skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean this is true in that large organizations are internally wasteful - a lot of people are just there to shuffle resources around and a lot of the decisions are bad, entire teams are working on worthless projects, etc.

But what people forget is that small organizations are also quite wasteful, it's just that some of this waste is only visible at a higher level. For example, most startups, just like many internal teams at large organizations, are building things that no one will use. So while your work might be less wasteful from the standpoint of the company, this is offset by the fact that your entire company might be a complete waste.

Likewise, middle managers vying for resources and funding useless projects are surely wasteful and hurt the bottom line, but this is no different from mediocre VCs becoming good at convincing wealthy clients and other money managers that they are good at investing, then doing a poor job of actually allocating that capital.
Speaking of toasters, recently came across someone complaining they had to keep buying new ones. It dawned on me, look at what a place like Waffle House uses. Thus, I'd recommend a Waring toaster. No way a corp like Waffle House is gonna pay hundreds of dollars for toasters that need replacement every few weeks. To be fair, Waffle House is using WCT800 models, I'm not sure the WCT702 model is built to the same standard. It does give me some comfort to see they only make 6 models, and seem to mostly focus on commercial use.
I tried putting "English gibberish" in there, from cupcake ipsum (https://cupcakeipsum.com/) to bacon ipsum (https://baconipsum.com/) and was told to stop. We can't put regular English text in the content because they send us the actual content they want in English and there can be up to 5 to 10 sets eyes of project managers on the same project, who might get confused as to whether this is the actual text or not. I suppose we could've put "THIS TEXT IS PLACEHOLDER" but unless required, Lorem Ipsum is standard procedure text.

>Lorem Ipsum is a piece of text, used by designers to fill a space where the content will eventually sit. It helps show how text will look once a piece of content is finished, during the planning phase. Filler text has been widely used for centuries, so most people are familiar with seeing Lorem Ipsum on a mock design.

https://www.solopress.com/blog/copywriting-typography/what-i....
i would be happy to use the OTHERS if they were comparable products
This reminds me of Vertical Slice Architecture by Jimmy Bogard.

https://jimmybogard.com/vertical-slice-architecture/
I may be wrong but...

ADP could always take it at 90%, figure out the expected return and everybody wins

AWS could take it plus some equity for credits? I imagine the incremental cost of providing the compute is worth the risk

No one forces the economy to operate on dollars - and both traditionally and currently a whole lot of it doesn't.
Gary is currently on CNBC giving a pretty good interview. He's actively pitching for government intervention and bailout. I'm torn on this stance, why should taxpayers bail out banks who continue to make poor decisions, but as a small business owner and former SVB customer I completely sympathize with the plight of the founders. They did nothing wrong, they followed the rules, they thought they were being responsible using SVB, and here we are the small companies, founders, and potential employees pay the price.

Ultimately I am sick and tired of my hard earned money going to the government for them to redistribute it, whether it be bailouts, stimulus payments, student loan forgiveness.
It is for Twitter. Our attention is a synonym for showing ads. If advertisers step away because they got nervous about the behavior of the new owner then it's better for Twitter to have other sources of income than not.
Report back with your findings.

But if you have any idea how to "pipe a PiP to VLC" let me know...

I'd like to figure out how to "pipe a PiP"
I think the idea that tech is going to be set back a decade if a load of YC companies fail is an interesting assesment from the head of YC, and might be interpreted by some as hyperbolic and self-aggrandizing.
lots of comments about bank but what about business clients ? WSJ says lots of startups in danger of losing their funds over FDIC limit ? Anybody having experience with that ? https://archive.is/tetbD

Here's a good thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35094447. on affect to startups
The FED isn’t quite the government. If the government controlled monetary policy directly things would be way, way worse.
I find that statement fascinating. I assume that he made it because of the human tendency to generalize the personal.

Most startups aren't even SV companies, let alone YC ones, but if your whole world is focused on YC/SV, it can be easy to forget that.
You are attacking a straw man. I never said get rid of lending

Just get rid of fractional reserve banking.

Have banks offer either interest via full reserve banking where your deposit is locked or storage for a fee.

Therefore if you are a startup and just need to store money a risky bank going under won’t affect your existence.
Oh wow found one I still remember making big rounds around 2000.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObtPizPFMbo

Graphic were insane and it has a really fun high energy vibe.
Paradoxes that will stretch your mind
Philosophically, identity is not "a centrally-managed namespace of identities that is tightly regulated, ACID-compliant, etc.". The government or a bank or airport or certain business might want that level of book-keeping and verification, but that's not inherent to identity. Identity is self-sovereign. I think, therefore I am.

When I go get a drivers license, I'm issued a physical "certificate" by my local government that says I qualify to drive a motor vehicle. It has some useful properties like being hard to counterfeit. A drivers license is not my identity. It's a document that asserts claims about my identity like "I passed a test", "I showed up in person", "I have a utility bill for this address", etc. Meatspace identity is self-sovereign but also sometimes assertions about an identity are made are verified.

All of this is possible with a self-sovereign digital identity system. It's how the CA system works. I make an identity, I get it certified for a short period of time. The CA issues me a digital certificate with useful properties like being hard to counterfeit. It's a document that asserts claims e.g. "I manage this domain". CA system is self-sovereign and also sometimes you verify the authenticity of my certificate.

But the signature on my certificate is not a stable identifier. That's my public key. The pubkey is the identity. The certificate authority just issues and signs a document vouching for it.

So the appropriate digital analog to the present day identity system is one where we create keypairs and then sign assertions about their owners. The thing you're looking for is a modern social security office that looks at your birth certificate, requires you to digitally sign your name, and then issues an assertion along the lines of "a human in possession of this birth certificate showed up before me, a truthful government agent, an signed their name like so". And thus, you have bound some human assertion to a pubkey. (And if your use case cares about a country-unique birth-certificate verified human, then you require the pubkey owner present you the certificate and you verify it.)

Or maybe you're looking for a novel digital email verification service that verifies a given pubkey controls a specific inbox. The email verification service periodically sends you a secret via email, you sign the secret and reply, and in response the service issues you a certificate stating that your pubkey is associated with and in control of the email address it just verified. You re-verify every 3 months. In fact, your email client automatically does it for you as you login via webauthn every so often.

Just like I can wear a mask, have a twin, have my license stolen, copy the data on my license, or use someone else's drivers license in places that don't care about the picture or credit cards in places that don't check the signature, the same can happen with a private key. Identity is not as sophisticated as you are making it out to be.
I can say yes to many of those situations, and I'm a man.
Wouldn't a libertarian take the upside socialist give away but set their own rules so they limit their downside?
> I used to play in the street without supervision (to my best knowledge)

Bro, when I was a kid we went as far as to me intentionally walking into the street to slow cars down just to see what would happen ‘:)

Kids are crazy. Myself in the past included.
Yes, that's why it's only almost none. Some single-digit percentage of programming effort probably is important.
MVC is unidirectional.
I'm sure Twitter gets more value out of King than $8/month.
It's definitely not just kids that have a problem
But from what I read it's common for FDIC to "sell" to the acquiring bank at a price that wouldn't make a loss.

So if you marked to market all those long term bonds and then sold SVB to a bigger bank at the resulting (possibly negative) valuation. Why wouldn't a big bank take that deal?
The rate of lending will drop by an order of magnitude without fractional reserve banking. As will the money supply (hence, defulation), because most of the world's money is created by fractional-reserve lending.

> Have banks offer either interest via full reserve banking where your deposit is locked or storage for a fee.

Why would you need a bank to do that, you can go buy treasuries on any brokerage that have that property right now.

The problem wouldn't be on the deposit side, it would be on the lending side.

No bank would offer a prime + 3% mortgage without fractional reserve lending. Housing prices would immediately collapse.

No bank would offer anyone a low-APR loan - you'd only get utterly usurious terms. How well do you think the economy would react to the cost of borrowing money going up by 5, or 10%?
But accounts like his are what _drives_ people to Twitter. I already left months ago, but I'd definitely be leaving if the company that profits off of me wants to charge me for the privilege.
It is an analogous development to a caste society, where merit/performance really don't matter.

Don't think it is an accident that it happened to Google.

Makes Satya look so much better, for now.

Cultural background matters a ton, even if it is very frowned upon to mention it nowadays (unless it is about Germans, Italians, etc.).
Is spam message a problem if noone reads it? Storage is cheap.

As for knowing a guy... Maybe someone will browse spam and vouch for you for this message and if more people like it, you are accepted to their whitelists. But to be honest, if people don't want to read my messages, that is their prerogative.
Being made whole several years down the line may not be better than getting liquidated as soon as possible.

In a extreme example, getting $100 in 10 years is not as good as getting $70 next month.
People have been talking about how google has been going down hill since they put sponsored links, and then when they stopped making sponsored links with a yellow background
What are you doing when you are not free? How many hours a week do you work? How much time do you spend with your partner? What about exercise?
What's the fed's obligation to that bank that you are making this point?
Can confirm, they are not tear-friendly.
Here is a quote I found in the article: "The decision dictates whether the securities are designated as “held-to-maturity” (HTM) assets " - HTM was an internal designation - an accounting convention. It does not have anything to do with the bond terms.
I was a minor and it was 30 or so years ago, I don't think I'm at much risk. I think it was an interesting time in tech and worth sharing some of the details of what went on. Also, most of the people that served time weren't busted because of piracy alone, they were often involved in some adjacent crime like trading credit card numbers, buying/selling stolen equipment, malware, or some other fraud.
Would a system with full reserve banking really have no loans?

Aren’t most businesses nowadays funded by stock sales and investments instead loans either way?
CTH is named after a pedophile and they call for political violence. No thank you.
Oh no kidding. Here they were during the good times:

https://www.wired.com/2008/05/peter-thiel-makes-down-payment...
My kids 3 and under play in the street multiple times a week during the summer. Our neighbors kids will come out if they see and vice versa.

There’s kids that throw footballs and baseballs most weekends during the warm months in the road. They move over.

What kind of place are you living?
The behaviour in a vacuum might not be so bad but she was consciously trying to test how far she could go before they broke a law made specifically due to anti-abortion protesters like her intimidating woman to the point they wouldn't use the services.
> It is simple and trustworthy.

This sounds so naive for someone with 20+ years in the field...

Linux, for decades, couldn't get logging to the point that it at least doesn't lose messages (the problem with tail / logrotate that is quite obvious once you think about it, but it took many years to give up the approach).

I recently hit a bug where NVidia's driver abuses Linux kernel logging in some tight loop by spamming log messages at insane speed (happens when you have two video adapters, Intel and NVidia and an external monitor). An interesting side-effect here is that Linux logging tries to throttle loggers who output too much, so, from the log you cannot tell what's happening (because even though the system is burning calories trying to print a tonne of messages, nothing really gets printed).

Several iterations ago I worked on a product where logging had to be implemented as writes to shared memory self-styled circular buffer, and because there was too much info printed too quickly you only had few seconds worth of logs before system crash... on a good day.

Needless to mention the fun of stitching together logs coming from different places in your system with separate clocks.

Even simply processing hundreds of Gigabytes of logs on its own isn't a trivial task.

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Many things are simple, when your task is simple. Logging is just one of those things.
> despite the protests being mostly peaceful

https://pressprogress.ca/it-was-violent-peoples-commission-r...
Apple and Nintendo universe is your friend (as it allows for very fine grained parental permissions). Basic rules in our house:

- Time limits on all games/apps (Apple/Nintendo settings)
- No install of apps without parental consent (needs password)
- No digital devices in bedrooms

Initial “phone” will be an Apple Watch which allows calls/gps-apps but can be locked down for other apps 9-3 (calls only)

Nintendo is great because you can have games that avoid the mobile “dopamine hook” feedback loop.

Digital device ban from bedroom encourages accountability (public space usage) + prevents polluting the bedroom from the perspective of sleep hygiene/homework.

Device limits mean digital usage is limited, and the “device” is what stopped the kid, not the parent (somehow they seem much more accepting of this than a parent yelling “put the device away!”)

My eldest is old enough to be using a computer which is again in the shared living space, and has less restrictions by its nature. I track all the usage, and we have occasional chats about what he’s been looking at and whether it’s “healthy” for mind and spirit.

Regular chats about the harms of too much digital, addiction, and the potential harms of social media.

They will get phones as teenagers, and they will be locked down. We aren’t there yet, but the hope is that some restrictions + everything we’ve tried to teach them will minimise the harm. Time will tell.
I agree, but I didn't mention anything about 2008 in my comment. Did you reply to the wrong comment by accident?
And you haven't had turf wars where people conflate the issues and costs so badly that nobody really knows what the truth is anymore?

Apparently I'm getting your share.
Garry has an incentive to say the sky is falling because the sooner this is resolved the less pain it’ll cause, but to say this is an industry extinction event is a stretch.

Even if the extremely unlikely scenario plays out and companies are unable to make payroll, employees are very unlikely to walk out, it would make an inconvenient situation (no pay) much worse (terminated) in an already challenging economic climate. Anybody with the financial means to walk away because payroll has been missed is someone with the financial means to ride out a few weeks waiting to be paid.

We will see many startups fall in the next few weeks + months, and many will attribute it to the failure of SVB, but SVB’s failure is a symptom of the broader economic environment, not a cause, and the same factors that caused SVB to fail are already hurting startups — like the difficult fundraising environment at the moment. SVB will be an easy scapegoat, “we didn’t fail, it was SVB’s fault!”

Most any startup that attributes its failure to SVB’s collapse would have been dead in a few months anyway.
Protocol-Based Social Media Is Having a Moment as Meta and Mozilla Get on Board
Seems like and interesting research problem. Too bad the researchers won’t be able to afford the API access cost to research things like this ;)
The cartels know that if enough Americans get killed in Mexico, then DoD drones will start flying over Mexico (without permission like we did in Pakistan) and dropping bombs on the cartel.
Isn't this a similar version of what happened in the Savings and Loans crisis [0]?

Effectively, banks lent money at X%. Then the government raised interest rates. Therefore, you owed your depositors a higher interest rate than you were collecting from your loans.

I know, not exactly the same but both related to the govt raising rates and banks not necessarily anticipating the move.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
The fed wasn't buying bonds for lulz, they were doing it to carry out their primary function.
Statute of limitations :)
> Yeah, they probably do…

If so then they got it from some one else outside the network because it never appears in my conversations and I use the networks exclusively via a web browser.
> Do you really think Twitter is gonna fairly compensate any of the users any time soon?

Yes, if it makes business sense to do so. Like it does for content creatos.
> I wonder who is behind the astroturfing.

First rule of propaganda: look who will profit from this:
The companies who sell personal data, politicians in power, maybe some 3 letter agencies, although they already have this data.

Anyway, this is a good sign that humanity is too stupid to learn from history.
We have this in Denmark. It's pretty great. Two-factor authentication for bank logins, gov websites, and for online card purchases.
My stomach turned at "meat soup." What is that?

Oh, you don't want to hear about that. They lined us up in front of a hundred yards of prime rib. All of us, you know, lined up lookin' at it. Magnificent meat, really! Beautifully marbled. Magnific. Next thing, they're throwin' the meat into these big cauldrons. All of it! Boiling it! I looked inside, man, it was turning grey.
Is there a reason they couldn't have just purchased shorter term bonds and securities instead?
> Learning HTML is fine, but learning HTML while avoiding CSS is not very useful, except as an esoteric hobby (like 6502 assembly, but much more complex). Using handwritten HTML if you're after content creation is unnecessary legwork.

Idk man. Doesn't seem at all complicated to me until you start involving CSS. Assuming you're just after basic content. Slap a <title> in <head>, a few <section>s in body, <p> your content. Maybe an <aside> for some spice! <a>, <img> and <video> might be useful if you want some hyper/multimedia.

The complications arrive when you want it to look like some designed page, regardless of user preferences, window/screen size, which browser, etc.

Agree though that Markdown and Org are good and useful tools.
That's exactly why I'm sad of the precautions I take. Back then drivers had less distractions while driving. Of course there was the occasionally distracted driver but nowadays is more common than what it used to be thanks to the smartphone.
... housing prices have continued to rise at wildly unsustainable rates, leading to record homelessness. Which is the exact opposite of what happened with the crypto market, where the Ponzi scheme collapsed.

When the assets haven't even moved in the same direction, I don't know how you are going to blame federal policy to counteracted the recessionary impact of covid for moving them. Whereas the fed has caused significant damage & also been ineffective at fighting the current supply-side inflation caused by Russia's war of aggression.
They intentionally put that. That was not the behavior on first week.
It's worse, at least there's some hope of getting people who enjoy the stuff you make to give you some money in return (despite the increasing tendency of corporate social sites to hide offsite links), if it's been copywashed by a corporate-owned scrape-and-remix machine then there's no chance in hell of someone deciding to support your work.
PCMCIA - People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
Not about that haha. I mean I'm still interested in Defer because if your example had archaic js I'd think you didn't get me as js developer. :)
Sorry but why didn't the VCs get together and bail this bank out themselves???
The flat earthers don't use their beliefs as a means to force their world view on the rest of us, plenty of god botherers do.
What?

No, it's cash.

If I deposit $1m in cash at the bank, the bank suddenly has an extra $1m liability and an extra $1m cash asset.
Can't believe VC has gone full communist. Socialize the losses it seems.
Unfortunately no purely technical solution works. As I've said in the end of my article:

> We need to support the case when a person wakes but-naked in a corn field, suffering from complete amnesia, and remembering nothing about himself. Today, such a person has a chance of getting his identity back, but in a pure technological world, "the computor just says no!"

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Regarding the various European ID initiatives: they might seem a good idea, but they don't actually work in practice: for better or worse, our internet solutions seem to have settled on email as the de-facto identification system. Are any of these EU ID initiatives completely interoperable with the email system? If not, they are useful only for purely official interactions with the government, and solve nothing outside of that realm.

Also, because most such ID initiatives are actually X.509 tokens that work solely on Windows, with Adobe products, they are beyond useless...

(Let alone that one costs ~50 EUR per year in my country, Romania...)
Mistakes I made as an engineer, but had to become a manager to see
Yeah I had to debug some code with 5 threads that were supposed to be synchronized through the use of several semaphores that was a bear to pin down.
> you already know what words they're going to say, you're just waiting for them to say it

This is why I like to surprise my friends, family and coworkers with the occasional curveball
It was surprisingly accurate.... mom inflation has been reasonable for several months now
What an absurd statement - everything he's done is to make twitter profitable and viable as a business - reduced headcount, reduced systems, reduced perks, .... He was already high profile in numerous spheres so no amplification was required. It's obvious that you don't share his viewpoints, and so you're simply slinging mud. It's the opinion of many that Musk didn't even want twitter, as a megaphone or otherwise, that he screwed up, obligating himself, and now has to make a successful business of it.