skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One SVB depositor, the streaming service Roku, has $487 billion housed in the bank—only a small fraction of which seems to be insured.

Not impressed by the basic factual errors in this article. $487 billion ≠ $487 million. https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/roku-svb-failed-silico...

EDIT: I just noticed another disappointing factual error, bordering on disinformation. They say:

> On October 14, 2022, Sacks tweeted, “The idea that the American government, the American taxpayer, or any American company is obligated to provide support is pre entitlement.” That was before the SVB collapse. On March 10, 2023, Sacks sang a different tune: “Where is Powell? Where is Yellen? Stop the crisis NOW. Announce that all depositors will be safe.”

I'm no Sacks apologist, but they took his first quote completely out-of-context, making it sound like he was saying the US government shouldn't support failing companies, when he was in fact talking about the US supporting Ukraine. See: https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1634357137873969152
Tip Sheet How to Write Clearly: Using Precise and Concise Language
Every Russian company needs to be sanctioned. Especially a tech one.
I miss RPi a great deal.

I recall that a core piece of RPi's strategy was to use excess capacity to create an awesomely capable and super inexpensive product family. That core piece of thinking was instrumental to RPi's success.

Semiconductor production capacity was already getting tighter before Covid, but Covid fully shifted the space from capacity excess to capacity drought.

The same leverage that super charged RPi's growth is what is now snuffing it out.

I really want to see RPi come back. It seems that will only happen if...

1) Some dramatic shift in global dynamics returns the semi conductor industry to the capacity excess state.

or

2) RPi manages to extract itself from the business/leverage model it used to power its growth and find a new way to do its thing.

Both seem pretty unlikely in the foreseeable future.

BTW, the Beaglebone has a completely different mission, purpose, and philosophy. It's a pretty excellent piece of hardware as well, and seems much more likely to stick around in the current environment.
Creating a position for employees that aren't needed is generally not a business priority.

Besides, it's likely that this is primarily a cost-cutting measure given similar industry trends at the moment.
Probably got traction because the headline is much clearer and the language is not twisted by the YC PR team.
The bank owners? Yes, they have.
The care home vaccine mandates were far more impactful than Brexit. There were mass resignations when the government forced care home workers (and only them) to take the COVID shots.
This service is pretty extraordinary and pushing physical limits. It requires new satellites with large antennas. It is unlikely that we'll see faster internet with existing phones.

It might be possible to have mobile internet terminals, like a satellite hotspot. I hope Starlink comes out with something like that.
Text rendering is a quite CPU-intensive thing to do nowadays. It can burn your CPU with unnecessary work to move bitmaps around, while the GPU, which is specifically created and tuned for this kind of tasks, stays idle.

This is basic mechanical sympathy.
I'm in the market for a heat pump in my home to replace electric forced air which is in a cold climate. It seems like this heat pump would work great for me, and being able to see pricing up front and self-order sounds awesome!

I'm gonna be a no on purchasing tho. I don't want a smart thermostat that is not system agnostic. High risk of it bricking the system or not being upgradable, minimal reward when compared to all the other smart thermostat options.

A heat pump manufacture that's trying to be a tech company? Nah.
I don’t see why not. OTOH, if you try this on an NVMe “hardware RAID” slot, you may get hilarious results.
>and they have not yet had a direct conversation

Thank god.
I think it's just typos. The third paragraph alone has the misspelling "SBV’s"
"Fixed the error"
I don’t think such war will happen. The tensions will be on technological “supremacy”, political and economic isolation, corporate sanctions, and international support, somewhat a Cold War.

I also believe China is a peaking (rather than a rising) power at this stage. Its growth rate has declined from 14% to less than 5% now. China is facing an aging population (due to the one child policy of the past), international hostility, internal political and numerous other problems.
Sometimes it's not for the company but for the person who was laid off.

To mean that the person was laid off but it wasn't their fault. It's their position that was impacted. Somehow.

Result the same but sentiment might be dulled a little. Not blaming the person but blaming external conditions that resulted in someone being made redundant.
I'm not sure if it's in the best long term interest of the entire state if a few niche businesses based entirely around salmon fishing have a bad year. The calculus is those businesses will either struggle now or struggle forever when most of the fish are gone
I once read somewhere that "Libertarians are like Republican housecats" and I suppose that sounds about right.

Housecats are convinced that they are fully independent and do not need "you" for anything.
Why is it the corporation's fault though? We live in a society and governance structure which encourages corporations to consider revenue over everything else. Why would they act differently? What should Google do? Sorry I understand the human cost of layoffs. But it is a reflection of what this society values. If you want corporations to consider the human cost, you need to make it feature in their financials. Or the government should offer better protection to unemployed people.
My god yes. There is literally a key on a full keyboard dedicated to this function (Home), smaller keyboards have a chord for it (like Fn-Up), and "mobile" touchscreen UI has a global mechanism for this (on iOS: touching the status bar)... to plop down a position:fixed button on top of the content to make it even easier to access this feature that is already extremely easy to access is just gratuitous.
Great to see that Lenna is still in use
It had that connotation 50 years ago, but anyone who thinks it still does is just confused.
Even if Whatsapp was as good as Signal, Signal would have been the stepping stone. Signal developed the protocol first and assisted Whatsapp in adopting it.
> Like communism, Holodomor, and the Great Leap Forward. Those are good examples of what the humanity has achieved with rational thought.

I could list a bunch of crappy software and say that's what humanity achieves with computers. It's laughable to say that the list above represents our achievements with rational thought.

How do you make decisions without rational thought? What do you use instead?
if it was your money at SVB on the line - with two or three commas - you would think differently.

Or to put it differently - if you were the person to manage money with couple commas, you would have done the same.

It is classic prisoner's dilemma. The more there are participants - the less likelihood that everyone will act in a coordinated manner for common benefit.
Two persons maybe can call each other and agree, but hundreds/thousands? unlikely
They couldn’t in Soviet Russia either. I also don’t consider livelihood synonymous with dignity. If you’re going to advocate, I’d fall on the UBI side before I fall on the “meaningless command economy labor for the sake of laboring”
Reason: DMCA

Public: Oof.

vs

Reason: War

Public: Fork it!

vs

Reason: <unstated>

Public: now what?
> People are not reading the articles in full (and therefore being presented with ads, or a subscription paywall), but they are engaging on the social media platform

I feel like you just described Hacker News.
Start a catfish farm.

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/reeling-in-the-doug...
It sucks for those impacted but at least it's not some BS excuse like in most recent layoffs. I hope they find new jobs soon.
That's the rate which causes people to argue it's being "defunded".
This very much depends on where you are. For example in the UK a lay off technically means being told to stay at home because there isn't enough work [1], although it's often used these days to mean "fired without cause", i.e. the American usage of lay off has become more common and it has simultaneously became common to use the term "furlough" to describe layoffs during the pandemic.

[1]https://www.gov.uk/lay-offs-short-timeworking
Charitably speaking the researchers had little time to execute this, so they just ended up using the well known OpenAI API. Still, it would be very useful if someone used LLaMA-65B instead of text-davinci-003 here.

Someone should ask the researchers, either via email or via github pull request, it shouldn't even be that hard to do.
Anvil has self-hosting! Just "pip install anvil-app-server" :)

https://anvil.works/open-source

(I'm a founder)
They didn't take it away on iOS, it was never a feature of iOS to begin with.
They chose to. They didn’t need to. If they were getting too many deposits, they could lower the interest they paid on them.

The problem is they bought a bunch of long dates securities yielding 1.5-2% and when the deposits flooded in they started paying more than 1.5-2%.

They have been better off buying T bills or something else without duration risk and paying something less than Fed Funds. This is what most banks do.
It was a mismanaged crisis, I think on that point we agree.
Just like shellshock and heartbleed, something being out in the open does not mean anyone with enough clout has actually looked into it. Transparency does not by default require anyone to look over the documents generated.
Competent people who were effective at their job are laid off all the time. You're basically saying there's a stigma to not being the best at work.
Don't believe everything you read on the internets...

Edit: we're currently at 1200feet going 30 000 miles per hour.
I mean if the company is pivoting and closing the entire division because they no longer need to, eg, make film cameras or make buggy whips, why would you keep anybody from there around? You don't need their expertise any longer. Even if they were the best at their job, if you're not doing those things any more, what would you keep them around for?
Sigh. I wish people would teach compilers using Oberon as an example. One can write a small yet complete compiler for (what turns out to be not-so-tiny) a language.
No it doesn't. When private healthcare is included the UK spends about the same.
Feels like industrial revolution whiplash.
There’s usually a significant difference for the individual where laid off means you get unemployment while fired (implies cause) does not.
The whole argument is whether uninsured deposits should be provided by the FDIC. I have no problems with the insured amount being returned to customers.

The FDIC is a government owned business and shouldn’t be acting outside of it’s financial interests and obligations.
The effects would trickle down, no? If your payroll money was in SVB and you lost it, your workers won’t get paid?
That's true to some extent - I could spin up a few hundred accounts predicting something specific happen on a specific date for the next couple of years (a Russian surrender, Boris Johnson sex scandal, whatever) and claim that I'm Nostradamus when one of them hits gold. But it seems like this account accurately predicted not only that it would happen but also predicted the manner that it would happen, and explained in detail why it would happen. That feels a bit more substantial.
My Carrier wall unit has a button for manual operation:

> MANUAL CONTROL is intended for testing purposes
and emergency operation only.
I think the failure, in terms of regulation, is holding accountability in the first place when they violate existing laws and SEC regulations. Not to mention, ever actually holding executives and boards to account in terms of liability against their personal wealth.
Reminds me of the Alaskan Snow Crab population collapse last year.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33207372
It's also the exact kind of "all talk no action" place where you would expect wealthy people to pretend to be woke.
Frustrating. Depositor insurance is not socialism, and it's a somewhat shockingly stupid thing to suggest that it is. And even the suggestion that depositor insurance is what's at play here is a stretch; the word from the fed is "No losses associated with the resolution of Silicon Valley Bank will be borne by the taxpayer".
And "laid off" means eligble for uneployment; "fired" often does not.
Agreed, this isn't a $100 thermostat that I can just pull off the wall and replace - we're talking an expensive investment with a 10+ year lifespan. That said, even for my thermostat not being bound to the cloud was an important reason I went with Emerson/Sensi (the only value-add I lose if their cloud goes down is usage reporting, everything else I can do with the native Homekit support).
It would either have to be pooled subscriptions, or a maintained set of different, per-site workarounds (using specific referrers and/or user-agents, disabling or modifying on-page javascript, hidden urls, etc) or a mix of the two.
The FDIC is guaranteeing all SVB deposits, including deposits above $250k. Any deficit will be paid from the FDIC's insurance fund, which if necessary will be topped up by a special assessment on all participating banks. So the losses (if any) won't be socialized over taxpayers, but they will be socialized over some combination of bank owners and customers.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...
> Write a love song from Luke to Leia.

...It proceeds to produce a poem, not a song, and without any references to Star Wars that would indicate that it "knows" who either of them are...

This post is very long on hype and very short on fact or supporting evidence. Many things are attributed to GPT models' capabilities that are not in evidence, so its hard to take the content here seriously.
Those news broadcasts are owned by the rich. Simple as.
Hi HN!

I posted Dalai on HN yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35127020) and I have been spending the last 24 hours trying to listen to all the feedback and incorporate all the incoming pull requests and make a new release.

1. If you had trouble installing and they were just not installing for some reason, make sure you try this version.
2. If you had trouble working with models other than the 7B one, yes it was my fault, only the 7B one was working, and now this has been fixed, and now ALL models should work with this new version
3. Use existing workspace: If you already have an existing llama.cpp workspace folder, now Dalai can connect to it programmatically instead of creating its own repository under ~/dalai. Remember, while the easy installation is important, the most important aspect of Dalai is that it lets you interact with llama.cpp with JavaScript. So even if you already have an existing llama.cpp and just want to play with it using JS, you can use Dalai.
4. New Web UI

I don't want to ramble on and on here so will link a thread where I discussed this in more detail, for those who are interested in learning more: https://twitter.com/cocktailpeanut/status/163539451761565286...

Finally, like 90% of the code for this release came from people other than myself and it's amazing how this happened. Thank you everyone who contributed.

There are some further issues I think need to be addressed. If you have any feedback that hasn't been addressed with this release, please let me know!

and if you want to follow along with the development, you can find me on Twitter https://twitter.com/cocktailpeanut
It's objectively hilarious that the top VCs put on their "banking expert" hats and misdiagnosed SVB's public statements so badly that they created a run on their own bank.

Let's be honest, very few of the VCs calling their founders telling them to pull their accounts had any clue about what "held-to-maturity" vs "available for sell" meant in the context of SVB's investment portfolio, or had any real knowledge about what the actual issue was within the bank. They were just hearing rumors/reading tweets that the bank was going to collapse and taking it at face value without any diligence.

They made the calls, retweeted the tweets, and then read the explainers on substack the following day to figure out what was actually happening. It was pure herd panic behavior and should make a great case study some day.
Ask HN: Open-Source Legal Documents
There're a lot of open source project. Does anyone aware of any open source legal projects. I.e. like a reusable operating agreement for LLC, or a set of forms for typical agreements for a software company?
They had no plans, things changed, plans changed. It is completely valid to blame SVB for not hedging. It is valid to blame them for lobbying to loose up regulation over how much risk they can take too.

If anything is damaging trust, it is banks and investors lobbying to loosen up regulations, claiming the banks are too small to pose systemic risks and then ask for special exceptions the moment it does not work out.
I think they struck the right balance. Pages are declarative functions much like React and they only appear to use classes for state or component wrappers.
Yes, there are numerous automated and human-powered nuisance traffic streams.

1. CMS sites are constant maintenance, as most are an endless supply of issues. However, some have content caching to reduce the SQL workload.

2. Delayed registration with CAPTCHA and a brief explanation of why you are there. Quiet banning IP filter applied to list to boot pending users who enter emails that bonce or fail to authenticate.

3. Firewall blacklist areas of the world where you don't do business (better yet, whitelist the ISPs in the regions you do business), blacklist proxy/tor/spam IP ranges, add port tripwires, and setup rate limited traffic per IP (see slow loris mitigation methods if you are not using nginx).

4. add peer site content blocker for forum spammers/bots i.e. share exploit probes preemptively with the rest of the net.

5. add email filter for mention of bitcoin/BTC, and black-hole the entire IP block if in an irrelevant region.

6. lookup same-origin enforcement for your web-server, add Subresource Integrity Hash to your core, and re-scale/watermark/scrub all media to protect users from themselves.

7. fail2ban rules for common site security scanners, known exploit attempts, and common email scams.

You owe nonpaying users nothing, so the collateral cost of blanket bans is $0 in hostile regions. Remote traffic monitoring is also recommended if you have a game engine running.

On day 2 we can look at how BTC tumblers/launderers fund most of these issues, and whether it is OK to also preemptively blanket-ban most cloud/hosting providers (costs under 7% of your users in most cases). Remember, adversaries will often pretend to be from wherever they wish to inflict harm, and time does not have an associated cost in the 3rd world.

Have a gloriously wonderful day =)
I agree with this. I would rather have it automated without cloud functionality. I think people on HN just like hacking lol. But when it comes to appliances and cars I would rather not mess with their code and break them.
YC is not special. It’s a business and they’ll use weasel words like the rest of them.
Right, the active construction does grammatically require we put something there, where in the passive we get to omit it, which is why the passive is sometimes used for evasion. But if you're interested in whether someone is being evasive, just... look at whether they're actually assigning agency appropriately. Grammatical form doesn't answer that.

See also https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/index.php?s=passive for much related amusement.
“Farisa will arrive.” —spray painted at Y Combinator headquarters by a just-now ex-employee, 13 marzo 2023.
What did the depositors do wrong? You're saying in a just world, the individuals and businesses who just decided to open a checking account—at a top-20 US bank—deserve to lose everything? What did they do wrong?
They could be effective altruists though!
"As someone about to be in the market for something like this, propriety lockout is a complete deal breaker for me." - StrangeATractor

"Would your company be willing to provide an open-source local-first websocket-based integration with https://www.home-assistant.io/ or use the new Matter + Thread standard to provide it for everyone?" - daredoes

"Most of your competition has no sensitivity, and almost no openness, about these aspects. I think this could become a really important part of your go-to market, but also a differentiator vs other products." - simonebrunozzi

"I would like to be able to add it to HomeKit without it ever phoning home once. Matter + Thread help make that a possibility." - X-Istence

They.
> Can you explain your thinking?

Not the person you are asking, but I can already guess what their reasoning most likely is gonna be.

Get a large sheet of paper and fill it with buzzwords like "tiktok", "groomers", "CRT", "lgbtq propaganda", etc. Throw a few darts at it, and you should get a possible semblence of the reasoning I would expect the grandparent comment user to give you.

I always try to give a poster the most charitable interpretation possible and steelman their argument before even considering making fun of it. But I legitimately struggle to come up with any charitable interpretation of an argument that claims "underage users browsing internet without state-mandated age verification is more dangerous than them working in a meatpacking facility or a slaughterhouse".
> Creating a position for employees that aren't needed is generally not a business priority.

Sure, I guess I was using too much of a shorthand in my comment. What I meant was, I’m surprised a company with such a high talent density didn’t generate enough new business quickly enough to be able to anticipate near future needs for these folks so that it would make sense to keep them.

I would think YC would have a lot of opportunities to deploy capital, and so a lot of opportunities to gain value from a variety of employee types.

If I knew more about the internals of YC I might be able to make more specific suggestions.

By the way, any company out there, I’d be willing to brainstorm (for free) about how you can repurpose and keep your people, or find other creative solutions. I’ll check for replies to this comment later today and tomorrow, and maybe I’ll edit it to add a throwaway or alternate email shortly.

Email: jmorrow977 at gmail. I’ll check tonight and daily for the next couple days or week.
Of course it's a bet that interest rates will stay low, as subsequent events have amply demonstrated.

Managing to hang on until maturity doesn't magically make it turn into a profit, when you consider the time value of money. The bonds are worth so little today precisely because they're only returning the original amount at maturity, plus 200 year low interest.
This is really interesting so far.

I think I've found a bug when using f-strings:

pc.text(f'count: {State.count}'),

outputs:

count: {state.count}

while...

pc.text('count: ' + State.count),

outputs:

count: 123

(I'm otherwise using the counter example, just with a default value of 123.)
If you fail to do something hard, it’s easy to guess why; it was hard. But that doesn’t impute it was foolish to try.
From my experience, there are plenty of teams in FANG that will hire you as a backend developer in a ML team assuming you can pass their interviews. 90% of the work in these teams is not core ML and is more mundane work supporting these models, such as data piping, cleaning, feature generation, experimentation, and real-time serving. You'll get plenty of experience in working directly with ML systems.

The jump to core ML is a bit trickier. Competing with people with PhD's is a drag. Wish people could also give me some tips there.