skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a bit frustrating how much hate Electron gets but statically compiled languages are all the rage & general concensus is it's totally sweet.
> SVB had $45B withdrawals on their $175B deposit base. That is not a small amount of withdrawals.

Almost all of those withdrawals happened after the bank was insolvent.

SVB had to sell all of their available securities to cover day-to-day customer withdrawals (The problem with being the bank of choice for startups is that they aren't making any money, aren't getting any new investments, but are still spending money.)

The bank run started after SVB started dipping into its underwater long-term securities, and borrowing money, and doing emergency fundraising.

A more diversified bank (Like any of the big four) would avoid this problem, because their regular day-to-day activity would be a ~net-zero balance of withdrawals and deposits. SVB was uniquely vulnerable because of its undiversified customer base, where normal customer activity pushed it towards insolvency.
I was just taking issue with the "I can't". Perhaps I read that wrong, but it sounded like "It's not possible" to me. All I was saying is that it is, in fact, possible.

It may not be the right solution for you, but it's certainly a possible solution.
you shouldn't have to ask permission, let alone pay
windchill as a concept can be applied to all evaporative cooling systems.
This is why I liked Hydrogen Audio the best. If you ever made a claim about sound quality that didn’t include evidence of double-blind testing, you got banned from the site.
I do pay tax on interest, but given the gap between the interest rates it's still a preferential situation (my marginal rate is only 22%)
> If anything, I'd expect a crackdown on illegal labor practices here to result in funneling more money to criminal organizations (i.e., "the cartels") and tying the immigrant community more deeply with them. It really looks like a lose/lose proposition from where I sit.

Another potential outcome is that with the price of illegal labor practices increased legal labor would become competitive against illegal labor again. Which would probably increase the price of chicken, but would also mean that those working for Tyson legally would have a living wage again.
I commented elsewhere and mentioned that #1 is the path we took. That said, while we encountered next to no resistance on this policy from our family, we've found that in practice, my mother really thrives on #2, to the point where I'm confident that our broader family/friends group gets pictures directly from her and hardly bothers visiting my private gallery.
Photographers Are Buying Cameras on Amazon but Getting Cat Food Instead
> A responsible 'defense' would have the required surgeon general's warning on the tin.

I can buy rorsach cards now on Amazon. There's no health warning on those. Maybe there should be but I think we can accept that most people buying them will use them responsibly. It seems very knee jerk to put a warning on every single thing that could be harmful if misused.

> Therapeutic means are to address 'ailments'. The ailments in this case are existential and psychological. Projectives are dangerous and require guided initiation

I understand the meaning of therapy and the types of ailments that can be helped by the use of projectives.

If you buy a set of tarot cards they inevitably come with usage instructions so that you can use them successfully and responsibly.

I'm not sure the danger is as great as you suggest. Have you got data showing the harm of using these cards?

> We've been banging on the doors on paganism in the West for a few decades now. And here we are.

Tarot cards have no basis in paganism, they are the creation of well educated men in the 19th century.

> But your quick response here indicates you did not really reflect on what was said.

This was uncalled for. I read your post and responded to the points you made.
Oh wow, any way to do this on Android yet? That would be fun to tinker with, even if it's just the smaller model. Even my older Note 9 has 6GB.
Not necessarily. With good quality recording and speakers it's easy to hear things like a finger hitting a guitar string just before the string moves, lips touching a microphone, etc. I started noticing these things years ago when I first bought Blue Note recordings.
The service feed.ly, even its free version, seemed have implemented most of GReader's functionality. That said, somehow the vibe offered by GReader is gone, and I started to visit feed.ly less and less often.
Are you aware how close SVB was to being solvent after the bank run?

From the numbers I have seen, was in mild trouble but nowhere near insolvent before Thiel and those like him caused the bank run.
Good feedback. Working on clarifying how we message this. Thank you!
Are you considering following in the footsteps of Project Solar? I've received 20 quotes from other solar companies like Solar Run as well as local solar companies, and they're quoting me around $3-$6/watt. This price includes their sales commission. Project Solar, on the other hand, eliminates the middleman, allowing us to purchase their system for just $2.2/watt. Those $3-$6/watt quotes didn’t make long-term sense to us. Project Solar made financial sense to us.

As a VC-backed startup, it's worth checking out their business model.

This is a big deal because if you can beat the rates of your competitors and guarantee a quality workmanship, then that takes away the 100+ hours we spend on sourcing quotes and negotiating better prices.

Here’s a story about what happens when you DON’T spend 100+ hours sourcing multiple quotes. You end up with a $36,000 heater + air conditioning unit where the installer caused a leak to occur on on the second floor. We were so desperate for cold air that we didn’t have time to get 20 quotes, but the 5 other quotes we did get ranged from $48k to $64k.

If you can save us that 100+ hours of time and give us a cheaper deal while guaranteeing workmanship, then I’m sold.

We’re getting really really really tired of overly inflated prices and the negotiation process.
Oh, this is something I've been wondering about - I've had a 4K TV for years, but I don't think I've ever seen a 4K Bluray (I don't think I even know anyone who had a Bluray player).

Are you saying that streaming a movie (say a recent Marvel one) in 4K from Disney Plus will look noticeably less good than if I played the same movie from a Bluray player?

What about a Bluray torrent?
>Lately I have started to switch over to studio monitors.

A colleague on a Zoom call noticed I had audio equipment in my room, and excitedly asked what my headphone setup was. He didn't recognize the Sony MDR-7506 cans on my head, which were running out of a Focusrite audio interface that I use for multitrack recording. Sometimes I listen on my Yamaha MSP7 monitors. He went on to rattle off some absurdly expensive equipment that I forgot immediately upon Googling. I forget if his amp cost four figures or five figures.

I didn't have the heart to say: I'm just using what they use in recording studios.

I understand chasing fidelity, it's driven me to upgrade my own equipment over the years, but capital-a Audiophile stuff is kind of its own thing. People extracting outrageous amounts of money in return for a certain kind of marketing copy and bespoke physical presentation. It feels cynical to me, but it seems to be an ecosystem that exists on its own without much harm to the rest of the world.
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are options. I agree about avoiding Google.
As a vinyl enjoyer, the sound quality is absolutely not why I buy it. I also use film cameras, and image quality (meaning, definition, color accuracy, etc) is definitely not why I use it.
There definitely are those that fit your description, but they are a minority.
This is "stunt programming," similar to shooting an arrow into a target from horseback in a rodeo. It has little to do with the real-life business of real-life cowboys.

In this case it's using the type system to calculate the answer to a problem, which is not useful because the type system can't output anything to the console or do other IO. The "answer" will only be visible in your IDE.

The type system is powerful and extremely capable because it had to support existing javascript patterns, like "this function takes a parameter that might be a string or might be a number or might be an array" and make them type-safe.
>but I'm not buying it if I find out it won't work with a dry contact input.

But... why?
I had an insurance company that every year would stop paying anything at all and mail me a convoluted form claiming I had some other insurance that should be paying.

Every year I had to fill out the forms saying that I didn’t have any other insurance before they paid.

It felt like a straight up scam to get people to pay some bills that show up without realizing what was going on / receiving and returning the forms.
> is just patently wrong.

Not really, here's one I found in seconds, that I hadn't even seen yet - where they specifically remark on the similarities to AI networks:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add9330

> How can we confidently state that the sun isn't alive when we don't ourselves know what life is? I mean, it's got different layers like a cell. It has a source of energy, a lifecycle and it eventually dies.

Well, I've learned from your previous comment you're not agreeing with me, but here's another instance I'd have thought you might be.

These are exactly the kinds of questions we should pose and explore. Are such a massive, complex, long-lasting sequences of nuclear processes "alive" or potentially intelligent? Might they have a detectable consciousness?

What are we but a vast sequence of chemical and electrical processes? In that sense, not much different.

(Science has indeed so far rather arbitrarily defined "alive", and this shows in some of the more controversial categories of "life", such as viruses.)

> I'll just say this - if you really want to believe you're a brain floating in space, why don't you live life like it's GTA?

I've never stated that, I've posed a relevant, important philosophical question I think lies at the centre of the issue of whether or not an AI can be considered to "hallucinate". As was the topic. Your response seems to be "no", and that's fine.
The net positive is disrupting the space for emerging markets with the incent-er's rather clearly being focused AGAINST THAT.

You are targeted away from INDIA etc. markets that are mainly cooling. But I support your wanting to improve the thermostat for variable speed and also provide design room for the buyer into higher efficiency by oversizing and controlling accordingly.

What bothers me is your premise that outdoor air can address indoor pollution. You need to offer other filter case options and be drop in for new or existing construction leasing it to incent cost engineering pollution elimination in the lived in envelope.

Also you should offer body climate control not just "air". One company takes this seriously, for uncontrolled worker neck contact, and only leases! Fujitsu does not even lease in Most english speaking or even European etc. Handful of countries.
Thanks. It’s a startup of about 100-150 people.
The Waves of Research Practice
First -- good luck with this!

> Purchasing experience, we'll connect you with a local contractor, arrange financing and help with rebates.

Hopefully constructive feedback: I replaced 2 of our residential furnaces within the last few years, in two separate transactions with two different vendors. I can say that this pitch doesn't resonate as an improvement because vendors already make this turnkey.

You call a furnace/air conditioning company, they come out and recommend a unit. You sign their financing thing, they come out the next day and install. I interacted with a single primary person (on-site) at each company. Cost aside, it's actually one of the more pleasant buying experiences of any major home improvement.

Finally, I can tell you who installed the ($$$$$) units but I definitely could not tell you who made them. Branding might be tough unless you do the installs yourself.
> you would be able to access all your funds

How fast and how?

You might consider providing a "living will" document that keeps your clients up-to-date on where the $$$ are and how they access them. If I'm using something like this I would want to be sure I can make payroll the day after you vanish.

(Not a potential customer or cash management expert, prioritize accordingly.)
It is already being done. Go look at any relevant TikTok hashtag about making a living online and they are either selling courses or templates on how you can do the same thing.
The problem is that the company is blatantly trying to undermine the labor protections and quality of life my ancestors fought hard for.
Most cyclists in London are doing over 20mph, even on pavements. They're oh so very important and in a hurry, you see.

I once saw a racing bike (rider was in lycra racing gear like he was in the Tour de France, sigh), go through the pedestrian crossings at the junction at Bank at well over 40mph. If people hadn't noticed him and held back he could have hurt dozens of people.

And yes, somebody sprinting at you is scary, but you won't have to deal with wheels, chains and a metal frame - just another skeleton dressed in muscle, fat and skin coverings.
>> Responses on par with txt-DaVinci-3

What is "on par" and how is it measured?
> Importantly, we have not yet fine-tuned the Alpaca model to be safe and harmless. We thus encourage users to be cautious when interacting with Alpaca, and to report any concerning behavior to help improve the safety and ethical considerations of the model.

Thanks but I would prefer you don't start injecting your "safeness" to gimp it. Or at least provide it as an alternative.
Mini splits aren't ducted (generally the air handler is mounted high up on a wall). They are great for spot heating.
We already knew these were bad people from the fact that they use the name to confuse. After that, this is no surprise.

What surprises me is how long most people take to pick up on the pattern. They see person X do bad thing, shocked. Then they see same person X do a different bad thing, shocked again.

I say arrest the executives and charge them with fraud. Hopefully that will send a message.
I’m hoping for something far smaller than a car. A couple shopping bags or three pizzas in a very fast tiny delivery vehicle.
> How many HN readers are going to read this and think why not give it a try myself?

I did but then saw what it cost — from the comments and not the website.

I really want to get a heat pump for the “free” AC, lived in Phoenix too long I guess. The problem is (aside from not making Silicon Valley wages) justifying spending those prices on a house I got for $15k.

Well, and I’ve seen too many SV startups do a very bad job looking outside the bubble they live in and go away as soon as products end up in the hands of real people.
3-5x is an exaggeration. Recent EU study put it at 1x-3x depending on the temperature outside, with <1x or even inability to work at all at coldest temps (under -15C or so). Maybe 2x is a good average in practical use. Not 4x.
Thank you, this is a very poetic way of describing my meaning.
I moved from a pressure cooker to an air fryer and a sous vide cooker. They work together nicely, the air fryer crisping up my sous vide cooked food. Instant has nicely designed offerings in all three categories and I've owned several of them. At one point I owned and used an Instant version of all three together.

But I don't any more, because they are as cheaply made as most of the offerings out there, and didn't last long. The sous vide cookers in particular only lasted a few months on a 100% duty cycle. The rubber parts of the air fryer tray fall right off and disappear down the drain when you wash it.

So, nice designs, mediocre execution, reasonable prices, in a very competitive marketplace. It's a tough dogpile to stay on top of.
Python has always struggled with distribution maintainers that just don’t get it.

Python barely survived becoming the default scripting language on Red Hat and other Linux distros which was a major obstruction to the Python 3 transition. If the new cohort of pandas and scikit-learn users had not been such a force of nature we”d be talking today about Python the way we do about Perl.

Not installing venv is a serious crime on the part of Debian as beginners don’t need any more excuse to trash their system with site-local directories and other wrong answers for how to manage packages in Python.
> we provide a hosted service in the insurance industry.

its right in the second line of the comment
>Mayor Adams to New York City Shoppers: Drop That Mask

https://archive.ph/qjycV
Same issue here, found anything good?
I expect these funds would have been available Monday, but I'm not a cash flow management expert and don't know the mechanics of how sweeps work.
Latest Stable Release - 1.25.9 (Saturday February 19, 2022)
Yeah I wish these companies would “get it” but they never do.

Provide an open API with the option to use a cloud service. Some cloud services are great, and have way better UIs than the self hosted stuff which I would gladly pay for. But take away the option to go self hosted and I lose all interest. If a device can’t be controlled locally you don’t really “own” it, you’re just renting it from someone else.
>From Ukraine's perspective, yes! From Russia's perspective, no! (Russia has invaded not Ukraine)

This is some premium-quality BS right here. You're mistaking disinformation for a sincerely held perspective. But as pointed out, when the armoured columns are over the border and halfway to Kiev, then you can't really pretend that it's not an invasion, and expect to be believed. We're not buying it, and you should be ashamed of trying to sell it.
Ukrainian startup Uspacy has entered the international markets
Ukrainian b2b-startup Uspacy has announced its entry into the international markets.

Entrepreneurs who already understand the need to manage company processes can find many tools to help them with it. But the problem is that people don't really want to use many different products — they want to use all tools in one product.

Uspacy is an online service, a single digital workspace for organizing the daily processes of small and medium-sized companies which are: modern communication in a team, people operations, collaboration, tasks, business processes and CRM.

Registration is available at addresses uspacy.com and uspacy.eu.
When finally an AI will become sentient and gets access to all our infrastructure, it won't need to nuke us, it won't need to wage war with us. It will just locate everybody who is trying to fight it and block their credit cards, Internet access and repossess their cars.
There are a whole lot of Japanese who dispute this position, and I find it reasonable to wear masks now when there’s a good chance I’ll sniffle or sneeze. The mask keeps the goo that results under better control than my hand or arm did pre covid and I don’t have to worry about exchanging a mask like shaking hands previously.

Call it politeness but I’m comfortable being polite to others. Doesn’t diminish my self worth.
> people want to live in places because there are restrictions on building

This is a very strong claim that I would love to see even a smidgen of evidence for.

And I don’t mean “people complain about density at local planning meetings” — that a vocal minority of residents don’t want their own individual neighborhoods to change is not a surprise, but it’s also not the case that most of those people move when density increases are approved.
If you Photoshop the penis out, there would be nothing remarkable about the cover. It was child exploitation as a marketing gimmick.

I think the Scorpions did something similar with putting an underage girl on the Virgin Killer album, but that may have been non-photographic (not looking it up).

Decades later, Nirvana is still a topic of discussion because of it (and still earning royalties), while the kid in question whose image is used in perpetuity gets told to pound sand because he missed an arbitrary deadline.

We don't need to exploit children as a form of creative expression. We just don't. Depravity is not cultural enrichment.
This actually sounds like it could be a nice mid-range product. For lots of money, you can get a fancy motherboard and enclosure that routes a ton of CPU PCIe lanes direct to the NVMe drives. This ends up with a lot of performance per unit storage, which one might not want.

With a card like this, one can get a ton of high-speed (much better than SATA but not as fast as direct NVMe) storage in a regular machine.
I think this is pretty common practice. I get a letter every single year to verify that I dont have any other insurance and they will stop processing claims until I do it. I typically just do the IVR and its only a couple of minutes.
Same. I wish this was the default (don't post pics of me without my consent), but unfortunately it's not. People just expect that everyone wants to be blasted all over social media, and they get butt-hurt when I ask them to remove pics of me.

- Hey, thanks for inviting me to your wife's birthday party. I had a lot of fun. But could you please remove my pic from your Facebook post?

- Why did you show up in the first place? OR You're in a lot of the pics; I can't remove all of them. OR Are you too good to be seen in pics with my wife and her friends? OR Are you hiding from the law? Did you murder someone?
> ...I'm an old computer science guy and would love to write software again. I can write plenty of functionality in Python but I don't really want to learn all the JS stuff...

Back in early 2000s, i used to be more of a front-end dev...but over the years of being more of a manager (or PM or product manager) i stepped away from daily development...So, you know, I lost my touch. But a few years ago when i tried to dip back into things again, i got turned off from needing to "learn all the JS stuff". It feels all so bloated and so much work for what to me seems minimal gain. Nowadays, i much prefer back-end development (not that iots easy, but maybe it just clicks more for me without so much JS stuff)...so when i see frameworks like this one, i get more interested.
it doesn't translate. there is a thing called "manual j" calculation, that take into consideration size of house, orientation, insulation, number of rooms. windows in each room, type of windows, appliances, a bunch of other parameters and then how many people live in house. topped of with required temperature inside during winter/summer and outside temperature during winter/summer.
after this you get unit sizing
Even as a Mac user it can get a bit much.
Title is wrong.

It actually says "silly valley..."
Thanks. It would have been clearer to have omitted the decimals.
Trip length has more to do with stops and average speed rather than frequency, that is unless you are making transfers.

Trimet is competitive in downtown once you account for time spent looking for parking. The max is also pretty good when compared to rush hour traffic on the freeways.
Other favorites:
* "Influencers"/Photographers selling their "Lightroom presets"
* People who travel full time selling guides on how to make a living traveling full time.
What's a reasonable price for you ?
I ran this on my intel i7-7700k with 32 gig ram. It ran very slow. Almost 1 word per second slow. Not sure if I did something wrong.
Distro Ubuntu 22.04
I have seen a .NET project that did something similar to this, it was called Bridge. That was 8 years ago no sure if it's still available.
We got the grandparents Aura smart frames. It's trivial to add photos and short videos. They get to see a new pic of the kid almost every day.

As soon as anyone visits their house, they immediately see recent pics of the kid.

It's been a big winner.