professional designers + UX do not seem to fare any better.
Scientific misconduct -> copying and pasting data, falsifying data

Biggest Claim -> announcing (again) that he's found a high temperature low pressure super conducting material

This is basically a non story turned in to clickbait. Someone no one believes announces a world altering breakthrough.
Not the one who posted the comment but a little bit of googling left me here:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-sets-record-faste...
So you’re the one keeping me up at night…
> Tax advantages

Hah! I do qualify for a tax break as a highly skilled migrant for 5 years, but the salary in general is nowhere near the US. I was making well into 6 figures before and now I make about $50k~ equivalent. Maybe a little less. As a percentage, I probably pay about the same tax rate, with my discount, as I did in the US.

Except for the insane cost of energy (I could rant about that all day), most of my daily living expenses are much more predictable. My family health insurance was cut in half, for superior coverage. Car insurance is about the same, but I have a much smaller car so for me it's cheaper, even with no driving record in this country. If I had the 12 years of history, it would be half the cost again. Luckily, energy prices are coming down and my bill is being cut in half next month.

Overall, I'm very happy! The quality of life I would say is much better. I walk a lot more. I eat better (because eating out in general is $$$) and cook at home 90% of the time. I have 4 weeks of paid vacation and the government requires employers to provide vacation pay equivalent to 1 months salary for salary workers. My company encourages people to take advantage of their vacation time. At 5pm the office is empty despite most people not arriving until 9am or later.

If you're looking to move, I would say now is a decent time to look into it. Decide on a couple of countries you would be interested in and then start contacting companies with open positions. Mine specifically was not advertising for migrants, but they had permission from the government already because of some remote employees in the Philippines. Many European tech companies are hurting for workers and there is a large shortage for most midsize companies. Sure, the pay is a lot less, but if you're open to staying long term, you will receive a pension and becoming a citizen entitles you to retirement benefits as well.

Happy to answer more questions. I think I have contact info in my HN profile if anyone else is intersted!
Ask HN: Should I be moving startup capital from SVB to Mercury or Brex?
I think here we are correlating the size of the input and output here with the size of the machine in the middle that creates it.

It's kind of like saying "Why would the factory creating tiny processors for phones (with only tiny bits of raw materials) need to be larger than that other factory that produces loads of big loafs of bread?"
We’re calling it a liquidity problem only because they don’t have to mark to market. In reality it’s a solvency problem, they lost a shit ton of money by buying bonds at 0-2% that are worth 50-70% value because equivalent bonds pay 5-6%.

In theory they could hold that shit to maturity but in practice they can’t because some folks want money now and all depositors will want higher interest on deposits eventually to match market rates.
This napkin math is pointless, if you're a business leader, you're going to factor in non physical costs as well, since you need a team to run hundreds of servers most likely. If business all of a sudden starts to go under, you can pull plug on cloud, but you'd have to write it off if self hosting.

Hosting yourself makes sense if you're providing hardware level services like storage or compute. In that case, going to the cloud is literally financing your (potential ) competitor.
I tried using Zig for a little bit, and it just doesn't feel ergonomic to use _for me_. It's not 1.0 so I'm hoping that a lot of that will be ironed out, but some of it is baked into the language. Being forced to assign variables to _ if you aren't using them somewhere else in the program annoyed me a lot more than I expected. Especially in the learning phase when you are asking a lot of questions and have to write up toy examples of what you are trying to do when asking people for help.

I also ran into an issue where I wanted to initialize an array with 30k 0 values and I ended up having to write a loop to do it, and ran into issues with the loop and assigning values. It felt like if the language was going to be militant about certain things to prevent you from making mistakes, that it should just go the whole way. At least with Rust after fighting with the borrow checker I would know I had a safe program. With Zig I have to fight with the langauge, but then it's not even memory safe once I get everything working
do you realize that roads are optional? you don't have to leave your house to talk to friends.

do you realize that using the mail service is optional? nobody forces you to write post cards.

do you realize that electricity is optional? you can get a shack in the forest and burn wood.

do you realize that water pipes are optional? you can dig for your own ground water.

the world is not made of solipsistic individuals. infrastructure encases, shapes, and forms the possibilities and constraints in which all of us live.
After using Mullvad for a while now, I believe they care about privacy more than others. Maybe I'm wrong.
I mentioned ChatGPt to my non techie wife.

To my shock, She started explaining to me how awesome it is and how all of her teacher friends are using it to offload a lot of the boring work like writing comments and stuff for students report cards. They are required to write numerous paragraphs for each student several times.

Something in the past I would take my wife an entire week each time.

These are people that need help setting up Wi-Fi on a laptop. And they are in love with ChatGPT.
SVB Statistics/Research 2023
In terms of not working or splitting to multiple jobs. Then that's a performance issue. If you're getting expected work done, it's not a problem... If you aren't, then you're a problem either way. This is not me condoning the practice, only pointing out that it shouldn't be the crux of the problem.

Depending on the job, you won't be on all the time. I have about 2-3 days a week where I'm on and pretty hyper productive and 1-2 where I'm kind of coasting or spending more thinking/learning/reading time.

I do find, I prefer office culture to working remotely... it's much more productive and team cohesion is often much, much better. International work is much harder still to coordinate. Right now I'm working on an East coast team, living in AZ... I'm about to have to start getting up yet another hour earlier next week, and so not a morning person. That said, given the market shifts really remind me of around 2001, and I'm holding on where I am for as long as I can and generally like the people I work with.

Mandatory office presence cuts both ways, you're less likely to gain top talent and even then, you're going to pay above relative market rates for it if you do. I've seen companies try to pay relative to cost of living for developers in different locations, and to me that just doesn't work either. Splitting the difference between top locations and local relative cost of living seems to be the trend, and I'm frankly happy to see it.
Lets replace 4 cheap admins with 3 expensive devops engs

Yaay savings!
> We use high core-count CPUs, 2TB RAM, and 2x 100Gbps per server. On average, our servers have about 16x 15TB drives.

> So let’s say we run our 850 servers

I'm not familiar with this company, but it says on their website We’ve been crawling the web for over 10 years, collecting and processing petabytes of data every day., they have their own search engine (named 'Yep), provide all kinds of reports, etc.

I'm guessing they are running huge Hadoop clusters or something? One of those workloads that just isn't suited for the cloud, and they're just taking the advice of Joel Spolsky

“If it's a core business function — do it yourself, no matter what.”
I mean, based on their stated confidence we'd expect them to be wrong at least 1 in 4.
The subtext in the article claims the room temperature superconductor exists at 'near-ambient conditions', though reading further in the article this material is a superconductor at about a gigapascal (about 9.8k atm).

I have heard of diamond anvil room temperature superconductors, it appears this is in that class.
> You might have one thing measuring fuel burn rate in grams/second and another in kg/second

This sort of redundancy is a big problem with metric (e.g. hours, litres, tonnes, etc.); and why it's better to stick to the SI subset. http://www.chriswarbo.net/projects/units/improving_our_units...

In particular, SI is "coherent" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence_(units_of_measuremen...

- There is only one unit for each dimension. In your example, "grams/second" would not be a valid unit; SI only has kilograms/second (yes, it's annoying that the unit of mass has a name beginning "kilo" :( )

- The conversion factor between different dimensions is exactly 1 (by definition). In your example, the rate R is related to mass M and time T via M = TR (i.e. kilograms = seconds × kilograms/second). There are no conversion factors, since the unit of rate is derived from the units of time and mass (unlike, say, measuring energy as calories OR pound-feet OR coulomb-volts OR ounce-miles OR slug-acres-per-squared-hour OR ...)

See also http://www.chriswarbo.net/projects/units/metric_red_herring....
They did bridge loans back in the day: you are running out of cash but it's fairly certain you are getting the next capital round, and that loan was secured by a special class of shares that they could either sell at the next round or keep
It's easy to tell at this point because chatgpt always gives overly verbose and polite, positive comments.

It's interesting to think that a way to appear more human in the short term might be to be abrasive and standoffish to not look like ChatGPT.
I don't have any experience, but wouldn't they be extra screwed if the bank goes down?

They'll probably be in line with anybody else and being foreign makes enforcement and lawsuits so much more expensive and difficult.

I guess that's a price they were willing to pay to get more favorable conditions in SV in the past as opposed to whatever they could find locally.
This is pretty wild. HIPAA does not fuck around, even a minor infringement is taken very seriously. The lawsuits are gonna be something else.
I don't have a repo that demonstrates now, no. But it's dismissive to call it speculative. I've seen this sort of problem in smaller situations in the past, like projects whose build systems assume toolchains that aren't what are used in my packaging ecosystem. Replacing all my compilers and linkers and build systems is at least an order of magnitude more disruptive than that.
I agree with this strongly except indoctrination is not inevitable. It’s not synonymous with teaching/learning.

But it absolutely points to the problem of government in education. I don’t think most people realize how recently the schools came under the thumb of the federal government. Department of Education only started in 1980 and it hasn’t exactly raised the bar in that time.

It places constraints on educators (the experts) which make it easy to administer but harder for the educators to educate.
The Titanic in Unreal Engine 5
Before legalization in many states, even on HN even the suggestion that cannabis was unhealthy could get you voted down. People refused to believe it.

Now that it's legal peoples' objectives have shifted and it's now ok to talk about it. It's a literal example of the stupidity in human psychology.

People don't use logic to make conclusions about the world, they use logic to justify their conclusions so they can fulfill their objectives.

Very hard to find a person who does cannabis on a daily basis and is also fully on board with the fact that cannabis causes cognitive decline.
Short answer: not exactly, no.

Long answer: Zig does a lot of stuff to make the easy way of dealing with memory the correct way. The typical pattern is to use defer/errdefer statements to clean up on end of scope or in case of error. One of the included allocators checks for leaks and use after free, and it is trivial to change which allocator is used based on build mode. It is also very strict about pointers and has a whole lot of different kinds to represent different use cases and include appropriate safety checks (in safe and debug modes) when dealing with them.
> How can a decentralized network provide any performance guarantee?

Why can't it just be like message boards like Xenforo and PHPbb? There are numerous sports-related boards created 10+ years ago on that old tech that are still handling thousands of users concurrently.

They're also well moderated too; that's something that becomes impossible if you are trying to manage hundreds of thousands of users.
I very much feel the opposite way. If my company had offices downtown (where I live, because I like being able to walk to get a beer), I would go every day.

But they don’t - they’re in a suburban sprawl, at minimum a 30 minute drive - more like an hour during rush hour. I would quit on the spot if there were ever an attempt to make me go to the office on a fixed schedule.
Working with Japanese engineers without either speaking Japanese or being sufficiently acultured to Japanese cultural norms was an interesting experience for me.

Brilliant fellows, with a very different way of thinking about issues. Often however the solution was dictated by things outside of the engineering problem at hand.
Epic Vs Apple, Oracle Vs Google are also just companies acting in their own interest but that doesn't mean that the public should be unconcerned or that the people's interest won't align more or entirely with the side of one corporation.
> I could be convinced to commute to a satellite office that's not affected by rush hour traffic. There's a lot of real estate available in the burbs.

Funny that you say this. I could only be convinced to come to an office if my employer satisfied the following conditions:

- accessible in <20 minutes from a place with affordable rent via bike, walk, or public transit

- no or minimal video meetings in the office; I'm not taking the time to come in to sit on the same video calls I could take at home.

- either a lunch subsidy or reasonable in-house lunch prep options (more than just a refrigerator and a dirty shared microwave)

It definitely feels like housing affordability is a huge wrench in these gears. Up until this year, I lived in major US cities, and rent prices still shock me when I look back in my old neighborhoods. Even the suburbs have spiked to the prices I used to pay for walkable neighborhoods. I'm pretty sure my first criteria can't be satisfied unless the US has some kind of massive market-wide housing price collapse.
You still need headcount to manage systems on AWS. And not really fewer then if you would run them locally.

Source: managed systems locally, am now managing systems on AWS
Right, I get the loans don't feature right now, but the reason why depositor behavior is so concentrated is because they're mostly in the same industry affected by the same market forces. To have large numbers of loans out to that same industry at the same time is additional risk, whether or not that particular risk caused problems this time.

EDIT: Elsewhere in the comment thread people have clarified that the bonds are the big problem on the assets side. They had a bunch of low interest rate bonds that now have to be sold at a loss because interest rates are much higher.
Yeah exactly what happened to us, it’s solvable but annoying

Also we did have a mix of things like import _ from ‘lodash’ and import foo from ‘lodash/foo’, etc
Were React hooks a mistake?
There are an unusual number of comments from new accounts making disingenuous arguments on this post. I wonder who is behind the astroturfing.

The answer to "what else should we do about bad people doing bad things?" is, of course how we usually catch people doing bad things: old-fashioned detective work. It involves taking reports of suspicious or illegal acts, interviewing witnesses and associates, requesting court orders to search or surveil specific people and places when there's evidence to do so, etc.... It doesn't scale. It's not supposed to.
> New managers who had been engineers before management and care about the work always tell me "I feel like I'm not doing anything, I should be helping or something."

Your points about managing (interfacing with the company, translating company’s demands into a reasonable, steady stream of work) are spot on, but I would also note that the expectations for engineering managers are all over the place right now.

In my first engineering management job I was severely chastised for writing too much code, even though I had the time and was choosing non-critical tickets for myself. The company insisted that managers should manage/delegate and developers should develop with little to no overlap. I internalized this as the way management was meant to be.

Later in my career I took another management role and followed the pure delegation strategy. I was later chastised for not writing enough code. They believed managers should only need to spend about half their time managing and the rest should be spent doing IC work. They never communicated this, but assumed it was just how managers knew they were supposed to operate.

Even later in my career I took a “director” role, which was appropriate for my career progression to that point. I was stunned when the VP I reported to informed me that I needed to be spending “at least 2/3” of my time writing code, and that managing shouldn’t take more than an hour or two per day. They then proceeded to book me into 20-25 hours of recurring meetings every week. That company had major problems for other reasons and it didn’t work out, but after that I always made a point to explicitly ask about manager expectations multiple times during an interview.

Different companies have wildly different ideas about what engineering managers should do.
>Great, that's now a "voluntary quit"

That's actually a constructive dismissal, which counts as an involuntary resignation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal
So let us know what is wrong and how a proper TCO calculation looks like. What's missing?
It's funny that, more often that not, in tech roles (but not a developer) I've mostly never used a title that was my actual HR title (which more than once shifted without me even knowing about it until I logged into the system for some reason or other). Yet some areas of tech, which prides itself on lack of gatekeeping, seems almost bank-like in its obsession with job levels.

(To be clear, I'm not talking making up "Senior Vice President" but just something less HR-like than my actual title.)
I just take 'little correlation of deaths v speed limit' as an argument against speed limits in general. Otherwise, what is the point of raising the issue?

Also, he says:
'10 times as many people die on UK country lanes than on motorways. This furthers our evidence that motorway limits have less effect on deaths than other roads..'

Comparing country roads to motorways? A country road could be one car width or two car widths at best, with vehicles driven, often, erratically in both directions with little warning of obstructions or oncoming traffic.

A motorway is 3 or 4 lanes of vehicles travelling in the same direction with virtually zero chance of anything coming the other way, usually clear visibility and advance warning of obstruction, etc

You don't see a problem here?
Interest rates went up. That would be fine if they could hold the bonds until maturity, but to honor withdrawals now they are forced to sell at a loss.
I'm sure there's improvements around the edges to be made. I'm not sure if there's a massive paradigm shift that can be done.

At least not in terms of current technology; we can all imagine the Star Trek future where you can just tell the computer that you want an analysis of all the currently-interesting factors related to this diplomatic situation and a collection of AIs turn that into something effective. At that point "programmers" aren't staring at large blocks of text. Though don't be fooled; someone is going in deeper than the initial instruction. "Programming" may instead be a matter of working with an AI almost like you'd work with a coworker, but someone's going to be dedicated to the task of maximizing output. You've seen we've recently taken a big step in this direction, but we've still got a number of steps to go, and even this big step is still being processed by the world at large.

But in terms of current tech and the world of programming as we know it (which I actually believe will always be with us; while it has its manifest limitations, the ability to take concrete instructions and chew through them at light speed will always be useful; even if you've got an AI that can use teraflops and petaflops to have a real-time conversation with you, even that AI will have uses for conventional programming techniques to use those teraflops & petaflops just as we'd use them today, rather than for high-level AI functionality), I don't know if there's a huge paradigm shift that can scale to, say, the size of the Linux kernel.

But if anyone wants to create it, I think they need to start from an understanding of the positives of our current paradigm, rather than the false assumption that it's all just some sort of big mistake and it's so obvious what the better answer would have been.
+1. I see nothing wrong in playing positive sum games. Mullvad will ptobably gain a lot if they succeed but as long public also gains a little, I am totally cool with it.
It is feasible. But, you need an experienced mentor to unblock you when you encounter obstacles. I run a free iOS bootcamp. Hit me up if you're interested. mailto:kuharich@hotmail.com
If you aren’t transferring out you are an idiot at this point. Even if you don’t lose money you will loose access during the failure.

My guess is the feds come in today and do it. They love to close banks on a Friday and work it through the weekend
>Make housing affordable

Make? Who is the subject doing the making here in this scenario?
I think I'd rather share my opinions actually.