skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes - that's the rhetorical foundation of this piece of nonsense.

It's not that you can't have a career in the arts - it's that you can't even have a career in the arts. Or a successful boutique online small business.

So you should definitely lower your expectations.

There's nothing wrong with steering some people towards the trades instead. But if even 50% of the people in the Social Media long tail decided to become a plumber, roofer, or builder, what does the author think would happen to their hourly rate?

Meanwhile the real elites are buying huge companies, firing thousands of people on a whim, and running those companies into the ground like drunken frat boys - but without any noticeable difference to their living standard or opportunities.

They're also saying "As a CEO and/or investor mistakes were made, so - thanks, but bye. Well now I feel so terrible, but never mind, I'm sure I'll get over it somehow."

Not a surprise to find the author is a Musk apologist and Twitter sceptic but also a professional critic of progressive politics.
And I can hope I spontaneously learn to teleport, it's about as likely an outcome.
That's very rude. I haven't implied they lost money, to start, and 80% today or this week is much different than 80% in months.
yeah if you were typing this case yourself you would use -lt but i figured it was worth showing that extended globs can be combined.

This globbing functionality in zsh is separate from the ls command, so no ls magic here, but the ls builtin in zsh does have some useful extras in it all the same
The magnitude matters, too. Stimulus did not constitute an annualized increase in average consumer purchasing power equivalent to the inflation we've seen. I imagine that wage inflation fills the difference, but of course, the stimulus is over and wage growth is not enough. So "transitory" is not an accurate characterization for most people looking at their finances; it has come to eat their purchasing ability, and stayed.
Most likely a corruption of susurrant. From susurrus, meaning a murmuring or whispering sound.
It’s ridiculous how much bank fuckery we’re forced to put up with. I’m not splitting deposits across 50 banks while middlemen make money.
> Being written in a strongly typed, memory-safe language is a huge advantage.

Great point, C# is a strongly typed and memory-safe language if you don't use unsafe. So this really is a huge advantage for PowerShell.
Bank Run in Los Angeles at a First Republic Bank Branch
> Use ;

Comma, not semicolon, is the usual alternative to em-dashes for setting off asides, semicolons set off independent clauses.
I also maintain a huge shell history, but in my experience fzf-ing through it becomes a lot harder when it’s terse and unreadable.

But sure, there’s a tension between readability and brain-to-command throughput that’s always been there.

The way you proposed is a bit too write-only for my taste, and the argument that you “had to learn it and now you’re muscle memory bound to it” is applicable to you only and does not preclude a better way from existing.
That does look a bit blurry. Did you shoot with VR from a tripod?
Models can be extended so if someone wants - they can add all the censored stuff back. Sooner or later someone will make civitai for LLMs.
A company has different values for different customers depending on what they are going to do with it.

The software and customers would have some value. If they can provide digital capabilities to a traditional bank it will certainly be a plus against the negative in financial products.
> One can't escape the sense that if they've done the kind of budgeting that a regular American does, they will be fine.

I can't escape the sense that if they've done the kind of budgeting that a "regular American" does, they're in deep trouble[1].

[1] https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/research/average-savings-acc...
Low earth orbit is easy to hit with anti-satellite missiles, can even use ASM-135 which is a interceptor fired from a fighter jet.

GPS altitudes and up are a different story.
I think they mean ground truth in terms of what human created content looks like, not ground truth in terms of what is actually going on in the world, which of course we don’t collect completely accurately.
>Does this imply that GPS satellites are a legitimate military target for Russia right now?

Of course it does. In the real world, anything is permissible (because there is no global federal government) as long as you have the strength to enforce. In the case of GPS satellite constellation, that is infrastructure owned and operated by the US military, so any attack on those satellites brings Russia directly into conflict with the US and NATO.

>My point being, I don't think "legitimate target" has to do anything with Russia not shooting down any satellites; it's either lack of capacity or fear of retaliation, both being rather orthogonal to the targets "legitimacy" IMO.

Right ... To rephrase: is the US military willing to indemnify Starlink to the same degree if it is attacked by Russia?
Exercising is like vacuum cleaning, you never want to do it but once you're done with it you're happy you've done it. Binge eating or playing video games too long has the opposite effect on me, very easy to ease into, absolute regret as soon as I'm done

That's why I said it train self control, you focus on "future you", not "immediate you"
There's a big effort on the right, including by Musk, to rewrite history and portray them as political prisoners ahead of the 2024 election.
HTM is considered entirely valid accounting by regulators.

Opinions may differ, but nothing about it is “made up” or arbitrary. It’s a generally accepted practice and reflective of very clearly defined income.
They’re all just white-labeled Expedia.
Why would there be medieval jousts in the 17th and 18th centuries?
> It really looks like their model depended on cozy relations with the VC community.

Which the VCs shat on, so not sure how much of coziness remains.
Oh, when I say "bail out" I mean bail out of depositors with more than $250k of deposits, less than $250k already being well-understood to be covered. You, as a single depositor of $250k are fine. If you have $1m then you spread it out amongst 4 banks and are fine. If you have more then you'd better use your own nous or hire a financial advisor.
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> The bond assets are not worth enough to cover SVB's deposit liabilities.

I don't think this is actually true. Could you provide the source for that? I understood that the bond assets can not be converted to enough liquidity to cover withdrawal demands, but it's not the same thing. If you own a house worth $1M, and I ask you to give me $1M tomorrow, you couldn't do it - but that doesn't mean your house is worth less. It means it's an illiquid asset that can't be easily converted to cash. Even if you agreed to sell it for $100, you probably couldn't pull it off in one day. Maybe you could take a loan against the house - but even that is hard to do by tomorrow.

> but that their real value was much lower

What's "real value"? Is it the value of the income stream when held to maturity? Then I never encountered any mention that these bonds were bad (in fact, some of them were Treasuries which are as good as any bond can be) - could you provide a source for this claim? If you mean "fire sale" value then yes, of course the "fire sale" value was low - but that's not because the bonds were bad, you can not value an asset by it's "fire sale" value.
Andrew Huberman provides deep dives into health, longevity, and fitness.
Anyone interested in those topics would be well-served to check him out.

https://www.youtube.com/@hubermanlab
The fact that VCs would rather have taxpayers save their investments rather than pony up themselves really tells you all you need to know about fucking VCs.
The Statistics That Come Out of Nowhere
“Serious risk” to UK’s tech and science sectors as SVB falls
After a weekend of shocking developments, the UK’s world-leading tech sector and scale-up ecosystem faces a week like no other, says Chancellor Jeremy Hunt.
Probably a variation on selling shovels and pick axes to miners rather than going to prospect for gold yourself. And there's probably actually a variant of that with the influencer economy. The ad-supported sites, microphone and camera manufacturers, etc. have almost certainly made more money than the "influencers" themselves.
I always liked the tongue in cheekness of Sosumi gonna re-use that name some day
Yea, most people are also neglecting that these some states have 'agricultural safety exemptions allow you to be injured on the job with no workers compensation.

https://www.iwpharmacy.com/blog/are-agriculture-workers-exem...
Reading this call to Congress, it feels like people believe SVB collapse is similar to FTX. There seems to be a perception that all the uninsured deposits are gone. This just isn't true - SVB had substantial assets and they will cover a lot more than just the insured deposit amount. SVB also had a business which is worth a lot of money to a company like JP or BofA, and a private company is reasonably likely to pay enough for it that depositors will be made whole. No taxpayer money should be needed here.
Makes sense. Thanks for correcting me.
> The advances of technology allow us to live comfortably in tall buildings

Do they? Or do they merely allow us to live. Comfort for me includes looking out of my living room window and seeing the next door cat silently hunting among the trees or just sitting in a tree looking at me. It includes being able to relax in my garden full of buzzing insects and not hear any other sounds.

Do we really need to end up living in some poorly imagined version of a science fiction peak population hell?
Awesome snippet! I organize most of my work using something similar to the Johnny decimal system[0] and use CDPATH for quicker lookups. But I love how you build a dynamic system with a simple oneliner!

[0] https://johnnydecimal.com/
Credit unions are subject to essentially the same capitalization requirements as banks---they're regulated by NCUA, but NCUA's capitalization requirements are largely harmonized with those of other bank regulators. It's important to understand that banks themselves are not all regulated by the same agency, with bank regulation split between FDIC, OCC, and the FRS depending on the bank (this is mostly unrelated to FDIC insurance which applies to depository financial institutions regulated by OCC and the FRS as well). These different regulators all apply somewhat different supervision methodologies, with the result that banks do indeed "shop around" for a regulator that they feel will work the best as a long-term relationship. But the overall capitalization ratio requirements are mostly the same at 7-10% being well-capitalized depending on calculation method.

But this discussion is more about insurance, not capital reserves. Credit unions are required to hold insurance (coverage) on their deposits just like banks, with the same cap of $250,000 per account. Most, but not all, credit unions are insured by NCUA, backed by the US government. All federally chartered credit unions are insured by NCUA, but state-chartered credit unions are not necessarily required to be. The majority of state-chartered credit unions are also insured by NCUA, but they have the option of obtaining their insurance by other means, and some choose to use private insurers like American Share Insurance. These private insurers are usually backed by a huge reinsurer and so the risk of them not meeting their obligations is low, but arguably higher than NCUA. On the flipside, private share insurers sometimes offer higher coverage limits than NCUA. It's mostly a minor issue though as credit unions covered by other than NCUA are uncommon, and NCUA-insured credit unions prominently post the NCUA logo. Similarly, non-NCUA credit unions are required to disclose their insurer.

Federally-chartered credit unions usually use "Federal" in their name although some don't use it in their general advertising and logotype any more. State-chartered credit unions only exist in some states, but California charters credit unions and as you'd imagine there are quite a few examples in that state. There are even "dual-chartered" credit unions in some states that hold charters from both state and federal governments. This is the norm in e.g. Washington due to some banking regulation history. Older credit unions are more likely to be state-chartered as the federal system is newer than most state systems, but credit unions didn't really take off until the Federal Credit Union Act so there's still not that many of them.
The only reason you and others seem so desperate to redefine bailout so you can call it a bailout is because you want to attach the negative connotations to that word to “hurt” the people you want to be hurt.

It’s embarrassing, shortsighted, and destructive.
https://archive.is/Ct01J
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I guess, but that's a really noisy signal once you account for deliberately misleading posts.
Between Nikon and Canon, the choice comes down to taste and personal preferences. Both are equally good. Same goes for mirrorless between Nikon, Canon, Sony, Fujifilm or Panasonic. Whatever you pick, it is not wrong or a mistake.
> Biden could reinstate them by EO, just like how Trump cut them. He hasn't though.

He probably just hadn't noticed. It couldn't be that he allowed to rules changes to continue because some money flows towards him, his friends, or his party and his party's friends depended on maintaining those changes. Biden put a famously competent and experienced person in charge of Transportation and he didn't notice the change, so how could you expect Biden to?
Oh, it would be interesting because the list wouldn't be the one you gave there with the benefits of hindsight.
> "flyover country" that the tech sector has gleefully been shitting all over for a decade

I'm a founder of an Indiana based tech startup. What people in flyover states don't like is seeing stuff like Theranos. They also don't understand operating businesses for 10 years that lose billions. People here do not see the "tech sector" as evil: every flyover state has programs to attract and create tech sector companies. If anything there is a bit of envy combined with a simmering rage when we get bus-rolled for not having a great high-tech workforce, when Purdue, Notre Dame, IU, and other Midwest universities are cranking out fantastic engineering and business management talent that gets pulled to the coasts for big starting salaries.

> Perhaps the tech sector will have enough political capital to ensure they get to dump their losses on the public they loath,

I don't think that is what is being asked for at all. It's more of a "fix this before it hurts everyone". The Fed raising interest rates too quickly is the root cause of SVBs problems, and those rate changes may be doing the same thing with the small, community banks that flyover country agriculture and manufacturing relies on heavily. Hopefully SVB is the end of it... but this situation is not a "tech sector" issue. It's a banking problem caused by the Fed changing the rules to quickly.

> it's going to come at a great political cost for those who go along with it.

Not doing everything that can be done to fix this quickly will be politically un-affordable.
I don't see how that's relevant. The leadership team at SVB undoubtedly made a bunch of dumb decisions and they deserve to be raked over the coals for that, but there's no need to make the unsupported claim that the executives were looting the place a few days leading up to the collapse.
I had no idea Zsh could do that. I'm currently reading this article which explains a lot of this wizardry.

https://thevaluable.dev/zsh-expansion-guide-example/
And we all said in unison: cope.
In order to have imposter syndrome, you can’t know that you have imposter syndrome.
Meal kits ad delivery are actually two innovations that are only joined, it seems, because they make a technology startup (rather than just a business)

Meal kits can be sold in stores. And groceries can be delivered.

I get the impression that just doing one of those might be a viable business, but it wouldn't be treated as a startup.
Why would you need to shoot down all or even most of the satellites? Pop a couple, let the resulting debris fields do the rest.
Commands aren't case sensitive. Just try it! Tab completion even works if you start the command lowercase.

As for needing to know aliases... Did the knowledge that 'du' stands for 'disk usage' exist in your brain at birth, or did you have to learn it somehow? That criticism is nonsense.

At least with powershell, commands have a canonical, explicit name with standard verbs and nouns; and a short alias that's equivalent to the initial command in every way. What I also like is that parameters have aliases too: you can write - WhatIf or -wi and it'll work the same. And everything is documented.
there was no announcement it was unannounced

generally you do not devalue a program without at least a few weeks or months of notice.

very anti customer and not surprised if it leaves bad taste for existing customers. that alone leads me to think it was an immediate reaction to a significant inflow of deposits and new business. these rewards programs are extremely expensive to run.
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Businesses aren't making upside by putting their working capital in a bank checking account. Mine was making like 0.1%, it's negligible. I would be happy to socialize that upside for higher limits on deposit protection.

Equity and bond holders are a totally different group of people, they are investors in that bank. They are explicitly taking risk on the bank as an investment, not as a basic piece of their financial plumbing.
If the Fed provides a backstop for uninsured deposits, all banks have lost their legitimacy? They are not bailing out shareholders.
Part of the problem is advertising needs metrics which require JavaScript and makes The Web unusable.
I believe I read that the average maturity of their holdings are ~6 years out of the full ten. It looks like T-notes with similar maturity are yielding around 3.9-4.0%.

> Right now there are 10 year bonds at 4% that will pay 148$ at maturity.

How are you calculating that? My impression is:

> Notes and bonds are issued to pay a fixed rate of interest called the coupon rate. A $10,000 treasury note with a seven percent coupon rate pays an investor $700 per year interest in two semi-annual payments of $350 each. The interest from notes and bonds paid out to investors is simple and does not compound

Over a 10-year duration, I think that 4% bond would pay $140 on $100. 6-year to maturity notes at 3.9% would pay, I believe, $123 on $100 today; and at 1.56%, $109.

I think you'd value the 1.56% notes by something like the ratio of the two values at maturity? About 89% of what you'd pay for a 3.9% note. ($100 / 0.886 => $112.87; $112.87 * 1.0936 => about $123.)

(I don't work in this sector and I might be mathing it wrong.)
One-time payment for web apps doesn't work for 2 reasons (1) web apps have recurring costs (i.e. hosting, but also any updates are released for 'free' since it's really hard to pin a user on the specific version they 'bought'), (2) developers want recurring payments. there's less barrier to entry if you can sell your $1000 software for $50/mo instead.
This is a non-issue. In times of war government can simply nationalize the company. They did it in 1st war world with rails companies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_nationalization) and that was a harsh lesson for those companies when 2nd war world came around - they got their act together so no such act was necessary anymore.

Pretty sure if SpaceX does not fully complies with government demands in times of war, it will suddenly be a subsidiary of NASA.
This is the right thing to do. I don't think we want to live in a world where only systematically important banks are considered safe.
Regulations help but then too much prevents competition. You can't win when people are angry mostly due to manipulation
The distinctive characteristic of the upper class is not working (or at least not needing to work). If you work for a living, you are middle class.
Just hire local women as teachers and when they don't fill the part train the next generation to do it. The job can not be paid fully in money; the teachers have to love and connect with the students. When the students are misbehaving or the teachers don't have a relationship with the students local culture then you see their concern for performing good deteriorate.

And Yet, at the same time schools are teaching less while screens are raising kids more. I would expect more digital learning in school environments soon and teachers being hired with much more emphasis on behavioral management of the students. Also, this new/different expectation would attract a new crowd of applicants that don't want to "Deal with bratty kids while trying to teach them" and instead they can "Tell the bratty kid to sit and do his work or send him onto his fate".

School is simple and made into a tedious process to pump up what all is happening of worth. My son ought graduate highschool at 16 because that is really the age it teaches to [at end of grade 12].
Or BDC
As someone who dislikes even the taste of coffee I wonder why I haven't heard about these guys before. Apparently its available in both Target and Walmart and I'm going to try some this week. Anyone have experience with it?
Ok, what about me?

I’m a 50-something desk jockey, and I’ve never used steroids or any sort of PED. I just eat well, make an effort to exercise, and my genetics steer me towards muscle building. I was also an athlete when I was younger (not sure if this matters).

I mentioned the rock and Arnold were extreme examples, but they were there to make a point… bmi is not meant to be used to measure individuals.
>But most of all the cat way just aligns with my mental model more. Data flows left to right, if you catch my drift.

Using `<` doesn't change that model. You can write `< somefile.txt whatever`. I always write my commandlines as `<in_file cmd1 | cmd2 | cmd3 >out_file`

(Though annoyingly this doesn't work for feeding input to while loops. `< <(echo a; echo b; echo c;) while read -r foo; do echo "$foo"; done` is invalid syntax; it needs to be `while read -r foo; do echo "$foo"; done < <(echo a; echo b; echo c;)`)
Spark, Kubernetes and Object Storage for Large Scale (PB) Data Analytics
"Civilized" history had a lot of kings that went about murdering whoever they didn't like on a whim. That's why modern history has attempted to dispose of that type of ruling class (with some success) while benefiting from production output improving technology and a legal system based on a rule of law.
How long have we been doing civil asset forfeiture?
In what bizarro world should holding cash in a perfectly legitimate bank to earn a negligible interest rate be considered "taking a financial risk" on par with like buying crypto or something???
You feel that you are entitled to "basic rights such as a roof, food and medical care" but when asked to do any work in exchange for the things that other people provide for you, you call that being a slave?
Startup Svb customer here. Big fan of yc. But this is just wrong.

The vcs and startups (including yc) were gambling on the taxpayer dime.

I’m ok helping on some of the uninsured deposits (say 80%). But rewarding people for gambling with taxpayer money? No thanks.
lol. If your rationales for not exercising have made it all the way to the country itself being the problem, well.. you might want to just acknowledge that you don't want to exercise.

As a counterpoint, I also live in the US and have never found making time to exercise to be some kind of insurmountable task -- even when I was commuting almost 3h/day. Exercising requires just a few hours out of your whole week
The impact that made that huge crater must have been an amazing light show...