skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also have a Masters in physics. You really don't need to explain the FT to me. Or the QFT for that matter. Or any of this stuff. I already know.

You understand it all yet you somehow overlooked it in my original comment. The first comment that started this all was that if you look at the wave forms on your computer (say, in audacity), it turns out those are discrete, the implication being the computer representation is a discrete approximation of a continuous reality. I originally replied with

"If you try to sample continuously and eliminate that discretization error, I have some bad news for you about the nature of reality itself..."

The eventual break down into discretely quantized values isn't just an artifact of the digital medium, reality itself is quantized. There is no truly analog tape recorder. Fine you can sample in the fourier basis rather than position basis to keep your "pure sine waves"* in position space, but you're still always going to generate discrete samples and you'll still need the same number of them. You are free to shift representation around, but the same amount of quantized information is present and stored somewhere. The initial observation that the sound wave files on your computer are "1d pixels" is unavoidable. Every quantity, when viewed with sufficient precision, is "pixelized".

*really what your doing is measuring in the momentum/energy basis, causing the function to be stepped there, but leaving the superposition intact in the position / time basis...until the listeners ear goes and measures in the position / time basis anyway. In principle if you've measured the sound wave as an ordinary time series down to the accuracy of quantized ear drum positions, it shouldn't matter if you're playing that back directly as "step function time series" or as superposition of sine waves via Fourier trick. In practice of course this never happens.
Does it not at all work in Firefox in macOS? Or is it just me?

It at least moved in firefox on my iPhone. But in firefox on my mac it doesn't move at all.
This seems like the central page that FDIC is using to communicate the latest news.

This FAQ document has more tactical next steps: https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/fai...
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935)
Things about Storybook’s CSF3 that were not that clear immediately
> What have they ever built?

While I agree that reading code and learning is essential, I don’t think this line of criticism is fair.

I mean like most programmers I’d imagine their years and years of industry work isn’t public. I mean what have I ever built?

Fowler was CTO of ThoughWorks for years and afaik they do really good and deep work, their content is quality. Bob Martin had a similar track record with 8th light, and as an organization is interesting.

That said, I think lumping them together is misguided. I’ve read a lot of both. To me unky bob is can be a divisive gatekeeper who wants to be right, while mFowler is boon to the industry, literally writing the book on refactoring. He has well reasoned and measured arguments.

I mean I think while formulating your own voice is important and essential, it’s also essential to learn from others and pass down knowledge. For some reason, I think our industry sees it as a threat.

Unky bob is a divisive gatekeeper who I suppose did years of industry work? I guess?

To lump Fowler in with unky bob, I just don’t see it.

I mean Fowler I think t started thoughtworks.
Some of the phrasing OP lists are awkward but it sounds a lot like they just don't like adverbs. A few of the examples I found fine, many just sounded awful, but few I thought were sufficiently something I'd associate solely with "hacker news" types.
Oh no!!!! Not adverbs!!!!!!!
Regulatory capture isn't the same thing as corruption. In cases like this and the Boeing 737 MAX, the systems are too complex to regulate without some amount of insider input. The problem is it's hard to tell when the input is constructive and when it trades off safety.
Well, arguably any library provides services to other software and not directly to the user. The definition needs to be more specific than that. Is implementing left-pad systems programming?
Can this be finetuned?
They are realizing that these things are all toys and fashion so you might as well save money and just buy old stuff and above all take photos.

I think it's great. It's the exact opposite of the person who spends all their time gear shopping and never using the gear.
We need to hear more of:

- "failed to deliver"

- "under performing the market"

- "declining product quality"

- "unacceptable performance"

- "financially unsustainable"

- "ongoing criminal enterprise"
The peculiar curiosity highlighted by the author has caused deep unsettling in my mind.
A big mention is windows that open for cooking; not sure that it matters when only 50% of Americans cook at home

> About 36% of Americans cook at home on a daily basis. According to the additional home cooking statistics, roughly half of Americans cook their meals 3–6 days weekly.

If you move cooking to a common area or floor, you solve the ventilation, drainage, and boost unit square footage by way at least 100.
Do you consider GCC, MS VC and Clang a clone of the Unix' CC?
In his case not so much, i think he is competent based oh his portfolio.
It’s in a cloud, not on your phone.
> I'm not sure if the tool specifically accounts for that or if the math just ends up working out, but I was testing with various combinations of my family and it always ended up at someone's home airport.

Not sure. But if you put the two locations of Caracas, VE and San Francisco, US, they suggest meeting in Houston, US.

Does it make sense? Is it more environmental friendly for two people to meet in the middle rather than having one person staying and the other going there? My gut says the latter should be more environmental friendly.
I use old hardware just because it still works. My laptop is turning 7 this year. I wouldn't call it low-end though; it's got 32G of ECC ram.

It runs KDE just fine though, it is from after Intel GPUs totally suck (but I won't be playing AAA games from after 2010 or so on it)
In 99% of cases, checking and savings accounts do not impact your credit score whatsoever. The only cases where they do are cases where the bank does an inquiry when you _open_ the account, but closing any checking/savings account should have no impact.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trudeau-canada-freeze-bank-a...

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/patterndaytrader.asp

It’s as valid of a question as asking you if you hold USD.
Inventor unfortunately a loner. No friends. Looking for Business Development Partner Co Founder. I can find plenty of strangers who want to buy my products. YC won’t take me because I am just one half of a startup.
I’m on an iPhone 12 and it doesn’t work well for me. It is slow and unresponsive, most of the screen is hidden (not intentionally I think because the parts that are showing have words cut off and don’t make any sense), etc.
Repairing a tiny ribbon cable inside a 28 year old IBM ThinkPad 701c
I'd argue that's a myth. If you use peripherals from 2012, and do simple office tasks, maybe. Try watching 4K (or FHD 50 fps) video on a 4K display on Sandy Bridge with a GPU from that era. Try editing iPhone video and raw photos. Even compiling Linux is order of magnitude faster, because of 20 faster threads instead of 4.
Ask HN: What's the fastest and simplest way to prototype a web app in 2023?
I'm looking for something that:

1) Gives you the ability to write a frontend and backend with good flexibility preferably React & Node.

2) Doesn't require a local environment, but still allows me to work on VS Code.

3) Allows me to have a live URL and connect a custom domain.

4) Batteries included, but most importantly a solid and easy to implement authentication paradigm.

What's the best thing right now for this. I'm just looking for a very low or zero-config infra and fast time to production.

I see many options like Vercel, Replit, Render, etc, but I just want to understand if there's a solution or stack that maximizes for efficiency, speed and low configuration, while allowing to scale up if needed.
Incorrect.

Every depositor has 1 account per account type per institution insured up to 250k.

If you had 100 accounts of the same type at the same institution, you're still only getting 250k back from the FDIC.

To do what you're proposing, you'd have to have 100 accounts at different FDIC insured institutions. The logistics there is vastly different, but meshes quite well with designing for fault tolerance/resilience.
If you’re new you should keep it simple.

You don’t need AWS. Do you have hundreds of thousands of daily active users? Do you need auto scaling and layers of compliance? Do you need specific offerings like GPU time etc? If not the read ahead.

I’d recommend firebase for auth, hosting (your static web assets like ur web app), and storage (uploads). It’s cheap af and most importantly easy.

For your backend application you can use gcloud to deploy it to app engine. Takes one command and it’s live.

When you’re building a company you want to move fast af with reasonable tech choices.

All of these can be hotswapped easily depending on how you build your actual software. Making it “work right” (hint: it never will) is for the engineers who come on board when you’re spinning on the flywheel to spend hours bike shedding. At that time you can afford to waste time because you’ve already made it.
Where is the text of the MEME?
I am honestly not familiar enough with those to comment. It's also not the question at hand.
For use cases with simple business logic and high throughput, yeah the optimized Rust, maybe on your own hardware, makes sense.

Tons of cloud customers running NodeJS or Java stuff don't fit this. Maybe they have a few optimized pieces with high throughput and majority unoptimized where resource usage is low either way. Or they might be ok spending 10X compute resources even on something high-throughput because landing new features/products matters way more than optimizing a small part of their budget. Like, there are businesses renting big 8-socket servers with TBs of RAM to support some monstrous corporate DB that can only run on a single machine.
The reason is mostly the tone I think. Too sharp and makes statements that are both uncomfortable and hard to argue against. A counter argument could be constructed, but it would be difficult and backlashing is easier.
Developers should be using hardware comparable to what their intended audience uses, at least some of the time. It's hard to effectively address the needs of your audience if you aren't experiencing their problems.
It doesn't work well (graphically) if you choose eg, something in australia and something in the US. Shows the Australia flight travelling West across all of africa (when it actually travels northeast, across the ocean)
Hype is what startups do. Because hype is valuation and the path to exit with $$$$.

Let's look at what Musk does with "self driving" Teslas, a very impressive (I have watched the videos) but fundamentally flawed technology. I mean, not as flawed as say, commercial fusion (see: hype on here), personal aircraft (Moller for decades, but maybe a wee bit more plausible), etc.

What amuses me is people dumping on Musk on here for using arguably LESS hype than I would say the average SV startup's CEO parrots. I get it, it's the classic fall guy "him not us" group psychology.

Don't get me wrong, Musk definitely is somewhere in the "owes a lot of money for lying/overhyping" for self driving at this point. But it still was something that had tangible demonstrations, ongoing improvements, and juuuuuust enough success that you could see it miiiiiiiggghhhhtttt work. Someday.

Let's look at Meta. Hahahahahahahaha the hype around their VR/whatever. Now THAT is some primo-grade bullshit hype, they couldn't even beat second life from 20 years ago.

"well, our startup didn't defraud people of $15000 for full self driving that wasn't". Yeah, your startup just sells personal information to companies (and therefore, to private security firms/information central nexuses, and thus to both democratic (if we can call ourselves that) and very very nondemocratic states. Um, which is worse?

So ... is the hype just a legitimate "vision" for the company/product? Or is it outright fraud and chatgpt wordsoup designed to target fat investment from the Saudis?

Let the market decide, I guess, to some degree.
Good question. You can buy direct from the Treasury, so I'd imagine that would be the most foolproof method. I've never done it so I don't know if there are limits to how much you can buy.
Short term treasuries are vulnerable to interest rate risk. Essentially if the government offers new treasuries at higher rates, then the market value of your treasuries drops. It’s ok if you hold the treasuries to maturity (then you’re only out the opportunity cost of holding the newer higher rate treasuries), but if you need the money at a moment’s notice then you will have to sell at a loss.

This is essentially what happened to SVB.
zx is ok. it's just a node package that makes working with subprocesses easier. but js does good async.
Sorry, I probably should have labelled this "increasing layoffs".

You're right that numbers as a whole are going up.
Hi I regret that I’m a loner no friends. But I have about 50+ products almost ready to go. Can easily find buyers. Most non tech. But are 10-50x better than competitors. Want to crowd fund 3. Then maybe apply to YC. Need a biz mgr
Silicon Valley Is Where Banks Go to Die
My text-based music sequencer supports some music theory concepts and also has a shell:

https://github.com/flipcoder/textbeat
> Did the smoothing/compression remove details? Did the multi-shot remove or add motion artifacts you wanted to see? Has noise-cancelling removed or altered frequencies? Is the high-frame rate real, interpolated, or anything inbetween depending on light just to make it look nice?

This has been true of consumer digital cameras for 25 years. It's not new to or exclusive to smartphone cameras. It's not even exclusive to consumer cameras as professional ones costing many times more also do a bunch of image processing before anything is committed to disk.
Watch Relativity attempt the first launch of its 3D-printed rocket Terran 1
ChatGPT's API is so good and cheap, it makes most text generating AI obsolete
There is a VM for Octave in the works in the mailing lists. I tried it. Speeds up execution times by alot.
It's strange how, despite the widespread consensus during and after the 2008 crisis, that the banks were "too big to fail", no action was taken to break them up or somehow reduce their size.
Why do we? Assuming a need for interactive web content, what are our alternatives in pragmatic terms?

0)No scripts, each interaction is a round trip to the server

1)Minimally scripted pages with classic SSR

2)Full blown apps compiled to WASM and rendered on canvas

Even if we goto 2, we still have some minimal wrapper JS. I'm not sure we can escape it at this point. The best we can do is minimize our exposure.
What would be even funnier (and more obvious, once people caught on) would be if the phone used its orientation sensors to only activate "Moon Mode" when pointed at the approximate current location of the moon. :)
You made a good point, that is often overlooked about memory management, as if all users will always want to do it manually. The reality is, many don't want to deal with it at all or only for specific projects and reasons. For new and various users, not having to worry about manual memory management until they are ready or want to, can be a huge relief or increase productivity.
I buy most of my machines from the local electronics reseller, so I'm usually 5-10 years behind what's current. It works really well for me because the latest and greatest doesn't really bring my significant benefits for my use cases. That may not be the case for everybody.

But I do think there's a lot of people who buy more compute than they need. There's nothing wrong with that if that's what you're into. It's like buying a muscle car when you don't race much.
Gonna need proof. Doesn’t sound like something the Democrats would do.
What happens if the value of Bitcoin tanks? How is this different than hoarding gold, Pokémon cards, etc.?
Yup, it was Theil who started the bank run [0].

[0] https://www.fastcompany.com/90864395/silicon-valley-bank-an-...
> It's just wasting time. Your user suffers due to bloat and slowness on commercial software (like websites full of tracking and heavy UI design) due to economical reasons (no benefit in optimizing user perf for the company) and not due to system software like one Drew writes.

And if system software developers believed that line of reasoning, then that would be slow as well, and if the commercial application vendors gave half as much attention and effort then those wouldn't be so bloated and awful.
there is a small but growing cohort of people who both a.) work in all or predominantly remote orgs and b.) understand the carbon cost of flying.

if your team meets those critera then this is the only way to make these decisions.

even if your team doesn't entirely agree on b, those of us who do can use this to inform our votes on where to meet.
What property do you buy for 250k?
The article goes on to note that when FDIC wound up Wachovia in 2008 there were $130Bil in uninsured deposits and all of them were made whole.
Context and analysis here: https://twitter.com/steven_q_zhang/status/163456265069577011...
This specific question I cannot answer, but I think in the long run, people with US gov bonds will get through OK, maybe just a delay payments and they may get a bit more from the US due to the delay.

I think for "main street", it will be a disaster. The fallout could rival the 1930's depression and people's 401Ks will probably loose 30% to 40% of their value.

Why Wall Street is still backing these GOP idiots is beyond me. We seem to be in a shift of US Party priorities. Seems the Dems are heading to support businesses while pushing social conscience. Seems some in the GOP is trying to do what they can to steal from Social Security/Medicare and crash world economy.
Buganda didn't really get into the slave trade until Arab colonialism broke into the Bugandan markets after the 1840s, when Buganda was already established and growing. Even then, the slave trade was primarily on the edge of the economy, in order to exchange for guns. Most of the economy was built on iron, salt, and food trade. See [1], specifically chapter 3, on the formation of monarchies.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/277585.The_Great_Lakes_o...
Modern remotes/receivers have encryption, via rolling keys or other ways. It's not super easy to unlock those. Easy to upgrade as well, if you want to.

Truth is, the device is not certified so the authorities are confiscating them. Makes more sense than some "aristocracy" conspiracy.
Suitable advice for people who see Bitcoin value as more stable than government-insured bank deposits held in USD, but that might not be so many people.
Really cool project, and I love the idea of non-traditional algebras. Have you seen the one graph algebra before? https://github.com/snowleopard/alga
Indeed, but SVB had 10 year maturities. I was thinking 30 days so there's little interest rate risk.
this is top stuff. I'm already 30 minutes in listening to your backlog
"Two months later, SVB added former Obama Treasury Department official Mary Miller to its board"

"Around that time, federal disclosure records show the bank was lobbying lawmakers"

"Virginia Sen. Mark Warner (D), for whom Becker held a fundraiser at his Menlo Park, California, home in 2016, according to an invite obtained by The Sunlight Foundation and OpenSecrets. The bank’s political action committee also donated a total of $10,000 to Warner’s campaigns in the 2016 and 2018 election cycles."

The "insider input" is money.
It should be compared with other comment sections, not newspapers. I agree though, this is a weird take.
The real suspicion is finding an airport meal for less that $25
Putting money in a bank is risk management.
> Guns have only one purpose

Not a fan of biathlon? Although I guess competitive shooting could be seen as a form of combat the same way competitive chess could be.
IntraFi, suggested in the article, looks a bit sketchy. Read their terms and conditions.[1]:

"No Liability or Damages. INTRAFI SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY OF ANY KIND RELATING TO, RESULTING FROM, OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEBSITE (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY CONTENT ON IT OR THE RESULTS OBTAINED FROM ITS USE), THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE, OR INTRAFI’S BUSINESS, OR ANY LINKED SITE, FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER, WHETHER ARISING IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE. IN NO EVENT SHALL ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES AGAINST INTRAFI BE ALLOWED, EVEN IF INTRAFI HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, AND THE EXCLUSIONS OF DAMAGES IN THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE ARE INDEPENDENT OF, AND SURVIVE THE FAILURE FOR ANY REASON OF, ANY OTHER REMEDY."

What IntraFi is supposed to do is place your money in a large number of different banks. But what if they don't? Or they screw up, and put too much money in some flaky bank.

The whole point of IntraFi is that it has to work when the financial system is in serious trouble. Otherwise, it has negative value, as an additional point of failure.

[1] https://www.intrafinetworkdeposits.com/terms-conditions/
Unfortunately, NVMe SSD make RAM drives pointless. SSD, and any RAM drive, saturate SATA. NVMe make SSD perform well but won’t work for RAM drive since it is just a card. PCIe works, the old ones used it.

The PCIe RAM drive cards were enterprise and super expensive. You could buy a whole computer for one. It is probably cheaper to sell the RAM sticks and buy SSD. As I mentioned, they are super cheap now and cache would only need small one.

Also, setting up RAM drive is a pain. The old cards required special drivers; new ones could probably emulate NVMe. But setting up cache drive and getting programs to use it for temporary storage is annoying. All SSD is easier. There is a lot of experience with using SSD as durable write cache and not as much using disposable temp space.

For those who need speed, buying more RAM is a better way of doing it. If you really need speed, then new computer with more RAM and NVMe is better approach.

In any case, PCIe RAM drives aren’t made anymore. They were a niche at the time and now there is no market at all.
Unless you’re using floating point numbers and have padded the image to infinity, it’s literally untrue that applying a Gaussian kernel doesn’t throw away at least some (if not a lot of) information. I think what you intended to say is the blur doesn’t remove “all” the information. Not to mention he downsized the image (likely using bilinear not even bicubic ) further throwing out a ton of information. Not to mention he then showed the image on a display and took a photo from across the room. For all practical purposes the technically incorrect pedantic statement does not apply even if you correct it.

Looking at the images, it will be fantastical if not a violation of information theory if the phone didn’t use prior information about how the moon looks to create the photo.

Source: spent way more months than I would have preferred calculating CRLB values on Gaussian blurred point source images.
What about and white photos though?
>Guns have only one purpose: physical combat.

This premise is not true. But I agree, it's generally ignorance about a tool, weather it's firearms or radio, that leads to people and so governments, making false claims and so taking stupid regulatory actions.
It's a pity this didn't get more upvotes.
That's why they charge interest, they would have calculated the risk of that happening to make sure the amount they charge in interest would still net them the desired profit.