skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
187 comments almost entirely focused on language usage, and at best two to three words.

Fascinating.
Disagree. There are a lot of advantages in being able to coordinate heating/cooling and general home electricity use based on stuff like weather forecasts, your electric company's rate tiers (including working around peak hours), when you are home or about to come home etc. Of course there should be a fallback mode where the system can work 100% offline, but being connected is definitely worth it.
Thanks for the Bosch recommendation. Your system is much larger than ours, but you likely have a lot more square footage (we are ~2100 sq ft). I don’t recall the exact number, but I think we are 2.5 or 3.5 ton.

Our system is old enough that it’s just time to replace. It’s the one the builder installed 14 or 15 years ago and it’s fairly low end.

What you’ve accomplished in your home is exactly what my installer tells me they can’t do. He told me no matter how large of a system I buy, the system will never be able to pul the indoor temperature down more than about 20F (internet searches for “max ac cooling” seem to back that up). He says a bigger system will get me down to the 20F floor faster, but that’s it.

I don’t believe it though because of stories like yours and because commercial spaces around here are very cold on hot days.
Wanting a hands off business environment automatically puts one and the same tendency as libertarianism, as a fellow traveller. Neoliberals, deregulator Reaganites/Thatcherites, Grover Norquist "starve the beast" types, etc. they're all adjacent to libertarians. Even Bill Clinton and the New Democrats are not that far from libertarianism, as they were comparatively fiscally conservative than earlier versions of the Democratic Party and pushed for financial deregulation and championed market-based solutions!

And even a cursory glance at the OpenSecrets list shows that the two party dichotomy is a false one. For instance, Marc Andreessen at least nominally supported Romney in 2012, then Carly Fiorina in 2016. Does that sound like a far leftist who is against libertarian ideals?
True. In launch batches of YC startups, this becomes unusable.
Yes and I'm happy to pay, I'm actually paying 50$ a year as it is for my personal account only. They call it online-banking fee.And still they gamble with my money. I also have 2 company accounts where they charge even higher fees, just for deposits. It's not that I'm not willing to pay, but I was never asked to put my savings as collateral.

Meanwhile they're closing offices to save money, and making billions every year. They can make it work, we just have to demand it.
I think it's fine if the new precedent we're setting is that the FDIC backs any amount of money on deposit for everyone going forward.

If that is not the new precedent, then this is a bailout of rich individuals and some specific corporations. That doesn't seem a problem to you? If the savings and loan of Bismarck North Dakota fails, is the government bailing out the car lot owner and the wheat farmer and the home builder?
'People of Earth, this is Starship Captain Elon Musk and as you can see in the video feed, I have set foot on Mars!'

...

'Hello?'

'Earth? Are you receiving this?'
They're using their new automated writing tools without proofreading.
No, I can't call up my insurance company to get depositor bonds. From [2]: "Depositor bonds allow banks to offer deposit protection in excess of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insurance coverage to its most valued customers."

The other links say similar things. This is something banks can buy, to provide extra coverage for their customers.

People here have been arguing that SVB's customers were negligent by not purchasing their own third-party insurance. I think it's reasonable to ask them to support that argument, even if I'm not personally in the market. Supplemental insurance like that still does not appear to be available.
The initiators of violence are the ones blamed for starting it. Like how Russia is blamed for the invasion of Ukraine.
Projecting from personal anecdote here, but... my social circles have almost no intersection with my life in tech. They are not "tech people". Yet I have only a single contact that still messages me via WhatsApp. Everyone else and all of the groups I'm in moved to Signal.
> None of the big (or small) moneymakers in last few years came close to "10 years" of popularity and probably won't.

I don't think much of the software out there behaves like this either. It might apply somewhat to game or software franchises, though.

For example, LibreOffice has had multiple major releases, but has been around for a bit over 12 years, a bit longer if you include the predecessors. Ubuntu LTS is usually supported for around 5 years, but Ubuntu as a whole has been around for almost 20 years.

Similarly, Counter-Strike was released over 20 years ago, even if there's been multiple separate games over the years. It's more or less the same story for Battlefield and Call of Duty.

That said, that's setting your own goals unrealistically high, since those are the exceptions when compared to any number of unsuccessful games. If you try to compete against games like that, you'll just burn yourself out. Most startups aren't necessarily built for the longevity either, but rather to have a product hit the market within a reasonable time frame and budget.

If you want, make games, fail, iterate, fail some more, iterate some more, maybe eventually succeed. Have a look at some grounded experiences from other folks, for example watch this video titled "How to Survive in Gamedev for Eleven Years Without a Hit": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmwbYl6f11c
Yeah it's difficult to envision a truly cost effective ASAT measure, "shooting" bullets is deceptive in that it'd still require carrying the large amount of fuel needed to effectively change orbit (especially for changing inclination) and would be a bit too messy in terms of spread of the resulting debris.

Another interesting and clean approach might be jamming the satellites from orbit. You can't go after all the satellites, but since you can predict which ones will be over when you're doing something important, you can launch vehicles to approach specifically those and jam them at close range.
> If certain industries had their way, every sip of water and every breath of air would have an associated cost and market value.

For those of you who think this isn't happening with basic resources like water, let me point you to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochabamba_Water_War
Made a contract with a private for-profit company. There is no surprise there.
Not copy right, but doesn't mean this isn't someone's property.
Seems not too bad, you can tell its been trained on shorter responses.

Example #1

Input: explain a neural network in simple terms

Alpaca-Output: A neural network is a type of machine learning algorithm that is made up of layers of interconnected nodes (aka neurons). It is inspired by the way the brain works and uses interconnected nodes to learn patterns in data and make predictions. Neural networks can be used to perform various tasks such as classification, regression, and speech/image recognition.

Example #2

Input: explain how transformers work in artificial intelligence

Alpaca-Output: Transformers are a type of artificial intelligence algorithm used in deep learning. They are responsible for taking input data and converting it into a different data representation, called the "output space". Transformers do this by using a series of mathematical operations, allowing them to map input data onto a new, desired output. This allows the artificial intelligence system to perform tasks such as natural language processing and image recognition. Transformers are able to learn from data and can be used to build more efficient models for a variety of tasks

Example #3

Input: how do i make a request to the chatgpt api with python?

Alpaca-Output:
The API can be accessed using the Python language. You can use requests library to make API requests, for example:

import requests

# URL of the chatgpt API
url = 'https://api.chatgpt.com/v1/messages'

# Post a new message
data = {
'text': 'Hello World'
}

# Send the request and get the response
response = requests.post(url, data=data)
print(response.text)
Fixing a multifaceted problem requires multifaceted solutions. It can definitely help.
How would you ensure that spares are available in the event a model is discontinued or the company shuts down? It’s likely there will be few parts or trained techs in that case.
Experian is the only agency that doesn't allow you to lock your credit for free, only "freeze" it. The differences aren't immediately obvious, but locking can be undone (nearly) instantaneously, whereas un-freezing takes many days.

If the others can do it, Experian could do, but they treat protecting your identity as a revenue stream. Disgusting.
In case you are wondering, that is about 20% of the staff.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/13/y-combinator-cuts-nearly-2...
Because rhetoric is just rhetoric. The only rule is rule #1: look out for number #1, and a dose of hypocrisy with a whole lotta bluster is the antidote to ever having to deal with the consequences of your actions or that darned hard-knock life comin' a knockin.
Unless you’re rich, you’re not allowed to not work in America either. Go ahead and try, you won’t last long. Even social support programs come with work requirements in some places [1].

Let’s not pretend America doesn’t currently imprison over two million people [2]. That’s where you end up if you’re poor and unlucky enough in America (being homeless is also criminalized in many places [3]).

[1] https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/health-policy-center/pr...

[2] https://www.prisonstudies.org/country/united-states-america

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeseq/2022/01/01/how-the-us-...
Happy to support this bill extended to news sites that link to my personal website and information being forced to pay me for the privilege.
It would have to be negative, as in an up front cost to the consumer.

Banks need to make money to cover operating costs at the very least. It's not that people don't accept 0% interest on deposits, it's that consumers would have to pay money to a bank to keep it operating with no risk.

Take that situation and then introduce a new bank that makes loans and therefore can pay depositors x% in interest on their deposits. If enough people decide that's a better deal than paying for total security, they'll take it.

The entire point of a low FDIC policy is to keep the small players safe while forcing the large players to make prudent decisions with their capital. Bailouts introduce moral hazard that says no big players need to scrutinize the risk adjusted returns they're getting. It's free money to those with money whole everyone else pays for it.
That's funny - I've noticed a lack of basic knowledge of fractional reserve banking and the FDIC in the tech crowd.
Do you check the the inspection sticker of every elevator, train, restaurant, building that you enter?
I think that government should exist to implicitly ensure essential infrastructure. What is essential is up for debate, but generally can include, common defense, upholding contract law and enabling transportation, trade and commerce. In this day and age, I think internet, telephone and radio communications would be included as well.

Anarchists will often identify as Libertarians, as there are also left-leaning Libertarians that I don't really get as well. I'm a bit more pragmatic in terms of a from where we are standpoint in that I think there are less intrusive solutions to many problems than full regulation or more government. I think the crux is starting by holding those that are responsible for these things (corporate or banking execs and boards) liable for their decisions and actions, which doesn't happen currently, and most Libertarians I know would celebrate.
I put those numbers into https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/net-price-calculat... and got ~$19k/yr estimate cost of Harvard.

That is competitive with many in-state tuitions.
FWIW, social media apps used to pull data using OG tags, media publications are free to not put those tags
Much of a sameness really but I prefer the more persistent disk style of lxc plus ssh plus vscode ssh remote extension.

Depends on task though I've got dockers and VMs in use too
I mean, that's literally what happened with the UK arm of SVB: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/13/hsbc-buys-silicon-valley-ban...
Britain has a huge rail preservation community and a lot of their restored trains, many steam, make it out onto the main line.

If you'd like to catch a glimpse of one or even book a seat on it, check out the calendar at http://www.railtourinfo.co.uk/tours.html.
> How do you know? Sender lines are faked all the time.

by that logic, you shouldn't trust any email unless it's signed and you've verified the sender. If the sender is your cloud provider, you read the email and decide from there whether or not it's worthwhile.
I remember when Conda just appeared... I was so high no hopium... well, the word "hopium" didn't exist yet...

Anyways. Today I have to help scientists to deal with it. And... I didn't think it was possible to be worse than pip or other Python tools, but they convinced me it is. Conda is the worst Python program of note that I had ever dealt with. It's so spectacularly bad it's breathtaking. You can almost literally take a random piece of its source code and post it to user boards that make fun of bad code. When I have a bad day, I just open its code in a random file, and like that doctor who was happy running around the imaging room exclaiming "I'm so, so, so happy! I'm so unimaginably happy that I'm not this guy! (pointing at an X-ray in his hand)" I'm happy I'm not the author of this program. I would've just died of shame and depression if I was.
>"It doesn't seems like something malicious."

No it seems like weaselicious to me.
>> 196,000 adult fish were expected to return

> If your business depends on this fishing season

It seems that there's more people than fish. Draughts, overfishing, pollution ... not much perspective in that.

If I may ... plant based has a future, fishing ... not so sure.
The problem is that guaranteeing a bank and regulating it's investments still changes the incentives for the bankers. The banker has an incentive make an investment that can presented as "prudent" but which actually has a large up and down side. The banker keeps the upside, the bank's depositors are protected from the downside and the worst the investors face is losing their existing capital.
All good, but there's no denying that SV is a meme machine.
just mere days after SVB crashes and burns, wonder how much pg had tied up there.
Just the thing I was missing. Thank you
Given that the spammers seem to use some sort of canned software, it might have been enough to figure out how to change one or two internal URLs in MediaWiki, actually.
unfreezing is instant, I have mine frozen and unfreeze it when I need to apply for credit without any problem. they just lie to make it sound less appealing.
And also, the population distribution can't continue skewing older indefinitely, that's unsustainable. At some point geriatrics would make up the entire population.

And yet, both of these trends can continue for quite some time, and one trend can outweigh the other for quite some time.
Isn't also just the fact you need to send over like 7MB of wasm for even just the standard library?
The upcoming Starlink mini terminal is pretty small but its power consumption will probably still be pretty high.
Sure, but zooming out a bit - by caving in, you make this part of "the plan". For banks and their customers.

But if companies knew that no such bailout is incoming, they would act differently.
>You could go deeper and manage timing for speakers side to side or front to back

Audio data frames are interleaved, ie RLRLRL. There's no point managing timing of network packets because after going over the network, all the data goes into a buffer at the other end before being played.
I've seen people getting some nasty bytes from it, though
Android doesn’t have this, and I missed it at first as well, but the scroll acceleration is so fast (much faster than on iOS) that you can nevertheless scroll to the top very quickly.
As with so many other issues in the modern climate, all of that hinges on people assuming that the opinions of some wonk or columnist scold really matters to the majority of people. And refraining from simply because of fear of finger-wagging from scolds, is cowardice.
Beautiful, it's so refreshing to see web apps that aren't terriblly slow. This was very snappy and usable even on my phone. Good work!
It was a modified prisoners dilemma where 100 prisoners are faced with steal or share, and have every possible chance to communicate but just can change their choice after making it. And if just 20 had shared, then everyone wins, even those who chose steal. But the panic and the irresponsible VCs lack of communication with the bank and each other meant that in a heartbeat 85 prisoners had chosen steal, before even looking up at each other or listening to the rules being fully explained, and the remaining 15 where left perplexed that there wasn't even 5 amongst the panicked bunch left to help resolve the situation calmly to everyones benefit.
The weird thing is that transparency about the difficulty at the bank is exactly what leads to the run. The incentives of the banking system are to hide reality in case of a financial breach. Whereas for a security breach, the incentives need to be to be forthright.

How's an executive supposed to keep the nuance of when to lie?
In California power outages are very frequent (PG&E is now cutting off the residential power upfront, to avoid fires and associated liability).

I’ve experienced 4-5 outages last year, a couple were local, a couple were widespread. One lasted 2 days.

Fortunately I do have a small 3.2kWh battery backup power, so I can keep the refrigerator from defrosting. I do think that this is sufficient to power the air furnace as well, but I haven’t tried.

The residential internet outages also are pretty frequent, but we don’t notice these as much as power outages.
Thiel is a libertarian and he has recently earned the label of "someone who talks to someone who is connected to someone who has the label Nazi". That makes him colloquially "on the wrong side of politics"

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/03/18/white-nationa...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/books/review/the-contrari...
As seen elsewhere in these HN comments: https://sanctions.nazk.gov.ua/en/sanction-company/6813/

> Putin has publicly stated his concerns about Russia’s access to microelectronics

> To further increase pressure on Russia’s electronics sector, the Department of State is designating numerous advanced Russian electronics entities.

> Limited Liability Company Yadro Fab Dubna is implementing a project to create Russia’s largest modern production plant for the production of circuit boards
The US government lets a lot of unconscionable things happen. How can we move things like Medicaid reimbursing enough (or even as much as Medicare) so that more healthcare providers accept it so more poor people get healthcare up the priority list, to near where “not letting startups collapse” might be?
History is littered with the companies that took that approach, so “keep doing the same thing” is no guarantee of future success.
We also need policies about steam engines!
Of course they'll want to blame anything other than the stupidly high risk strategies that got them there.

SVB had the highest compensation in the industry for 2018, and averaged ~$293k/employee last year while hitting top scores for work-life balance, remote options, and employee satisfaction.

For fun...here are the top paying banks in 2018:

1. SVB - $250k

2. First Republic - $247k

3. Signature Bank - $216k

SVB and Signature just failed, First Republic is down 75% over the past 5 days.

https://archive.is/3QXIO
Supposedly the right click method only works if you have already attempted to open the app a normal way, and gotten the "error" message. Only then can you right click to open anyway.
I built something similar for myself a few years back even adding colors to ensure faster reading.

Demo:
https://reading.ashishb.net/v1/readable/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhl...
That seems to be more or less the approach we've taken to date

I can't see this at all. Can you provide any example of property rights actually being vested in air or in water?

By comparison, if we talk about pollution of the soil, we don't have very much of a problem there. I mean, it happens. Like people's oil tanks leak, but that's a big part of the reason that we no longer build houses with oil-fired heat. I knew an environmental attorney who talked about the horrors of the liability when a homeowner's oil leach into the soil. This has taught us not to do that anymore.

But precisely because no particular entity owns the atmosphere, or (in most cases) the water, there's nobody that has standing to recover those externalized costs of pollution. So we haven't gone that route, and the problem remains largely unfixed.
China is concerned about currency markets so that is why they have to invade Taiwan?

China is strong enough that they don't have to listen. It doesn't really show you are strong to threaten to invade another country to demonstrate strength.
Ok but just because operations aren't perfectly identical doesn't mean you can't do it and it certainly doesn't mean it will be slow. I have had great success with SDL_gpu.
I wish there were some publicly available numbers to analyze here, but it seems likely that YC's late stage funds have lost a lot of money (on paper) doing late-stage investments at sky-high valuations over the years leading up to 2022 that are now down significantly as a result of the current startup downturn.

Folks who are thinking about these YC changes as a layoff are missing the point -- YC is exiting what had been a major part of their business (especially if measured by total dollars invested).

And from the outside it seems likely that the reason for the layoff is probably less that YC is in troubled financial straights and needs to cut costs on its operations, but because their late-stage investing business was losing money and YC has decided to give up on it and no longer has work for specialists in that work.
Stripe your GPU in a Raid 0 configuration for maximum performance, if your GPU doesn't have ECC VRAM, consider mirroring them :)
When someone is talking about one issue and you bring up another issue... That is whataboutism. Being overweight is unhealthy. Being underweight is unhealthy. This article is about being overweight. Bringing up something else entirely and ignoring what the article is about is whataboutism.
Modern leftism has certainly lost it's way, and frankly so has a lot of the right. I say that as a life long conservative voter. I'm that odd combination, both an economic and a cultural liberal.
FDIC insurance is mandatory. It is not a "market" product.

They are asking for an extraordinary extension of this program to recover losses incured by bad market behavior.
No, weirdly enough, I wrote exactly what I meant to, not the thing you'd prefer I wrote so you could point out how wrong I was.
i think you need to code a little every day. Git pull from a repo your reports are working on and just read the commits at first. But make it a goal to get small PRs merged in. That'll get you back in the swing of constantly adding value and talking to people on stuff that matters.
HN rarely comments on bans, though almost 60 submissions have been posted in past 30-days and every single one is dead.

Here’s a comment from dang, the only official HN mod, related to “hardwalled” submissions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35074950