skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Id say every 3rd deployment or so, especially when new features are added, there is a lot of stress around cutting a release and deploying. People on the team become extra scrutinous of people who break the release build or don't have the features completed, or havent submitted enough tickets. Which, as a manager I appreciate the peer pressure, but I doubt the stress is good for moral of the members who are on the receiving end of it and I think the same feedback without the urgency behind it would be pedagogically more valuable.

Second, when a release is made and a bug is found there are branches mad from main (not develop) to fix the bugs, that must then be merged into develop (referred to as a merge-back) which increases surface area for errors as well as more time spend untangling the emerging web of branches. Now, in the hands of a capable engineer this isnt a massive lift, but also there are processes to automate all of this and that capability would be better spent day dreaming about a side project as far as I am concerned.

Have I persuaded you?
Others have already answered but the proof of guilt is the inverse, I have to prove my money is legit, or it will be confiscated. Then when I deposit it in a bank the bank gambles and looses the money anyways, because excess liquidity.

The game is rigged. Give me a bank where I just deposit my funds, and nobody touches it and I'm happy to pay for the service. Maybe I want a portion of it to grow and I'll allow it to be lended, for interest.

The bank should work in my interest, not their investors.
Interesting, but one has to ask, were they testing the hypothesis or the participants? The participants were describes as both "students" and a "panel of experts".
??? They're successful, but you're complaining that they don't know how to be successful?

In any case, just because you don't see them having a successful non-knowledge product, doesn't mean that they don't have the ability to do so. Despite decades of being known for his insights into strategy, Peter Drucker had never actually run a business until his 80's.
Then you're stuck. If you want to wait for the cheap subsidized part then it might be a while. Maybe forever in the case of the original Broadcom SoC. Beaglebone Black is ~$50 if price is really the problem. What's your objective here?
What did you find missing with nvchad and astroVim? The reason I ask is that I switched from intellij to lunarvim (similar to nvchad) about a year ago, and I felt like it only took me a couple hours to add a few extra keybinds and plugins like trouble.nvim and copilot.lua to make my IDE experience match intellij
I will say that large % of the batches turn out to still be good companies later, sometimes much later. The journey of being a founder sets people up to do a lot more: YC alums are often great C-level executives at other fast growing startups, and/or just because their first startup doesn't work doesn't mean they don't go on to create great companies later.

The key thing about networks is Metcalfe's law: the power of a network is the square of its nodes. This is also what makes the Internet more and more valuable over time.

Those things together mean scale increases value for founders, and what we've learned is those effects are most potent early.
But it did have a major impact on the traffic of those sites.
Late stage means series B+ usually
> What refrigerants are you considering as there is more environmental stuff coming out killing 410A.

I'm also interested in this. Specifically, I'm interested in R-744 (CO2) as it has a GWP (global warming potential) of only 1. R-32 (Difluoromethane) has a GWP of 675 while R-410A has a GWP of 2088. Japan has had R-744 heat pumps for years now.

Drawdown lists refrigeration improvements as the single most effective method (we need to do all of them) for combatting climate change.

https://www.drawdown.org/the-book
Could one hypothetically install an M.2 -> PCIE x16 riser and install a GPU?
In this particular case, and given your background, I am not worried about your ability to build it. Yes, a bit easier than fusion energy :)

I am wondering, though... Why don't you make a prototype, and attach a webcam in front of it, with a few sensors, etc?
> No. SVB hid market to market losses by saying "these securities are held to maturity so I don't have to realize losses".

It did not hide them. This was in their financial statements (https://s201.q4cdn.com/589201576/files/doc_financials/2022/q... at page 15):

> Held-to-maturity securities, at amortized cost and net of allowance for credit losses of $6, $6 and $7 (fair value
of $76,169, $77,370 and $97,227), respectively

> December 31, 2022 | September 30, 2022 | December 31, 2021

> 91,321 93,286 98,195

This shows that they had assets on 12/31/22 with an amortized value of $91bn and a fair value of $76bn
That is the point of writing it that way. So you have to do the mental work yourself of translating "impacted" to "fired."
“You’re in business for 40 years and you are telling me you can’t raise $2 billion privately? Get on a jet and fly to Kuwait like everyone else and give them control of one-third of the bank.”

A lot to unpack there...
... with all due respect to folks who choose the hard and extremely frustrating academic career path, the inefficiency is so absurd that it truly only can exist in these gigantic institution-sized machines. (And in similar sized corporate money-makers.)

Most papers are fundamentally flawed, unfortunately, due to lacking sufficient information and data for replication, being underpowered (and not controlling for many factors).

It took decades to get to some minimally sensible standards (preregistration, conflict of interest declarations, awareness of the most common stats issues, power analysis), but we're still far from doing effective science.

Money is still handed out based on feels, hypes, name recognition (when it's not blinded) for laughably small projects, instead of focusing on establishing longer term ones and/or improving the actual science output (ie. data and hypothesis generation) of existing ones.

(Yes, of course, academia approximates this. Yes, yes. Everything's fine. We'll have a usable model of Alzheimer's any second now! Aaany second. Just let this new totally effective model of depression/obesity/learning/ME-CFS out of the door first.)
If SVB were originating mortgages then, yes, that should have helped because then, like every other originator, they would have immediately sold the mortgage into the secondary market where it would be turned into a Mortgage-Backed Security and SVB would have cash on-hand and unloaded the long-duration risk.

Instead, they were the ones buying the MBSs and taking on the long-duration risk.
> only once or twice have I ever encountered a showstopper dependency resolution issue

I've encountered them with other languages and they're the sort of thing where one time is more than enough to make me feel like it could get me fired; they're Never (with a capital N) okay imo
I don't doubt that. I just think their marketing is actively trying to avoid getting new users.
I just compared and evaluated Hatch, Flit, Poetry and Pdm and found Pdm to be most robust and slimmest. Hatch was a good second option, and Poetry and Hatch are easy to use, but have too much bloat and magic.
this is inherent to fractional reserve banks and maturity transformation. any bank would be vulnerable if there's a bank run. this is a basic thing to understand before making claims on this issue imho.
I'm sure it's partially the HN hug of death.
I hate the network switch debate. Most center around noise shaping the sound.

It is a one or zero, it will checksum and TCP either gives the correct packet or drops it. Also I do not know many audio streamers that do not buffer since TCP works way faster than a song can play. Plenty of time to make sure the packets are correct.

I have no idea why the audiophile network switches irritates me the most. At least with audio cables I guess you can do measurements that show the signal is cleaner, even though there is zero chance of you hearing a difference most of the time (I just make sure cables have good shielding and if the cable has to be seen it better look cool too, haha).

Ya know there are even audiophile USB cables.......not a joke google it.
...You're missing a /s, right?
Heard a story on NPR about someone who recently went home to Cuba from Spain. Said that in the past people in Cuba would ask him to bring electronics (stuff they couldn't get in Cuba), but this time when he asked family back in Cuba what they wanted him to bring they said "Food". When he got there he picked up a hitch hiker on the drive from Havana to his home town (in the past this was very common and very safe). The woman advised him that really shouldn't pick up hitch hikers because they tend to rob you. She was a healthcare professional of some sort and said she had to do several side jobs just to survive.
> it is clear that the root cause of the problems is the actions of the government and the FED

That's not clear to me.

I think the purpose of banks is to handle funds well. If a bank is "made" to "see itself with a glut of funds" it's needs to be able to figure out how to handle that.

I'm not endorsing the last several decades of federal monetary policy, but regardless, it doesn't make senses that it should necessarily focus on making things simple for regional banks.
I don’t know! I’m asking here because it’s not clear to me what their thinking was, but none of the explanations people here are giving really make me feel like I understand. Is the argument that they were a very narrow set of greedy? Why not just a not narrow set of stupid?
Yeah, to "Sonnenfeld and Tian", it's like gimme a break. The fed is in no way responsible for the results of every single bank out there. This is on SVB and SVB alone. More broadly, I'm sad that this event is likely going to disrupt the war on inflation and interest rate hikes. It might be time to start preparing for more inflation, or as Dorsey predicts, even hyperinflation.
What in the world are you talking about? It's not DRM if you're given the encryption key.
I knew an ex co-worker who grew up in another country whose manager, in a "sync up meeting", told him that he was "impacted" and he didn't need to continue work on his current sprint. He came out of the meeting with a smile, had no idea what this meant, and he showed up the next day.
Nice. But please do not make Jurassic Park.
I think the comparison is similar to the comment I mentioned about how we are different than streamlit: more customizable, flexible, and you can make larger web apps
That's still too long and flowery.

You probably know what YC is.

We were recently doing late-stage investing, but we're mostly giving up on that now.

We're firing 17 people who were involved in late-stage investing.

You won't notice their disappearance.

There, four sentences, and no AI involved.
The CEO only had ~ $30M in stock? The CFO only had ~1.5M in stock? Is it just me or is that ridiculously low?
Seems to return an empty response fairly often for me. The API response is `{"outputText":""}`. Perhaps an API availiability issue. More complex queries seem to bonk. I got:

> Show details of the most recent registration update of any car registered in Canada which is not red
select * from registrations
Looks very interesting. Thanks for the recommendation!
They also blocked NGOs and some gov agencies people were relying on to get critical alerts.

It was a super shady move and some think it was intentional.
Your understanding of the HTM portfolio (and reasons for it) are clearly not complete and no, not anyone in risk management will say their risk team should be in jail (excepting the case of documents proving the failure to hedge was done specifically to increase executive compenstation/bonuses). Calling into question the lack of hedging or use of MBS is fair game and not something most other institutions would have done.

For the record, "1 year treasury bonds" are 52 week Treasury Bills. They would not be buying off the run old debt.
Exactly right. I do think the speed of deposit growth in a low rate environment made that challenging though.

Like if it were me, I'd grudgingly buy long-dated assets to keep the doors open, but also look toward reducing maturity as rates increase and start acquiring customers. Problem is that, very roughly speaking, those things only work if rates increase more slowly than you can acquire new customers.
See my above comment, there's a reason why all of your examples work:

Java package managers tend to install packages written in java

Go installs packages written in go, and maybe C using cgo

Cargo installs packages written in rust

php package managers install packages written in PHP, extra extensions are rare

etc

People having trouble with python are NOT having trouble with python. They are having trouble because they are trying to use packages that are just python bindings to absolutely massively complex c++ and Fortran libraries.

Often people using python don't even have a C compiler installed (let alone a fortran one for the scientific stuff), so pip blows up the first time they try to install a package that hasn't been pre-built for their system+python version.
We're using Pydantic and our compiler has custom type-checking on top of Python to catch these issues.
Employment is a lagging indicator. Waiting until bank failures cause employment to crater is too little, too late.

I agree that many of the bank stocks are probably over valued. They're not going to rebound quickly.

The Fed can't control inflation. They can try to influence demand of goods and services by controlling interest rates, QE, etc. They cannot make up for the commodities supply deficiencies cause my Russia/Ukraine conflict. (Reduced supply of grains, oil, metals, etc.) Reduced supply also increases inflation.

We just had a run on the deposits of several banks. Next is a run on the stocks for the banks. (Financial institutions make up 7% of GDP) There are many institutions and retail investors who just received a message from Yellen and Powell that their investments are not safe. Even the big banks are falling. Migrating deposits to large banks will not stop the run on financial equities. It is already having a cascading effect on the broader market.
> Wasn't it just recently that YC posted a plea to bailout so that people wouldn't be fired?

No, that never happened where did you see that?

> So where is the bailout for these impacted people?

Unemployment exists and I'd bet a lot they got severance pay.
Any investment strategy will require addressing various forms of risk and making tradeoffs, but it is a choice. SVB did not properly hedge against this risk which, as soon as interest rates started rising, should have been a priority for their leadership to have a plan to address.
> That is definitely a compiler and anyone with a CS degree would call it that if they were discussing its functionality because that's technically what it is.

None of these assertions is correct.

> (Referring specifically to the part which compiles Python to bytecode)

So referring specifically to something different than what I explicitly specified, it's called something else.

By that reasoning, a cow is a muscle and you are an acid.

> Your SQL database also has a compiler.

"Has a" and "is a" are rather different relationships.

> Compile doesn't only mean "create a machine code executable file".

You're the only person who made that assertion.
Damn that sucks dude probably thought he was being praised or something.
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Most of the Canadian media market is owned by American interests so really we're just watching two American companies duke it out over who gets advertising money paid by companies selling American consumer shit.

As a Canadian it's really hard to give a shit about any of this.
I took GP's comment as sarcasm.
For those wondering (like I was), the Kuwait quote is actually real, from the article itself. Maybe those "SVB insiders" should have just been better at doing their jobs.
I would think having seed stage investments would offer additional late stage moat. My first thought was that the current down round later stage environment is squeezing a ton of common equity founders/execs. Its tough to be both founder friendly and investing at later stage prices that leave many startup execs low in equity/motivation.
I live a few miles from nowhere, and the last few years have been a revolution. My internet is now provided by Starlink, and I have a microcell for which the backhaul is Starlink.
My take: many people spend $$$ at the end of their life to receive aggressive treatment that ultimately doesn't do much. Palliative care is underutilized -- it's lower cost and results in a higher quality of life [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6610551/

Other interesting articles:
https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/details/news.php?id=848

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2014/05/most-physicia...
It’s the opposite: they started out distinct, but then, by the euphemism treadmill, became used interchangeably.

And if you go back even further it meant something even milder, like furloughed or terminated with the intent to rehire when expected business picks up.
Lol. You put "simple" and "requirements.txt" unironically next to each other...

I mean, I think you genuinely believe that what you suggest is simple... so, I won't pretend to not understand how you might think that. I'll explain:

There's simplicity in performing and simplicity of understanding the process. It's simple to make more humans, it's very hard to understand how humans work. When you think about using pip with requirements.txt you are doing the simple to perform part, but you have no idea what stands behind that.

Unfortunately for you, what stands behind that is ugly and not at all simple. Well, you may say that sometimes it's necessary... but, in this case it's not. It's a product of multiple subsequent failures of people working on this system. Series of mistakes, misunderstandings, bad designs which set in motions processes that in retrospect became impossible to revert.

There aren't good ways to use Python, but even with what we have today, pip + requirements.txt is not anywhere near the best you can do, if you want simplicity. Do you want to know what's actually simple? Here:

Store links to Wheels of your dependencies in a file. You can even call it requirements.txt if you so want. Use curl or equivalent to download those wheels and extract them into what Python calls "platlib" (finding it is left as an exercise for the reader) removing everything in scripts and data catalogues. If you feel adventurous, you can put scripts into the same directory where Python binary is installed, but I wouldn't do that if I were you.

Years of being in infra roles taught me that this is the most reliable way to have nightly builds running quietly and avoiding various "infra failures" due to how poorly Python infra tools behave.
Stable Diffusion came from an academic research lab.
Yes, that is a blog post that I've read and really like.

I hope you prove Moxie wrong, and once my business is off the ground, I'd like to contribute financially to that end.
$22000 with install seems high. Got a ducted a reverse cycle air conditioner and an additional split reverse cycle air conditioner supply and install for about $8k aud (us$5k) 10 years ago so say us$10k with inflation. Is this a competitive price. I don’t know btu but in total about 4kwh input.
I’m surprised that even an innovative, creative organization like YC wasn’t able to create other positions for these folks. I guess that just shows how hard business is even for people who are good at it.
Agreed. Transitory inflation, lol.
Functional Data Engineering Tutorial in Airflow and Python
I've made this (codespaces-powered & dockerized) tutorial to make the hard to understand concept of functional data engineering a little bit more easy to understand.
Playing around at the online etymology dictionary, it appears dismiss is the oldest—early 15th century. Sack and fire are from the 19th century, and laid off in this sense isn’t until the 1960s. Terminate, as in dismiss from a job, is first attested in 1973.
> The system operates at all temperatures. Thanks to vapor injection technology the condenser is rated to -15F, and the backup heating strips can operate at all outdoor temperatures.

I call bullshit. Demonstrate a unit at the south pole if you disagree.

The heating strip can operate at all outdoor temperatures perhaps -- it's just a heating strip! -- but that doesn't necessarily make the rest of the system work. Your -15F figure is warmer than what existing products claim, so you're underperforming competition there, yet trying to boast about being superior.

Similarly, the cooling part can only work when you still can dump heat outside.

Established manufacturers state ranges like -22..86F/-25..30C for heating and -22F..122F/-30..50C for cooling. You trying to say "all" is just a lie.
An indirect recursion.
> it has been given out for others to use, so again no, they were not bailed out

Uh, that's what wealthy people do -- they give money to other people to make them even more money. This was so transparently a billionaire bailout (Gary Tan & David Sacks were literally on a press tour), I fail to understand how people are so mesmerized by the shell game here.
It's too depressing for me to take that hypothesis.

It's far easier for me to believe that Yellen is a deeply intelligent and talented economist who lacked the ability to protect her cognitive processes from optimism bias. People think that when you say incompetent you are saying they aren't intelligent enough for the job. I think she was temperamentally unfit. I want people in the Federal reserve that don't care at all if they get invited to cocktail parties or get job offers. I want them to be people who don't mind being hated by everyone.

I want Paul fucking Volcker level of tolerance to everybody hating you.

All that being said, the thing that undermines my desire to not believe your theory is that she made the terrible mistake of going straight to work for the Biden administration from the Fed. Even if this was done for noble reasons it just makes the Federal Reserve look partisan which is a really bad place for it to be.
Thiel is a literal tyrannical goon who wants to rent you your own body someday, but nothing he did here was wrong. SVB made terrible choices that put them in a bind, and it is not the responsibility of their depositors to keep them liquid. If I found out my bank was obviously and clearly broken, you bet I'm telling everyone I can. Propping up an institution that can't even do the basics of it's job would be stupid and bad for the economy as a whole. The companies getting fucked should probably have noticed that their giant hordes in the bank were uninsured and figured out better ways to manage that money, or at least diversify their accounts.
“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.”

This is a different age. Even when far weightier things like world war are on the table, they don’t do that anymore.

Khrustchev and Kennedy established a direct line, talked to each other and deescalated the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Biden and Putin did the opposite, since 2020. Just a lot of misunderstanding and escalation, and they have not yet had a direct conversation.

https://youtu.be/0fkKnfk4k40?t=19m25s
Have you actually ever lived in Soviet Union? or just read Lenin's books?
I could present evidence that FizzBuzz is too complex for some of the applicants that I have talked to over the last few years.
I don't know of anything like that. Good project idea.

The idea of staying close to a niche is that there are enough of site where companies can look for candidates, so I don't want to compete with those.