skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never realized that

I wonder if Elon could sell SpaceX secrets / IP to China?
That's sorta what I'm doing with my car loan - instead of paying extra principal, I'm putting the money into an FDIC-insured account that pays about twice the interest that I'm paying on my car loan.
It was a typo. I fixed the url. Thanks for pointing out.
So bad? Shit, I never expected that... Over here, you need either fog or cloud cover for the moon to be so hazy...
> Altman did not confirm the amount he gave to Rad AI, or any other startups, but Gurson told Reuters he would guess Altman has given at least $1 million to his startup and others.

> Sam has been sending stuck startups money today with no docs, just saying 'send me back whatever you can whenever you can'

May or may not be front-page worthy (and regardless of the PR potential / optics), this is Sam walking the talk, as it were.
That video of the Capitol Police escorting the QAnon shaman through the building and opening doors for him is pretty damning. If he was not authorized to be there, the police should have thrown him out, not given him a guided tour. Charging him after the fact seems highly suspect. If he had a good faith belief that he was authorized to be there, because of the actions and statements made by police officers, then he should not have been convicted. But he is currently serving a 41 month sentence after pleading guilty.

Anyone fighting with cops or otherwise rioting deserves whatever charges are appropriate for those actions though.
To attack Windows from the top and bottom simultaneously. It may seem excessive but MS was in a very strong position at the time. Many of us wondered if anything else would survive.
Is an ad celebratory or informational?

Like, an ad is never going to be like, "hey you stupid fattie, here's where you can buy clothes." You do still have to sell the clothes.
We are so bringing climbing boys back to disrupt the chimney sweeping industry!
> It really sucks for Etsy’s sellers so maybe… Etsy learned a lesson?

I hope so. I don't expect the sellers to have done anything different. Corporations, however, have a responsibility to manage their finances effectively. "We weren't smart enough in that space" is no more an excuse than it would be if sellers were having problems because Etsy's web infrastructure broke down due to lack of proper planning for redundancy and fault tolerance.

And I never said nor implied that only rich people will be affected. But they're basically the only ones with power to do anything different here. The rest of us are along for the ride.

Here's the question. Now that this happened, do the rest of us just accept that this is how it works? Because if we do, nothing changes, and we just get to sit back and wait for the whole system to unspool again. Or, we could stop treating the machine in California like it's better than a Vegas slot machine for most players and start building something better.
I'm of the opinion that structured data is something PowerShell got 100% right; people tend to dislike PowerShell for other reasons (verbosity, startup time, Windows-first history).
And in 92, EECS280 made you do your first program in Pascal and then it was C for the rest of the curriculum. Lots of people were pissed they learned Pascal for one program.
No normal bank is safe without government backing.

Banks are inherently vulnerable to bank runs, because they work with money across different time intervals. For example, a hypothetical small town bank might turn checking and savings accounts into mortgages. If everyone decides to withdraw their savings all at once, the bank can't call all the mortgages due. So if everyone panics all at once, banks will fail. So we try to regulate the risks taken by banks, and we provide government-backed insurance. To be honest, the last-ditch "insurance" behind most banks is sovereign power.

It has been a long time since companies have lost money in bank failures. Everyone has gotten complacent.

The failure of SVB means that a great many people are suddenly seeing new risks. Come Monday, I expect to see lots of companies moving funds. And lots of banks hold government bonds that have fallen substantially in value because of the rapid changes in interest rates.

I will be very happy if we get out of this with few bank failures.
I mean, it should be the other way around
This is just my opinion, but for those that are seriously interested in the history of science, it is best to start with “history of natural philosophy” as a search topic, as this will yield far more interesting and foundational knowledge and insights on how we got to modern science than arguing about Euro-centric perspectives from the renaissance forward.
How much money do you think the government provides to couples (or single parents) with kids? It's not enough to enjoy some of the luxuries our parents had, such as being able to rent a place where you don't share a bedroom with your kid, or being able to rent a place with space to do things like have a sex life that's not basically the same as doing it in front of your kid because the walls are paper thin, or being able to go on family vacations once or twice a year, or being able to feed your family healthy food.

In Vancouver, I have only a couple of friend with kids. One has a FAANG management job after years of IC. The other is a single mother who works odd jobs and has kids in their teens now (one might be 20 actually). She receives alimony and government benefits, and allowed her to keep them fed and even take them on vacation once a year, but only because she locked in a rental unit 20 years ago and never moved or got evicted, and has some untaxed money coming in from selling art, the benefits, and she never eats out (only cooks and shops on budget). And she has shared custody with the father of one who does have some kind of job.

This isn't possible for people who don't have that stable place to live, and even then she doesn't have the freedom that my parents did to take them to things that cost money
> The government has fdic and insures up to $250k. That’s what our taxes paid for.

FYI, FDIC insurance coverage is funded by premium payments from covered banks, not from "our taxes".

https://www.fdic.gov/about/what-we-do/index.html
Q from outside the US: why is capital needed for payroll mid month? Are there some automatic insolvency processes if it is missed by a day? Why do the companies fall apart if there is just a few days of payment delay? (I mean it is obviously a shit situation, and having to tell the team payment might take a few days more than usual is bad, I am just surprised how 2 days of no-cash seem to wreak havoc…)
> The fact whether a startup has positive cashflow or not isn't really reflective of whether that is a worthwhile startup or a bad one, but rather whether it's at an early stage or a relatively mature one.

For the past 10 years or so none of the "successful wrothwhile startups" have positive cash flows, and those that seemingly do still manage to post hundreds of millions of dollars in losses yera after year after year.

The whole modern startup business is either "work at a loss until a successful exit for the founders" or "work at a loss forever with no expectation of profitability for some reason".

None of them are worthy.
> I would argue that holding long duration treasuries in a rising rate environment and capitalizing before marking to market are two very risky ways to run a bank.

Not to mention doing so when you know that most of your customers' businesses are incredibly sensitive to interest rate hikes, in part because you have explicitly marketed to that market for years.
Let's do a simple experiment. Say skill is normally distributed. Let's take 1000000 people and draw their skill levels from a standard normal, and sort them by the skill levels. What is the difference in level between the 500000th person, and the person 1000 spot above them? 0.00252225 (in this simulation). What's the difference in skill levels between the 1000000th person and the person 1000 spots below? 1.596959. The 1000-person gap is 633 times larger at the top than the middle.

skill_levels <- rnorm(1000000) %>% sort()

skill_levels[501000] - skill_levels[500000]
skill_levels[1000000] - skill_levels[999000]
Implying that Israel is neutral or good?

Some people argue that Israel is an Apartheid state.[1] Why should “we”/you(plural) engage with that?

[1] Chomsky argues that even that is a compliment https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/03/chomsky-israel...
Congrats. As someone pointed out in another replies I can totally see how the guilt, and not the shame, may be the strongest motivator.
one word: latency
As a Purdue grad who spent a decade in Silicon Valley and who currently works remote for a FAANG in a state adjacent to yours: Didn't go to the coast for the big starting salary. Went for the interesting job, the flexibility to move to another job without renting a new apartment, and the career growth. Best career choice I made.

Good for you starting a tech company outside the tech meccas, it's a hard road. Remote work might help you. In an remote work world, you are on a level playing field.

As it relates to the SVB bailout. There's a strong libertarian streak in SV. While it might be entertaining to watch the hypocrisy unfold, I'm pretty certain these folks read hackernews and I'd like them to have a bit of self reflection about the role of government now that SVB has imploded.
How exactly would you advertise these clothes in a not-normal way? What kind of ads make their customers feel dismissed or treat them like shit?

The average American is "normal." that's where we are now.

> normal
adjective
: conforming to a type, standard, or regular pattern : characterized by that which is considered usual, typical, or routine
How much cash do you have available?

Other threads over the past few days scoffed at having 100-200k in cash available.
You're missing out on a billable hour per week! Two hours if you time all your updates correctly.
That sounds like an ITAR violation.
Top two comments here either didn't read the article, or may as well not have.
Not necessarily disagreeing but still worth pointing out that he did the right thing here.
Two assumptions there I'd challenge.

1) Pageviews do not equal revenue. The purpose of every website isn't inherently to make money.

2) The purpose of analytics is to understand your visitors and their interaction with content. There doesn't need to be a profit motive to want to do this. I've worked on plenty of nonprofit, informational, and discussion sites where we use analytics to discover what content is resonating with what kind of an audience, how people are discovering the site, what paths people take through the content, where errors are occurring, or just congratulate authors for writing things that got a lot of reads.
Based on my interactions with Sam, he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would ever do this for PR. I think he just somehow became aware of this company and, in classic sama fashion, decided it should not fail due to SVB, reached out to the founders, promptly wired them money.
i had to do this once during a clerical fuckup with our payroll provider.

the accountants just classified it as a reimbursed expense. you just comp yourself the exact same amount as the payroll and it isn't taxed as income.

in general accountants have ways of dealing with all sorts of edge cases, but you need to keep REALLY good documentation and notes about what/why/how, etc. "i thought the bank was going to collapse, and then it did" is a pretty good reason.

wiring yourself the money and moving it to a new business bank account would have been perfectly fine too - you're simply moving the cash to another location. in fact i'm pretty sure that's what most people who got their money out of svb did - very few small businesses have multiple checking accounts.
Wage payment delays in the state of California are severely punishable under law:

https://www.ottingerlaw.com/blog/wages-hours/employer-not-pa...
I conducted Dodd-Frank Act Stress Tests for one component of a large bank. For a $400B portfolio I was able to do it with a team of 4 people including myself plus a $100k/year license to Barra and it takes about a week of the whole team’s focus.

The thing is, we were already employed by the bank to run risk management and the bank already had the subscription to the software. So from the bank’s perspective it was close to 0 marginal cost to conduct the stress tests because even if they weren’t required, we would be doing them anyway as good risk management practice.

If a bank says that stress tests are too expensive to run, that means that absent regulatory requirements they would perform no risk management.
I think the problem with this approach is that it breaks down at some point, and then your only option is to rewrite the entire thing in a real scripting language.

I.e., there is no graceful scaling path.
Uh yeah, in the very unlikely event that you find yourself explaining to your staff why payroll hasn’t been run, about the last thing you want to lead with is “Well, see, after our our bank failed, I assumed…”
There is no technical need for any bank, at least in the way they operate now. When you get a house loan, you're not getting any money, you're transferring the property lien to the bank in exchange for cash. It is just a value exchange not a real loan, and this could be done by the government. This is true for pretty much anything a bank does nowadays, they're just exchanging one type of value for cash and getting interest on the top of this transaction that takes a few minutes to process.
Dispensing with all the hand-wavy, moral grandstanding about being "unbecoming", "mature", showing "independence", being "weak and entitled" etc etc... None of this is even remotely relevant, you'd be equally reasonable to tell us you wish startups were comprised of more handsome and charming individuals or that they should attend church more frequently.

In terms of discussing risk, startups should minimize all risks possible because their core risk is to find a business model and product that works. Putting cash into a bank account isn't a "strategy" nor is it an investment. Much like choosing to incorporate in Delaware, it's something you do because it's standard and adds no unnecessary risk to the business. It's not smart to try to get fancy with boilerplate company things–you have enough risk already.

Anyway, at the core of your argument seems to be two beliefs:
1. VCs had the capability to stop this from happening with private means (no)
2. People who start companies or work at them just generally deserve bad things to happen to them, regardless of how proximal or not the causes are of their misfortune.

I am biased because I've sacrificed years of my life and probably the vast majority of my potential earnings to try to build a good business. It's been the hardest thing I've ever done, no one's impressed by it, it's not yielded any financial benefits, it's harmed my personal and social life, and by all likelihood I'll never see any significant success. But I keep trying because I like our customers and my coworkers and I care more about the possibility of building something great than I do all the rest.

It's hurtful to chalk up the (potential) death of companies like mine to being "weak and entitled". Of all the risks to account for in building a business, having our bank accounts disappear overnight didn't even crack the top 100 of risk factors. Things like losing customers, failing to grow revenue, keeping employees happy, etc. are at the top; below that are changes to the market, competition, and the death of co-founders or myself. It's not possible to account for every conceivable risk.

Anyway, it looks like we'll get some help here so it's not over for us yet. On behalf of companies everywhere, I'd like to apologize that you've been deprived the opportunity to dance on our graves.
Nice job with Windmill! Would you be interested in listing Windmill on https://starter.place?
The only DD you as a depositor with less than 250k USD in deposits needs to do is check that it is FDIC insured. When you sign up for the account it will be prominent and I doubt there are many accounts that aren't. So, basically you don't need to do anything special.
> 1. Historically being fat was considered a sign of good health. Of course, this was during times of massive food scarcity and the definition of fat was probably very different from what we consider fat today.

Wasn't it more a sign of being wealthy and successful? Like if you were fat, it meant you could afford to spend a lot of money/effort on getting food and didn't need to do difficult work outside for 8+ hours a day?

Not sure people were calling it healthy, so much as treating it like a status symbol (because it kinda was).
This bash config allows you to cd directly to the most commonly used directory with a specific name. It also has tab autocomplete. It does require logging all used directories though.

tabChar=$'\t'
function prompt_command {
echo "$(date +%Y-%m-%d--%H-%M-%S)$tabChar$(hostname)$tabChar$PWD$tabChar$(history 1)" >> ~/.full_history
}
export PROMPT_COMMAND=prompt_command

function c {
while read -r _ dir
do
if [[ -e "$dir" ]]
then
echo "$dir"
cd "$dir"
break
fi
done < <(cat ~/.full_history | tail -n 10000 \
| cut -f 3 | sort | uniq -dc | sort -hr | grep "/$1$")
}

function _c {
local IFS=$'\n'
COMPREPLY=( $(cat ~/.full_history | tail -n 10000 \
| cut -f 3 | sort | uniq -dc | sort -hr \
| sed 's/.*\///g' | grep "^$2") )
}
complete -F _c c
I was really hoping that “visionary-Musk” would win out and do things like open sourcing the algorithm, add interoperability, improve the UX, etc.

Instead, we got “insane-social-media-addict-Musk”, and a bunch of increasingly unhinged Tweets. Sigh.
9 years of open-source database development
"What do you mean practically when you say they’re not meant to make use of it? They’re meant to fly Dublin-Paris-Manchester?"

No - Simply that they're supposed to fulfill the entry requirements for non British or Irish folks, or risk arrest, prosecution, and being deported. That happened to some folks from Peru (I believe), who traveled to GB via Ireland, NI, then ferry to Scotland.

Simply the CTA is misnamed, it is not a "travel area", that is simply an effect arising out of the reciprocal rights of British and Irish citizens in the other state.
Most companies in the US do payroll on either a 2 week cycle (which sucks because some months you do 3 and some times you do 2), or 1st and 15th (or otherwise twice a month). March 15 is a very common payroll date.

They're batch processes, done by dedicated payroll firms, since there are lots of tax/other obligations as well.

Missing payroll by even one day causes 1) lots of drama with employees 2) starts some legal problems 3) potentially screws up people's healthcare/other benefits 4) potentially causes tax problems. Some of this is with the state, some federal.

Payroll is basically the second to last thing you want to miss (certain government obligations above it, since they have liability for the officers directly).

(This is mostly because employers are presumed to have a lot of power vs. employees, and generally do, and there have been a lot of historical abuses of companies paying people slowly, withholding wages, etc., which puts the employees in a position of "do I quit and guarantee I don't get paid, or do I work a little bit more and maybe collect what I'm owed" and then companies continuing to abuse it...)
after being here for over 10 years (not on this account), i've observed that hn is basically split into two groups: people with money, and people who don't have much of it.

the people with less money are much more vocal about it, for obvious reasons.
There's another layer to this: many of these bullshit startups are in crypto, which spent the past 5+ years undermining trust in centralized banking and the Fed. Now this world is crying out for a bailout. It's just so rich. Like why would I want to support a16z's businesses in a time like this?
There's an extension for PostgreSQL called 'unit'[1] that has a good reputation and seems actively maintained

[1](https://github.com/df7cb/postgresql-unit)
There's more pipelining in the 8086 than you might expect, with a micro-instruction pipelined across three clock cycles. I explain this in more detail here: https://www.righto.com/2023/01/the-8086-processors-microcode...

> RISC is about pipelining more than ISA, really.

I hesitate to get into a discussion about what RISC "really" is, but I'll point out that "IS" is the same in "RISC" and "ISA".
Sure but don't they hire a CFO who knows what to do with financial instruments?
> If FDIC wants it to be possible to insure that much

FDIC doesn’t want to insure that much against a single bank failure. Encouraging diversification of large balances helps the FDIC’s goals, since it reduces the impact of single bank failures and reduces the possibility of single failures turning into broader economic collapses without increasing the cost to the Treasury of a single bank failure, which is an efficient way of promoting the purpose for which the FDIC exists.
>my first jobs were flipping burgers and making pizza.

Can you read the article first before typing out your next comment? Those jobs have always hired teens without these imminent changes to child labour laws. You are defending something that hasn't changed, and isn't relevant to what people are concerned about as reported in the article link in this thread.
Interesting that its viewed so critically in the US.

If documented its no problem and not uncommon at all in Germany.

In fact many business owners pay something like credit card bills personally and reimburse through the company later.
Also don't forget about openwashing and potentially helping Microsoft dominate again* on sama's side. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openwashing

* one of the last things I want
Yeah the wording was not completely accurate but I assume he means that the tails are long.
I’d suggest that the proliferation of software with many possible interactions adding features that let you invoke actions via a command-line like interface (see Ctrl+P command palettes etc) prove that there is a place for these sorts of interfaces. Using a mouse is inefficient, and there are only so many hot keys one can assign and learn.

I agree that terminals are fetishised a bit, and I personally find a mix of GUIs and terminals to be the most effective combination, but I think there’s something valuable in the interaction pattern.
Because it's an arbitrary piece of code that needs to be re-evaluated for every input item, like an inline function / lambda in other languages, not an expression that is evaluated once when the commandline is instantiated.
Bing AI Can Plan
Basically anyone who's tried to use language models for novel writing as a request rather than a completion will tell you immediately that it just doesn't pace well at all. It basically rushes to include all the details of your synopsis/instructions in the novel as quickly as it can(extremely quickly) even if you instruct it not to do so. Not so with the old bing.

The new bing though (much faster version slowly being rolled out)...fails consistently(https://imgur.com/a/vkJOhQ4).

With machine learning, you really can't get this drastic performance increase without switching models or increasing compute drastically. I was hoping for the best but..

For me right now, old bing is on edge dev and new bing is on edge.
Awesome. I've been using em-dashes ever since I've been able to type them (and sometimes before with things like &mdash; in Markdown/HTML-supporting contexts). PowerToys Quick Accent finally added en- and em-dashes, and I've enjoyed being able to type them anywhere without having to sacrifice my clipboard.
Not necessarily. What would be reduced is the likelihood of showing any symptoms while still being infectious.
That would be a good argument for bailing out a Raytheon or a Microsoft, companies that have a record of success in delivering on complicated software technologies, but not the average Silicon Valley startup.