skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a complicated answer to that, with a ton of potential reasons and side effects. I can boil my reasons down to 3:

1.) I was L5, and while there were a ton of great L6s, there were not an insignificant number of ones who were terrible. I think L6 would have been the right level for me; L7 was beyond me at the time. People at higher levels don't really seem to work any harder. That translates to the feeling that I'm getting less pay than I deserve. This is why I ultimately left, and I immediately found a job at L6 equivalency.

2.) My manager pushed me towards promotion. My manager was L6, going for L7, and he had way too many direct reports (more than 20). His plan was to move up and have me fill in the vacuum behind him. Without someone to take on that role he was getting denied his promotion.

3.) I wasn't a Google lifer. I wanted to work for a smaller company where I have more of an impact on the bottom line, and I cared about what I was working on, maybe a startup. Unfortunately I have the three deadly "M"s for startup founders (Marriage, Mortgage, and Munchkins). My plan is to wait until the kids are out (1 "M" down). I could get the house paid off by that point with the extra equity that comes in a promotion (2 "M"s down). And I supported my spouse when she started her own business; she wants to support me in mine (that's all 3 "M"s). TL;DR - A promotion would have allowed me to close out all of my debts, freeing me up to not work at Google.

But I think on top of all of that, you have to get people to want to work on your project. Some projects are fun or have social clout, but come with no chance of promotion (I worked on Memegen for 4 years because it was fun). Some projects suck, but they come with promo opportunities. Projects that suck and don't come with a promise of promo don't get engineers applying to transfer in (this is what killed Reader).
I bought an Opal and can't recommend strongly enough to buy literally any other camera. The software is hot garbage. Using it on my M1 mac for Slack, Teams, and Zoom is an exercise in frustration and futility - constant crashes, Opal software deciding to randomly open up and take over the video, killing the video feed in the soft clients, etc.

I could go on but this thing isn't worth $50 let alone $300. The only reason I still use it is because the picture is decent (not great) and I don't want to just trash a $300 camera.
This argument format - "if X is responsible for a decrease in Y, then not X is responsible for any increase in Y" - is plainly false and silly in any case it is applied, including this one.
Increase inflation to remove more money from the system and encourage the _correct_ investment at the moment will eventually stimulate the economy?
Concerns Mount over San Francisco-Based First Republic Bank
Plot the graph again but instead of comparing them to Apple and Netflix try comparing them to Johnson & Johnson and Porche.
> So it means that my open-source project docker images now can either be removed from github, or I have to pay.

What does GitHub have to do with it? And it says “you will maintain access to any images in your public repositories”.
Time matters

It looks like at the end of the day, the total shortfall was something like 2-3 billion dollars, and that is at literal fire sale prices.

In a few hours on Thursday, over $42 billion was pulled.

The loan facilities simply could not react that fast, and if there was full knowledge instead of "the fog of war", they certainly would have been able to cover the full amount and make a bridge loan to keep SVB solvent.

But it all collapsed too fast. I'd be astonished if this wasn't the fastest bank run of such a scale in history (2nd largest bank to fail). Having effectively ALL of your customers concentrated in the same industry, and all connected by the fastest comms network on the planet, and electronic transfers, just made for a run of unprecedented speed. All of Theil's companies were surely transferring funds within seconds of his text msgs to them. Everyone else is only 1-3 hops away by text message, and then the public tweet t pull funds - it's over...

Time matters.
Spiderman is not Sony Computer Entertainment property, and spiderman has been on literally every single console since the original atari. It isn't even remotely the same. The valid comparison would be using Crash Bandicoot, but that actually went multiplatform!
They need their own client for the litany of value-adds they offer. If you just want an openvpn config from them they'll give you one. Would you give MS this same hassle if i told you they rolled their own vpn libraries?
How does this kind of shit get upvoted?

it really takes about 5 seconds of thinking about this to realize why this "analysis" is stupid - he takes an INCREDIBLY expansive view of what counts as "pollution" from food production and then takes the narrowest possible view of what counts as "pollution" from driving a ICE car.

It's frankly embarrassing that econlib would even host this kind of crap which would get a failing grade in an undergraduate econ class.
Congratulations, welcome to the effects of a direct democracy.

This is why I am opposed to the abolition of the Electoral Collage, you are going to end up with the same sort of effects where the many will have outsized power over the few.
While SVB is probably slightly underwater on deposits, it’s unclear how much of $3B the FDIC will cover. Likely less than $300M.
Not so unique :), also have some health issues. Keep up the hard work!
Docker is sunsetting Free Team organizations [pdf]
Nothing in this article is interesting or thought-provoking. In fact I think it's actively trying to make me get into a stupid argument (and all without culture war shenanigans).
Also if you are okay with many starving to death. There are more then 8 billion people on earth who need to eat
One of the best pieces of advice I got really early in my career was write something 3 times before you decide to abstract it. Until you’ve done that, you just don’t know what parts you can really abstract and you’re likely wasting time. Pretty much every time I’ve ignored that advice I’ve regretted it.
I agree. And the worst thing is, outside of tech communities people seem to completely disagree, probably because they know through Ads what a VPN is.
This is one of the stupidest articles ever written.

One of big assumptions is that walkers eat more than non-walkers.

Walking to work will make many of the people who do it healthier. And that health will have many knock-on effects in a society bearing the costs of widespread metabolic syndrome.

Anyone who wants to walk should let this partial and faulty reasoning get in their way.
Yes that sucks - which is why I had used the full word "cryptocurrency" in the non-quote parts of my replies :)
I don't find most of those persuasive, and the couple that would actually benefit from the blockchain are niche applications that most people would never use.
There should be a waitlist to get access to the waitlist.
and also you cannot search by filenames, searching for "test_driver.cc" -> 0 results.
Again you're confusing bank and crypto. They wouldn't need to have their deposits increase. They would need to increase their capital. They weren't underwater before the bank run, they were undercapitalized.

Which would mean that whoever would enter, would get a big chunk of their stock, but he would still have a good deal. Banks don't need increasing or decreasing deposits. They need stable and predictable deposits.

They know how fast you burn cash, so they know what flows to expect from you and how much of your money they get to invest and for what duration. SVB failed to predict the Fed, but there's no way they survived this long without knowing how to plan around cash burning startups, that's their bread and butter.

What made finding a buyer impossible is that their deposit base showed their unpredictability. And they have done tremendous damage to startups and banking relations after this. Finding banks is going to be much harder as a startup after this debacle, whether you're part of this bank run or not.
>TitanAir - Leading-Edge Liquid Collection to Enable Cutting-Edge Science

https://www.planet.enterprises/_files/ugd/f9bde1_25ba6d623aa...
Sorry, a typo. Was quite nervous about my future opportunity to pay 300$/month for each open-source project I maintain.
The fed respond to inflation *AND* unemployment rate, and they respond to their own forecasts of those things.

The fed didn't stimulate inflation by choice. The rates were at 0 for most of the decade and inflation was very low.

Increasing interest rates was a response to inflation -- partially created by QE and stimulus spending, supply chain disruptions, and other supply/demand shifts.

As for how interest rates work: they make borrowing more expensive. There's a bunch of second-order effects from that but borrowing cost and time value of money are the main thing to keep in mind.
OK, that's fair, and I apologize for putting words in your mouth. It's been the default assumption lately, sadly.

I am from Kazakhstan, and our government has been in a position similar to what they're experiencing in Georgia. Lots of paranoia about Putin trying to stir up something here. To slow down immigration, they implemented some new anti-immigration laws that aren't targeted specifically at Russian citizens (although it quite obvious to everyone bothering to observe), so they pretty much can't stay here for more than a few months. But I guess Georgia depends on migrant's money much more than we do, so they can't simply do the same.
Literally the only reason ransomware is a thing is because of cryptocurrency.

Every oil pipeline, school, hospital, farm, old age home that's ransomed is 100% thanks to Bitcoin and its progeny. But hey, at least it's found a use case.
NASA π Day Challenge
Interesting approach. Maybe it is even better to first start with a back-tracking parser. Although back-tracking has the reputation of being slow, there is a rather straightforward mapping from grammar to functions. Although it is slower than traditional parsing techniques, it is fast enough for many practical applications.

One easy trick to optimize back-tracking is memoization.

Another is the left-recursion into right-recursion trick, which is also rather straightforward to apply.

These two tricks are used in IParse Studio [0] which is an interpreting parser that parses a grammar and uses that grammar to parse some input. I also can help you with rewriting the grammar using the described approach.

[0] https://fransfaase.github.io/MCH2022ParserWorkshop/IParseStu...
They're corrupt/mismanaged: https://www.reuters.com/business/uks-fca-puts-credit-suisse-...
When you are compared to Oracle, it's always, always, always bad.

A lot of companies want and try to move off OracleDB, but it's really, really hard. I don't think that's the case for moving off Gitlab.
the FDIC limit was a minimum. for decades the FDIC has covered the full amount in practice. if the current level of fees aren't enough to cover that, they will raise them. and that is exactly what is happening now.
Employees get paid to work, but are abused. Sure they can leave, but things aren't always that simple. Things are normalized.

Just like you can "just leave" an abusive relationship, but instead much of the system is abusive to their employees.
There are so many problems with this conclusion it is hard to even start.

The foundation of this entire argument is off by a large factor.

> ... computes that a 180-pound person walking one mile to and from work at a pace of two miles per hour will burn 200 calories above the 2,000 calories burned each day to maintain the body’s basic metabolism.

Walking is very energy efficient, walking one mile burns 40-60 calories depending on weight. Two way trip is 80-120.
The thing is with the big Swiss banks like UBS, Credit Suisse etc is they regularly oscillate business models between "We are a full service universal bank" and "We are a private bank with a bit of investment banking attached to keep our HNWI clients happy."

Where they are in that cycle typically depends on how much money investment banking/trading made over the previous year or two.
Exactly. There is no nice or correct way to do this. Lots of companies seem to go through this and come out fine on the other end as well.

I worked at Nokia through their transition from being the largest smart phone manufacturer in the world to shortly before they sold off what remained of their phone unit to MS, who shut it down completely less than two years later. Basically, that probably affected many tens of thousands of people. I heard all the cliches and was on the receiving end of them. Two points here: 1) this is not personal even if it deeply effects you. 2) if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. The last point here doesn't mean you are the problem, or the cause of the problem. But simply that your presence is no longer part of any solution to whatever the problem is. Whether you agree with that or not is beside the point. The fact is that, once companies get to this stage, there is only one way forward: let go of a lot of people.

IMHO, Facebook is being to cautious here. They need to cut much more deeply than this and re-focus on their core products and modernize those. Facebook has been dead in the water for years. Whatsapp has an aging user group as well. Instagram seems past its glory. Messenger seems like a failed product at this point. Time to take it out the back and kill that. Revitalizing Facebook and Instagram will require some drastic changes. It's not going to magically start turning around without that. It's either continued gradual decline or finding some way to become relevant again.
So I think in a way the premise of the question is a bit weird. The likely outcome is _not_ that 250 million people up sticks and move to Mastodon or nostr or the Facebook Twitter-y thing or the Tumblr activitypub thing or some latter-day Google Buzz or whatever. Like, that _could_ happen, I suppose, but it is not historically how social networks die.

Take LiveJournal. The 'alternative' to LiveJournal, by and large, was not another LiveJournal; LiveJournal users just shifted their attention to various other _different_ things (Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, maybe Deviantart?) as it died. For those who really wanted another LiveJournal there was DreamWidth and similar (you could see those as a partial analogy to Mastodon for Twitter), but that's not where most people went.

I'm not sure that the like-for-like replacement thing has _ever_ happened. Maybe Friendster?
> The fact that you pre-emptively accept the idea that maximizing diversity to its limits is beneficial to corporations

I literally never said that, nor do I believe it, nor do I quite understand what "maximizing diversity to its limits" means.

My belief primarily comes from working in a range of companies and environments, some that were quite diverse, and some that were really lacking in diversity (and by "lacking in diversity" I mean cases where, in just one example, we had a sizable team with only a single woman), and I've seen that the environments that were lacking in diversity had very specific problems that were a detriment to the business (in addition to just generally sucking for some folks specifically due to that lack of diversity).
> This is essentially the ultimate privacy guarantee - a server that does work for its users (like fetching emails, tweets, or search results), without ever knowing what its users are doing - who they talk to, who they follow, or even what they search for.

Isn't this perfect for mostly criminals and all the bad actors?

Is there anything you're going to do about these people using your service?
Proofs for and against hold no sway, because Faith is beyond needing a proof. Why arguing with those with faith based on proofs go no where.
Watch out, big brother, for ignoring the fact that this user experience is not from the unique phone, but is about universal for all those not running Google Play Services.
Your regurgitation of dogma without having honest context - it's oppressive.

Couple questions: how does the audio play without JavaScript? Who serves that? How about the fact that the standard workflow just failed? If that is a bug, it would be fixed - right now, it's a feature, no?
Any good resources for learning Software Project Management?
As a young software engineer who's interested in leading a project in the future, are there any good resources for diving in at a beginner's level? Preferably a book, not an entire course. But any suggestions are welcome
There’s many ways Netflix could detect VPN use, especially on mobile devices.

It’s not obvious at all. Netflix could be doing something as simple as checking the IPs or could be actually checking the use of VPN at a system level. Both are equally valid readings of the GP comment.
Everyone who has a "Free Team organization" just received the following email:

> Docker is sunsetting Free Team organizations

> Free Team organizations are a legacy subscription tier that no longer exists. This tier included many of the same features, rates, and functionality as a paid Docker Team subscription.

> After reviewing the list of accounts that are members of legacy Free Team organizations, we’ve identified yours as potentially being one of them.

> If you own a legacy Free Team organization, access to paid features — including private repositories — will be suspended on April 14, 2023 (11:59 pm UTC). Upgrade your subscription before April 14, 2023 to continue accessing your organization.

> If you don’t upgrade to a paid subscription, Docker will retain your organization data for 30 days, after which it will be subject to deletion. During that time, you will maintain access to any images in your public repositories, though rate limitations will apply. At any point during the 30-day period, you can restore access to your organization account if you upgrade to a paid subscription. Visit our FAQ for more information.

Basically giving everyone ~30 days to migrate their data (to another host or paid Docker plan) or lose access to it.

As a funny side-note, the PDF seems to have been made so you cannot copy-paste text out from it, so no interactivity. But that also means that the "How much does a Docker subscription cost?" doesn't actually have any information about how much a subscription cost, and the link to the page doesn't work. Great work Docker Inc.
but what ties you to the product?

chat history but is that really that important?

It's one api call from an integration stand point.

It's not a marketplace so you don't have network effects much.

the interface isn't all that much.

it's kind of a boring bot. it doesn't even tell dirty jokes.

I really do feel like this is a race to the bottom.
If you're a top performer, then you can make seven figures at $meta as an IC
The need for maximization of profits will pretty much always trump any sort of ethics team in place. LLM have been selected as the "new frontier" for a lot of these companies an in turn any sort of "fat" that can be trimmed from the system will be.
The term "placebo" implies intent. So saying something is "a placebo even if that wasn't the original intent" is like saying something "is red even if it isn't that color."
aka WET: Write Everything Twice.
Can you let us know which "open source foundation model" you use?
The "Javascript ecosystem" on my personal experience seems to prefeer installing everything in the global environment "for ease of use convenience" and then they wonder how did a random deprecated and vulnerable dependency get inside their sometimes flattened, sometimes nested, non-deterministic dependency chain (I wish the deterministic nested pnpm was the standard...) and (pretend) they did not notice.

That being said, the Javascript ecosystem has standarized tooling to handle that (npx) that Python doesn't (I wish pipx was part of standard pip), they just pick the convenient footgun approach.
Future ships could be powered by wind to fight climate change
I think a lot of people would agree with that statement. FED is responsible for a lot of profits, both in the equity market and definitely in the crypto asset market.
Well you know how it goes, mate -

Customs officer: G'day, passport please.
Man, immigrating to Australia: Cheers.
Customs officer: Anything to declare?
Man: no, sir.
Customs: Do you have a criminal record we should know about?
Man: BUGGER! I didn't realise that one is still required here!
Cybercriminals exploit SVB collapse to steal money and data
Implied probability of default over a given time-span can be approximated with the equation P = 1 - ( e ^ ( ( -S * t ) / ( 1 - R ) ) where S is the CDS spread and R is the recovery rate.

The spread can be solved using the inverse S = ln ( 1 - P ) * ( ( R - 1 ) / t )

Probabilities and rates are both expressed as percentages not basis points.

S is the spread. t is years. R is the recovery rate.

Source is my notes from undergrad. Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (9th Edition) by John C. Hull. Take all this with a grain of salt as I am not a quant. (but I am looking for a job!)

Doing some additional reading, there are some more precise approximations but they are less general.[1]

Last number I was able to pull up the $CS CDS was trading at 551 BP. Up from 446 yesterday (an all-time high for $CS)

Lehman Bros hit 640 BP just days before collapse.

[1] https://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/15986/how-to-compu...
This seems like a stupid question, but is anyone releasing binaries of OpenSSL for Windows environments? Is there an expectation that OpenSSL will take reigns in MacOS environments from LibreSSL?
It is a very tricky philosophical question you’re asking: should you consider the broadest impact of what you’re doing OR should you ensure you’re doing good work and leave the ramifications to higher up decision makers?

The former approach means you can’t do anything with clear conscience: do you take that vacation or donate the money? Do you punish yourself if your work on databases eventually was used for a scam?

I find it paralyzing to operate in the former way: so I take the traditional stem person approach. I just ensure what I do is good (obviously for the highest bidder). I won’t work for an explicitly criminal organization - but as long as the government approves, am in. I am going to let them do the policy making and governing because frankly I am tired and probably incompetent at that since I don’t sink much time thinking about it.
some day I may be able to downvote posts.
Taleb and Srinivasan in the same thread… that’s one to avoid
Does AI/ML not unlock value for the Metaverse? Also, the layoffs are set to prioritize recruiting, management, and business personnel. That seems to go against the idea that they are switching to an MBA-led approach.
Car industry embraced it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-RtJOfFlZU

Reminds me of OOP.
A perfect two-sided market!
Docker is sunsetting Free Team organizations
> they are calling “Nickelback,” not because it has anything to do with the Canadian rock band

Being a Rutgers grad, this 100% sounds like a troll that would come out of a New Jersey based institution of higher learning.
Scrpy has been such a great tool!

There is another project inspired by scrcpy (I think) called sndcpy but it's no longer maintained it seems, so I'm very glad to see these capabilities added to scrcpy.

I've been trying in the past and failed to setup an A2DP + Bluez to allow me to use my desktop machine as a handset for my android phone. I know that such tools exist for Windows but couldn't to work well on Mac or Linux.
If Scrcpy had a bi-directional audio copy (i.e. mount a mic), it would probably be able to do just that.
Since it's literally a good old boy network, probably with threats and violence or maybe they have legal backing? I don't know the legal details, I just know they set the rules and they voluntarily reduce fishing seasons to keep stock at healthy levels.
Simplifying your life shouldn’t cause overwhelm