skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not all work is worth a living wage, and not all workers are in need of that. If you try to force that, the work will either just not get done or it will be automated, and more people will be unemployed.

Experience showing up to work, following instructions, getting along with bosses and coworkers is valuable even if the work itself requires little skill.
Right, so where are the “gains”? Where is the greed? It doesn’t seem like there is an unreasonable upside here, just a misunderstanding/mistake in handling the assets.
I was pointing out that I don't see them in my day to day activities.

You've added exactly nothing to this discussion, just written a personal attack founded on misunderstanding and make-believe.
Recently switched to Plausible from GA for my blog. Analytics are way easier to use compared with GA4. Probably would not have even considered switching if they would have left universal analytics. Privacy stuff and performance we're secondary bonuses. Worth every penny.
Ah yes it’s a “labor shortage” not high labor demand and wages of course.
Not to mention, this is the lowest of low value jobs that they’d be employed in, which can be actively harmful to your career as you never get the time to develop high value skills due to the strenuous work involved in these positions.
The fact is that most people are not looking for a phone camera to tell the 'truth', they're simply looking for good images similar to what they're used to seeing from pros with their much more fancy equipment (and remember that most of those photographs are also heavily edited, just by a human instead of AI). The only objective truth that matters much to the average person is stuff like the text or qr code remaining correct.
Yeah, this seems to be what I'm learning from https://twitter.com/WallStCynic/status/1634901599423197191

Perhaps some near-fraudulent collusion between SVB, VCs and the executives of the banked startups then ...
I don't think it can get much worse than a shared college dorm. People shitting in communal showers. People not knowing how to do laundry breaking the machines. Building fire alarms going off multiple times per week. People having zero respect for shared bathrooms pissing all over the toilet seats and floor.
Indeed, especially the 22 BMI target. For me (5'10") that would mean 155lbs, I'd have to shed (going by my scale which estimates body fat percentage) around 28 lbs of fat (I'm at 15% fat right now, so 28 lbs would get me to 0% which is unhealthy) and 7lbs of other weight to hit that target. Could I lose some weight? Sure. But I won't. Back on the exercise habit after a few months off and I'm getting slimmer but my weight is staying the same, as I would expect it to based on my previous experience (I pack on muscle easily).

BMI is a useful heuristic (BMI over 30 and not a powerlifter? Probably unhealthy, let's look at other characteristics and see how unhealthy and how to address it) but a terrible target until you know your own body.
Sure, but to be vegan you have to know wtf you're doing, because it's really easy to get malnourished in various ways. And unless you want to eat nasty fermented beans or something you need b12 supplements at the very least.

Getting iron from non-heme sources is also kind of hit-or-miss.
I really like fasterthanlime, especially with the depth of knowledge. He was the first video creator that explained register usage in assembly in a way that wasn't so dry that I lost attention.

https://youtu.be/VMpSYJ_7aYM
The industries that are excited to use child labor (which is what this is) are only doing so because they have a shortage of capable adult workers that want to work in the conditions and for the pay provided.

Aside from the fact that most kids can’t tell when they’re being exploited, why should kids be the stopgap for corporations that not even adults want

According to the rules of the “free market”, these jobs should either provide better conditions or working conditions or both in order to attract talent, because the issue is not an oversupply of capable workers, it’s less.
Right, sure. But we don't make women who are generically pre-disposed to have breast cancer feel bad for being genetically pre-disposed to breast cancer. We don't call their bodies disgusting because of that risk, do we? Do we say that it's their fault? That they're lazy, have no self-control? That the "breast cancer pre-dispositon acceptance movement" is wokeness out of control?
"well, everyone else uses SVB you should too"

Which is not even true because it is a tiny no name bank. Prior to this debacle if you asked an American to name a bank nobody would have said SVB.
This makes a lot of economic sense, despite the howling from the socialist mob. 14 year olds' natural agility and nimbleness are assets in meat packing and construction, where they are able to retrieve stray pieces of meat or lost tools that have fallen in or between the large machinery.
Because the industries mentioned in the article have trouble filling job openings due to unfavourable working conditions and unwilling to offer adequate wage that can offset those unfavourable conditions.

Invoking your own anecdote of laid-back summer jobs with total disregard of what's actually happening with these child labour law changes just shows you had a privileged childhood and you are unaware of how not everyone could afford the same privileges as you.
It seems that SVB UK is being handled separately by the UK authorities, with a separate attempt to find a buyer for that business.
I do believe that most SVB depositors will get a form of bailout. I don't want to believe that it will come without any obligations though.
It's greed acceptance.
iTunes music has been around for what, 2 decades?
I don't understand people who keep 120 tabs open at a time. What's the point? Your mind cannot keep track of that anyway, so just use bookmarks.
Teens Are Stealing More Cars. They Learn How on Social Media
So, why is it that as a wealthy person with good health insurance and access to care, when I see my GP for an actual physical, I get weighed, but I don't get a DEXA scan that actually measures muscle and fat? They're not expensive compared to other stuff in health care, but accurate fat measurement seems to be a thing for recreational fitness nerds not people trying to live a long time or without chronic diseases? When I've gotten these before it's always from a scanner in truck in a CrossFit parking lot rather than at a Dr office. If distinguishing between fat and weight is important, why is it so ignored in medical contexts?
Unless you grow everything yourself, the production of fruits and vegetables that you consume also involve exploitation and suffering. The humans aren't being eaten, but they're hung out to dry all the same.

Even if you do grow everything yourself, people had to suffer to obtain the nitrogen and phosphorus in your fertilizer.
https://archive.ph/LSvsJ
This is the typical response when mentioning the value of sport on HN. You just scoff at the notion without providing a single reason why acting is a more intellectual pursuit than football. You're assuming the reasoning is obvious and that is likely a sign that you haven’t done any serious thinking about the question.
Didn’t the feds just find one of these in San Diego on a boat they seized from Russia?
I remember that. That's what I thought too, but I thought he had turned it off after people complained. Apparently not. It's very "Dear Leader" to force your message on people. I just got through watching "Secret State of North Korea (full documentary) | FRONTLINE" and in video sneaked out, Kim has his speeches blasting on a loop over city streets for months at a time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-cX1d4BSCI
Like the Excel Spreadsheet that FTX was shopping around but accurate and with no "“Hidden, poorly internally labeled ‘fiat@’ account" entry. SVB may have screwed up badly but I don't think anyone is accusing them of bad record keeping or any other impropriety.
This is still the case with games, pretty much every new big release comes with an associated 'game ready driver' release where the driver can detect and adjust some behaviors to better suit that game.
Agreed! Plus with my handwriting, who's ever going to be able to tell the difference?
Sounds like a great opportunity for an apprenticing program for trade work, not child labor.
Cardio is certainly important for old age given how common heart disease is. Ideally you would train strength, cardio and mobility.
Why did they only solve for 7 Queens and not 8 Queens?

I'm reminded of https://github.com/type-challenges/type-challenges -- I've only looked at some of the more challenging problems, but one involves writing a JSON parser in the type system. The easy problems look reasonably useful to solve.
> Also, "obesity is healthy" is a strawman

That simply isn't true. Just look into the "Health at Every Size" movement. There are some reasonable ideas there, like destigmatizing it as you mentioned. But there are also some harmful and ridiculous ideas prevalent in that movement - namely that "weight loss should not be a health goal".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_at_Every_Size
Hello jamesfinlayson.

Apologies for hijacking this thread; the comment of yours I want to reply to is closed. I found what looks like a CounterStrike alpha exe file, and two betas. The CD it's written on seems readable so far.

You suggested that I put it somewhere for posterity; any particular recommendation of where? Is there a CounterStrike Historical Society somewhere who are looking for it?
> but the reputation of the entire US Banking system

Agreed. Advanced economies work because there are things you can take for granted, and you gain efficiencies from that. There are plenty of countries where the currency collapses every decade and banks don't work well. None one looks up to them, no one aspires to start a business there, and they're not leaders in anything other than maybe a commodity. They're places smart people leave.
This is true and basically deserved.
Interesting. I would have though BMI was a sufficient proxy for body composition for broad samples... That conclusions about the average person with BMI of X were useful.

I guess this argues otherwise, which is worth considering.

(Though, this seems to be just one study right now? I don't think it's rational to draw the strong conclusions the article does from one study. The absolute claims don't seem supported by the evidence, so I guess they are pushing an angle, though it's not clear to me why.)
Did you work in the meat packing department of Wendy’s? Your experience may hav e been a tad different..
Because if there was a run on JP Morgan, the US government would absolutely "bail out" depositors.

Consolidating increases the risk of a bank run, decreases the risk to the individual depositor.
> Losing weight is actually really easy. Eat less calories than you burn, and be motivated.

I've often heard fitness instructors often phrase this as "weight loss is simple, but not easy" precisely because it's hard to sustain CICO discipline over a reasonable period of time.
Ok, but what now? There is no effective treatment or cure for obesity from public health point of view. That is, sufficiently low calorie intake will make you lose weight. But, if your metabolic balance is out of whack, it will also leave you constantly hungry, lethargic, not able to enjoy one of the major life pleasures. To maintain that long term once has to essentially prioritize staying slim over all other life priorities.

It's likely that prevention of obesity is achievable by changes is easily available food, walkable communities, regulation of problematic chemicals, childhood health education. And also that overtime medical treatments and food modifications will get better at counteracting preexisting obesity.

But in the meantime, "go lose weight" may not be practical medical advice to an average individual. Eating healthier food and having a regular exercise regimen may well be, but losing lots of weight is not an expected outcome. People will still end up eating more of healthier food, or eating unhealthy food due to life circumstances, or getting too fatigued to exercise enough. At this point, "what else can we do to improve your health" because a relevant question.

Fat acceptance? Bah. Just because I am overweight doesn't mean I like looking at fat models. We can admire the best of us while being realistic of what we are going to achieve ourselves. In some marginal way, watching models and athletes does motivate me to watch my food and workout. Just not enough to end up looking like them.
The closest hack is living in a walkable city, and biking for personal transportation. There's a reason that obesity is not as big a problem in Europe, and even more so in East Asia.
Here's a small list of studies: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/fat-shaming-makes-thing... .

The short of it is that it increases stress, increases depression, eating disorders, and risk of suicide.

As for shame and its ironic effects, you can look to Brene Brown's research and that of other shame researchers.
> It literally produces the website that the user is looking at.

Your definition is meaningless because EVERYTHING in the pipeline literally produces everything "you are looking at" from the database to the css.

> Unlike, say, a micro-service that retrieves some data.

That data still produces part of "what you are looking at". What a useless phrase. Stick to industry definitions, yours do not make sense. And there is no language called "micro-service". I asked you to name the so called "non-user-facing" part of the web development stack.

> If you paid attention to what I write you could've seen this: "Client-side dev has hijacked the term frontend to describe purely client-side development. ".

So, old man yells at the cloud and uses his own idiosyncratic terms. What matters is not who hijacked what. What matters is that the industry has settled on the term "front-end developer". Complain as much as you want, but realize that train left the station. Go ahead and use your own terms that no one understands because "my 23 years experience", but that's exactly how people fall out of touch. And then when you say thinks like "PHP is front-end dev" people will immediately dismiss your knowledge, so you have to keep reminding them "but look.. my experience!" The term is "front-end dev", deal with it.

> "OMG PHP runs in the server this is backend unlike this JS code that literally does the same"

Old man yells at a language that can be used both in the cloud and browser.

When JS is executed in the server (e.g. Nodejs) is it part of the back-end stack. When it is executed by the browser, it is part of the front-end stack. When it executes on both, it is full-stack. Kapish?
What incentive does someone like Thiel have to induce a run at SVB?
you're literally blaming the prisoner in a prisoner's dilemma. it makes no sense to bet with 0.7:1 odds that only a few times above normal withdrawal volumes will actually occur. that is a shitty be to make, especially since every time people do, it usually works out against them.

we can opine about how to resolve confidence and coordination issues but you can not go victim-blame people who just don't wanna get fucked over.

one of the core values banks provide is confidence and peace of mind. if my bank can no longer provide that, i am full sending my cash somewhere else.
Even if it doesn’t create contagion it may wipe out a generation of start ups and destroy trillions of dollars of value that will be created in 10 years, destroying the most valuable ecosystem the world has ever seen and all just at the time AI is about to lead to the next revolution and economic transformation.

Given these implications, the policy choices are easy. Why allow these long term consequences in the name od stiffing depositors?
My understanding from news reports a few months ago is that SpaceX literally asked the DoD to fund Ukraine's ongoing use of Starlink for war and they refused to cover it. I don't know what the reasons were, but I'll bet SpaceX would let Ukraine do whatever it wants if the DoD was paying for it.
I keep thinking about publishing it, but I have a script which takes a Raspberry Pi SD card image, extracts it, modifies it (mostly by automatically editing cmdline.txt and fstab) to be suitable for network booting, and then pushes it to my netboot server.

This way I can quickly boot any Pi in my house (and there are quite a few now) to any arbitrary OS image just by renaming a symlink on the server.
They are making a choice to be fat because they eat the quantity of food that creates that condition in their body. Nobody says two people should eat the same level of food. You should eat the appropriate amount for your body.
I have a good friend whonwpuld frequently cut chicken's heads off with an axe while helping out ar a familt farm and another who would frequently go duck hunting with his dad and describes killing the ducks by violently spinning their necks.

I've never done any of these things but my friends seem fine to me.

The problem with children working in slaughter houses isnt that the children will be exposed to dead animals, its that they'll be exposed to unsafe working conditions and taken advantage of by their employer.
The industries that are excited to use child labor (which is what this is) are only doing so because they have a shortage of capable adult workers that want to work in the conditions and for the pay provided.

Aside from the fact that most kids can’t tell when they’re being exploited, why should kids be the stopgap for corporations that not even adults want

According to the rules of the “free market”, these jobs should either provide better conditions or working conditions or both in order to attract talent, because there’s plenty of workers— they just don’t want to work for the lack of return.
> would read an article
Or, did they?
Oh no! A person with $10m in cash might have to put forth a little effort to take care of a vast amount of money! Such horrors have rarely been contemplated.

I understand that some see startup founders as delicate smol beans who are too uwu soft to have to actually do some work. But I have been told repeatedly that these people are genius future titans of industry, backed by the most financially savvy people on the planet. So I think maybe they can handle it?

If somebody is in the incredibly privileged position of being handed $10m in one go, but is also uninterested in managing the money, then I would expect them to hire a part-time CFO. Or at the very least to split the money up and put it into two different banks, which in this case would have resulted in no payroll disruption and the safety of 90-100% of their money.
Our bodies are not adjusted to eating food with high calory density. Junk food messes up the system the way you feel hungry despite eating enough calories, and that leads to eating too much and becoming obese. You're right that eating the right number of calories in junk food won't make you obese, but it is extremely hard to eat the right number of calories when eating mostly junk food.

Eat healthy food, and eat only when you're hungry, and most likely your body would auto-regulate the calory intake just fine.
Not quite 5 years:
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/elon-musk-plans-to...
The article seems to be referring to Israeli based companies banking with an Israeli based subsidiary of SVB.
I already saw some documentary about gentrification. And how the restaurateur were building houses to house her workers. Charging pretty obscene rent and somehow telling nothing was wrong there... That isn't too far away from true exploitation.
Opportunity cost? We’re talking about 13-14 years olds sanitizing meat packing facilities on the overnight shift as was recently exposed up here in Minnesota.
Except low income families shoulder less of this than mega gazillionairs. In theory.
To further this, a lot of people (see Sam Altman, for example[1]) are saying the federal government should give depositors all of their money bank, and don't seem to care at all about what this would mean in the long run. Is the FDIC now insuring all deposits in the U.S. for an unlimited amount? What would the implications of that be?

Maybe there should be changes made to help protect depositors more, but instead of a collected and rational conversation about how we'll treat deposits going forward we're getting glib "just give these people there money back, they don't deserve this" responses. Of course these things are tragedies, but the degree to which the federal government assists people in these situations is a complex discussion, and we have to come up with a consistent approach.

People are asking about salty response, but this kind of cavalier attitude toward the financial system from supposedly serious thought leaders is a bit alarming.

[1] https://twitter.com/sama/status/1634958179657449475
Long flights are required to carry enough staff that pilots and stewards can meet the rest requirements and still have everything covered. They also need to meet the crew requirements for the plane's size. I understand there is some variance in regulatory rules between countries and regions.
https://imgur.com/r/earthporn <-- You can do this with any sub /r/ and it will give you imgur's bucket of images posted in each subreddit.
> Nietzsche outlined back in the 1980s.

Probably a 100 years off :)
> from the perspective of a smaller farmer or winery it is certainly a black swan event

Q: How much cash do small farmers / wineries have on deposit at their bank?
> Not all work is worth a living wage.

And there we have it. "I don't view your work as being valuable enough to justify you being able to obtain basic needs for yourself (like food and shelter), let alone a family. Now give me my frappe."

Funny how we will still call such employees "essential" when it's time to force them to work in shitty and potentially dangerous conditions.
They bought 10 year bonds at 1.5% yearly. For every 100$ they will get 116$ at maturity.

Right now there are 10 year bonds at 4% that will pay 148$ at maturity.

To be able to sell your 1.5% bonds right now you need to discount them sufficiently so they have the same value as the new 4% 10 year bonds. (otherwise why would anyone buy them)

I'd guess you'd need to discount 148$ - 116$ = 32$.

This means selling your 100$ bonds at 68$ right now to have buyers... Otherwise money is stuck for 10 years which is unfortunate if you ran out of available cash.

Is this wrong?
Is the title misleading? I am on the fence. The computor very much uses whippeltrees, as evidenced by looking at the backside of the UI, but does a page dedicated to a mechanical computer need to provide a introduction to basic concepts of mechanical computers? Where does it end? An introduction to arrays or linked lists every time a computer oriented page mentions anything to do with storing some data objects? How far down the stack of turtles do we go before we reach a point where Hermione is chiding us for "It's Reducto Abs-URD-ah. Not Reducto Absurd-arrh!"?
Call me crazy, but I don't think child labor is the solution.
on the other end, I'm 1.83m and 58-60kg since many years (I'm now 37) so a BMI 17-18, and it's my best shape, certainly not underweight. I have really thin bones & limbs (for example I can join my thumb and any other finger around my wrist, thin waist, legs a little bit stronger)
Have you just described a sleeper train?
You’re talking to another person who started working well before turning 18.

I lived and worked in a few places as a teenager, including one where many of my teenage coworkers ended up dropping out of high school to work as close to full-time as they could at the urging of their parents (or grandparents). They worked hard, but I’m sure you can imagine the impact this had on their already shaky prospects. I left and am doing okay, but that wasn’t the norm.

Child labor is a fundamentally different beast across the classes and regions of America, and it’s either naive or disingenuous to pretend kids picking up a little spending money and some life skills is the primary form it takes.