skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as I agree with you about the silliness of the C-suite, the job of "head of risk" is an important position at a bank because they:

1. Keep people hired for their greed honest (in terms of creating their models), and

2. Keep track of "soft" risks that can't be tracked by models well and tail risk that is underpriced by models (ie keep track of the nebulous concept of "modeling risk").

In opposition to the rest of the senior executives - who encourage greed and actively ignorance of "soft" risks to make more money.
Assuming this is true, wasn't it the bailing out of the banks a major factor in the need for austerity?
How about this.. China tries anything, and we repatriate Chinese-owned real estate in the western world, and give it to the displaced Taiwanese people.
Congrats on well running business (with or without the gym). Many strive to be in that situation.

There's specialized services which give you a loan based on MRR. Streamlined, focussed on SaaS, some even connect directly to a Stripe account. I can't find the right search engine terms right now, maybe https://www.saas-capital.com/our-approach but I seem to remember a different website. That might be an alternative to an investor.
Seems like AI type work is more memory constrained than per-core performance constrained.
Weirdness? `require` was Node weirdness because Javascript lacked imports/exports at the time. The ES6 syntax is remarkably better, allows imports to be async, and doesn't need to run the code to see what should be assigned to `module.exports` allowing it to be statically analyzed which allows tree-shaking. Node's CJS syntax will only work for Node requiring that you transpile and bundle it for browsers. The ES6 syntax will work for Node and the browser.

I see anyone sticking with CJS syntax the same way I see Python devs who continue writing 2.7 code by choice in new projects and not because they are maintaining older projects.
Venture debt is a thing. I worked for a startup that had a loan through SVB ... so I don't think you're quite correct, though I don't know how common those loans were.
Meta has done the calculus and it's not worth it for them to pay for news sharing.
It's been entirely media driven since 2018 on the topic. Nobody cared about China before then, and they wouldn't care now if it weren't for the constant hype.

Anyone recall even seeing the acronym "CCP" in print before 2018 or so? Then suddenly it's ubiquitous and everyone knows it.
It's about the same tier as BI dashboards. Huge breadths of data you don't produce but are nevertheless accountable for. All your stakeholders can easily stream-of-consciousness rattle off dozens of new metric/feature ideas or questions about the feature/metric values they're seeing over the course of 45 seconds, each one taking you tens of hours eyeballs deep in SQL to even begin to answer.
That isn't true. The Ryukyus are right next door to Taiwan, and that is where much of America's strength in East Asia is. The reason the USA is not in Taiwan is simply that they don't need to be.
And a lack of retail banking is correlated with the percentage of all depositors who have more than $250k, which is correlated with susceptibility to bank runs.
Some members of my family (back in the day) used to be laid off from positions seasonally, and were then rehired the next year.

I suspect that in its early versions, it referred more to the notion that "we won't have any more work until the spring, so we'll see you then."

I don't know its etymology or when it might have been coopted by employers who didn't intend to rehire, but I suspect its intent is to signal that there's no ill will between the employer and the employee, and that it WOULD rehire those impacted persons in the future.

I'm not as sure that it means anything so specific now.
Because spreading risk across multiple banks is an intended feature of the insurance limit, and reduces overall risk to the banking sector.
I just love to watch this play out.
It's not, unless you're pointedly telling your daughter she's a "dirty" Southron and should be ashamed because her skin color matches the descriptors in LOTR.

I wouldn't be surprised though because this does seem to be the modern leftist agenda, to turn every brown person into a victim incapable of helping themselves.

Maybe explain to your daughter it's based on Nordic mythology and turn it into a positive history lesson. OH! And you could tell her that her skin color really isn't the most important thing about her. Just a thought.
> > tech startups often come with a massive amount of money that they immediately want to put in the bank

But this is not true, the startup is nothing but an empty box with just a handful of dollars in the account in the very beginning. They are not that different compared with a gas station or a mom&pop shop you mentioned. That is until it gets the first VC investment.

Although there are millions of startups, there are only about 2000 VC funds in the US, for sure the banks look at the sender and even if the check is in the millions they'd know it's legit because of the sender which is known and famous , and it's also known to make wire transactions in the millions to finalize their equity investment
Bummed as well. Just got into fishing a few years ago. Was going to get a fishing kayak this spring for catching salmon off the coast but now I guess I'll wait.
Agreed. I don't have much Rust experience, but I do know Scala and Haskell and Typescript.

It's one of those patterns that just comes up again and again and it's wonderful when the language offers a good solution.
It's the city councils...ours is criminal. All of them.
To add to sci-fi examples, Surrogates https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986263/
I am not trying to be snarky or play gotcha games. I am pointing out that the Amish lifestyle is an artifact of American society and would not be possible in many other parts of the world. They are playing life in such an easy mode that they decided to have self-imposed restrictions. The electric grid is one of humanities greatest achievement, one that many places unfortunately still can not afford to build.

And more generally I am criticizing the fetishization of self-reliance in its many forms (preppers, bunker builders, gun ownership, etc.) that is so popular with some people. It is a fundamentally nearsighted privilege by selectively ignoring other forms of reliance. Self reliance is not an attitude of resilience, it is one of isolation, selfishness and ruthless competition.

It is precisely the goals for which people came together in cooperation that are humanities greatest achievements. Cooperation and interdependence are higher moral virtues.
I wonder what the revenue per employee of YC is. 85 employees, with 1/6 companies unicorns (though some of that is paper valuations, but still huge returns).
Seeing a lot of anti-free speech comments like this. This isn't even about supporting an asshole who claims "free speech." This is information with a certain tone, so are you anti-information with someone that has a certain tone?
What about the taxpayer-funded CBC?
Well technically you do consent to sharing your information with reporting agencies every time you interact with a lender or issuer. I realize this is a technicality as we are essentially forced to do this in order to interact with the US primary financial system.

It's probably worth pointing out the alternative to centralized, reasonably deterministic credit reporting is basically hard dings (e.g. known missed payments) & bank statements and income. This locks credit availability even more directly to your wealth and income position. Credit reports, at least, are a broader model of behavior whose inputs are well understood and relatively easy to track with free apps like Credit Karma & other competitors.
Oh look I found one of the "Rings of Power" writers.
24V controls: Any inverter heat pump will run best with a communicating thermostat. We can make efficiency sacrifices to run the system on 24V controls, but it would not be my recommended setup.

Refrigerants: this is largely dictated by compressor availability. At this point it looks like R454B is the winner (GWP 467)

You're right about new construction builders wanting whatever is cheapest. They don't bear the cost of ownership, so there's very little incentive to go for efficient equipment. Doing replacements on oil is great! The monthly savings when moving from electric resistance, propane and fuel oil are huge.

Connectivity - system runs fine standalone without any internet connection.

If you decide to get in the heat pump game come say hi at the next AHR expo!
> It'll happen to yooouuu!

As a teen I teased my dad for no longer being the rail-thin fighter pilot of his early photos. He laughed and said, you wait, kid — and sure enough ....

EDIT: Back then I was pretty "buff" from manual labor. Fast forward to maybe 20 years ago: My then-teenaged son saw a video (my late dad's home movies, digitized) of me, shirtless, during that era. Artlessly, my son blurted: Wow, Dad, what happened?
the crypto tech cycle was one of the stupidest things a bunch of supposedly smart people bought hook line and sinker in a REALLY long time. The sweaty FOMO was incredibly real for something that never withstood an even cursory amount of scrutiny.
Its still bs. You have stuff like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avionics_Full-Duplex_Switche... already. For audio in a home setup? If your problem is arp or latency, you seriously barfed your setup (bear in mind you can actually use direct crossover configurations to deliver at least 100mbps, more than enough for many uncompressed high-bitrate streams). Audiophile is a niche market with many people with more money than brains, that more often than not, dont really understand tech.
ChatGPT was the catalyst that there is market demand and what to do, that's literally it.

Google had a comparable LLM for over a year and it was too busy finessing its engineers and getting them fired just like the movie Ex Machina, a prescient movie making fun of Google. The organization just sat on it. Plenty of others were in the same place, no imagined product market fit.
I would love a world where google and facebook are full of links to primary sources instead of news articles.

That's great if you have time to read whatever it is and/or have the knowledge to parse through the language. Most folks aren't going to read the paper nor the overall decision. Time constraints, stress, and simply not being educated in the field (or understanding legal terms) keep folks from doing this.

On top of that, there are definitely times that the news is the primary source. Where else are you going to learn about war, drought, weather, protests, food recalls, and other such things? You'll probably find weather, but nothing on protests. Sure, you can go to "sources", but you have to actively find them.

News might not be the same as it was, but it isn't like it doesn't still have a use.

I'd really like to have rules about headlines/reporting accurately portraying things, but that's a conversation for another time.
Cargo is really nice! First party integration of developer tools is a big step forward and it’s nice to see it become more widespread (other examples include golang and Terraform)

Bryan Cantrill has a number of talks about Rust which are similarly pragmatic
My favorite recent NFT story was the exchange that opened an NFT market, and then closed it 30 days later because they only had $100 in trades:

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=wazirx-closes-nft-marketpla...
> What kind of C++ and Rust?

I appreciate the inclusion of this section. Different people writing C++ can have wildly different experiences, based on the type of things they are working on. This section offers a good reminder about this, and that one person's perspective is not more or less correct than anyone else's.
Just ignore LinkedIn's news feed (or whatever the hell they call it), and poof! it's a job board.
Real journalism is dangerous and often thankless job because it must report inconvenient facts. Much easier to watch twitter feed, pick hot takes and wrap them into a "news article" burrito. Even Reuters today is pure rubbish.
It's good that the government is bailling out SVB, we wouldn't want the next pet food drone delivery service startup to fail to launch.
It's fascinating how so many of these unfortunate events seem to be explained as "You can't seriously expect us to have a professional understanding of financial risk. We're just a bank."
> If you try to order nodes so that adjacent nodes are uncorrelated the performance loss might be manageable.

shower thought

In graphics we use barycentric coordinates to encode the position within an arbitrary triangle using two coordinates (u,v), with the third being constrained to be 1-u-v. If you order nodes to be correlated, could you use a similar trick to encode three weights for the price of two?
Rust advantages are one third memory safety, one third types, and one third package management.
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How they are preparing is important. For example, China has built a modern navy in the last decade. Invasion is actually possible. Enough that people have been making predictions on it happening in next five years based on when China will be ready.

The US has been focused on Iraq and Afghanistan and sort of neglected Navy and Air Force. The article is partly about the Marines completely changing strategy to fight China.

Finally, Taiwan preparing for war is important. They haven't been preparing seriously until recently. They have forces for power projection while they need weapons for defense. Ukraine has shown that defense against superior opponent is possible.
Presumably Reddit will be subject to the same regulation as Meta and Google.
> So it's not the most quiet attack. But people replace their phones and forget account details so it may pass unnoticed by some of your contacts, particularly if you have no other channel to reach your contacts.

So in other words, such attacks aren't viable for dragnet surveillance and must be targeted. But if you have reason to believe that you'll be targeted by the government for surveillance, you'd be on the lookout for signs like "your safety number has changed"?
Looks like some VCs came together after all. This would be too much of a loss to the startup community.
There's always opportunity costs. What about regular maintenance and updates? What happens when a bug appears? What if the disk is full?

Working 50% freelance and 50% revenue-generating niche side-project, I always calculate my time costs. Assuming I earn $80 an hour as a freelancer and a hosted git costing $10 a month, if I estimate I will need an additional 15mins a month if I go self-hosted, then I'll pay for the hosted version.

I've seen enough projects, where they decided to self-host gitlab, only to have issues like disk full, updates needed, deployments not initiating.

When suddenly a team of 10 can't push or deploy for a day, there's additional costs there as well.
I'm a long time Python user, and I don't defend virtual environments at all. I just don't use them. Granted, I'm a so called "scientific" programmer, and am not writing production code. I haven't run into the problems that are solved by virtual environments, nor have my colleagues. Sure, it means I'm probably living in a bubble, but it may be a bubble shared by a lot of people.

Python is the first language that I've used, where the user community is a major attraction, resulting in significant inertia. Replacing Python requires a new language and a new community. Also, the tools that helped build that community, such as Google and Stackoverflow, have (by some accounts) deteriorated.

If package management is that bad, then yeah, time to switch languages.

No high horse here. Like Sancho Panza, I have to be content with an ass. ;-)
The Atlantic (2016) is a good documentary on natural resources in Ireland and Newfoundland:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtRHSWGYNFc

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5744820/
Right after your phone number is SIM swapped away
That isn't exclusive to FB. It's everywhere, reddit, twitter, hackernews. People have low attention spans and its getting lower and lower when you watch hundreds of 30s videos these days.
"People who take risks should bear the responsibility."

Exactly. In Russia we had people who'd serially deposit money into the shadiest of banks offering highest returns. Deposits are ensured upto some amount, so they'd collect interest, get their money from the state after a bank bankrupts (while the bank owners are enjoying stolen money in a no extradition country) and go to the next bank.
They also tend to only install units that you can't buy directly and only quote for total cost not parts and labor so you cannot easily tell just how much they are charging for the labor.
How much space do these models take ?

I think I'd rather run this as an API hosted on AWS rather than locally.

When will someone cram this into a lamda with the models hosted on S3 ?
Rust sometimes is very Linux-centric. This problem has been considered when async was in the draft stage, and shrugged off, because it's just Windows. macOS in Rust is also treated as "it's just a weird Linux, right?".
>Our walls are good but our windows are a weak point.

are you sure ? at summer I have walls that are 170F outside (at 2pm) and 80-90F inside. Also, window will pass through heat only during the day. Wall will keep heating your inside air through the night as well. Get some cheap thermal camera - it's very educational.

You should also check your ductwork/registers. To see if there are any tears/openings/etc. Also, in case you are using flex duct, if it's not tensioned properly, sagging, etc - there will be a lot of air velocity losses that reduce overall cooling experience.

>Any idea why the HVAC guy and just about every source online insists that A/C can only give you a temperature delta of 20F? I know it can’t be true, but that claim is everywhere.

Something around refrigerant properties, mechanics and physics, etc. I also spent some time in this rabbit hole
In an ideal world you’d do what you are best at. If that was churning useful code then be it. If that was selling that code without needing to churn code yourself then be it. It’s unfortunate we can’t collaborate with eachother without stealing eachother’s livelyhood.
Sou these heat pumps are for ducted systems... What about homes that have water wall radiators or underfloor heading? Are these systems considered air to water heat pumps?
Yeah, I honestly don’t care if most people won’t change. I’ve done what I want to for the planet and I’ll be long dead before the bill for climate change really comes due. It’s their kids’ problem not mine. Good luck to them.
> Unfortunately, this means we will no longer need some of the roles on the late stage investing team. Seventeen of our teammates are impacted today.

I hate this passive voice. It implies there was nothing that could be done, that this was just a force of nature. That it wasn't an active choice by YC, but rather just some eventuality.

Most of us understand the necessity of hard decisions. Own the outcomes. It's ok to say, "We fired 17 people, because their roles were no longer needed by us".

If you think that looks too bad, then don't do the thing -- find other opportunities for the people in the company.
It takes more energy to drive a car through mud than on pavement. The same principle would apply here.
I suppose there's a possible future where it will be impossible to find news about the Online News Act.
NFTs didn't hold up to even the smallest amount of scrutiny. You'd have people say we will all be trading land as NFTs but can't answer what happens when hackers steal your land NFT. Obviously it makes no sense for the police and government to respect the stolen NFT but there is also no mechanism for correcting this mistake so the blockchain is now out of sync with reality.

And in the end, people care about reality a lot more than they do about blockchain data.
Re: “news companies should write articles that are worth reading in full”.

Tell me: why is the first, highest-upvoted comment to every paywalled article posted on HN, actually just an archive.xx link that defeats that paywall? Coincidence?

It strikes me that writing quality content is not actually the challenge; people here certainly read paywalled content, for free, on the regular. Perhaps monetization is actually just really hard.
> No, that never happened where did you see that?

He's referring to this:
https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/urgent-sign-the-petition-no...
Reading their comment slightly overly charitably vs what was written (but almost surely in-line with what was intended), they were contrasting their unit that has a HEPA filter bundled as part of their unit and that is not part of the Mr Cool unit.
It depends on how many minutes of music were out on each side. There’s a lot of 45s that sound great and they’re worth a lot in part because of that for example. A lot of mainstream stuff started to get pressed on thin, cheap vinyl and was packed with as many minutes as possible. So yeah, loss of fidelity there and remastered CDs may in fact sound better. I think you’re probably safe until late 70s before that became practice.

There’s no masters of a lot of rare, non-mainstream things, or at least not known masters. And a lot of great music that wasn’t going to be mainstream for a variety of reasons. Think regional funk, blues, punk, psych, etc. You just can’t get a great digital recording in many instances.
Having industrial design and a nice webpage complete before there is any hardware at all seems like a major red flag to me. Who is actually going to manufacture this?
"Fire Department Promptly Shows Up 5 Minutes After House Burns Down"

-- Babylon Bee (better Onion)
URL: https://made.porn/
I don’t think questioning whether someone’s speech is “wise” is limiting their free speech
It is quite possibly the least-damning takedown I've ever read.
I have spent 10 minutes on your site an still don't get it.

Bravo for that. Already a good sign of a well running crypto thing.

And I'm still not sure how value is created if no one has to pay?!

Right now for me it feels like a soon imploding weird microbubble of investment Tipps
This article is a good place to start: https://time.com/198/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killi...

When it came out 10 years ago, it answered questions that I'd had for the previous 15 years.
It was pretty bad before but now it seems like there are a bunch of competing solutions each with their own quirks and problems. It feels like the JavaScript ecosystem.
classic revisionism and opportunism by microsoft

AI projects predates azure

AI projects predates MS funding of OpenAI

AI projects flourished on 3rd party clouds with GPUs offering

there are plenty of news article shared on hnews to prove it as well as many YC companies funded
Walmart has cameras above their freezers.
...and if they get hit by a bus? That would be illegal also?
> bizarre aversion to applying the same learning effort to their ORM

Oh, sure, instead of just learning SQL I'll just learn SQL, the ORM, the ORM's weird edge case features that actually support the SQL I want, the undocumented ORM internals that prevent the good query from actually being generated, and then I'll commit a patch to the open source project to fix the undocumented internals and shepherd a custom dependency for 6 months while it gets into a numbered release. Then I'll do it all over again when I switch stacks and have to learn a completely new ORM.

Or I could just use SQL.
Rust's memory model is even more familiar to C++ programmers who don't manage memory by hand because they have the same concepts of borrowing and lifetimes.
Gitlab CI pipelines are miles ahead from Github Actions or Circle CI.
Or even just billing. Like eg subscriptions. Or medical billing.