skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, dumb question, I'm just a software engineer:

If it's so easy to get it right, why so many companies got it wrong?

Could it be because startups don't usually start by hiring people with a lot of expertise in finance?
ummm.. they chose their employer?
If we have to back them on the downside I want profit on the upside. Private profits and public losses cannot be the rules of the game.
+1 for Hakai, they have a very good podcast too.
Some people are arrogant or not good at their jobs isn't exactly a huge revelation. There are a lot of people who are not software developers who are also stupid and useless. But they are not the ones who get blamed if a software project fails.
> I don't understand. The current labour shortage is, 100%, hands down, fully stop, start to finish, a result of boomers retiring.

What I'd love to know is why this labour shortage doesn't lead to increased wages for the workers who are not retiring.
I'm 40 and did the same thing, bought a cheap analog camera with black and white film to shoot fun photos on my birthday party :) The film is still at the lab, but I guess it's worth the wait.
Because FIFA is IOC-level corrupt? Any governing body of a high-value competition structure becomes corrupt to one level or another, a very small number of individuals can be bribed to obtain a desired outcome, and when the desired outcome is prestige the multiplier is almost infinite.
It’s just an abstraction used to ease the conversation. If a disease is inclined to behave like X, that’s just a shortcut to say, “it’s evolutionarily advantageous if the mutations result in X behaviour.”
> This one, AFAICT, happened because the government greatly restricted what banks could do with their funds. One of the only options available in large volumes is a government instrument subject to risk from the Fed raising rates rapidly.

So the solution to just let banks do whatever they want? A bank that is prevented from taking excessively risky action becomes insolvent, and your answer is to allow them to take even more risk? The Fed has been signaling for a year that rates are going to keep rising, it is eminently predicable what that means to professionals in the industry. Hubris at its best. Have you even heard of Glass–Steagall, or have a basic understanding of the last 100 years of economic theory?

> I hope people only get put in prison for breaking actual laws. And if the SVB execs broke laws then yes, they should go to prison. But I haven't heard it alleged by anyone that they have.

A laughably naïve thing to say in more than a few ways.
Seriously, when has a PM ever unilaterally stepped up and said "we need to drive engagement"? They've been hired to drive engagement. That's their job, and they need to justify their jobs only in the sense that we all need to justify our jobs.
My reply was already really long so I made another one.

It's important to point out that for a lot obese people, hunger hormones are going to be out of whack. So while following hunger might certainly be good for avoiding obesity, it's not necessarily as helpful in losing weight.
You took the risk buying those bonds. Depositing cash at a bank is a different matter.

No bailout for SVB; no bailout for you.
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I will never in my life understand why people go through all the trouble of booting up a headless browser, only then to slurp the HTML back across the WebDriver interface so they can _re-parse_ it using some rando library. Not only is that inefficient, it almost guarantees questions on r/webscraping or SO about "but I see some element in the browser, why is $random_library not parsing it the same as the browser?!11"
And you're sure this isn't dunning Kruger and this "over engineering" isn't just edge case handling?
That the misuse of terminology has gotten large enough to have a wikipedia page doesn't mean it's not misuse. These policies are only "reminiscent" of feudalism in the minds of those who don't know the history of conventional capitalism.
“Sometimes writing for money - I have other aims besides art or pleasure - is really quite enjoyable.”
PowerShell isn’t that verbose, compared to NuShell. The ls example would be (with standard PowerShell aliases):

gci | where { $_.Length -gt (10 * 1024 * 1024) } | sort LastWriteTime

-gt might seem weird, but it’s better than overloading >.

(Also, I like the fact that PowerShell is built into Windows and has a large corporation behind it.)
It happens that Samsung is actually doing brilliant job in faking it, even accounting for obstruction like tree branches etc: https://twitter.com/David4252579/status/1634919880217731075

All this could have been OK if Samsung wasn't misleading people into believing that the picture is a result of computational photography and excellent optics.

I would love to have this in my phone's camera, but clearly identified as details added after the fact and might not represent the actual scene. It's done so well that practically no one noticed and people like MKBHD reeved it as a photography achievement.

The truth is, the non-AI implementations also fail to capture how we see the Moon and fixing it with fake details is a welcome improvement as long as it's clear that that's not actual capture.
As I noted elsewhere, it's really a question of paper x pen nib x ink, because some combos work great and some won't.

The paper in my Barton Fig journal is fine for, say, my Vanishing Point pens with stock Pilot/Namiki ink, but my Aurora with Birmingham Pen ink bleeds intolerably there. (This is one reason pen people tend to have multiple pens inked at once...)

Anyway, at my desk, I'm using currently a Rhodia Goalbook blank journal. It takes anything I throw at it.

If you can find it, Tahmoe River paper is really great for almost any combo, but they recently changed the mill and I understand the new version isn't as great. Finding it is always a bit of a Thing since they don't make journals; you just have to find a company that's making books with their paper.

I used Moleskine for years, but at some point a while back (a LONG while back), their paper changed and my go-to combo (the Vanishing Points + cartridge ink, because for years I flew all the time and this made it easy) stopped working well on that paper. I moved on to Leuchtturm 1917 notebooks, and they were more like the old Moleskines, but I moved off of them when I started using a wider array of pens and inks because while the L. paper was fine for the VP, it didn't handle fancier/wetter pens as well.

L. now also makes a heavier paper variant, and I have one I haven't started using yet, but I hear good things.
How is this functionally different?

> What Is the NCUA?

> The NCUA is an independent agency that oversees the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund (NCUSIF). This federal insurance fund, backed by the U.S. government, insures member savings in federally insured credit unions. Deposits at federally chartered credit unions are automatically insured by the NCUA, but state-chartered credit unions can opt for NCUA insurance too. Some 98% of U.S. credit unions are federally insured. To find out if your credit union is one of them, ask a representative or look for the official NCUA insurance logo in its offices or on its website.
This guy is deceptively good, when I first heard him I wasn't impressed, but he does seem to have in depth knowledge.
Okay, but now show me the size of the file in a human readible format next to the name.
I think you can make a terminal app even more infinitely customizable by allowing the user to specify a real number that will be displayed in the title bar. Since the reals are uncountably infinite, I think that will be the most infinitely customizable terminal.
> Sincerely curious about downvotes:

Your original comment makes it seem like the newly hired CRO was so incompetent that they caused the company to go bust in 2 months... (where obviously the risks were already in place and there might not be any way to advert it by the time)

> Do you take the job ?

Depends on how much they're paying me and how badly I need the money. If I expect the company to fail shortly after I joined due to the existing dumpster fire, I'd be interested in the size of the sign on bonus. And of course whether I'd have legal liabilities by association with the company. I don't think my competence matters much in this situation.
The issue here is context. “lithic assemblage associated with a primate foraging behavior undertaken by long-tailed macaques” could be reasonably simplified to “stone assemblage associated with long-tailed macaques [searching for food]” or other foraging synonyms. However when you drop the word associated and say “macaques unintentionally produced them while” you are now describing a more direct relationship.

Similarly the abstract clarifies the phrase “almost indistinguishable” with “likely to be confused with” etc which makes “almost identical” inappropriate.

Anyway, this kind of mistake shows up frequently because of how ChatGPT abstracts words and phrases. The approach has real upsides, but it falls on its face when subtle differences actually matter.
if you really wanted to write about it, you could have just avoided referring to the corp name at all, tos and ndas, and just write about the technical details of this script. you could even have done so under a throwaway.
They could not change the terms on accounts, no.
I am an entrepreneur from a family of entrepreneurs. I have started multiple companies, one of which was venture backed. I like entrepreneurs just fine, so peddle that nonsense elsewhere.

> Why would it have resulted in that?

Because our modern regulatory regime is pretty good.

If you have your money in two bank accounts and have reasonable capital reserves, you'll be able to make payroll from one of them. So the short-term problem is solved. In your example, you've got $5m to work with.

For the failed bank, the FDIC will give you $250k right away, and in short order a large percentage gets paid out as they liquidate assets. For SVB, that starts within a week: https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/fai...

The expectations I'm seeing for that are on the order of 50%. So a week later, you're back up to $7.75 million to work with, with more to come in as assets are sold. Maybe you get everything back, maybe you take a haircut. The estimates I'm seeing are in the 0-20% range, so you end up with $9-10 million back over time.

And that's just the FDIC. Functioning businesses have income that they can use to pay salaries or as justification for loans or selling equity. They can also pursue acquisition by somebody who was lucky or smart enough not to have high egg/basket ratios.

So in the end, maybe we end up with a few failed companies, but it's not a systemic risk, and it's the sort of object lesson that helps people understand why they need to take cash management seriously beyond a certain level. That surely will suck for some people, but that's how capitalism works.
You’re free to an opinion but I just think the foundation of said opinion is shaky.

Your latest comment also belies that you don’t particularly understand or appreciate how much work goes into making CGI. It’s not any less of an art form than practical effects.

The difference is that it gives a much higher degree of flexibility, but the artistry and technical ability required isn’t diminished in any form.
i can't believe that it's been a decade and mac still thinks it's acceptable to ship 16GB of RAM. it wasn't enough back then
I'm pretty sure many VRChat world creators would appreciate your help. I'm not sure how well this could be made into a career, but I've heard anecdotes of people having done that very successfully.
The law isn't settled on this but whatever the final answer is it will clearly not be resolved by relying on poor analogy. A model is NOTHING like a jpeg. It's also little like a human being learning. We are going to need to be adults and pass actual legislation speaking to this.
I think about consumption quite often, because nobody likes it when a memory hog mobile app pushes a more important app out of memory (or if the important app is the memory hog, also leading it to get pushed out). Also because it's increasingly common for users to not be carrying the latest model phone and thus be strapped for RAM.

My work isn't the best out there in that regard, but by simply making the more obvious optimizations as you go you're already doing better than the majority, and I'm confident that any effort beyond that puts you in the top 10%.
It's interesting you make this assertion without naming any examples.

Mainly, though, I'm replying to push back on the "set for life" aspect of your comment. Paper mills change, and so do notebook makers. Moleskine used to be fine, but they started using cheaper paper a long while ago and my usual combo of Vanishing Point + Pilot cartridge ink started bleeding really badly.

The point is that eventually, someone at $notebook_company is going to change things up, and the odds are that change will make things worse. So you kinda always have to be looking.
This is referring specifically to deposits not equity or corporate bond holders, management, etc. The depositors are not making a sizable returns, they’re just wanting to keep their money in a bank account.
"20, 20, 24 hours to go
I wanna be sedated
...
Just get me to the airport, put me on a plane
Hurry, hurry, hurry before I go insane"
- Ramones
It is a different organization entirely. Functionally it is declared the same in all the googling that I've done, but in practice, are they? I don't know, and personally, I don't really want to find out.
I’m just frustrated that there isn’t even basic thought from Samsung’s end. It could at the very least pull location data, check to see if the moon is above the horizon for the location, check to see if the phase of the moon matches what it sees and THEN apply the filter.
If you're not already hitting the melatonin, now's the time to try it.

The struggle is real on those long flights when there's little respite from turbulence, though, to the degree that the service is constantly interrupted (or abbreviated), passengers can't get up to use the facilities, and everyone's too nauseous to sleep. I've been on a few where the seat belt light was lit up almost the entire ride.
Yeah, that's it! Makes cobbling together shell scripts way easier. They have some other projects based around terminal UIs too. Take a look at their site it's gorgeous:

https://charm.sh/
It seems possible any deposit-taking financial institution could have made the same mistake as SVB, be they a bank or credit union or anything else. I don't think merely being a credit union will shield them from this. They may have some by-laws though that do protect them, but that's on a case-by-case basis.
no it isn’t. my chase, amex, cap 1 points transfers to the exact same airlines as Brex at 1:1 ratio and always has

the airlines and hotel programs do change and devalue their programs from time to time but not the credit cards that offers transfers to these programs
By the same token, do you have scientific evidence that they’re helped by not having a blue screen?

One person is clearly talking from experience of working with actors here (if you’re unaware of the person you’re replying to)
> nearly everybody expects content to be free to the end user on the internet.

The concept of paying for content that isn't trade-related/educational is mostly bizarre. I hate a large amount of the content I consume on the internet, and wish I could somehow take money away from the people who published it. You can understand people paying for entertainment, but only because modern entertainment is aimed at that sort of consumption. It's largely completely empty; having nothing to say about anything other than sort of expansions of cliched aphorisms, and/or childish and simplistic anti-crime, pro-patriotic, anti-cruelty messages."Real" art has an agenda. Art built for mass consumption carefully avoids any dangerous agenda because it doesn't to alienate any potential audience unless absolutely necessary.

While I have to admit that I pay for investigations because I'm curious about their outcome (which is why I'd pay an investigative journalist or a detective), other than that I support for the media that I want other people to read.

The baseline assumption is strange, where I pay people to communicate something to me that they presumably find important to communicate. I'd rather pay people to shut up. Content blocking is literally about shutting people up.
Perfect deconvolution of a gaussian blur is only possible in theory, or in ideal cases where you control the signal end to end, like a programming assignment. In reality there's plenty of sources of errors, like discretization noise, lens blur, sensor noise, and SNR is instrumental to the result. I've never seen a blurry image get reconstructed using deconvolution without artifacts.

Then there's the fact that a photo enhancement program has no reason to even try deconvolving gaussian blur, they should use a more appropriate kernel that better describes out of focus blur.

His original blurred moon image is available in his first post. Without even taking the detour of photographing it from a monitor, try using his image and any deconvolution software you want, and try getting anywhere near his result.
> Why can't we crack this micro-payments nut?

Because nobody actually wants to 'solve' it. They just want to topple Visa and Mastercard and take their margins, preferably without following any of the numerous consumer regulations those companies abide by.

Cash is perfect because there is no profit motive behind it. It doesn't cost you any more to take a $1 transaction than it does a $100 one. And that is something tech companies won't have any interest in.
Good point.

I made a note in the article to mention that there are a lot of different definitions of the roles, but usually, the definitions are the same, just a different naming convention.
I'm not sure what was stopping you from working until 23, but in the US people can generally start working full-time at 16. I certainly know people who dropped out of high school after 10th grade in order to start working as mechanics.

"The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) administers and enforces the federal child labor laws. Generally speaking, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) sets the minimum age for employment (14 years for non-agricultural jobs), restricts the hours youth under the age of 16 may work, and prohibits youth under the age of 18 from being employed in hazardous occupations."

https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/hiring/workersunder18
NitPick: The Deposit Insurance Fund invests in Treasury securities, so technically there is a little taxpayer money from interest payments.

But the contributions to the Fund are all from member banks, not from the Federal budget.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Deposit_Insurance_Corp....
I second this question. I was using FISH for quite a while and really liking it, but there was always something that it was incompatible with and had to eventually give it up.
Should I use Coreboot or Libreboot?
I want to remove Intel ME from my computer, which is the better option?
Paramount Plus generally (exclusively?) shows me ads for...other shows on Paramount Plus. Which I'm obviously already paying for.

Most recently, it showed me an advertisement for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. I've already seen every episode of that series, and at least one their systems is well aware of this fact. In fact, Star Trek shows are the ONLY things I've watched on Paramount Plus.

There is clearly no thought going into their ad selection whatsoever.
Tweeting "we will help startups affected by SVB" is very different from announcing major policy changes in your own operations.
What is an LP?
The first proofs of concept are rarely ideal. But you know no one will stop here. On the software side, on the hardware side.
Yes, the way I read this request (and Yelen’s response) the government’s “commitment” is meant to provide a floor for private offers so as to immediately address concerns, not as a primary path forward.
No, but some people process different food differently, so eating the same amount of food might lead to different weight in different people.

And no, the jury is not out on what food is healthy. Carbs are public enemy number 1 according to keto people. Carbs are the best according to Italians.
Is that what you think large businesses do for treasury management? Just keep opening bank accounts until they've got one with every bank in the US?
Since nobody else has said the actual problem, it's twofold,

1. The danger of putting the dead chickens on the sharp hooks -- shorter, weaker, less mature children are more likely to be injured or injure others with those hooks
2. The forced overtime - a kid needs to eat and sleep a ton, not spend 2 hours working at 3pm, then another hour at 9pm and another 4hours at 4am and then another 5 hours at 11am.

They have commitments that we as a society want them to make, like going to school, and those are incompatible with the modern just-in-time labour practices. Not that those are good for adults either, but it's even worse for kids to drop out in order to meet the anti-benefits scheduling. Children have neither the power, nor the maturity to push back on a boss that is taking advantage of them
You're right they would want to get rid of the FDIC and the insurance it provides
Sorry but that looks terrible.
The closest thing to a Mach 3 airliner that has ever flown is the XB-70 Valkyrie, which is a totally awesome plane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_XB-70_Valkyrie
Read this as "Nutshell", which would have been a really cool name for a shell.
Dibs on rows ASS, GAY and SEX.
A.k.a. “moral hazard”.

When people take financial risks (such as holding more than $250K in FDIC insured bank account), why should taxpayers cover their losses?
Unfortunately these images are not going to the web, they're going into a software called ARCH which expects JPEGs specifically. And also I've been told that bad things will happen if we give ARCH files bigger than 2 megabytes. The first idea I had was to export multiple versions of the same image at each quality level (0 to 12 in photoshop) and then use the RGB values of each pixel to calculate the RMSE for each one against the JPEG exported with the highest quality settings. This would be assuming that there is an RMSE which roughly corresponds to what my human eyes consider "acceptable amounts of compression artifacts." The images are so big that even though they are being compressed and checked multiple times the computer is still doing the work faster and more thoroughly than I can.

And thanks for sharing the link to mozjpeg. It's helping me to understand the differences between different jpeg encoders which is very important.
See here for clarification:
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate
Trump was out of office for a long time before fed rates started to rise.

Fed was late, should have stomped on inflation early.
>If you’re comfortable with eating meat you should be comfortable with seeing how it’s made

In the same way that if you're comfortable defecating you should be comfortable with having a sewage treatment plant in your back yard ?
To play Devil’s Abacus for a moment:

Why do you “need it to tell the truth”? I would bet a large number of the non-expert consumers (99% of users) do not care.

But to defeat this own argument: just make a “AI Enhance” option in the UI…