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> My debut at @Slate: Venture capitalists are parasites who couldn't be trusted with the financial institution that held up their industry, let alone the direction of our technological development. Euthanizing them is imperative if we want a better world.

I probably wouldn't tweet out language about "euthanizing" "parasites" but maybe I just have a better grasp of history than the author.

There are good critiques of everyone involved in this elsewhere, I have no idea how a reasonable person could conclude this is the one that should be posted and shared.

[0]: https://twitter.com/bigblackjacobin/status/16353028722913812...
Absolutely this. 3-4x? Sibling of mine just had a minisplit installed where the unit was probably $4-$5k and the total was north of $24k.

A sealed water loop where any plumber and most DIYers could manage would be miles ahead in both reliability and accessibility.
You misspelled "will not be fixed until insurers are entirely eliminated from the healthcare market".
From what I understood, they had the minimum reserves because SVB and other banks lobbied to have it lower.
I used wezterm for a while and we added this key binding, I think it was from Wez himself ? -

{ key="e", mods="CTRL|ALT", action=wezterm.action{QuickSelectArgs={
patterns={
"http?://\\S+",
"https?://\\S+"
},
action = wezterm.action_callback(function(window, pane)
local url = window:get_selection_text_for_pane(pane)
wezterm.open_with(url)
end)
} }
},
We need an entire industry of 'appliance based Rpi's to be able to act as modules in a standardly compute plug-in-form factor (just like blades) with a unit preloaded with a config and just swap out inter connects - ich that we have an appliance hub, the solar/whatever input pushes power and the distributor determines where to push or halt the power - with a selector that tells me the input costs, and output draws, such that it can have a system to auto switch to best performance.

Honywell missed the mark on the importance of thermostats on the economy.
I recently got quoted $17k for 2 zone mini split. I bought the tools, instructions, and watched youtube and spent $4500 total. At that savings, I don't need a warranty. I can just buy and install another system if it fails.
Micro-fluidics between the fresh and salt water results in micro-plumes - and the slow, but consistent patterns based on the makeup of the soil WRT salt/non-salty soils and other minerals result in an extremely (many years) micro-vibrations of the patterns expressed to the sub-terranian flows against the soil types result in this pattern.

The other thing, as these are formed over eons - they show that the earth is a globe, as the rough hexagon is the most efficient way to sub-divide a sphere into geometry. This is why bees use it. They can surface map any geomerty in an equitable and even pattern (for the needed breeding cell size, let alone discrete compartments, and a discreet efficiency of dissecting a sphere/area with max efficiency.)

Discrete vs Discreet == Segmented / Carpartmentalized vs Different. e.g. The bees divide their hives into discrete compartments which are used for two differing discreet purposes: Harvesting Honey and Harvesting Honeybee Brood (to be fed with said honey from other cells.

Hexagons are bestagons.

(Source I have two natural honey bee hives outside my house.)
If it makes common unix-ish assumptions like “Python 3 executables have a ‘3’ appended to their name”, which other comments here seem to suggest it does, it won’t, even if you have the required version of python installed.
Let me acquaint you with Peter Thiel, a libertarian VC: https://www.wired.com/story/the-libertarian-logic-of-peter-t...

And lest you think he's the only libertarian VC: https://www.newstatesman.com/quickfire/2023/03/silicon-valle...

And to them railing against bailouts while asking for them now (from the above article):

“Where is [the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jay] Powell? Where is [the Treasury secretary, Janet] Yellen? Stop this crisis NOW,” tweeted the venture capitalist David Sacks – the same David Sacks who is a friend of Thiel and Musk, and who has previously heavily criticised “special-interest corruption” and bank bailouts. Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge fund manager and Donald Trump supporter that has in the past complained about attempts by the government’s Securities and Exchange Commission to regulate one of his investment funds, performed some spectacular mental gymnastics over the weekend, calling on the FDIC to “guarantee all bank deposits”.
> I mean, that's worse. The depositors at SVB are being made whole, the shareholders are getting wiped out.

As they should be. They took a risk and lost.
MS was there in the 90s. But they're still here and Sun ain't.

Not saying it's just offices that saw the... Sun-set... but there are things companies that survive do -- and private offices ain't common.
Yes; the doc in this case filed a complaint. https://twitter.com/generalorthomd/status/163207481637850726...
Tried in Edge and FireFox. Clicking "I agree" does nothing.

Hm. Too many people using it?
Yeah this whole industry seems to suddenly have moved from the pace of a pebble creek to a waterfall.

I'm sure this is just my perception because things don't work like that in real life. Is it really just a ton of slowly developed things happening to mature close together?
Although the presumption of innocence until proven guilty is a fundamental principle of US law and an essential part of our ideology, it is not a universal moral truth. In my opinion, it is justifiable and suitable to prohibit X from having access to sensitive infrastructure based solely on the actions of their government, especially when X is subject to the decisions of that government.
Retirement accounts are not intended as general purpose investment vehicles. If everyone could put their 401k/pension in anything, you would see a lot more people getting scammed and gambling on the latest GameStop internet mania. If folks want to invest like that, get a brokerage account. If you want tax-advantaged retirement planning, being limited to less risky things is the tradeoff you make.
Wow, yeah that's a VERY active project: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/graphs/co... - only started Dec 18, 2022 and already 22 contributors and 806 commits!
"The 68000 uses much wider microcode (85-bit microinstructions compared to 21 bits in the 8086)." is not what I remembered.

Another source says "The actual internal representation is a combination of "microcode" and "nanocode". The 68000 has 544 17-bit microcode words which dispatches to 366 68-bit nanocode words." which sounds right.

Somewhere around here I have a very detailed article about this which might not be available online, but it would take some time to dig it up.
The Federal Reserve can but only by increasing reserves. This exposes the Fed by risk if the bank is shuttered. In that case the Fed is stuck with bonds paying 2.0% while it is paying more on reserves and ends up losing money every month. Today the Fed is paying out more interest than it is earning with an estimated $80B loss for 2023. These losses are creatively booked as deferred assets.

The Fed can also take losses if the bank fails and the assets don’t pay back at par value. Mortgage holders walk away from their homes as prices fall.

And since it is the Federal Reserve it is taking all of these risks on the US taxpayers behalf.
Explanations can exist at multiple levels. Reducing mind to neurons to atoms doesn't destroy/invalidate the emergent description at higher levels.

Just because we "know" the world is "made" of fields doesn't mean that the idea of objects is meaningless.
Nice to know, thanks!

I am not very familiar with how modern Python wsgi servers manage states, but in Java e.g. states can be cached in the heap of the one and same JVM --- can one say that the need to use an external state store like Redis is a direct result of the underlying web server having to launch multiple Python processes in order to scale up for greater loads?
It might be a lack of a system or willingness to stick with it until it gets good.

The manager championing it moves, Business shows a low TAM, there is a bad quarter and the CEO needs to appease investors, etc.
Thanks. So what does the output look like without rlhf?
You might not be familiar with this key component of the SVB collapse story: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/svb-collaps-peter-thie...

It does seem that VCs are not just a convenient scapegoat, but a big part of the story.
Can you imagine a whole new linkedin site where you are paired with a buddy and hired as a team?

Like professional doubles tennis players!
Only 60% of deposits in the US are insured and many other businesses are doing the same thing in many other banks right now! Would people be screaming about VCs if a different regional bank that serves a different business community failed for the same reason (which could totally still happen this week)?

If the government didn't step it they would be ignoring the purpose of the FDIC. The purpose of the FDIC is to protect the banking system from runs and systemic risk. Deposit insurance happens to be the normal mechanism for doing that. When the FDIC realizes that $250k insurance is not enough to stem systemic risk, should they just forget about their mission and let the world burn?
You forgot <sarcasm> the sarcasm tags </sarcasm>.
VCs fuelled the bank run in first place. Many founders received messages from VCs telling/ordering them to withdraw everything from SVB ASAP.
Of course there is risk in bank deposits, but it is a rather more thorny (and therefore more interesting) topic because the risk is not the purpose of the bank deposit; people generally don't deposit cash with a bank as a means of speculating on the creditworthiness of the bank. A pension fund losing money on stocks is BAU, but a pension fund (or any company) losing bank deposits is exceptional and arguably represents a failure of the market, regulators or both.
My main experience with heat pumps is a heat pump installed in the northern US in the mid 1990's.

As a user, the main problem is it's fine in spring and fall, but:

- (1) In winter (when the temperature is below freezing) it can't keep up, and needs to switch the gas furnace on

- (2) It often needs to be manually switched at the thermostat, you should be able to interface an outside thermometer and say "below X degrees use the gas furnace"

- (3) The homeowner told me that they'd never have bought a heat pump if they'd known it would only work for like 25% of the year. Decades have passed, so presumably you have better tech. But you need marketing and customer education to explain that it's better, and assure your customers that past bad experiences aren't indicative of future results if they buy your system. For me, that means performance metrics (e.g. curves for various house sizes showing the duty cycle needed to maintain a given indoor temperature as a function of the outdoor temperature) and testimonials from customers in states that border Canada.

Also, you stress fighting climate change a lot. My sense is that, if you emphasize climate change, you'll potentially alienate the half of the country who thinks climate change is fake news. (As a group, homeowners who buy heat pumps are probably older and more conservative.) You have a bigger market if you stay apolitical and sell a practical product. Features and cost savings appeal to everyone; fighting climate change does not.

Your pitch is fine for HN. But for a general audience I'd either (a) leave out the references to climate change, (b) move them pretty far down (not at the end but maybe 2/3 of the way down), and/or (c) emphasize "the government wants to fight climate change and is making the following assistance available..." informing customers those financing options exist without yourself taking a position on the issue.

Also, I agree with other commenters: It's important your product will keep functioning if you go out of business or the customer stops paying a subscription fee.

For me personally it would be great to have a wifi and Ethernet enabled thermostat with an HTTP JSON-RPC endpoint that gives raw data of when the heater turns on, indoor / outdoor temperatures, and be able to change the set-point or turn the system on/off via LAN (protected by some auth mechanism). An interface to existing FOSS home automation solutions would be nice to have but not essential. The main thing for me is that your interface is open and can be run without any subscription fees or access to the cloud.

It would be a real plus if everything's open source and off-the-shelf components. Ideally if a voltage spike sets the computer on fire, I can unplug the cables, slide the board out, buy a Raspberry Pi, Arduino or similar, re-cable everything, download the software onto an SD card, and bring it back up.
But also theory vs practice. In theory a depositor's money is at risk, but at least since the 1930s, no depositor has ever lost money at a US bank. The government always makes depositors whole, despite the supposed insurance limits.
> So long as federation means stasis while centralization means movement, federated protocols are going to have trouble existing in a software climate that demands movement as it does today.

IMO if federation could be aligned with "movement", we wouldn't have this issue.

Possible comparison here with Urbit.
> "Seems so weird to freely share intimately private pictures of children, family scenes, etc. on the open internet."

Weird and potentially dangerous as well. When I was a child, adults warned us about "stranger danger", but now parents advertise their children to potentially dangerous strangers…

What I find truly weird is how many people there are that don't find it "weird" or at all concerning in any way to openly share such photos so freely.
It's wrong still though. Within our existing financial frameworks, the US government clearly wants putting your money in a major US bank to be essentially risk-free.

If anything, it's the people on the other side of the discussion who generally think depositing money into banks should be risky because they argue that the government ought to not bail out depositors.
A good answer will depend on what "adequate" means here. I've been using Mercury for 2 years, while it is much smaller than SVB and does not offer as many services, I only have good things to say about them.
That is definitely true for most large European cities, and that is where lots of the offices are.
I know, this is crazy!!

I can't fathom how development has suddenly seemed to accelerate.
What bad behaviour is being enabled here? The people who stand to gain from taking risks here (bank owners) have lost everything and are not being bailed out.

What is the bad behaviour of the depositors? Trusting that their deposits were safe in a bank? This isn’t bad behaviour, the government wants people to think that bank deposits are safe. Safety of bank deposits is really important to the economy.
Calling them a liar publicly when you didn't have all the context definitely counts as asking them to do emotional labor for you.
Thanks for your responsiveness. We'll try initiating the wire, although we aren't able to log into SVB at all right now (503 errors and redirects back to login screen). I sure wish we could use ACH, since I assume it'd be more reliable for Gusto to download some ACH transactions from an SFTP server once, rather than sending every customer to SVB to attempt a wire transfer...
I mean, duh ;P
Is it inevitable to own more than 4% of those two banks when you manage $100bn and the S&P 500 alone is 300 times larger than that?
> is it a reasonable precaution by MS to ban X solely on the actions of their government?

One could argue it's discriminatory; they banned him because he's Russian.

...which is the problem with this rhetoric.

Russia and China are known to entice or coerce otherwise-innocuous civilians into acts of espionage. Their foreign policies explicitly exploit our presumptions of innocence, inclusivity and trust. Pre-emptive banning to avoid another SolarWinds is more than reasonable precaution; it's something that should have been done years ago.

But in the meantime, by our own policies we're obligated to allow foxes into the henhouse. We're shamed for discriminating against foxes if we turn them away, and shamed again for asking questions about how the Great Chicken Massacre of 2023 was allowed to happen. Chaos engineering at its finest.
Been using WezTerm as my primary term for ~6 months and been loving it. In particular:

- Keyboard cut-and-paste. CtlShiftSpace to highlight likely selections, matching letter to cut, shift letter to cut AND paste.
- Built in mosh+tmux-like functionality, but at the GUI level. I do a lot of terminal work at home from my Mac connected to my Linux laptop WezTerm instance, with multiple panes/tabs.
Especially one with such a high time/mental commitment, as there isn't a lot of that left to spare when you're a solo game dev.
Post mortem root cause - capacitive FSD buttons located on steering wheel
I'm certainly not crying "Woe is me." Not at all. SVB, and other parts of the business, worked out very well indeed for us and our employees. Did scramble to make payroll a couple of times, but that was nothing to do with SVB. Why did we scramble to make payroll? Because employees, including founders, needed to feed our families etc. And, yeah, laws against stealing wages and all that. Basic honesty in business sometimes means taking personal risks.

An investor / board member back then said "don't worry about it" when I brought up FDIC coverage limits upon their advice to dump the money at SVB.

At any rate last Sunday the FDIC knuckled under to pressure from the Sand Hill Road folks and extended their insurance to all deposits, not just the first quarter megabuck owed to each depositor. SVB's shareholders are wiped out, and maybe some non-depositor people they owe money to will take a haircut. But the various startups will be OK.
In case anybody missed it, I’m talking about how the dude went full Zarathustra in the agora.

https://twitter.com/jason/status/1634771851514900480

It did lead me to a really interesting article about audience capture and how it twists “influencers” into saying and doing outlandish things though!

https://gurwinder.substack.com/p/the-perils-of-audience-capt...
> US banks’ collapse, not US Bank’s collapse. Obvious.

Why add the "Obvious" bit when it's clearly not obvious to the original poster?
> Risk applies equally to depositors.

Share holders are owners in the company. They are rewarded financially when the company does well, and risk losing money when the company does poorly. In what world are customers equally subject to the same risks? They obviously do not get the same rewards.

Or do you mean in general? In that case, it's not particularly interesting. There's risk in walking outside.
Private shared photo albums in Apple Photos are great for this. I have a small child and my wife and I live far from our extended families. Sharing photos and videos of our daughter via a shared album gives the same immediacy as posting to social media does (you even have likes, comments, etc) but it's way more private.

As long as everyone has an Apple device it just works, and I assume there is probably a similar way to do this with a Google photo album (although I will say, I think Google is way more likely to do something sketchy like default everything to public or make it easy for someone to publish content accidentally).
Then I just get billed by the provider directly.
I would try to put me in customer shoes before shutting down their business because of missing paperwork. Even a single missed payment shouldn't be enough.
Assume that counterpart may e didn't mean to do wrong, it almost always works.
Creditors get paid before shareholders. That is the general rule, and applies here as well. (With the addition of bailouts to pay said creditors). Shareholders don't get bailed out, ever.
> Why are you attributing this action to VCs grandstanding on social media

I'm not attributing it to that.

I'm merely pointing out that the government is doing what the VCs were calling for, because it was clearly the correct move.

VCs ask the government to do a thing and people mock them and say it's a crazy thing to do. Then the government does that thing (whether or not they did it because VCs wanted it is entirely immaterial to my point) and you don't see the same people saying the government was doing a crazy thing.
That's a really interesting comparison, I'd never heard of it. Crypto is definitely wild!

The main point I was trying to make was that people trying to make a buck off of the USDC depeg didn't need to wait until Monday morning. So I didn't think Monday morning would be particularly significant in that particular regard.
Why not? Putting all your company's money into a single bank in return for great loan terms and additionally below-market terms on your home financing is accepting risk. It's a great decision if everything goes right, you save a lot of money, both as a company and the CEO personally. It's a problem if it goes wrong, just as all investments are.
Goats run loose in San Francisco and no one knows where they came from
> If you want people to blame, it’s Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton for repealing the Glass Steagall Act.

Sure, and we should blame Hammurabi while we're at it.

SVB was the case of a bank being stupid and not hedging against its risks. And why should they? Even if you massively mess up, there's a high probability the Fed does something to manipulate the market so you end up being just fine.

As long as you aren't the worst 1-3 positioned banks - you'll be fine.

The problem is the Fed and the incentives it creates by allowing banks to enjoy profits in good times but almost never suffer losses in times of incompetence.
Your install costs are super low. Is there some sort of innovation that would drastically reduce install costs? We just got quoted for a conventional heat pump install in Seattle 2/3 of the cost is installation. The unit costs like 6-8k but to get an installer to install its 18-22k. That’s with 5 quotes so I don’t think it’s abnormal. How do you plan to keep install costs so low at 6k
There are other apps with somewhat similar philosophy like Plotly Dash. The problem I have faced is that it's almost impossible to debug because you cannot step through code the same way you could in a JS app. Do you plan to solve this?
People just want to get things done. If they can get away with two commands instead of six they will, which is why I think poetry has gotten more adoption.
yes, similar. The $1 is the "skin in the game" that makes the lawyer "hired" making the "other person" into a client
It is ridiculous too many Americans too.
I use it all the time for things with c extensions?
It's important to realize that this varies a lot between countries. The rule we're discussing is from the English common law tradition, but contracts where only one of the parties has any obligations are legal in the many countries which use the civil law system with origins in mainland Europe.

In North America, the main places where the civil law system is in use for these types of matters are the Canadian province of Quebec, the US state of Louisiana, and Mexico. Worldwide, the predominant system varies by geography, but the civil law system is actually more prevalent globally than the common law system.