skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google has gotten way better at interpreting search queries formulated like natural speech. It used to be you had to know what sort of keywords together would get you the results you were interested in. Now I can type in "what is the capital of France" and have a Wikipedia article about Paris pop up, an Encyclopedia Brittanica entry, and World Population Review for the city. That wouldn't have been the case in 2005.

It's become a tool that basically anyone can at least get some information out of. Googling used to be a skill that non-technical people struggled with.
I think a lot of companies are going to find that they have the same relationship with AWS as banks do with Bloomberg i.e. a massive spend that they constantly try to manage downwards but can never escape.
You do realize that social networks are optional? No one is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to use them.
I think there was a russian engine that literally had 2x4's on fire stuck in the combustion chamber in place of torch ignitors or TEAB.

If anyone's interested the experimental high-power rocketry hobby is pretty fun, there's a lot to learn and hack on. A lot of people focus on propulsion and formulating, profiling, and flying various solid fuels they develop themselves. This guy is highly regarded https://www.nakka-rocketry.net/

Others focus on flight controllers, GPS trackers, and other electronics. https://altusmetrum.org/ (i think one of the two owners of altusmetrum is a pretty famous Debian Linux guy from back in the day)

There's also "hybrid" engines that use a solid fuel and a liquid oxidizer ( nitrous oxide ). Ex, this guy is probably the most well known in the hybrids side of the hobby https://contrailrockets.com/

Finally, there's the halfcat guys https://www.halfcatrocketry.com/ who do amateur liquid bi-prop engines in an approachable way. I've working on a design of my own based on their designs and plan to do a static fire in the Fall and hopefully a flight before end of year. The downside with liquid engines in the hobby is governing bodies Tripoli and NAR don't allow these engines at sanctioned launches. You either have to launch privately (including coordinating/paperwork with the FAA on your own ) or at FAR https://friendsofamateurrocketry.org/
Trust me they are being pursued by recruiters too

Because recruiters can't tell the difference.
Found it on C2 wiki. It's not exactly the same definition as in the linked article though.

Also, referred to as a "steel thread". Runs the length of the application architecture (front-to-back, top-to-bottom, whatever) of what you are building. Each new top-to-bottom feature is a new thread. Steel threads wrapped together incrementally form a cable stronger than an equivalent diameter solid cable extruded all at once. Thread akin to string, as in string testing. - NormanECarpenter

https://wiki.c2.com/?SpikeSolution (too bad the c2.wiki has modernized the UI, its now almost unusable)
You might say that article is, in many ways, a puff piece.
> leads to office politics

That's exactly what they miss. Those people became powerful by playing that game of office politics and now have nowhere to do that anymore.
Having people with strong opinions is important. Even more important is having a lot more people which will weight the strong ones and put the missing context :)
Augmented Reality Ski Goggles
Every single founder I know in Brazil who has an SVB account has either withdrawn their funds or is attempting to open another account with a different bank to do so completely.
> FDIC should issue a statement guaranteeing beyond the $250K/depositor limit sooner rather than later in order to stem some of the outflow.

is there precedent for that?
That same property of inviolable non-excludable makes a social network inaccessible to those who are frequently harassed. The right to shun some participants is a necessary function of social spaces, to mitigate known and documented human tendencies over the past couple thousand years to drown out, abuse, and in general commit conversational warfare upon others.

“Just block them” doesn’t scale when each harasser is harassing thousands of people. “Just block scripts” is no more effective than blocking adblockers. “Opt-in moderators” is no more legally viable than “No moderators”.

If you want to moderate a space, then set up and run a space of your own. If you want to federate with others, you’ll comply with the moderation requirements of your federations. If you want your space to stay online, you’ll comply with the moderation requirements of your hosting and transit providers. If you want your federation to stay online, you’ll comply with the moderation requirements of your organization’s laws. This is true today for all social sites, whether solo or distributed.

Facebook thinks they can opt out of expensive and difficult moderation duties by transferring the legal requirements for moderation to their users. They may succeed briefly, but the EU will not look kindly upon their attempt to circumvent the law.
Fascinating insights, thank you. Is it not perhaps that text as is is perfect for programming languages but we could do a lot better in terms of displaying and presenting it?
Good analogy. I had started to think ip-addresses as phone numbers, and it had started to make sense for me. Using Building, Floors, and providing analogies for interfaces, switches and routers were good.
Wow, kudos. I don't see any way on Mullvad's site to donate to the cause... I might just have to buy a second Mullvad account for a few months to support them.
I don't think I'm that different to the average user. Maybe just more mileage but anyone can evolve and realize what was cute and enjoyable is not required anymore.
You couldn't see it either, but I suppose I could have fumbled around a bit blind. Good call.

My wife and I have had really good luck buying matching phones.

That time one had stopped charging and was replaced with a super-budget phone, so I just swapped screens, backed up/exported what I needed, and moved on.
Check out a video on how to start a model T. It was a two man job: one on the inside fiddling with spark timing, the other on the outside cranking it over. Often you also need a bit of priming (aka choke).
This would be great, if it were only remotely feasible that an individual could ever have the tools and training to counterbalance entire industries of giant disinformation-focused billionaire corporations and governments with thousands of highly trained disinformation professionals using modern tooling, well-funded research departments, and increasingly deep data to spread disinformation.

There is no amount of 'media literacy' training (which, in practice, would have to be created and administered by public schools under the watchful eye of some of the selfsame disinformation purveyors, in some states) that will ever be up to the task.
5.5 is a massive decline in IQ.
A huge swath of midrange companies will have a major competitive advantage, in my opinion, because they choose to opt-in to remote.

There might be one or two companies in the world I’d choose to move to work at. Even then, it’s a hard choice to make.

As long as remote is an option, that’s where I will work, even if I prefer another job on all other dimensions.
Rising interest rates is what’s different this time around
The solution I described in the blog post is an optional layer on top designed for high traffic deployments, see here: https://protomaps.com/docs/cdn

As most storage systems like S3 aren't free and have per-request fees, the price is pretty comparable to this CDN deployment.

Protomaps is very intentionally built with little in common with Mapbox; the main shared parts are using the same Protocol Buffers vector tile format, because there's no reason to write another one; and compatibility with the fork of Mapbox GL 1 (MapLibre GL). See https://protomaps.com/docs/faq#mapbox
VC's are generally the ones that actively promoted SVB to their investments. There's literally a branch on Sandhill road.
The logic is as follows:

This is a liquidity problem (so far). This isn’t because loans went bad or anything, just that they needed cash quick and had to fire sale things (the things they took losses on were US Treasuries. Mostly.)

They still have a big loan book that is probably worth more than their liabilities.

A large player with liquidity could get those loan assets on the cheap if they agree to provide the short term capital liquidity (a reassuring name also probably stems any bank run risk).

Also the FDIC is pay in pay out insurance. The commercial accounts at SVB are in the hundreds of millions and no payments were made for those accounts. The FDIC probably won’t help.
Converting grams to kilograms not so much, but mm to m, mL to L, even g to mL and L to kg (of water) — all the time, and of course in our heads — it's so easy you barely need to think about it.
Do they need one?
I don't think that unsafe constructs are clearly delineated in Zig. @intToPtr and @ptrToInt are in the same namespace as @max. The raw pointer of a slice is a member you can access with mySlice.ptr. A user came into the discord a month or so ago and asked a question about a program they had written where they compared a value to undefined. This is obviously never correct and they meant to make the variable nullable and compare it to null.
What do you mean? What is a universal API?
Have you got any reason to think IQ is a bad measure of cognitive ability? And what makes you think 5.5 points is small? The average is 100 and a typical standard deviation is about 15; one third of a standard deviation looks pretty big to me.
I'm spitballing here but it could be an opportunity for another bank to expand into a new market and acquire new customers. SVB has a unique position in the market, as they specialize in catering to the financial needs of industries such as technology, life science, healthcare, private equity, and venture capital.
Worth noting that the M-series macbooks are UMA so 100GB VRAM is costly but easily accessible. Their GPU performance is nowhere near a 96GB A100, but for sheer VRAM it’s a good choice.
I'm not sure that would be worse than the capital driven land-lord situation. I mean, in terms of renting out a house from a former employee until real estate improves enough to sell. Odds are it would be done via the same rental mgt companies that everyone else uses anyway.

At least as long as the company isn't pushing to keep said properties longer than necessary.
There's a big cultural difference between the US and UK driving signage. In the UK there are fewer signs and it's generally upheld that the speed limit is a limit, and that what constitutes lawful driving may require driving much slower. You're doing to have a hard time suing anyone if you lose control of a car on a tight and narrow bend on a country road but were doing 59mph (i.e. within the limit).

Contrast the US where little yellow signs on every bend suggest a speed at which it's safe to go around, usually a conservative one. I think something missing from US road signage is the idea that more is worse: drivers are trained to ignore signs and speed limits because there are so many verbose and pointless signs around. It's much harder to trust the installers of the signs when they're obviously silly. In the UK it's more as if signs likely indicate some legitimate hazard that a driver will find out about very soon.
Lots of people use it recreationally with the belief it’s not bad for you at all. This kind of research will help to show them that’s not the case.
Code of Theseus – Does iterative delivery create a new system?
See also: The Calhoun Mouse Experiments.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/mathematics/calhoun-roden...

Faced with population pressures, a lot of rats just gave up or altered their behavior.

> Among the aberrations in behavior were the following: expulsion of young before weaning was complete, wounding of young, increase in homosexual behavior, inability of dominant males to maintain the defense of their territory and females, aggressive behavior of females, passivity of non-dominant males with increased attacks on each other which were not defended against

> After day 600, the social breakdown continued and the population declined toward extinction. During this period females ceased to reproduce. Their male counterparts withdrew completely, never engaging in courtship or fighting and only engaging in tasks that were essential to their health. They ate, drank, slept, and groomed themselves – all solitary pursuits. Sleek, healthy coats and an absence of scars characterized these males. They were dubbed "the beautiful ones". Breeding never resumed and behavior patterns were permanently changed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calhoun

This was also just a social structure; those rats might not have been exposed to high levels endocrine disrupting plastics, lead, obesity, etc., that modern humans are. But that mouse behavior looks an awful lot like what we're seeing these days in online incel, or trans, communities, et al.
Updated my post with more details. I can usually make around 15 pages a day with my current set up. That's all I really have space for. But since each page gets folded in the notebook that ends up being quite a few pages. If I start early it takes about 24 hours between making the paper with the mould and deckle, squeezing out the water, and hanging them to dry.

The actually paper making process is pretty quick. I usually just put in some noise cancelling earbuds and just listen to some music while I work!
if you mean the very small mean iq difference at baseline, that is hardly a significant concern, here especially in a longitudinal design. As far as publication bias, do you mean expert in his/her field?
> Companies build what consumers want.

Note how circular this is. You say "consumers", not people. Who is a consumer is also defined by said companies.
This is what Microsoft and Google are doing already. This is why I don't backup my photos to a cloud any more.
I think there's a ton of self deception when it comes to marijuana use. I mean, look with your own eyes and you can clearly see lots of long-term negative effects on users. The studies are only proving what we all really already know.

The same thing was true for cigarettes - even before all of the major studies came out lots of people were able to put together the obvious connection between smoking and lung problems.
SVB has an extremely low loan to deposit ratio (~.45). Most of their assets are in the form of treasuries, bonds, etc.

Depositor concentration is definitely high but that’s not particularly uncommon in banks (though for one of this size it is). But that concentration is what fueled their growth as well.
It's absolutely not the same ball park of risk. First of all, once you have a reasonable business, you'll have a number of employees (and multiple teams). And teams are unlikely to stand up at once, not to mention all your employees leaving at once. I mean unless something is seriously wrong with the company, of course.

That's one thing. The other thing is that employees who leave only hamper future development not the current business/operation. (Again, unless a large number of employees leave in a short time, which means you have screwed up something.) Once you have a stable organization, you can replace individual employees at a reasonable rate without serious issues. (You actually have to prepare for this as employees will leave, no matter what.)

The big difference with cloud providers is that they really offer something that's complementary and not something that can easily be turned into your product. (I mean except for the SaaS companies that really just repackage the cloud offer into an easier to use product. They are definitely at risk all the time.)
Show HN: Trie implementation balancing between time, space and simplicity
Remixing objects and designs consistently like "van gogh" or "super mario" really implies some kind of internal model or "understanding" of the world.

Image generation didn't catch on because of lack of accuracy, but because of how GOOD the results are. It's made artwork immediately accessible to the masses without the huge learning curve. That's where these AI's are going to shine very very quickly.
Very nice they are doing that, but you know what would be a real altruism move ? Open up the source for Nvidia Chips so projects like OpenBSD and the other BSDs can run on hardware from Nvidia.
By investors I'm not talking about venture capitalists, I'm talking about the stock market. I'm just surprised that people are just now realizing how bad it is to have the lion's share of Silicon Valley's financial resources centralized in one institution that doesn't have much in the way of other business.
I actually just bought two Yubikeys. I figured the iCloud announcement was reason enough to pull the trigger on them.

I was actually surprised at how little changes I needed to do, it “just worked” with the most sensitive accounts I had (1Password, Gmail, iCloud). Very cool devices.
There is actually signage alerting people to this hazard, as is the norm, in addition to the lower limit.

Ironically, there is a low bridge a mile before this bit of road with huge signs alerting truck drivers that it is quite a bit 'lower' than they might be reckoning on.

Guess what, it still gets hit - so much so there is now flashing light signage in addition and, thus far, this has also proved ineffective.

I'll save the red traffic light signal example for later...
Pretty interesting point there at the end of the post:

But with the mass layoffs in Big Tech in recent months, this may be an opportunity to re-evaluate the approach to the cloud, consider a reverse migration from the cloud, and hire seasoned professionals of the data center world.

I do think with all these layoffs we can't help but see some interesting things happen from people who have been let go. Either through their work at other places, or new startups.
I think there's still plenty of room for it... but it's going to shift towards actual performance as a larger share of the process though.
Supposedly 150b funds are uninsured and they are already borrowing 15b from the fed which is as much as their capital.

https://twitter.com/FedGuy12/status/1634031134505066496
There is such a taboo around discussing this that even if you present a lot of people with an extensive meta-analysis showing that there are negative effects people will totally brush it away and call it BS. It seems we have swung way too far in the opposite direction from "weed is really bad and makes you crazy and paranoid" to "weed is totally fine". Naturally the truth is somewhere in between, though so many people seem totally sure it's the latter
At one point Peloton had a market cap of $60B; was that 35B real?

At this point, does SVB have positive brand value anymore, or are they negative?
It absolutely can, as evidenced by several comments here.

As a second example. If you tell people that an object is inflammable. I would except that some non-negligible portion of people to assume that the object is not flammable.
The transition masks load times as you interpret the movement as interaction.
What's the source of that quote? The article says exactly the opposite and makes no mention of offshoring.
This is par for the course. When anyone suggests that weed may not be beneficial to your health people who consume it tend to get very defensive.
From a biz perspective, that can be a bad move and signals that you're not in growth phase but in cutting costs to preserve profits. Using cloud derisks you for future costs because it's managed for you, and then you allocate capex towards making better features. Doing it locally means having a team of IT admins/professionals you normally only need a few of which also incurs a lot of cost and risk.
Why is this obsession with decentralized? I don’t see the benefits of it at all. A central server is better if they have a good moderation plan built in. This whole decentralized idea is to wash their hands off moderation and not take a blame for the hellhole it will become. From a pure functional point of view, how can a decentralized network provide any performance guarantee? What am I missing?
> And the fact that it only went down by a mean of 5.5, I feel like that small of a decline could be attributed to someone just having a bad day or being a little groggy when they took the IQ test.

How does your theory explain that the results were particular to certain sub-groups? That is, the 5 point decline was only associated with long-term cannabis users.

(Is your theory that long-term cannabis users are more likely to "have a bad day or be a little groggy"? That would explain the sub-group difference, but it seems pretty similar to the author's results.)
Not looking good.

https://twitter.com/FedGuy12/status/1634031134505066496
Interesting. Looking at their website, I don’t get how SVB was supposed to work. Retail and commercial banks (as opposed to investment banks) make almost all their money from lending, especially against fairly safe assets like real-estate, but SVB doesn’t seem to have a lot of those kind of lending products advertised. Successful banks have deposits just because they need the transfers coming in to keep up liquidity in the payment system, and because they’re involved in the mechanics of lending (actually created as part of lending, not actually “lent out” themselves). But they generally don’t actually make any serious money from having deposits themselves (because there’s no good way to do that in a way that is risk-free enough)…

The lending keeps money coming in (repayments), makes money (interest), etc. - so how was SVB supposed to make money and maintain liquidity without much of that?
Build a REST API with Express, TypeScript, and Deno
Great news! Hopefully this will make most services drop out of Twitter
I don't buy the "lots of teenagers". Maybe a couple, plus a lot of media coverage.

Give me a source.
The pallette for LLM is tokens not characters.
I feel like this is the real disconnect. I wonder how much of the current situation can be attributed to malfeasance in commercial architecture. A huge amount of office layouts are simply inhumane. Take this floor plan [0] I found by searching for "commercial space with private office floor plans" for example. There are cubes with workers' backs positioned literally 3ft from a door to an occupied room.

When I position a desk in spaces I control, I point my back away from doors, windows, and walkways. Literally every cubicle or open office floor plan I've seen in practice seems to explicitly do the opposite. What fluffy things architects or executives have to say about collaboration is irrelevant imo, you are indisputably more physically vulnerable in positions with your back exposed. Some part of me is always trying to be aware of what's happening behind me and it kills my focus. I don't actually fear violence in such situations it's just a reflex.

[0]: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d8/ff/e7/d8ffe768ab6de0db4d76...
My thoughts:

> But what we do is not the same as medicine

It is extraordinarily similar from a systems aspect

> which is highly regulated

Some areas of software development are highly regulated, and this is an environmental constraint instead of a work methods outcome

> has implications for life and death.

Much of software has implications for life and death, especially at firmware level or medical device & AI/ML. If your experience is only with FAANG or web front ends, then sure, this statement has teeth. But software automates processes, and a lot of processes can end in death, either by intent (military) or accident (health, law enforcement, manufacturing)
Odds are the San Francisco Fed has been working overtime since last night and announce SVB is bought out by another bank this weekend.
IIRC it was $99/month and increased based on number of requests. I can't figure out where that was listed to check using the Internet Archive.