skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's not helpful when discussing the merits of this product

Of course it is. How would global market size, present and future, not be helpful as a discussion topic? The parent I replied to was referencing that very issue, directly or indirectly. It indicates heat pumps are still a relatively small market, and the OP company is betting it's going to get a lot larger, meaning there is a landgrab going on right now and they're aiming for capturing a segment of that future market.

You contradict your claim that it's not a helpful discussion point in pointing out how usage is skyrocketing (ie the market is getting bigger fast) and having to reference the larger established use in some parts of Europe to try to make your point. You proved it is a pertinent discussion point in trying to claim that it's not.
Should probably clarify as "Government (mandated) Insurance"
In what sense did they act like illiterate peasants? Trying to withdraw funds was the only rational act, as soon as the run started. What possible upside do you have for leaving all your money at risk?
Catfish is not great.
Very similar to farm work- kids get up early and milk the cows
"Libertarian reluctantly calls fire department"

-- The Onion
Ok, and I think you're "betraying an ideological point of view" when you agree there was a major inflationary force so large that "anyone with common sense" is aware of it, but fail to do the elementary math that if you had inflation X with a major inflationary event; then in the absence of the major inflationary event, inflation would almost certainly have been a lot lower. Imo, to the point of being negligible.

The price of energy is a fundamental input to the global economy. When the price of energy goes up, the price of everything goes up as a supply shock. I don't think you're a dumbass for thinking otherwise. I do think you're a dumbass for asserting whatever this mess of a post is.

Citing "a simple mathematical prediction shared widely by experts to luck" is pretty dumb as well. Economists are hardly a uniform entity. Do you truly believe I could not find an equal army of qualified experts with differing mathematical predictions?

Circling back to you think you're more qualified than Yellen, mr kroog. Look out. Bachelor of Science in economics over here. this guy wrote code!
One of the founders corrected my statement. Apparently you can self host.
Bank of America also sends me marketing emails, labeled "You're receiving this servicing email as part of your existing relationship with us."
I scanned through the bill (at third reading [1]). On the face of it, it seems to be intended to "level the playing field" between powerful search engines and social media platforms and Canadian news organizations, allegedly because "there is a significant bargaining power imbalance" between the platforms and the journalists.

But if you have lived in Canada for any length of time, you will know that this is a country ruled by a small number of highly profitable corporations, which are largely controlled by a few wealthy families. For instance:

- Corus Entertainment is 80% controlled by the family of JR Shaw.
- Rogers Communications is controlled by the family of Ted Rogers (via a trust)
- Quebecor is controlled by Pierre Péladeau

Indeed, only BCE (the company that owns Bell Canada) is truly a diversely controlled public corporation.

So really, this bill could be considered as the government acting to protect the interests of three wealthy Canadian families.

[1] https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-18/third-r...
I expect to be able to refer to those people as "they".
Especially since in the case the theatre was on fire, at least a little bit.
In Norway most homes have one or more heat pumps. We are living in a cold climate and the pumps are being used like 9-10 months a year.

The most common brands are Japanese: Toshiba, Mitsubishi and Panasonic.

I will not agree that the user experience is bad at all. They are very good products. Stand alone they work well and with integration they work together with the power company to optimize the energy consumption vs energy price during the day.

Be careful to just think the existing products are bad because you want them to be. It’s an existing, competitive, multi billion market with very good products.
You can only sort of do that with gcc/clang. The #if 0 trick relies on funny behavior that is in a few common shells. When you try to execve(2) a script without a proper #! shebang, the kernel will return ENOEXEC. Bash will check for ENOEXEC then check a few heuristics to see if it looks like a text file, and if it does, then it will try to run it as a shell script.

This means that your script will work when run from a shell, but won't work when exec()ed from a non-shell program, which is a weird foot-gun.
Note this is not aerial imagery shot from an aircraft with an Apple phone, this is someone with an Apple phone on their head cycling around the neighborhood and then viewing the 3d model from above.

No less cool, but I was rather confused for a lot of the article, wondering what in the world the range on this sensor is (usually you get a few meters on normal-priced sensors, not hundreds of meters, and the picture showed entire streets being captured). The article actually mentions the maximum range is 5 metres after you set it to low confidence.
it is still prisoner's dilemma, because the fact that you talk is not binding. Anyone can agree on the phone and pull money immediately after call "just to be safe"

talking - means you can lock out everyone in one room and let them collude. This is not the case here, because the list of depositors at SVB is not public and it takes only a few people to start chain reaction of withdrawals
The depositors were all trying to withdraw all at once, because the depositors were startups that are spending money, but aren't getting any new funding injections or revenue.

That normal behavior triggered the insolvency.
Nothing about that is going to make the fundamental pitch of a sound you hear seem like a different frequency than it is. It will affect your perception of the complex overtones as you say, but matching the fundamental frequency you're singing with the resonant frequency of the glass does not involve complex overtones.
I don't think Jacascript/HTML is the hurdle - for me it's all of the tooling around the ecosystem that makes me want to avoid it. That said, these types of tools have been a good entry point into front-end work, and I'm now at a point where building directly in JS makes more sense.

One thing that is a huge win for the work I am doing - using Dash, I'm able to prototype an informal API and build the visualisations in a single step, which is great when it's unclear what is going to be useful. Long-term it definitely makes maintenance harder, and I think that's where there is a gap in the ecosystem - ideally I want to eject the front-end and convert the API to something more formal to hand off to a real front-end developer.
It's a different but valid approach. You still need a pump station and someone comfortable with hydronic loop install/fittings. Some areas also ban PEX. Northeast is definitely the place to do this, as there is way more hydronic knowledge than other parts of the US. System efficiency takes a hit because the secondary water loop adds more lift to the heat pump.
Right, if hedging isn't necessary for those bonds then I guess one way of saying it is that they're "notionally hedged". Another is that they weren't hedged.
Even in coastal California, most ducted heat pumps have a built in electric or gas furnace.

I imagine anything sold in areas where it actually gets cold will as well.
> If you qualify, not sure SVB do.

SVB is already done. They obviously don't qualify. All functioning banks do.

> Also, the interest rate on those loans is quite high, higher than the fed rate.

By .1%

> So it might buy you time, but you're basically commiting fraud by doing it...

It's not fraud. The Fed literally made this investment vehicle to bail out banks.
I've had a good experience using GitLab for source code repositories, pipelines, and code reviews. I don't have much experience using it for issue tracking and document management since we use Jira & Confluence for that. For my own hobby projects outside of work the free tier has been great, and it was easy to host my own gitlab runner so that I don't have to pay for CI/CD minutes.
What would you do if you were a board member of multiple companies and you found out their bank was financially unsound and couldn't do normal bank stuff?

Would you say nothing and hope nobody else notices? Good luck with that. That just means your companies get screwed.

What if you get away with being silent, nobody else noticed, and the bank gets bigger and fails even more spectacularly later in the year? Wouldn't that be worse? Wouldn't you then be criticized for not speaking up when you knew about the problem?

Would you try to band together with other investors to save the bank? Worth a try, but that means you have to tell other people there is a problem and trust that not a single one of them would start a bank run.

A lot of people have an axe to grind against Peter Thiel but in this case he did the only rational thing. If he had done anything else he would have been blamed too, because some people just don't like him. I haven't seen anyone demonstrate a reasonable alternative for how a rational person would act, knowing what he knew at the time.
Ya think? I bet the shareholders (ex-shareholders ?) are pissed too.
It should be possible with Badger 2040 W: https://github.com/pimoroni/badger2040/issues/3
Mine is

> Generate pages free of ads, trackers and other clutter.

Put the major purpose in the first two words.

[edit - otoh it doesn't generate pages really but generates versions of existing pages]
A typical libertarian response is "I've been robbed with taxes for so long, might as well use the help". They'd still prefer to not pay the taxes.
If I set up shop as a Blackberry developer and RIM goes out of business, I have a tough year as I regroup and figure out next steps for myself.

Every business has dependencies outside of its control, and yeah, sometimes you may have to go bartend for a bit. It sucks, but business never comes with total guarantees. Planning for this stuff can help.
Would a just world have bankers in the first place?
> Is it really just a ton of slowly developed things happening to mature close together?

It is a bit of both. Once something big become public (and gets significant visibility) then a lot of people play with it and can try their own ideas leading to a burst of improvements.
I agree with you, but I think a passive voice is used correctly in that sentence you are referencing. It puts the emphasis on the impacted employees and then goes on to speak to their contributions. This takes away the company for a moment from the conversation to discuss the "impacted teammates". They were using an active voice up till that point.
Ask HN: How do you manage all of the recurring chores a home needs?
I am wondering if anyone has good tech enabled solutions for basic care and maintanenace of a home (replacing HVAC filters, Washing machine repair etc.).
I think there is not much spectrum left.

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ja...
Exactly... they liquidate the bank's assets, payout the FDIC insured, and most of the depositors only lose about 10%... the shareholders would lose more... and the executives and board potentially lose everything to pay shareholders. That's how this is supposed to work under existing rules.
Yes agreed. This may be a stretch, but one could consider web browsers to be an OS, compiler, and graphics engine all in one. Yikes.
What good is a bank executive who can't?
Studies estimate that up to 40% of all marine life caught is thrown overboard as bycatch.

This is a fairly important part. It’s one thing to fish and eat. It’s another thing to fish and destroy. Trawling is the strip mining of the sea.
Have you worked on creating a network of qualified contractors? In my region, there are lots of contractors who are little more than unreliable DIYers, especially in the mechanical space.

My hesitancy is in the ongoing service. I’ve looked into geo-coupled heat pumps but the lack of qualified contractors locally deterred me.
My parents both grew up in the Soviet Union. Of course there was private property haha. Individuals, mostly farmers, could even own land!

Your comment is a laundry list of fun talking points, but I couldn't care less. This debate concerns families having reliable material sustenance.
The news sites can certainly add a robots.txt page or stop crawling from Facebook/Google in other ways. I'd even be fine with the law saying "Google/Facebook can't do automated summaries of the page content" or whatever, allow that to be opt-in/out.

The bullshit part is saying Google has to pay for the privilege of linking out to the sites. Ridiculous.
maybe Facebook should pay for the products it's using to engage to engage its own users?
One reason, which I don't see mentioned a whole lot, is that far fewer places offer a real RSS feed (complete with the article / post in question) than once did. If they offer an RSS feed at all.

I looked at aggregation options for news recently, and discovered that walled gardens and the use of custom CMS's by news organisations have made RSS aggregation of say breaking news all but impossible.

Sure, you can still get blogs, reddit, hacker news etc. But the days of essentially every website having an RSS feed are gone.
Isn't a placeholder value clearly worse?
If I want to find a list of people that died the same day, I don't want to include people whose death dates are unknown in one big group. And using a a placeholder value for people who haven't died yet is almost asking for the world to end on that date.
Obviously none of this would have happened had the bank been in a stronger position. But a better outcome was perhaps possible if someone or a group had stepped up, rather than running for the exit as fast as possible.
There's a 2014 paper that describes this dynamic. Clients want deposits (bank liabilities) that act like cash, but they are backed by assets that have fluctuating values. Banks need to be "optimally opaque" to make this work.

https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/pier/working-paper/2014/bank...
I think one great thing that makes people superior to GPT is our increased capacity for context sensitive semantics and nuance...
Though somewhat controversial, ZoomLock also seems promising. Agreed though, there are obvious benefits to having a fully factory sealed refrigerant loop.
Agreed. As someone in the market for a good heat pump, I'm already turned off by this offering. I don't want more features (air quality module) that are more points of failure and complexity. I just want an efficient heat pump that'll work reliably for a long time, integrate well with HA, and won't cost a kidney to install.
The word package is overloaded. There is a Debian package and there is a Python package.

If somebody wanted to package a modern Python application as Debian package they’d have to make a Debian package that contains several Python packages maybe as a venv or executable wheel, it is a solvable problem but a bit like comparing tic tac toe to 12d chess with supersymmetry in terms of the ambition of Linux distros if not the difficulty.

If you installed python packages as debs without any isolation you'd never be able to install two applications that depended on different versions of the same Python package.

The best thing about Java is that it is so xenophobic that nobody expects to have a working Java runtime installed with the OS so you never have to deal with a broken runtime installed with the OS. JAR files are remarkably self-sufficient so "write once one anywhere" is way closer to the truth than it is on "DLL Hell" platforms like Windows and Linux.
I'm surprised by the statement of a $500 charger. That's what the L2 chargers at home cost and they are significantly smaller and shorter cables. The Chargepoint CT4000 ( https://www.chargepoint.com/businesses/ac-stations/ct4000 ) has an MSRP of about $9000 ( https://smartchargeamerica.com/electric-car-chargers/commerc... ). Granted a commercial fleet charging infrastructure does not need all the electronics related to billing, but they would want more detailed (network enabled) monitoring & control tools. Regardless of the unit cost, it's still not inexpensive to run the electrical. Gotta dig up the parking lot, run something like 30amps per parking spot. 1500 amps for 50 parking spaces is nothing to sneeze at, the copper cost alone would be decent. Then gotta repave it all again and install the chargers themselves.

So you're looking at maybe $2-5k per parking space, plus the charger unit? Depending on the economies of scale, where power is, etc. Of course, it'll pay for itself which is why businesses will do it. But it's not free.

Also, at least today, these vans are driven all day and charging takes overnight. Maybe some don't need a full 8 hour charge (because they don't drive that far), some are used at night, etc. But the needs would be somewhere close to 1 charger per EDV.
In a lot of ways, Paket is significantly better than NuGet, if you ever want to try something new :) It uses a lockfile approach like Cargo, has better dependency resolution, etc
https://fsprojects.github.io/Paket/index.html
And what of this BTFP facility? The fed is willing to lend out full par value against high quality assets. Because AAA high quality assets never default and always return full par value, right?

How is this not kicking the can down the road?

This is like a new almost-QE product. For now, it’s just a collateralized loan. But if there is some system shock and a lot of these high quality bonds start defaulting, you bet your ass the fed will buy up these distressed assets and then we’ll have QE again.

I do hope we don’t have such a shock. But they’re like a once in a lifetime event, and we already got one in 2008, so we’re probably fine.
The change that the title hints at:

> we’re going to decrease the amount of late stage investing we do

Which allows letting go of 17 employees involved with that, which is 20% of employees. EOF (and that was already more info than the article contained)
TBH i think this is just saying the quiet part out loud. Everyone wants to trumpet their commitment to a higher mission and their core values and whatever else during the good times but when their backs are against the wall, none of that matters.
No, they are good and useful.
> what could possibly motivate someone to spend their time doing this?

Probably being between the ages of 10-14 years old. Bartle Killer-explorer?
> For example it was good that we gave out PPP loans fairly literally even though it causes major fraud.

My point was addressing the incentive scheme for PPP: banks got paid a percentage of the origination amount so processed the largest loans first, and by the time they got to the smaller applications, they ran out of money.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbfreeman/2020/04/23/ppp-la...

The 5th Ammendment doesn't say the government can provide just compensation to some people. It says they must provide just compensation to all that their seizure of private property directly impacts.

Fraud is of course another issue, but my main concern is the corrupt incentive structure and glaring 5A violation.
Are police wages “socializing the cost of crime”? I consider enforcement necessary overhead.
Good on ya! This is a huge challenge, but sorely needed in the industry. How are you going about designing these systems? Do you have ducted options? HEPA filtration is not an end-all to indoor air quality, is there any consideration for ventilation?
CA needs to rethink its water law. Parts of the agribusiness industry are at least providing decent bang for the gallon. But the fact that there are fields of low value alfalfa being watered tells you the incentives are all screwed up.
It's not a technological problem. The Fed doesn't want narrow banks that only only keeps deposits safe and are deliberately blocking their formation. John Cochrane speculated that the Fed is forcing deposits into risk taking lenders in the believe that it makes lending to businesses and consumers cheaper:

https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2019/03/fed-vs-narrow-ban...
That seems to account for layoff and upcoming pricing changes.
I would highly suggest you watch this informative lecture from an IR professor examining the causes of the current crisis in Ukraine (a lecture, mind you, given nearly a decade ago that accurately projected forward to now, perhaps the one mistake being that the lecturer did not expect Putin to attempt a full-scale invasion of Ukraine).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4

The tl;dw: the West has pursued a policy since the end of the Cold War to march NATO and the EU to Russia's doorstep. Each time tangible actions or declarations have occurred, Russia has clearly expressed that it views this as an existential threat and that it will not tolerate NATO or the EU on its doorstep. We have ignored these warnings and continued this policy. Ultimately, it is not clear we have any good reason to be doing this for our own strategic interests, especially paired with the rise of China.
Awesome Nikhil, I'll shoot you an email. We're in the Data Science education space, so even if we don't end up collaborating, your feedback will be highly appreciated.
From the GitHub page:

> Counting unique users is achieved with a combination of relying on sessionStorage facilities, the browser's cache mechanism and inspecting the referrer. Using this technique considerably reduces the complexity and load on the server while improving data privacy at the cost of knowing less about users. We can't and don't want to be able to connect single page views to an user identity.
...that's not what "bailout" means, a "bailout" can only happen before a bank collapses; SVB already collapsed, it cannot be bailed out, definitionally.

It's not a shell game, it's a fundamentally different situation where real people who are not billionaires are directly and immediately effected.

Further, there is not financial assistance in the form of "free money"; at best what will happen are loans to cover the difference between the available liquidity and the withdraws. The assets SVB once had will, upon maturity, pay for those loans with interest, and only then will investors be given a chance to recoup some of their investment.

I'm frankly fascinated by the abject cynicism by way of ignorance people think they can get away with on the Internet. Unreal...
I have a free Experian account that I look at every few months.

Every time I log in, a big, disorienting interstitial appears and pitches me on Experian CreditWorks Premium ($25/month), with fields asking for my credit card info. It's designed like it's part of a normal registration/login process that you're supposed to fill in. You have to scroll down past all of it to the bottom of the page and click the washed-out, kind-of-disabled-looking button that says "No, keep my current membership", at which point they reluctantly take you to your normal account overview page.