skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The average woman in a Scandinavian country has 1.6 kids. That suggests it is quite common. Going by averages, literally every woman has a child, and half the men.

In actual practice there will be particularly fertile women that have more children and their childcare needs will be draining resources from others, making it harder for them to form families.

I should stress that I don't think childcare costs are the big driver of low fertility. But to say that resource reallocation is going to help is a bit ... I mean, where are these resources going to come from? Everyone was already putting their resources towards their families, diverting money away from those families is the engine that powers the state. That is where the soldiers come from, the welfare comes from, all the labour, where the goods get produced, etc. We'd be asking them to stop caring for their families and instead spend all day caring for their families but according to how the government wants instead of what they actually think they need. You can't take from them, give it back to them and expect them to have more. They aren't even going to have the same.
So if no one got those loans, what would have happened to the resources they bought? What would've happened to the resources that went into building the widget making machine? What would have happened to the operator employees? Would they've disappeared? Most likely they would've become available to another investor who did not get the loan but also wanted to build a widget making machine.

Did the loan actually increase economic growth? I think the only reasonable answer is: Yes, if the bank issuing the loan had a better idea than the market about the future profitability of the investment. However, that doesn't seem very likely to me.
"Trust us, bro"
for staff-of-life crops like potatoes and grains, it's a bad idea, but an awful lot of common crops like lettuce benefit from having less than full sun
Let me introduce you to El Ejido, Spain. A region dominated almost exclusively with greenhouses that block out significant amounts of sunlight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ejido

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.7520281,-2.7656489,22159m/da...
The US does have inflation-indexed bonds, but they're only available in small amounts ($10k/year). They're for consumers, not institutions.

You can, however, buy bonds with varying maturity times. That's generally OK, since there's a liquid market in those bonds. They appear to have been caught flat footed by a sudden run.
YC startups tend to be on average more successful than others,

Is this true? It it true for the median? YC appears to have a portfolio of startups that has better returns than average seed VCs. This means that somewhere in the huge number of companies they fund, there are some massive wins. But way more often, they just lose a few 100k on a startup that goes nowhere.

So even if it's true that the average return is better, the median return is probably similar or even worse (seems YC can probably afford to take bigger bets than smaller less known funds, resulting in bigger wins as well as more failures- the latter all having a capped downside).

Anyway, maybe I'm wrong, but it's not obvious to me that if you picked 10 yc startups and 10 other vc backed startups, the yc ones would be likely to be in better financial shape, even if the portfolio returns are better
I wish it was possible to add FIDO keys to an account without having physical access to the key. Without this, it is hard to balance the convenience of adding your keys to new accounts and the risk of losing all your keys. Ideally, I’d want to keep one key in a safe location far away and just have some public key data that I can upload to new accounts. Does anyone know why FIDO doesn’t work this way? Is it simply to make it harder to lock yourself out of an account?
Tangentially related, at one point Palm gained ARM support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Tungsten
Same-day ACH, aka why you now get paid two days earlier than you used to. Check deposits by smartphone camera. Most of the stuff on https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com.
I think Russia knows that this is a war with NATO for world hegemony and it is going to last a very long time. Maybe a decade or more. Thus, what's the best way to conserve resources and deplete the enemy? Just sit in defensive positions with good logistics and shell while the Ukranians send more and more cannon fodder and the west slowly runs out of armaments. Eventually, they'll send the polish recruits. Then they'll send the rest of Europe, and finally American troops. That's why Russia is going slowly here and not getting out over their skis with the advance.

I think China was supposed to not back Russia, but they reneged on the deal. That's the critical thing that went wrong with the western war effort and why Russia's economy did not collapse as was expected.
I like the muji memo pad.
https://www.muji.us/products/paper-memo-pad-8a62
I'd say the higher you move up in management, the more and more your own goals should represent the business's goals. A lot of ICs don't really care about the business, however, and I think this is where promotions are used as a tool to get them to care.

If you act in the interests of the business, the leadership of a company will (usually, but not always) reward you for your service to the business. Whether or not this is something you "should" do is up to you, in my opinion. As an IC, you can't make me care about a business. I'm there to get paid and gain career experience, the latter of which sometimes improves the business and sometimes not.
> Having motivated, happy teammates is critical to getting things done.

Here it is, in case anyone was looking for a good reason to care about people's happiness
Another great nugget:

>> This deplorable Laval reference is worthy of an eye roll that could sever both optical nerves.

When a Karen presses charges...
All three comments were posted within 5 seconds of eachother.
Probably the same number. Almost every startup in SF uses SVB by default.

edit: misread. My estimate of at least 30% of VC-funded startups in SV using SVB stands. It’s recommended as the default by most investors.
I love how this comment is flagged solely for having an unfavorable opinion to most here. Good job HN
What are Chomsky's theories of language? And how are they relegated to the dustbin? I'm curious.
To summarize : Laeticia is basically the step-mother of Estelle. But she’s 9 years younger.
Ha. Years ago, I got a nice mini moleskin and then proceeded to never use it once (I have it somewhere gathering dust). For me, it suddenly felt like the scribblings I was to write down were there for posterity and the thought of this kept me from using it.
This is actually an interesting time. A make or break moment for Jerome Powell. Will he reverse? Can he tolerate the pain? Monday approaches.
You can find arguments to justify any point of view :)
Ａ different angle: when moving from paper to the web, a lot was lost and a lot was gained. As you point out information has been the core pillar of the web since the dawn of it, and we thrived with that mindset.

But at some point I think we need to find a way to bring onboard part of what was left aside, all the stuff were information was not the primary value. Sure not all of it was great, but there should be technical ways to guarantee it’s delivered as fast as it can and as complete as the makers wishes.

I’m imagining a small kid opening the next Lego movie promotion site, and sure they’ll want to know when and where they can watch it, but the first step is to bring them in-universe and persuade them they want to watch the movie in the first place. Bare naked Arial text with no background for 4s won’t help in that respect, could probably be worse than a blank loading page for some kids, so the question really is how to make the actual intended experience work better (how do we solve the font licensing problem? Or how do we make sure to deliver a French Accent menu over the phone without the wait time, to get back to your analogy).
Well now you're questioning the necessity of banks in general. Additionally, the government regulates them into these securities.

>Why not just make the government do that directly?

If I understand, do you mean why not cut out the middle-man and have people buy the T-Bills/Bonds themselves? If so I completely agree, to some degree, that banks nowadays are nearly complete scams as far as warehousing your money, while providing near 0% interest, with the backdrop of 4 to 5+% risk free short term rates from the government as alternative.

I myself have taken out a bunch of cash and deposited into various tenors of treasuries at TreasuryDirect.gov

And many others have as well, which is why depending on which data you look at there has been a massive withdrawal of cash from commercial banks in recent months, with people either buying treasuries or putting the cash with their brokers (who are buying treasuries etc).

I don't know the answer to how this is resolved, or banks place in the economy... they are supposed to provide credit and money creation for business investment. Since the 2008 crisis, lending has been subdued... there are probably many causes for this. Banks have terrible apps, user interfaces, user experience moving money quickly (in the US) and terrible returns provided to you for lending them money (most people don't realize this is what you're doing when you deposit). So yea, they are a legacy, protected industry that scams their customers out of the spread between the treasury yields they are getting.
We basically only have petty cash now at my small startup. LOL luckily everybody is WFH and we can always switch to paying in stock again like in the early days.
There’s nothing unique about SVB - and their customer makeup was only obliquely related to this failure. The “high risk” nature of their customers had nothing to do with why the bank failed. Letting depositors lose money here would send a signal that any bank smaller than something like B of A is at risk.
Initial motivation was being a teenager without enough money to buy all the new computer games coming out. From there, it was partly just excitement using new technology that was relevant to the scene (Linux, high speed networks, cool ANSI art). In general scene cred was a big motivator. I also ran a BBS, and being well known in the scene also meant that artists made you great art for your board for free, which was a nice benefit if you wanted a cool aesthetic on your BBS.

Aside from cred, there were a lot of like minded people and back then it was hard to find locals who were into computers/tech, so it was sort of a social network of sorts on IRC back then, I made real friends that I still keep in touch with today, so in a way it was a shared social activity.

One fun anecdote: When I was like 14, I got on a PBX 1800# call with some folks in a group I was in and it kind of blew my mind that I was talking to someone in Israel. It was like the world opened up. That is not novel today, but back then the idea of socializing and sharing ideas with people across the world in real-time (for free) was extremely exciting. Keep in mind back then long distance cost per minute, as did much of the dial-up internet.

About law enforcement: not much. Because I did see that minors were usually spared any real consequences, I mainly avoided anything that involved profit (though I once unwittingly bought a stolen modem for cheap, when it's that cheap you kind of know). There was an uptick of paranoia when Kevin Mitnick was busted (in the town I lived in), but for the most part we weren't doing the same kinds of crime he did (some of the folks I knew were, one ended up in prison for ~13 years). I also stopped being involved when I turned 18, which was a smart move. I got a visit from the FBI or state police (I don't remember) once, and my parents nearly shit a brick, and gave me a stern talking to because they were freaking out, but it turned out they were looking for a flasher who had been going around on Halloween! whew!
> In any case I don't think counting bouncy houses is productive.

What about murders or shootings? Would that conversation be productive?

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/fam...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Occupied_Protes...
Okay, I agree, that's the question. So how does fractional reserve banking contribute to that organization?
Can consciousness continue after death? A Neuroscientific Perspective
Except if I want to buy some piece of academic research, they sell articles for as high at $60. Why aren’t academics complaining about the absurd costs for the public accessing their information?
"All of these moves make sense when you zoom out and realize Musk has no interest in Twitter as a business. It is a megaphone to amplify his own voice and the voices that support his viewpoints. Having third party API consumers able to pull in content and reorder it other than how he wants it presented is counter to that goal."

I don't remember being a highly profitable venture before, so what was the previous owners intentions with owning the business but not caring if it generated a reasonable return?

What propaganda were they spewing?
Thanks for your opinion, this makes me feel a little bit better apart from all the doom and gloom
Understanding why soft skills matter is teachable to a coachable person. But not without a coach and when it comes to soft skills there is a general reluctance towards providing soft skill coaching, with a prevailing attitude, as seen in the first comment, that anyone who "wasn't born" with soft skills is unteachable, leaving few willing to try to be the coach.
enormously more companies have 50 employees or more than have 100 employees or more
I’m not sure saddling twitter with more debt does that.
Just as something to ponder, this caught my eye:

> The correlation between IQ and general intelligence is one of the more reproducible results in psychology.

and raises the question;

How do you measure | rank 'general intelligence' in a reliable and reproducable manner fully independantly of IQ measures in order to claim a correlation

.. there's just a smattering of chicken and egg there.
It's going to be a great reset for the tech startup landscape. If you can't pay your employees, your startup is going to zero.

Besides founders, who is going to work for free? In this economy, I wouldn't even risk the "promise" that startups will pay up. If all or most of their assets were held in SIVB and were not able to withdraw or transfer out, then they are effectively hosed.

Good luck folks.
Linux ISOs
I’ll accept that if baseball cards are securities too
Razor 1911 releases were amazing quality, just saying.
Thanks for the note! I'll change the wording in my article WRT bills/notes. :)

With regards to safety, I noted that I think there are two types of safety to note here:

1. Default risk.
2. Asset price volatility.

Ultimately if someone is willing and able to hold to expiry, they aren't subject to #2, but this clearly wasn't the case with SVB and may also be the case with other institutions. I think it lacks nuance to not consider the middle states between the purchase of a bond and the full return of the bond upon expiry.
I also feel like having caught a hazy glimpse of something monumental. Thank you.

A few thoughts to add:

1. Should individuals inherit edge weight from their employers/governments? What should this inheritance be like? If I have no debt but have very little in savings, and if my company has debt to some other company which they have to default on, leading to my getting laid off, I can still be affected by debt.

2. I do not think it is accurate to think if "the people running the graph". I think it's more accurate to state local laws such as: any node which has more outgoing weight than incoming weight (i.e. net lenders) wants to prevent edges from decaying as much as possible while simultaneously making their borrowers more financially stable.

3. Would it be possible to quantify each vertex's credit-worthiness from just the labels you mentioned on edges? Would we need to add any other weights to the edges? e.g. the lender's estimate of the borrower's credit-worthiness?
Oh wow, I only saw the [redacted] version. Probably for the best.
A model that matches part of the brain should not be treated as if it models all of the brain.

What I see you doing here is personifying the model, and drawing conclusions from the personification.

There is more to how we interact with language than prediction of repitition. You didn't predict anything I have said so far! Yet we are both interacting with the language.

We didn't just model LLMs after our brains, either. We pointed them at examples of thought, all neatly organized into the semantic relationships of grammar and story.

Don't ignore the utility of language: it stores behavior, objectivity, and interest.
> If this happens the companies will immediately close up shop.

If their bank accounts get frozen for a week, they'll just lay everyone off and then hire them all back a week later with a signing bonus to cover their missed days. No one is going to permanently shut down their company because their bank is closed for a couple days.

Maybe a few lucky executives will accidentally get their vesting accelerated, and a few startups that were on the brink of collapsing anyway might be pushed over the edge, but beyond that life will go on as usual.
Investing in 'hiring well' is worth it for the skill, sticking around in 'hiring' is probably not unless you're using it to swing some cool free international trips. There's a lot of value in knowing exactly how you'll be judged at your next job interview.
Funny that replies discuss the term "market cap"(italization). It is mentioned nowhere in the article. Is this even an appropriate term to apply to "cryptocurrency". Traditionally it has been used to refer to companies. Putting aside the untrustworthiess of the sources of crypto "market cap" data, what, or should we say "who", exactly is being capitalised. SBF was one of many.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-programmer-at-the-center-of...
Yeah, I oversimplified it to a large degree because getting to deep into the nightmare that lies beneath the banking system can make ones head explode. It's accurate enough for a layperson, if nothing else.
Simple bugs still exist in Netgear routers (WAN-Side One-Click)
A extremely trivial command injection that existed in Netgear routers up until last December. Shown to be WAN-side exploitable with a attacker-controlled website.
Italian-English for securitization?
Beyond the rendering which as noted is nothing that hasn't been done before (in general) the inherent OT/multi user + tree sitter functionality is something that entices me.

I'm surprised nobody pointed out lite/litexl here either it's rendering of ui is very similar (although fonts are via a texture; like a game would) and doesn't focus overly on the GPU but optimises those paths like games circa directx9/opengl 1.3

There are great details of the approach taken with lite at https://rxi.github.io

Lite-xl might have evolved the renderer but the code here is very consumable for me.
Who's doing that?

Part of the issue here is that SVB was able to get into trouble because important regulations and safeguards were removed years ago.

The ones that exist to minimize the wider impact of a bank failure are working, and I don't see anyone upset about that fact.
"Why are so many (of .003% of the male population)..." This feels like some kind of weird PR resurge effort to promote a fake trend into real popularity, for who or what reason I can only guess.
> I don’t remember being a highly profitable venture before

It was profitable on an ongoing basis (the most recent reported period had a one-time charge that made it unprofitable, IIRC) though not “highly profitable”. Since the Musk takeover was announced – leading to forward advertising sales drying up even before it was consummated – its been (by Musk’s own description, including as to the timing, though he places the blame elsewhere) hurtling toward bankruptcy.
Your sample size of one doesn't prove or disprove anything.
I think this is a very used technique, but I was unfamiliar with the name.
In the U.S., however, First Amendment protection for flipping the bird is not considered "clearly established" law in some portions of the country, and police officers can be protected by qualified immunity if they arrest you in retaliation for displaying the middle finger.

The U.S. Courts of Appeal for the 2nd Circuit and 6th Circuit have held that flipping the bird is protected speech. (See Swartz v. Insogna, 2013, and Ellis v. Davidson, 2004.)

But as far as I've been able to determine, the 3rd Circuit, which governs my own part of the country, has not made any definitive rulings on it.

That means that a case like Guessford v. Douglas et al, which was recently filed by a Delaware man, might end up with the police involved protected from punishment.

(Guessford held up a handmade "RADAR AHEAD" sign while standing near a speed trap, and the police ripped up the sign, then later pulled him over and cited him in retaliation for flipping them the bird.)
Calling Visual Studio 'less powerful' than GDB is telling.

When you have a bug that doesn't happen until hours into your program execution, being able to set a breakpoint, edit-and-continue, and set-next-statement are worth their weight in gold. You can solve in the moment what would take literally days, even weeks using a logging approach.

Sure they both have their place but having a debugger is indispensable, and Visual Studio's debugger is the undisputed king.
This is such a classic "just asking questions" move. You could save a lot of time in your day if you concern trolled a little less.

In any case, you sure did a lot of creative reading to avoid reading this sentence:

The algorithm now artificially boosted Musk’s tweets by a factor of 1,000 – a constant score that ensured his tweets rank higher than anyone else’s in the feed.

But that doesn't matter, does it? You're just going to construct something out of precision-selected tidbits anyway as a rebuttal. Really, I think that if you have something to say, you should just say it out loud from the outset instead of leading people around by the nose and wasting everyone's time.
This is literally describing, and endorsing, the ad hominem fallacy.

Your point isn't wrong in this case, the roots if modern new-left ideology are unsavory, but that doesn't make it a sound general approach.
What? No it's not. Love it or hate it (and I lean towards the former), Dodd-Frank has greatly changed American banking.
I am a farmer, and this doesn't make sense. Grazing fields aren't really growing crops.

Even if this is just crops that are picked by hand (it mentions broccoli), they typically still have huge machines follow the laborers for them to deposit them in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKyxMKO2kyU

I can't see any good way to harvest a field with solar panels that isn't so inefficiently laid out that it would be better to have two separate fields.
Who makes money off twitter?

Maybe a few apps, but Twitter seems to rather they not exist.

Anyone else really make any money?

Twitter is a weird place, I’m not sure how to make money off of it, or who does that’s would care to pay enough for the service?
I think it can be mostly attributed to taking too much investment and not vetting investors enough. The investors started shoveling in a bunch of MBAs around 2000 because they wanted big returns. Thats what led to getting into the ads business, going public, buying youtube, etc. "Good MBAs" are great for making sure profit goals are hit, but they almost always ruin just about everything they touch to do it though...
Rewriting the CLI in Rust: Was It Worth It?