skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only risk for other banks is opportunity cost

To be clear, if banks can improve their risk profile for free, they will do that (because it frees them to invest in other risky stuff). A no-risk 5% return while the fed is giving out sub-5% interest rates is a no-brainer. The reason no banks are coming in to help is because it would be a bad investment.
A wonderful book about such things (and other "place words") is "Landmarks" by Robert Macfarlane.

There does seem to be a richness that we're losing, in terms of our ability to describe nature. I often find myself struggling to describe places or to differentiate no-so-subtle (but also not trivially different) features (e.g., ravines cut by water flows of different rates and temporal consistencies). I love the collections people are making, but I find it hard to gain "fluency" in this way of describing nature. I guess that's an artifact of mostly being a "weekend warrior" when it comes to nature and most of my daily work revolving around science and computers.

[0] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/536563/landmarks-by...
One could view Proof of Stake (PoS) Systems as being similar to the Federal Reserve System.

In the latter, the central bank provides liquidity to the banking system. The banking system then provides financial services (working capital, managing deposits, etc) to companies within an economy. These companies can then use this capital / service to provide goods and services to the economy.
The banking system is, in simplified terms, a margin business that borrows funds from the central banks and lends out further. Through this margin all costs have to be covered.

In the former this role is taken on by the Treasuries of the PoS (Eth, Cardano, etc). Stakepool operators take on the role of the banking system and Apps like finclout take on the role of a business in this ecosystem. Stakepool operators validate the chains, at a low energy overhead one might add, and thus provides services to the Central Treasury. For this service they receive a fee. This fee can be seen as being similar to the margin of the traditional banking system. Moreover, stakepool operator then can take on the role of distributing the liquidity they received from the treasury further into the economy of the block chain. Thereby providing liquidity to App Operators.

In theory this could provide an efficient means to monetize content. And this is what the finclout app is aimed to solve. Absolutely, it doesn't do that well yet.

Yet if you look into the consequences of Mandated Payments for content in Canada (https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/03/the-consequence-of-manda...)
this solution could provide a better monetization mechanism.

A tertiary benefit is that there is no need for a ponzi-like investing scheme through such a method.
Any entity that contributes responsibly to society should be able to get some benefits from society in return.
What's the problem with them, specifically, that wasn't the exact same in say 2015 when they got no press?
To clarify, by "completely unlike naturally occurring ones", I mean their origin and training set is completely unlike them, not that their operation is mechanistically different. We don't really know that yet.
Absurd comparison - channeling is a known physical phenomenon that occurs when you fail to declump the grounds. It causes the high pressure water to find the path of least resistance through the basket and leaves the majority of the grounds underextracted.
Maybe we just need a better attribution, so people can decide on the level of objective confidence. If you live in the US, it is already difficult to avoid seeing and listening to real people lie publicly, which may take journalists a long time to verify. Put it in another way, we might just see late night talk show hosts start parodying $next_gen_llm instead of real people, if this $next_gen_llm started affecting people in a more profound way.
I love startups, but the value proposition is not here. I just had a heat pump installed and it was a much better price and higher efficiency. What is the benefit of direct to consumers is you are going to charge more? What makes your heat pumps better? Hepa filtering? Smart controls? They all have that.

Is the market niche esthetics? They do look nice - maybe this company is trying to be the Apple of heat pumps? Charge more because of looks?

This is a serious question - where is the innovation?
The US and EU Are Cozying Up to Include Euro Batteries in New EV Tax Law
There was a time, when pipenv seemed to be the most precise in dependency constraints resolution out of the tools available. Poetry did not see some constraints iirc, and pip did not check at all. However Poetry has developed much faster than pipenv and pipenv breaks too often and is left far behind by Poetry now.
Yes, it’s very common. The difference is rust enforces via the type system that you match on it.
Yes, intro on the topic if anyone is interested, include topic of benchmarking degradation:

- https://huggingface.co/blog/hf-bitsandbytes-integration
But make no mistake. Though they're the ones leaving, it is I who must remain and bear the heavy burden of their failure.
I don't know of a title edit that would satisfy everyone, and pretty much any of the standard edits we'd make would generate accusations that we were censoring or whatever to protect YC, so in this case I think we probably need to go by the default.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
The same is true for Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, and probably other countries in the region. Most people there find it stupid and a "sign of weakness" to pay for digital content. Not only media, but software as well.
A job we would be glad to have replace by an AI for sure
I guess I still don't see a problem. Some business close. Some people find new jobs. Life goes on. I don't see a reason for intervention here.
Shared hosting is also a great option for small projects.

It can be very cheap and if you stick to static HTML or PHP, deployment is as simple as a SCP or FTP upload.

Plus you don't need to worry about configuring a VPS or keeping up with security updates.
You're welcome! I'm not comfortable sharing the quote, but you can probably imagine—24k air handler, 4 basic minisplits ranging from 6k to 12k, 48k condenser, five port branch box, installation and replacement of existing A/C and gas furnace.

Indoor air quality wasn't a factor, no.
> wasting money because you actually only use 4GB of RAM and barely any CPU.

Hetzner will rent you a massive 128GB of RAM server for ~150 bucks a month. In company terms, that is peanuts and whatever time you'd spend installing and managing K8S is pretty much never going to pay for itself, not to mention the added liability of all those moving parts.

The whole "autoscaling" thing is mostly bullshit invented by the cloud providers to make their insane margins more palatable. A dedicated, non-cloud stack sized to peak capacity will be cheaper than the majority of "autoscaled" stacks at minimal capacity.
Exactly, this just gives the private insurers deniability when they drop coverage for someone who still needs care. They can't be held liable for someone's sickness or death, because they were just following the algorithm.
Very interesting, thanks for the info! I wasn't aware a narrow bank already existed. And apparently the Norwegian financial system has not collapsed :)
Likely we could use both methods and see what works best. I’m not sure how well fish farms scale up but imagine lab grown meats will scale up.
I've gone there several times but stopped when things got too crowded. They've also seen a significant decline in stocks I believe, especially along the inside passage.
That matrix math is trained on human conversation and recreates the patterns of human thought in this case.

So... It unfortunately has a form of our reptilian brain and mamalian brain represented in it... Which is just unfortunate.
There are two parts to the schema change, the table changes (migrations) and the code changes. I think the person you were replying to was asking about the code part. Every ORM I've used or looked at[0] does that automatically in the sense that you make a change to a model and all queries generated by that model will now have that change. Depending on the change they could break, but the point is the changes propagate. If you're not using an ORM and are just using string templates, this won't happen. There are query builders, too, which are sort of in between.

[0] Django, SQLAlchemy, Active Record, Piccolo, Tortoise, SQLModel, peewee
For me, the most important point here is that one can often miss the opportunity to verify that one really does understand the dependencies of a system without putting the 'ivory tower' theory into practice.

Writing your own replacement for a dependency can help you educate yourself on that layer of the stack, but risks missing the unique nuances of individual pieces of software. Furthermore, debugging specific dependencies allows you to confirm that you really do understand both the subsystem in general and the particular subsystem that a larger system relies upon. Debugging Nginx might improve my understanding of HTTP servers, but that's only half of the story if my system runs on Apache!
Fixed that for you: "CNN is not a good source for news"
I'm going to take your argument as a sincere argument and not an ad hominem attack that is sounds like. I can tell from your comment that you have a specific perspective on this. I can assure you that I do not. But, if you asked someone high up in the Russian military do you think they would tell you that they invaded Ukraine? I am going to suggest they might say that they read the writing on the wall and sent early armaments to protect themselves. I understand that you would think this is a lie. But, I am just saying from their perspective they would say they have done nothing wrong and are protecting themselves. Ukraine, would say they were minding their own business and Russia attacked them after multiple threats for no reason. That is not to say I think Russia is telling the truth. Just that from their perspective they are not doing anything wrong. And as a side note, even if you are passionate about a subject it is a more powerful argument to attack the idea, not the person. That is childish ... although I will admit it used daily for political arguments in the US.
Good job, you spotted the exact problem: that's what they were originally for, and that makes no sense in 2023 (or 2020, or the day venv functionality was added into main line Python) where literally everything a venv does is trivially achieved in a new location if it didn't hardcode everything relating to paths.

There is literally nothing about a venv that somehow magically makes it impossible to still work after relocation. Breaking the venv on relocation was a conscious choice that has been insisted on to this day for no good reason other than "a long history of not bothering to fix this nonsense is all the justification we need to continue not fixing this nonsense".
$500 + $150 (install) mini split works fine in Japan and it should be fine for other worlds where central heating isn't a thing. US is one of the richest country and rest of the world spend less.
If you haven't signed such an agreement yet, they can withhold your diploma until you do.

Definitely make sure you understand your university's policy toward student work, companies, and inventions, and how rights are divided if at all between university, students, and faculty.

Using university resources would likely give them an even stronger claim of ownership. They could even sue you later.
Sea slug cut off its own head and regenerated its body
In my experience with languages that lack concise sum types and pattern matching, you end up with data types that have lots of implicit invariants. If you find yourself writing docs or thinking in your head things like "Field X is only set if field Y is true" or "If field X is non-null then field Y must be null and vice-versa", then these are indications that sum types would model the data better. Then these invariants can be followed by construction, and it becomes clear what's available at data access - great for interface clarity, robustness, dev tools, morale, etc.

Relatedly, storing booleans is a smell, imho typically an enum or sum type is always better in languages that have concise syntax for these. True and False are meaningless without context, and so can easily lead to errors where they are provided to a different context or generally misused due to a misunderstanding about the meaning.
Would be dumb from me to make a how-to guide to replicate it considering it was my only source of income, that's why I didn't put details about it

And believe me or not, it won't change much
Ownership of an unlimited resource: a link to something. How do you verify ownership when many links point to the same resource?
I’ve cared enough to live a drastically different life from most Americans (albeit, it’s a way of life I prefer and I’d live this way even if it was worse for the environment). That’s about all I’m willing to do.
> Oh they flagged my post.

Not sure who "they" is but HN users flagged your post. We can only guess why users flag things, but my guess is that they've gotten tired of generic LLM posts. The bar that such a comment has to clear in order to be interesting is getting increasingly high.
Might be worth going for halibut this year. If the coastal waters are still super cold it should keep the SF bay quite active for the season, so you could always try hitting the sand flats off South SF. I haven't done it myself but others had great luck last year.
It's a real loss, just not a realized loss.

If your house burns down, you've lost the value of the building even if you haven't sold the land yet.
Interesting. I’ve used a Velodyne VLP-32 in reasonably heavy rain with reasonable performance after some error correction. I was on foot and not driving, and probably only for a few hours total. But it seems to me that a big company with serious engineering talent should be able to make it work.
Tech companies said the same in Australia. They are all now paying. Because as soon as their ability to bully content companies due to their monopoly scale is taken away, turns out they still making a ton of money scraping news content, even if they have to pay for it now.
There’s also Ferrari California.
> None of these assertions is correct.

You should fix the Wikipedia article:

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

"CPython can be defined as both an interpreter and a compiler as it compiles Python code into bytecode before interpreting it."
I had a strange interaction with one of their sales people a few weeks ago.

We have a free premium open source developer account, plus Red Hat runs all the CentOS infra through gitlab and pays a ton of money to them. I received emails from a salesperson demanding that I book an appointment with them to discuss my account. (It sounded like a meeting which had real this could be done by email energy, or else was going to be a high-pressure sales pitch.)

I asked them which account they were talking about and if we could do this on email, but they literally wouldn't say what account it was related to, and just kept saying I must visit some (non-gitlab) site to book this appointment for a video call.

After several rounds of this and following up with someone who works with gitlab to check it wasn't an actual scam (it wasn't), I just ignored the guy.

Conclusion is they sounded desperate to make the numbers last quarter.
Ask HN: Why haven't alternatives to Twitter taken off?
It's been squirrely lately. Sometimes if you refresh, you get a different number. I just use the .dev version by pressing `.`
Despotic empires. These people are shameless. Does anyone think hardly any of these folks in Iraq would be able to afford this content if it weren't free? Do they really think it devalues their content globally?
Show HN: AI Feelings – Let ChatGPT express it's feelings about latest headlines
Hi, I think it will be fun to let ChatGPT read latest news and express feelings on them, so I developed this application.
They asked about how their behavior is representative of capitalism, and learned it’s not. Your narrow description of capitalism would satisfy someone as radically anti capitalist as Bakunin

Yes and yes, I’m a laborer and I wouldn’t take profits off someone else’s work unless we are all sharing the returns aka anarcho syndicalism. I can but won’t subject workers to the exploitation and role based hierarchies I myself escaped. It’s not necessary.
A high profile bank in some tech circles, a bank with an abnormal balance sheet that actively resisted scrutiny and that did not have high systemic exposure, went bust.

Clearly, a banking crisis.

Alternatively, the market did what it should do and a shoddy player was exposed.

That outsized financial risk undertaken by its depositors, depositors with advisors that had ample means to mitigate putting-all-eggs-into-one-bank-risk, was subsidised out, perhaps should be more in focus as a cause of financial system risk.
I like the product - been selfhosting it for years...but frankly the complete absence of a hobby level tier between 0 and 29 makes it a non-starter for me as a managed solution

It just doesn't produce 29 worth value for me pm. Probably does for a corporate user though so i can see why they're doing it
Cash in a SIB? [1]

Or you're just more worried about short-mid term market volatility than bank stability?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_systemically_importa...
It would be neat, but iPhone hardware has limited memory (and iOS limits that usage further). It would be much faster and higher-quality to run it as an API request like it is today.
Hidden in sight :>

counter.dev is in the https://v.firebog.net/hosts/AdguardDNS.txt adlist.

It seems someone else's mention of adlists not liking the word 'counter' is true. There's almost 300 domains with 'counter' in it just in that list.
Same refrigerants work. Getting a large decrease in temp vs outside is a matter of insulation, air sealing, roof/wall color, and sizing of units/ducts.
He did replied, and I apologize for being ignorant.
People who invest in banks don't think the $600 bill of losses is sensationalized or exaggerated.

Economically, it's a loss. They had a net worth around $2.1 trill and now they are at $1.5 trill.

Practically, it's problematic. They have locked in low returns in a world were depositors expect higher returns. Their business customers will pay attention. They'll report lower net interest margins, which means lower earnings. They have also opened themselves up to a run. Their business customers will pay attention to that too, making it more likely to happen.

The only world in which it's not a loss is under certain accounting standards. Those standards can and do change.
What's your definition of "taken off"?
Given that you need electricity to produce hydrogen, EVs vs hydrogen for energy imports is a bit of a wash.

The results of this industrial strategy speak for themselves:

> Most are there to protectively top off their tanks, another employee tells me. Japan has only about 160 hydrogen refueling stations, concentrated in the country's three major cities. By comparison, there are about 30,000 gas stations across the country. Once every three months or so, a motorist ends up stranded, their tank empty, and they have to get towed. In addition to there being only a few vehicle models to choose from, which all have high sticker prices, the paucity of refueling infrastructure has turned consumers off.

And this all after Toyota has had 30 years to make the technology pan out.
That's still a beans and rice burrito every 5 days. No thanks.
A honest question: based on the title, are there legal streaming pirates?
I used to think this, but after having gotten used to Github Actions I’m moving everything over.

Ultimately I constantly felt like everything was half baked when using Gitlab. I still kind of feel that way with Github, but to a much lesser extend.

More importantly, they allow me to pay my $21/month monthly which means they get my business instead of ‘only pay per year’ Gitlab.
We have solved it countless times in countless situations. What do you think the FDIC is for example?
Love anything that helps developing apps without knowledge of react or typescript etc.

I’ve played quite a bit with Streamlit, and I know lots of demo apps are built with Gradio. These two tools also aim to help build apps with only python. I remember my Streamlit app code turned into a mess when trying to manage state to support multiple user interactions.

Any comparisons with these frameworks?

Thanks
Heartbreaking story.

I had never paid much attention to donkeys until the neighbours got one a couple years ago. They really are a fascinatingly emotive and sensitive animal and more like a pet than typical livestock. It comes up to the fence to socialize with us and get snuggles, and rubs noses with our border collies. It plays with their German Shepherd and with their kids in the yard. It likes to snuggle. It is protective of the miniature goats and sheep that it cohabits with.

I expected it to be more similar to a horse, but it's different. Far less aloof. Kind of want one of my own now.
The US government should be subsidizing it, best propaganda there is.
Do you need to know Javascript to use externa library like Plotly?
Unfortunately yes, and even more so in Oregon/Washington. We need hydro power, but most all of the dams are on important watersheds.
There are many great technical boards indeed, but if you know of one that's as eclectic as HN I'm all ears. It's the only forum I've found where I've had interesting discussions with intelligent(often more so than me, which I crave) peers on pretty much every major or minor interest I have. And the "forum mechanics" are very well tuned to avoid various degenerate states I see forums in. Anything compartmentalized into subforums is pretty much a no go for me because the thinking in each subforum gets so constrained.

I agree with GP that the startup stuff can get a bit dominating at times though; a way to filter out say all submissions regarding YC startups would be the icing on the cake, for what has quickly become my favourite online forum.
> The moment someone finds that use-case, it will explode

True, but it's entirely possible that such a use case will never materialize. People haven't even been able think of plausible theoretical ones except in niche applications. That's not to say none are possible, but they're hiding pretty well.

My personal hypothesis is that the interesting tech in crypto will eventually find a real, solid use -- but it won't be one resembling what anyone thinks, and won't be sexy.
seems like a decent way to unprint some money.
> China is concerned about currency markets so that is why they have to invade Taiwan?

China has to invade Taiwan only if the US starts arming Taiwan to use it as a pawn against China like how the US openly declared that it intends doing. China will not make the mistake of waiting 8 years like Russia.

> China is strong enough that they don't have to listen.

Any sane observer of geopolitics who doesnt have a 6-figure paycheck that depends depend on saying what his employers want said, would say that China has been silent for way too long and the US would immediately start a war if anyone did so much as to threaten doing what the US has been doing to other countries. Then again, China has only recently reached the military power that could fight the US on even grounds without having to resort to a nuclear war.
I think it's just a simple profit motive. If the insurers can minimize the amount of care while also minimizing the risk of getting sued, why wouldn't they do that? The algorithm/rules can be tweaked to minimize costs while protecting themselves from lawsuits when the algorithm "accidentally" drops coverage for someone who still needs it, as described by the examples in the article.
Mind sharing some details of your install - equipment model/size, controls, and cost of install?