skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having a messaging app that works well and is secure on a bunch of supported platforms is hard. Having a messaging app that works well and is secure on random exotic OSs is even harder. And having a messaging app that works well and is secure with third party software and federation has not yet proven to be feasible AFAIK.

Signal seems to have choosen challenge #1 and making a good job at it. I'm not sure they should be blamed for not choosing challenge #2 and even less challenge #3.

Now what I really don't understand is why they made signal open source. They clearly don't want third party redistribution/packaging of their software, so they should really have chosen a "source available" licence for code audit, which would have better set expectations
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It’s really hard to participate in a system that’s so interconnected without contributing to the bad parts. Chances are, you’re using a cloud provider that belongs to one of the big cos, etc etc.

I work for a company whose product/mission I believe is positive, but with the externalities I’m beginning to doubt whether there’s really any place to contribute positively in for-profit tech.
Agree 100% (I have my EPA cert and do my own installs)

Trying to bust into the HVAC company cartel will be the death of this idea. Most HVAC companies are highly local and have built their business around partnerships with supply houses and the US big-boy manufacturers (e.g. Carrier, Trane, Lennox). The Asian brands (Mitsubishi, Midea, Gree) have taken years to start penetrating the US market, and even then, many have done so through partnerships with the above US brands.

No reputable HVAC company is going to install a 'no name' dotcom branded unit that they won't be able to service with parts from their local supply house. They, and their suppliers, won't be getting the typical kickbacks or be able to mark up the unit costs and they likely won't offer any kind of warranty (at least on labor). To them, this is no different from Joe Homeowner ordering his MrCool/Goodman unit online and expecting them to install and service it for a low hourly fee. It's not worth their time or potential risk when the customer raises a stink a year later when that company reminds them they have zero warranty and parts aren't readily available.
Two founding engineers, and if you can get two that have worked together in the past and work well as a team, wow.
Great! Thank you. Maybe also showcase an example on the landing page, like making only the `def decrement(self)` an async function.
Yes and no. Throughputs are crazy high these days but the rate at which they increase is slower than the rate at which compute increases, by a lot. So if we're discussing in a relative sense, then there's a growing divergence and thus one can argue that I/O is getting "slower." This is actually one of the major topics in HPC discussion and why there have been so many crazy hacks. Things like flashbuffers are pretty much essential these days. Even if you're doing multi-node ML training you see pretty big differences using infiniband due to the frequency in which nodes need to communicate (there are regularization interval tricks too). In scientific computing this is a big limitation to our ability to visualize at high resolutions and is why in situ visualization is growing popular.

As far as consumer hardware and consumer usages, yeah, everything just feels fast though.
Same thought as well. I recently self installed an 18k BTU unit. The lines came pre-charged, but I wanted it to be run exactly to length. For someone to come and do just that part (cut, flare and vacuum/charge the lines) cost me just $150. I got the unit (a pioneer) for under $900. The rest of the world has heat pumps figured out, no need for a tesla-ish version charging a premium. Cost will be the biggest factor for adoption for ElectricAir, imo.

If anything, a sweaty startup offering just the install for a nominal fee would do really well here.
We already spend more in the US, per captia, than any other nation on earth on socialized medcine. The reason we don't have universal coverage isn't due to a lack of resources so it has to be either a lack of ability or theft, probably both.
Red tape and bureaucracy fuel San Francisco’s housing crisis
> TikTok doesn’t cause this, it doesn’t even exacerbate it.

I agree with the first but not the second. I think "social media" is a net good, by far. At the same time, there are negative effects: one is that it creates a constant audience for whatever stupid thing the Influencer wants to do or say, which is an incentive for them to say or do stupid things.
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> SVB is insolvent primarily due to incompetence

And yet nobody knows who the fools running the bank were. We don't have their names all over the news. It's as if SVB was run automatically, with no humans at the helm.

The rich really get to destroy lives without consequence.
As Steinbeck was (mis-)quoted: "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
Funny, based on the context I read “AK” as Arkansas. If headline had mentioned oil drilling I probably would have read it as Alaska.
Don’t even need human time. Just run it through davinci. Is this correct, yes or no? Or MTurk. Can cost less than $500.
Doesnt help that PM42100 is $7.5K and out of stock.
He doesn't feel personally "responsible". He is emotionally invested in his followers well-being. Which is something that comes through in a lot of his videos. He wants the best for the people that follow him, and so he feels like he's failing in his inability to help them on this. Which is why he's also pleading Youtube (that should absolutely be staying abridged of this race).
Why shouldn't they. The fact that there were no serious or lasting consequences after 2008 and bailouts made the message clear. "Act poorly and if you are big enough/connected enough, we'll make sure you don't face consequences." The effects may have hurt some people, even some innocent people, but the long term effects of not holding people responsible is far worse society in the long run.

If a child is never allowed to face the consequences of their actions they will never learn.
> not exactly. there were a lot of reports that starlink functionality constrained to Ukrainian territory beyond "conflict line". When during September/October counterattacks Ukrainian forces advanced, starlinks didn't function and it created operational problems.

Reports that Ukrainian leadership themselves denied.

Starlink regularly has regional service outages (look on the starlink subreddit and just search "outage"), even in areas where there isn't an opponent trying to actively jam it as there is in Ukraine. Occam's razor and all that.
You're so confidently incorrect its beyond comical.

In California, Ventura CITY and Ventura county.

A simple Gooling negates the need for you to be so wrong in one comment.

Enjoy:
https://www.cityofventura.ca.gov/
https://www.ventura.org/
naive.

they are the best paying in the area because they win over competition by using cheap illegal labour. nobody honest can compete with that, so they break/move.
If you already know a lot about audio processing, then go for it. If not, you might still learn a lot from the experience. You might want to start with a small project in the space then grow from there.
Sigh. Just use good ol’ WhatsApp.

It just works great.
Or it is the fault of the government for not letting employees have access to self managed IRAs while employed
Currently weight matters because there are laws on the maximum weight of certain kinds of trucks.

However, I believe that with a good lobbying team, those laws could be changed if an EV truck maker could demonstrate they can do less damage to the road with a heavier truck, for example with better traction control and more drive wheels. Or maybe just wider wheels and lower or even variable tyre pressures.
Some of the pensioners or fund managers will have to downgrade their yachts anchored at Gran Canaria, cry me a river....
This does seem crazy. I have a hobby project that's a statically linked animation editor (so it does a lot of stuff including exporting/encoding GPU streams into a video). It has AV1, Freetype, and a few other large deps included and it only clocks in at 16.7mb
Except you probably pay millions of dollars to AWS every year so they can build drone-strikes as a service or something.
so could it easily be tricked by putting a finger over it and quickly removing it in front of a light? or it's too small of a window to trick? a strobe light could fool it?
Starlink was never turned off.

And there's been no evidence of him receiving payments from anyone for political purposes. And I mean just think about it, if someone tried they'd have to pay him a whole lot to not just run with it to twitter and mock the people who tried to bribe him.
Risk applies equally to depositors. Apparently we all forgot that banks have risk, just less than our mattresses.
I replied in Markdown here: https://gist.github.com/djedr/4ae1373faa7d43f359a2a245132341...
Isn't the issue endurance? I'm pretty sure your drive would die before the year is over. Probably a month or two.
I know (hope) this is satire, but this is why I take issue with the AI branding. It too often gets conflated with the sci-fi thinking of AI. A random forest model that calculates your credit score isn't going to magically gain self-awareness and autonomy and a hatred for humanity. Even if it did, we have a magical power called the power button.
IIRC tmpfs already does that, by swapping to disk.
As this is a “LaunchHN” instead of a “ShowHN”…what are your plans to monetize this open source project?
Which makes you wonder about their diversification strategy. 1% of their fund in a single, highly specialized banking entity seems pretty damn over-concentrated.
Agency. It’s about agency.

Social media, while not permanent, can be long lasting, and can have a chilling effect on a child’s future agency.

Guarding it until they can make their own decisions is what all good parents ought to do.

How is this not obvious and common sense?
On the plus side, that probably means those drivers are using their turn signals. It's a bit of a free-for-all here in the states.
> Then you're brain is just like any CPU, which is very far from what such a statement tries to express in the context of NNs.

Yes, the brain is like a CPU + a specific program running on that CPU. The properties of that program are where the isomorphism comes in. So to come full circle back to your original point, we don't yet know that "weight adaptations" are not a sufficient operational model for that program.
Multi-country support for corporate tax and employment.
I'm a digital nomad with startup in the restaurant space but I've met plenty of aspiring nomads in my travels trying to find a way to travel fulltime. they take numerous selfies with the hope of making money as "influencers". I've had people wonder why I don't start a channel myself. the Reason I don't is that its hard work. we see influencers on youtube seemingly having fun at a restaurant and talking to teh camera like you're an hold friend. but that is a manufactured experience. Its hard work. Meanwhile, when I go to a hole in the wall restaurant in a foreign country, Im enjoying it for its own sake. I already have my day job.
> Apple Watch is an entirely Tim Cook creation. Apple Silicon, too.

PA Semi was acquired before Tim Cook became CEO (2008). I wouldn't say Apple Silicon is entirely a Tim Cook creation. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-s-M1-Pro-M1-Max-chips-ar...
Heat pumps are not an evaporative system.

You can't lower the temperature across a gradient lower than the fluid temperature, no matter how fast that fluid is moving. You can cool things down faster, but you can't go lower.

So if it's 10F, a 5F heat pump will work equally well at 0mph wind and 30mph.
My usage went downhill, but long after the death of Google Reader. RSS didn't really die, but it never went into mainstream either.
That is not their reasoning though - it is something they think a human would write given the predicate (question that expects you to provide the reasoning behind the answer).
For something to reason it needs the ability to have certain goals and to perform action which it thinks are the most optimal to reaching those goals. Like setting hypotheses and producing a path towards proving them - reasoning.

The LLM only correlates, so it's "reasoning" is something like "most often people answered 4 to 2+2 then that I should write". That's why it gives out confidently complete gibberish as it works with correlation and not causality. I think much closer to that goal of real reasoning are world models - check out something like DreamerV3 or what Yann Le Cunn is talking about.
It its a shorter distance with more frequent loading and unloading this might be less of a problem. Or if drivers switch between shifts.
There were 2 groups this weekend. The first group whined hysterically, like JasonC, GarryT (and YCombinator). Not only whined, but showed a strong lack of moral character (asking the public to bail out their private 1% bank accounts).

The other group built (like Mercury Bank) and innovated to reduce future situations like this.

Kudos to the second group.

Shame on the first group. It's sad their whining got rewarded.

Disclosures: I am an investor in a number of startups that had >$250K in uninsured deposits SVB, but I was still against the bailout b/c I think it just made America weaker in the long run. A 10% haircut would have been fine. I am also a tiny tiny investor in Mercury.
The 8GB is fair...but the Framework being upgradable for decades is...uh...pretty absurd. You don't even know if the company will exist next week. The only actually standardized upgradable part is the Storage and Memory. The Zenbook also has upgradable storage. The CPU is soldered to the proprietary board with their own battery design and own display. The battery is roughly as upgradable as on the framework if not less convenient.

Personally, the idea is all pretty oversold. If the motherboard was standardized and had a swappable CPU..maybe..but this is just a laptop with marketing. The Dell XPS 15 has the exact same upgrade path as the Framework..but also a 15 inch display and dedicated graphics. Any number of MSI laptops support upgrading ram. The idea is nobel...but not novel.
> You're so confidently incorrect its beyond comical.

> In California, Ventura CITY and Ventura county.

> A simple Gooling negates the need for you to be so wrong in one comment.

> Enjoy: https://www.cityofventura.ca.gov/ https://www.ventura.org/

From your first link:

https://www.cityofventura.ca.gov/594/About-Ventura

> Ventura, officially named San Buenaventura, was founded in 1782 when Saint Junipero Serra established Mission San Buenaventura, the ninth of the California missions.
IME it’s very hard to persuade CTOs and good engineers to come for high equity low comp but perhaps you’ll have better luck. From your description you just need someone to build something for you - CTOs tend to be a bit more removed from the coal face and have a wider ranging skill set so I’d focus on just finding someone who can build what you want. And I’d start with one rather than two engineers and pay them better. You need someone product focused too - you just need stuff build quickly to a stage where you can obtain funding
That's what I was wondering, as that amount in USD (or EUR/GBP etc) seems like a ridiculous amount of money to spend on speakers, even to me, a well off US-ian.
If you are frustrated with your 401(k) management, consider rolling it over to an IRA so you can direct it yourself.

https://www.biglawinvestor.com/partial-401k-rollover/
It's starting to become difficult to comprehend much of it now. My ISP is pushing me to replace my 300 Mbps service with 2Gbps, but I never even saturate what I have. Maybe if I were a gamer with huge downloads it would make sense to upgrade.
Is there really no fast "good enough" algorithm for breaking body text?
The most compelling piece of the puzzle to me (an engineer) is the notion of stress testing as part of regulation.

SVBs problems didn't appear overnight. With each rate hike they were a bit worse, but had they been forced to act earlier rather than later it would have helped a lot. Regular stress tests would have performed that function.
"subroutines predate goto statements by about ten years;"

In academia, perhaps. Subroutines were 'expensive' in the real world for a long time. Many things we take for granted today are too expensive when 16KB is a lot of RAM. I was referring to common practice rather than academia.

"the whole array construct in postgres seems like it was probably a huge mistake"

In a cousin comment where I talk about how we might do things differently if we were starting from scratch, this is one of the biggest things I had in mind. As a column type it's plausible enough, as a generic sequence type you can wrap around any other type. Seems a basic enough primitive that we should have it around. But probably everywhere else I'm using it, I really want a more native "table" type. But I can't really have that. I can kind of see it forming, I think, as the versions march on. But at least as of the version I've been using lately, it's not quite here yet.

In general SQL struggles with type recursion. While it's not hard to see why from a performance perspective you want an engine that doesn't have to deal with arbitrarily-sized values, it gets more and more limiting every year. I've gotten a distressing amount of mileage out of using the JSON types the major engines have been forced to incorporate to stay competitive just as "Look, I just need a little tree here... I can promise it'll stay bounded in size, but I don't want to encode that as a crapton of rows" or "hey, honestly, I've got a modestly complicated structure here that my clients will decode and breaking it out the Official SQL Way is just crazy". This is the thing that really gives me that 1970s Tech feel when I'm working with SQL, and while I appreciate the slow and steady lifting of the restrictions I would definitely like to use a tech that lifted them in a thoughtful, principled manner instead of a multi-decade drunkard's walk across the design landscape.
Oh so like a Japanese index fund invested in 1990?
Not a CTO.

Hire 1 developer and only build what is actually measureable towards your users. Not anything else.

Use tech that has proven stability and do not go into esoteric territory.

You can come a long way with html, css, js and a bit of backend and sql.

A CTO is something you add a much larger stage.
My experiences were in the Southwestern USA.
VCs are a convenient scapegoat but if you look at what actually happened, this is the fault of bankers and bank regulators.

Are we supposed to blame people for putting money in a bank that had a solid track record since the 1980s, and didn't have any regulatory red flags? Are we supposed to blame VCs for not knowing about the bank's investment problems when the regulators who were supposed to know about them didn't know either? Should we blame founders for taking banking advice from their funders and boards of directors?

Are we supposed to forget that the era of easy money the article dislikes was created by the Fed, and that the duration risk on long-term securities that doomed SVB was also realized because of the Fed's reaction to its previous mistakes?

We should blame everyone, including the government, for this mess.

When people like the author single out VCs and rant about AI being a boondoggle it's clear they just don't like or understand tech. Tech has been the space program of our generation.

We now carry devices in our pockets that put more information at our fingertips than entire civilizations could access throughout all of human history. Mobile payments have enabled entrepreneurial capitalism in impoverished parts of the world. Anywhere we are, we can get a map of our location and directions to anywhere we want to go.

The scale and technology that makes remote work even possible for much of the population didn’t even exist a decade ago. Some pieces existed but they never would have scaled the way we needed them to. If you didn’t lose your job during the pandemic, you ought to be grateful to the major cloud providers for the fact that your video conferencing software was able to function while you and almost everyone else were piling onto it. You should also be grateful there were multiple delivery companies able to bring you groceries and restaurant food when you weren’t allowed to leave the house. I know restaurants are grateful for the delivery services — so many more would have gone out of business if in-person transactions were the only way to sell their product!

Anyone who owned a total market index fund in the past decade has benefitted massively from the success of big tech, including most pension funds, university endowments, and many individuals. The creation of wealth has been enormous in scale and enormously socially beneficial.

VCs made all those good things possible and if we also get dog-walking services and NFTs of monkeys that's a small price to pay.
Nice! Beeen looking for something like this for elixir
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The equity holders in SVB were wiped out, they faced consequences. No reason for deposit holders to.
Planning on building a hosting service to host Pynecone apps. Still finalizing the details but as pickelo said in one of the other comments.

>Thanks! We're building a hosting service that you can deploy your apps to. Our plan is to have a free tier for your first app, then charge for additional apps. We're still finalizing this, so would love to hear any thoughts.
Interesting that some crypto has jumped up as much as 15% since Signature Bank was taken over.
I don't think RSS being widely used will make people insert ads into their hobby blogs.
10x Developers! Big Ideas! Change the world! Disrupt!

People in the Bay Area seem to live in buzzword land.
>Alpaca cannot be used for [...] entertainment.

Good luck with that.
You don’t have to guess that Dodd Frank was weakened by lobbyists it was a mainstream media story all weekend.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-13/svb-failu...

https://fortune.com/2023/03/11/silicon-valley-bank-svb-ceo-g...

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/liberals-blame-trump-si...

And why are VC being blamed? Because apparently the lot of them can push their portfolio companies all into a single bank without doing basic business risk management like requiring fdic sweeps or audits of the svb balance sheets.

They came off as clowns this weekend.
> Not mentioned in the video is that Philips Ventures is effectively buying up MedTech companies with proven tech, and hovering up the IP into their portfolio as an 'innovation' strategy.

Why is that bad? Unless there's something underhanded about the sale, it sounds like it's exactly what a lot of startup founders want: make an MVP, get noticed, get bought, take your pile of money and make another business or go sit on a beach or whatever you want to do.
Also a very favorable approach
You seem fairly mixed up about who would face which consequences from a bunch of bank runs vs what happened here with the management replaced and shareholders wiped out but depositors backed up.

If there's any ground for further actions against the management of the banks, I'm fully supportive of that, but a bunch of bank runs would've hurt everyone but them more than them.
Yes this article is about orphans, not widows. However some people use the terms interchangeably.

Widows don't exist without page or column divisions.