skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, the sense in which it "unites a lot of seemingly disparate phenomena" is not that different than the sense in which "purple" unites a lot of purple things. It is true that they are all purple, but ultimately not very interesting or useful. Of course as a concept it is more complex and richer than "purple" hence why academics are able to write so many books and articles using it. I just don't recall ever having read anything that used these concepts to describe phenomena X and then felt like I better understood phenomena X, other than that I know realized it was sort of rhizomey.
Also, most of the Muslim world works off of banking without usury.
Bank CEO: "That’s my ask. We’ve been there for 40 years, supporting you, supporting the portfolio companies, supporting venture capitalists."

I wonder how many people's lives and livelihoods have been upended by this trash saying "it's just business"? Now he wants people to be nice to him? Better idea - go live on the street - it's just business.
There is little chance these governments can finance this adoption rate while funding wars against parts of the world that will continue to flood the market with cheap fossil fuels as a result. Long term, technology will move away from fossil fuel but not with brute force fiat on weak tech and bad politics.
The auto industry isn’t really an oligopoly though. Even if you restrict to “manufactured in the US” there are more options now than there were 30 years ago _because_ the three big manufactures were making trash, and competition did the job it was supposed to.
Crypto is going to have effects on traditional markets.
I've been pretty amazed with its ability to write python, and pretty disappointed with its ability to write nix derivations. The average person can't do both, so I'd say it "knows" much more than any single idealized person.

I figure the discrepancy has to do with one of these languages having an absolutely massive amount of chatter about it, and the other being relatively obscure: It's smart about things that lots of people are smart about, and dumb about things that only a few people are smart about. Well not just "smart" really, but "smart-enough and willing to publish about it".

I think we're going to need fewer people with common knowledge and more people with specialized knowledge, and we're going to have to figure out how to optimize the specialist's outputs so that the widest audience benefits. I love how not-a-zero-sum-game it's going to be.
I don't use Bing or Edge simply because of how shameless Microsoft has become in trying to shove ads in my face. It's disgusting and deplorable. I don't care if their products are any better, I avoid Microsoft products and services as much as possible. Things like turning half the start menu into a space for ads. Things like integrating shopping extensions into Edge. Things like using Windows Update to add a worthless "Meet Now" button to the tray. Utterly fed up with it and I'm put off by everything Microsoft these days.
Reminder - SVB is small bank - highest market cap was 50B -- trading at 5B. Low level of contagion. If it does fail - definitely will be felt by start ups with cash at the bank.
And local variables, including tracking where they are stored at various points in a function
I doubt that. Signal themselves say they can't read the content of messages, so the UK prosecutors could argue that they're not being targeted over the content of the messages but the fact of enabling their concealment.

Recall that in the US there is no explicit right to privacy. You might be able to make a 1A argument that manually encrypting a message is itself a speech act, but the government could theoretically ban the distribution tools like Signal and argue they have the authority under the commerce clause, which stands on a equal Constitutional footing to the 1A.

I don't think this is likely, but I could easily see it being offered as the justification to honor a UK ban.
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They apparently got a confession from the alleged murderer (of course, one might question a confession obtained while the suspect's constitutional rights were suspended) but couldn't even place him at the scene of the murder.

> And let's be honest, once you admit to planting evidence, there's not a lot of credibility left...

The most likely and obvious conclusion of this is that they got the wrong guy for the murder, not that they killed him.

> People said the same thing about the lab leak hypothesis back in 2020.

'People' also say smoking doesn't cause cancer, marijuana causes reefer madness, and that Bigfoot is real. 'People' believe and say all sorts of stupid things. You're going to need a better argument.

> As with any law, let's see if it stands the test of courts.

The application of martial law in the US has already stood the test of 68 invocations. How many more invocations are you going to need before you are convinced of the basic fact that the US constitution can and has been suspended during states of emergency?

And you're pointing fingers at Canada for invoking the WMA three times, and the Emergencies act once? [1]

This is a completely ridiculous double standard. Please open your eyes.

[1] When the Canadian CORAF has explicit, clear provisions for when those kinds of acts can be invoked, and by whom?
Yes and at that point the boss of the ECB shows up, calmly does a press conference at which he says "whatever it takes" and everyone goes back to sleep knowing the Germans are on the job.
Thanks! One thing that I've been learning is that a handful of developers I know are integrating ChatGPT into their workflows more and more.

1) Use ChatGPT to generate small blobs of code
2) tweak it and integrate it
3) repeat

Interestingly, this is very similar to how Second operates as well – but the tweaking and integrating is automated.
What's a "real app"? How much does it cost? How long until it's ready? How well does it integrate with other systems you're already using? Can the users extend it or do you have to purchase a support contract and still pay extra $$$$$$ to get even a basic feature added?

Companies and individuals keep using Excel and other things because they work for them today. They integrate well enough with the other things they're using. It's a mess, don't get me wrong, and a security nightmare. But you need to come up with something that Alice in Accounting, Bob in Billing, Charlie in Contracting and all the other non-technical folks can use and extend themselves.

Locking them into "real apps" is the reason they break out Excel. They need to get things done, and the apps they're provided are insufficient so they make (or inherit from their predecessors) their own.
Until the supreme dictator decrees this we need to figure out something that works in a market economy as we don’t have a command economy.
So is this related to Silvergate?
> As for PC-based systems, I would be very surprised if deep learning models weren't being used in production somewhere.

They definitely are. ~5 years ago I built a PC-based system that detected grain direction of wooden boards (looking at the end of the board).

Initially I resisted the ML approaches and my first attempt was basically hand-crafted image analysis pipeline- split the image in segments, apply Gabor filter with kernels of various angles and try to fit a curve to results. It kind-of-worked but I wasn't entirely happy with it's performance on the test data.

Even the simple classifier models that could execute on a fanless PC without a GPU outperformed my solution, and after a few more training runs the handcrafted code was replaced by #include <tensorflow.h>.

This year I'll have to extend the system with on-site training mode, where an operator has a pushbutton to label the images and re-train the model.
we're they specifically unsophisticated in the way they bought treasuries/other bonds? One could look at the zero risk weighting of treasuries and buy only those to satisfy capital requirements, but you'd think it would be obvious that you would end up with more exposure to interest rate risk than is prudent. Or is this truly such an improbable swing in interest rates coupled with demand for withdrawals that it is reasonable that they aren't expected to anticipate it ?
All the banks passed their stress test this year

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/bcre...
Banks lose billions in value after tech lender SVB stumbles
It exists but you have to use their web UI: https://docs.gandi.net/en/gandimail/common_operations/manage...
Themselves. They have magic money printing machines.
Great question!

We're still very early stage and stealth so it's not quite clear to us where our lines are with regards to special sauce/significant competitive advantage.

As the CTO (and lead dev) I'd lean towards open sourcing it (because it's awesome and we're standing on the shoulders of open source giants already) but it may become clear it's too differentiating to open source. As I said it's just too early to tell.

What I can say is if we open source it HN will be the first to hear about it!
Things have improved. Both alpine and void-musl are usable desktops nowadays; my DAW is on the latter.
You can pretend that average people aren't making things worse all you want. Does not take away from the truth. Internet was better before the iPhone made it easy for normies to access it.
I've worked with the sub-$1k 200A knockoffs and they are quite usable
Perl 5 has that.

Perl 5 seems to have all these annoying boilerplate lines that you need to add to every file in order to get “Perl The Good Parts”. But I think (I read) that they managed to boil it down to just one line.
There's a lot of progress on this recently with things like conformal prediction.
It always seems odd to me that countries are willing to go across international boundaries for such a vital part of the economy.
If they could just be self-sufficient with a load of nuclear power plants then they would have less political leverage problems
Also, I'm pretty sure all the major smart camera vendors have projects underway which utilize NVidia Jetson.
Sarcasm acknowledged. :) It's okay if you don't like the browser I like.
The Nord Stream Andromeda Story: What We Know and What We Don’t
same logic applied to the rings of power. Amazon has a problem realising that a niche...is a niche.
I would amend that there is valid reasoning other than empirical analysis, but also that chatgpt is capable of generating text demonstrating those types of reasoning.
To my understanding, that included fruit sugar, not only added sugar:

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/food-types/how-does-su...

> The government recommends that free sugars – sugars added to food or drinks, and sugars found naturally in honey, syrups, and unsweetened fruit and vegetable juices, smoothies and purées – should not make up more than 5% of the energy (calories) you get from food and drink each day.

But even if the recommendation is added sugar -- what is the real difference between added and "natural" occurring sugar? Does this distinction invalidate my comment above? The point being that it's quite possible and even easy to consume several times, or even order above the reasonable amount of sugar by eating fruits. The apple is not even the sweetest one.
Regulators have been putting immense pressure on big banks to hold adequate capital reserves since 2008 and they have been especially turning up the heat for the last 5 years. Moreover, it is clear that regulators will never allow a US bank to hold more than 3% of assets as crypto ever again.
Project's official site: https://xlinks.co/morocco-uk-power-project
SVB CEO to VCs: please don’t tell anyone to withdraw their money or we could be in trouble

VCs: [immediately texting after hearing the above from the CEO] attention all portfolio companies, SVB seems to be in trouble, don’t keep your money with them
I like the idea of some sort of curation process but I’m much less interested in an algorithmic ranking and much more interested in _why_ a particular recording is favoured so that I can see whether it lines up with what I understand about the work.

The example I raise is the hundreds of recordings of the Bach Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin. An algorithmic ranking would likely put Hilary Hahn’s recordings near the top. But I find her approach very “direct”, metrical, and “in the string.” Christian Tetzlaff has a more “Baroque” reading. As a listener, I would want to know that. But this is probably too much to ask. I was happy enough when Apple started recognizing multi-movement works. Now if they stop calling everything a “song” I’ll be ecstatic.
> If they could just be self-sufficient with a load of nuclear power plants

Given that most countries don't have a source of uranium, I don't see how this is any better from a geopolitical security perspective.
Ongoing discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35086336
I think OpenAI plans to continuously update ChatGPT (aka "gpt-3.5-turbo") but I don't think it has done so yet.
SVB Financial falls 60% as tech bank looks to raise more cash
its not related, but its the same problem.

They took the deposits and bough "safe" bonds (eg treasuries). Which they're allowed to carry on their books at cost, even though their market price drops as interest rates rise.

But in both SVB and silvergates cases the drop in the market value of their assets coincided with an increase in withdrawals. They were forced to sell some of these bonds to fund withdrawals, requiring them to realize the market price. The accounting distorted the value of their assets to an extent, and the withdrawals laid that distortion bare
I almost signed up for them via Stripe Atlas recently but hadn’t pulled the trigger yet. Glad I didn’t
That's insanely unrealistic in the near zero interest rate era of the past decade and merely a really terrible idea with more normal rates.

Banks have some set of relatively fixed cost, in terms of systems and staff. In a low rate environment, there's virtually no margin to be made on short term lending. Stretching the duration for higher yield is the only way to get margin to cover expenses.

Even in a high rate environment, most of a bank's reserves tend to be short term - savings accounts, 1 year CDs, etc. The things people want to borrow for (e.g. houses, cars) tend to have a longer time horizon to pay off. So if you want banks to actually make those kinds of loans, duration matching doesn't work.
> Why make such a rude and useless comment?

I'm matching the tone of the comment I'm replying to.

> If you don't like what people say you don't have to read or listen.

Speaking of irony ... you can also just move along.
RSUs are less tax efficient because they are considered ordinary income, marked to market, at the time they vest. ISOs, on the other hand, are subject to moer advantageous capital gains, and there's more control over when taxes will be realized.

The downsides of ISOs are:
- They cost money out of pocket to exercise.
- They have to expire within 90 days of separation from the company.
- They get complicated when you can't simply early exercise+83b them.

As I said earlier, I think RSUs are ultimately probably better after the exercise cost becomes non-negligble. But ISOs have their perks under the current tax code.

Ultimately, I think the IRS should scrap the ISO. Just let employers award stock with a cash basis at vest time and gains realized at the point of liquidity. It would be much simpler for everyone to deal with.
Comparing ten-years-ago Java with todays: Yeah, it’s come a long way but it’s nowhere close to what Scala is (for better or worse; I truly don’t know).
But for a make believe weld, not a real one.
From my understanding you don't need a lot of uranium to run reactors for quite a while. That's one of the reason it is such a promising lead.
This keyboard is a computer. They should have built a server of some kind (REST API, whatever) to manage the keyboard and documented it. They could provide a client for Windows, Linux and Mac OS developers would have built one or many of them for their OSes.
>Most domain registrars don't care at all, and won't help.

Don't leave us hanging like that! Which are the registrars that do care, and will help then? Even if they cost more.
That makes sense, I'm not actually mad at them. It's more like the frustration of a kid looking up at a crane operator, or wanting to get into the cockpit of one of the museum planes. So close, but so far...
Is there a difference between

dedent`something ${code}`

and

dedent(`something ${code}`)

? Not sure to understand the advantage of tagged strings here...
How do you get feedback when developing websites?
For those that develop websites… how do you get/ work with feedback from cliens? Any better way than taking notes, making screenshots and then writing it down into tasks for developers?
For those out of French: https://archive.is/b0qY9 (Valentine Lacambre, co-founder of Gandi.net) / https://archive.is/rxDO1 (AlternB)
It does appear that my current usage (as confirmed on their linked dashboard) will be covered by $10/mo plan I'm already effectively on.

Without even considering the early adopter benefit, this pricing update for me is a nothing-burger.
You can stock it though, in case foreign countries cut supply short you're not suddendly out of power but instead have time to plan a negotiation or attempt to source it from elsewhere.
At least uranium can be stockpiled.
Deicing fluid is expensive, $24/gallon or more, and an airliner might a few hundred gallons or more to deice. Also, when deicing is needed, it's fair to say _lots of airplanes_ are in contention for a limited amount of deicing equipment leading to costly delays which can compound and cause system-wide consequences. Suffice to say, any improvements to deicing aircraft quicker and more efficiently certainly has strong economic incentive.

If buying this software + some oculuses results in even a couple of minutes faster deicing or a few gallons of fluid saved on each airplane this would be an easy sell to airport FBOs.
Don't count on it. The fabs currently being invested in are designed for high-tech chips, they are completely unsuitable for solar panels. Solar panel factories are a completely different beast, and labor cost is probably the biggest factor when it comes to choosing a factory location.

Cheap and inefficient panels are usually exactly what you want. You are rarely space or weight limited, so it is all about getting the highest power capacity for your money. Why spend twice as much for 10% more capacity when you can get 100% more capacity for the same money by simply placing more panels?
If the jobs require similar skills/aptitude/talent and a similar level of "investment" in job-specific training and experience, then the market force expectation is that as the information about the pay gap becomes clear, potential engineers would avoid EE jobs in favor on CS jobs, and EE training in favor of web development training, until the shortage of employees forces hardware companies to pay robot programmers as good as SAAS programmers or be unable to hire robot programmers.
Obviously the high dynamic range is a challenge, but besides that: car reverse camera's cost a few bucks, I don't think this would need to be Way more expensive. It also doesn't have to be stereoscopic and 2048x2048 I'd say... - it would quickly be a step up from the current solution which only allows you to see the welding arc
>You don't embrace SO overlords though

I mean, don't we? The number of times I've heard SWE humorously defined as "people who copy and paste from Stackoverflow"...

(My favorite: https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/03/31/the-key-copy-paste/)
FDIC insurance is worthless for companies, as most would need more than $250k monthly just to make payroll.
> My understanding is that neutral goes to ground at the substation

Close. It's at the transformer.

North American "split phase" power has the neutral center tapped into the transformer winding. The two 120v lines are phased 180° from each other with respect to neutral. Line to line gets you 240v, line to neutral is half that, 120v.

Downstream in the breaker panel itself, the grounding conductor (ground) and grounded conductor (neutral) are bonded at the panel. The ground wire is basically just an alternate path back to the box.
Collective Genius
That's why I specified an industrial machine. No fab shop is going to use a 20% duty cycle machine. Granted, you can weld just as well with a cheap machine.
I'm amazed by the NIMBYism for the middle of the desert. Yes it's not completely devoid of life and impact, but as far as places for generating solar power go, it's about as good as you're gonna get.
Extensive discussion from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31143636

"UK-Morocco 10GW Renewable Electricity Interconnector Planned"

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Most of your points are not really valid if you understand Kotlin. It's not different than understanding Java really...

> Kotlin adds Jetbrains only as IDE

Not true, you can use any IDE you want. Of course IntelliJ is the "blessed" IDE, but really, Kotlin is just a bunch of libs, any IDE will work.

> additional build plugins

I don't see why this would matter. Any non-trivial build is going to use a bunch of plugins.

> an ecosystem of Kotlin libraries for more idiomatic code

Which are optional.

> stack traces completly unrelated to Kotlin as JVM only understands Java

I don't know what you mean. The stack traces are from bytecode, which Kotlin compiles to just like Java. The stacks are identical...

> needs plenty of boilerplate to emulate co-routines and functions in JVM bytecodes

You do not write the boilerplate though. That's the difference. Of course all higher level languages with High Order functions are going to suffer this same issue. It's abstractions all the way down..

You probably already use Kotlin and don't even know it. The popular okHttp library from Square is Kotlin - but you'd never know that if you just used it in your Java project.
As a percentage of power consumed I would assume 800W is trivial compared to accelerating 7000lbs to 60mph.
Payable on Death...
I fully agree with nuclear fusion power plants, but there is so much free solar power that is currently being “wasted”.
Nuclear fusion reactors are many decades away and hopefully that’s when our global power problems will be (hopefully) solved :-)
Just to be clear, Microsoft and Google don't back up their e-mail services, it's a common misconception about "cloud" services.
Nysed says you don't need to know CS to teach CS
It’s insane how these articles somehow conjure up some kind of nonsensical bad for environment arguments. Putting solar panels in the desert is good for the environment. It reduces the ground temperatures and lets more plants and animals survive. It might also slow down further desertification.
Credit Suisse is facing liquidity issues and tarnished credibility after a rash of scandals and screwups, see https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/spies-lies-chairman... for a summary. From your link it looks like their finance reporting in recent years is now under question as well. It doesn't look related to what happened at SVB or Silvergate.
I very much dislike how these posts often result in a very predicable "but nuclear..." binary argument.

Here is a crazy idea: don't put all your eggs in one basket. Try to do both.

This project only addresses 8% of UK needs, plenty of room for other sources in the portfolio.

How is this a bad thing?
This is actually a pretty persuasive argument to me. My frustration comes from using it to satisfy a machine. Humans are much more flexible.
They use discounted cash flows to model them, which are dependent on loans as a key component.

VCs also use loans themselves from time to time, and their investors can use loans to invest in them.