skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much $ does YC make per employee?
Elizabeth Warren: We Can Prevent More Bank Failures
They didn't buy treasuries, they bought mortgage-backed securities.
I think this is why he bought Twitter (although I don't endorse the decision). If you can access space from phones and he runs the worlds open messaging system that would change a lot... specifically because then governments would have a harder time turning off the internet. I don't see how he could profit massively from that but I do see how it might create something bigger than the arab spring around the world.
Everything you've said points to "no."
I see you are as objective, impartial and opiniated as the author of the terminal you are referencing /s
Reverse job boards seem an interesting concept to me.

I get the feeling that they shouldn't be niche (IE: Django focused) but instead be general so people can see what else the profile can do, and get as many "ways in" as possible.

I've thought about having a general nature reverse job board, where people can post what they want to do, so that someone who's trying to bring together a team can browse and pick and choose people to message. (Ie: I want to make a photography startup so I want to talk with people who know photos).

Does anything like that exist? I know there's LinkedIn but that falls under social media, I can't look at it seriously enough as a job board.
If it is, bad look for YC: obviously they did not think it was apparent, and they should be the experts.
Id guess that YC has a much greater competitive moat in the former. It's much "easier" to do late stage investing - a few big transactions instead of many many small ones, and everyone's working with the same information.

Very few places have the infrastructure to deal with large volumes of start-ups + a lead flow of small companies trying to join YC, so there's no acquisition costs. Add to that, YC's experience with small start-ups compounds - they can probably predict start-up success way better than competitors at this point. That's almost certainly not true for late stage investing.
There are probably thousands of VCs and even more startups who had accounts with SVB. You are telling me, Peter Thiel saw this before anyone else did?

This indictment only shows how good Peter Thiel is at his job.
Maybe your question is a joke but I assume "impacted" means laid off in this context.

Kind of like when people say someone "passed away" to mean they died
Is that an example of “remove all occurrences of a specific byte value from an array”? Wouldn’t packet processing require some sort of structural parsing?
Does this also mean YC is killing off their YC Continuity Programs:

>> Series A Program: Help founders achieve the best possible outcome when raising a Series A via year-round workshops, fundraising guides and 1:1 support.

>> Post-A Program: Batches for YC startups immediately after their Series A to share best practices for growth: managing a board, building a team, key metrics for a Series B and more.

>> YC Growth Program: Graduate school for startups. We bring together cohorts of CEOs of rapidly growing YC companies to focus on the challenges of company building: the changing role of a CEO at scale, setting strategies and success metrics for the organization, hiring and managing great leaders, and more.

Source:

- https://web.archive.org/web/20220812233728/https://www.ycomb...

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EDIT: Related comment from Garry on the topic:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35143443
The Para Method: A Productivity Framework for Organizing Your Life
no one died here sheesh
Do you really think putting it out as mortgages would lock the money up for a shorter duration? SVB had a reasonable amount of liquidity for normal stresses. They'd gotten close to breaching their regulatory cushion for spare capital which was why they were trying to recapitalize.

However once the VCs panicked started a bank run, they folded. Just like literally any bank would. ~45b of net withdrawals in a single day is going to cause any bank significant trouble.
New data tracks failure rates of 13 SSD models, going back up to 4 years
Under C-18 it also includes "indexing", and Google has indicated they will also remove them from search results, this isn't just shooting in the foot, its suicide.
YC took a risk with a new division and then closed it when it didn't work. That's not a "bad look" at all.
Bitmovin (YC S15) is hiring a senior customer success manager in the US
> is so different that the success of YC in early stages doesn't translate

that's not a claim made in the article. It just said the late state was different enough to be a distraction from their core mission of being an early stage investor. A company with just an idea and 2 founders and nothing more is obviously very different from a company with many employees, a revenue stream and a long list of customers. It should be obvious how different that is.
I like it. Double down on what people love about YC—getting more people to become entrepreneurs.

The later stages there's plenty of YC companies out there that can help (WeFunder, Mercury, Brex, Clerky, Stripe, LSTE, etc).
It really reminds me of https://github.com/miyakogi/wdom but also https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets and https://github.com/flexxui/flexx

The only different aspect is that the goal of Pynecone seems to be web apps over the network and not web interfaces to local programs.
Is "impacted" the euphemism of the 2020's? In the past I've seen "affected", but maybe that's passé now. So hard to keep up with all the progress in our language ...
*WSJ is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who was a vocal proponent of the bill[1][2]

[1] https://www.vox.com/recode/22287971/australia-facebook-news-...
[2] https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/media-bargaining-cod...
It costs a lot more to invest in a late stage startup than an early stage one.

In the current economic climate they probably can't afford (or just don't want to risk) to invest large sums, while on the contrary can "take advantage" of early stage startups which will struggle more to get funding.
Their emergency funds.

Don't get me wrong, it would suck. But there is a proven way to fix misallocation of capital via the market.
Yes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35142261
This is insanity... Accidentally, clicked on a link for audiophile network switches and my brain just hurts from reading the article. You have been warned.

https://darko.audio/2018/03/for-the-audiophile-who-has-every...

"Think about that for a moment: the network streamer is directly connected to a router designed for functionality but with zero made concession to audiophile sensitivities."
Please stop linking directly to twitter, without providing context or the text or _something_ of additional value. HN is not a 'repost'.
No, WhatsApp - in the hands of Zuckerberg - can never be better when it comes to the things which matter for those who choose Signal for its privacy-preserving traits. This is why I assume there should be <sarcasm/> tags around the claim of it being better.
Have you considered the hypothesis that she is competent and was lying and/or bullshitting?

Hypothetically, if I ran a government that was engaged in geopolitical competition, I wouldn't want people to tell the truth to my detriment when alternatives could be gotten away with.
The investors in depositor companies were (indirectly) bailed out (if there is indeed a shortfall).
AI-Powered 'BlackMamba' Keylogging Attack Evades Modern EDR Security
Python is over 30 years old so it's hardly surprising that it's got plenty baggage in at least some areas.
And if you're in a situation where you care about the overhead of extra processes, you wouldn't be exploratively and iteratively constructing a query on the command-line - you'd have already done the exploration in order to understand exactly what query you needed, and then would be converting the query into a non-bash programming language for optimization.
Probably, or at least scaled back?
These are two separate topics.

The things are obviously different. Why YC thought they might be synergic and where that went wrong is a separate question. I have no idea.
Can we please just use "fired", "let go" or even "we separated with"? Impacted is just soft wording taken to a comedic level.
This was based on yearly RAM cost. I worked on a log analysis system. In the beginning, it ran on one computer. That one program would read logs, generate fleet-wide analytics, and serve those out of RAM. Eventually we wanted to run on more than one computer, for both scaling and reliability reasons. The design of the system allowed us to basically do the same serving with many replicas, so for a long time we just ran a fleet of replicas that still had all the capabilities of the monolith. The change we made was to move the aggregation stage to a new dedicated program, that we only ran 3 copies of worldwide. (A man with 2 replicas never knows which one is broken, they say.) This meant that the mappers became significantly lighter RAM-wise, they just existed to use as much CPU time as they could, and then we had 3 beefy reducer replicas to aggregate and serve data.

This was a very easy change; we just made a new main.go and an RPC to send the data to aggregate. The system was designed internally to be logically isolated across that boundary, so we just stuck in the RPC and then the other side of the boundary could be another data center.

In the end, I think we saved a few terabytes of RAM-years. Not a big deal, but it was something.
That has to run afoul of competition/antitrust laws and be unforceable. Imagine if Ford tried to tell people you can't use their pickups to carry tools around on a new Honda plant construction site.
Related ongoing thread:

Changes at YC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35142245 - March 2023 (35 comments)
Imagine thinking that billionaires actually bought SVB stock or held cash in there. Protip: their capital is tied up in dozens of companies, which were, indeed, bailed out.
Companies like Facebook can harm their competitors by releasing models.

Facebook is not a major player in the Llm field, the technological advantage of openai is to large, BUT they can reduce the expected gains of their competition by providing less powerful alternatives for free.
> Seventeen of our teammates are impacted today.

Never allow corporations to speak in passive, weak, blameless terms.

Use direct, honest, language, and force them to do the same.

"Seventeen of our teammates are impacted today." - > "We laid off 17 employees today"

"I was impacted by layoffs" -> "Google laid me off"
etc
> bad look for YC

I guess don't apply to them for seed funding for your next big idea if you don't like the way it makes them look.
If prostitution is legal in your country, I would suggest paying for ego
stroking.
Experienced Python devs run their projects in docker, which solves the 3 issues you listed at the end.
Twitter links are fine when they're significantly interesting! But this looks like it's mostly just pointing to the same information as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35142245, so we can eliminate the indirection.

You're right in general though—the site guidelines put it this way:

"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
To me it's the American guns ownership situation: if you make guns illegal now, criminals and governments will still keep them, but your average joe won't get them. A very unequal playing field.

LLMs will be used against us: let's at least have our own, and learn how to defend against them?

i say this as devil's advocate, with serious reservations about where all of this is going.
It makes sense. These are also dashboard focused and not for general apps. I'm also reminded of ipyvuetify, but that one is even more limited, focused on widgets, works out of Jupyter notebooks but can be hacked into a dashboard using Voila.
Very interesting, looking forward to trying Pynecone out one of these days.
> The age of the kids was in their system.

We don't know that. The DOL hasn't said what system "flagged" the kids as potentially underage.
> No. SVB hid market to market losses by saying "these securities are held to maturity so I don't have to realize losses". THAT is the source of the problem. Not all banks did this.

All major US banks - and all or virtually all US banks in general - have assets that are designated as held to maturity. Continuously marking all assets to market would create massive swings in banks' income and obscure the real gains and losses from their operations.

SVB probably had a somewhat longer asset duration and somewhat lower book yield than US banks on average, since its deposit base grew so quickly in a low interest rate environment in 2020-2021. It also had a higher share of uninsured deposits. But nothing that SVB did was categorically different than other banks, and in the absence of a government backstop, I'm not convinced that any US bank would fare much better if faced with a similar volume of deposit outflows. "Magically" transforming long-dated assets into short-dated liabilities wasn't any kind of malfeasance on SVB's part - it's just how banking works.
I really don't think there is any sort of programming that is inherently boring. There can be programming that doesn't intersect with a given individual's interest, but that's different.

For every sort of programming I can think of, I can think of people who find it boring (even machine learning!) and people who find it exciting (even cron monitoring!).
I seem to remember reading that the 'scalable' part of SVM was lost as soon as you did loop unrolling..
I hope I'm wrong though!
Talking size and not speed, to be honest without joking, I still marvel that I have a 64Gb USB stick. 64Gb! HUGE!
so thankful that this space keeps evolving.

modern vanilla JS/TS isn't so bad but as a backend engineer I just cannot stay up with all the associated tooling required for building, packaging, etc. with front ends.

When it's time to put up a front end for something, my productivity craters to like 1% coding, 99% struggling with JS tooling.
If the site ever gets popular expect to get blocked by publishers and/or to receive legal threats. Big publishers really don't like people republishing content without a license.
The Fed never said they wouldn't raise rates for 10 years, which is the duration that SVB bought mortgage-backed securities for. The Fed didn't bow to political pressure, they are following the plan which is their dual-mandate for 2% inflation and maximum employment. They had rates at 0 while employment numbers were bad, now that employment #'s are good and inflation is bad, it was time to raise rates. It's a balancing act.
I've been trying very hard to sell that idea to my team.

But no, they insist on using every product the different cloud providers offers. This, IMO, is a recipe to lock yourself to vendors and make maintenance and interoperability a nightmare.

It feels like when devs felt they had to use all the gang of four design patterns.
It would not be out of character... He is very much a "greater good" politician supporting all manner of authoritarian policies if they are for the "greater good"

he has talked in the past about the dangers of "misinformation" which generally is any information that US congress finds inconvenient to their authority
Or perhaps writing pro rata checks doesn't require that many people?
> The other encodings for variables would certainly increase parsing complexity, so self-interpreters for these BLC variants would be much longer than the original.

Indeed this is the reason why I find those alternatives not too interesting. In most practical programs the variable index frequencies are reasonably well approximated by an exponential distribution for which the very simple unary encoding is optimal.

> In the end, as we relax the restrictions on the encoding of the input, it seems that we can decrease the length of the self-interpreter almost arbitrarily -- down to λm.m(λx.x)(λx.x) [Mogensen] (as pointed out by @sargstuff in this thread) or even λm.m(λx.x) [Brown and Palsberg]

Those are of a very different nature; mine has to tokenize and parse from a binary stream; theirs already has the whole term in a higher order abstract syntax tree.

> While obsessing about this and letting the mind wander I noticed the nice direct correspondence between the quaternary encoding of LAST and the DNA/RNA nucleobases

Yep; I didn't fail to notice that link either:-)

> Now this is a pretty cool coincidence that can provide some individuals with peculiar interests with even more peculiar entertainment, such as going through all possible permuations of AGCT, looking for the longest valid LC program embedded in random mosquito DNA.

They only way to not be valid is to run out of DNA or to not be closed. If you find a long repetition of a single nucleotide and make that L then the latter is unlikely to happen soon...

> Thank you for coherently writing down your thoughts for anybody to build upon what you have figured out. It's fun, it's inspiring, and it works!

Thanks for all the effort in creating and explaining LAST. I found it intellectually stimulating!
The problem was the community (or lack of). This was *their* bank. These are the titans of Silicon Valley and they couldn't get together in a room and work it out. Instead everyone took to Twitter. To call it a prisoner's dilemma is a straw man because it implies they couldn't have picked up the phone and called each other. It was a failure to have a group of professionals with mutual interests work it out together. It was a failure that an adult didn't step up. There was a moment in which this could have been staved off, but the integrative fabric of the community wasn't strong enough to hold it together. I don't blame anyone individually, but I am taking the note from the postmortem to make sure I'm building closer ties to the people around me I depend on.
A corrupt program that incentivized banks to finance the largest sums first, which of course were only demanded by the largest companies, and ended up running out of funds by the time the small players got their turn in line.

It was a sad attempt at preventing a 5th Ammendment violation, and it was done so poorly that it didn't solve the issue. The 5th was still violated.
This is not true :| We do everything to encrypt new features - eg voice messages, polls, location share etc are all encrypted. It’s the old features which predate e2ee (state events like topics or sticker packs and aggregations like reactions) which need to be brought in line, and MSC3414 is addressing that.

> The devs will tell you that requiring every feature to be E2EE will slow down adoption too much, that can always be added later as another MSC (Matrix Spec Change).

No?
I don't have any polls to support this, but I'd be very surprised if the median VC thoughtleader is particularly libertarian.

There are a few outspoken ones, sure. But just a few.
If you want to borrow money, you can go to a lender, just like you do now. Lenders do not have to be banks that take deposits.
I already got a heat pump water heater and I love it! I'm totally in the market for a heat pump heater to replace our Heater/AC. the primary concern are three things: up front cost, and electricity costs for heating and 3) performance. the last quote I got was about 11K, so that's pretty steep. and on top of that heat pumps don't perform well for heating: it has to be on most of the time and will struggle to increase temps.
Elixir's packaging system is quite good. We went from empty project to working stable diffusion in 2h. 1.75 of those hours was installing CUDA.
Great, so sounds like we've found the actual culprit then. Technology companies and investors, despite their political affiliations, actually like a hands off environment.

Do you understand how that's a little different from your Libertarian strawman?
Well first of all there’s only been 2 seasons of How To With John Wilson. I’ve seen the episode you’re referring to and the only thing it shows is some very sad, lonely and troubled people. I’d hardly call that a lasting cultural impact for a film that made almost 3 billion dollars and was then pretty much forgotten about.
I wouldn't! They take too much of an ownership %.
Y combinator website hugged to death by hacker news. Lmao.
> how and why late stage investing is so different

It requires due diligence and knowing how to invest instead of throwing darts and celebrating the occasional bullseye as proof of your acumen.
You are absolutely right. This is the only correct wording.
Quite often people do not listen or seek to hear from their play-testers. They watch how they attempt to solve the puzzles and otherwise play the game. The devs ask specific questions about how the player approached the situation.

The idea that the 'untrained eye' of the random playtester gets to make creative decisions about the game overall.. simply because they showed up to playtest the game, is a bit much.

Often programmers and artists don't even get full creative control over the work they do at game studios, random playtesters are far from ruining Michelangelo's David. Michelangelo is not even in full control, the techniques he learnt, skills he obtained and decisions he made earlier in the work, limit his sculpture too.

There is a way to integrate playtesters without demoting Michelangelo from control over the work.
The cap is designed to be circumvented in this way. You don’t game the system, if you think so, the system games you.
Does this accomplish anything other than increasing resentment?
Generating aerial imagery with your iPhone's Lidar sensor
Do you have a diagram of the system (with water connections, duct connections, fresh air connections, exhaust, etc)?
> but guess from where the banks get money from?

Oh, I know this one! https://breckyunits.com/the-great-bank-robbery.html
It's a bad look if it's "obviously why it didn't work"
I can name a few through my journeys.

Perl is a temple. You construct some ritualistic temple of a project, leave it be for years and will stand happily without any issues. Come back many months later, add a single comment; total Indiana Jones scenario.

TCL is voodoo, it does stuff that shouldn't work but does awesomely. How it does it is just voodoo.

Ruby is just magic. You create a thing, change one thing and the next thing you know you've suddenly got two features for the price of one.

PHP is a sheep.
And Facebook was a vocal opponent of the bill, but you're happy to believe them?
From a country where these are super normal:
The air inside gets bone dry due to the hx and humidity of outdoors vs indoors.

Its super unhealthy, but a good design avoids this by using either an entalpic(moisture permeable) hx or a rotor hx (humidity is controllable)

If you really want to be different do this, not just a fancy cover and an api...
I actually believe he put out a 10/10 example of how this should be done. We all know what he meant, he was concise and then reminded you of the mission and that this is all about the mission.
Laid off is itself a less harsh version of fired.
Writing Javascript and HTML isn't the hard part. It's packaging and deploying it that is a whole new thing to learn where nothing you know from the past applies.
You'd need infinite types of legos, or the ability to slice legos into infinitely tiny pieces... maximum customization essentially.

That's essentially what programming already is though. Especially things like functional programming.
Mental illness
This is the right answer. Everything that has a market should be marked to market. This should be the default decision until some kind of good reason it's given to do otherwise.
You seem pretty emphatic that senior managers have had their compensation clawed back but have posted absolutely zero proof that this is the case. Care to show any reason we should believe you?
Not seeing anything related to the programs I referenced, am I missing something?
FSL/NXP is on 6.1.4 and TI is on 6.3-rc2. ST seems harder to find, they look like they're merging 6.3. Is that close enough?