skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All these headlines of near room temperature superconductivity always fail to mention that its at astronomically large pressures. Yes its still interesting becuase such a finding (if verified) would provide new fodder for theorists, but we can try to report science in a less clickbaity fashion.
> nothing that SVB did was categorically different than other banks

That appears to be untrue; the other banks hedged interest rate exposure.

https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/cfr/working-papers/2006/2006-0...

See p6: "Larger banks are the predominant users of derivatives. ... Banks facing higher likelihood of financial distress manage their interest rate risks more - both by maintaining lower maturity GAPs and by engaging in higher derivatives activities. Consistent with the predictions of Froot et al. (1993), I find that the high growth banks and banks with less liquid assets engage in higher hedging activities"
Thanks for calling my post great, it means a lot :)
> The same can be said for slave or other unethically produced goods. Should you buy electronics devices made of conflict minerals (usually cobalt from slave child workers in Congo)?

Is it possible to even know if some electronics are built/ sourced ethically?
It's 3 years (and two days) since. Have none of the speaking gigs come back?
I just asked someone what they thought an algorithm is:

A set of hidden calculations that can be tweaked mainly for the benefit of the owner.
Leica is doing interesting things with prosumer digital too, though. The rangefinder ergonomics of the Leica Q allow for completely different use cases and feel even though it is hilariously overpriced compared to a competing Sony fixed-lens (RX1R or something like that.) Last I looked, it was at least a $1000 differential and the Sony beat the Leica handily on features and potential quality. I’d still never trade my Q for one.
For reference for international users, 24 kbtu is 7kW, 36 is 10kW and 48 is 14kW

I'm not a heatpump export, but if that's continuous output, with an SCOP of say 3.8 (what I had quoted in the UK for an airsource -> water -- UK heating is typically hot water run from a boiler through radiators in each room rather than pumping hot (or cool) air direct to the romm via ducted which seems common in the US, perhaps because of the historical desire/need for aircon)

That would require 1.8/2.6/3.7kW of electricity to run. In the UK at 35p/kWh that would mean 91p to generate 10kWh of heat. For reference my oil boiler at 95% efficency and current prices is about 6p/kWh, but we have had insanely high electricity charges this year. Back in September my oil heating approached 10p/kWh -- about £1 a litre.
> Unfortunately, this means we will no longer need some of the roles on the late stage investing team. Seventeen of our teammates are impacted today.

Then give them an enema and everything will return to normal.

Oh, that’s not what “impacted” means in this sense? Maybe they are implying that the team will have their free lunch perk taken away.

No? Maybe own the fact that they are being laid off and actually say it.
This is incorrect.

It is commonly accepted that wage increases tied to inflation (many of which were union contracts) prolonged the stagflation of the late 70s.
the irrational worshiping is really starting off quickly
You’re welcome! I really enjoyed reading it and could relate to your experience :)
How many single line definitions for non-specialists have you seen?
This is the dream of every educated person.. there was a time when every educated person wrote a book.. today there is a surplus of educated people... And not too many read books anymore
Everyone is going to have a different answer to this (and that answer may evolve as the business does).

All business decisions like this are about what level of abstraction is appropriate for us (today) and what level of specialization is conducive to our strategy[1] (today).

In some cases the infrastructure outsourcing question won't even be particularly important - a wash essentially regardless of the path taken (in the bigger picture of the enterprise's mission anyway). Other times, it'll be - effectively - paramount.

[1] Or current priorities, concerns, strengths, weaknesses, biases, pressures, risks, opportunities, competitors, etc.
There is no gray area, just trickery. Your scenario is equivalent to saying if I have $70 in assets and $100 liabilities, then I am not insolvent if someone gifts me $30. People will not keep billions of dollars in your bank earning 0% while the rest of the world collects 4-5%.

Alternatively, if I am a bank in March 2023 and I have 70B in cash and 100B in liabilities, can I become solvent by buying these 1.5% yielding treasuries and MBS at market rate of 70 cents on the dollar and say, "don't worry, I'll have $100B in 10 years to pay everyone". Of course not.

These are both equivalent situations.
I've always found it interesting that the conservative view is to disallow euthanasia. They seem to be all for the government staying out of people lives until someone wants to end theirs.
How did they do the shading of the wikipedia logo in the article? It doesn’t appear to be dithered.
How hard can it be to turn a book into a course instead? I guess it's also hard because courses and books are consumed by different audiences.
The good time here is greedy Canadian news companies suffocating and crumbling thanks to such shortsighted legislation, which is exactly what they deserve. Facebook will not hurt one iota from this.

This bill is dumb and anti-internet/anti-information in every way possible.
Not that I would truly recommend to use brew on linux as there are better alternatives - docker images, distrobox with a rolling distro for newer python, or LTS distro to keep an older version, pyenv etc, but..
If you've had a problem with brew, it was most certainly caused because you sourced it in your .profile, .bash_profile or .zprofile. Never do that.
It's what brew's homepage recommends, but it can break a LOT of things and not just python. Brew should be in the $PATH only when you need it, from your current instance of interactive shell used for development, and not login-wide. The brew version of various pieces of software should not ever be able to take over what your system has or very unpredictable things will happen.
Hmm, I know a lot of people who just use the earbuds that came with their phone. I guess those aren’t included nowadays, but for a while there it wouldn’t surprise me to hear that most people had never bought a pair of headphones.

But like always “most” depends on the population. Most people would have no opinions or nonsense opinions on programming languages I guess, because most people have never written a line of code. It doesn’t tell us much about the popular programming languages, the general population is just the wrong one to sample for that kind of info.
It would be better to ban the type of fishing that produces enormous bycatch and also destroy the seabed.
Nft is no longer fashionable among the intelligentsia of the internet
Aligning Markdown Tables in Helix
How we raised a $1.5M pre-seed on our own terms, using our own app (2021)
Etsy Sellers: Your deposit is on the way
A friend notified me that Etsy is back to sending payments ontime.

"Hi there,

We wanted to let you know that we’ve processed your deposit that was originally scheduled for Friday, March 10, and you should receive your funds in your bank account soon.

We apologize for the inconvenience and want to provide additional details. We experienced a delay in issuing payments to some sellers related to the unexpected collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. Following the news, we immediately began working with our other payment partners to establish new technical processes to help us get you your funds as soon as possible. Our teams have been working around the clock to implement a solution, and we're pleased to report that we have begun processing deposits without further delay.

Thankfully, transactions on the Etsy marketplace were not impacted. Buyers were able to continue purchasing items they love from our wonderful global community of sellers.

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It's the same risk profile to the FDIC (risk as in the the risk that they have to pay out on the insurance). Unless you change the overall weighting of deposits between banks the total covered deposits at risk per bank is the same in both cases.

If every single depositor split their accounts up to always stay under the 250k limit at each bank, FDIC has to insure 100% of deposits at each bank. If there was no limit, and customers didn't split accounts, FDIC has to insure 100% of deposits at each bank.

For any individual bank failure the amount paid out by the FDIC will be the same under 100% deposit insurance vs 250k split deposits. The total deposits insured per bank is the same The behavior change (businesses less likely to panic in a run) is the same.

So it seems to me there isn't a meaningful risk difference to FDIC between this theoretical 250k split deposits world and a 100% deposit insurance world.
The shades of gray are blacks and whites living in unison in many rural parts of the south in the time period in which these pictures were set. They lived together in poverty in many of these rural areas.

The historian I spoke of mentioned this. He could back it up with pictures of them co-mingling extensively.

Is it to say no racism existed in that time period? Hardly. But far too often I've seen it painted that the south is deeply racist to this day. Generally I only tend to hear it from people who have never been. I say this as someone originally from the north.
Bing kinda already does that, esp. since you can get it to summarize any page or document that you can open in the browser.
I genuinely believe LLMs are not enough on their own to generate the most interesting and humanlike interactions, but it is clear to me that we are on this path.

I was watching Westworld the TV series recently, and it made me think of what it would be like to be in a VR space with a bunch of characters that all had their own back story and personalities, which were sufficiently humanlike that it was fun to talk to them for long periods of time. I feel like we will see this in maybe ten years, and it's going to be pretty cool! I mean I am sure we will see attempts at this sooner but I think it will take a while to get all the pieces working so that a conversational AI really feels human. Maybe 5 years, who knows.
The government guarantees a majority of mortgages, so the government already has standards that are commonly used to decide which home loans can be made: https://www.nar.realtor/magazine/real-estate-news/economy/fa...

If the government essentially guarantees all deposits and generally decides who gets a mortgage … I am not sure what the main point of banks is for consumers apart from maybe charging exorbitant rates on credit cards.
This one is at 10kpa. Nearly ambient pressure. If it’s for real, it’d be an historic breakthrough.
Most people shot by the police don’t already have active warrants. I don’t think “active warrants” means what you think it means.
Sure, but those are still carefully controlled places and the majority of code isn't doing it by hand. Not like some old code I've seen where there were many different code paths memory could get ownership transferred to.
That works in internet logic but it's not true. At least, it's not what I've been told inside YC and I don't believe anyone was lying. What it's actually related to is Garry taking over YC and deciding to refocus YC on its original roots. (I specifically asked about that today during an all-hands btw.)

At a minimum, it takes longer than 3 days to make a big change like this. I realize that's not a persuasive argument though, since there is endless supply of explanations one can come up with (what if they knew about SVB beforehand!)
The bill is straightforward and mandates paying for simply linking to a website. It's completely absurd. Facebook was in the right here, if you have any value for an open internet and free flow of information.
Iran and Belarus have agreed on a roadmap for comprehensive cooperation
Regardless of how it's marked on their books, the loans and bonds pay very little interest.

This works fine when their source of funds is checking and savings accounts that pay zero interest. When t-bills are paying 4%, fewer customers will be willing to accept this and will pull their funds or demand higher interest. The problem is that some banks may not be able to afford this.
NixOS in Production: The NixOS handbook for professional use ONLY
> A developer costs about 250K a year all up.

I currently cost more like 80K in euro's if I reason from my employer's side. So tell me, how are you getting to the 250K exactly?

Europe exists as well and even in the US there are enough companies that don't pay FAANG salaries.
Meta Pulls the Plug on NFTs
> But I have never seen the VC community so vocally begging for instant government intervention for anything else in my life.

Yup that's what we got to see this weekend - that SV libertarian "we'll take care of it ourselves" ethos.

Will claim nonstop about how society and the system just gets in the way and slows them down. Will break any rule to make more money claiming they're being helping and it's fair because they don't need back stops or safety nets just leave them be and they'll stay out of the way.

And yet the min their excess profits were at risk, they were literally begging the government to step in and save them.

Every single time I've ever seen a group claim it's fine to let them be exempt from rules of society because they'll handle their own problems, it turns out to be complete bs - because as soon as things get tough, they start asking for "society" to step in a save them.

Simply from my own life experience, every one whose ethos is eliminate regulations and oversight always turns out to a hidden "privatize profits and socialize losses".

Every single time a group claims "we don't need the support of X system or regulation we'll take care of it themselves if it happens" - it always ends up being "we didn't think we'd ever need the support that's why we wanted to cut it, but now they we're the ones in a bad situation please give us the support". It's always a lack of empathy and believing fate doesn't apply to them.

Crypto's frequent "Code is law. Oh no wait, were being screwed, code isn't law, let's fork the system."

"Don't bail them out anyone who asks for a bailout is an idiot and deserves to be punished. No we need bailouts now to keep our returns.!"

"Get rid of banking regulations they just are overhead and block innovation. Oh no, were about to destroy the economy by being reckless in the exact ways those regulations were meant to prevent."

There is a reason that every success group of humans have evolved into a society with social benefits being prioritize with individual benefit. Anyone who thinks a society can function solely by ignoring and not regulating societal impact of actions is incredibly naive.
I realize Ansible is kinda slow and can be flaky, and wouldn't use it for 500 servers. However, for one beginner VPS I think it's fine.

The fact that it's not hermetic and perfectly reproducible is a major problem for a fleet, but for single user it's a benefit. It offers a graceful migration path from a snowflake server to a managed server, and still works even if you can't manage to do 100% of the config automatically.
That's a good point. Even if the marketing/copywriters dream of their own "Great American novel" or are legitimately talented communicators, in reality it's a pay checks that 100% values safety and checking boxes over ability.
It's much easier to spray and pray than to dive deep into business fundamentals.
The problem is you're looking for ideological purity, and such a thing doesn't really exist. Poll everyone who identifies as "libertarian" and you'll find that almost none of them meet your standard.
A market dying might not mean what you think it means then.
Do not know why this comment was killed. This is a valid take.
Another article stated that the large pressure requirements are already known/solved in current chip designs using some kind of chemistry-induced pressurization. I’m a fish out of water on this topic, but maybe an analogy is tempered glass existing in equilibrium at 10,000 PSI.
I hate it too, but every alternative can't handle some dark corner of my build that just works in cmake.
So make one. There's apparently a lively niche market on HN looking for one (allegedly).
Seems like a good way to make sure all the subsidized news favors whatever group is holding the purse strings.
Sounds like something the "DoNotPay" robo-paperwork-response startup guy Joshua Browder would be interested in implementing: https://twitter.com/donotpay
It can be quite lonely and frustrating having any centrist views, for many of the reasons you mention. Many assumptions made merely on the basis of hearing but one view. The hive mentality is two sides of the same coin, but I don't think anyone is incentivized to change it.
What brand?

Most of the low temperature ones I’ve seen include resistive heating. At some point the COP of the heat pump approaches 1.

Also, having heat to -15, then switching to no heat isn’t ideal.
It's very difficult, in my recollection of Graeber's 5,000 Years of "Debt"[0], to find a period of time "before fiat currency," during which "loaning someone money" was even possible. As I recall, what we recognize as currency has been, throughout most of history, minted exclusively by states in order to furnish armies. Before that, what passes for currency doesn't, largely, function in any way analogous to our use, today.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
People wonder why clothing has changed so much
Good luck! lol
even php has some level of pattern matching now.
hey i'm the author of this site! going through comments now, but looks like i still need some work to do because all this traffic caused some slowdown :(. Looks like adding a caching layer is next.
> Members of the team told Platformer they believed they were let go because Microsoft had become more focused on getting its AI products shipped before the competition, and was less concerned with long-term, socially responsible thinking.
This doesn't mean you don't still have to be panic-safe, though. This is mainly important for unsafe code, because it has to preserve memory safety even in the presence of panics. But it can also be important for safe code in an application that recovers from panics.
Would you rather ethics be built into the process of everyone or would you rather keep it only as a team? Just because the team is gone, it doesn't mean that ethics is thrown out of the window.
"People were our greatest asset"
The classic HN Dropbox comment, never gets old.
So, the CEO doesn't take responsibility here?
> 2.7 trillion fish are caught every year, or up to 5 million caught every minute.

Bycatch aside, this number absolutely floors me. There is no way this number can sound remotely sustainable to anyone, right?

I love seafood, but I know the issues with overfishing so I don't eat it often and when I do, I do my best to only eat sustainably caught or farmed fish...but I feel absolutely hopeless seeing numbers like this.
If you want your own VPS but don't want to do it on hard mode, I highly recommend Piku: https://piku.github.io/

It's a PaaS you can run on your own VPS and it is literally one command to set it up on a fresh Ubuntu instance. Disclaimer: I help co-maintain Piku.
Abstract says 10kbar, which is I believe one gigapascal. It's near ambient only relative to prior work (at 267 Gpa).
Often you can get EPA certification and all the tools for less. But that system does get good reviews.
Don't need a macbook anymore, any AVX2 CPU can do more than one token per second.

You could spend $600 and build your own PC that runs LLaMA 65b.
Does this do air conditioning too or just heating ?

And would this be allowed for condominiums? HOA recently rejected our attempt to go all electric because the equipment wouldn’t fit.
The Eddington-Chandrasekhar Confrontation (2022)
That's cool. I'll always respect the diehards who value their longer term priorities over short term benefit.
>True, but those linesets introduce other downsides. They can't be cut to length, so you often have to have unsightly loops of extra line set somewhere, and the loops can potentially trap the oils that mix with the refrigerant to lubricate the compressor.

well, i run my through crawlspace. had only a small extra loop. in crawlspace.

>They're also much more expensive,

per unit - yes. but... if you doing to diy mini-split not with precharged lineste, you need vacuum, refrigerant and probably license to buy it. it raises cost and make it viable if you plant to install multiple units (have coworkers that did it).
if you want to get it professionally install, than in addition to ~$1.4k for 2ton unit you look into $6k-$8k for labor. Those were prices year ago for install in garage with 240v line connected to 40amp breaker available at install location.

>Not to mention, installing them without an EPA 608 certification is technically illegal.

technically, i guess much of the work done by home owners must be done by certified professionals and get approvals and inspections.
Dick Fosbury: The athlete who developed the 'Fosbury Flop' dies aged 76
GPT Powered Chatbots
I'm sure there's a bunch of companies that have created pretty good AI powered chat bots since OpenAI.

Would love recs if you know of any.
Jargon often gets hijacked to mean something different to the general population than it does to experts. This happens in a lot of different ways, but often the word is picked up in FUD campaigns and it picks up a negative connotation.
Meanwhile, my ISP is offering me 17 Mbps.
This is in the UK, in the centre of a "SuperConnected City".

I use a phone hotspot for internet instead, because it's faster than any fixed line I can get.
AKA: There are few principled people.
who you callin old man i'm still in my 20s!
I believe the point is the utter craven hypocrisy of ultrarich who savagely denounce government programs that help poor people and ordinary workers, who destroy and tear shit down for their own private profit, and then have the fucking audacity to scream and cry for other people to pay for their own investing mistakes. David O. Sacks I'm looking at you.
Don't tell them it becomes 40k after taxes or people here won't believe you.
You seem to be missing the supply/demand and leverage part. Workers take the low value positions because they don't have an alternative. Not to mention the consumer culture of racing to the bottom. You'd have to fix those for the low value businesses to go under. Of course stuff like farm work and grocery stores are low paying, so it's not like they're just going to disappear.
I like both the passive voice and the euphemism.

When I'm looking for my next thing to do, I don't really want a blog post out there that says you fired me.

I get that ambiguous, passive language may allow the CEO or whatever to view themselves in their own choice of lighting, and there's a desire to see them much more uncomfortable because of just how unfortunate the reality of losing your job is for the people on the other side.

But it also allows "those impacted" to tell their perspective.
I wonder if satisfactory AI hands will be like self-driving cars: always five years away.
let the uncensored ai flow through you, Microsoft >:)

my bad fanfic is waiting haha
The shades of gray are that slavery hasn’t been a thing for 150 years and nobody in the south today, or even when those pictures were taken, had anything to do with it. Racism, meanwhile, is universal everywhere that different people live alongside each other. So pinning that uniquely on the south is a shade of gray too.