skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have family that works as HVAC techs for both residential and commercial. I also used to work at the shop but did other stuff primarily.

Here's my question though: it states as a direct to consumer sales route. However the pricing includes installation. I don't know of any contractors that would be willing to do a customer supplied part installation for something like a heat pump. I also know that if they did do it, they would provide no warranties around it. So then from the consumers point of view, you've paid $10k to have something installed and if it breaks, you're out of luck and it's time to pay up again.

I'm interested in hearing more about this product and seeing how it works. Would love to chat more about it.
I am in the process of making this transition now.

I joined Grab.com on their Safety team and started working on their face recognition technologies. This got my feet wet in ML. Now I am leading their content moderation efforts.

TL;DR: Find an "ML adjacent" engineering role and take on ML/AI work.

"ML adjacent" roles could be, content moderation, safety, ads, and search.
In many places, without at will employment, you can't lay an individual off, but actually have to make the position redundant.
I think of it more like the protagonist (or antagonist, one could argue) of a movie holding on to the hand of someone (employee) about to fall off of a cliff (the descent, ultimately, to poverty and homelessness) just to make the metaphor as vivid as possible.
It would exactly be a tax funded bailout.

Most people would indeed decry it because the people complaining about tax payer funded bailouts would be wondering why we were willing to tax 10 billionaires more money to make whole people with more than $250k, instead of using that money to prevent the discontinuation of a program that say, reduced child poverty by 46% in the US.

For the record, I don’t consider this a bailout. Making whole people’s deposits isn’t what I would consider a bailout because I look at a bailout as protecting entities from the negative consequences of bad decisions, whereas I don’t see depositing money in a bank as a bad decision. This is the equivalent of the govt using its vast assets and reputations to make while the victims of Madoff, for example, which without govt intervention would have meant that the fund’s assets were disposed in a fire sale, so the victims get less money than they would have if the govt intervened and provides short term liquidity allowing those assets to be disposed off at a higher market value.

But it’s still socialistic, and it strongly indicates the need for government regulation and intervention, because no private entity could do this, and basically undermines strong economic libertarianism.
Good question. The uniform temp is really within a room, what you're describing is the not uncommon experience of having unbalanced duct work. A few options for you (1) DIY or pro duct balancing. You change the position of dampers and vents, might have to modify duct work (2) actuated zone dampers, these live in the duct work and install is expensive (3) a smart vent that you can DIY, battery life is surprisingly good https://flair.co/ (4) mini-split system, every major room gets a wall unit connected to an outdoor unit (condenser), and you can control the temperature of each room the mini-split is in. Electric Air offers wall units for this if you're not able to make a ducted install work. (5) hybrid setup, you use a centrally ducted furnace for most of the house, heat pump or otherwise, and use a mini-split in the upstairs rooms that are not reaching the desired temperature.
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"A man with no active warrants issued" also perfectly describes every single one of the 9/11 hijackers, but that wouldn't equate out to "innocent" either.
I am curious how you are expected to prove in a court of law that the weights you have are derived from some licensed weights if I take just a few gradient steps from the original weights.
You can reuse a cheap old Kindle for "wifi connected eink screen", see e.g. my Kindle Dashboard (https://github.com/niutech/kindle-dashboard) or Kindle VNC (https://github.com/niutech/kindle-vnc).
There isn't enough money in the world to insure the bank deposits of every business. Think about how big insurers would have to be if they needed to insure all the deposits of every business. "Every business should have private deposit insurance" isn't the goal of regulators because it's not a workable solution.

So instead the government acts as a sort of "insurer of last resort" by promising they will do everything they can to protect depositors in the case of banking instability.
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> For years, the salmon fishing industry has been locked in a political struggle in the legislature and the courts over how much water is being allocated to Central Valley farmers. An estimated 80 percent of the state's water goes to agriculture, leaving cities and fisheries to fight over what's left.

This is the core issue. With droughts tending to increase rather than decrease, CA probably needs to reevaluate its commitment to supporting its (very large) agribusinesses.
This immediately stood out to me as well! It didn't come across as tactful, just bizarre
Except often enough in such a situation everyone does exit orderly. People are generally predisposed to cooperate; it's what makes us human. The situations where panic prevails are the exception.

What's the saying... success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan?
I think Andrew raises a good point which is: how exactly do we raise awareness of these sort of dark patterns that are tantamount to fraud in many cases (he cites the “mum test” which I entirely agree with)

Is there a lobby group, or a company that focuses on targeting and shaming these things? I would be 100% up for devoting a few hours a month, or even paid employment, to bringing these sort of people down.
It seems to me that from what I read, the root cause is that the bank was funded with corporate deposits and deposits from institutional investors, both of which are known to be volatile in a stress, and treated punitively by the liquidity regulations imposed on larger banks (in fact financial institutions deposits cannot be used to finance anything else than liquid assets). And they funded buy and hold positions of bonds with these deposits, not hedging the interest rate risk.

All of which are internal fuckups and none of which I read in this article...
Too many things in Gitlab feel half-baked, like their requirements feature which is essentially just their issue tracker, no document management, just toss some issues in the bin. And they expect enterprises to pay for it because they checked the feature box.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/requirements/
I have many of the issues you've hit upon - I currently have an older heating and no cooling, and I wanted to upgrade to a newer system. I signed a contract with a vendor that had previously worked in our HOA, but they reneged and cancelled our contract, so now we've been left in the lurch with the existing system we had without a good way to proceed. Would love to have a new system that plays well with my smart home, is efficient, and cost effective (both in terms of installation and ongoing operational cost).
I have met many Russians in Phuket as well as Ukrainians.
We were all spending hours in a coworking, doing the usual chitchat and drinking a few cocktails/beers on the weekend.

Nobody really cared.

Some had family there. But it's not like you can hate a Russian guy doing the same job as you, living abroad. The guy is not going to overthrow is government or anything.

I felt the same vibe when I was pursuing a master degree in China.
Taiwanese and Chinese got along pretty well. We were just a bunch of smart kids in our twenties, debating, drinking, sharing stories and exploring life.
The bank's owners were its shareholders, and it was publicly traded. Literally anyone could own a share of it.

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/SIVB:NASDAQ
When did you join and how is it going? I had an offer from them ~4 years ago and this was one of the teams that I was in talks with.
highly educated engineers were paid like 100 rubles/mo, which is slightly above minimum wage.

Why lay off people, when state can afford to keep them on minimum wage? and reap the benefit of their work (rockets, weapons, tanks, nukes, etc)
Yes, I'm being hyperbole. But my point still stands, the view that risk should be risk-free and someone should bail you out when shit hits the fan instead of sucking it up and writing it off as a bad bet is closer to socialism than capitalism.

In the US you have low taxes but have to insure against everything. In the EU we have high taxes but insurance is not a thing unless mandatory (car/home). I don't even have the latter, stupid yes, but I would suck it up and not blame it on the FED.
You’ll get people sharing headlines from obscure blogs and then arguing about it.

You cannot legislate changes to human nature.
At MOST that is a 100 token prompt/response, so that is like $0.0002 to answer with gpt-turbo. Hardly going to break the bank...
That seems likely, though it does still seem like their results might fall into the "things behave differently at micro-scale and macro-scale" category. Normally we'd expect the (macro) knots we're familiar with to weaken -not strengthen - the cord or rope they're tied in (how much varies quite a bit with which knot we're talking about, but I don't know of any that don't have at least some negative impact). The little video almost implies the effect is similar to stretch, that the tangled version can't tighten up (with friction presumably absorbing some energy) like the knotted one does.
How does irrational quantities physically exist in nature?
Archive disks such as USB external drives that can be stored elsewhere. They are very compact and hold a lot of data. A 4TB USB external 3.5" hard drive should be very suitable.

Hard drives are very stable and readable decades later as a general rule. Much better than the CDROMs and DVDs that were touted as 'permanent' when they first arrived, only to be shown as very impermanent in practice.
Of course it is possible for LLM model to learn this!

The problem was with token embeddings, not with math.
Passive voice is a tool. It’s perfectly valid and grammatical. The problem is the abuse of it to misrepresent one’s agency or responsibility, but there’s nothing wrong with the sentence, “I was hit by a car on the way to work.”

The issue with corporate passive is that business language is not only ugly but serves evil purposes. In person, it exists to slow down bad news so you can read and manipulate people (“string betting”) and, on paper, its raison d’etre is to project authority to which one has no actual right.
We are selling entrepreneurship short
They have the absolute advantage in early stage, from marketing to skills and focus. Surely everyone thinks YC first. Not true in late stage.

Focus. Much easier to have the entire company focused on one thing.

Specialisation of labour. Become experts, make sure nobody catches you.

When you start diluting your goal you trade off focus and specialisation, potentially reducing your advantages.

Now I’m wondering how to apply that to myself. The answer seems obvious but I like being a generalist.
It's awful that the whole world will possibly be dragged into China's incomplete civil war because of anxious interventionistas.

Is this the tipping point for WWIII or will it be isolated enough to not spill over?
Representatives from Alecta, the swedish pension fund that was big owner said the same.

That SVB had presented a plan that was agreed upon with the owners but instead they sold their assets with a loss and went out publicly to seek investment without having an agreement with anyone.

They declared this a "big mistake"
+1 ... Until poor investment decisions have real ramifications, from personal liability on executives and boards even levelled to bankrupt and possibly including criminal conviction, things won't change.

I wish the US Govt had done closer to what Iceland and a handful of others did in 2008... No, we aren't bailing you out, you pay out domestic deposits first, and then if there's anything left, the rest. And no, you don't get to take/keep bonuses for it.

Modern corporate structure and liability shields to the level they exist in the US is anything but libertarian. You make bad choices, you live with the consequences.
Yes this is HN what do you expect, of course everyone and their grandma here is gonna want a fully unlocked, open source and free as in freedom fries product.
I let GPT summarize the conversation, and use embeddings for semantic search to recall relevant memories. The memories are inserted into part of the prompt.

It's imperfect because of the token window (much like human memory).

It can generally recall things I ask it to remember.

I do save a complete, exact chat record, but currently I don't use that except for the recent chat (in case we're working on some code or whatever that needs to be exact).

It still has plenty of problems, don't get me wrong.
Correct. I think you are being blinded by the word "bonds" when evaluating the proportions you assign to mismanagement vs. being blindsided. I feel inviting swapping in a word that is anything except bonds may be a way to continue this interesting conversation
It would be a proxy war, not direct US troop involvement. But China says any response from Taiwan will be taken as a direct response from the US. So, that could go south in a hurry.

I think Ukraine showed China exactly what the world response would be to such an invasion - i.e. shunning, so I doubt this would happen except as a way to goad the US into a war. And China certainly isn't ready for that yet.

From the US POV, we are only posturing economically so China can't jump ahead of us technologically. I think we are growing concerned their AI vision systems might soon allow suicide drones that can target US politicians. But that's coming anyway. In general, we have finally decided it doesn't make a lot of sense to hand them technology that they then turn around and put into military hardware that will be used against us.
Arguably fewer news articles means less outrage, yielding lower engagement. The recipe for a news story requires events and a conflict to tell the story of, and official news sources largely fabricate that conflict and decorate it with the events of the day.

The fabrication comes from ideology, one that percieves everything as conflict and power struggle. It's why the news often seems like utter nonsense. I don't watch it anymore because I can't sustain a state of cringe that long, but anything that reduces its reach is something I can get behind.
I think its overplaying your hand to call this "socialism for the rich". It's just regulation.

That being said, I do think its hilarious how many people who were promoting crypto as a way to destroy the regulatory state have now had their asses saved by the regulatory state.
Microsoft’s bet on Azure unlocked an AI revolution
Guid stored in local storage?
The 'field' is rather big, and as with most tech fields, 80% of the work is the same (sometimes mundane) stuff. Infrastructure, CRUD, business logic, the whole 12-factor thing.

Where it would start to get tricky is if you have to do more than 'consume' ML libraries. Everyone can learn how to use a library or API, and getting some training going isn't all that hard either. But if you have to build said library, or come up with a new modelling method, that's where it's a real transition and gets really hard to simply 'switch'. It's also one of those areas where a PhD really helps, not from a "certification-as-entrypass" perspective, but because this gets down to hard science. For most companies, however, that's a point they never reach.
It's not just the draughts.

https://www.seaspiracy.org/facts

"Species like thresher, bull and hammerhead sharks have lost up to 80-99% of their populations in the last two decades.

Seabird populations have declined by 70% since the 1950's.

Studies estimate that up to 40% of all marine life caught is thrown overboard as bycatch.

Six out of seven species of sea turtles are either threatened or endangered due to fishing.

Over 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises are killed as bycatch every year.

2.7 trillion fish are caught every year, or up to 5 million caught every minute.

Fish populations are in decline to near extinction.
Really? I thought these types of questions would be limited. They seem hand-crafted.

If you cache the answers you're probably looking at 10 queries or so until the site admin gives up on that idea and tries something different
> There are a whole lot of Japanese who dispute this position

Not just Japanese. It seems to be a generally Asian thing.

In addition, I would very much like you to be wearing a mask if you are coughing your lungs out on a transcontinental flight whether it's Covid, flu, a cold, whatever.

I have had about 1/3 of my vacations that started with an airplane trip interrupted by getting sick because I came down with something 7-10 days after somebody on a plane was hacking their guts out.
It's pretty clear the only solution going forward is more inflation. Almost certainly the Fed inflation targets will be raised from 2% to 3% or even 4%. Inflation socializes the cost over everyone who possesses $US. Not to mention, it lets Congress kick the bucket down the road, yet again.
That’s why declining the refund is opt-in, not opt-out.
A number of reasons already discussed, but in person it has the “benefit” of slowing down (drawing out) bad news. It’s like string betting in poker, but it’s also a way of showing dominion over time (by burying the lede and making someone anxious.)
To be fair, a lot of enterprise sales is based on "ticking boxes".
Not for the Advanced class. We cover state-of-the-art systems. Textbooks are about 10 years behind.
Yeah, this happened with RC4 cipher which used to be a trade secret until someone posted it on Usenet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC4#History
I signed up for an Experian account in order to correct a mistake on my credit report-- They had listed a bank account under my name that was created well before I was born, and it was tanking my credit rating.

Unfortunately I used my main email to sign up (to correct their mistake) and started getting those non-unsubscribable emails shortly after. So insulting. I did end up fixing it by changing my account email address to fuckyou@experian.sucks, though.
A prisoner's dilemma where prisoners are allowed to talk to each other isn't much of a prisoner's dilemma.
That one I actually understand. Calling somebody innocent is a very strong and contextual / scoped statement, and ultimately that's what the courts take their time to do (and even they I think kinda stop shy? I don't know if acquitted is the same as innocent. I feel it's more "not proven guilty").
I've ported the Dino Game to Badger 2040: https://github.com/niutech/dino-badger2040 and I am working on a chess game.
You can't communicate without twitter?
Kids got to eat, pay rent too

I’ve read undocumented migrant children sometimes are placed in foster care BUT their families back home need the money, so the kids work to send money home, help the foster family or pay off the smuggling price

Tough to just be a kid in the US with other siblings in need back home

$10 an hour is a fortune
> Compare this to e.g. the C language, standardised at roughly the same time as SQL. In C implementations there is much stronger agreement about what the language looks like. I'm not sure why this is the case.

Some of this is its COBOL heritage - in COBOL, every vendor adds umpteen keywords to the core language for all their vendor-specific extensions - and even the standard itself is full of optional features, all of which add new keywords too. SQL vendors adding lots of new keywords for all their extensions is just being true to the COBOL heritage.

The quotes is a bit different though. I speculate what happened there, is a lot of people who came to SQL from other languages got confused by the whole “double quotes mean identifiers” thing, and so there was pressure on vendors to deviate from the standard and make them mean strings instead (like in most other languages), and invent some other identifier quote syntax instead. Some vendors succumbed to this pressure, others didn’t, yet others did at first but later changed their minds - at which point you end up with some config option (often changeable at runtime on a per session basis) controlling what double quotes mean
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I believe most of people would be just fine with NUC.
I think you're generally trying to refer to communism where everyone's the generally assumed to be equally "owning" a thing, so if we all own it, anyone can be the boss.

Socialization is often the act of governments taking responsibility or ownership of production in order to satisfy the needs of the greater populace.

Although the general act is similar, materially they are very different. The bank was a for profit entity made to put money in the pockets of their owners. It failed. If you let the thing fail in capitalism, the losses incurred are put upon the limited liability owners until their investment is zero, then the money is gone, forever. Nobody gets a dime. That's capitalism. If depositors paid for insurance above 250k and ended up reaping those insurance wins, THAT is capitalism.

Inversely, if a (quasi) government agency swoops in to bail out said failing business, it's "socializing" the liabilities left by the company. This is why you often hear the bailout credo, "private profits, socialized losses". The losses that would be incurred are paid directly or indirectly by the entire population. In this case there's a one-degree of separation extra from the federal government bailing out the depositors, vs. the federal reserve. The net outcome is that a bank that acts poorly and loses a bunch of their customers money can expect governments to prop up their mistakes. So fuck it, live fast and break shit because gov'ment going to bail me out!
> for no reason

For reason. This is far from over.
Could you define what you mean when you say :

> Has anyone made the official career pivot to the ML/AI field?

If you're talking about using ML/AI related tools and algorythms and taking advantage of what they can do, maybe for data processing etc then that's not really too hard an ask, infact these days depending on your role there could probably be a natural progression into these areas.

The problem comes from the core of these types of work, so creating the algorithms, building new model, processing the raw data into something that is useful and this involves even being really close to the hardware level too. I find that it's hugely academic and mathematical focused, for obvious reasons.

It's certainly stuff that flies over my head and for me personally no matter how interested I am in it, I don't think it will ever 'click' for me.
Well, I stand corrected! I was looking through the mobile site and didn't spot it. This makes me want to look a bit harder.

When self hosting, do you gain or miss out on paid features?
> I don't think it should be up to the government to back these risks, because if banks think the government will always rescue them, they don't need to care as much about risky investments.

Counterpoint - if depositors had known that the bank could not lose their money, because the government will back it, there would be no run on the bank. Why bother? It's _safe_ by design. I do agree with the general point, and there are huge questions around capitalisation and marking with long term debt etc.

What's most interesting here to me is the inaction within SVB when they could have been fixing these problems for survivable losses early, but instead tried to ride the storm.

I'd love to read some of those meeting minutes...
Prices were higher, and upside was lower.