skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even with remote work (which is being clawed back), this isn't stabilizing and there isn't enough housing (esp. affordably). It takes years before that much housing can be built, assuming we legalize it (YIMBY v NIMBY). We don't have a strong growing population without immigration so there is no future generation big enough in this economic Ponzi scheme.

So stop immigration, let the population contract, and the housing problem takes care of itself.
My experience: you get code from a fellow researcher using matlab, and nobody in your institute is using matlab.

Getting approval for licenses is much harder than you'd think. The money is the smallest part.

In the end you just want to run the code once or twice, most of the time octave is going to be enough with zero or minimal changes. Cannot count the amount of times octave saved the day.
It's creepy how deceptive phone cameras are. I've noticed in pictures that I've taken that certain elements have been postprocessed to look better than they actually are.
Actually, the public anti nuclear stance and fear-mongering lead to significant political changes. It wasn't just the environmental movement, it was much more broad and wide spread.

No politicians want to be seen a pro-nuclear. The regulatory system totally changed, from the AEC to a much more restrictive and passive NRC. There is a clear change in the history of nuclear with before that all sorts of interesting research and new reactors, since then hardly anything.

The regulatory change isn't the only factor, but its one important factor.

A larger non-nuclear issue is simply that in the US any large scale project is extremely expensive, nuclear or not. And the regulatory system makes is insanely hard to license any other kind of reactor in the US.

And if you want to regulated something new, you have to pay the regulator for all of their time. And they don't give you a timeline. Without billion $ and investors willing to not know what is gone happen for many, many years, alternative reactors are essentially impossible. Sadly the US is about the only market that is theoretically free enough where any market driven innovation could actually happen.
Lol crypto is not what people launder with, its cash and major banks that have been caught over and over again taking dirty deposits. Cartels don't trade in public blockchains. Your ignorance is stunning.
Startup A had 10M in SVB.
Startup B had 10M in USDC.

Startup A is probably closing down, let's hope not and wait until Monday for a bailout.

Startup B cut losses and walked away with ~9.2M, on a weekend.

There is something to learn here about counterparty risk and outdated regulations/legislations. SVB from a time when no credit cards existed, USDC from a world where the iPhone had already been invented.
I use Octave to run other people's MATLAB code.
> Sensor quality in phones goes down, AI makes up for it

Why do you think the stock camera apps usually get better results?

How could a phone's smaller-than-a-thumbnail lens setup ever get as much light as a proper camera's?
You're are assuming she didn't understand the situation when she took the job.

I think it's much more likely she did and decided to take on the challenge to turn it around.

People in the industry knew they were in trouble. (I remember some of my banking colleagues talking about it last year). That's probably why it was so hard for them to fill the CRO job.

SVB had declined almost 66% in 2022. They were the 4th worst performer in the S&P 500. Their balance sheet concentration and mix made them an outlier in the industry and unusually exposed to rising interest rates. Its failure wasn't inevitable though. It had a strong brand and deep customer relationships with one of the primary engines of the US economy. If they could raise enough capital to fix their balance sheet, they could weather the storm.

She was a regulator that worked on stress testing banks after 2008 and could help them decide on how much capital they truly needed. It turns out it was a lot, and when they finally did announce details of the capital raise, investors got spooked and it triggered a bank run.
We were interested in using a library that was originally written in MATLAB and had also been ported to Python. First thought was obviously to use the Python one, but it was unbelievably, unusably slow. I fired up Octave (have never used it before) and got the MATLAB equivalent working, and it was blazing fast. I'm not a MATLAB programmer and will not learn it; I just need to call this one library.
Relevant note: 8% ($3.3B) of it was backed by deposits in SVB.

The extent of the lack of trust here (resulting in such a strong depeg) is interesting.

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-11/usd-coin-...
Just bought a bunch of Kraken
or just disable JS. Try it.
Oof, DAI is down too, currently sitting at 0.93.
My number "2,000 lbs" was way off. That's the weight of a Fiat Panda. For another data point, the Hummer H2 is 6,000 lbs. Maybe I was thinking of kilogram figures? Anyway, you get my point.
Peace and trust are backed in part by an implicit ability to wage/counter war and aggression.
> (...) because it was not written in the modern way or it was not very generic or whatever.

Premature generalization is a well known problem and a never-ending source of complexity. I lost count of the times I had to push back on PRs of clueless developers who felt the need to generalize one-liners that pop up twice in the whole project, and for that their proposal was to add a strategy pattern, ultimate replacing two expressions with three classes.
Just to manage expectations: As far as I understand, v1.9 doesn't by itself solve TTFP/precompilation. The tweet seems slightly over-enthusiastic. But it puts tools to solve it in the hands of package developers.

In that sense, one can perhaps say it is a turning point.
https://medium.com/get-cozy/why-you-should-see-the-nothing-t...
> “too much money”

Its not so much this as deposits are bank liabilities.
I wonder when the AI will hallucinate a gun into a black persons hand since the training black people often had guns? Hands moving fast are really blurry, so it has to hallucinate a lot, so it doesn't seem impossible. I could see that becoming a scandal of the century.
One shouldn't believe anything in finance with 100% certainty. If you think you do you are mis estimating it.
Every new technology is always used as an analogy to describe how the brain functions. The brain is "a series of pipes", "a series of cogs", "an eletro-mechanical machine", "a computer", "a series of programs", "GANs", now "an LLM". I get a feeling it's as accurate a comparison with LLMs than with everything before.
Faces are definitely harder.

The story has to get stretched a lot to imagine a total dystopia, but its possible.

People like digital mirrors for all their benefits: lighter, more features, music and weather all on one "mirror". You can have voice chats, see how you might look with various makeup/styles/haircuts. This digital mirror gets so popular, and (undermining myself here a bit) high enough quality, that people want these new cool wall screens instead.

And you betcha, AI is of course going to be added. Take insta pics without needing to hold a phone, then apply filters all in one with your voice! Some people take dozens of photos, forgetting briefly how they look.

Now, people are used to every day seeing themselves in the digital mirror with minor touchups for how they would look if they used some sponsored makeup. They used to do it daily so it would match, but kept forgetting as it always showed the improved version (with a small icon saying, you are 40% matched to the predicted image!).

Some 20-something walking around in Chicago passes The Bean, and realizes they don't look quite the same as they did in their home mirror. They take out their phone to take a pic of themselves, which is of course synced to their mirror with the same "makeup enhancement suggestions", still warning them it doesn't match.

They put away their phone, confident in the knowledge The Bean is just a dirty and distorted mirror, which is why they don't look as good. The camera has always been trustworthy. Why doubt it today?

(again, fun story, I don't think this is likely. Just plausible for some people).
I'm surprised that some people are surprised.
If someone had deposited $20 billion last Monday, they would have been fine. In a way, it did depend on money flowing in exceeding money going out.
If my local CU had competitive interest rates I would stay there. But their best savings accounts are still only a pitiful 0.16% interest. I'm in the process of moving most of my money out of there.
That could be fine as long as there is either a way to turn all that off (or better a way to selectively turn parts of it off) or a separate camera app available that lets you do that.

It's the future. Something hit your self-driving hover car and left a small dent. To get your insurance to pay for fixing the dent you have to send them a photo.

Your camera AI sees the dent as messing up the composition and removes it.

Your insurance company is Google Insurance (it's the future...Google ran out of social media and content delivery ideas to try for a while and suddenly abandon so they had to branch out to find new areas to try and then abandon). Google's insurance AI won't approve the claim because the photo shows no damage, and it is Google so you can't reach a human to help.
Authored and unauthored content: A newly necessary distinction
I grew up in Pennsylvania Dutch country so rich with cows that Milton Hershey located his chocolate company nearby. I grew up on over 100 acres of that same farmland doing farming things. My Dad in Florida used was a member of the National Cattle Man's Association. I feel grounded in views of farming and acknowledge that my experience has nothing to do with factory farms. Frankly I'm a little embarrassed by the brain power exerted on this thread. I have been a member of both Future Farmers of America, and 4-H.
Startups that use Silicon Valley Bank are freaking out over payroll
You have both at home / work?
The one who is allowed to give rights according the the constitution of Canada

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preamble_to_the_Canadian_Chart...
Other way around. You’d be selling (or redeeming) the USDC to Coinbase.

You’d have to have assets on chain to buy them on a dex.
You can't get swole unless you're living life at maximum efficiency. Reading is for wimps!
The real question is why doesn't Coinbase take all their assets and buy USDC at $0.90. From their perspective, it is free money.
The Economic Risks of Climate Change in the United States [pdf]
Yeah I can't really see a reason to use Octave. The Matlab language is mediocre at best. People use Matlab because it has a great IDE, great plotting support and rock solid toolboxes for just about everything. Yes Octave really only duplicates the language.

The Octave IDE is okish, but the plotting support is really far worse than Matlab. Honestly no open source plotting tool I've found (and I've looked a lot) comes close to Matlab which is why I eventually ended up just paying £125 for it, which I think is a very reasonable price considering it is a perpetual license and very niche software.

I wish there was some CAD software that had such a reasonably priced hobby use option, but SOLIDWORKS is $99 per year, Alibre has a cheapish option but they slightly annoyingly shift a lot of features into the £1000+ versions. Probably the best option at the moment tbf (other than piracy).
> When we start to lose our minds...

Look at the other end of life. Every parent knows about the very long, difficult climb, from tykes blathering noises and words, to really intelligent speech - sense of past/present/future, telling the truth, keeping promises, understanding the world, etc.
> However, they are wrong about the detail being gone in the gaussian-blurred image.

Well yes, but he also downsampled the image to 170x170. As far as I know, downsampled information is strictly lost, and unrecoverable without an external information source (like an AI model trained with pictures of moon).
Been lifting for 15 years and never heard of this website.
If you don’t want to be exposed to other people live somewhere you can’t see your nearest neighbour.
An Update on Eukaryotic Viruses Revived from Ancient Permafrost
Photo is an interesting word. It's meaning is clarified by other words, such as photorealism, photofinish. These words will (strictly) lose their meaning if photograph simply means image captured and processed by a device.

Curiously and revealingly, the political word photo-op stands alone in this photo- parade of words in the age of photo-imaginings. The universe does indeed have a sense of humor.
Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics (1965) [video]
> Seems to work all right for almost every other engineering path such as mechanical and electrical.

I respect your analogy, but I think this is a very incomplete and shallow way of looking at it for just some of these reasons.

> Regardless of however pleasantly you might conceptualize a smart and basic Computer Science exam that you think might not prevent you from working as a dev, there's going to be consequences in the job marketplace and inevitably government overreach that you cannot predict if this emerges. I think this could be catastrophically bad for many developers on a level that we cannot even fully see.

> Software isn't tangible and must move much faster than physical engineering. A bridge or skyscraper might be designed to last at least 100+ years, and can't easily be changed once built. But software is infinitely flexible and can be rapidly changed and adapted to other situations. Rigid thinking in the software domain is much more damaging to progress than in physical engineering.

> With civil engineering for instance, there's a very clear and measurable success and failure condition; basically a structure either handles the load its designed to handle or doesn't. But software is different. A system or an algorithm can be very inefficient and wasteful and "bad" from a software engineering perspective, but still successfully solve the problem and be the right solution from a business perspective. True wisdom in problem-solving through software comes from understanding the tradeoffs involved in building stuff and being able to make the right decision on how to build something, even when it's a "bad" solution "by the book". I don't see a government software engineering test ever being able to capture this.
WebR: A Milestone for R Community #rstats, #rlang
What do you think of webR?: https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2023/03/webr-0-1-0/

Some great showcases: https://github.com/coatless-r-n-d/webR-quarto-demos/issues
If you want an alternative, the cleanest decentralized stablecoin IMO is Liquity https://www.liquity.org/

It’s single collateral MakerDAO-style over-collateralized coin (only ETH) and the ability for admins to change it was destroyed. So it just lives in perpetuity exactly the way it was deployed, no chance of blacklists or courts turning it off.
They paused USDC to USD conversions until Monday. At that point the arbitrageurs will determine the truth.
Luckily, it's now 0%. /s
> Fractional reserve banking absolutely does not create money[1]. It creates credit exactly the same as if you lend a friend of yours some of your money. You now have an asset (the loan) and your friend has a liability (the debt) and the amount of M1 or M2 money in supply has not changed.

When a bank gives someone a loan M1/M2 increases (unlike in your loan-between-friends example). The increase in "currency in circulation plus deposits" is the very thing that those numbers try to measure.
> Software has a Peter Principle. If a piece of code is comprehensible, someone will extend it, so they can apply it to their own problem. If it’s incomprehensible, they’ll write their own code instead. Code tends to be extended to its level of incomprehensibility.

https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2021/json-with-commas-commen...
If We Knew Then What We Do Now About Covid, What Would We Have Done Differently?
Also, back in the day there were some legacy bodybuilders giving free advice on those forums. I remember discussing with serge nubret around 2008ish, good old days :)
I mean I can give you that strategy right now: go buy index funds.

You can be right 99% of the time and still lose money because the market always rewards based on risk. Conversely you can be right 30% of the time and make billions.

With market timing you don't need to predict the instant something will happen, your time horizon really should depend on what your drawdown is. The predictions don't have to be single events, it can be a market environment. Timing a bear market when everyone is bullish, etc...

Every time you short the market you effectively open yourself to infinite loss, whether you are leveraged or not. There are effective hedging strategies in place, but unless you're doing this for a living or a very serious hobby, its tough to figure all the pieces out. That is why staying on the buy side can be pretty helpful for not losing one's shirt.
Are you asking why circle didn't back USDC with USDC?

It's back with dollars in bank accounts to fund redemptions, sadly $3B of which are in SVB. The rest (~30B) is in short term US treasuries (36 days average duration)
It is free money, even Vitalik is in on it: https://etherscan.io/tx/0x4d38e765f7cee35e84d4535d3a1f40ad45...

USDC will repeg back to $1. If it rapidly falls below 0.8, the better buy in opportunity.
You think all transgender people are mentally ill?
There's no reason to assume he's not being serious.
Because everything is orders of magnitude more complicated now.

In the early 80s, the computer had approximately 1 sound making device, and you could make it do its thing by writing some bytes to some memory address or whatever.

Now, "in iOS for example", there's a speaker, possibly any number of bluetooth devices, maybe some docking sound device too, so you need some mixer to control them individually, and maybe the phone is in silent mode or vibrate in which case it (probably?) shouldn't play a note, but maybe it should vibrate instead? or maybe not, depending on what the note means...

So now... you need to either deal with all this stuff yourself, or have some complex framework that tries to hide some or all of it from you... but it's probably a leaky abstraction at best, and the framework requires some number of lines of code much greater than one to set up.
R’s data visualization capabilities are heads and shoulders above Matlab’s, and it’s free and open source.
They get 4.4% yield and that goes back to shareholders as equity in the company
>Why would it be a problem to split payroll between multiple accounts?

Not sure why it was posed as being mandatory. The only "problem" is that it's more overhead and something to manage. It's a problem in that it will cost money to either pay a service or more treasury/finance employees to manage it
To clarify:

The new bank "Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara" (DINB) received "all _insured_ deposits of Silicon Valley Bank", and is intended to open for business on Monday.

The remainder of SVB (including loans and uninsured deposits) are now held by FDIC as conservator/receiver of the failed bank.
Where did the $32B value come from?
It is an irony that USDC is down while Tether is up. It is always good to know other opinions about this in this interesting thread.

Another example, a stable coin based on BTC collateral, Money on Chain (MoC) [1] is working fine and worked fine in the past depeg issue with DAI. This is a great test for a collateral based stable coin. This is always a warning to news addicts that should realize crypto media is not trustworthy.

It seems now that the CeFi and DeFi worlds were more interlaced than we thought before. This is a new challenge.

If Circle and its VC backers don't take the right decisions (e.g. restore the peg even with hard moves) the trust will break for the traditional financial world as well.

[1] https://moneyonchain.com/ (full disclosure: it is a customer from my company)
SQL is dead – long live Prisma
Hi all, this is my first submission here on HN. This blog post (with a somewhat misleading title, I'll admit) is an introduction to Prisma, the TypeScript SQL ORM, for folks who are just getting started with backend development in NodeJS. Feedback is appreaciated — thanks!
I find that hard to believe. I've been buying the same google doc of groceries since 2020 and the total is up about 70% since then.
Which is why an enormous number of people will be fired, furloughed or reduced to minimum wage on Monday if this isn’t resolved.
https://archive.ph/hkH1y
It's only free money if the probability of depeg/collapse/bankruptcy is zero. One thing I've learned from Anchor protocol, Celsius, FTX, etc: The probability is never zero.
Enzyme that turns air into electricity, providing a new clean source of energy
Right, but reserve requirements are in the order of a few percent, certainly not enough to prevent a bank run, or preventing you from being insolvent when the bonds you're holding went down in value by 20% due to interest rate movements. At the end of the day what you actually care about is whether you have more assets (cash or equity) than liabilities.
SVB in a Nutshell
> Also of interest here, in Japan when a national holiday falls on a Sunday, the 'free' part of it gets moved to Monday, so workers don't loose it.

this is completely false. it only happens in certain situations and is far from a general rule.
That can be cured with money.
For chrome there was Bing Unchained, until it got removed from the chrome store.
I've tried this many times in my career and it unfortunately almost never works out of the box for me for anything but the most trivial examples. Either they're using some library or toolbox that Octave doesn't have, or they've used it in a way that isn't 100% compatible with Octave.
Seems like a huge arbitrage opportunity here?
sigh I hate the modern era of recurring software payments because my immediate reaction was "wow, SolidWorks is under $10/mo?"

God damn Adobe for getting everybody onto the subscription model for professional software.
An East African Kingdom Changed T Roosevelt and the Course of American Democracy
While I think it's great to explicitly cite ripgrep as an inspiration, and even to allude to it in the executable name, it doesn't feel right to me to call this structured-ripgrep without a close relationship or shared authorship with the original ripgrep.
Currently running 65B on my 96GB M2 Max.. it's pretty good.
> Depositors are definitely taking a haircut on this one

That's not clear at all and many people disagree with you.
Also, The Atlantic puts the full text of the articles in their RSS feed.
A mess.
Blatant but how is this different than all of the other "AI" touchups to things like faces?
Ha, I should clarify that I'm not more confused because the article didn't do its job, but because it did it perfectly. I had no idea at least half of those arms existed.