skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is diplomatic flexing, and this is part of the intimidation game.

It would be foolish for China to go into this war, they have very little to gain in case of success and a lot to lose. Also their probability of success is quite small.

They have a large army and they have a lot of equipment and weapons. But war is something special, you can't really train soldiers outside of a real conflict.

They are newbs.
Typically, the work you do on university equipment belongs to the university. However, the work you do as a university student also belongs to the university.

Google Larry page still has his paper for the page rank algorithm patented and owned by Stanford. The patent expired now.

So your great work is owned by the university. The only reason google is not owned by the university is because it was formed after the founders left. The product they made while they were in the university was called backrub.
Fwiw it’s not terribly accurate to say it “has become” that. The situation you describe has been true basically since right after WW2.
Fair enough, it's filed.
Aren't most banks at risk of experiencing a bank run?
> Fan motor on compressor broken, company insist everything needs changed.

Ugh, this happened to me recently.

“It’s an old system and the replacement parts can’t be found. Have to replace the whole thing. $12k”

After they leave I found a replacement on Amazon and replaced it myself 2 days later in under an hour.
Thanks for this recommendation! I had actually already added htmx to my "need to research/review" list of bookmarks... since it kept coming up in HN comments so often. Now, i guess i can move it up a tad in priority.
Have you considered selling your business? Put a price tag on it that covers the extra condo cost and retire at 41?
I think the same and even if we weren't to go to war militarily, China is the most energy and food dependent country on Earth. We, on the other hand, are much more self-sufficient.

Nukes are the problem, though. If they start flying, we would end up eradicating the entirety of the Northern Hemisphere from fallout.
You're right, it's not a binary thing. So, stop using legislation to remove fossil fuels from the people that can't afford your renewables, and then turning around and taxing the shit out of those same people to push renewables that can't stay on par with fossil fuels yet.
You're right, but this law does a terrible job of tackling that problem.

It only affects links, not the headline/description/picture blurb. A plain text link would cost FB money, while a headline/description/picture with no link would cost FB nothing.

And presumably FB would only block link-sharing if doing so was a net positive for them.

This implementation is based off fundamentally backwards understandings of the flow of value on the web. The appropriate implementation of this would just be a straight-up corporate tax of social media companies and an accompanying subsidy of news orgs, not this weird linking nonsense.
> I think Ukraine showed China exactly what the world response would be to such an invasion - i.e. shunning

EU shunned everything except the stuff they relied on: gas. That they kept buying in quantity. Given how much manufacturing the EU and US has outsourced to China, how effective would such shunning be?
I think war is the last resort (as no one really knows what a modern all out war looks like, even when nuclear weapons are out of the picture, which no one is sure either).

As long as China is getting some international trading and unemployment is still controllable she should be fine with some pressure from outside. If not then it's really difficult to tell what's going to occur.
Their Flame Retardant Linen is a great insurance package.
> “That was absolutely idiotic,” the employee, who works on the asset management side of Silicon Valley Bank, told CNN in an interview. “They were being very transparent. It’s the exact opposite of what you’d normally see in a scandal. But their transparency and forthright-ness did them in.”

This is pretty ironic. Not only people constantly complain at lack of transparency but when they actually get honesty and glimpse into workings of a large bank they panic and withdraw their money and do themselves in.

The irony part is that any bank will fall if people take a peek and realise the bank does not have their money.

As for banks, fractional reserve banking is a fraud that is made and tolerated in the name of economic progress. But other than suspending withdrawals there exists no way to safeguard a bank against bank runs. And it is not possible to prevent the bank from losing your money as long as the bank is free to invest your money into financial instruments -- there exist no financial instrument that are free from risk. There exist no way of combining financial instruments to hedge against risk completely.

The only thing that you can do is to shovel your risk from place to place and make so it looks that you don't have any risk until it happens. And then you loose catastrophically.
All of the credit rating agencies suck. But that being said, Experian is the only one that actually matters. And none of the free credit monitoring services have their data. IMHO their app is a necessary evil to know where your credit truly stands, and I don't mind using it for that.
Yeah I'm willing to bet it's gotten easier lately, perhaps because things have settled down. Then again Mac is always its own special case with Py libs.
Do they really? Isn't it only the interest rate that decides how much risk a bank wants to take on?

Couldn't I could open a bank, stuff your cash into my vault and charge you a negative interest rate to pay for guards.
I'm no NFT cheerleader, but I do bemoan the failure of yet another attempt to provide artists with revenue.

NFTs were always daft, but the fiction, as fiction often does, spoke to a real need.
What's your point here? You're only supporting my stance.
I made a thing called "unsnap" which removes snaps, and can optionally install the flatpak equivalents. https://github.com/popey/unsnap
It feels like they've moved into the extract value phase for sure, maybe a bit forced by github actions removing their USP. I'm still using them for now, but I feel the day I move back to Github for the higher profile or self-hosted gitea/forgejo for the data control is coming.
Yes, but the basics of computing (text input, pointing, selecting) haven't been worked out for the new paradigm. Like you point out, how information superiority and affordance work even in standalone applications hasn't really been solved. Without tactile touch components, it's very hard to interact with spatial data (one of the reasons CAD is so hard to learn).

I'd suggest that we'll need another 'mother of all demos' that solve some of these HCI problems, not just the fit and finish upgrade that Apple typically offers.
Actual wars? In WWII the US engaged successfully in a two front war as part of the allied coalition and more directly against Imperial Japan, and I don't think that should be understated. What we call in the US the Korean War was a good show of military might, and ended short of things getting out of hand. The Gulf War is another decisive showing of force.

Nation building, however? God we do suck at that. Thats why I made the distinction. We tried nation building (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan) and failed miserably, but we are not talking about nation building.

We are talking about all out total war, and I've seen enough of the war machine up close to tell you, that if it was unrestrained, it would have laid waste to their targets in short order, and without much fuss.

What Russia is doing, from the aspects of their aims, is also not total war, its trying to do nation building in the Ukraine.

I hate all war, FWIW, enough experience with it to know better, but it would be a fools errand to take on the US military machine in present by any nation, really.

Short of nukes, there just isn't any single nation that could really go to task with it, its massive, and thats why it scares me.
Haha, same here, whenever I see some random meeting called "[whatever] chat" being scheduled, like "Engineering chat" or "Quick eng all-hands", you know it's

1. Someone's leaving or is getting fired from the department
2. More people are getting fired

The point is that this, along with "*changes" is always bad news. :D
I appreciate it. Thank you.
Wealthy people in developed countries won’t change. They either don’t want to inconvenience themselves or acknowledge that they’re the problem - or both.

People will instead say nonsense like, “corporations are the problem.”

I think it’s great that you’re taking steps to reduce your impact on the world (I’ve made many myself: no meat, no kids, no driving, no flying, small dense housing), but honestly don’t get your hopes up for anyone else following suit.
The depositors are getting 100% of their money now because the FDIC has guaranteed all deposits, including deposits in excess of the usual $250k limit. Any shortfall will be socialized among all participating banks. The SVB's shareholders didn't get bailed out, but their depositors absolutely just did.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...

If the SVB had been forced to recognize its loss sooner, then this government bailout wouldn't have been necessary. Perhaps they'd have succeeded in raising more capital, and survived as an operating business; or perhaps their shareholders would still have been zeroed and their creditors would have seen a partial recovery. The depositors would have been fine either way though, no government bailout required.
Any other graduate-level self-guided courses worth doing? I'm interested in AI/ML/Statistics.
This is really semantics to me. Customers gave SVB their money because they paid high returns and engaged in risky behavior. That money was used to fund exec and employee salaries. People who take risks should bear the responsibility. Whether the bank still exists or not doesn't really concern me, since the people who ran it into the ground can turn around and do the same thing tomorrow.

> "provide for the common defense and the general welfare of the United States,"

We'll have to agree to disagree that bailing out well-off startup founders and employees is the best way to provide for the general welfare of the United States. I'd start with people undergoing medical bankruptcy, then about a million other categories of people before I got to them. Either way, I'd prefer the accounting to be transparent. The FDIC isn't acting as a corporation here, so they shouldn't be a corporation.
It is entirely dissimilar from highly agile work environments, because neither the federal government nor the financial system are highly agile. And even in far more agile systems, path dependency and status quo bias are very powerful.

I would make a very large wager with you that in a decade it will be unquestioned that last night was the night US bank deposits of any size became fully government backed. Maybe that's even a good thing! I dunno, I have no idea what all the downstream effects will be. But the banking system now works a different way than it did on Thursday morning, and I think it's reasonable to question the wisdom of a change this huge being made over one random weekend.
I don't really worry about it - yearly stuff on a google cal, other stuff I just condense onto one day a week, others one day a month. Over planning does the opposite of removing other things I need to keep in my head that don't really matter.
> The problem here is that people are not, at scale, hitting the news company website

Maybe that's something the news companies have to work on - such as working on making these sites more useful and attractive to the users, instead of adding more ads and paywalls and then running to the government screaming "people don't want to visit our sites, please save us".
I just think it's too ambitious.

Everything and the kitchen sink just will never be as good as best of breed.
AFAIK Tesla never had lidar. They had and will again have simple radar.
> This is the biggest threat to security globally

Eye Roll

I thought Russia was the biggest threat. Wait, wasn't it Iraq? No it was Iran! hmmm
I really doubt that Mr. Thiel's role was intentional. He was probably just being a good steward of his portfolio's accounts and his spidy sense was going off.

I don't think it was like, "Hey, I know what, I've seen A Wonderful Life. Let's see if we can do a modern day version of a bank run. Everyone, get your money out of there."

His actions might have been the spark. But the tinder was there and it would have sparked by any other person (of similar influence) taking notice. The bank is at fault for this, not any depositor.
Aegis looks like a good option. I'll take it for a spin. Thank you!
Nothing wrong with heat pumps being hip and cool!

Electric Air gives you (1) easy purchase, financing install (2) built in air quality sensors and controls (3) a thermostat that's actually good, and fully utilizes the efficiency of your inverter heat pump and uses demand response, weather, and TOU rate plans to lower your bills.
What else in the post is worth debating?

YC made a decision about the value of one of their departments, and HackerNews generally accepts it as given that companies can make these kinds of self-determinations. The reasons for the decision were given. As a result of that decision, 17 people no longer have jobs with YC.

All that’s really left to debate is how YC phrases it. “17 teammates were impacted” is weasellier than the average layoff announcement so it gets the criticism.

As an aside, there seems to be a general but informal understanding that fired means you did something wrong while laid off means you’re alright but the company no longer employs you. Other terms like “impacted” have to be matched to one of these two cases. Probably a lot of benefit for everyone from formalizing this distinction. The military uses “honorable discharge, other than honorable discharge, dishonorable discharge” https://www.zero8hundred.org/types-of-discharges for example.
> absolutely improve noticeably even up to $10-15k

Except, they don't. The only reason to buy a 15k speaker is to gain a higher SPL before distortion kicks in, or you want some cool feature or aesthetics.

For a home user just seeking good (accurate) music reproduction, there is not much point to spending more than a couple grand on a 2.1 system.

Beyond that, you are best to spend money on EQ, then room treatments and extra subs to try and sort out the low end (the most challenging aspect of music reproduction).
> Stop giving these [bank] guys a pass...

Indeed. Greg Becker, the CEO of SVB, was a member of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Fed, up until last Friday. If anyone had some insight about what federal monetary policy was doing, he should have.
I mean... not even, right? A "livelihood" is one's ability to make money in their career, not specific to an individual job. Surely these highly qualified people will find work elsewhere.

So it's really not worth getting dramatic about. It's sad, but such is life. I wish the best of luck to these folks, but I doubt they're in mourning. I'm sure the YC leadership is helping them figure out next steps as we speak.
My sense is that in the particular case of layoffs, companies are hesitant to actually use the phrase "laid off" because it triggers a sense of implicit shame in those affected. There is definitely an unspoken assumption that folks who get laid off are underperformers, and the extent to which we talk about how untrue that is (see: LinkedIn) shows how pervasive the assumption is.
> I think the whole notion of companies doing things "for the shareholders" is vastly overblown.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and I don't share yours. Everything makes sense with the proper framing. My guess is that this has more to do with perception than with actual business needs. I can try as well: Doesn't it make perfect sense that in the current context it's very easy to justify cutting costs which if done during normal times would signal trouble/mismanagement?
If I can't access my funds because they're invested without my approval I don't give a fuck if you invested in immortality. I don't have to explain why I want it right fucking now. I'm buying hookers and coke why do you care give me my fucking money. Also I want my cut.
> ...when combined with back end, data, auth, layout, display, responsive, etc...

Exactly! Glad to hear I'm not alone in that boat! :-)
Great call out, USA sales only for now.
whats wrong with it?
Russia invaded Ukraine over control of the ports of Sebastopol and Odessa, and over control of the Varangian Road from the Black Sea to Moscow. These are immediate national security concerns. There were those of us who looked at the Eastern expansion of NATO with great concern, a proxy war was going to be fought, and Europe was going to have to deal with the refugees and the political instability.
They created the run, forced the fed to step in, and the result is they're all keeping their money. If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid.
Because it’s a job board full of people expecting job posts.
I'm annoyed that they don't want my money. I'm a really basic user and try to keep my private and public stuff there instead of GitHub. I fit in a free tier and would happily pay maybe $5 for it. But I wasn't going to spend $20 and definitely won't spend $30.

Come on GitLab, I want to keep using you and see you succeed. Let me pay $5 for some token feature like extra GB of space and to vote with my money to keep you going. I'll even do it for a "supporter" badge on my profile.
I'll preface this by saying that I'm not a crypto fan, but I felt that NFTs were at least a promising use case for blockchain (* in addition to money, to avoid derailing this discussion).

They solve a real world problem of ownership of digital assets in an interesting way. We need a solution here and NFTs proposed an "open" one. I wish we keep exploring this space.
> real people who are not billionaires are directly and immediately effected

Hard disagree on this. Startups die literally every day, not to mention that we just had tens of thousands of layoffs by big tech companies. In my view, this was a targeted bailout, meant to primarily protect the investment (into startups) of many Silicon Valley investment firms.

> only then will investors be given a chance to recoup some of their investment.

You're still harping on this "investors" thing, which is not even remotely related to my point. You can call me ignorant all day, but my point has zero to do with folks that bought SVB stock, and I'm not fully convinced you actually grasp that.
But then why stop there? Let's say that only the equity shareholders lost money. Would you say that the loss was borne by the taxpayers because the shareholders are taxpayers?
Counterpoint: without a dedicated person in charge of this, responsibility will be diffused among the organization and everyone will assume someone else is taking care of it
>>Teens working to make their own money to get out of whatever situation they are in is a good thing, not a bad one.

You are looking at it from the wrong perspective - it's not about teens being able to make a little money working at McDonalds. It's about letting companies use cheap labour because they know teens aren't in the position to demand good pay and/or benefits. It drags the entire society down, just so you can say teens have the opportunity to work - and for what? Under 18s should stay in full time education, not work in fast food.

>>But from what you guys are saying, you prefer the latter, and I find it extremely distasteful.

I find it extremely distatestul that you seem to prefer a society where teens are part of the labour force to a society where they aren't, so I guess we won't come to an agreement.
I'm currently sitting on a home with a basement open with no heater, and trying to find a contractor to install an all-electric heat pump. I'd love to be your customer but I worked in hardware and just don't see you hitting delivery times, and I can't wait that long.

For those of us who can't wait, If you were to buy a ducted heat pump today, which brand would you go with? Who is the best of the worst?
Here is a sample chatbot style conversation I had locally with LLAMA 30B 4bit quantization on a 3090 RTX (generation speed 5 tokens per second):

https://i.imgur.com/V4lzLz7.png

It does quite well at simple reasoning. More complex stuff, it does struggle sometimes, but I am impressed by the output and the fact that it even runs on my computer.

I used the oobabooga repository on Ubuntu 22.
It's actually a bit concerning that I am unable to find any details on the proposed Online News Act. Will HN or Wikipedia be designated as digital platforms? Are digital platforms allowed to link to non-Canadian news sources? What are the enforcement mechanisms for web sites with no Canadian operations?

I wonder if the lack of detail is intentional.
Largely agree with what you're saying, not so much on retirees, yes they should be means tested, but I have seen old people getting robbed of their homes to pay for some shitty nursing home.
What are the chances that TESLA will enter the market as Elon Musk has previously mentioned deep interests in Home heating/cooling before
At least they are more honest about providing a particular editorial lens to the type of news and content they produce.

Edit: that said, having them as primary sources for consumption is obviously much worse than actual journalism built on journalistic principals. We simply don't have much of that at all anymore (if we really ever did, which I think an argument could be made it was somewhat better previously).
US counldn't deal with bunch of homeless with ak47 for 20 years. good luck with that
I have had a few questions where it gave a completely nonsensical answer, but by fiddling with the parameters, I've gotten more usable output. Have you tried lowering the noise and increasing top_p?
I know these products sound stupid, but Ethernet can insert a DC bias and repeat AC-coupled noise from other sources. This includes its own PSU. There are industrial Ethernet products that specifically address both these problems, because in a factory environment, both phenomenon can have practical consequences when there's motors and power electronics throwing around big magnetic fields. I imagine being near speakers with big drivers can also cause some of the same problems that would never be found in a typical desktop or datacenter computing environment.
> Experian is the only one that actually matters.

Why?
It's notable that compute modules have had pretty ok availability for a bit. The primary chip seems to be reasonably available.

I feel like there's a pretty untold story here, that while yes chips are hard to get & there is limited capacity to a degree, there's also been an enormous amount of buy-outs across the industry & a lot less competition. Not a lot of folk are signing up to try & compete with an rpi like product or main chip, and I think the market's disinterest in serving the low end, in striving to keep going upmarket, is a macro trend that can't last forever.
Isn’t it almonds, too?
There's occupying a foreign territory and decisively winning conventional battles. The US has no issues with the latter, and Taiwan will be the latter, unless you think the US is going to invade China and hold a city or two for two decades.

The Gulf War put the world on notice at how quickly Iraq, then the 5th (iirc) largest armed force, was dismantled in days by the US war machine.