skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tbf 99% of other companies are still doing that, just not in the open.

It's a business, their goal is to make money. I kind of like that they're willing to let everyone see into the nitty gritty details of how they do that.
Socialism is not a great ideology if it's applied indiscriminately, but at least it has useful real world applications in some areas.

Libertarianism on the other hand is hardly even an ideology, but based on the ill-conceived notion that if we purposely make no collective effort to have a better society, it will somehow magically fall into place for us.

If libertarianism was a software project methodology, it would be the one where you just lock a bunch of programmers into an office with some computers and let them fend for themselves.
Lidar I believe can be heavily affected by weather and might also require a lot of expensive sensors. It works great for VFX work when you need a precise model of an area. But I would guess the refresh rate is also not amazing.

I live near Waymo and see the cars all the time - they do have huge things on top but the weather in Santa Monica is also very good. Not sure if I have seen them ever driving in the rain?
This really misses the mark. They compete with free also, which is always nothing.

Github by comparison lets me pay like 5$/mo for LFS and 4$/mo for a team of one, bitbucket even lets you do up to 5 users for a total of 15$/mo , gitlab has nothing like that :(
Git Forge Apps: Why Git forges are serverless computing providers
The main purpose of work registration was to allow children under 16 to have part-time jobs while having some mechanism to make it harder for industrial producers to abuse children. We developed these common-sense laws over many decades of horrific labor conditions for children and it worked well. The question I would ask is: why were these laws just fine in many states for decades, and why suddenly now (in the midst of an industrial labor shortage) do they need to be changed?

My guess is that industrial plants are desperate for labor, and have been routinely breaking the law to employ vulnerable (most migrant) child laborers. Since this sort of abuse is precisely what the laws were designed to protect against, these firms couldn’t pass the work permit requirements: and having these laws in place made it easier for state and federal agencies to investigate and hold those companies to account. Now these powerful interests have bought themselves some new laws that protect them from being held accountable.

People should be horrified about this, frankly. There are similar laws advancing in Iowa that also remove these protections for meat plants, and also eliminate liability if children are killed. It reversed decades of human progress, all so a few powerful producers can make a tiny amount of additional profit.
Man, total amateur hour. A layoff post without talking about how it's the hardest thing the CEO has ever done, or saying the responsibility lies with me? No mention of how deep he cares about those departing? And delivered on a Monday? Why didn't they use ChatGPT to compose this like everyone else?
If there is a future for crypto it is in the cyberpunk/pirate zone. The idea the institutional investors thought they could make a buck off all these folks is hilarious. Even in their delusional unrealized apotheosis the crypto/web3 crowd was building the anti Facebook. I think all the web3 investment was horrible BS and crypto is not a place for venture investing. If it has a future at all it should embrace the drug dealing ponzi scheming tax evading ransomwaring heart of itself. It’s not chase bank, it’s the Medellin cartel.
A lot of the tradition of passive voice comes from lawyers because you can’t always say somebody was fired or transferred or laid off. There can be different standards of local employment law for different employees. Passive voice can be the least risky of defamation or expressing favoritism to those who didn’t get cut.

That said, it’s abhorrent to see YC cling to tradition here, especially in light of the industry-wide layoffs as well as just how insanely rich YC is versus the headcount at question here. This is absolutely a place to question tradition and seek progress.

And also yeah maybe even own the consequences.
Fractional banking has been a driving feature of capitalist growth for several centuries now.

As to "exceptions", there isn't any exception here. Standard practice in every bank collapse after IndyMac has been that depositors (including uninsured depositors) are made whole. It's just not something the FDIC will commit to because they don't want to commit to making depositors whole and be on the hook if an obviously risky and disreputable bank collapses and depositors want their money back.
The FTC is also increasingly looking into dark patterns and is at least fining people for them, maybe worth submitting there as well as the Stanford Dark Patterns Tip Line so it gets more notoriety

https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/#/
https://darkpatternstipline.org/
As someome pointed out, even 99% packet loss on a modern network wont affect the stream. I've actually seen (unfortunely) 100mbit "working" with cat3 (phone) ribbon cable... For short distances (<10m), it wont even reach 10% packet loss.
And players buffer. Always.
Sound like no one even knew it was a thing, which also might explain that nobody used it.
Ah yes, the conclusion the terribly government run health care system is that it's the private industry's fault and we should give that same inept institution more power over our medical care.

Makes total sense.

Everything costs something, it's just a matter of who you force that cost on to.
I'm going to say it: news articles are bad (and always have been) and AI will make it better.

The problem is that they usually provide too much context, or not nearly enough. So you either get bored reading it, or don't have the right information to know what's really going on. ie, it's not personalized.

Let's take the stuff going on with SVB right now. Your typical news article is going to start with new information, provide some additional context briefing the reader on how it happened, then go further into depth on what the new info its providing, or just ramble on with additional filler. But the reader doesn't know if its going to actually provide more useful info to them. And that's an actually interesting and complex story. How many news articles do you come across thats pretty much all filler, especially on social media?

AI would make articles interactive. "Tell more more about fractional banking", "does the Fed's statement mean this is a bailout?", "what does this mean for the broader economy?", "what are economists/politicians saying about the government's actions?" are all questions you could ask and get reasonable responses.
Was fully expecting this PDF to be a one-line reference to itself.
The law of supply and demand expects the marginal cost of each additional fish to be more expensive. What if it's not. What if it costs the same amount of money to catch fish until you catch the very last fish. Suddenly the price of fish jumps from $.03/fish to infinity. Some sort of quota system has to be implemented and enforced to not come to such an abrupt halt on a market like that. Fish is one thing, at least there are alternatives, but peak oil, or peak natural gas are going to be, barring some technological mitigation, catastrophic to our modern way of life.
This problem seems foreign to me. Are your teaming not using Laravel?
If not maybe it's time to upgrade.
https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/eloquent
Oh! That must have been it, thank you. I'm not very familiar, I just knew the cables were cat6 and cat5. Thought it might have something to do with the shielding.

Looking over the product page, it's marked as S/FTP
Awesome work! Really cool.

What's the short of why manual refresh is needed?
Just tried it, that's a pretty great idea for use of AI in a simulated situation.

Also, even after some simple use, it seems like this simulator could be helpful in comparing possible jobs. E.g. you can compare the types of questions you might get from two different jobs, and see which job might technically be a better fit just based on the questions.

Thanks for sharing, it seems like a really helpful resource and you've done a nice job.
A bank that had a rather cavalier approach to a particular class of risks that the founders and VCs benefited from personally (mortgages, personal loans and other wealth management services at highly discounted rates).
I’ve hope this is helpful, but our robotics start up is still hiring for multiple roles, head of product marketing, senior mobile engineer, data/ml engineer, solutions engineer, etc.! If you are interested to talk, email me at hazal@viam.com
I don't know of any ORM that handles schema changes automatically (edit: for the most strict definition of "automatically" -- I've used ORMs that generate migration files and am generally happy with them).

My experience here is quite limited, so I'm inclined to defer to yours. With that caveat, I find that ORMs play more nicely with my IDE (e.g. I can rename a column name and automatically update all call sites) and often raise early warnings if their declarative classes are out of sync with the underlying table schema.
InputOutput: Simple Web Tools
At the risk of being trite, your comment did make me think of the line from the end of The Lorax:

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
Even Salesforce has some NFT feature: https://www.salesforce.com/products/web3/nft/
Do you work with the FTC?

I also agree though, 1) can't hurt, 2) the FTC is actively going after folks who are using dark patterns

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/09/...
Nope, Gigachad is exactly correct. If you want to make money as an artist you have to make stuff that other people want to buy. If you only make art that speaks to your unique soul then the market may consist of only yourself.

This is hardly a new phenomenon. Artists today have more ways of getting paid than ever, but it is still a buyers market.
The next paragraph says:

> Additionally, organizations may have their own billing information associated with the org itself. They can use this to sponsor the accounts of their members, allowing the billing for a tightly coupled group of users (e.g. staff members at a company or organization) to have
access to centralized billing. Through this they can meet the 50% requirement without having individual members pay up.

So companies can do the usual thing of paying for a bunch of accounts for their users. It's just that individuals can also form organisations without having to set up collective billing.
Depositors would have lost up-to $X - 250000, not 10%.

SVB is down ~10% but that doesn't mean everyone would have actually been made whole from the money.
We are working on improving the performance, we are still pretty new but there are a few different ways we can speed state updates up. For state updates like pressing the counter a lot of times it can been seen, we will improve this.
> Most of us understand the necessity of hard decisions.

Do we? Because you suggested that they could have not fired them.
And I must say that Typescript has the most flexible variation of it. I remember a while ago (> 10 years) that somebody on Lambda the ultimate asked how to flexibly represent compiler intermediate representations using the Scala type system, given that there can be many of them with overlaps. These overlaps are not a problem at all in Typescript.
Backup Guide – how to secure crucial data
agreed, many language features have trade offs or limited usefulness, but after years in the profession I feel that sum types are something every language should have.
At the root of the issue was that they where not solvent when bonds where valued at market-to-market, but you don't really care about that when you are intending to hold the bonds to maturity. They where solvent when bonds where valued at maturation rates. The latter valuation is what you traditionally calculate and use in banking, the prior only becomes relevant if there is a run on the bank and you have to liquidate immediately to cover, which is of cause what happened.

The great comedy of the situation is that if everyone had been calm and said "hmm, they need to raise some capital lets see what happens" SVB might have had a bad quarter or two, but they wouldn't have gone bankrupt. They only went down because the startup community reaction to hearing "we need to raise capital to cover day to day liquidity requirements" was to initiate an immediate flash run on the bank, which meant they where forced to sell all those bonds at a discounted market-to-market rate instead of holding them to maturity as was the expectation.
Then why didn't they borrow it?

People keep screaming "illiquidity not insolvency" as if bankers of all people didn't know what a loan is.

The answer, of course, is that no one was willing to loan them money due to solvency issues
A Humanism of the Abyss
There's a lot of poor engineering fundamentals among some HVAC salespeople and some websites as well as some sloppy writing.

The delta-T that is correctly cited as being "around a max of 20°F" is the delta in temperature across the evaporator (IOW between the return duct and the supply duct [aka the goes-inta and the goes-outta]). It's not the delta-T between the outside air and inside air.

With good enough insulation and/or enough cooling, you can get whatever delta-T you want as is obviously the case with refrigerators and freezers.
This is different problem though: contractors just don't want to do small jobs since it doesn't make economic sense to them. Try to hire someone to paint single room or install single outlet, etc. and you'll see it is nearly impossible.

Thus the bill for the small job is outrageously high.
Bad timing, since there's a rumor that Midjourney v5 has mostly fixed the hand and teeth problems.
> How these commands change if I want to build the project with sanitizers? What do you mean the sanitizers are not supported by the build process? Why the build script suddenly started printing linker errors?

Doesn't Rust require you to switch to nightly to use sanitizers?
It's not just humans, I've had trouble generating appendages for other creatures and also machines like robots. Dragons with missing wings and seven legs, robots with feet that have feet that have feet. Stuff like that. So far the best technique I've found is to fix in retouch photos, or to hide their hands by e.g. prompting characters to have their hands behind their backs.
So they were having trouble getting money into the bank?

I'd like to understand how all these startups came to use SVB in the first place and what part the VCs played in that. I've seen people here say that they were required to bank exclusively with SVB, did the VCs encourage those terms? The story doesn't look that great if Thiel told them to put the money there before he told them to take it out all at once.
Tech companies should understand the risks with banks the same way banks need to understand tech risks. If a bank got ransomwared because they left the password to their webserver root/root no one in tech would ask "what did they do wrong?".
Just found out Intel killed Optane (announced 2nd Aug 2022) :-(
Please give your definition of capitalism because it feels a little muddled itself.
I know nothing about this so my opinion means little, but I imagine it's hard to know which parameters are important enough to use more bits for.

I do wonder if it would be possible to have the model determine during training how important each parameter is, while maybe rewarding it for having more small parameters?
The closest thing I'm aware of is the Stanford group that took over the Dark Patterns Tip Line

https://darkpatternstipline.org/
SVB was a bank that mostly served corporate operations accounts for tehc nad healthcare startups and small businesses. People were not banking there for high returns. This is not at all about risky investments (ffs the bank liquidity crunch came from long term bonds being too illiquid -- not exactly exotic asset management). The accounts impacted are mostly payroll, daily operating accounts (for expenses/manufacturing expenses/real estate lease payments etc).

The bank managers and investors are not being bailed out -- they have already lost everything.

You seem to be attaching some kind of anger for some ill conceived and non existant "happy go lucky risk wall street bet" type of activity, when this is about buisnesses losing their operating accounts who did nothing wrong except for have accounts at this bank instead of the next bank over.
>Cool, now do socialism.

I didn’t “do” libertarianism? I recommended a book that I found interesting that’s related to the topic of the article that this discussion thread is in response to.

Socialism has been brought up a couple times in response to my book recommendation and I’m a little confused by that. Is the assumption that the reporter that spent years meticulously researching, interviewing, and documenting the factual record of events is a socialist? Am I a socialist for having read it?

Is this like an amish thing where everybody outside of the orthodox group is called “english”?

Anyway, it’s a good book and I stand by my recommendation!
Does this REQUIRE the use of a smartphone and the app? Or can it be controlled from the unit itself?

Generally I hard pass on any device that does not have at least some basic manual controls itegrated into the unit itself (or an offline dedicated controller perhaps that wires to it). A phone app is great for controlling things away from home or setting up more advanced features like schedules and alarms but especially for a home appliance that is meant to last a long time (with installation costs) the last thing I want is reliance on a mobile device.

My ideal version of this in order of most important to least important:

1. Oldschool hardware thermostat / control knob (rotary knobs are cool and very reliable long term!) built into the thermostat itself or a port on the unit itself to wire up one of these also sold by the same company. If the unit requires a bit of intelligence to run the heat pump properly from a simple thermostat and control knob then that would be needed to be integrated into the firmware itself of the unit (or the hardware thermostat / knob).

2. Modern support for WiFi or Ethernet and fancy features through an app that communicates directly with the unit while on the home network or through the Cloud while away (Cloud could have additional features). API access is always cool for the nerds + easy GUI with visual programmable features for the power users that are not programmers.

3. Included instructions that any competent electrician can follow if any additional electrical wiring is needed (say if wires need to be a thicker guage or there needs to be more than 2 or if certain aftermarket thermostats need special wiring)

4. Easily replaceable filter by the end user + physical reset button built into the unit itself (in case some kind of protection is tripped). And ideally also a few easily user accessible parts (say like replacing a fuse or relay). The more standardized parts the better (such as filter sizes).

5. Guarantee certain number of years of updates (and phone version compatiblities) and also try to guarantee backwards compatiblity (in some way) with older devices (to some extent).

6. When the app / software finally does cease to be updated release either source code or some way for third parties to continue work customizing / updating the system for old or newer devices or niche systems.

7. Dedicated smart device or remote made specifically to work with this that provides all of the functions the phone app does but in a very simple to use, reliable way. This could be a stripped down android device (could be a very cheap model) or something more like an oldschool remote control with physical buttons and a simple black and white tiny OLED.
Now that algorithm has become a snarl word, what word can serve as a suitable replacement? So that computer scientists can talk about algorithms, without people getting triggered that they're talking about the algorithm.
Reddit page converted to text only. Headline claim checks out. Would be even cooler if this were just in the browser, that you could link someone to web0.cc/#url and it would do the computation client-side, not needing any queueing system and (depending on CORS headers) slightly more privacy-friendly.

Given that it now has queueing, server-side processing, and forever-links, clearly there's computing power and storage behind it. What will this cost to run? Would I not risk ads being shown when we start to use this frequently?
Startups were in fact able to withdraw large amounts of money from SVB. That's why it collapsed, they did this to the tune of 42 billion, and lots of the pending transfers completed.
Medicare Advantage plans are run by private companies. I think you might be confusing Medicare Advantage with traditional Medicare.
It wasn't killed in favor of Google+. It was killed because nobody wanted to work on it and nobody wanted to fund it.

Reader had been running on a shoestring budget for years with only one or two engineers. It was beginning to show its cracks, and at the time there was a giant push to move to Kennedy (the UI design pattern with whitespace everywhere and one or two red buttons). There weren't enough engineers to do that migration and solve some of the underlying problems.

Nobody wanted to work on it because there wasn't anything in it you could use for promo. "Kept Reader running" on your perf packet would get you a Meets Expectations at best. It might be seen negatively by some. To get a promo you needed big sexy new features. And at the time there was a promo factory that was sucking up all of the prime engineers (cough Google+ cough). It was also popular among employees, and there was a "Save Reader" campaign, but nobody cared enough to actually try to transfer in.

No director wanted it either. It wasn't profitable. It wasn't driving traffic to other Google properties. It was basically a money sink and nobody wanted to be tied to it as a failure.

Source: I was on Google+ (it was a promo factory). My team worked on a number of features that were meant to be used by third parties to tie into Plus. One of those was the comments system. Before the Google+ YouTube comment debacle there were plans to offer that comment system directly to third parties (similar to Disqus). We pitched Google+ taking over Reader and using it as a proving ground for that comment system. As a side bonus, blogs that signed on would already have a (hopefully) vibrant comment history. Management didn't see the value. Google+ comments rolled out to YouTube, it was a disaster, and all those lines of code were lost in time, like tears in rain.
You may be educating others on this topic, but you're not educating me. No one runs resistive electric heaters in Maine. Is that common in California? Is that why the startup above is comfortable saying "it's 3-5 times more efficient than [my] current furnace?"

Air source heat pumps are very popular here. We have two. They are great technology, but they are not a panacea. The majority of the electricity we generate comes from natural gas in New England because we don't have access to amazing renewables like is available in California. Also, they are a point heating source, so many folks who retrofit end up buying 3-4 of them to get full coverage in old poorly insulated homes. If the product above is $12k, we're getting into $36k-$48k which is almost double the cost of installing a ground source heat pump which is vastly more efficient during the winter compared to an air source.

This further proves my point: the startup above is clearly looking at this problem from a California context. They should get that under control immediately because the realities in the rest of the country will be shocking to them once they have to take customer calls outside their mediterranean climate.