skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? They took on direct financial risk. They are "sophisticated" financial actors unlike the general public, with access to professional advice on managing their risk profile.

I think it would be better for the economy and the long-term prospect for American innovation to ensure a robust start-up sector, and thus support the current plan to cover the banks deposits (and probably make a profit at doing so, so won't even cost taxpayers). But I don't think these companies have any sort of "moral right" to their deposits against the interests of the rest of society.
Was this meant as a reply to this thread? I'm not quite seeing the connection.
This framework is spot on. The US desperately needs privacy legislation like the GDPR, or the surveillance industry will go right on building their de-facto government that is utterly unaccountable.
Sounds like how the mob used to “help” businesses that needed cash.
also free private repositories, the github free tier used to be very lacking to say the least
things like github and gitlab always struck me as oddities. it costs virtually nothing to deploy a containerized gitea and jenkins, or gitlab CE, and you have direct control over its performance and options without any spend.

call me old fashioned but these online git-o-matic sites just seem more like rent-seeking during a recession.
can those employees not be staffed to other projects? surely the skillsets are reusable. Something is very fishy about this and the timing.
Idk, I still have no idea why yarn exists when there's npm.
I would have paid 2 for it. They got ripped off
Your targets have hundreds of millions of dollars to thwart your group, whether legally or with counter messaging, or through lobbying. Your group, being paid by a trickle of donations, is highly dependent on maintaining high motivation in order to marshall the energy necessary to go at this day in and day out for what could be years or even decades of frustrating, unrewarded effort.

This is a fundamental problem with large scale fraud, which is that the fraudsters have the money and the established networks first, and everyone has to fight to claw it back from their grasp while also disrupting the networks that enabled the fraud to grow in the first place.

The "everyone" being those from whom the money is being taken, who are therefore that much less equipped to mount a sustained attack.

tl;dr you'll be battling the bullshit asymmetry principle, except with money
Lua config is game over, got no time for whatever config format somebody chose that I gotta write a script to properly respond to dark mode for
I'd say they are. And I agree with you that it's necessary overhead. The action is what "cost the taxpayers money" because it required enforcement action. Crime is actually a great example: we all pay when crimes are committed, so we should all take interest in preventing crime rather than just reacting whenever it happens. The same is true for things like rail freight safety, air travel safety, and banking.
> Negotiation is unlikely to change this analysis if the rotting corpses of its own dead isn't sufficiently persuasive.

So the only solution you leave us with is open war with a nuclear power.

> There is no communique that could have resolved this because Russia believed that it would quickly roll into Kiev and end it.

There is a common strain of thought that WWII was a "just war" and that nothing could have prevented war with Nazi Germany. This is correct if one starts history in 1938, or even 1933, but ignores the fifteen years between 1933 and the end of World War I, and still the years of WWI and the decades prior.

You are wrong in the same way that folks err that WWII was unavoidable. History exists and we didn't arrive at this moment simply because of the evil of one man.

If we want to avoid an open war with a nuclear power, we have to be willing to negotiate. Putin is rational and has negotiated in the past. How many corpses do you want?
Apple Music won't be a relevant thing until I can use it on my work computer, ie not tied to the Apple ecosystem.

I used the have Google music, but when they went and changed it to youtube music I ended up hating the new thing so much I went to Spotify.

Which sucks as a UI, sucks that it thinks I want to listen to the same tracks in the car as when I am working, but at least it is better than the other ones.
Wow, sorry you had to go through that setup hassle. I would also say you are probably in the 1% of motivated homeowners trying to get those details right. A lot of this difficulty seems like it stemmed from trying to get the Ecobee to play nice with the Bosch. With Electric Air I hope to avoid setup issues like this, the thermostat is specifically designed to work well with the other equipment.
Because there is no “community” in this situation, just individual actors in a life and death situation, running for the exits
Nothing in the article contradicts my comment. Facebook deliberately took down links subject to the link tax, that much is not disputed. The notion that they also deliberately took down links to NOGs, government sites, and other sites not subject to the link tax is not substantiated. Facebook knew false-positives existed, but there's no evidence to suggest that they wouldn't have deployed a perfect filter were it feasible to to do.
"Officer involved shooting"
GP's opinion is objectively correct. I fail to see the relevance of your assertion. /s
Slowly but surely

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-12/india-to-...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/...
My review that I keep updating: https://bower.sh/framework-vs-mbp
Facebook can just replace corporate media with alternative media outlets that provide the same news. In fact, the alternative media was doing extremely well on social media until around 2017 or so when they changed the algorithms to favor corporate media content.

From the perspective of Facebook, Reddit and Twitter, they can just replace CNN and Fox News with Jacobin and Breitbart and nobody will care that much except people who work for those outlets. In fact, most people will probably be happier to have sources that care less about pretending to be "objective" and just support their party's agenda (such outlets were successfully outcompeting corporate media on the social platforms before the circa 2017 algorithm changes).

In other words, the corporate media should be careful what they wish for because they might lose the fantastic gift horse they got from "big tech" 6 years ago. The value of a media outlet is in its influence over public opinion not its profitability and this greed driven proposal is a good way for corporate media to burn down their own influence.
I can think of a few reasons why YC would make this decision without admitting so publicly:

1) Too much negative signaling risk when they don't make follow-on investments

2) Negative returns given the recent downturn

3) The increasing business need to make non-founder-friendly changes in late stage companies (e.g. replacing CEO)

4) Anu/Ali deciding to leave first to start their own fund

I wonder if any of these reasons is a predominant driver.
The only risk for other banks is opportunity cost: right now, there are much more productive uses of their money than buying old agencies at par. If you had $200b or whatever laying around, you could buy their portfolio and make about the lowest risk $10b there is. But if you just bought new agencies at the same durations instead, you could easily double that.

EDIT: To clarify, this is the primary risk at large banks, where they could absorb a chunk of the bonds without significantly affecting their average maturity. Smaller banks obviously risk replaying the SVB run.
not only that but it's the exact same top-comment subthread that appears at the top of literally every story involving corporate comms. I wonder if it's the same people every time or if there's a constant influx of new commenters who feel strongly about corpspeak.
This is a futile pursuit simply because you are creating a layer of abstraction over JS using another dynamic language so there's no real gain other than syntactic sugar.
I can't think of any package/dep systems I actually like other than npm. And they're even starting to screw that up with the `import` weirdness instead of the `require` that's been so simple and easy.

Rust's system is probably the next best.

ObjC/Swift packaging is a flaming disaster in practice, unless it's improved since I jumped that ship. Last time, I remember every single project having to rely on Cocoapods.
They wouldn't have been legally allowed to be out of compliance without a change in regulations.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-dodd-frank/trum...
Weird how people said the very same shit about Trump in 2016 (that it was all a byproduct of astroturfing and social media). At this point I think social media is just what pundits defer to when they're being sore losers because the black box they run as is an easy scapegoat for a lot of things.
Also Biden's cabinet is full of old school Keynesians, so I really have no idea what you are on about when referencing MMT. You can tell he's no true proponent of MMT because he actually cares about defecits and talks about his impact on them fairly often in speeches.
> The cost of setting up, maintaining the environment and onboarding people is just not worth it.

I have yet to come across a situation where I need a virtual environment at all. A lot of projects use it, but then lazy me just runs git clone && python3 clone/main.py and it works just fine, sometimes after an apt install python3-somedependency or two.

It always seemed weird to me to depend on such a specific version ("package foo can't be older than 7 months or newer than 4 months"), how even does one manage to use such obscure features that they were removed and so you need an older-than version?

And then there's the people in this thread (seemingly a majority when judging by top level comment loudness) that have trouble with virtual environments and so add another layer on top to manage that virtual environment thing. The heck. Please explain
The problem is that they don't blatantly violate any of the policy bullets in that FTC press release... all the terms are spelled out in the interstitial. The issue is that the design goes out of its way to give it a very mandatory vibe. I don't log in very often, but I always have to catch myself ("...wait, what is this? Do I have to do this?"), and then remember to go hunting for the NoThanks button. It has a very opt-out feel.
I'm working on https://github.com/mayu-live/framework which is 100% server side Ruby. It's kinda like React/Preact, but server side, and Ruby. No JavaScript required (it's not even supported).
https://archive.is/rTwVK
You also can't yell fire in a crowded theater when there isn't one. You could make the argument that someone did.
It's hardly a substitute for salmon.
I've tried to do this, and everything seems oriented toward reporting fraud and scams, rather than CAN-SPAM violations. I had this issue with Comcast/Xfinity not honoring my opt-out requests for months, and only stopped it when I managed to get on the phone with some kind of supervisor (it pays to be nice to rank-and-file call center employeees!) and bluffed them with calm but stern threats of "legal action".
That example seems fine to me. There is clear attribution ("by an officer"), and the "appeared to be aiming" could be to emphasize that the officer was not just generally shooting into crowd, but targeting individuals.
Lol what a silly opinion.
In these threads I see a lot of RSS reader recommendations, but never the one I use, which is in fact the only personal software I pay for: https://bazqux.com

It started around when Google Reader shut down and had all the exact features Google Reader had. I migrated around 10 years and have been using it ever since. It's blazing fast, always available, and never changes. I just bought a lifetime subscription a few minutes ago because I plan to use it for another 10 years.
actually i'll advise you to take a look at temperature of your walls. both inside and outside. they have a bunch of thermal mass. during the summer they effectively heat the air inside the house. unless you manage to cool walls somewhat (lets say during night), hvac will have to really fight to keep temperature down. I live in bay area and I installed whole house fan which is typically runs through the night at summer. For most of the cooling season it sufficiently cools air and walls in order to require only a couple hours of hvac a day.

additional point, you wrote that you have current system installed 15 years ago. back than design temperatures (i.e. how hvac sized based on outdoor temperature) were different. recent updates sometime bring those temperatures up by 10F or so, what can result in extra half a ton - ton of hvac.

you could retain company to make a proper hvac sizing (called manual j calculation). hvac contracts from my expirience won't do it.
I don't understand what you meant by "nobody knows what color a combination of HSV values" (but you quote HEX strings)? What makes the quoted code hard to maintain?
That's a useful distinction. I've never been able to understand where the prices come from, and my sister is an ER doctor. I'm surprised that these basic facts are so hard to come by. I read articles that say, well, healthcare prices aren't high because of X, where X is just about anything I can think of.
Cool, now do socialism.

Anything in the extreme is bad. Can any system work if everyone acts perfectly rationally and and the same time with full empathy? Sure, but such people in reality are few and far between so instead we need to account for the edge cases of which there are many. And as any good software engineer knows you end up spending 80% of your time chasing down the last 1% of your edge cases.
If only there was some sort of 'insurance' to hedge against this that the bank could have availed themselves of.
I wonder if that is anything more than the lack of retail banking skewing wages. ie you lack lots of branches staffed with relatively low-paid tellers.
Under $100.

> Fine-tuning a 7B LLaMA model took 3 hours on 8 80GB A100s, which costs less than $100 on most cloud compute providers.

They also spent $500 creating the dataset using openais APIs.
> which is the largest city in Tanzania. (It was the capital until 1974, when it was replaced by Dodoma.)

Find it funny that even the humans got it wrong. Dodoma only became the official capital in 1996.
Not confusing the two, and maybe it is quibbling but changes in market value have nothing to do with liquidity as that term is used in finance.

Just because you can't sell a bond at par doesn't mean it is an illiquid market.
It's not about not understanding the web or the concept of linking. It's a reaction to a fundamental way that users are engaging with content.

User behavior has changed online, people are conditioned to tiktok / twitter length information snips, having off the cuff reactions, being the first to be outraged, etc.

It used to be that if someone linked something the BULK of the people who saw that link and were interested would click it and if they wanted to engage, they likely engaged on the site hosting the content first... now the bulk to the people don't click the link to read and instead engage only on their social media platform of choice.

This leads to:

* Increasingly divisive click bait titles
* Less informed populace (although they FEEL more informed)
* Echo chambers where people get re-enforced on their view of the TITLE (not content) because they are sharing and commenting with likeminded people rather than getting opposing opinions on the source website.

Not saying this bill is the solution but I disagree that it's being considered because people don't understand how linking on the web works.
Twice bricking my laptop’s ability to do python development because of venv + symlink bs was the catalyst I needed to go all-in on remote dev environments.

I don’t drive python daily, but my other projects thank Python for that.
Assassinating a politician in the US typically just makes you more enemies compared to the rest of the world. At least if your an external factor, if internal that's different.
It's insulting because it reflects exactly how decision makers at Experian feel about you as a human being.
> If HN had a filter just for technical stories, that would be great.

You might be ready for https://lobste.rs.
As long as Peter Thiel had nothing to gain by starting a bank run (which, by all logic, seems likely), then he cannot be blamed for talking about the bank's risk and position which ultimately caused a run.
Just a guess he is already a few standard deviations above the average tenure of a tech ceo in this era.
Everyone saw the same quarterly report saying that they (SVB) took a $1.8b hit and needed to raise capital via a stock offering. Peter Thiel decided to move his funds elsewhere. Does that make him the bad guy?
I assume that commenter is referring to Gitlab's famous advocacy for remote-only work. But, it's still completely irrelevant to their earnings forecast or stock price.
A combination of cargo culting/"sounds professional", and just wanting to make yourself/company look less bad.
You are assuming people use Opal because they don't want to learn JS. In reality it's that JS is a very messy language compared to ruby.

You can be a lot more productive if you avoid JS entirely.
I think GP was referring to Gitlab itself being very vocal about fully remote. Without commenting on anything else in this thread, their company handbook[1] and the culture around it are something I find pretty interesting.

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/
> Did Peter Thiel try to safeguard his companies' bank positions? Yes, so they can make payroll and operate.

Seriously, if I was a CEO trying to make payroll right now and I found out a board member knew my bank was screwed and didn't try to help me, I'd be working on a lawsuit.

Thiel did his duty as a board member and investor. He should not be blamed for acting rationally. The bank should be blamed for making a run the only rational choice.
As a user who really liked GitLab, there are a few things that made me consider to move back to GitHub:

1. They had a generous organization free tier, which was handy for stealthily moving companies to it (move a few repos, get people used to it, then move more repos, then when everyone recognizes the value, start paying). They ruined that as soon as they put a limit on the number of people that can be in an org for free. Moving stealthily was good because...

2. GitLab CI was best-of-breed, but GitHub Actions is really good too now (maybe better? I haven't used it enough to answer that).

3. The price is really high now, so it doesn't really make sense to even move a company over to it.

4. The community is (and has always been) on GitHub, so there was always a big reason to be there. Now that the rest of the GitLab offerings aren't as competitive, this wins.
Experienced Python dev checking in here. I use neither containers nor virtual environments. Honestly not sure what all the fuss is about.

Maybe everyone has come to think we need layers on layers on layers because management tools (like venv) are blogged and talked about, whereas it's a bit dull to write/talk about nothing (i.e. not using/needing such tools)? I genuinely wonder
Auditing Free Drive Space: Where Have All the Gigabytes Gone?
That's not really true. It's complicated because the language is one of the worst to manage.
Instagram Is Disabling Its NFT Features
If you're not Australian, this is completely unsurprising.

Murdoch owns 2/3rds of all news media here. His headlines ensured the centre-right election victory in 2011 which was terrible for many reasons.

That government then cancelled our already in-progress national fibre broadband rollout in favour of inferior VDSL2, because (at the time) higher bandwidth was seen as a threat to cable TV. This was a multi-billion dollar waste of taxpayer money, and we now have the ~70th worst internet in the world for the ~10th highest price.

Have a guess who owns the cable TV networks.
No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society by Robert O'Harrow, Jr.
> Laptop manufacturers (and clueless crony reviewers) say that the ram is soldered to make the laptop smaller, but units like the Framework clearly show this is bullshit. They're just doing it to stop you from extending the life is old hardware.

Totally! Also for on die/soldering being allegedly the only way around hardware issues "requiring" the RAM to be physically as close to the CPU as possible, Dell CAMM standard shows that there are other way!
I love this. I tried to get a small PoC working last week and encountered a bug on a very trivial case (rendering a python list to an unordered list element), so may be a bit early for my blood, but I'm excited to see how this project matures and will continue to follow along!
I think the whole notion of companies doing things "for the shareholders" is vastly overblown. Doesn't it make perfect sense on its own that YC realized the late-stage game was not working out, and that they were not going to be able to use those people effectively on other work?
> Big companies will invest without taking risk

Why do we think this is? Might it be because big companies would actually have to face consequences when big, dumb risks fail?

> research organizations and academia will take risks without investing

Not sure where you get this idea

> branches of government and political entities (in the U.S.) are famously bad at both (ex: healthcare.gov)

I'm not sure if healthcare.gov is a great example, since IT for the site was almost entirely run by private contractors. Before corporate lobbying was able to handcuff essentially any public innovation effort, the government routinely funded massively successful innovation projects (civilian aviation, the internet, microchips, satellites, AI, barcodes, touch screens - including the company bought by apple, nearly all devices and drugs/vaccines used in modern medicine, list could go on forever basically).

> Blame anticompetitive behavior all you want

I will, since once again, we've seen all of the alternatives be successful without nearly as many downsides.

> the current internet model favors VCs because R+D is cheap and quick

I'm not convinced. Largely the current model wins because it sidesteps regulations and gets away with anticompetitive, antisocial behavior and risky financialization under the guise of innovation. If it was true innovation, the world wouldn't be becoming a worse place every day that SV was essentially handed the keys. Our kids wouldn't be more depressed, climate change would be addressed, public health crises would be solved. What we have is a bunch of people scrambling trying to impress upon people that they have all the answers, when they do not.

I'm also not convinced that the answer to everything lies in the internet. Nearly all of our savings has gone to funding companies that do a thing that existed, but on the internet, rather than funding real innovation.
The bank (every single bank) pays the FDIC a fee on every insured bank account. The FDIC puts all that money into a bucket and pays out from it whenever a bank fails. They also have a line of credit with the Federal Reserve that they can draw on if the bucket isn't large enough.

So the FDIC pays out everybody up to $250k, closes the bank, liquidates the assets, and then pays out the balances above $250k until they run out of money.
Why wouldn't they? What's the worst case scenario? SVB blows up, the Fed halts hiking rates because of the fear they injected to the financial system, and they finally see the light at the end of the tunnel of rate hikes, because their entire grift is based on 0% interest rates. Sounds like a win-win to me.