skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed - it really began in late November, 2021. We hit a peak then and we also started to see some of the highest flyers begin to taper off and come down. The not as darling names were first. By early 2022 we started to see the entire segment draw down and it accelerated into Q2 of 2022. The flimsiest startups that weren't generating revenue yet were the canary as they were the first to start doing layoffs in May, June, and July of 2022. As the industry came to realize that the Fed was intent on raising rates, the middle and bigger players started to plan scale downs. Q3 saw revenues starting to slip and Q4 was a bloodbath for revenues. Just about everyone seemed to cut 10%-20%.

Q1 of 2023 has stabilized a bit and began with a market rally, but it could just be a dead cat bounce on the path to lower lows as the year goes on. Seeing SVB implode suddenly is ominous not so much because of them, but what it means for the industry right now. I was hoping that we maybe hit the trough in Q4 of 2022 but it would appear this year will be bleak and I sadly suspect we'll be seeing more layoffs in the second half of this year if the first half continues to miss.

I hope I'm wrong. We are about at the point where a bear market ends (around 9 months) but that's just an average. We could very well have quite a few more months or even the entire year and into next year ahead. High flying tech has been in a bear market now for over a year, although it probably needed a correction.
> the case of a run-away string

that, i'd guess, is one of the reasons why most languages don't allow multi-line strings without special syntax
I agree, we need to stop the EU overreach immediately.
I tend to favour A5 spiral bound Pukka Pads.

Fairly firmly at the cheap & functional end of the scale, and the right size to stuff in bags etc.

(Link: https://pukkastationery.com/pukka-pads-a5-metallic-jotta-not... )
What I said was accurate about their intentions. If they said the same thing I did, they'd be saying the quiet part out loud.

They're accusing everyone left of them as teaching "a doctrine", and they're accusing administration of unilaterally making mandates, but then clarifying that affinity groups were consulted.

This is the type of article where they pretend to care about free speech. They tend to keep those separate from when they try to influence legislation on what can and can't be taught.
Stop spreading misinformation. Hell stop replying to me. You're basically a cultist at this point with your irrational emotional devotion.

That's not a 'weaker version of pledge', it's part of a much larger framework with much greater enforcement capabilities.
I am not making my notes in coherent and chronological order so my notebook would be random stuff of what I was working that day on followed by more random stuff from other days.

I am using cheap notebooks so I can rip pages from them and then throw them away (if I was just thinking on a paper), digitize them or put them into a folder with pages from same project and digitize them when project is closed.
1. Lots more communication because it lowers the barrier to composing simple, effective messages. “Write a polite complaint letter to my gym asking them to play music other than Prince” changes the ROI on casual notes.

2. Much, much easier for non-native speakers to ensure writing is grammatically and tonally correct.

3. Huge reduction in make-work exercises where the idea is to just soak up an hour of someone’s time to validate they have some understanding of a topic.
The ads aren't the problem of social networks. They are the problem of the Web.

Usenets were the first social networks, but their monetization scheme didn't allow for mega international companies to exist: they were paid for to ISPs and ISPs only pay other ISPs for traffic, they don't pay for individual services.

Email used to be the same way... sigh.

Web became the platform that enabled for advertisement to be mixed into the product. I cannot tell if Hotmail or similar saw the promise of ads on the Web, or did they "accidentally" succeed -- whichever the case, it's the Web that took over other Internet applications because it made it possible to monetize it in a different and a more scalable way.

Ideally, we'd have an Internet application for social networks, instead of it being a Web application. So that we pay our ISP for usage. We just really don't have that kind of application (yet?) And, I'm not sure ISPs are thrilled about this (will the effort be worth the revenues?). Definitely, companies like Meta aren't interested in that, as that would undermine their core business.

But then, who knows... ad spam seems to be able to find its way no matter the technology. You can think about SMS as being similar to an Internet application, and you do get spam ads over SMS too.

Another problem of social network as Internet application would be the search. Search works better when it's governed by a single entity which cares about indexing the data in various ways. If it's distributed, that'd be very challenging to implement, especially because it wouldn't be clear who's responsible for storing the indices and who pays whom in the end.

Another challenge would be the connection between user's identity and their ISP... well, there are a lot of things that would need work, but I don't think it's not possible overall. In legislative terms, we'd need to recognize social networks as a service similar to postal service, and regulate it accordingly...
Probably the same reason the people who still work at twitter show up, it's either some weird sense of loyalty or perhaps it helps them feel like part of the "those who grind" clique.

I dunno man, people are weird.
It is also just not caring. In the US the largest voter bloc is non-voter most of the time, even in presidential elections, with primaries and midterms skewing even worse. It is better in Germany though, but not vastly so.
Well, you have expicit allocators. A popular branch of the field calls this ‘dependency injection’. It's true that the current standard library never allocates implicitly, because that would be bad on constrained projects, but there's nothing stopping you from writing code that does so, or presumably even using libc.
> literally had 2x4's on fire stuck in the combustion chamber

I REALLY wouldn't want to be the person tasked with starting that fire.
Yeah, that is generally bad. While it may be legal, I think it's entirely unethical to have conflicting interests at play in a business. Part of why I hate that Sony, for example, controls both the tech (Bluray, hardware, etc) and media investments. Or insurance providers owning stakes in pharma.
Just chiming in based on your comment. Support some developers and buy the pro version of DroidCam. This might sound like a silly suggestion but it works for me: Save an old Android with a decent camera. It doesn't have to have stellar specs, I use a 5 year old Galaxy. DroidCam works flawlessly for me using an old phone with a good camera both wireless as well as with USB connected. All of my software, including my browsers (all on Linux) see my DroidCam as a webcam with no hiccups. I also ended up getting DroidCam OBS and have used multiple phones with OBS to easily create a multi-camera-angle scene for fancy video conferencing/streaming. Add a noise cancelling / directional mic setup for $15 and you have a hacky, albeit, modular and rather quality setup.
Oracle, and third party software was the example I used from the start. SELinux absolutely can protect Oracle or any complex program.

If you want t discuss this further, illustrate how pledge can protect against a remote root exploit in Oracle as good or better than SELinux can.
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I think this is in large part because they are reacting against the breathless hype that LLMs are either already sentient themselves, and thus we need to start giving them rights and/or being terrified that they're coming for us, or they're the last step before that happens (with basically the same conclusions, just time-shifted slightly).
Right! Okay, that makes sense. So the failure on the assets end of the balance sheet was relying on bonds that were purchased at times of historically low interest.
Everyone loves to run their own server in the garage until they’re on vacation in Thailand and the power goes out back home.

I actually saw a very impressive solution to that problem on an indie hacker forum recently. And wow could that person save effort with even just a $5/mo VPS.
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You’re confusing liquidity with solvency.

For most banks, it is fine to assume a 20 year deposit window because deposits are fungible and for most of recent history deposit bases have gone up.

SVB was wrong for not assuming that the 2021 deposit spike was (in hindsight obviously) a short term blip, but you can look at their loan book on page 19 of [0].

It's not immediately clear to me that there's some sort of systemic risk in VCs/PE firms not paying back their loans, but given how circular the tech ecosystem is, maybe we get there.

[0]https://s201.q4cdn.com/589201576/files/doc_financials/2022/q...
I expect the answer is that printing is a rat's nest of patent protection, trade secrets, etc.

It's not easy to make a laser printer from scratch.

And now you want a business model based on charging commodity costs for both the hardware and consumables. Which leaves essentially $0 for development costs, which are substantial.
The problem is there are no reports on what counter terrorism units achieved, how many potential attacks they thwarted because it would jepoardize their work, at least that's the mantra. So it's a you have to believe us that these measures is a must situation.

The problem is, that the silicon we use in everyday hardware is a black box. Same applies to online services. We do not even know how Youtube's and other big services' and hardware units' lawful intercept/secretservice interface looks like and what options do they offer to surveil and manipulate (!) average people. So there is deffo zero insight into this matter.

Who do you believe? It's like religion if you don't know what to look for. So... choose a god and believe.
What doesn't seem to be so explicitly stated is that due to rates going up, the bonds are worth less than they were when rates were high. So they wouldn't have enough money if they turned the bonds into money.

Guy lends you 100 at 3%, you buy 100 of bonds than pay you 5%. Guy asks for his money back, your bonds are worth only 80, big problem.
I don't think it's quite as bad as you're suggesting. Operators are control-plane, your other examples are data-plane. You can also only run one Deployment controller in a kube cluster, but many Deployments. And you can run many controllers for a single CRD, see the Gateway APIs for example, but it's not as common and is more work.

That said, I do think the direction that Kube has gone with CRDs, by leaning into making them more like built-in apis instead of allowing them to be differentiated as an external extension point has limited what you can do with them.

When ThirdPartyResrouces just carved out a group and a name in the API it was simple to have multiple copies and multiple versions running together in a cluster. But that has become more difficult with time, especially with ConversionWebhooks - a feature that forces all controllers for an API to agree not just on a version, but on the specific ways versions convert into each other.
This associative effect is interesting in that there’s not a causal proven relationship albeit many common alternatives have been ruled out. It could very well be the kind of people who partake in weed were already predisposed to losing iq and developing dementia risk factors for some other abstract reason, and we can use weed smoking as a signal of something else being wrong.

Fascinating stuff tho
after seeing so many segfaults in the bun.sh project, I don't feel confident enough to use it.

Sure it allows you to move fast but at what cost
Agreed. I've seen steel thread used to refer to a technique in developing new applications. In this context, it means building one feature to completion before starting others. For example in web development, build a screen that uses a route and an api endpoint to fetch data from your datastore before building other screens using only mocks.

Edit: the advantage of this is that any systemic problems will become apparent quicker; your earlier tasks become a proof of concept for the viability of the project as a whole.
It might be interesting to give this more context. Does five points of IQ loss in later life actually change outcomes? And what about the rest? In my experience older cannabis users tend to be more centered, pleasant, easygoing, and are better at retaining their social support networks over long periods. My cannabis use has made my life tolerable, so if there really is a loss in IQ then that might not be such a bad price to pay. Comparing my work history with others my age it really isn't clear that my long term regular cannabis use has made any negative change that isn't visible in others.

It seems like these studies are mostly about confirming bias. People who are judgemental and don't like cannabis can confirm that cannabis users are bad and slow and degraded and so on. But we are still here we need to share the world somehow so it might make sense to think about balance and trade offs rather than only ever keeping the emphasis on no, no, no, you might degrade some of your capacities.
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Increasing software development speed 6x would be fairly world changing already, wouldn't it?

Add in all the automation of customer service via actually good Chatbots and lots of very cheap (and fairly high quality) copywriting and it seems world changing to me.
Seems to me, when this is all said and done, there will be nothing but Bibles on FL School bookselves.

25 years or so ago, for a convention (handicap related convention), I went to a large city in a very "red" US State. I had to go to the mall for something. In that two floor mall there were 4 Book Stores that sold nothing but Bibles. And to top that off, seemed every other Radio Station (FM) there were preachers reading the Bible.

I could see 1 Bible Store in that mall, but 4 in the same mall ???? How many types of christian bibles are there ?

Where I live, I never ever saw a book store that sold nothing but Bibles. In book stores here, there would be a small section in the rear that had various bibles.

So, that is my prediction for FL, you herd it first here :)
> a good moderation plan

^ This is the reason decentralized is better for everyone, including Meta. At a certain scale, content moderation goes from "hard" to "actually impossible."

With enough users, you will eventually have an Kurdish knitting group that meets in Turkey, who uses ethnic slurs ironically as a commentary on the government's treatment of immigrants, and you'll have to unravel the whole thing when someone complains. And the whole conversation is happening in Kurdish.
At least 1,400 employees are listed on LinkedIn as working there. Are they all imminently going to be out of a job?
Ironically, the INS Act of 1965 was sold to the public with a lie: https://www.history.com/news/immigration-act-1965-changes

> The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants,” lead supporter Sen. Edward “Ted” Kennedy (D-Mass.) told the Senate during debate. “It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs.”
Analytics, AdSense, Doubleclick, Blogger, Google Groups, Google Voice, Picasa, AdMob, Postini, recaptcha, Nest. AdWords was stolen from Overture, after their ridiculous idea of a monthly, flat fee for a keyword failed. Afaik, Gmail is the only successful Google product that wasn't an acquisition.
Thanks for the example.

I will note that you didn't use it for most of the coding. And that looking at your code, you also seem perfectly capable of figuring out the AppleScript if you had wanted to. In an amount of time that would not have wildly increased the total project time.

So overall, this looks very "stone soup" to me. Did it get you over a hump? Surely. Did it actually contribute much in terms of code? Not from what I see in your script.
Adding decentralization to your twitter competing product isn’t gonna out content twitter which is what most care about.
Surely the cloud managed solution reduces the amount of custom magic that I have to put into place to keep things running. Everything is standardized & documented. There is a huge community to turn to if help is needed.

And very less work is required if I get hit by a bus and someone else is now the owner of the huge system that I previously owned.
I'm familiar with the product. They help you optimize your SEO, provider serp scores, backlink health, organic keywords performance etc. Basically, everything to do with Google SEO.

I think calling them "just a bunch of hadoop cluster" might be disservice to the amount of effort that goes into building a product like this esp. When millions of digital marketing professionals use their service.
Very curious to understand how this works. For all intents and purposes, if the bank was unable to raise capital, it is at least nominally bankrupt. What value would another entity find in a bank that has failed?

To be fair, the government may find value in shoring this bank up. That's a different story. The bank will be essentially nationalized at that point.
Decentralized implies smaller scale than centralized. Smaller scale means less burden on moderation. Smaller scale means less resources required. Smaller scale means a better community.
What part of it was any good? I remember terrible UI and strong connection between gmail account (which is primary email for many people), social activity and search/browse history. Google pushed something that we didn't want, at the same time killing something that many really wanted and used (Wave and Reader).
> The problem is that companies expect employees to be mobile when they are not

I would add, many software companies expect employees to work in such a way that working remotely has to be viable anyway. My direct coworkers were split across multiple Bay Area offices. I had projects going on with other companies, some of them in Seattle. I was encouraged to attend and present at conferences in other cities. I dealt with teams distributed across Europe.

Now, getting face to face time with all of these people is an important part of building relationships, but most of those meetings simply have to be online. I noticed that even though I had a home office, my boss virtually never saw me doing my most important work, because we were both in and out of meetings. I was willing to be dutiful employee who shows up to the office, and attends meetings in-person when I could, but invariably someone else in the meeting wouldn't or couldn't and we'd have to dial them in remotely anyway (ironically, this happen the most with a certain company who claims that they can't make remote work viable - their own employees would not attend meetings in person at their own employer's office).

If you're already in that situation, why can't I live where I want? You already can't assess my productivity by looking at me at a desk. I already have to have a significant remote component to all meetings. When I really need to travel, I can travel. But day to day, you've already had to have the technology and processes to allow people to be distributed for a long time. Let me take advantage of it too.
How are companies doing which are profitable and are valued mainly on that instead of their "future" growth?

(I understand that Big tech is also doing layoffs because they massively overhirred during the pandemic)
Ha!

I probably should get a mullvad account just to support them (even if I use my own VPN).

Something that is not discussed much in Sweden is surveillance via the bank system. Banks have access to customers' transaction information and use it for two purposes: the "useful" feature of telling their customer how many of their purchases were e.g. food vs entertainment or house rent, and--of course--for advertising their products and services to their customers.

And then the government has legislation to demand that banks mass-report certain information from private citizens, like revenue/expenses for financial services (i.e. interest paid on loans and capital earnings from financial assets) plus any international transactions. One small stumble down the slippery slope of surveillance, and the Swedish government will be able to build profiles of each citizen using the information collected by banks.
If we look at the number of terrorism incidents in Sweden Vs say the number of times a public official got in trouble for abusing state power as well, then the two conclusions is that either the existing mechanisms are sufficient for thwarting terrorism or the threat of terrorism is overplayed to begin with
One of the biggest improvements to text models like Image/Parti which are much better than Stable Diffusion is that they typically either train a much larger text model from scratch, or plug in a very good pre-trained text model like T5. This instantly upgrades their images.

It turns out that the image models already understand the low-level details of images well, and it's high-level reasoning/composition that is screwing their samples up - which is due to the poor text embedding they receive as a summary. (You can't generate a good image of 'a blue ball left of a red ball' if your text embedding is confused what 'left' is, no matter how high quality you are able to generate 'blue ball' or 'red ball' individually.) So, I would not be surprised if hands are improved by simply using a much better text model. (And why not plug in GPT-3 or PaLM for even better results...)

That said, hands are also like text-inside-images in being small, highly variable, and intrinsically difficult. And we know that the larger models solve text rendering simply by scaling up an OOM or 2 past SD. (You can see this from the text samples in the papers, and also more recently from Stability's Deep Floyd samples they've been teasing on Twitter.) So either way, scaling will probably solve hands soon.
I use a very similar analogy except it's either a meeting room with many people or an open floor that is the subnet. It helps explain BUM (Broadcast, Unknown Unicast, and Multicast) traffic in a more natural way e.g. ARP is you walking into a cube farm and shouting "is Jeff here?" and then he raises his hand so you can deliver the latest printouts directly to him without disturbing the others. In that case the individual is the IP, the cube floor is the subnet, and the higher level analogies are the same.

The BAS relation for SDN is interesting. I've always avoided any analogies with SDN since different people have different ideas on what qualifies as SDN or what SDN is going to do but that's a really good choice given the rest of the analogies.
You still need a team to manage the stuff on AWS. Probably the team needs to be even bigger.

If you’re a business leader, you‘re probably just blindly following what your peer business leaders are doing, that’s why you’re on AWS (in most cases at least)
Seems like much of the SVB customer base doesn't have a/much choice with who will provide banking for them at the early stage.

Seems like the reason for acquiring this risking market would be to transition your the clients who succeed into the parent bank for their future banking needs. Sure you will get a bunch of small/medium sized clients for a mega bank, but they are just fishing for a couple giant paydays and want the next Apple or Amazon to start banking with them.