skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only skimmed through the landing page so maybe I missed it, but the value proposition isn't clear to me.

If you're going to `await` for the contacts import to finish anyway, what's the advantage of separating the import logic from your main API? It's blocked, so might as well be part of the same service, no?

I could see maybe if the API returned right away with a pointer the user can later poll for task progress, but it doesn't seem like this is the case?

Side note: I like this type of web design, is it an in-house job or did you hire someone external?
Wow, the government acted incredibly swiftly and decisively to crush the possibility of a general bank panic. The current US banking system is very different from the 2008 system.
What makes us so sure social media isn't destroying adults' mental health? Adults may have better coping mechanisms but it doesn't mean their mental health is being destroyed all the same.
this comment will be legendary.
HN has "ample capacity" to serve its readers "with one exception: If everybody tries to refresh this comment thread at the same time, that will be a challenge."

(I think it helps to log out? If you're in read-only mode)
But why would the startups become illiquid?

Do they get the investments from the banks or do they park the investment money in this bank?

And why this bank, when there are many more risk averse institutions out there?
That example is sort of a thing in compilers. It's possible to recognise the two traversals, synthesise a new function which does both jobs, traverse once, disassemble the result. Gets called things like "map fusion" or "kernel fusion". I haven't seen it done robustly.
It depends how decentralized.

If they go so far as to be partition tolerant then you get a lot of resiliency wins. i.e. if a solar flare knocks out anything attached to a long enough cable to induce circuit-damaging current, you can still gossip messages between colocated devices, some of which might be en route to someplace distant. Secure Scuttlebutt Protocol works in this mode for example.

In such a scenario, being able to piggyback messages on travellers you don't know (even if it takes a few days to propagate) could be lifesaving.

There's also something to be said re: censorship. If you can facilitate comms between otherwise firewalled groups of people by simply sneaking a SD card across the border from time to time, that's right in line with Meta's mission statement.

I doubt that Meta is going to make it this decentralized. Whatever they build is going to be decentralized™. But it would be pretty cool to see this design space explored.
IMO decentralization should never be a key selling "feature" that users should experience.

Similar to the philosophy behind the "right to bear arms" it's best as a self-imposed framework of checks and balance on the centralized system. The majority of people are better off in a centralized system.

Decentralization is the solution to the "who will guard the guards" problem of power & corruption. I don't currently have a desire to become a gun-prepper-hoarder but living in a country where this is a potential-possibility model of life gives a sense of freedom even as I overly-specialize in typing alphanumeric letters in a specific format and rely on the System to transmute this effort into tokens-of-worth to trade for things like toilet paper and housing rights.

Where Meta and other companies fail here is that they're trying to ride the hype w/o understanding that it's not a feature in of itself but a "meta"-feature to allow for better features.

Decentralization forces the leader to actually lead through leadership qualities. Not through owning 51% of voting rights, not through golden handcuffs, not through implicit H1B or EB1-C visa and greencard threats.

The failure mode for decentralization is when it enforces a meritocracy that no one single human is capable of living up to. The leaders are ceremonial or non-existent.

The desire for decentralized technologies is a frustration with how fallible and incompetent the current set of leaders feel and a desire to shorten or outright eliminate the complexity of the brittle chain of value transformations necessary to maintain a living.

It's a desire to ascend technology into a force of nature like the sun or the wind. This goes against every company's reason-for-being because nature is free while a company is a system that harvests nature and makes a profit by selling customers concentrated forms of it.
My dad is a highway engineer in the US, has been for 40 years. He has always told me that their plans' speed limit recommendations are based on 5 mph less than the max safe driving conditions for the particular road. There are a lot of factors that go into max safe driving conditions (in ideal weather).

Curvature is certainly one, remember that different cars handle turns differently and the bank of the road can allow for faster turns than a non-banked road. Highways have a significant bank, but that depends on region because freezing conditions limit the ability to bank a highway (imagine stopped traffic on an icy road, you can't have them sliding toward the median!).

Another important factor is distance-to-stop. In some cases there is a median blocking the view around a corner. All else being equal the turn should be fine at 65mph but because of the lack of sight distance they have to lower it to 55mph.

Now the actual speed posted on the road doesn't always exactly match the engineering designs. For example, the PA turnpike recently increased the speed limit for most of the highway from 65mph to 75mph. Over the last 50 years they've done a lot of incremental enhancements on flattening turns, adding a 3rd lane, etc. but my dad has told me that the increase to 75 was dubious due to turning radius still being unsafe at 80mph over certain sections.
If the person being patronized was the nephew of the CEO whose hiring was assured as long as he met the minimum requirements, even if there were more qualified applicants, would it still be viewed as man-splaining or patronizing?

An unfortunate side-effect of over-sensitivity to hiring and promoting people who aren't white men is that is that, in many cases, they live with the constant nagging question of whether they got the job because of their ability or because of their demographics. Some of the most talented people I've ever worked with were self-driven to an insane degree to try to achieve the impossible goal of proving to themselves "I was hired because I'm worthy" as opposed to some other reason. It's a tragedy because these people burn themselves out and frequently harbor the fear that they are going to be "found out" at any moment and will be let go for someone who deserves their spot when the opposite case is the truth: if they were to leave it would be impossible to replace them!
Perfect saying. For DRM it needs to be effective enough to stop most people, even if that’s very weak in absolute terms.
stupidity or fraud, their results should not be trusted until successfully and independently reproduced.
> Anyone wanting to argue about cops overreaching and breaking rules should point to a situation where the cops didn't find anything horrible.

You just gave a hypothetical where 999 times out of 1000 that is the case.

I remember a plot to blow up a bunch of buildings and behead the Canadian PM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Ontario_terrorism_plot

How carefully in your view should the muslim community in Canada be monitored?

Edit: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
or DanAI
Scientists discover how to create energy out of thin air
There's nothing wrong with your first sentence really. Banks can (and should) hedge these risks using swaps and other products. Someone really messed up here.
> Svb Is First FDIC-Insured Institution to Fail This Year

Was Silvergate bank not FDIC-Insured?
they don't lose anything if they're not forced to liquidate those bonds but can hold them to maturity. It seems like the real problem here is a lack of diversity in liabilities (all tech/biotech startups).
Anyone know what the fire drill is on this? I imagine SV CFOs on the phone with Goldman Sachs trying to get a 5 million dollar credit line by COB today. Or shutting down operations.
The WWF have confirmed that it is a complementary documentary. (https://twitter.com/wwf_uk/status/1634230395037204482?s=61&t...). Google shows that Wild Isles has always been referred to as being in five parts.
they turn into creditors of the bank to try to get the money back from asset sales. That could take years though it isn't quick
Brand name & Model?
Yeah, Cisco licensing is (and always has been) 'complicated'. But a lot of that is because customers like to say things like "I'm not going to use that feature, why am I paying for it". So Cisco has 500 licensing options for everything to maximize the amount it can extract. Perverse incentives and all that.

The other end of the spectrum is Microsoft that says "Here's what you get in an E3 license, take it or leave it, because trying to put together an enterprise license that only has what you want to pay for is 1) gonna be more expensive in the end, and 2) we make it as hard as possible to do that.".
That gummint fiat money looking better all the time.
It's definitely both. Ideally the debugger is never your first resort.

An extremely common failure mode for less experienced developers is messing about in a debugger all afternoon for a problem that should be solvable in 5 minutes. It's a very slow way to learn.
As nice as this is, I would not want to wait 6 months for a dishwasher. Give me the cheap LG that will be here next week, I will buy that fancy Miele when they sort out their supply chain issues.
No. If I crash my car into a $80,000 BMW and totaling it—and I have no insurance—the other party will still be able to sue me and partially recover their losses. Maybe they get $63k from me and eat the other $17k.

The bank has assets. Just not enough to cover all liabilities. That's why you see the term "haircut" being used a lot in these threads.
Yes, that's what it means. Ideally you'd record the state of memory and CPU after each instruction. In practice you can take snapshots at regular intervals and hook system functions to record their inputs and outputs. If a call has to be replayed the debugger intercepts it and gives the debuggee a recorded result.
That makes sense. I'm also with you in that programmers forget that their development tools are also programs and they can modify and/or make more of them.
There are three ways to succeed in this business: Be first, be smarter or cheat. And I don't cheat.

Margin Call is such a timeless, great movie!
Nobody really wants government-run auth, but we need it nonetheless. For extreme cases like having your identity stolen, the solution of last resort is "go to a place and talk to a human." No tech company will pay all those salaries to run a free service, so realistically that place is going to the be the DMV or similar.
Um... it replaces a password (or manual management of keys) with a USB device I can carry around like a proper key.
But I thought only crypto was risky? And that over-regulated bank sector was totally safe?

Imho, this is a great argument for the return of Free banking (including crypto) as we see time and again that regulations do not work. Fail early and fast, let the market innovate and pick its winners and losers.
You most definitely will. SVB already fire-sold 21Bn in MBS and took a 1.8Bn loss on that. Someone is eating that loss....

Separately, this is going to cause a lot of finance vultures to look at other banks who also have MBS portfolios on their books. The show's only beginning.
I'm sure it varies brand to brand. Miele isn't scraping the bottom of the barrel for margin.
How bad is this for wide economy? I’m scared.
I moved my app to a 486 under my bosses desk and it was cheaper than azure.
Yep, the additional percentage paid out in advance will be based on the bank's books once the FDIC digs into it to estimate what can be recovered. The rest is after liquidation.
>Brendan Eich is literally the guy who normalized letting websites run code on your machine. Even if we generously assume his intentions are good, the kind of thinking that brought us JavaScript is not even capable of grokking what I want from my browser in terms of privacy, security, and respect for my attention.

Unbelievable. Now we're to be angry at (or at least, suspicious of) Eich for inventing Javascript? Because... it can used for evil? Is that really a path we should be going down? Is Tim Berners-Lee next? Come on.

>They started, right off the bat, by getting in bed with advertisers. That's their revenue stream. That's not how you fund a browser that serves users, that's how you fund a browser that serves advertisers.

This is similarly disingenuous. They started trying to solve the problem of facilitating an advertising model that respects privacy and rewarding creators (users) with revenue in the form of BAT tokens.

Say what you want about the execution, or the idea in general — but it's a noble goal.

I'm no fan of Eich's politics but your overall framing here is grossly misleading.
Ira Glass on Storytelling (2008)
I mentioned this video on another thread and a couple people went to the effort to email me to specifically thank me for sharing it so I thought it was worth it's own thread.

It's 4 short videos, the last two videos I've seen widely re-edited and shared, but I think part 1 on storytelling tips and part 2 on killing things that don't work are actually more interesting (and relevant to startups as well).

It's been discussed on Hacker News before but not for fifteen years! Time flies!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=198935
This is going to lead to so many phishes.
Yeah it's not clear how you uniquely reference a task, a super core feature and something that the Temporal documentation for example covers very early on.
The thing that's strange is FDIC took control and setup a receiving bank for liquidation.

That's not normal; FDIC works quite hard to find a bank willing to take over - usually they can work out what the "cost" is to take over, and FDIC pays the receiving bank that amount to "eat" the dying one.

If they don't announce they have a bank to assume SVP by Monday, it's quite abnormal.
It should not take too long to find out roughly what the uninsured depositors will receive. The investment portfolio is straightforward to liquidate. The loan portfolio will take a bit longer to sell, but it's a well-worn process. If you haven't read about Resolution Trust Corporation, it's worth a couple minutes -- this is how the assets of failed savings and loan companies were liquidated 40 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_Trust_Corporation
Sure mate. Care to explain?

(Btw, I don't have a Twitter, so good luck with that. :))

Let me guess, you work for Hover or used to?

Or maybe you just needed more coffee/sleep/something before replying? ;)
For Miele it’s mostly a factor of a strong (and pricey) brand, and one which they have maintained where others basically sold out for short term revenue.
Clawbacks are only poised to happen for big crypto failures (FTX) because the people who held money in those institutions aren't technically "depositors," and are considered a more generic type of creditor (which has a bankruptcy clawback).

Bank deposits are special and there will be no clawback. However, depositors who lost money will be first in line at the bankruptcy court.
Yikes what a sucker punch to tech in a downed market. This sucks
> market cap was 2.5 billion pre-market, a small fraction of the 175b of deposits

Market cap doesn’t matter. Balance sheet equity.
Ah, sorry for misunderstanding.

BTW, that's a pretty cool project embedding a Solo 2 into the laptop. Shame you're now stuck with the Framework, but it's awesome that kind of project is even possible. I still prefer using a regular smartcard, since some (many?) laptops have built-in readers. And I miss PCMCIA slots, which were a perfect fit for smartcard readers, until they took it away from us. :(
Counterpoint: Buy cheap, buy twice. Personally, I think it's better to buy the name brand that you can then sell on for a reasonable price if it's not to your liking rather than buying the knockoff, not getting a proper experience to tell if you actually like the thing or not and then not being able to resell it afterwards. Obviously this is all dependent on your finances. Cheap is better than nothing if you want to try something out and you can't afford the name brand, and it's always better to start with smaller goals and work your way up to bigger ones e.g if you want to make a film, its better to make a low quality film on an iPhone than to wait around for years and do nothing because you're saving up for a cinema camera and lenses or whatever.
"This was a learning experience that will provide velocity in our continued disruption of the finance space for startups. We look forward to continuing to maintain a growth mindset as we ~cash your checks~ earn your trust."
I’ve often asked myself, what has changed that this is now a thing of the past?
The FDIC covers $250k per depositor, not per account, and specifically does not cover bond investments. Either your startup created 200+ entities to pull this off (good luck with the rest of compliance) and didn't do bonds at all, or the founder is misled.
A lot of talk about the $250K FDIC insurance limit in this thread. It took me a long time to learn that you can have up to $1.25 million insured at an institution if you designate multiple beneficiaries: https://www.fdic.gov/resources/deposit-insurance/brochures/d...
no, LOCATION sells homes

appliances are a commodity that represent a minor fraction of the sale price

no one plonks down $2 million dollars on a home to get $30k worth of appliances

no one moves into a poor school district to buy a Viking range

you can swap out all the appliances in a home in a few days

and the idea that these are an "investment"?? how many homes have you owned? no one is making a profit off of installing a dishwasher

and to edit a response...you just flipped properties in a seller's market, you would have made a profit regardless. wait until it is truly a buyer's market...you won't get a premium off easily-done renovations like swapping appliances
The implication here is that many people who were expecting paychecks (from the companies Rippling serviced) won't get them. Perhaps some never will, especially if Rippling's deposits at SVB were over FDIC limits - which seems very likely.

This is the danger with painting problems as due to liquidity rather than solvency - especially in the current environment.

Every solvency issue begins as a liquidity issue.
Isn't the investor justification for taking a huge chunk of profits "we take risk"? I fail to see how this is unfunny just because the risk you took played out in the bad way.
We had the same shit in Germany. The lawyer and the crying-wolf frontman are facing a criminal investigation and police seized 346.000€ in December last year [1].

> what is meant is just the font download via the browser from google servers, nothing was actually "sent"

Well, Google does get sent the IP address, and that is enough to be covered by GDPR regulation.

While I do think it's important the GDPR gets respected, I seriously think that enforcement needs a "severity" threshold for fines - and there needs to be some distinction between actually legitimate "necessary for functioning" data processing which would include stuff such as Google Fonts and between abuse of "necessary for functioning" data processing that includes all kinds of trackers.

[1] https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/hannover_weser-...
> whatever you think of Musk

Musk is a clown but I'll give him one thing: he cares about technology. That's something that very few modern CEO in big tech have and probably gives him the edge in making his project successful.
I have about $1800 in it as I was forced to open an account with them for Stripe atlas. It was a bit more but I think they deduct $25 / mo for the past 3 years. Not really using it since Stripe started in India recently.

From what I understand since my amount is low I don't have to really do anything. Is that correct? Any advice for me?
I mean yeah, but when there's a bunch of green accounts whose only comments are horrible corpo-speak takes on one single submission they're basically holding a sign that says "I am not a real HN commenter".
This reply here is a great example of casually portraing something as factual which isn't much more than an opinion. It's not that opinionated replies are bad, it's bad when commenters use this to avoid actually reasoning or referencing anything substantial.

Just ask yourself: What could they mean by being familiar with "the necessity of regulation"? Like _any_ regulation? _Every_ regulation? The " necessity " of specific regulatory measures varies widely, depending on many different factors.

> Unfortunately, maintaining a stable society in the real world requires governance.

Yeah, I mean... how could someone not agree with the second part? ... but why would that be "unfortunate"?

Governance is such a broad human endeavor, even language is part of it, as are all the protocols, supply chains, standardizations etc. that make this conversation possible. Hardly unfortunate?

> Yes an individual should be media literate, just as corporations SHOULD practice fair competition and people should not invest their life savings in Ponzi schemes or kill one another.

I didn't say they, the people, should do something, I said we should do something. We should not, as in this debate, infantilize the population.

> 16% of the world's population don't have electricity. How can you expect them to educate themselves about misinformation while technology beyond their comprehension is being weaponized against them?
That's the same argument for why indigenous people can't govern themselves without Western education. I'm not going to go there, and I certainly don't see the threat you are painting.

Misinformation is nothing new at all, and if you argue that social media is making a difference: Not only is that controversial, it assumes electricity - in a completely uncontroversial way. People will deal with misinformation today using the same tools they used to deal with misinformation yesterday: reason, critical thinking, etc.

There's no technical fix for this.
Well, and until everything is sorted all your deposits above 250k are illiquid now. So, I guess one way to not go under is to find a bank that gives you a generous credit line against whatever deposits there are at SVB. At huge risk margin, and quite a discount on the deposits. If there are such banks willing to do so, that is.
That page brings me back ten years and not in a good way, I can hardly read the text.
I don't think it should be like this, but most surely your profile will be flagged as "suspicious" if you ask such questions.
I disagree and would say that it optimizes for both. I have no issue in seeing the most important pests at the top of my feed. Of course I can keep scrolling and find interesting posts, but were those posts actually important for me to see? Not really.
I recently started the new class by Casey Muratori, “computer enhance”, that teaches performance-aware programming.

I also try to complete a small personal project every month and write about it.
All their money? I doubt it.

SVB owned a bunch of mortgage backed securities and treasuries - both of which are down 30-50% from their peaks, which coincides with our last venture capital boom. SVB was buying at the top because they had so much capital to deploy.

Maybe instead of cashing it out, depositors could be given a treasury worth 30% less than SVB paid for it, that pays out 1% a year in interest, redeemable at face value in just 20 short years.
Hard to debate this with proven facts, from either side.

Opinion? I have no idea. It depends on how you (or I, or someone else) defines or interprets "free will", "requirement", or "consciousness", and whether or not that definition is binary, discrete, or continuous in spectrum.