skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using Python since like 2006, so maybe I just have that generational knowledge and battlefront experience... but whenever I come into threads like this I really feel like an imposter or a fish out of water. Like, am I using the same Python that everyone else is using? I echo your stance - the less overhead and additional tooling the better. A simple requirements.txt file and pip is all I need.
Teeny, tiny needles, if anyone was wondering.
> Now, SVB, loaded with money, could have tried loaning it like crazy, but instead, decided to go the conservative way and buy bonds.

They could have taken a look at inflation and the glut of liquidity and bought shorter dated bonds but instead they locked them money up for 3-10 years at paltry interest rates.
competitor obviously
> Owners of unsecured debt and investors are left out. Which is fine by me.

Also fine by me.

The distinction I attempted to make in my comment was that there are actually something like four parties in this case: Holders of debt, investors, insured deposits and uninsured deposits. I find it absurd the FDIC is going to realize a loss to cover uninsured deposits, because that's simply not what they should do if they followed their own standard. Remember, even though it's state-owned the FDIC is a company, Americans should be worried if the FDIC takes actions that could ultimately put in risk money that _is_ actually insured. If they run dry, they will have to tap into the government's pockets and that's when shit truly hits the fan.
My idea was to release it for free and cross-promote my other game in it I'm currently working on. But don't know if it works out, because it's quite niche.
It's not that they shouldn't have bought treasuries, it's that they shouldn't have bought such long dated treasuries, and if they did, they should have hedged against interest rates, and if they didn't, they should have realized the loss when it was smaller. But they did none of those things and it was fatal to them.

The Fed kept making it clear that it was raising rates, and it seems like SVB just slipped quietly into that good night without lifting a finger to save itself. Which is bizarre and confusing and there must be more to the story (and details are coming out, like the risk manager role remaining open for nine months), but it does seem like crazy risks were taken. But not in pursuit of additional gains, like we are used to seeing, but it's looking more like negligence or a misunderstanding of their position.
Title should have (2021), since the date of the press release is January 27, 2021, i.e. two months after the 2020 election. But it is weird that the alleged crime occurred in the 2016 election. It almost makes you wonder if prosecutors were waiting for the next administration so they could take the case to trial.

I'm not sure why this was posted now, but I think the case is ongoing. I've seen GatewayPundit rant about it a few times but haven't personally followed it. Honestly it seems disproportionate - the government is trying to criminalize shitposting memes.
Except that it doesn't seem to be better than existing Whatsapp in any way? They even use the same protocol and it barely made a dent in WhatsApps market share.

Outside the small % that rejects Meta... Who is it for and how exactly is it reaching it's objectives?
Y Combinator won’t raise another continuity fund
I remember reading about this game as a full feature in a gaming magazine years ago. I was so entranced by the mystery of it and gorgeous art style, but never actually got to play it. I'll have to see if I can get it up and running.
Time for a Remedial Global War?
Civil considerations as food for thought.
If you want a true SoC because it's tiny and cute? Try a TI Sitara (BeagleBone, etc). The new BeaglePlay is really nice for $98.

If you need a home automation/print server? Get a $40 used Xeon workstation on eBay.
It's a big mental hurdle.

I don't really care about HTML/CSS/JS. I really don't care about React. But the four of those form this gigantic cottage industry of tribal knowledge that requires so much fiddling. In short, I don't want to be a webdev.

I just want to use the browser as a dumb display device and a software delivery mechanism. I want the UI to be as simple as possible until I start getting traction, then I'll get someone to add some paint to make it passable.

The dream is a VB-like product that lets me focus on creating features, not worrying about technical inanities like getting CORS configured right for the 5000th time.
In principle, if we paid MORE attention to property rights around these resources, we wouldn't be in the situation we find ourselves with respect to air and water pollution, carbon emissions, and so forth.

If there were an owner, somehow, of the air, or the air over my house, or something, then when other entities are trying to externalize their own costs (by way of dumping carbon into the air, say), then we'd be able to use vanilla tort law to recover those costs as damages.

I'm not saying we should necessarily do that - obviously there are big questions about just whose bit of water this is, and how to determine who's causing the damages. But if we could somehow answer those questions, it seems like the market could supply the answer. That, to me, suggests that moving in the opposite direction is not obviously the best answer.
its only a performance problem. there wouldn't be any reason to forbid arbitrary queries - they just might not have pre-built indices that make them go as fast as they possibly could
CTR and/or SAR and/or form 8300 and/or Fincen 105 when you actually spend it, either directly or they investigate and find you're the second link back.

And if you escape civil action by IRS, the fed or local government can simply take it as civil asset forfeiture without accusing you of wrongdoing.

.gov really really hates big piles of printed currency and if they find out you have it the temptation for them to take it can become overwhelming to various entities that survive off of the taking.
I mean, it’s a balancing act, right? If you plan to be able to accommodate 20% redemption in a single day, you’re left with a portfolio maturity of 5 days. You will be almost unavoidably marked to market but your yield, even when rates are high, is going to be roughly zero and you’re going out of business anyway.
Is it? My dad absolutely loves it, but I don’t think he’s faced its limits. How is it worse than plain Medicare? (Asking seriously as a mostly uninformed non-participant.)
I am referring to the fact that startups that are being advised by VC firms had a requirement to keep their funds in the bank. If you think that SVB and the VC firms didn't have a special kind of relationship you're missing the facts.
True it will go in waves this century, but in 160yrs was my aim with that comment. Maybe too long of a time frame to think about, but the next big change in structure will be then.
The whole point of banking is that you borrow money from your depositors at low interest rates, but at a variable term length (The depositor can always withdraw), and you lend money to borrowers at high interest rates, but at a fixed term length (The bank can't just call in your mortgage tomorrow.)

Borrow short, lend long. The latter necessitates 'locking money up'.

A well-managed bank will properly manage the risk of the short loans getting called.

A poorly-managed bank will go all-in on getting short loans from people who are likely all going to call them in at the same time (startups), while putting their entire lending portfolio into lending long in an environment where long-term loans are dropping in value.
From what I understand, a PHD is absolutely not worth it for the vast majority of people. There may be a few exceptions for a small number of hyper specialized occupations that require a PHD.

Most of the people I know who got a PHD did it for immigration reasons.
Shame there's no Android port yet.
I thought ChatGPT is only 20B parameters to begin with?

(Source https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2023/02/17/is...)
For challenge #1 Whatsapp has already achieved that - what does Signal offer to users over that product?
I like the out of the box thinking! Unfortunately I think this one doesn't quite pass first principles. Any pumping action from the vehicles would be extra work they have to perform, so you just shuffle the energy expenditure from your local heat pumps, to a fleet of vehicles.
Calibration of course. I think people neglect calibration as something essential if you are going to take actions based on ML predictions as opposed to just compete on some leaderboard. (One of the ways Kagglism holds us back.)
> If you hold a bond to maturity you get it’s NPV. Valuing it at NPV vs mark to market has more to do with your plan than any sort of fundamental truth - they’re both legitimate ways of valuing it.

If you hold a bond to maturity, you get it's Net Present Value at maturity which is actually Net Future Value. Mark to market of treasury bonds is essentially the NPV of the bond, considering current interest rates. When interest rates are near zero, sure, a dollar today and a dollar tomorrow are the same, with significant interest rates, they aren't. And there's the problem.

You can't give a depositor a $100 treasury bond, due in 2028, when they want $100 now. That's only worth $85 today (or whatever the value is, I dunno).
Do you have more examples where zip is handy? I've noticed it's a quite common feature of other languages like Python...
Solve Docker on Mac error «bind: address already in use» after Xcode 14 install
Having lived at worked in Poughkeepsie at IBM for several years found it strange to see it on HN as well. I've since moved to Massachusetts but something my wife and I really miss about the Hudson Valley are all of the historic sites along the river (Locust Grove, FDR's house, Vanderbilt mansion, Mills mansion, Olana, etc.) that were often free and were great places to just go sit and visit, as you say.
> vague impression is that scence-y types

Because often python is only one part of the puzzle, we also need a variety of third party libraries and maybe R as well (along with R packages). And we would rather not have to explain to another researcher how to install it all.
Advanced AI is the warhead.

>requires concentrating that power with an infrastructure that a small group does not have, it requires coordinating the resources of a broad social base.

These are all things intelligence (artificial or otherwise) can help acquire. It listens, thinks, and responds. Genghis Khan, Adolf Hitler, and Albert Einstein are all intelligences that resulted in dramatic tangible, physical changes to our world almost entirely by listening, processing, and responding with human language.

A small number of slow and weak apes came to have absolute unilateral control over the destiny of all other lifeforms because of intelligence. The power, infrastructure, and resources you speak of were not available in 15,000 BCE, yet somehow they exist today.
The plan in a normal bank operations is to hold a mixture of long, medium, short, and liquid assets proportionate to a normal heavy withdrawal of funds. No bank stays liquid enough to survive the drawdowns they saw, because they’re not required to by law. They operate within the regulatory construct they exist in. The way they pay interest on deposits is by investing them to begin with, and if they’re invested in anything other than cash or treasuries, they face liquidity risk. That risk is not zero. It’s actually not even insubstantial. And risks are what the word implies, a risk. In an unlikely situation, they are insolvent while they liquidate assets - and often their long terms assets must be liquidated at a loss. This is literally how every bank operates. This is also why the government was able to step in and restore bank operations in a few days. They know how banks work too, they wrote the rules. So they know exactly what to do in this situation - because since it’s a risk of banking business, it can and will happen.

You seem to understand the concepts enough, where is the disconnect? It’s genuinely confusing. This isn’t a novel take on how a bank works.
Nice. How about creating a bookmarklet to make it super easy to share a web0.cc link from the current page?

Then people don't need to copy the url, go to web0.cc, paste it and submit.

Also maybe if the refresh can be reliably done after a few seconds then you could make the page refresh itself automatically (it's not difficult for the user but it's one less thing to handle). You could tweak the refresh time by how busy your site is.
Upvoted,

BACnet already exists as an ISO standard:
https://www.iso.org/standard/37298.html
https://bacnetinternational.org/

The example application in the Ethernet Alliance one-pager on single pair Ethernet is HVAC:
https://ethernetalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/EA_T...
I guess technically. SIVB, for instance, tried to do an equity offering to shore up their books. It didn't work though.
Author here. Just for context tinyc.c was created in 2000 (I found the file in my archives and the last modification date is January 12, 2001). I was not aware at the time of Fabrice Bellard's work which after all won the IOCCC in 2001, so the confusion with TCC was not intentional. My tinyc.c was meant to teach the basics of compilers in a relatively accessible way, from parsing to AST to code generation to bytecode interpreter. And yes it is the subset of C that is tiny, not a tiny compiler for the full C language.
Those prices... out of this world? Can you explain to me how it is possible to get a 7kW air/air heat pump installed for a total cost of ~17.000 [1] Swedish kronor (~$1600 at current rate) for a fraction of the price of these things? These devices all come with networked remote control, most of them can be integrated into 'home automation' systems without problems, they tend to work down to around -30°C (-21°F) albeit with lower efficiency (as will these devices). All that is 'missing' is the 'air quality' claim - although several of these heat pump manufacturers make claims about their devices filtering the air, using ionizers to 'increase air quality' and such. What remains is the Apple/Nest-like design and the claim of better integration with thermostats. To me this does not explain the factor 10 price difference, especially given that the Swedish prices include the high Swedish value added tax (25%) as well as the installation costs. What am I missing?

[1] https://www.polarpumpen.se/varmepumpar/luftvarmepump/
I don't mean anything toward you, by my comment. We obviously come from different traditions, and I can't really ever find agreement with how your argument is structured. My conclusions could be wrong, but I won't ever really know without a lot more reading of your thought, which we're both not going to give time to do. I should be more careful how much meaning I load onto the word "you" in comments, I only meant to criticize your written beliefs.

Good luck.
Useful list. Dash & bokeh as two more in the space

https://github.com/plotly/dash
https://docs.bokeh.org/en/latest/
That's because it is illogical.

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

Libertarians are stuck in a pubescent state-of-mind and are wholly incapable of viewing the real world as it is. Hence their absolutely insane "political leanings".
This doesn't have types, functions, arrays or much error checking. It has one char identifiers. I don't think we should read into this any more than a tiny example or experiment by the author.
> The term itself is an artifact of geographical considerations from the Cold War era, with Europe and Russia being west and east of the other respectively.

Not so much, no. The concept of the "Western World" originated in the actions of the Roman emperor Diocletian who divided the Roman Empire in 286 into two halves, each with its own separate capital, government, and church.
No he's right - Signal is currently a worse copy of Whatsapp that offers almost nothing better than that product. It seems to be outright failing with it's strategy at being better.
I use Signal to be able to communicate with those members of my family who don't have iPhones. It's a compromise between my privacy expectations and their usability expectations.
The government actually wants banks to speculate with customer funds. You might think that the safest bank would be one that doesn’t do anything with customer deposits, just sits on them.

Well this “safe bank” actually falls foul of US banking regulation - there are regulatory requirements for minimum levels of “speculation“ as a bank.

Now clearly SVB got in over their heads here with risk. But just sit on all the money isn’t a legal alternative.
Perfect. Meta is doing good things as of late, like telling the UK govt to fuck off with the 'drop E2E encryption' bs. I hope more tech behemoths start to stand their ground.

Companies trying to maximize their profit >>> Authoritarian dystopia 24/7 surveillance governments ran by lunatics
Here [1] is some discussion on this question on StackOverflow.

[1] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3055506/git-is-very-very...
Is it schizophrenia or is it ChatGPT?
I think you're underestimating how twisted these peoples pathologies can get. They don't see any of it logically. They're exploitative monsters because they have no emotional control or situational awareness. Words of strangers online are reality to them. Thats how they got on the path theyre on in the first place. In their brief moments of clarity where they encounter intense cognitive dissonance is where the suicide attempts enter (how the kid likely learned about such methods).

Usually these types of behaviors are accelerated with some kind of pharmaceuticals.
I'm not sure there are any uninsured depositors in this case. The FDIC ensures the minimum they get back, but the remainder is first in line when the bank is sold. They will likely be made whole or mostly whole. It's the shareholders who are truly going to lose most or all of their investment.

It's sad that depositors could lose money that was supposed to be guaranteed. But not as tragic as the scenario that the OP seemed to suggest, where retirees lost a large portion of their fixed income.
For a similar reason why riding a bike through sand is more difficult than on flat tarmac, this will require additional energy and you will pay for it in locally burned petrol. Moreover, it will be less efficient than if you just burned that fuel in a power station.
I don’t care about what political party they belong to. Do they regularly argue to slash regulations on the basis of government=bad? Do they routinely try to convince people that technology companies should be in charge of social organization rather than the government?

This is the type of shit that gets talked about at VC conferences all the time: https://youtu.be/K8JIzP8HmjQ
You have the best post on this thread. One question, since you seem pretty knowledgable: I thought margin accounts were covered under SIPC? Can you send me a link on how with a margin account we are unsecured creditors? I found this one but it didn't really mention being unsecured:
https://www.sipc.org/for-investors/investor-faqs#how-are-mar...

Thanks and great post!
In the US, there is no general expectation of privacy in a public place.

Implementing your proposal is also unreasonable: before one took a photo of their spouse in the park, they would have to clear the background of all persons or get their explicit consent.
Your analysis is incorrect and overly simplistic. Being a landlord is not always profitable. The fewer rentals one has the more likely it is to be unprofitable. Economies of scale work in the rental market just like they do in other markets. Landlords can depreciate their properties and write off maintenance expenses and homeowners can not.
Gain practical experience by working remotely on real world projects
Classic liberal. That was at peak around 100 years ago, when there was more freedom and way less tax in the countries that lived it (Europe). One can argue that in a very limited way it was similar in US in the period of 1800 to 1900, but that is a bit different.

The more modern way (still in Europe) is seen as reasonably minimal level of government regulation, but strongly applied. For example the libertarians I know are for minimal government (and associated taxes), but very strong consumer protections - this is because individuals have very little power against huge corporations, so it is just leveling the field.
Wonder if this is related to the current down turn in risk assets and the venture capital blow up
Wez is a really nice guy to work with too; had the pleasure of working with him briefly a bit over a decade ago (we were at sort of sister companies on a project that involved both). Sadly he was impacted by the layoffs at Meta recently, so if you're looking for an incredibly productive and sharp as hell engineer, it might be worth looking him up.
I use https://github.com/qvl/ghbackup
I've used the PAC-US444CN-1 (at our house) and fully native Mitsubishi thermostat/controls (at our in-laws). The converter is better than a simple 2-stage set up but is still not as good, in my experience, as the fully native one.

It has to translate a 2-stage signal into a fully modulating output, and it still seems to do a lot more on & off with high fan speeds than I would like or would be most efficient (as an aside, yes I have verified that the dip switches are in the correct position on the converters).

On the other hand, the unit at my in-laws tends to blow gently but consistently which is both more comfortable and more efficient.
> In what world are customers equally subject to the same risks?

Perhaps not the same risk, but risk nonetheless. People forget what banks truly are. They are institutions you give money to and hope they leverage ( fractional lending ), invest, etc it well so that you can take out the money out eventually. And maybe even earn some interest along the way.

> There's risk in walking outside.

No. The very real and actual risk that the banks managing your money may not be competent and gamble your money on risky loans, investments, etc. In this scenario, the depositer would lose part or all of their money.

It's amazing how well the industry PR has worked that people lose the sight of what banks really do. They fundamentally take your money, "gamble it" and hope it pays off. And if it doesn't, oh well, the government ( taxpayers ) bail them out. There is a reason why historically, people shied away from handing over their hard earned cash to banks.
Is there any evidence they were libertarians to begin with? Peter Thiel might be, but he isn't asking for a bailout - he got himself out.
Not anyone, no.
This wasn't the announcement I expected.
I'm proudly libertarian - in fact, we have an explanation for these boom/bust business cycles via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_business_cycle_theory.
Libertarians have criticized cheap/free money for a very long time so it's not surprising that an institution that had to invest excess deposits into 'safe' treasuries is in trouble once interest rates started to rise. There are likely many other banks, company's, and institutions in trouble right now because of operating assumptions build on free/cheap money are invalid.
Those established companies don't have units with smart thermostats that get bricked if the company goes out of business.