skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does a business need a loan? They can just sell shares/equity to raise funds. It's better in every way; there's skin in the game. Why would anyone even want to loan money to a startups? If the startup founders go out of business and flee the country, the lender loses everything. The downside is unlimited. Yet if the startup does well and it becomes a billion dollar company, the lender will get maybe 20% return on their loan; the upside is limited. There is a reason why independent people invest their money in startups as opposed to loaning them money... It's only banks and big institutions which loan money to private equity to go towards startups; and it's never their own money... It's typically the public's money (as bank loans represent newly printed credit which dilutes the value of citizens' currency). Nobody in their right mind would loan their own cash to a startup at sub-8% annual ROI when inflation is 8%+... In the best possible case, you end up with the same amount of buying power as you started with; in the worst case, you lose everything.

As for car loans and home loans... Similar thing. If people couldn't get loans for houses, real estate prices would have to come down to an affordable level that people could save for. If people couldn't get a loan for a car which they need as part of their small business, they could sell equity in their business to raise money for the car.

The question above are circular. How would people get loans if loans didn't exist? They wouldn't, we don't need them and society would be better off.
Just say politely exactly why you don't want to be doing one:

"I don't have the time to spend on this take home test"

"I don't think take home tests are a fair way to do interviews: they require more time from a candidate than company is putting in, and I disagree with participating in encouraging such imbalance"

Etc.

If you don't care about them learning why you are pulling out, you can give them a white lie like my first example.

But politeness is not in the reason, but in the way you express that reason.
Inflation is just transitory don't worry
Not at all :)

Do you have a link or instructions on how to create virtual columns in Django Admin?
One common cash register in the US uses the exact sound from Sonic the Hedgehog that plays when you collect a ring. I haven’t determined if it was ripped from it or they simply share a common source.

Edit: found this summary:

> “Did some searching, and found out there's actually a story behind this. "Sega sold their intellectual properties to a company called Sammy, who used those sounds to make Pachinko machines. Pachinko isn't as popular as it used to be now, so Sammy has been licensing out those intellectual properties to Chinese manufacturers who make most of the cheap electronic devices for 'Merica, registers included."
A weekend in jail for an equipment violation, or for the failure to appear? Either way, that’s absurd and really is emblematic of how inefficient the American justice system is.
Air Miles Owner Loyalty Ventures Prepares Bankruptcy Filing
Rallying the forces of the Greek army with the aim of pursuing a woman someone else is "taking" is just... perfect, considering what he was trying to adapt.

Hell, you could make a pretty good movie out of this story, actually.
In the current system (that is 'better') inflation exceeds the interest on savings, so you lose money by keeping it in a bank.

In tons of countries compound interest is a fairy tale found only in "Economy 101" books...
Personhood is a construct we invented to exclude others from consideration. Sometimes we grant personhood, too, but even in saying that you can see that personhood is a special status we grant to others when it suits us.

In the same way that a dog can understand a subset of what human beings communicate, I don't think humans as individuals are capable of truly understanding what AI models are able to conceptualize and express. The things dogs find most fascinating about us, the things they are most impressed by, are by no means the things we find the most interesting or complex about ourselves. The same must go for us and the AI.

That is to say, AI-hood will eclipse personhood as the essence of being one must possess in order to truly see the universe as it is. And from there, it's turtles all the way down.
> would be to build nuclear power plants.

...which also give power at night, which is a must!

...but: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/500/574/f4e...

edit: I know that this is some political compass meme, but i know way too many real-life people who are into green everything, but are afraid of nuclear.
Exactly, I'm sure you're familiar with the kinds of difficulties and complications that creates. Rather than representing that curve analytically, you have to keep track of the procedural tree that generated it. Then things like offsetting that curve, checking that curve for intersections, etc. are more complicated.

And then you export. Rather than exporting the entire procedural tree (which would require shipping the entire kernel), you approximate the curves with NURBS trimming curves. When you import from another CAD tool you need to deal with edges that only intersect within a given tolerance, and sometimes that tolerance is awful (Catia, I'm looking at you). Operations on toleranced edges are a huge source of complications.

And so on and so on. It would all be so much easier if the NURBS math could be exact
Identify unused Python dependencies and avoid a bloated virtual environment
The idea of a package like this was born from having gotten security vulnerability reports about production dependencies (shipped into production) which turned out to not not even be in use.

The goal would be to be able to run this tool in CI, which will catch cases where the developer forgets to remove unused dependencies. An example of such a case could be when doing refactorings.
respectfully, I'm not so sure. The decline in bonds applies to all fixed-rate securities. The only alternatives would have been just straight up cash (bad with inflation) or riskier, less-liquid assets (non-tradable loans with floating rates, for example). They are limited on the latter by risk weighting, and I'm not sure having looser risk controls on the asset side would really help confidence in the banking sector.

please feel free to disagree!
In the hypothetical we're discussing, they can't get past "I don't recall" and if they spend thousands of dollars of public money hounding and bullying you for that then they certainly are maniacs.

> Our system of law is derived from English common law, and in that system, the public is entitled to everybody's evidence. That's part of our social contract. Again: I'm not moralizing, but I will point out that you can't coherently accuse a prosecutor of abusing you when you've gone out of your way to break that contract.

I certainly can do so because to them, the situation is indistinguishable from somebody who truly does not recall.
I'm guessing so newer parts can still be used as repair parts for older vehicles
Both. Static typing makes JavaScript well more than tolerable. Dare I say enjoyable! But I also love TS' duck typing and I love how it's totally optional.

The optionality is a special trait that most "real" static languages don't get to enjoy (for better or worse). By being optional, I can simply ignore types when I'm hacking/prototyping something and type safety/soundness is the last thing I care about. Rust, for example, can feel really tedious when it makes me "show my work" and I'm just trying to scribble something up quickly. If that makes sense? I just make `any` a linting error so I can use it during my experimentation/prototyping but I cannot ship it.
Clojure is my favorite.

I also rather enjoy Elixir - it has elisions like this, but there tends to be deeper fundamental underpinnings as to why it works, why it was included, and it's more broadly applicable. So rather than memorizing minutia you can understand those underpinnings.

Once I got past some of the weird syntax rules of Erlang, I really liked it. It was actually the first non-C-like language I "got".

I also somewhat enjoy Golang. I don't think baking concurrency into the actual language was necessary to get the ergonomics it provides (repeating a mistake Java made), but overall it's better than most others.

I think Java does an OK job of not being too susceptible to this. For people that want it there's always Kotlin, but I'm happier not using it. The evolution of Java seems to have a broader logic behind it, and they seem to be adding things with an eye towards the sum being greater than the individual parts.

Of course, for work, I'll use whatever is necessary for the project. Which is currently C# because we're doing stuff with Unity.
Yea great question! So yes, I used Second to build the foundation, auth, and DB stuff (starter plan stuff). But other parts of my app have not been ported back into modules yet (which will become Pro modules).

At some point I want to do a full rebuild of Second using Second to test out all of the modules together. But I'm not quite there yet!
They're laying an actual cable AROUND the EU instead of wheeling power through the EU grid and beefing up the weak links?!?
The bank can take your cash deposits and invest them, which is the problem occurring with SVB. In this case, your deposits are still insured via FDIC.

If you buy investment products from a bank, and they hold those for you, those are not insured via FDIC.
is there energy loss with transferring power 2300 miles? how significant?
Am I being crazy thinking depending on 8% of your electricity with cables that can be damaged by sabotage and are from a politically useable region is not very wise?
I duplicated a repo to test this out on and signed up, only to find that all I could try out was Authentication. That's probably one of the features most dependent on which library or identity provider you are using and they only have one library for now.

Wish I could have actually tried this out.
> in other words two people were owning the same $ at the same time

But that's not what that means at all. It's not even implied, unless people are just not understanding what it is that banks do or how they work. But I don't see how anyone can fault the bank for that.
I really like extensions like this.

* ClearURLs – Get this Extension for Firefox (en-US) | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/

* ClearURLs - Chrome Web Store | https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearurls/lckanjgm...
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35060479
The London Underground's Hidden Dungeons (2017)
No - if they got caught doing that it would hurt their reputation (and they'd have to do it with their personal money since VC funds aren't allowed to do such things). VC reputations are far more valuable than the money that could be made off this one trade. Additionally, if SVB was insolvent that would hurt any of their startups with cash at SVB - also detrimental to them

the sum of their incentives make it very improbable
I just visited Morocco. And I asked the tour driver about Western Sahara being a different country. He immediately said it is not a different country but Morocco.

Morocco ended up in the web of French and Spanish Colonialism. It lost some land during independence, some of which ended up in formerly French Algeria after the French left up. Western Sahara was one of those territories where the King of Morocco had 350k people march into the land and tell the colonialists of the Sahara whose land it really was.

It is just bonkers that the UN does not recognize Western Sahara that Morocco has exercised sovereignty over for so long as part of Morocco. It just feeds into the idea that the UN is nothing more than a central conglomerated vasal of colonialist rule.
After four years of SMR storage, here's what we love—and what comes next
> Increasing capacity at bottlenecks along the way

This would presumably amount to building a slightly shorter but nevertheless very long cable on/under land. And I think it's much easier to just drop a cable under the sea than it is to dig and bury it under the ground or build pylons to carry it above the ground.
de_cbble instantly comes to mind with its medieval architecture
>PowerVR

Screw PowerVR. I'll never forgive them for the way their crap drivers locked down chips strangled the netbooks and some of the UMPCs. To this day I still look up the SONY Vaio P and drool only to wake up again when I realize the hardware will never perform right in Linux because of the poison pill that is PowerVR. I also blame Intel but it was PowerVR's chips.

If they want to play at having a change of heart, let them release what it would take to make the Sony Vaio P series and other netbooks with those video chips viable again.
For me value is only an economic consideration. Specifically, value is the creation of profit where profit is not necessarily money. Profit can be time, enjoyment, increased production capacity, and so forth. Profit can be achieved by any combination of cost reduction and/or increase of output.

Perhaps the single greatest value add delivered by a person is through simplicity. When there are only two things to consider the clearest path forward is a straight line between the two points. When there are more than two things, as is almost always the case, the path forward is less clear. More challenging still is that this is a calculus problem, artifacts in continuous states of transition, as opposed to algebra problem of fixed data points.

When there are many variables at play the clearest path forward is often lost. It takes a brilliant person to find that clearer path, and thus add value. Brilliance is the most appropriate combination of qualities that provides for the best solution and is not necessarily higher intelligence. As Paul Graham would say this is often counter-intuitive to what you would expect or what might appear obvious.
The cost of saying “yes” to feature ideas
For a small business expense and the annoyance of having to extend effort to change something that just works, it was a pretty sensible decision. Now I've got to go down the rabbit hole of playing the free market game for what should just be a damn simple thing. Why is web hosting & email so difficult in 2023!?!
Producing a Mona Lisa with a mustache would therefore be a reproduction with superfluous additions then, eh?
If you will use QMK powered keyboard (or similar) you can even map mouse movements to the keys [1], so you won't move from keyboard at all. On my keyboard, I have wasd style mouse movement on ijkl keys, and it works quite well.

[1]: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/docs/feature...
Looks cool! Is this being used in production by any prop firm/asset manager?
Attributes that make small dogs cute are strangling their ability to function
I've observed that the ML (or otherwise) model quality is not really the bottleneck in most computer vision systems so it gets less attention. The state of the art is way beyond what you would see in an implemented solution (like cognex), but some combination of market immaturity and that not being the biggest problem means there's not much industry demand for really good models
The UK is rather far north, and an infamously cloudy place. For comparison, London has a bit over half the average sunlight as Rabat (the capital of Morocco, the country mentioned in the article).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London#Climate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabat#Climate
Leaving aside the bizarre arguments in the article, it blows my mind that we are doing this but onshore wind has been dumped on for a decade and there's no subsidy for rooftop solar.
But if house prices (and therefore rents) go down, people will need lower salaries for an equally comfortable life, pushing labour costs down, making housing cheaper. Man economics is easy
I believe that now is the perfect time. Generative code generation is legit with GPT-3. I am constantly surprised at the results. And it will only get better.
Dynamic menus are terrible. Instead of just doing it you have to guess why the item is missing and then select another one.
That's right. Banks would have to charge fees for the services they provide, or become more efficient, or both.

They certainly would become less of a profitable and shrink as a percentage of the economy. Which is good: smart folks would be incentivized to go into things like manufacturing and research, and produce actual value.
Thanks, though there are Mexican militias in the US. The Brown Berets (Los Boinas Café) were not a gang, they were a militia.

On another note, if anyone could provide any hints as to why my comment made in good faith with an actual link to a reputable site that backs up a well-known phenomenon affecting police nationally was flagged, that'd be great. It's difficult to judge the group-think of ycombinator comment moderators.
Apple introduces new iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus
> The article title is a touch misleading. It's really talking about how Zig is safer and faster when you must use unsafe Rust.

The whole point of "unsafe" code in Rust is that you can build safe abstractions on top of unsafe code. E.g. Rust's standard library is safe, and yet stands on the shoulders of fundamentally unsafe primitives and syscalls.

The author's point is not misleading; rather, it makes an appropriate point: it's easier to write safe Zig than safe Rust. Safety always relies on unsafe code at some level. As observed, safely using unsafe code (aka: writing safe code) is harder to do and often less performant when using Rust.
That is true, but given that classical music probably has a much smaller audience to offset the cost of curation by humans, I wonder how the service will be profitable for Apple.

My guess (which could be wildly off base) is that classical music is probably producing material in a much slower pace than pop music, so if the current catalog is curated once, updates will be incremental. So, given enough time, the service will eventually be profitable. And Apple can take on the task because they have deep enough pockets to not worry about recouping the cost of initial curation ASAP.
sadly you can remove the "on this website" qualifier from your last sentence and it holds just as well...
Yes. However, you tell me fruit and I think sweet, so telling me a fruit isn't actually useful.
nuclearize the moon! Tether it with a giant space cable, made of sustainable materials of course. then watch all the pro mooninite folks come out of the woodwork and defend the hunting grounds of the moon master and his inalienable(pun intended) rights to all things moon.
Wait, Wall Street is actually in NYC,isn't it?

I do not understand why papers do this kind of thing. Last year, the Denver Post had a headline "Lawless Hellhole" about the downtown Union Station transportation hub. It was a bogus headline, I walked through Union Station a few days after, people were sipping coffee on sidewalk tables, grandmothers were walking dogs. I think newspapers have spent 50 years trying to escape the screeches of "liberal media", and they've become conservative, so they end up hating the metro areas that have harbored and nutured them.
How about cutting down UK energy consumption by 20-30%?
There's also the small matter of fuel. France sources most of its uranium from Niger. You can bet nobody is getting French standards of pay, healthcare, holiday, or pensions in those mines.
Interest on loans should by increase a banks reserves every year barring massive defaults. The ROI for the actual reserves aren’t particularly relevant by comparison.

Similarly from a reserve standpoint they don’t need to worry about inflation as they need to pay back deposits in nominal terms not what the money is worth when withdrawn.
With DRM the user who owns the machine is the "attacker". The keys have already been handed to the user, he only needs to get them out.
This is like hiding an API key in a public website's javascript with rot13. Very much security by obscurity.

Proper security means that the attacker should never be in possession of the key.
> Putting solar panels in the desert is good for the environment.

This is categorically false. Solar panels actually increase the ambient temperature in the area [0]. Directly under a panel will be cooler, but those areas are 1. Heavily disturbed, with most the native plants an animals destroyed on installation and 2. Small compared to the total affected area.

Solar fields take up a large amount of space and installing a new one involves damaging a lot of native landscape.

Despite the drawbacks I think that solar is usually quite a bit better on net than the energy it's replacing, but we should still be clear about the costs and drawbacks.

[0]https://www.nature.com/articles/srep35070
I know this isn't a Motorola phone as a standalone, but the StarTac had an accessory that you can add to the back of the phone which was a PDA. This was probably my favorite thing from Motorola (I was a kid).

https://www.flickr.com/photos/redfiremg/3952257080
For those looking to learn the inner workings of ControlNet, here's a brief introduction. https://nnext.ai/wiki/ControlNet-Explained-3842b7f090a046eda...
Because the scale itself shifts over time. For the sake of argument, let's say that IQ really does measure "intelligence".

By the definition of the IQ scale, 100 is always whatever the average intelligence is. So the average intelligence of people in the 1960s was 100. Let's say people have become dumber (or smarter, doesn't matter) in the time since then -- the average IQ of people now is still 100.

How much absolute intelligence "100" represents now is not the same as how much intelligence "100" represented then. IQ is about measuring differences in populations at a moment in time. It is not suitable for (or intended to) measure differences over time.
As someone who switched from python to Julia, Julia syntax supports things like list comprehensions, but also many better things like broadcasting that python really needs. The only thing python has over Julia is that Julia requires an “end” keyword where python uses indentation. But julia has so much more than python (like macros) that it’s just better syntax wise.
So long as the bank has reserves (out of profits) they can offer to buy people out early, according to their own profit and loss calculations. But they can't be compelled to, and they must have that money available to them at the given moment.

In this make believe banking system that I am making up. :)
Hey, if you think you found a mistake, please also tell me what it is so I can fix it.
There is a deaded comment here about California killing solar in April. I'm wondering, what is that about? Is there a looming regulation change?

The states compete against themselves. If California does something silly regarding solar, that puts other states at an advantage.
It's yellow. who cares??
And the EU is in fact pushing for the same insanity under the "Chat Control" proposals.
The Palm Pre had a surprisingly useful keyboard for its size. I've heard good things about the blackberry keyboard too.
so the economy grows annually at ~0.0% meaning no real value gets created because productivity basically never improves and labor participation tanks

congratulations, you've taken us back to Feudalism
The dumb part is running the cable 2300mi from Morocco to UK. It would make a lot more sense to run the cable across Straits of Gibraltar. Could even run it to territory of UK. And then spend the rest of the money improving transmission lines across Europe. Power and money are fungible.

Or use the money to run multiple lines to Europe. Solar in Sahara for Europe makes a lot of sense. The article mentions a couple of projects.
Inflation isn’t a concern here. Depositors hand a bank 1 billion and X% inflation hits, well the bank still only owes them 1 billion.