skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EDIT: My following statement about self hosting is incorrect. You can, infact, self host.

This looks wonderful, but the inability to self host is a killer from the solo developer point of view. Being limited to 50,000 database rows on the free account isn't ideal.
I agree that medical care should be run by the state. I would prefer that to our current system. I don't think its worth us talking any more since we don't seem to be learning from each other.
A Developer's Guide to Blocking Fraud Threats
>> even if we could argue that SVB should have been more prescient, it is clear that the root cause of the problems is the actions of the government and the FED

From SVB's bio of President and CEO Greg Becker at https://www.svb.com/profile/greg-becker:

"He is a Class A Director for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco"
ChatGPT can do it. Perhaps this won't be viable in-browser for a while, but I could see somebody using it in a static site build pipeline to convert space characters to &nbsp; at compile-time.

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Break the following headlines up into individual strings where each string is an idiom that shouldn't be broken up. If words aren't part of an idiom, they can be their own string.

"One year on, and what's next for remote workers?"

"Hurricane Ida Gives New York What For!"

"Ice Town Costs Ice Clown His Town Crown"

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"One year on"
"and"
"what's next"
"for"
"remote workers?"

"Hurricane Ida"
"Gives"
"New York"
"What For!"

"Ice Town"
"Costs"
"Ice Clown"
"His"
"Town Crown"
how does it approach these issues?
You should probably look at the link my guy. 13/20 of those definitely aren't Libertarians.
According to some comments here, such a narrow bank was proposed, but was denied license by the Fed, which apparently even fought in court to uphold the denial.
> Maybe I'm a callous bastard, but I genuinely don't get how he feels personally responsible here.

The bit where it gets complicated is that the scammers are using his name and likeness. The way these scams work is by convincing people that the youtuber in question wants to connect with them and then they steal money from them.

How would you feel if I would go around on HN tell people that I'm Zetice and steal money from them? How would you feel if the way you would hear about this is by confused people messaging you and demanding very angrily that you pay them back? You Zetice worked hard to be a person with integrity, and someone is squandering away your accumulated goodwill, hurting the very people who look up to you and you can't do anything about that.

I think I would feel terrible, and I would try to use my platform to shine a light to this problem. Worst case a few of my followers would wisen up and develop resistance to this kind of scam. Best case some manager at youtube shovels more money into solving the problem.
To be fair, there's Ethernet switches with AVB support. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Video_Bridging

AVB is a set of IEEE standardized 802.1 extensions that provide better control over bandwidth and latency. This is important when you're playing multiple audio and/or video streams to multiple endpoints connected at different points in the network and they need to be low latency and still kept synchronized.

I've seen professional switches from a large vendor where the AVB license cost as much as the rest of the switch.
No you didn't answer my question.

You made the case that how you value it depends on the plan. So what was the plan?

The answer, of course, was that these people didn't have a plan because they're incompetent, and that has nothing to do with the "purpose of a bank". It's just incompetence, nothing more.
Because they have 1.4B people? China != people of Chinese ethnicity. Your name doesn’t change when you immigrate somewhere.
Much as it can be irritating for a hype/hate-intolerant person (I am one too), you cannot possibly contend it's irrelevant here, so you'll just have to put up with it.
You should give some thought to offering an AC-DC power supply. Being able to dedicate several solar panels directly to heating or cooling might get people out of a regulatory bind with crazy interconnect fees and local regulations.

The trick would be to supply supplemental DC solar power in a manner that would not be considered grid-tied. That would eliminate a whole level of installation costs, permitting fees and time consuming approvals. Plus you could run the system at some capacity during a grid outage which could be a lifesaver.
I've seen him a few times on PMQs and I thought this comment was a reasonable description
Nobody asked for bailouts to crypto banks / exchanges though.
Ask HN: Why does large binary files make Git slower?
I've made the mistake of committing a few hundred MBs of binary files to a git repository. I should've known better. Repeatedly, I was informed by many sources that it is unwise to do so.

But that also makes me wonder, how exactly does large binary files slow git down?

If that one commit which involves the binary files is slow, that's self-evident.

If cloning is slow, that's self-evident. There's more date to download.

But it seems that once the big files are in, even if they don't get changed at all, the whole repository still slows down significantly, on almost every operation. A simple `git status` takes several seconds to complete. Neither `gc` nor `repack` could salvage that. In the end, I had to move them all to LFS, which removes all the binary files from the entire history.

So, why does large binary files affect git so much, even if they remain unchanged after being added?
like always, the market is still insufficiently free to work its true magic. woulda been fine if the fed hadn't been screwing around and ruining things
Pfizer CEO says it will be able to deliver Seagen's cancer therapy at a scale
> what is being left unsaid here that people like myself and Simon might be getting too optimistic about?

The past week has felt like a wake-up call to enthusiasts. Running models locally has been available for a while (even small, fairly coherent ones), and the majority of "improvements" recently have come from implementing the leaked LLaMa model.

The results from 7B are an improvement on what we had a year ago, but not by much. We're learning that there's room to optimize these models, but also that size matters. ChatGPT and 7B are both great at bullshitting, but you can feel the difference in model size during regular conversation. Adding insult to injury, it will almost always be faster to query an API for AI results than it will be to run it locally.

Analysis: Things are moving at a clip right now, but people expecting competitive LLMs running locally on their smartphone will be disappointed for quite a while. As the technology improves, it's also safe to assume that we'll find ways to scale model intelligence with greater resources, and the status quo will look much different than it does today.
http://dag.wiee.rs/howto/ssh-http-tunneling/

For future reference.
Good questions.

We have a way of running HEPA with not unreasonable pressure loss, and then dialing back the amount of filtration when PM2.5 levels are reasonable. Separately a homeowner can request a high filtration mode.

Humidifying is though a system similar to a whole home humidifier - a small bypass from the supply side of the furnace evaporates water off a media.

Yes, through a combination of reheat and coil temperature control we can change the sensible/latent cooling ratio.

HRV/ERV only makes sense in certain applications. We're looking at making one integral in the system, but it will come down to minimizing total cost for homeowners. Comfort metrics will be unaffected.
> have Congress+FDIC create a new form of deposit insurance

Such insurance exists on the private market already and is commonly used by businesses who have large sums of cash on deposits. Presumably, the depositors at SVB didn't do that because they didn't want to pay for it.

Wouldn't a libertarian prefer that over having the government do it?
The common criticisms of Signal to me often come down to letting perfect be the enemy of good. Yes, I want a perfectly secure and private messaging app, but Signal is an incredibly important stepping stone in that direction. It's moving the Overton window.
That's Tesla's claimed range but I'll believe it when I see it. That project hasn't surfaced much since it's initial announcement as far as I'm aware.
According to Matt Levine's "Money Stuff" publication -- it was 60-80 cents on the dollar:

Hedge funds are offering to buy startups’ deposits stranded at Silicon Valley Bank for as little as 60 cents on the dollar, pitching expensive but crucial lifelines to founders unable to access their cash after the lender collapsed yesterday, people familiar with the matter said.

Firms better known for investing in distressed debt, including Oaktree, one of the people said, are fanning out to startups in the wake of the bank’s failure and seizure by the Federal Insurance Deposit Corp. on Friday. Its collapse left hundreds of startups — as well as the venture funds that backed them — unable to access their cash to meet payroll and other expenses.

Bids range from 60 to 80 cents on the dollar, the people said, reflecting a range of expectations for how much of the uninsured deposits — those that exceed the FDIC’s $250,000-per-customer cap — will ultimately be recovered once the bank’s assets are sold or wound down.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-13/svb-co...
How many of them run mainline Linux?
I'd rather hear beeping than have more people end up flat.
> I fear that, by the time they get around to that, lots of code will handle the cases null and Optional containing null differently, making that a breaking change.

Yes, I was working with code once which wrapped string IDs into a FooId object (a good idea in principle) and all of the following had different meanings:

FooId x = null;
FooId x = new FooId(null);
FooId x = new FooId("");
FooId x = new FooId(...an actual ID...)

I think one was for not showing any content at all, one was for showing default content, another was that content was there but the user wasn't allowed to see it, etc.

I'm so glad I left that company...
>the more I was shopping in the store I found myself with a similar amount of non-recyclable waste and much more food waste

Then buy less food? the perishable stuff (fruits, veggies, meats) can either be bought in smaller portions, or the meats can be frozen.
Those things are also true here! A "home equity line of credit" or HELOC is very common, especially when interest rates are incredibly low, as they were before last year. Also, most people understand that other than some edge cases like 2008, homes rise in value over time, consistently and dramatically. Most people know of situations where a retired couple bought a house for less than $100k many years ago, and now it's worth five to ten to twenty times that much!

That's about where most people stop thinking. Clearly house values go up, I don't want to end up 30 years from now having paid rent and having nothing to show for it, I'm gonna buy a house. There's even one more factor, which is the US federal tax structure gives you a big break on any interest you pay on a home mortgage, so many people think: I get a tax break on my house payment, but not on rent.

Of course, most people don't put together a spreadsheet to consider how much money that old couple might have had if they had put that $100k into a stock market index fund the same year they bought the house.

Please understand, I'm not saying that buying a house is a bad investment. I'm just saying it's usually not the best investment. I don't think most people over-value buying a home, I think they under-value putting a home-sized chunk of money into an S&P index fund!
I had to read it three times before I worked out it wasn't some city in California doing something with transfers on a Covid-19 quarantine app.
Good. Payment for links is a really dumb policy, and if it works for news it will leech into other areas until the internet is a minefield of tolls and taxes for anyone who wants to aggregate information in a useful way -- including sites like HN and Wikipedia.
Talking Like an Insider
Considering the size of the training data, there's still a concerning amount of complete nonsense in this.

Example 1:

>"instruction": "Using the PDF below, edit the text to make it more effective.",

>"input": "https://www.example.com/example.pdf",

>"output": "We recently launched a new product and wanted to(...)

Example 2:

>"instruction": "Explain why you think this painting is meaningful.",

>"input": "https://i.pinimg.com/originals/67/2a/d1/672ad1ed7e8d71e3e7fd...",

>"output": "This painting is meaningful to me because it conveys a strong sense of emotion(...)

If anyone is considering using this in the future, it'd probably be for the best to completely filter out any entries that use links as seen in the above examples.
Fair, sorry to be harsh. It's clear now you didn't post it here yourself.
The author works for YADRO:

https://ru.linkedin.com/in/aamelkin

Microsoft has to shut off his account due to his relationship with a company officially sanctioned by the US government.
So ruby has a JS transpiler - opal - https://opalrb.com/

I tried using it a little bit but the reality is if you need JS to make your app more interactable it's really worth it to just learn some JS. As soon as you need something complex the extra layer of abstraction just gets in the way and becomes more of a headache, and if you don't need anything complex then you don't need a fancy JS solution in the first place.

JS only becomes complex when you are trying to create an enterprise version of your app along with a build platform. You can always just sprinkle in <script> tags in your HTML for simple one liners without getting into the weeds.
He can do as he wishes as it's his group. You are free to start your own.
While I appreciate your point.

1. You use the example of a tiny basic of a 'real language' and I don't see how tiny basic is a 'real language', but tiny C is a stripped down language.

2. You can build on this to make a full c implementation. A minimal c implementation that can potentially bootstrap a full c environment is more useful than a brainfuck interpreter.
not only attention seeking, sometimes the motivation is "to spread the truth", at least as they perceive it, and sometimes it's people who get triggered and are not able to stop their rants
Yeah right, I might've put in a bid for a tenner if they'd asked me
Well said. While its good to surface the challenges diverse people face and hopefully think about patterns that will solve them in efficient, systemic ways, the availability of Signal at the moment of time is of vital importance.

Same, e.g. with Mastodon as a Twitter replacement. It something working, that normal people can migrate to and break the stanglehold of the true oppressive platforms. No harm to keep expectations high for those "alternatives", but lets keep a sense of proportion.
If you don't want to participate in a discussion you don't have to respond.

If you think my interprepation is wrong, feel free to explain, otherwise we can only conclude that it wasn't wrong, and you just don't want to have to defend your indefensible idea.
The banks get their money from their profits. Same as how they would have taken an even bigger loss to their profits if this contagion had been allowed to spread.
Professional installer for NIBE products here. Your experience doesn't align well with what I hear from my customers. Out of curiosity, what product do you have?
I think in both situations, further consideration is needed because of the nature of the existing relationships. Kim and Jimmy are throughout the show at the very minimum, friends, a lot of their conversations happen as friends. You can't just claim "consultation" to privilege a conversation. The nominal fee is to distinguish this conversation from others they have.

Same thing with Saul and Walter. Up until that point, they were speaking as hostage and kidnapper. So to distinguish the change in the relationship, he takes a nominal fee. Now they are a lawyer and his clients.
It seems a bit facetious to compare the collapse of the US government with an extinction event. There will almost certainly be a world after the US government, and that world will probably still include ancient banks like Lloyds and Barclays, and large gold vaults under the Swiss Alps.

If you round the risk of the US government collapsing (or refusing to honour its obligations) down to zero, you should probably do the same for many private banks.
When I was in Tulum, Mexico there were a lot of people who made training courses for virtual assistants to life coaches of influencers targeting keynote speakers at inspiration workshops attended by people who make training courses for...
This seems to mean that fewer Canadians will be engaging on Facebook, and that news articles from outlets that meet the official standards of Facebook and the government will have a smaller audience.

In terms of improving the quality of public discourse, how is this not win-win?
If you haven't, check out the musical "Urinetown". Private toilets are banned, and all of the public conveniences are owned by a megacord - the UGC (Urine Good Company).
That’s what led up to the need to create more liquidity. The run happened after that when depositors spooked and drew down faster than the bank could liquidate assets. They were never, even MTM, under water. They just couldn’t raise enough cash in a single day to pay out all the withdrawals. But the cause of the run is the suspicious part to my mind. It feels orchestrated, and I have heard rumblings that Theils founders fund was spreading a whisper campaign against SVB while shorting.
> When the pandemic struck, there were a good bunch of them who couldn't wait to move to Texas or Florida.

No, there were a few loud ones. Most of them stayed.
I don’t think he ever sold it ad new tech its more of a Silicon Valley spin on old tech. And heat pump are in the US but many are hesitant because of the climate in the states can be extreme and as you said NZ has a milder climate compared to the US. for example in my state just last month we hit lows that aren’t supported by any heat pump on the market for days on end but my furnace kept me warm and on the other side of the country temperatures break world record highs every year. Everything op said fits the US market very well heat pump demand is on the rise, alot of people have smart thermostats they’re even provided by some utility companies, the product is a very compelling.
The bonds are worth exactly what they thought they'd be worth if held. There is no bet on that part.

The purchase of 10 year bonds also implied a bet that faster maturing bonds won't be more valuable.

As shown in https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y3M that is no longer a true statement and that bet failed. It was a true statement for about 15 years with one flirtation in August of 2019. It appears that this is is more than a flirtation and more of a dip than past events have been.

The bonds are as secure as ever - just that more money can be made faster in something other than the 10 year bonds.

If (and that's two letters with a lot of weight) we had continued the tech growth seen in the early part of the pandemic and money flowing into SVB, their plan would have worked (or worked better at least), but they failed to account for the possibility that interest rates would go up and that people would be hesitant to fund startups and the startups would be taking money out for payroll faster than they put it in from new rounds of funding.
I handled taxes for a number of video game companies. The parent comment is wrong. If it were correct, the video game industry as we know it wouldn't exist.

Most games are played heavily within the first year, and thereafter not so much. Indeed, game revenues in general are even more front-loaded than movie revenues; for most games, 80% of the game's lifetime revenue is made in the first 6 months of release, which is why DRM is a thing on new games but usually gets removed in a patch a few months after release: to stop piracy during those crucial first few months. (With movies, excluding blockbusters which live or die by their box office, most of the revenue is made after the film leaves theaters from licensing deals and consumer media sales.)

Excluding subscription games like MMOs, only a tiny handful of games continue making substantial amounts of revenue after 6 months. Games like Minecraft, Terraria, and Stardew Valley are the exception, rather than the norm.

Don't let that dissuade you. As a solo developer, you only need a few thousand in sales to make a good living.
The problem with software development in 2023 in a nutshell, well played sir.
> They're following standard practice

They weren't mitigating the risk of how they were using their deposit accounts. That's not following standard practice.
Why on earth would libertarians give up tens of billions of dollars to a bank which the government could decide to nationalize?
I suggest that the FDIC does what it should do and cover all losses that were insured, and let the uninsured losses be realized, as they should be normally. There's a gigantic moral risk in the FDIC covering uninsured losses, because that's a value judgement, and if next week my bank fails why shouldn't the FDIC cover all of my uninsured losses too?

The value judgement that was done here is that if they didn't do it this bank collapse would generate contagion, which I believe is understandable, however if that is the case there should be other ways to prevent this kind of thing such as regulation that prevents banks from putting customer deposits into mortgage-backed securities (what the actual fuck, I still can't believe they've done this, it's like the world has learned nothing from 2008).

Specifically I note that around 2018 there was regulation passed that reduced the amount of scrutiny banks such as Sillicon Valley Bank would receive [0], which we all know now how well that worked. Everyone needs to be taken accountable to the same degree, there should be no special cases or "exceptions". And if a need for those appears that should indicate a systemic problem instead of simply a isolated one-time event.

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mayrarodriguezvalladares/2023/0...
If "app quarantine" and "xattr" make you think somebody is referring to a city, racehorse, or band, I'm not sure the allowed size of titles on HN is sufficient to disambiguate. And I don't think many HN title make the cut either.
Ahh okay. So the FDIC is doing that big government thing of acting collectively in everyone's interest, I suppose?

Instead of everyone getting their piece of the frozen pie, starving as it thaws (possibly having to sell it at a steep loss of degrees to the radian), the FDIC just says, "I'll hold on to the whole pie and hand out slices from my backup pie stash. Then once it thaws, I'll add it to my backup pie stash."
Wow, 50M downloads is huge, congrats!

Are you able to get meaningful income from it? (Google Play store mentioned it contains ads tho I haven't seen any)
I'll give you (3), but isn't the regulation you're proposing in (1) and (2) counter to a libertarian position?
The FDIC does not get a penny of taxpayer money. Member banks pay for it. Member banks also pay for the Fed.
>If you step past that and look at the government role, that’s a fine starting point for discussion about systemic issues in our society, but doesn’t absolve SVB of being the most proximate “root cause” of their own problems.

I think it's time we stop imagining that financial institutions will ever do anything that they are not legally required to do. This was a failure of regulation. Calling it personal responsibility is about the same as getting mad at the dog for getting into the garbage. It's our fault for not taking out the trash.