skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK, the Highway Code is clear that the horn may be used only to alert another driver of your presence. It is preferable to flash your lights, especially late at night. It is not permissible to use the horn to celebrate a sports victory, to signal sympathy with a striker's picket, to demand that another driver get out of your way, or for any other purpose than to signal your presence.

The Highway Code isn't law, but you are required to be familiar with it to get a driving licence, and failure to comply will predispose courts to find you guilty if you are charged with harrassment, obstruction, intimidation and so on.

Dunno how it works in Canada.
A suspiciously criminal portfolio website
And they would probably be right
What resources do you consider in high regard?
Is there a way to tell which banks are the weaker banks? I know the fed does stress tests but I've read that Silicon Valley Bank didn't take part, so I don't know how to get the data.
The ~60% is the easy to value marketable assets SVB owned. The FDIC will do the accounting over the weekend and pay out whatever they calculate is covered on Monday.

The loans SVB made are less liquid and are harder to market. The FDIC will try to find a buyer and may agree to backstop some losses to get a deal done. This won't take more than a couple weeks and might get done this weekend too.
Yes. That's not the whole point of all jobs.
It's hard to take your analysis seriously with no knowledge of Roku, a major brand who has existed for a very long time.
Why? Why don’t you see it as a financial institution taking on a bunch of risk and a regulator attempting to mitigate that risk, then when that risk materializes the public has to step in anyway?

It’s the archetypical story of financial history for thousands of years. You can tell that’s the case because we even have FDIC and it is able to shut down a bank on Friday and open it back up on Monday. Literally the oldest story in the book!
Reversing a packet protocol: The FusionFall protocol (2020)
Scale, and low profit coffee is sold alongside higher profit items. Similar to a gas station, where the gasoline losses are offset by the store purchases.
I did a very similar thing. I love the experience of coffee shops and neighborhood-style bars. I really want to produce a particular experience for others to enjoy.
So I started modeling the business and.. holy shit. At BEST I'm clearing 40-60k/y with a single shop. But that ain't no 40h work week with health insurance.. probably it will fail and I'm out 200k.
> I don't understand why people are blowing this out of proportion.

SVB collapsed and is the largest bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis.

It is unlikely to cause contagion (though some disagree) which means luckily the Fed won't raise interest rates to mitigate that risk (unless they also think there's risk of contagion, like some experts do).
You're not bailing out the bankers, you're bailing out the companies with money in the bank.

The consequence is that otherwise healthy companies using the bank can't make payroll, pay their vendors or their rent - which has cascading effects.

Worth noting the Treasury made a profit on the last bailout to the tune of ~$10 billion.
Starbucks can negotiate way better deals on rent than mom and pops.

IIRC McDonalds even went as far as to become a landlord many of its franchisees, so it pays rent to itself.

For many small businesses - especially mom and pops, the majority of the surplus value is captured by property owners, and the amount has increased over the years. This is partly how Piketty's r > g came about.
if you downsize an image to 170x170px and then blow it up so it's visible to a camera from across the room without any sort of blurring, it's not going to look like anything and the camera's object detection won't recognize it as the moon - it's just going to look like a huge pixel grid.
That's what I said. Did you even read my comment?
This is my exact worry with things like chat gpt polluting the scrapable internet. The feedback loop might eventually ruin whatever value the models currently have by filling them with incorrect but plentiful generated nonsense.
Love that book. Such useful content for anybody thinking of starting something.
Norway uses US dollar for oil trade.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/petrodollars.asp
But then I’m having cheap coffee in a McDonald’s.
Morgan Stanley is for wealth management. Chase for retail.
> also in the circle where 'concept videos' gets made for some or other tech proposals.

What do you mean by this?
My experience unfortunately is that in those nice, cozy places where I would expect good coffee they sometimes don't even know what coffee beans they have. Solutions to that is going to roasting company (most of them also have small coffeeshop or sth) they will gladly tell you about their coffee and also make you one while often explaining how to do it best with your setup at home.

(And Starbucks is so dark and burnt I can't drink it nowdays)
Ask HN: Use RAM sticks as SATA drives?
Does anyone know if there is any product that's a SATA drive that you can plug RAM sticks to serve as temporary memory? And how does it fare with regards to performance?
The story isn’t “the state tried to fake” but rather the defense tried to get thrown out any image taken by a non analog camera as AI could have added detail where there is none.
‘We are full’: the rebirth of Europe’s sleeper trains
At some point these banks need to be held accountable for being a moral hazard. Main Street already bailed them out once for their risky behavior. We do not want to do this again.

If the economy "collapses" then so be it. This is the will of the "free market" that has been touted so much by bank lobbyists and other "libertarians".
You can do a little bit of math on recovery scenarios for USDC and they imply much better prices than 90 cents. Don't think this means it's a good trade to go buy at 90 cents though.

If Circle opens up redemptions on Monday there will almost certainly be a run. There's no reason to think that after the dust settles, you'll have something worth more than 90 cents.
Overall ideas are hard to define because it takes a lot of experiments,pivots,redos etc to find product market fit which is 99% execution.

Slack started as a gaming company. The idea didn't matter. Many examples like these

Don't overthink this. It is not the idea. It is the execution. I say this as someone who has been running a business for 8 years and we are not at all close to the original idea. In fact I don't even know how to define the original idea anymore.
Circle will either all of their money back from SVB (most likely) or a large proportion of it back. There's almost no chance that they get nothing back. The current price seems to assume the money is gone forever. Seems odd to me.
> You mean train it on ChatGPT's output? That's against OpenAI's terms of service.

Oh no, someone call the internet police.

I'm sure scraping tons and tons of images and web data to train DALLE and GPT and then selling access to that data to others was also against many licenses and terms of services, but OpenAI did those anyway.
Pretty much the only outcome when reprehensible greed meets company structures indistinguishable from scams and charlatans masquerading as leadership.
It's such an essential tool. Always such a beast to install it though, definitely keep it off any servers.

It's probably saved myself from weird hard to see mistakes so many times I wouldn't be able to count them because if I didn't have that tool I might not even see it until runtime, which is a terrible place to discover an error.
No. I’ve probably had 20+ jobs in my lifetime and only expected to make enough to live with maybe half of them . The idea that working fast food, which I’ve done and anyone with a pulse could do, should pay enough to pay all of an adults living expenses is preposterous and makes no economic sense at all.
Still the same thing. Doing some brewing for yourself and friends in your spare time is quite different from having to brew all the time and having to produce something good in order to have anything to sell. Not to mention marketing expenses, taxes and the general overhead of running a food-related business.
80 - 40 - <petty cash> ?
If you want to know a man’s character, give him a little power.

Let’s say Vietnam found the money to do it anyway. Now you’ve got a bunch of people making minor warlord money compared to the locals. They can now afford to do just about anything their little hearts desire.

Silicon Valley may be many things, but a paragon of ethics is not one of them. When you can bribe people half a year’s salary that changes the dynamic quite a bit, and for the worse.

And you didn’t bring these people over to run everything, you brought them over to mentor the people you want to run everything. What great role models you’ve provided for them. What could possibly go wrong?
I'm not arguing the OP's point but...

A fair wage represents an exchange of equal value. This does not speak to the viability of repeating that exchange as profession; only that reasonable compensation has been given for a reasonable amount of work.
You are confusing a "peg" with "backed"

Circle have $1 which you can redeem each USDC for.

They don't theoretically have extra cash lying around to buy USDC at discount, and they certainly can't use reserves for that (they are needed to serve withdrawals)

Hopefully they do have some corporate cash spare to buy up cheap USDC so that what they lose to SVB doesn't make them insolvent
I never appreciated how many banks failed during the S&L crisis. Why was the recession that followed that not as bad as the one that followed the 2008 crisis?
There was a time in the UK where many small grocery shops were owned and run by Asian families. They would typically be open everyday 'till late.

The economics were simple, everyone in the family worked for free and there were no benefits, sick pay or everyday rules to worry about.

Eventually the big grocery chains took over because it was easy to open up a prime local site and run it at a loss for as long as it took. Any stubborn competition remaining could easily be brought to the attention of the authorities.

Some of those Asian shopkeepers became quite successful though which, I think, goes to show that every kind of business has its golden era where anything is possible but nothing lasts forever.
> Strategically should a job seeker emphasize experience in one of the packages for roles in one ecosystem

If you're on the data science job market, you should know Python because that's basically all the jobs right now (the Python vs R debate was relevant 5-6+ years ago and Matlab was never that big). I don't know enough about the engineering job market to comment on it.
I see your point, but what happens in your alternate world of having to maintain the 5000-line Python version 5 years down the line? You face the same issues you describe. The people that wrote the original beautiful code aren't there anymore, and whoever comes touching the code "messes it up". Most Python "scripts" I have had to deal with that had been around for a while were pretty terrible as well.
Bill Ackman: The gov't has about 48h to fix a-soon-to-be-irreversible mistake
Indeed! Bodybuilding.com helped this guy too (this is an old, classic post from there):

https://imgur.com/a/EOpfb
Why call out the fallacy by name when you use it?
Small Asteroid Impacts Moon
FWIW the banks ultimately paid it back with interest. Whether Biden's administration and this government can manage an outcome like President Obama and the people we had in power then did is an open question.
Do you a good anecdote regarding shell scripts?

Long time ago some dude created a couple of korn shell scripts on Aix to automate file uploads and ETL related tasks.

With time that work moved from Aix into Red-Hat Linux, still korn shell, with the adaptations from Aix into GNU/Linux command line parameters and such.

I got tasked to port them into Java, because the team that got the job to maintain the servers lacked UNIX experience, and they thought selling the porting project was a good idea.

Feedback from customer, slower than those scripts and not as easy to change, what a surprise.
From the article:

consider this sentence:
"arrays do not exist in posix shell"

...

"NOOO!" you shout, because you like data structures a LOT
"now THAT'S a good reason to use bash! bash supports arrays!"

absolutely not!

i believe that you should use shell if your problem is:
- small and scoped (~200 lines of shell or less)
- unlikely to increase in size and scope as time goes on
- not very complex

if you find yourself desiring arrays, good error handling,
static typing, structs, etc, then your problem should
be solved using a different language, not shell.

I tend to agree with this heuristic.

It's also why you see people bothering to use perl 5 at all in this day and age. It just happens to be preinstalled on a decent majority of *nix systems.
Slight correction: Norway has been part of NATO pretty much since its inception after WWII, but never joined the EU. Same for Iceland.

Its neighbors Sweden and Finland are EU members whose citizens have recently come to widespread agreement that NATO membership is desirable.
I drink black coffee, usually an Americano, drip or even cold brew, and what I've realized is that I am NOT in the majority. It's real hard to hide a bad cup without milk and sugar to cover it up. I love mom-n-pop shops, but I get some of the worst cups of coffee sometimes from these places. At least Starbucks is fairly consistent. I still avoid then when I can though.
Backed only implies that the stablecoin creator can redeem 1-1. It doesn't imply anything about whether the creator takes actions on the open market to try and manipulate the price to be at par.
AI translation:

- "I was able to catch the biggest lunar impact flash in my observation history! This is a picture of the lunar impact flash that appeared at 20:14:30.8 on February 23, 2023, taken from my home in Hiratsuka (replayed at actual speed). It was a huge flash that continued to shine for more than 1 second. Since the moon has no atmosphere, meteors and fireballs cannot be seen, and the moment a crater is formed, it glows."

- "This is a picture of the lunar impact flash at 20:14:30.8 on February 23, 2023, captured by another telescope (playback at actual speed). At that time, the altitude of the moon was only 7 degrees, and I was glad that I could stick to the limit. At the time of observation, there was no satellite passing over the lunar surface, and from the way it shines, it is highly likely that it is a lunar impact flash."

- "This is a still image of the lunar impact flash at 20:14:30.8 on February 23, 2023. It seems to have fallen near Ideler L crater, slightly northwest of Pitiscus crater. Because it is so bright, the generated crater is large, and the striations are clearly visible. It seems that the telephoto camera of NASA's lunar probe LRO can detect the fall trace."
Good point. Well illustrated in Kubrick's 2001 Space Odyssey, when Hal's memory modules are removed one by one, and his speech patterns revert to increasingly infantilized forms.
TLDR: Give a shit about your coworkers.

Thats it, thats the whole post.
GUI is slow and heavy, there’s no way to use it as a console app in linux afaik

You absolutely can. Many of the Matlab users I know never touch the GUI/IDE. They'll just code in Emacs and run their code from the terminal.
If you think about what some of these events are it makes sense because the human population continues to grow and having more people and more money means we are constantly setting new high scores.
Have you written about your journey from homebrewer to pro somewhere?
Would love to read about it! Especially about the initial sizing of the equipment ..
Employees also have no choice in which courier their employer chooses to send mail, but it would be a bit egregious to report them because a FedEx truck crashed and their letter was delayed for a day or two.
Is that a joke or do you lack even a passing clue about the weapon power of the US military?
It's when they get their money that matters, it may takes months. Can't pay employees, cloud bills, vendors, etc until then. The most they get out on Monday is $250k, how long it takes the government to make good on the receivership certificate is unknown. Startups will likely have to take an additional line of credit from somewhere fast.
Tons and tons of legacy code in academia. The cost of re-implementing it in Julia or similar is prohibitive.
McDonalds coffee costs $1, seaside specialty coffee costs $5 - the difference is negligible if you are not buying it twice a day

People usually ok with having to suffer in cramped seats given that slightly less cramped seat price difference is often more than they earn in a day
I see what you mean, but as a consumer I'd much rather pay extra for a good coffee than $1 for a crappy one and I'm fairly sure this is not an uncommon sentiment. If I opened up a coffee shop, it wouldn't be to attract the kind of crowd who get their coffee exclusively at McDonald's, so McDonald's pricing wouldn't be that relevant, right?

Tangentially, I'm also curious how McDonald's in the US can charge $1 if they also have to pay a living wage. Does their size mean they get cheaper materials from suppliers and can drive costs down or that they make up that loss by selling some of their other products? I've never gotten coffee from McDonald's in my country, but I'm _pretty_ sure it's not that cheap.

Even _more_ tangentially, I noticed a popular local chain driving their prices higher and higher to ridiculous amounts. It's not even great coffee--it's like Starbucks in my country (Starbucks apparently didn't get a good footing here because this other chain is just so established). Their usually mediocre coffee costs more than one at a boutique high-end roastery! I suspect it's because they're pushing people to instead sign up for their monthly subscription, that lets you get a coffee every 2 hours. I've begrudgingly signed up, because I like using their cafes as a work space and this way I do not feel guilty about sitting around there all day. When I want legit good coffee, I still go to a good place and get one. As annoyed as I was to see how much they charge for a mediocre cappuccino, I've got to hand it to them on the interesting monetization shift.
I'm not sure if one exists, but I think running it over SATA would defeat the purpose of using a RAM disk in the first place. Can I ask why you wouldn't use a SATA SSD instead?
If you are willing to substitute brands, then the number will probably be a lot lower. For instance, Hershey’s brand cocoa used to be inexpensive, but not costs about the same as the most expensive brands at our store. If you switch to the expensive brand (and update the 2020 list), you’ll be looking at 10-20% inflation instead of 50-100%. I’ve noticed this for a lot of products we purchase (some of which simply became unavailable after a few months of price hikes). This mostly means we’re either switching from midrange brands to the most or least expensive, depending on the item.

Of course, this doesn’t actually lower our grocery bill vs. 2020, but we’re also not paying 70% more.
Section 1 doesn't even require the every-five-years bit, the violation just needs to be "demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society". Drinking and driving laws and traffic checkstops, for example, fall under this; there's no evidence that a crime as been committed or any probable cause at all at the moment you're being temporarily detained, and it's a crime to refuse to provide a road-side breath sample. Both of these have been assessed by the SCC and determined to, yes, be charter violations, and yes, perfectly ok because they're justified in a free and democratic society.
First - I see that you don't have any audiophile friends! Many sound geeks dislike the sound of compressed audio.

Second - there's nothing wrong with an AI 'enhancement' option. It seems useful! But you should admit what you are doing and have an off switch. Imagine if all of the studio masters for the past 20 years were actually in lossy mp3 because the hardware switched silently?
> Starbucks can negotiate way better deals on rent than mom and pops.

On coffee too, they're big enough to go straight to the farmers and set their prices

https://www.thecommonscafe.com/starbucks-criticized-for-low-...
Per Matt Levine, their fatal and unforgivable mistake was putting their assets in fixed, low-interest, HTM investments whose value was directly correlated to the financial health of SVB’s depositors, so the bank had to write down assets when depositors needed their money.

In hindsight, it would have been better to keep cash. Or even better to find an asset inversely correlated with interest rates, even if it would have earned less money when rates were low.

It was a lack of beta that killed them, and while there doesn’t seem to have been wrongdoing, it sure looks like a classic “failed to understand their own business” mistake.
Note that the 2015 lobbying was done by Greg Becker in person. Money quote is at the end:

> In 2019, Becker was elected to serve on the board of directors at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Becker left the board on Friday.
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From the article:

>> But the firm learned that its limited partners were encountering issues using SVB services as they tried to transfer the funds — they weren’t immediately going through as expected, the person said.
Quickly, Founders Fund asked its investors to transfer the money to other banks instead. The fund acted to ensure that startup funding deals that were slated to close in the coming days were not delayed, the person said.

Having issues with SVB services seems like a legitimate source of info.
The point is that consistent bad behavior is probably better than inconsistent good behavior. That makes you predictable.
No you're not. You got paid to feed people. Only those make decisions with intent are responsible for the outcome of those decisions. If the army is doing something wrong then you must actively stop them, not quietly say you won't cook for them lol. If it was that clear that which war rarely is. The strawman you and others are using is crime ot war or something but the subject here is a legitimate corporate entity.

Make the activity you disagree with illegal first before comparing advertisers to a pillaging army.

My point is, don't work for a company you don't like but don't you dare take this high and mighty morally superior attitude when others work at those legitimate companies so they can make a living. You cancel and judge instead of vote and convince others.
I want to have sympathy for the depositors, but it is hard to knowing that they chose to keep their funds in an bank that was actively lobbying to weaken risk regulations.

There multiple products that would help in this situation, such as insurances and virtual accounts that split between multiple FDIC accounts/banks.

Bailing out these depositors would send the wrong message and encourage moral hazard, i.e., the belief that someone else will always bear the costs of risky behavior. Educating entrepreneurs and investors on the importance of diversification, due diligence, and risk management would create a more resilient and sustainable innovation ecosystem, where success is based on merit and hard work, not on cronyism or government intervention.
OP mentioned that the coffe shop show was staffed with 17-20 years olds. They don’t need to earn 20 bucks per hour, they don’t need to be able to afford mortgage, or even rent apartment by themselves (they can have roommates). No one would work such job their whole life anyway. It’s temporary almost by definition
Scientists identify substance that may have sparked life on Earth