skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good lord. Almost none of it, if by "tech" you mean "software". Most of it's pushing consumerism via invasive advertising, spreading lies on purpose, or chasing marginal improvements in entertainment. I also suspect the majority of B2B activity is neutral or negative in actual delivered value over whatever it's replacing.

[EDIT] I think this is true even for extremely generous values of "essential", in fact. I think the vast majority of software effort delivers marginal gains at best, with a net effect that is overall harmful in the median case, which harm is masked by the occasional huge improvement it delivers.
wow very solid. you could have found SVB in screen just by the LTD ration and HTM percentages and zoomed in from there.
Get rid of lobbying and bribes for Congress and set term limits for congress. Let the people tell congress how to vote.
I don’t think that’s the right conclusion - predicting the next word doesn’t mean that’s the only thing we’re doing. But it would be a sensible and useful bit of information to have for more processing by other bits of brain.

It makes complete sense you would have an idea of the next word in any sentence and some brain machinery to make that happen.

It in no way means you’re just a LLM
Just so you know, I make it a point to report to OSM maintainers any relatively sizeable app using their tile servers, just so they can be banned.

The default OSM tile server is not here to serve your startup.
I have to buy shitty notepads otherwise with the nice Dingbats ones, I cannot start writing naturally because I get paralysed. With a basic notepad, I just go with the flow and don't overthink.
Yes. Their issues started when they needed to sell their assets available for sale. This happened because interest rates made it harder to raise money, which caused their clients to draw down their accounts faster than they anticipated. The bank run at the end is more a symptom of SVB's issues rather than a cause. Everything about the bank's problems can be traced back to believing interest rates would be 0 forever.
The execs have been pulling $3-10M/yr compensation and will walk away wealthy, legally in the clear, and probably into similar roles and comp elsewhere (or simply retired). They aren't bumbling idiots, though if they were, they'd be hella crafty ones.

I don't think the depositors, investors, or VC's that pushed for SVB were idiots. SVB was a good bank, with a good reputation, and good services that got mismanaged into oblivion.
It seems silly to claim that we should all just stop publishing our thoughts simply because some process could come along and combine them with others in order to produce something unique. That is, of course, the story of all human history.
Yes, Although I'm currently a front-end web developer, my degree is in music education. I make songs mostly for my own enjoyment, but I've also made some parody songs for the Star Wars podcast "Rebel Force Radio". All my songs can be found here...

https://madmonk13.bandcamp.com/

I've also recently started the r/SongChallenges subreddit where you are given a set of constraints and have to record a song within those constraints. It's not growing as fast as I'd like as there are only currently 2 of us. We just started our 3rd challenge. If anyone wants to join, we'd love to have you!
Yep. A ton of companies raised a boatload of money in 21/22 to “ride out the storm”, and I think many of them are zombie firms who will collapse when they run out of the excessive runway that they have. I keep wondering whether this will attenuate any recession and actually smooth out the badness or if it just means we’re on for an extended storm.
You are aware of what's going on in Ukraine, right?

Most of the increase is inflation, the military budget has a significant salary components. If you don't pay solders well you end up with a corrupt military like Russia's
They understand it perfectly well, it really isn’t that complex. You are repeating SVB marketing. Bank of America works with thousands of start ups and I’m sure all the other large banks do as well.
The Second Civil War. We already have a Social War on Social Media.
This was a much more entertaining read than the link the OP, in my opinion. I didn't realize official court documents could have such an attitude. The guy that wrote this fuckin hates the complainants and it shows, hahaha
Anywhere >1 hour away from a city
> Don't know how many of those checkboxes Go ticks (I think it can at least import C headers?).

Go lets you write C in your Go files, and reference it with a psuedo-package, "C". So you can import C headers, but Go itself doesn't come with a C compiler toolchain, and ends up relying on your system's C compiler, and thus you lose Go's cross-compilation, unless you have the headers for your target platform. I've seen some have been using "zig cc" as their C compiler with Go, given it makes cross-compilation easy.
You must accept that you are not alone in your own minds. You cannot move forward as a civilization clinging to the incredulity of Power.

You are thought controlled and your civilization is an irresponsible delusion.
If you're talking about the demoscene in general, here's demos sorted by popularity on one of the most important community sites: https://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?order=views

Most of them have links to yt videos.
Anarchy in Nippon: A Brief History of Japanese Anarchism
If that was the market clearing price, then to the extent that rate expectations set the bond price (which of course is debatable) this would have been the consensus view at the time.
The term for that is Chesterton's Fence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence
I can't say that I feel naturally attracted to Zig's position on information hiding (although I do find the whole package a good fit for most of my personal preferences), but it's hard for me to predict how the gestalt of its features will perform in the market, not to mention that the market success of any product is affected by many factors that aren't intrinsic to the product.

BTW, how did you reach the conclusion there isn't "all that much new C being written"?
https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/status/144263153022495948...
A small 3-ring binder, plus packets of hole-punched graph paper. Extremely cheap. The beauty of the binder is that it allows for easily rearranging pages, something notebooks do not. Thanks to Lion Kimbro for this advice.

https://users.speakeasy.net/~lion/nb/book.pdf
They could have stopped offering the very high savings yields that attracted that capital, but profits and exec comp would have dipped. So...this instead.
There’s an actual picture in an embedded tweet further along the article.
Because it's one more service that you have very little control over and one more service that you have to manage over a web interface or (maybe) their own command line tool.

It's on a separate network so they may go down and cause outage in your own app, go out of business, etc. (Yes, your IaaS service provider can go down as well, but that's a much larger operation and something that's very-very likely to have a much better uptime than what you could do on-site. And whatever the case is with that, it's still on top of that.)

Abstractions aren't free. (BTW, I don't see it as an abstraction, it's simply outsourcing. You'd use some kind of API anyway even if you hosted the job queue yourself.)
The shortages stem from arbitrary production quotas set by the DEA. Pharmaceutical companies would be able to increase supply to meet demand without those quotas. Even with no quotas, pill mills could still be shut down and prosecuted.
Yes, they even posted premature victory piece:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60562240

Link to actual russian piece: https://web.archive.org/web/20220226051154/https://ria.ru/20...
We obviously need kid friendly phones that can make calls and use useful apps and nothing Else.
your last sentence is demonstrably false!
I wonder if this has any effect on the deposit sweeping programs run by firms like robinhood, betterment and wealthfront. They promise 4%+ yields with freedom to take out your cash any time. A quick look at their partner program banks suggests they more or less transfer the deposits to the same set of banks.
What are you talking about? Your quote is also from a third party - Dan Baum quoting John Ehrlichman. At least according to the Wikipedia article.
> It’s silly and there’s no meatspace equivalent because it would be absurd like the article points out

There is meatspace equivalent that is landline phone numbers and telecommunications companies
I can highly recommend FontSpring's "Worry-Free" licenses if you're looking for a simpler approach to buying fonts.

https://www.fontspring.com/worry-free
Is your argument seriously that it’s unfair that women aren’t overworked in India
To pile on the Tim Dodd praise, be sure to check out his music too (which is used in the videos). Solid stuff that reminds me of Tycho. So glad he got picked for the Dear Moon mission.
Huh, I've been happy with Namecheap for a few years now. But I never looked that hard.
I just followed the thread down from here and you seem to be so determined to undermine or counter every reasonable point that it could be suspected your original question here is motivated by ideological or other partial objection rather than genuine interest in the answer.
I liked this enough to save it almost 5 years ago when Merlin Mann said it on Back To Work #339 (~10 minutes from the end):

On the first page of every notebook, write "The first page is profound." Now you've started writing in it, it's no longer a new notebook, and you're past the "I don't want to start a notebook unless I'm writing something worthwhile" stage. All sorts of other quick reference things you could put on the first page depending on how you use notebooks, e.g. bullet journal rules if you use that.

Possibly also from the same show, things to write in the notebook for every day:

* What am I thinking about? What's on my mind, one sentence
* What am I worried about?
* What one thing do I have to do today?
* What one thing do I want to do today?
* (bonus) What am I grateful for or
what nice thing can I do for someone today?
> 3. If spreading out your 6- or 7-figure assets to multiple institutions is too much of a burden, literally every business bank has special accounts or add-on features that either raise the FDIC default limit of 250k, or supplement it with external insurance. Again, if any startup's financial handlers didn't recommend this: fire them because they entirely failed to do their job.

Contractual obligations often prevent this, btw. Many SVB customers had loans with SVB, which prevented them from using other banks.
Where are the jokes that most people aren't much more than copy/paste, or LLM. In most daily lives, a huge amount of what we do is habit, and just plain following a pattern. When someone says "Good Morning", nobody is stopping and thinking "HMMM, let me think about what word to say in response, what do I want to convey here, hmmmm, let me think".
Double entry bookkeeping IS error prone - you have 2 opportunities to make each mistake.

However single entry bookkeeping is FRAUD prone. Just change one number and your theft is hard to track down!

That is why the adoption of double entry bookkeeping was critical for allowing commercial institutions to outgrow a size where owners could individually trust all who were working for them with access to money.
Stupid people will overuse that tool and call everything AI generated, just like they overuse AI content generation.
Is it possible to block this behavior at the browser level? Other than an addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/re-enable-rig...
There's a better chance of hell freezing over, but it would certainly benefit users. From a economic standpoint though, it's entirely unsurprising why they do this. CUDA owns, and in the AI age it's hard to beat the parallelism Nvidia offers. If Nvidia cedes their acceleration advantage, they're leaving themselves open for attack. DirectX is a funny example of this, still being closed-source despite a reverse-engineered version existing with often better performance.

It would be nice if everyone writing UNIX-like drivers gave away their source code, but then the books wouldn't balance. It's a tale that's half a century old now.
Please qualify that. The public has observed failures in infrastructure and content safety/moderation.
You can hire to outpace your competitors without having them do "fake work" once hired (whatever that means).

It doesn't make much sense to not fully utilize people once hired.
Where do you live that a primary care doctor handles adhd treatment, beyond continuation of care for long-time stable patients? IME primary care doctors will refer you to a psychiatrist who themselves may or may not specialize in ADHD - I’ve never heard of a PCP (outside of maybe concierge medicine) handling adhd diagnosis or working on finding the right choice/amount of medication.
Consider Craigslist. Under 100 people, yet it replaced the entire US newspaper classified ad industry.

It's possible to do most of the useful stuff Facebook and Twitter do with very small operations.
Use and adapt tools to work best for you! I may have to experiment with this system a bit, sounds like it may fill in some gaps here and there.
I have a friend that's an accountant that tried to explain how it worked. I thought it was more or less being responsible for counting money, but I think my eyes glazed over a bit trying to understand it.

But to be fair he did pretty much the same when I tried to explain programming.

Always important to step outside your software bubble once and a while.
It feels like an open secret, but that's still not evidence. I was expecting something like leaked emails from execs explicitly talking about it or something.

I kinda doubt Google is having anyone do actual known-useless-to-all work just so they don't work at a competitor, but I think it's probably very possible that preventing someone form working at a competitor is _part_ of the value-add Google sees in hiring someone, which means they don't need to see quite as much clear value in what they'll be working on at Google.
Bank runs happens when you create conditions that can't handle bank runs. Nobody would worry about keeping assets at a Bank that wouldn't get destroyed if people started asking for their money.

Therefore although bank runs aren't normal, they will almost surely happen to you if you put yourself in a situation where a bank run would destroy you. So you have to work as if bank runs are normal, or they will be normal.
We aren’t talking about stripe, we are talking about just post series A companies.

The question is whether it is a no brainer to work for such a company because you get a competitive offer plus lottery tickets.

My sense is that this isn’t true. The claim of competitiveness is setting to zero the value of liquid google RSUs. But I’m open to being corrected.
the assets the bank held are worth some % less than the amount they took in deposits but its not 90% less, its something like 20%. so on average, people will get something like 80% of their money back. I dont think the asset price declines were catastrophic.
Pan-variant Covid vaccine could defang future strains thanks to machine learning
Today's price range: 45-95

https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/FRC?qsearchterm=first
Which is why there is a ~4% spread on savings/CD interest rates at banks right now.

Edit: maybe I wasn't clear and should have said "between" banks. Synchrony bank will give you 4% in a _savings_ account (https://www.synchronybank.com/banking/high-yield-savings/?UI...) while my local credit union and many big banks (ex: bank of America are at 0.01%) are still effectively 0%

In the past (<2008), cash accounts (savings/cds/etc) I remember there being a %1 or so between banks, but these days its huge.
Isn't low six figures between 1 million and 10 million?
What differences have you noticed? The main one I see is that there are more blue check marks but now I have kind of trained myself to ignore those more and just pay attention if it’s gray/gold or an official org page.
Simple, because it is cheaper for companies. Less logistics to take care of. As for worker welfare they wouldn't give two hoots, if they are fatigued and produce defective parts they can be fired and replaced.
You'd think that the solution to that confusion would be database transactions (commit everything or nothing), but there are exceptions. In ACH, sometimes you have to send out a lone credit or debit with no matching entry. It feels very wrong, but it's necessary because it balances out some other entry in another file (that you might not have access to.)

OTOH, once you have double-entry bookkeeping in your brain, you won't want to go back. I now feel that, from the perspective of a business or consumer, money is never created or destroyed, it only moves between accounts.
I was hoping this would be an explanation of the second stage failure to ignite three days ago on Japan's H3 rocket.
If I'm coming up with a new language, let's call it Drustzig, I can implement the LSP and get support for IDEs (and possibly xref tools and the like) essentially for free. Now to get debugging support for my language... I have to traipse around through every major debugger and beg them to merge Drustzig patches to make it work.

The protocol you've linked (or the similar gdbserver protocol) essentially implements an IDE <-> debugger mapping. Well, most of one: everything is basically being passed as strings, so if you want smart stuff, you kind of have to build in the smart stuff yourself. It doesn't help the other parts of the process; if you want to build a new gdb, you have to do all the parsing of debug info for C, C++, Drustzig, etc. yourself... and you have to integrate the compiler expression stuff yourself. If you want to build a better time-traveling debugger, or a better crash debug format, or something similar, well, the gdb remote protocol lets gdb talk to your tool so all you have to implement is essentially low-level program state (e.g., enumerate registers of a thread, read/write arbitrary memory locations, etc.). But this isn't covered by the thing you've listed either, and it still relies on the debugger supporting a particular protocol.
Many outright ridiculous and false things are "known". This talk of bullshit hiring sounds more like a massive amount of copium from envious people.
Hell yeah I'm using a ton of Oxy at work! Hey why are you all looking at me like that?
have you considered that both state and capital are the problem?
That's true in a tautological way, but there really is a difference between liquidity and solvency.

If a firm's assets will eventually mature and be worth more than the current liabilities, then a private rescuer can make a lot of money by bailing them out. If the assets will never recover or pay out, then someone will be holding the bag.
yeah you're right. Is a few weeks the true lag time for chatGPT?
The truth about the Twitter layoffs is that the company is not even remotely profitable and likely never will be, so it doesn't really matter that much as long as the company barely continues to operate. You can certainly barely operate a web services company with a barebones crew: we all do it every year during the holidays! But long term growth? Yeah, good luck with that.

Twitter is now just nice yacht for a billionaire. The acquisition was no different than Ron Watkins buying 8chan.
Do you want china to boost topics that align with their long term goals in your country to young impressionable?
That's like saying, "by your logic, we should never cross the road, because we can't possibly look both ways enough times!"
If someone has both a loan from and an account with Silicon Valley Bank, can they skip paying the difference of the amount they are compensated and their account balance towards the loan?
That was never said.
Llama.cpp: Port of Facebook's LLaMA model in C/C++, with Apple Silicon support
"Fake work" is a pretty funny accusation from guy whose company (Opendoor) is 97% down from all time high and dangerously close to getting delisted from NASDAQ.
They aren't exactly the same. They are very different. I am far from a copypasta liberal politics idiot. A quick look at my comment history would have indicated this quite clearly to you.

Please explain to me why women shouldn't be allowed to work 12 hour days? I eagerly await your response.
the state works with capital, not against it.
I was looking at buying in with 1/60th or less of my portfolio (I'm a focused investor, most of my investments are 1/10th of my portfolio) so it would have been a small bet, I was acknowledging this as risky.

I'm still not confident I was 100% wrong -- in my scenario I labeled above included the fact they could go under (I didn't think they would go under), but now that their assets being are being sold, it will depend on how deep of a discount FDIC sells for.

If it's in 40%, there's a good chance that investors will still get money back (I believe).

If it's 80%, they won't get it all back.
S&P bank sector is down across the board, but presume it will regress to the mean fairly soon. Aren't many other banks with exposure similar to SVB's.
Full-reserve banking doesn't eliminate risk, it pushes it elsewhere. The nice thing about fractional reserve (yes, there are nice things about it!) is that it allows people to have a savings without completely paralyzing the money supply. Money that is "saved" can still be used for productive purposes. Yes, this introduces risk (of the sort that the FDIC is intended to ameliorate), but the alternative is to either discourage savings entirely in favor of active investments (which are themselves mostly subject to the same sort of risks as savings accounts of today), or otherwise encourage savings but let the economy be strangled by a lack of funds (which becomes a vicious cycle).

Certainly we can argue about the precise percentage of the fractional reserve, but keep in mind that "100%" is not a panacea.
$XXX,XXX is six figures. Single digit millions ("$X,XXX,XXX") would be seven figures.
A deposit of $x adds both $x in assets (cash) and $x in liabilities (account balances).
1 million: 7 figures

10 million: 8 figures
No, a million is 7 figures (one followed by 6 zeros)
This isn't an over simplification it's just wrong. The bank does have more assets (the 1 million in cash) that balances the liability (the 1 million they owe to their customer).
Surely in retrospect, it must have been obvious you would find such people despite their rarity?
There's a tradeoff here I think. Designers should be passionate about their design, and push for the details that matter to them. But there's a line - too passionate and it becomes unworkable. But too far the other way, where they're not fighting for their design and too willing to compromise it, and you end up with lacklustre designs.
I think I only said one wrong thing -- that they would last through this. The rest is factual (still is), I'm not positive that having bought a chunk wouldn't have a positive result (see other comment)
>But we, George W Bush really, then underestimated Russia in the 2000s.

True, but then Obama really fucked it up with "reset". And that was after Georgia War.
Yeah, I can see why in general the government wouldn't want to hold on to assets, but bonds are kind of a special class of asset in that they do eventually mature and will naturally just be something they don't need to manage (within a relatively short time period too). If you expect that the sell off could take years to complete, some of those bonds will be halfway to maturity by the time they're sold.

If I'm the FDIC and I have the opportunity to return 100% of the funds to depositors at the cost of just holding on to a bond for a few more years than I otherwise would, that seems like a tradeoff I'd make to stabilize a lot of companies. (I'm of course biased here)