skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but who advocates pollyannaism?

The alternative to pollyannaism is not cynicism but actual critical thought.

The alternative to cynicism is not pollyannaism but actual critical thought.
I'm surprised he didn't get the full suite of 'Fnu NMN George Joseph'
What can I read to convince me I should care about online privacy more?
I’ve spent a little time reading about privacy and trialling alternatives to popular services to try to protect my privacy online, but it’s a struggle, because typically these services are run by governments as we often find out. I don’t care if it costs more money to have privacy (like paying for things like Protonmail) even if the services tend to be less full featured (like Protonmail, which is not even close to the same experience as Gmail).
So now rather than continuing to spiral with the many honeypots we’re finding out about, about online privacy, I thought I’d see if I can self host. That would make my life simpler and less expensive.

Any articles, videos, whatever anyone would refer me to?

I just have way too much other stuff to be anxious about, so I’d rather not feed my information into these thinly veiled government operations and honeypots.
A company might lay off really good people when shutting down an entire business line, for example. It's different than firing someone.
People go to jail for all kinds of frauds and all kinds issues they cause to other people.
Language models like LLaMA (and GPT-3, ChatGPT etc) are really good at exactly this. They can summarize text, they can extract key points into bullets, they can figure out common topics and so on.
Yes, and importantly if you are laid off you generally can get unemployment compensation. If you are fired for cause you often cannot.
Well, my understanding is:

Money is loaned into existence and the Fed's funding rate affects how easy or difficult it is for banks to get that money when they need it. The banks are turning around and using that money to pay interest, to make their own loans and financial products, etc. Those products' rates will always be compared to the rate the Fed lends at.

A higher Fed rate make new money more scarce, a lower rate makes it less scarce. The market behavior follows that.

So it controls the rate at which money flows into the economy. It also indirectly affects the cost effectiveness of other loans that aren't directly connected to the Fed, and also how risky people and institutions are willing to be with their money. That's a crucial piece here, not only does the Fed's rate control how much "new" money flows into the economy, it also influences the ways people behave with existing money.

In the beginning of COVID times, the Fed lowered rates to near 0%, which meant people/institutions were getting money much more easily than before. A whole host of zero interest loans meant it was easier for people to buy cars and houses and all kinds of stuff.
Distancing. It lets people who make these decisions portray themselves as the helpless victims of the way things are, rather than people who have made choices that have led to this.

"The market says that we need to downsize" sounds a lot better than "an investment analyst says I go, or you go".
In the UK they have the term "redundancy" (as in "your position has been made redundant"). Can't see that term catching on in the US but it does cover the use of "laid off" to mean "the company chose to eliminate the position I worked in rather than choosing to get rid of me as a person", and thus may carry less stigma.
So, all the customers should be punished by the execs decisions?
I always find 15:00-15:30 in that Kennedy speech I linked above chilling, because exactly what he warned everyone "above all" is exactly our systematic policy now, and anyone with a different idea is systematically brushed aside. Be it progressives or republicans in congress, or even the Pope himself.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/25/democrats-jo...
1-Hour Code: Fast Programming is a Powerful Skill
> Isn’t it considered best practice not to use brew to install Python for exactly this reason?

The only time I've ever had a big mess with broken Python installs was after using brew on Linux - luckily killing off brew brought the system Python back fine. I'll grudgingly put up with brew on a Mac out of necessity, but keep it away from Linux.
A privileged comment, and very condescending. Teens working to make their own money to get out of whatever situation they are in is a good thing, not a bad one. Better to work at McDoanld's when you are 16 then when you are 26. But from what you guys are saying, you prefer the latter, and I find it extremely distasteful.
What you're talking about linguistically is the difference between passive voice ("I was laid off") vs active voice ("YC fired me"). It is a pervasive technique and a form of blame-shifting. Whenver you see a headline, ask yourself which voice is being used and why. It is a key part of media literacy.
"this is mostly because i relied on a SQL ORM which in short is a tool that makes writing SQL easier to pick up and faster to develop. the biggest downside is that it might execute 50 queries to your database to get a list of information, when it probably only needs 1, which will cause slowdown."

I appreciate this honesty. Listen to this old man's advise: learn SQL properly. It's not that hard. Focus on it for a few weeks intensely and you've mastered it for life. Then just write SQL directly.

I've had weekends ruined troubleshooting my "highly productive ORM layer" that nuked a production database. Whilst functionally speaking my ORM code was in no way incorrect. I'm talking differences of a thousand fold in query load depending on how one expresses the ORM calls.

You can then become proficient in trying to reason and predict about what your ORM calls do in the actual database, but when you're several joins deep, this becomes near impossible. At which point you become the ORM, and might as well just write SQL.
My pithy observation - Early stage investors are fantastic at extrapolating from minimal data points. Late stage investors are fantastic at extrapolating from many noisy data points. They screw up because the methods for each of their extrapolation functions are entirely different, so much so that they manifest as cultural differences in investment firms.
Did he get to keep his red stapler?
Ask HN: As a manager, I'm stuck in my remote role
I have been a CTO for a while at an SMB (leading 60-ish engineers), working exclusively remotely. I think I am doing a good job, but I am worried about my career. I am trying to do my very best when it comes to managing people and leading the team - giving people the right balance of autonomy, direction, technical and other leadership, and so on. Every day I try to focus on my team as selflessly as I can, focusing on their performance and growth, guiding their careers in the company, and so on. As far as I can tell, everyone regards me as a great people manager and technical lead too. However, I'm really bad in promoting myself, I am not an extrovert, I don't have a blog, don't speak at conferences, and as a consequence of remote work, I rarely meet my peer group. I am often panicking that in case I'd like to or need to switch, I would not be able to prove my worth to anyone.

How can I escape this?
I agree they are values, but they are also the product of lots of rational thought. Look at all the Enlightenment thinkers who produced it.

I know people get carried away with Internet memes, but now we are rejecting rational thought? What will your basis for decisions be? Just follow the herd?
Just dropping in here to add that Baldwin Lee was an excellent photography professor, and is one of the big reasons I kept on doing photography as a semi-pro hobby long after college. A bright, kind, and enthusiastic man in everything he pursued. Wild seeing his name randomly come up here!
Is there any plan on releasing user management libraries or is there a library you would recommend that interfaces with the ORM?
All modern societies implement brutal exercises in primitive accumulation. Capitalist nations just exported their brutality to the 3rd world. Was that noble of them? I'm not seeing your point. (See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_accumulation_of_ca...)

"Impermanence" is not a religious concept, but the vagaries in these platitudes are. Nobody in a capitalist society can rationalize layoffs. The best we can do is rationalize not thinking about them, which is the purpose actually served by the platitudes. Religion does the same.

An actually scientific perspective would be far more useful and actionable. There is a good book on this topic: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Engels_...
If you qualify, not sure SVB do.

Also, the interest rate on those loans is quite high, higher than the fed rate. So it might buy you time, but you're basically commiting fraud by doing it...
Is there anyway to use Google's Coral TPU PCIe Accelerator[1]'s to increase the inference performance of GPT models like this and Llama?

[1] https://coral.ai/products/pcie-accelerator/
They don’t itemize that out but the existing electrical line has to be retrofitted to current code and some duct work needs modified to fit a new unit. Nothing crazy though, going from one heat pump to a new one. A drop in replacement was 4k unit and 8k costs so 6k listed here seems super low
"To look at people in capitalist society and conclude that human nature is egoism, is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is human nature to cough." - Andrew Collier
Right, software is anything but simple
I've long been bugged by the lazy approach to plurals/multiples in e.g. game tooltips. "You loot 861 gold(s)" I wonder if we'll ever see improvements on either front.
The actual "letting it fail" would be to pay up looses only for those insured. Those who did not insured would not be paid looses in "let it fail world".
The owners should be forced to sell the whole business for $1.
Brown Widows Are Winning the Fight for Your Attic and Garage
Do you mean that they send it unencrypted or that it isn't end-to-end encrypted?

Please be precise.

This is probably the most annoying thing about HN lately, the insistence on pretending that only end to end encryption matters.

Meanwhile we see end-to-end encrypted solutions like WhatsApp being cheered forward but ultimately failing badly because all incentives are aligned against security.
Best to pick languages anybody has heard of.
Recursion is just spiral reasoning. It looks like circular reasoning, but if you keep going with it the curve keeps getting smaller until eventually you reach the trivial case.
https://archive.is/vxx3Y
Magic beans could be anything. So I’m not sure that works
> once or twice have I ever encountered a showstopper dependency resolution issue.

Hahaha... (rolls on the floor) Do you want to know why that is? No seriously? I'm not laughing at you as much as I'm laughing at Python now, but hey, well, anyways, do you want to know why that happened to you? I know you don't. But I'll tell you anyways!

Until quite recently, pip didn't give a rat's ass if the dependencies it installed were consistent. It would blink a message in the long stream of vomit it spills on the screen saying something like "you have package X installed of version Y, but package Z wants X of version Q, which will not be installed". And happily streamed more garbage to your screen.

It was an issue that was filed against pip for something like 12 years until it got resolved about a year or so ago. Even after it got resolved a lot of people tried to upgrade, saw that that would "break" their deployment, and rolled back to the latest broken version.

Things are sort of improving gradually since then, but we are light years away from the system working properly, and I know you don't want to know why, but I'll tell you anyways!

So, when for whatever reason pip doesn't find a dependency it thinks you need, a lot of packages, when they roll out their "releases", they upload also what Python calls "source release". Which should have never been treated as an installation option, but it is, and is treated like that by default. So, what will happen once pip finally gives up on finding a match, right, you guessed it! -- It's going to try to build it! Installing build dependencies along the way. What you get in the end is anyone's guess, but most likely, it's something broken because the developers who made this release didn't make a release specifically for your version.

Don't despair. There's a flag you can use with pip install that should prevent it from trying to build stuff. But two bad things will happen to you if you use it: in any non-trivial project your dependencies will irreparably break. And, who knows if that flag is implemented correctly... nobody in the real world is using that. So, who knows, maybe it'll format your hard drive along the way.
Reminds me of this: https://freakonomics.com/2013/10/what-makes-people-do-what-t...
I see lots of articles get posted which are worth reading in full, but the comments under them make it clear few if any people actually read them.

I don't really see how you change that behavior. People are drawn to the path of least resistance, and that path is often just reading the headline and brief summary before making your comment and moving on to the next thing in your social media feed.

The value social media companies add is creating a space where users feel like they get all their news (and other things), and can converse about it either with friends and family or like-minded strangers. I don't see how news outlets themselves can compete with that without essentially seeking to replace Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, etc.

I think it's fair to say that social media companies profiting off other people's labor should share that financial liability.
Ah - that is useful to know. I'll admit my knowledge here is dated - the first DSLR I ever picked up, a Canon EOS20D + Sigma 70-300 F4-5.6 yielded incredibly disappointing results out of the camera - but (at least at the time) - it was widely understood that you had to run a sharpening filter.

Presumably the camera does this directly now?
> I read a lot of hackernews, for the technical part. But I never liked or believed in the VC/Startup bullshit.

VC/Startup bullshit is literally hn's business daddy though, that's what the domain it lives on does.
I wonder if the SVB CEO sold shares 2 weeks ago
When someone is accidental, blameless or unexpected, like someone suddenly dying, it's entirely natural to use something like "passed away". Not the case when someone is directly responsible - "X was murdered by Y" is quite common, I believe?
Agreed. Apple will run models remotely if necessary, but from a PR perspective they align with their stated intentions when they can run locally.
Please don't compare death with layoffs. One if an inevitable but tragic part of life the other is an inevitable but tragic part of keeping the shareholders happy.
I love this! This solves a big problem for me, which is writing/packaging/deploying JS/HTML.

Question: I see that the ORM assumes a SQL backend. Do you have any plans to support key/value stores, or is it easy to change out the ORM?

I'm thinking this would be perfect for deployment into AWS Lambda for the backend, Cloudfront for the front end, and DynamoDB for the data.
In my state, all the lobster fishing people have a "co op" to jointly decide how to manage the public resource of the fish in our waters so that they can come together and make the kind of conservation decisions together, and create some force to prevent anyone from defecting and catching everything in a down year. This gives them more stability year to year and a little bit of possible price fixing.

Just don't call it a union.
Isn’t it different? IANAL but having an active warrant issued for you doesn’t really have anything to do with you being guilty or innocent. It just means the police must conduct you to the juge, either because you’re a suspect or (in some countries) a witness.

Edit: I guess this is this story: https://www.actionnews5.com/story/35967817/officers-kill-man...
Companies use cities & national park names in products because you can’t trademark those names.

So you don’t have to worry about being sued over name infringement.
How is it different than djangogigs.com? It has been around since 2008 apparently.
Sounds good to me. I already block news pages on my Facebook feed.
A problem is that when a rich individual or a for-profit corporation donates money or otherwise engages in charity, there's a very loud contingent of writers who will respond that the individual or corporation should've never been able to accumulate such money, that charity is a scam to protect the rich, and what we should do is raise taxes on everyone to provide these things for everyone via government.

It's important to understand that noblesse oblige was transactional: it staved off the masses from revolting and even generated some good. When charity puts a target on your back, folks won't engage in charity.
There are other SoCs, but none has anything like the vast, vast, vast ecosystem of tutorials, videos, packages, and accessories that Pi has developed over the past decade.
Genuine question: Why would most users engage less with Facebook as a result of this?

I'd expect most users to continue what they were doing before, but now their feed of headlines will come exclusively from international sources.

I doubt I'd engage less with HN if they banned articles from US companies.
There is only one party at fault for Russia's unprovoked murderous attack on their neighbors and the slaughter and rape of its innocents. There is no communique that could have resolved this because Russia believed that it would quickly roll into Kiev and end it. They continue to believe that it will be in their interest to prevail as they believe they will long term. Negotiation is unlikely to change this analysis if the rotting corpses of its own dead isn't sufficiently persuasive.
Hundreds of Aircraft Headed to the Boneyard in New USAF Budget
> So we end up with a system where employers have no easy way to verify that an employee is who they say they are and has a legal right to work any specific job.

What about e-verify ?
A Tangent, but how long before we will see half the population having relationships with their AI assistants like in the sci-fi movie "Her".

Add cutting edge voice synthesis and maybe a realistic video stream in a few years and we're there.

Japan already has problems with the concept of "2d Waifus" and lack of intimacy between the younger generation.

Maybe the downfall will not just be climate catastrophe but hyper isolated people living alone with their ultra realistic bot friends and family without any desire to experience the ups and downs of actual social experience.

Extrapolate a bit and you wont know what's real outside of direct experience. Things are getting crazy!
Hmm I think having a limit probably does make things marginally safer. If you can have $250k in 4 bank accounts or $1MM in 1 bank, it's far less likely that all 4 of those banks would go out of business at the same time vs 1 bank. This decreases the likelihood that the FDIC would have to payout. Also having a limit in theory should force depositors to consider the safety of who they're banking with.
I am super happy this employee lost his job lol
Although I have always been a cash buyer because I don't like to owe people money, most "home owners" have a loan secured on the home, a mortgage, and mortgage lenders have rules about what they will or will not lend against, based on prevailing wisdom at the time the loan is made.

For the lender, the cost of lost business if some customer can't buy a home isn't a massive concern, and most likely unless that lender is particularly stubborn and others are not, that customer would get turned away everywhere, so the effect is that homes you can't get a mortgage for are less valuable or even outright unsaleable.

So it actually doesn't matter so much what you think as seller, or what I think as buyer, the most powerful sentiment is what third party lawyers working for the lenders think. If the lender (or their lawyers) don't like your promises, too bad, you can't make that work.
> You seem to be assuming that there are no assets available to match to the depositors above the $250,000 per account

I dont assume that. Since the bonds they have lost their value, there aren't enough assets to match the deposits. The size of the haircut was dependent on what the market would decide to offer when those were sold. The bailout prevented that from being needed.

> The legal framework doesn't prohibit additional amounts over $250,000 from being made available to the depositors

Legalese doesnt change the nature of the event. The law allowing arbitrary application of the limits means that there is no limit, or worse, the limit depends on who is being bailed out. And that's exactly the message that was sent: If you are big enough or you can pressure the government to bail you out, just screw around with other people's money and gamble. If you win, you will win big. If you lose, the losses will be socialized.
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oh i thought it was for like EDU only not just people who want to mess around privately with friends
I'm in my 40s, so I'm acutely aware of the risk of turning into a "get off my lawn" curmudgeon, so I will only say this: I am glad that I saved a dump of Wikipedia a few months ago, because soon it will probably be impossible to distinguish human-written content from AI.
Big Poultry is too big to fail
I hope they got their $487 trillion back.
That wouldn't have knock on effects like utterly destroying investigative journalism or anything.... There are tons of things that people would censor if the above were law that are not in the public interest to be censored.
More upside on the table if you get in early. It’s probably just not an efficient use of their time since the returns from gettin in early are so outsized.
They have simply made this calculus and decided that there is no way to monetize the Facebook posts. It turns out minor attention engagement just doesn't get enough click throughs ever. Simply. The only things that can exist in earnest on social media sites is junk food, similar to infomercial spots at 4 AM on cable
Well, at least the ones that agree to work with it. For example, the most reputable HVAC company I can find locally has picked their favorite 1-2 brands and largely only installs those, so they know what they're bound to be repairing later.
It would be unconscionable to let those start ups collapse.
The bank though can go to hell
> So the losses (if any) won’t be socialized over taxpayers,

I mean, a “special assessment” is just a different word for a one-time tax, and it being directly on all banks and indirectly on everyone who banks, or does business with entities who bank, makes distinguishing the payers of this tax and “taxpayers” ludicrous hair-splitting.
I work at a large university affiliated research center and this is extremely common in my department. Our software devs have to be at least familiar with bleeding edge ML processes and several just in my group of about 60 have gone on to shift to more of an applied research role. We have a bunch of PhDs in math and CS, but no one cares what degree you have if you can produce.
The short cycle argument only really applies to older and low end systems that are not variable speed.

A variable speed system integrated with a humidifier should be able to slowly bring the temperature down, making sure that the cooling does not get ahead of the dehumidifying.

I want an “oversized” system that can do > 20F temperature drops. I know they exist because a lot of commercial spaces have them.
The truth is "No losses associated with the resolution of Silicon Valley Bank will be borne by the taxpayer who doesn't use a bank."

Strictly speaking, the loss of the depositors money is being socialized across bank customers.