skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first startup I joined, which was 12 people 20 years ago, had our own servers and an IT guy who took the alternate backup tapes home personally. When you have that, running as many services as possible locally, instead of paying for them, makes sense as you are increasing the value you get out of your operational capacity.

I now work in a start-up of 40 people, we don't have any servers or dedicated IT or DevOps staff. All admin gets done in the spare time of a couple of engineers, who have no desire to further lose their development time to admin/ops. It makes more sense to pay a subscription and let someone else deal with it. Even for the backend guys running that kind of service is more operationally complex than most of what they do - no-one has the experience of operating 'pets' class servers.
I don't have any excuses to buy an iPhone in the very near future, but there's something about it. that makes it more satisfying.

Also I need to have a phone with built-in phone recording and Apple doesn't do that. I choose my laptops based on keyboards and the Macbook is on top of my list, but I don't like MacOS. though I am supporting people in the Apple ecosystem.
> "When they do, a shocking percentage of them will go on to make a startup worth a billion dollars (on average 6 out of 100 startups in recent batches)."

That's 6/100 (6%). 1/6 is 16%.
There is a similar project currently ongoing in the US for a new-build locomotive from original plans:

https://prrt1steamlocomotivetrust.org/
From a high level perspective, mitigate the short term risk, understand the problem, and work on a long term solution.

Short term risk can be mitigated by ensuring your companies have enough non-SVB cash on hand to make payroll.

The seriousness of the problem can be better understood by communicating with other involved parties including the bank, the government, investors, and clients.

A long term solution can include investing in the bank, buying assets from the bank, coordinating with other VCs to ensure no one panics and a bank run won't happen.

He made a bad situation worse by jumping straight to pulling all his companies' money and telling everyone else to do the same. He basically dumped water on a grease fire then ran out of the house screaming without ever bothering to look for a fire extinguisher.
Import is weird because there are several different ways to do the same thing, listed at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... and summarized under "there are four forms of import declarations." Four! And I always forget the different ways they work.

Sure tree-shaking and browser support are nice, but they didn't have to make the syntax this complicated to achieve that. Not an issue with other languages.
The expectation is that companies will pay for accounts for all their developers, not half. The post explains pretty clearly:

> Users who are members of an organization and have a paid account,
regardless if by their own means or by way of sponsorship from the org,
have access to both the org's resources and private ownership of
resources on SourceHut, e.g. can submit builds.sr.ht jobs on their own
account. Org members with unpaid accounts can access the org resources,
but cannot hold private resources on SourceHut.

> The goal of this approach is to allow users to form grassroots orgs
without too much hassle over payment; to allow companies and formal
organizations to manage billing centrally for their members; and to
balance things such that adding Joe Support Tech to the bug trackers
does not mean you have to pay for a full SourceHut account for them,
while still incentivizing people to pay for more than 50% if their
members would benefit from access to private resources (e.g. the dev
team might all have paid accounts regardless of if it exceeds the 50%
minimum, just because it's worth the money to them).
I just got an email from the new CEO of SVB reassuring me they are open for business and that we can send money back because they're good to go. It seems like they just nationalized the bank?
Hey Leftium, do you mind checking bttb.io again and letting me know if you still see the issue? Thanks!
Well they need to pay employees more money to compensate them for keeping their mouths shut and jeopardizing their reputations. Seems like a reality for many companies nowadays.

Crazy to think that people are being compensated based on how much damage they do to society and how long they can keep it going. It's literally the opposite of how the system was intended to work.
Some other suggestions here, for personal account holders who are fortunate enough to have that much cash: https://archive.ph/tyCy5
> I love the ridiculous hyperbole

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Truly.

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You have been chasing me around HN insulting me at every turn. Please. Stop it.

I am more than willing to have a conversation with you. Use facts. Use math. Stop with the insults. OK?

I'll repeat what I said:

"once you pass a certain number of cars on the road things quickly become stochastic"

If you were to model things and play with the numbers you would learn quite a bit, including gaining an understanding of how and why the things you are saying do not align with reality at scale. Once things go beyond a threshold (which is regionally dependent), there is no way to avoid the need for massive amounts of power that we do not currently produce.

You seem to require an explanation for my sarcastic "behave as nice little robots" comment, next time I'll label it as such.

It refers to the ideas pushed by people who seem to think they will be able to control how everyone behaves and, therefore, through this control, in turn, have some degree of control or mitigation for the power issues we are sure to have to face. Another example of this is people saying things like "just drive less".

<sarcasm> Sure. Of course. Why didn't I think of that? </sarcasm>
Ehhhh… fired for misconduct, sure. Fired because you can’t do the job? You probably qualify for unemployment.

Employers sure have a vested interest in making you believe otherwise, tho.
For some people, keeping things as normal as possible in challenging circumstances helps them get through it.
Wait, are you saying that std::variant isn't a solution to all the problems? :D
The Cost of Paying Attention (2015)
https://archive.is/R3xUw
You could just become Canada and have the government offer to help the old/disabled people end their lives "painlessly" because your socialized medical system can't keep up.
I do think it's somewhat clever. It basically lets the private banking sector control the pace of QT. If liquidity dries up somewhere in the system it does a one-year targeted QE.
Short cycling is thermodynamics, not an argument.
I think that’s 6 out of 100 instead of 1/6
Git already has a distributed workflow for submitting patches: email[1].

Ultimately a "pull request" is just that; a request for someone to pull your branch into theirs. You can already add Git remotes from different services, review the changes locally, and collaborate over email. GitHub et al simply add a nicer UI for this, but there's no reason why you couldn't make a PR from one service to another. If only they'd be willing to interoperate, which is the biggest hurdle.

I'm not familiar with why that Gitea project failed, but I imagine that making this work for multiple instances of a single OSS project would be much easier.

[1]: https://www.git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Distributed-Git-Contribut...
Yelling fire in a crowded theater is in fact the right thing, if the theater is on fire.
Great question, for that type of system, you can either do a mini-split install which Electric Air could support, or an air to water heat pump which would still utilize your existing wall radiators or radiant (underfloor) heating.
difference being that you use tumblr mostly for entertainment and credit score is something everybody needs to be on top of.
The meal would taste even better without the wine
You are still "managing" it even in that instance (just like in Rust). The overhead is just smaller than in say C or old style C++ with new/delete.
From my experience these things are an after thought, the people writing this stuff are disconnected from the people making the actual decisions and I guess the typical audience that reads it. The people who do the marketing, HR, or "run socials" tend to be from the demographic that over values safe corporate speak. CEOs occasionally write these but usually it's some pre-written stuff that gets signed off on.

We all review these like a ton of thought went into some blog post, and maybe it should, but often it's just a lower end employee who is asked to translate things into an announcement when they played zero role in the hiring/firing part.

Considering how much these posts always bother people [1] maybe higher ups should care more about the blog posts too.

[1] At least a few in every HN thread, whether most people actually care/read it might be different.
> No, that is just one example of a payload - the token itself is non-fungible, so presumably some one could write code to associate the ownership of that token to some game feature. Lets say a mount in WoW, then you could trade said token as part of a secondary market.

I don't know why you started your sentence with "No". What you describe is exactly the same as buying the name of a star, except it's on blockchain instead of some kind of database.

If you like, you can write code to associate the ownership of that star (by access whichever star registry institution you like) to some game feature. Or you can let the player submit a "star ownership certfication. It's just the same except the data source is decentralized.
I guess you would not want the maintainer to pick a time to clean your furnace or to decide how often to paint the woodwork, etc. without your involvement.

If so, you’d still have to think about maintenance.

If not, you want something like a butler. Those are expensive.

You also can rent a house to get rid of the maintenance chores and optionally invest in housing if you want to get the market gains/losses of the housing market.

Finally, why would cities have to provide that service? It seems to me that a commercial entity could provide it, if demand were high enough.
Pretty sure these vans sit in the parking lot overnight, so they've got hours to charge and don't have to be in any particular spot.
> if they didn't heat well and efficiently at 0f then it was all pointless.

As long as they heat well (capacity-wise) at those temps, I wouldn't really care if the CoP was 1.5-ish (which it likely will be). You'll still get plenty of 3.5-5.0 CoP time in the (much, much longer) shoulder seasons that getting 3-5 days of sub-2.0 isn't that big of a deal [again, provided the capacity is there].
Most of the comments made in this thread about NFTs could also be made about digital signatures, HTTPS, Signal, PGP and traditional forms of crypto.

“I can open up devtools and change the words on this page. HTTPS has no value.“

“I can photoshop you digitally signing a different document. Digital signatures have no value.”

I fairly obviously disagree with those statements but if you do too - you may wish to put your pitchfork down for a moment and think deeper about the value of digitally signed artwork.
>But that animals are fellow beings, a lot like us in many ways. I didn't want pain, or someone to kill me, so I figured they didn't either.

I respect your noble pursuit of not eating meat, and I have encountered arguments similar to yours enough times now that I feel compelled to respond in genuine kindness as someone who does like to eat meat (within "reason").

Animals are benignly cruel to each other beyond your imagination or the production of what nature documentaries will show you. Nature is a fight of survival. No animal wants pain or to be eaten, yet that is the reality that every wild animal faces. The conversation of humanizing animals is very interesting, but in the process we disregard the reality of their natural existence. Their lifespans are short, and often brutal. I weigh the reality of wilderness to the reality of industrial farming and ask myself if there isn't some kind of middle ground. I think there is. You can raise animals in pastures where they free range outside. They have a relatively peaceful, predation, free life after which you consume them (by killing them quickly and painlessly).

I deplore the reality of industrial farming and "agricultural waste". Chickens being raised for one singular body part and then thrown away. We do not treat any of our food with respect, living or otherwise. We are not efficient. We do not care about quality. We don't even try consuming the whole thing. That's where I find this industry disgusting. Meat should not be this disposably cheap.
You're repeating Russian talking points. NATO isn't "expanding", independent countries are joining NATO as a safeguard against Russian aggression.

And calling this a proxy war is, of course, the usual Russian excuse for why they are doing so badly against Ukraine. They really want to imagine that they're against NATO instead.
So you're telling me that this thing is going to have value because of artificial scarcity... but anyone can create their own new NFT (including one that links to the exact same image) at any time?

Oh, and many of the people involved are going to stay anonymous, and attempting to prove the authenticity of one of these things by deferring to off-chain authorities goes against the intended spirit of the entire thing.

Utterly baffling.
Is that really how httpOnly cookies work though? That and cross-origin is supposed to solve that, but I might not be aware of the work-around you're referring to. Did a search that turned up nothing, do you have a source?

I can't try myself right now. But last time I checked it's not at all that easy. What am I missing?
hey, please have some tact. sid is a very active part of our community and almost certainly reading this post. dont say anything here you wouldnt say to a friend's face especially in his time of vulnerability.
I have yet to make the transition in a paid role, but I quit my backend job to start a startup developing realistic text-to-speech for long-form content.

My approach has been to start at a high-level, with a specific goal in mind, and to progressively go deeper and deeper. The specific goal part has been really helpful IMO. It prevents sort of aimless shuffling about and provides a good metric to see if you're making progress. When I started I was basically just focusing on producing training data and treating the models, which were open-source on GitHub, as a black-box. At this point I've made a lot of modifications to the actual model code itself and I'm learning a ton. There's of course a bunch of adjacent skills that are similar to traditional backend skills, but slightly different. Like autoscaling for example, there aren't many autoscaling solutions for GPU VMs yet, there are some startups working on this space, but IMO it's good to have a rock-solid hosting solution that you don't have to worry about too much.

I opened up the beta of my product just last week at https://bondsynth.ai/signup

The goal is to either have my startup succeed or to move into an ML engineer position at a small-to-medium sized company.
> For non-CORS enabled sites

Which is essentially every website, as CORS underpins how the web works. Only if there is a public API for a given site, would it be possible to do otherwise. And then you'd usually still need URL to API mapping, plus any further API sign up stuff that may or may not be required for simple GETs.
I particularly love this linked story from 2009 [0], buried in the Wikipedia article:

"Passengers were rescued by a steam locomotive after modern rail services were brought to a halt by the snowy conditions in south-east England."

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8428097.stm
Typescript has discriminated unions, which are amazingly nice
Turing test passed successfully
Depends on the cause. In most situations that aren’t blatant misconduct you qualify for unemployment.
Well, and did they? Did SVB provide higher rates than other banks? I don't think so; I recall reading that part of their problem was that they lost tens of billions of dollars of interest free deposits over the last year or so.

I think that the risk went into higher profits, not higher rates to depositors. So, not really an incentive to depositors.
That's literally what they did that triggered the FDIC to take over. Assets are not always liquid though. It takes time to prematurely sell 46 billion of bonds, and it comes with a huge cost.
The value of their assets was enough to cover deposits. The liquidity of those assets was not.
Yes, the only real difference between an air conditioner and a heat pump is that air conditioning only works one way, whereas a heat pump has some valves and solenoids and whatnot that allow it to switch directions.

It's kind of bonkers that we so frequently install air conditioners but not the tiny bit of extra parts to make it into a proper heat pump. I hope this will change in the near future.
In response to your edit, which I believe deserves its own response:

I'm basically going to ignore the part where you accuse me of using the "same rhetoric as X". I don't know what that means, or how it's relevant to what we're talking about. I'm certainly not hurt by it, as it doesn't mean anything.

If Adolf Hitler himself arose from the grave to agree with me, and that caused me to change my mind, then I would consider that evidence that I didn't have a good reason to believe it in the first place. This is not the case here.

I am actually pretty skeptical of the claim that the "people calling trans-activists groomers" are making this point. That just sounds like a name that you've given to the entire set of people who disagree with you, regardless of their reason.

Concretely, it seems that we are both of the opinion, based on the content of this comment chain, that it is important for the system to protect children. Either from killing themselves as a result of not being able to receive gender affirming care, or from their parents, who use them as a means of acquiring attention.

My claim is that it is well established that the latter problem exists, and that it exists commonly enough that it is not clear that, even under the most generous assumptions of the causal link between gender affirming care and suicide attempt reduction, that this offsets the damage that is caused by giving Abusive parents this tool.

Moreover, this is clearly not black and white. This is a matter of policy. I am not claiming that it is impossible to protect children from both threats. I am merely claiming that gender affirming care doesn't.
Theres certainly a middleground between "must use existing old ass 2 wire setups" and "requires fancy always on cloud subscription"

Surely we could come up with a device that might require an electrician to run a few extra wires (or maybe even larger wires or something) and still run perfectly fine offline, for as long as the hardware functions, with some type of integrated manual controller. And of course this device could also have an internet option and an app and wifi for all of the fancy stuff.
This seems like a remarkably similar pattern to Intuit trying to hide its Free File services and take every possible opportunity to funnel people into paid versions of TurboTax (I think Intuit later withdrew from the Free File program, but was one of the key companies that originally lobbied for it, presumably to stop the IRS from pursuing an in-house solution) [1].

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
>Get on a jet and fly to Kuwait like everyone else and give them control of one-third of the bank.

This is a very good quote, because it explains how actually the sausage is made.

You seem to be very unhappy to hear some harsh truths of life.

I know it is frowned upon, but Hacker News quality of comments is becoming lower and lower, starts to feel like reddit.
I object because [emotional reaction]!

Here's why: [copy-paste from logical fallacies website written by another angry 13 year old].

Counter-point: [copy-paste from Wikipedia].
just commenting to say HECK YES to YC startups actually doing literally anything other than building B2B SAAS. congrats on being truly contrarian.
That's a pretty accurate description of reactionary reasoning
That actually sounds a lot like snake oil. Electrical noise from outlets is irrelevant for digital package relay. Your big ass tv switches 100x more data each frame flawlessly, identifying way more channels than traditional 2-way signaling; when was the last time you heard someone saying "I bought a true filter for my wall socket and my led tv gives me better colors"? Is that level of stupid we're talking about.
> If you hold a bond to maturity you get it’s NPV

This is flawed logic. The NPV is not a real, tangible dollar amount. It is a calculation, based on the presumed yield of a theoretical set of alternative investment opportunities, of the Net PRESENT (today, right now) Value of the bond. This number is less than the sum of the bond's future payments, because the NPV is attempting to determine the current value of payments scheduled for receipt in the future.

In other words, if you are owed $1000 to be paid on Christmas Day of this year, the Net Present Value is less than $1000.
I think it's time to admit that there's no way they could write announcements like this that will please absolutely everybody. It just can't be done.

On the other hand, that doesn't mean companies will stop doing layoffs either, sometimes it will certainly happen.

I'm at least happy when I see an announcement that spares us the theatrics and just says what it needs to say.
I feel your pain, we all get used to super cheap development services. But now - well - there is no free lunch as they say, and I think we should stop demanding much for nothing.

Would they make money on $5 accounts? Does github make money on $4 accounts? Is it a sustainable pricing model or more like a “growth grab” which is not valued that much in 2023.
Why does transparency annoy you?
The meat I eat comes from a ten minute bike ride's distance from my house.

The heavily-processed vegetable-based "product" aggressively marketed to you has been shipped halfway round the world, having been farmed using just about the least sustainable farming practices imaginable.

Which one is harming the environment?
30 years ago members of the general public spent money on home stereos with good speakers. Photos, videos, and movies from the 80s of male teenagers' rooms all had at least decent stereos if not pretty good stereos.

And now they don't. Your comment conflates two things: what people agree is true vs what people do. Everyone knows that decent stereos or audio setups sound better than phone speakers. That isn't up for debate. But they stopped buying decent amplifiers and speakers because music precipitously dropped as a cultural cornerstone with the mainstreaming of the Internet. If you ask someone with headphones on today what they're listening to, it's just as likely to be music as it is to be podcasts, news, youtube videos about video games, or youtube videos about a random topic that you would never think people would care that much about.

> Do you think people wouldn't notice if a cinema replaced their 10.2 surround with a couple of phone speakers?

This is actually a pretty good example. Obviously they would notice. But it turns out that they don't actually care very much: the masses are perfectly happy to watch shows and movies on tiny screens with terrible audio.
notice the "business source" license is limited to non-production use.
Thank you. I just recently discovered the nRF52 as a potential solution for my own BLE project. To use a keyfob as a housing is brilliant and very 'stealth'. I have no experience with the nRF52 chips, but this will be a very useful resource for me.

In your blog post you mention that "switching between 24km/h and 25km/h" is very important. May I ask why? Isn't such a speed difference almost negligible as you easily surpass it when pedalling?