skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very good point. In other words, it's a classic Capital Expenditure vs Operating Expense. For startups it's usually more efficient to have a higher OpEx in the beginning and focus on optimizing OpEx later.

I can recommend this article for those who are interested - https://www.cloudzero.com/blog/capex-vs-opex
The 2 or 3 last seasons of House MD went off the rockers on the raising of stakes that you talk about, I felt. It was time to end it, but I wouldn't cut there.
OOoo… Hook that up to the ChatGPT API and let it modify itself with additional code? SkyNet / Matrix here we come!
Ask HN: What happens if I'm using a OS lib and suddenly the license is changed?
> Are any of them in commercial operation?

"French utility EDF began making its nuclear plants more “maneuverable” in the 1980s, and today it says a 1,300-MW reactor can increase or decrease its output by 900 MW within about 30 minutes."

> The capex is so high and fuel cost so low it just also doesn’t make economic sense to ever turn down your reactor. Or you have to be overproducing to the extent that there is a significant negative price for electricity for quite a while before the cost makes sense.

Sure, the price of power has to temporarily go negative to be worth it in a market-based system. I don't know about "significant" though. That's not a problem for grid stability, it just means your cost/benefit calculation gets more complicated.
> I've come to the thinking that you have to build societal values from the bottom up.

And one way to build those values is by writing some basic rules down, communicating them to everybody, and enforce them. You will never have every single person refraining from taking advantage of something.
Any idea how much this compares to previous prices?
Do you feel like it is applying the same principles to people you both love and hate to characterize BLM protests as riots and truckers protests as "honking their horns"?
I was watching a video on how to split logs using high quality steel wedges and a point they made really struck me:

"Most people think the high quality wedges should be made out of hard, durable steel. That's actually the opposite of what you want. Hard steel wedges 'throw' chips when hit by a hammer.

You want soft steel that deforms since that's safer. If you are wondering 'But doesn't that mean the wedge wears down over time?', yes it does. That's fine b/c wedges are considered consumables."

The idea of an item being high quality AND consumable for safety/design reasons gave me a new appreciation for things like high quality pencils, paper etc:

yes they are high quality and get used up but that's the point
this is incorrect: "FDIC has implied that insured funds (up to $250K per account) will be released within 7 days." Specifically, the FDIC has explicitly stated (rather than implied) that insured funds will be released on Monday (rather than within 7 days). https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23016.html

The same statement also says "The FDIC will pay uninsured depositors an advance dividend within the next week." which I assume means some percentage of the uninsured funds based on a worst case scenario of the recovery.

Another issue is that this isn't just about the company not having funds, but also funds that may have been transiting through SVB today. At least one payroll provider was affected.
Apologies if this is a little off topic, but I’ve been really excited to try OpenAI’s GPT API and have been locked out for months with no response from their support chat. Any insight into how to get access would be really highly appreciated!

Here’s what happened: I made an account to play around with chat GPT, then wanted to switch to my company email address to use their API on that account. They wouldn’t let me use my phone number to sign up for a second account, so I deleted the first one. Unfortunately, deleting that account didn’t free it so I could sign up again with a new number. I then went and bought a new phone number from Google Voice out of desperation since their support never replied, but they don’t allow voip numbers, so that was in vain. My initial support request was in early January, and both that one and my follow up a couple weeks ago have gone unseen. So it feels as though I’m hard locked out from an API that looks like a lot of fun to use for both personal and professional projects. What is one to do?
The two PC terms are not related. In the start of the last century political correctness was about the correct adherence to ideology. The modern PC is a describer coined by us conservatives to label progressive political goals.
actual title
"George Santos masterminded 2017 ATM fraud, former roommate tells feds"
Isn't using any of the AS "ML" coprocessor/extensions/whatever, so it's just normal simd.
Yes cause other major manufacturers or not exactly the same or (more usually) worse (because the press/public pays much more attention to Apple than to anyone else)
Basically that. Quite difficult to leave them alone or they'll just watch bad stuff eventually because of the fantastic algorithms.
Who’s going to be on call for hardware failures? Who is going to build/manage your monitoring/alerting stack? Will you hire a network engineer?

Will you have redundant hardware running to failover to? What about disaster recovery, are you going to colo in more than 1 physical data center?
She would be fired for refusing. She’s a teacher. She has almost no freedom in anything. It’s also an international standard for her school. It would require an uprising of tens of thousands of teachers world wide.

I agree with what you say. However she is not willing to a fight worldwide bureaucracy.
One of my favorite things about Babylon 5 was how it was planned out for exactly five seasons, with a beginning, middle, and end.

Granted, the last season was a bit muffed since they'd had to bring the story to a closure at the end of season 4 when they thought it would be renewed. But still...

I have a lot of respect for creatives who can plan out a work, and then actually carry through and walk away from it when it is complete.
Or just some, as it turned out, valid business advice. That being said, I would never let my investors choose my banks (as in more than one bank) holding my company's cash. And I definetly wouldn't use some not-to-big-to-fail, not international bank to hold my multi-millions in VC money, which is the only yhing keeping my company a float.
Roughly speaking:

They were holding some candies that became less valuable because you can buy better candies for the same price in the shop. They needed the money, so they had to sell those candies for cheaper. Some friends of theirs noticed they were selling those candies for cheaper and started getting suspicious and panicky and asking for their toys back.

* Candies - fixed income securities, like mortgage backed-securities and US treasuries

* Candies becoming less valuable - government raising the interest rates, which makes fixed income products, like treasuries and mortgage-backed securities less valuable, because you can get the same securities but with higher returns in the market

* Friends panicking - investors and depositors

* Friends asking for their toys back - withdrawing money from the bank, which starts the bank run
> - The issue is that as the Fed raised interest rates in 2022 and continued to do so through 2023, the value of SVB’s MBS plummeted. This is because investors can now purchase long-duration "risk-free" bonds from the Fed at a 2.5x higher yield.

Let's be clear, the issue wasn't that the Fed raised rates to a historically average level, it was that they were manipulating the bond market in 2021 with trillions of dollars of QE.

Over the last few years the Fed has basically done a pump and dump on the bond market, and SVB being a bank was basically forced by regulation to buy long-dated bonds for yield.

I've seen a lot of people speak critically of SVB and I get it, but I think people should take a minute to ask why the hell bonds were yielding such a low amount in 2021. I just wonder how much longer we're going to blame, banks, crypto investors, bond investors, equity investors, home buyers, etc for what's happening to the value of their assets. When central bankers make government bonds trade like meme stocks this is what happens. Perhaps if we didn't do that, SVB and many others wouldn't be in this position.
Well, denial of healthcare insurance as an example - from the POV of the insurers.
I like how companies conned the government to enforce what used to be a civil matter into a criminal matter. They don't even have to write a cease and desist letter. Evil genius.
Crypto’s Carcass Will Attract Hedge Fund Vultures
Why not life in prison?
https://archive.ph/SWoUz
The size of this failed bank is quite abnormal. The business of this failed bank is quite abnormal. The surprising thing may be that the find anyone willing to take it out of their hands - let alone by Monday.
"to generate the yield they wanted to see on this capital."

Sticking to unrealistic goals seems to to be the downfall of a lot of financial institutions (and probably a lot of other companies). Same happened with Deutsche Bank in the 2000s. The CEO declared that they wanted to achieve higher ROI and to achieve this they had to start doing ever riskier stuff until it blew up in their faces (and the taxpayer generously bailed them out so they could keep their big bonuses).
Are you claiming that you in the state should be the ones deciding where women place should be, not the women in question?
Giving the advice is not what I’m referring to. I’m referring to intentionally leaking the advice to the press so they run the story about how Peter Thiel is warning everyone which accelerated the outflow.
> just because I came up with an idea, I cannot tell other people "you're not allowed to use it".

You're right, ideas are not protected by copyright.

Copyright only protects original works of authorship.
Yes, and once you get the programmer to realize this, it all makes sense.

The ledgers are not the source of truth. No: this is a journaled filesystem; the transaction log is the ultimate source of truth. When you detect faults you recover from the journal, if something isn't completely written into the journal then it does not exist. The zero-sum property exists on every individual transaction and each transaction has an ID and the ledgers point at these IDs for auditing purposes.

So why have the zero sum property? Well, for one thing, it creates a uniform access model, I can't just credit my account, I have to debit someone else's account and they can have rules that might prohibit me from doing so. By carefully setting up these accounts you can also do what's sometimes called "behavior anomaly detection."

So for instance normal financial cards kind of work by opening up your entire wallet to a cash register and asking the cash register to pull out exactly the amount that you owe, understandably this might not be desirable if you are tracking some in-game-gold transactions in an internet game. You can get as elaborate as you want but think for example of a quick-consistency-check rule saying that “accounts starting 4xxx (player balances) never transfer directly to each other, instead users are expected to put the exact sum of money plus a little 5% padding into one of their 5xxx accounts and then give someone else a token permitting them to withdraw from that account." Stuff like that. A developer tries to code something up that doesn't go through this process and runs into errors in testing and has to conform their code’s behavior to the less risky process so that nobody is ever opening their entire wallet to a griefer.
In melbourne australia, we have been preserving our beaches with rocks forever, at least since the 1930's. We were losing 20m every 10 years, not 10m per year.
I dont think this is a new concept.
I live in a much more built up area than this. Mostly small apartment buildings, duplexes and three-deckers. The odd single-family home, usually on the small side. People here still let their kids play in the streets. Not the youngest kids or the busiest streets, but it's not at all unusual to see some kids kicking a ball or playing hockey in the street, or just tooling around on bikes going nowhere.
Crypto is the 2008ish version of 2000.
Because you ultimately get credited. Something that the LLMs forget.

If I release all my writing under CC, then they should kredit me if my writing s are a part of the dataset it is trained on, as it in some capacity is a derivative thereof.
My experience is pretty similar to his and our daughter is now 6yr old.
Good video. Whether my job at my startup is safe? Debatable. At least I'll have my ( admittedly somewhat small ) emergency fund, and potentially unemployment, to fall back on, supposing things go _really_ sideways.
The Cult Following Around France’s UFO-Shaped Swimming Pools
Any ideas on how to ensure women retain financial independence?
The reach and data aren't twitter the business' to exchange though, it's the Twitter community of users
Hum... No, it's not ok for the police to arrest somebody only due to claims. It doesn't matter how often the claims are repeated.

Maybe the police should have investigated it earlier, but lack of that earlier investigation is not cause for arresting him.
Possibly, maybe not, though.

For me, this means slowing down my writing and trying to make it more legible, not editing what I put down. I still write in fragments, manage whitespace poorly, draw terrible diagrams, and repeat myself (sometimes on the same page).

That said, I consciously recognized and appreciate the difference between brainstorming and editing. Sometimes I use my notebook for both, sometimes just for brainstorming, and I'll copy it to Notes or Pages for a sharable version.
https://www.svb.com/newsroom
edit: sorry, misunderstood implications from your pro state and capital position
If you are outside of B2B, you do not need Stripe. You need a solid business bank, ideally multiple ones.

And if B2B is relevant, well, have an accoubt, or multiple, at a bank with Stripe integration to handle customer payments anf refunds. And keep everything else at different banks.
There's a blue check by his name now, so...
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Especially please don't take HN threads into religious flamewar—it's easily avoidable and particularly poisonous.
Matt Levine's invaluable Money Stuff (free newsletter) did a fabulous job of just that: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-09/crypto... was before the FDIC moved in, https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-10/startu... was from today.
A way of "catching up"? Demanding an inhumane amount of work out of people doesn't help those people catch up, it uses up their one and only life to create wealth for a few elites in their country, and shareholders outside their country.
yeah a lot of deadwood engineering managers. like you've a manager on top of a manager, then another manager, then finally director. then vp then CTO.
My apologies if the previous answers are not cordial. Too much time on twitter.
It doesn't if you fix the network's code
That is inscrutably abstract and jargony.
> And if you find a bottleneck, you could rewrite in Rust.

Sounds pretty extreme..? What kind of bottlenecks would you be talking about that would prompt me to re-write my entire application in another language?
There's stories and there's reality. I've seen 60 hour weeks occasionally but not 80 and not de-facto required. Most places have decent managers that understand work/life balance. Find one that does.
That sounds like any (semi)good car in the last 10-20 years.

Like 5-6 years old Skoda Octavia (which are generally lasting so long YouTube nickname for them is "Good 'ol miles"). Until one evening you park it just fine in front of your house. And next morning power steering is no longer working.

Official VAG dealer/repair shop folks were like "Well you know it's electric stuff like light-bulb - one day it works, and next day you want to turn it on and it goes poof". Except this light bulb is angle sensor, power/hydraulics and T beam "sealed" all-in-one, and costs 1-2K Eur (which was ~10% of whole cars worth).
No that is in my opinion, still insane. Laying someone off and then being like, "oops, you were actually important", is indicative they have no clue. Maybe they could have waited a bit to figure shit out instead of scorch-earthing everything.
I tried llama 14b model by using one of online tools (mentioned in one of other hn comments, it claimed to use that model, but cannot be 100% sure)
and I was very disappointed with results. I tried to ask it fairly simple question: to write regex validating email address, tried this 2 times and got responses: "what is your question" and "please wait..." so it just doged response. in contrast chatgpt was able to provide me with simple regex and also RFC compliant version when asked.
I think if a programmer were designing accounting, they'd put the flows in the database, and build views out of that. They might materialize the views for performance reasons, but they'd treat those views as suspect and the first response to any bug would be "blow away the accounts and recreate them".

You couldn't do bookkeping with actual books that way, and historically this way makes sense. Nor is it likely that the accountants are going to rethink their field from the ground up for the convenience of programmers.
Startup Bank Had a Startup Bank Run
People keep talking about how 'this is a solvency crisis because if SVB had to sell everything today, they wouldn't cover liabilities' when that is the definition of a liquidity crisis.

EDIT: To be clear, think of it this way. I have a piece of paper saying you'll give me $100 in 1 year plus 1% interest that I bought for $98.

No-one buys that piece of paper for $98 today, because they can get the same deal with better interest. But that doesn't change the fact that I will get $100 for it.

If deposits hadn't shrunk, $100 would go to SVB in 1 year and everything would be fine, it's the fact that they have to sell it so far ahead of maturity that's the problem, we just didn't notice this phenomenon in the past few decades b/c rates fell and prices went up.

This is not because SVB has a particularly risky book (we're talking treasuries here), it's because they didn't account for declining deposits (itself a very stupid, but unique bad decision unrelated to their risk tolerance).
It's not judging the job by "first world standards" to say that nobody can work 12 hours a day (6 days a week) and have a life outside of work.
But to be first, you must be smarter. Or cheat.
I sleep so much better with my Samsung

"Among the most alarming information were reports that miscarriage “is very normal.” As one worker said, “It is very normal if they are young. If they are pregnant … for the first trimester it is very difficult, they miscarry a lot.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/03/14/your-cool-...
Is there really a "natural" progression of society? Especially in an age of computers and advanced communication, it is difficult to know what is natural anymore.
This guy is a hero.

What he did should not be a crime.

It's time for a Freedom to Publish Amendment:

Section 1. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of this Constitution is hereby repealed.
Section 2. Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people to publish or implement ideas.
"Unlimited" does not mean "all" in this context, it means something more like "inexhaustible" or "infinite." And some infinities can be larger than others: the set of all real numbers is larger than the set of all integers, even though both are infinite in size.

Of course language is limited in terms of its ability to represent reality, Chomsky doesn't deny that. All ways of representing reality are limited, that's pretty much axiomatic in whatever definition of "representation" you mean.
People don't want to accept it on this forum, but with VC money drying up, lessened risk taking, widespread layoffs, plus large influx of workers via career changes, remote work leading to CoL arbitrage, wages are likely to decline pretty broadly across the industry.

Especially so at the upper end FAANG comp bands. Likely most of these previously 500k+ comp packages will compress closer to 300k. Issuing RSUs at lowered valuation multiples is much less viable for a public company. Some public companies have ~50% or more of their revenue consumed by stock based comp, which is clearly not sustainable.

It will impact me too, but I accept it as the most likely outcome
> according to the objective video evidence, they drive dangerously near the children as a way to protest their presence and express their discontent.

They should countersue for that!
> and from what I've heard editing is the absolute worst given how time consuming it is.

It can be, but as with many things it comes down to learning the techniques as well as the tools. You can learn how to edit quickly and effectively with a couple of simple rules, but the most important is "don't worry too much about throwing stuff away".
The difference would be that Google still links to your webpage, while ChatGPT&Co will just answer the question.
I don't know how to talk about this without some technical terms.

Spend a little bit of time on it, it's a lot more understandable than you think.

Peep this paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.3620.

I have a discord channel if you want to learn more https://discord.cofunctional.ai.
One of the first things I do on a piece of new hardware is to scratch it somewhere less visible so I can use it knowing it's no longer pristine. Tools are tools.
I have been programming professionally since 1986 and still nothing beats logging or having chunks of specialized code to do dumps of some data to files so you can analyze them with tools better suited for the purpose. Ideally though you don't want to have to modify the code to diagnose the problem especially if it's a crash caught in the wild and you have a chance to live debug it. I would love more useful visualization tools in the debuggers (mostly VS for me) that would be very helpful in all situations like debugging crash dumps.
That’s the vertical slicing mentioned in the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_slice
Sorry. Was responding to the overall gestalt of AI, where there are always things that "only a human can do", then they gets solved or duplicated by a computer, then the argument is "well, humans can still do X that a computer never will because of some mysterious component that is unique to humans, thus a computer can never ever replace humans or be conscious"
If they wanted more deposits, why would they pay as little as possible to 'keep the spread'? No bank is anywhere near monopoly; there are tons more deposits to get (if you want them, and can make money safely on a spread).
Yeah. That's the normal way to work for a Smalltalk debugger.

I remember once debugging a thread without killing it. I've asked a customer to click on a link that would get to a bug while having remotely opened the IDE that was serving that user session, setting a conditional halt. Seen it halting, fixing the bug and saving the method with the halt removed and let the thread run. All the user saw was a long request that ended in service instead of that bug.
Whaa? I’m stating the opposite. I’m saying the state needs to sack up and do it’s job.
With SVB locked up, how are startups going to pay for stuff?