skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily.

It depends on what your data source is. If it’s a stable sorted list that only ever gets appended at the end, you can use the index.

At the end of the day, there is no hard fast rule for the key. You have to know what your data source is.

You have to know what you’re doing.
There is something magical about the 10 years mark that compels people to write blog post showering us with their wisdom. I crossed that line several years back and my biggest realization is how little I knew back then.

I believe it's worth remembering that years of experience is at best a weak predictor of competency. Careers are non linear and someone might growth the same in 10 or 20 years than others in 2 or 3.

For the best deconstruction of career growth I've seen around (and one I personally identify a lot with) I recommend this blog post [1] from Carlos Arguelles.

[1] https://medium.com/geekculture/career-growth-speed-deconstru...
pretty funny how every comment is a different stack lmao. here’s my sprinkle: python/FastAPI and Svelte JS
I find it hard people can’t see that will be the play?
Response depends on your proportion of fast twitch muscle fibers. The more you have the better you'll respond. It really is almost effortless for some. It's genetic. If you're predominantly slow twitch it's going to be a fight. You can make progress, but it will come far more slowly and your potential is limited.
From a non-US perspective the idea that top universities recruit athletic talent at all is really quite strange.

There are some athletic scholarships at Oxford and Cambridge, but they're not at all mainstream in the way athletics seems to be in the US.
Both are valid, but you’re right in that, at least in my experience, the second option can be safer. Specifically when updating an object or list via an asynchronous call where the calls can change based on state (such as the user changing accounts)
How useless does a person have to be to be incapable of arranging their own crap any way they want?
Yes. If you are not aware of the music piece “Hall of the Mountain King”, a few small and quiet initial notes lead to a cascading torrent of choral tones and heavy dynamics.
Similar to this financial situation, we are hearing some of the first opening notes.
>There is probably some value in having banks to do loan underwriting and allowing private credit creation

but why would you ever put your money in a commercial bank when you can deposit at the federal reserve with 0 risk?
> Several years into my time in San Francisco, someone explained to me how, as a partner at a venture capital firm, they were expected to commit personal capital to the fund, which is often several percentage points' worth of the total fund size.

So I have been out of this mess for a long time, but at least at some point, this was literally the definition of being "a partner" in a firm (investment or otherwise). It's not a title you get by working hard. You buy in if you want the gains, and that means you're also taking on the risk.

This whole essay feels like someone reckoning with the capitalist class, or difference between being rich and being wealthy, for the first time. "What do you mean risky investments don't always shake out fairly? That's not what I learned in my MBA!"
In the U.S. there used to be a system called "double liability" where bank shareholders could be assessed up to the par value of their stock for money needed to make depositors whole in the event of a failure.
I see you are dispensing advice. I'd like to see your advice dispensing certification please.
This is a silly manipulation tactics you’re using.

Anything taken to the extreme will sound ridiculous. Which hides the original issue and my point — nobody really care average person’s typical internet footprint.

With advertisers being one exception, and even their intent in most cases are harmful (show you a better targeted ad and minimize money waste).

And even with all the regulations they find a way to gather necessary data, because you just can’t avoid leaving footprints if you use internet.

So it’s _mostly_ an artificial battle against wooden windmills.

You just waste your time and money on that privacy crap while wheels keep spinning.

Of course there are important edge cases and concerns we can’t ignore. But I skipped them to illustrate my point.
Comeau (the author of this post) has beta-published a React course, so keep your eyes peeled.
There a fantasy that says you don’t need experts to run your cloud infrastructure.

The same fantasy says that if you own your own hardware you’ll need lots of experts that are so expensive and so hard to find that it makes no sense to self host.

Cloud is crazy expensive and delivers much slower computing power per dollar.

Consider if you need kubernetes plus cloud scaling, or you just need one modern ripping fast 16 core machine with 128GB RAM.
Fiberglass scratch pen works great for removing resist from small areas. Not sure how it would work on the presumably polyimide coverlay but it works great on soldermask.
Typo: meant to say deregulation, of course.
Urgent: Sign the petition now
There was only ever a 6B GPT-J, you must be thinking of GPT-neo's for smaller sizes. GPT-J was the best of its kind for a long while but even just the 7b version of LLaMa soundly surpasses it in how well it follows examples to solve problems and do useful work like summarization, keyword extraction and a mini search agent. Being able to run something on your laptop that matches the original davinci GPT3 and can be tuned to go beyond is nothing to sniff at.

The best models will be by API but there is a threshold of utility for LLMs, below which they're just bad story telling toys, that hasn't been available for home users until recently, with FlanT5s and LLaMas.
> The odd part comes from the package-deal associated with Republicans: right-wing extremists. Democrats have been okay keeping extreme left-wing out of most policies, but Republicans seem to be increasing acceptance.

My theory on this is that Republicans from roughly the 80s or maybe a little before got too good with the propaganda. Because of that and the loose party system we have in the US, people who grew up on conservative propaganda are now prominent elected officials and the cycle reinforces itself.

Either that or it's just grifters who have realized there is no bottom with a substantial portion of "the base". It's probably a combination.
Without React (or a similar framework) JavaScript makes the assignment immediately. It’s not like the language has some special handling compared to other languages in this regard.

React, otoh, provides methods that access and update state. React’s handling of changing state using these methods is to queue the change, not to update it immediately.
Macaques are the true under-appreciated menace. You’re quick to let your guard down because they’re not a chimp or gorilla, but you will regret it.
For the last two years on Youtube in France, we’ve had ads saying “DON’T HAVE MONEY? YOU CAN STILL BUY A HOME!”

It’s the 3.6 Roentgen of banking. Everyone with no money was able to buy. Startups are too many being created. Flooding the economy with Covid money made that everyone had way too much money. Everything is in flames, we’re just merely discovering it.

It’s gonna be a tough year.
Should be rather easy to prove if Samsung is really able to „unblur“ an image in that way: use something else than an image of the moon as starting point and apply the same steps, i.e. down sizing and blur, then take a photo and see if it’s able to recover details.
Can add National City Bank (7th largest US bank in 2008), to the list of banks that didn't "fail", but totally failed through a similar nudged-sale process like Wachovia (4th largest at the time).
Too Connected to Fail
> I remember watching a 1 hour lecture on you tube, where this professor argued that the trans-Atlantic slave trade is actually what made Europe and economic powerhouse.

You can find one or two professors to stand behind literally any point. But that theory doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. If the slave trade is “actually” what was responsible for European wealth, how did Britain end it almost overnight without any significant impact on its economy? It’s not like the slave trade was in a natural decline in 1807 when the British banned it. It had peaked just a couple of decades before.

> If you have any alternative theory of what powered Europe's economic growth in the 18th century, let me know

The rise of strong central governments that could protect trade routes, and the early part of the Industrial Revolution.
If they catch you doing what?
I stopped guys, I stopped doing it. For internal tools at my company, I just use a golang backend (because most of our services are golang so there's no learning curve for folks) and use go's templating system to render HTML.

I can crank out tools in minutes. No complicated build systems or web pack or dependency management system. No react, no reduce, no apollo or graphql. No typescript, etc.

Just simple go, html, css, and a bit of javascript when it's needed for a form. I don't minimize anything, or try to do anything fancy. It faster to develop in, and faster to load in the browser.

I'm specifically talking about internal tools here.
> But is anyone actually making money off of StableDiffusion?

How about:

- https://www.deepagency.com/

- https://avatarai.me/
> But every now and then that inner critic starts playing its soundtrack: "That's not creative, it's a waste of time. You're giving away your work and efforts for free to a multi-billion dollar company."

Do people relate to this? Does this person think everything they do needs to be creative? Are they some kind of toilet bowl artist and interpretive toothbrush performer?

I understand striving to do more of whatever you care about, and being hard on yourself for falling short, but surely you can’t be measuring every action and every moment against that standard?
> I would say useEffect is not an escape hatch, it's a fundamental building block of the hooks paradigm

The react docs literally call it an escape hatch [0]. First sentence.

[0]https://beta.reactjs.org/learn/you-might-not-need-an-effect
Time-loop online shooter Lemnis Gate will become unplayable in July
Also the Krakatoa eruption of 1883 and The Scream by Edvard Munch in 1893.
The title is accurate.

Edit: the original title was correct and gave helpful context.
Hash Tables FTW
Like there are no atheists in foxholes, there are no Libertarians in bankruptcy.
Well, not everyone, given that the CEO's been selling shares :)
Flying is not climate friendly. Pretty useless.
> You can post a new release as a Show HN only if the new version is significantly different. It shouldn't just be an incremental upgrade. If you do repost, add a comment linking to the previous Show HN and explaining what is different from last time. This should probably only happen once or twice a year—more starts to be excessive.

It’s in the “Show HN” -> Tips link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638

Of course, this and many other submissions just seem to have resubmitted until getting traction. I don’t know what to say about that
Yes most of fitness industry isbullshit. But simple =/= easy. Past , for 80% of the 20% rule, the easy simple methods are exhausted and progress generally requires increasingly complex methods when simple methods become too hard. Lifting / growing muscle especially - fatigue / diet management to optimize stress / recovery cycles especially if you're not full time athlete.
>I'm convinced that the reason this stuff happens time and time again is that within activist circles, everyone is trying to outdo each other in terms of ideological fervor, leading to the most extremist policies being put out.
T
he people who originally professed this messaging legitimately believed these systems (ICE, the police) to be irreparably corrupt and that mere reform was impossible, and their message was coming from a place of rage, alienation and frustration.

That message inevitably got co-opted by the mainstream and watered down into something palatable, and thus ineffectual and easily ignored, but its adherents were (and remain) sincere. Not everyone is LARPing or trying to out virtue-signal each other.
What I'd like to know is what services SVB offered to startups that other banks wouldn't/couldn't/didn't. And if other banks wouldn't/couldn't/didn't, if there was a valid reason for it.

I can understand legacy banks not wanting to touch crypto, but what about the rest?

Or was a lot of SVB adoption just due to name recognition in the startup ecosystem?
I've run a lot of language models locally.

Llama 7B is much better that something like GPT-Neo at text generation.
For a moment I thought it was a joke, but no they seem for real
If there are no other ways to update that state, the example will work fine.

It might come back and bite you if you implement something that performs an async update of that state via a different path later.
Genuinely asking: for startups who were not banking with SVB, is the recent event a good thing from a competitive standpoint?
I don’t mind going in. I mind the long ass commute (I like to live rural), but I do mind going into an office just to… telecommute with the rest of the team
I found this the other day and it aligns to how I've been going about it: https://epsilonmachine.com/nogoogle/
What is the provenance of the title, is this editorializing in the submission?
This is the way, and should honestly be the default unless you are 100% your software needs something like an SPA.
LOL, nope. Not interested in taking another spin on the “privatize gain, socialize loss” merry-go-round.

The banks had to be saved in 2008 because they were, like, the financial system. I don’t see why private companies and funds that are much less integral to the functioning of the economy as a whole should be saved by the public fisc.

Sorry about your disruption.
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Kind of insane to watch all this unfold.
I mean the react docs literally call it an escape hatch[0]. First sentence.

[0]https://beta.reactjs.org/learn/you-might-not-need-an-effect
Is SVB the default bank for YC companies?
I would say it's risky to keep such large deposits with a small bank. We use Wells Fargo for a reason; they make conservative investments and are very unlikely to be shutting down.
Imagine half of your vendors/customers are insolvent. Is this good?
I really hope it doesn’t get updated to “Sign the petition now” because that is not the type of descriptive title that I like to see on HN.
Cerebral admits to sharing patient data with Meta, TikTok, and Google
I honestly can’t think of a sector less deserving of a bail out.
When we little guys put our eggs in one basket, or put excessive reliance in business we have no control of we get accused, sometimes implicitly, sometimes explicitly, of being incompetent. That we should've known better. Hmmm....

The cynic in me says this letter is less about bailing out the small companies trying to make payroll and more about the VC's not wanting to lose massive investments.
That’s not pure anymore for any practical definition.

When you get different answers for the same question, then you’re not calling a function.

When you can only get the same result by recreating the same internal state through external manipulation, you’re dealing with side effectful, imperative code.

Hooks are ergonomic and easy to reason about and that’s great. But they turn functions into objects.
Ayn Rand just got disrupted.
I know. A bunch of dudes talking out their ass about me calling useEffect an escape hatch when it’s literally called that IN THE DOCS. HN never disappoints.
Silicon Valley Bank paid out bonuses hours before seizure. So ya they don't need a bailout lol.
Hence regulation so you can appeal, so you can get a human to review an AI decision that impacts your life, and so that AI systems with high impact have a baseline level of documentation and ongoing evaluation.

We don't make these laws for fun.
They're asking to "be made whole," but are "not asking for a bailout." What exactly do they want, then?
No, of course. Back in 2000 we loved handling our own window.__mynamespace variables. The world was so much better with document.forms[0].submit. Those beautiful days of document.write, document.elementid.property. I’m nostalgic.
I've been been experimenting with recursive queries in SQLite, and they seem rather unreasonably performant. I've tried comparing the performance of some of the given examples with imperative code that duplicates the recursion and makes the requisite queries individually using the SQLite API. You might expect the CTEs to perform better, but I've seen them doing an order of magnitude better, which rather surprised me.

Congratulations to the author who must have made some rather intensive optimizations to make recursion work so well within the context of SQL, which the paradigm was not designed for.
My bad, I completely forgot they worked off of a fork.

Did you ever try Neverball with glshim, though? Why? I'm the current maintainer of Neverball, always very interested in Neverball-related stuff.

When I was working on the Emscripten port, I tried a bunch of GL-to-OpenGL ES libraries. There were a few. I might have tried glshim, but not sure anymore, that was a couple of years ago. gl4es was the only one that worked without any obvious visual glitches.
What do you expect on their official statement? "ahh we got a call from the CEO saying they were probably going to collapse in a few months, so we got our money out". I get it's unprovable/conspiracy stuff, but to think that doesn't happen at the top end is simply naive.
Yes, at least in the very short-term, at least to a limited extent.
I don't get the sense there is a lot of sympathy from HN over this event. People lost money, payroll may be missed, that's a detrimental thing for a lot of people.

If little sympathy, why?
I wonder how many of the petition signers are vehemently against the government's student loan forgiveness plan.
Plenty of small and old banks across USA. Not sure how they get by on the back-office side, but they do!

Just looked up a US sibling's bank and it was chartered over 100 years ago and has 3 branches.

Then there are credit unions, which are another beast that sits outside of FDIC.
Of course, many startups' customers are not other startups.
Not quite. What I'm saying is that the explanation is valuable because it comes from the accountable party. That you have a good explanation does not absolve you of responsibility. The short and clear way to put it is this: You don't go to jail because YOU think you did something wrong, you go to jail because WE think you did something wrong.

If I'm a customer at a bank, and my loan has been denied, I don't care what some unaccountable AI system can come up with to explain that. I care what about how the accountable bankers justify putting that AI system into the process in the first place. How do they justify that AI system getting to make decisions that affect me and my life. I don't care about why the process does what it does, I care about why that is the process.
There is no way this outperforms actual credit models that do math
Bailout these companies because YC entrusted all their eggs into a single basket?
Pathetic to be honest.

Yes it’s bad. Yes it’ll get worse if no buyer at 100 cents to the dollar is found by Monday morning. And yet, literally everyone involved signed up for it! It isn’t like there aren’t other banks? The thing had a circus for its risk management office. The big mighty all-knowing VC firms shouldn’t go around crying like babies and signing petitions but be organizing bridge loans until FDIC, the most brutally efficient government organization known to man fixes this, which will be soon and for most, soon enough.

Please don’t make VCs look worse than they are and socialize their losses. You’re in the risk business, do your job.
10 minutes earlier it was posted with the blog post title https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35113681 but users came to the same conclusion: despite the blog title it's asking for a bailout.
So if you're B2C (not B2B) and you only have 1 or 2 non-vital vendors that are likely to be impacted?
Wells Fargo needs to be shut down. Hard to think of a more corrupt Western banking institution
Where was YC when SVB lobbied against stronger regulation so they could take more risk? Crickets.

Edit: Sources in my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35114110
I can relate to the critic, but not the particular words. I've said to myself, "Why bother writing if I have nothing to say," and, "What's the point of open sourcing this when there's the chance Microsoft just copy/pastes it with no attribution", and other similar thoughts.
Do all start-ups only sell stuff to other start-ups? If yes, that's their problem right there.
Trying to arb usdc.
Might seem like an ahole but can't you guys making 100k+ per year ride it out? We are talking about startup a here, have we forgotten the risks and implications that come with this model?
The accepted term for this would be method, learning by doing which is the opposite of theory but generally provides part of the foundation for learning theory. Learning by method is the way the vast majority learn to play and write music and really is all most people need or want. Theory is not of much use for most musicians, a concept of key (intuitive or literal) and what works with a key is all they need. How instead of why.

Perhaps this is being pedantic but these sorts of distinctions are fairly important, understanding what you do and do not know will make you more effective at learning and help you identify what is of use for you to learn. As someone who taught this stuff you should know that the ones who are most difficult to teach are the ones who think they already know.
Are you saying if I deposit more than $250k (which is NOT a lot for a business) into a reputable and regulated US bank at negligible rates of interest I should just accept the impact of the bank shutting down due to events unrelated to my actions and choices? And that my deposit should vanish into thin air?
Regulation sucks until it does not.

Less regulation equals more cases of failures like SVB.

Striking a good balance is hard. It‘s certainly not zero regulation.
So Paul Graham, who is vehemently against taxing the rich, wants a bailout? Funny...
Trump & republicans cut banking regulations and increased capital thresholds from 50 to 250 billion for banks to comply with an FDIC stress test as mandated by Dodd-Frank (which was enacted after the mortgage crisis). SVB would have not gone bankrupt had they been required to pass this stresstest. This change was widely supported by tech companies and banks and here we are again with a bank engaging in risky behavior holding out their hand for taxpayers to bail them out: NO.
There’s nothing more annoying than being prattled to by morons who think that money equates to intelligence.

May they burn brightly.