skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My attorneys made it 100% clear that missing payroll would make the officers and directors liable immediately in this situation. It was news to a lot of the companies we talked to.
Skip all of them and use Hetzner, you'll save a ton of money. The startup credits are designed to become handcuffs eventually.
Wow this video is such a trip! It's the pre-gpt version of the low quality book scam.
While I understand this would be good publicity for the H1B visa and its notice/grace period. I think if people were more aware (open to see another perspective) that the biggest problem, especially for those who are Indian and Chinese (the top two H1B recipients), is the abuse of sub-contractor companies being set up and using these visa recipients which create the backlogs.

Another thing, I've noticed everyone on an H1B already knows the responsibilities of holding this temporary visa. This type of article is nothing but complaining without providing a solution. Yes it sucks, but naivety to your responsibilities as a visa holder and to something that can happen to you is immature. And also risks putting other immigrants and visa holders in a bad light.

I've seen more and more of these types of writing regarding the H1B, visas, and the immigration system in light of the layoffs but I feel they are doing more for negativity than any positivity at all. If this could assist in anyway in moving towards seeing what the actual problem is in the system then ok but it didn't read at all like that tbh.
I think the real question is where their money is.
I'm worried that "other banks" constitute a large enough body that they could just let SVB fail. Instead they're looking around nervously and acquiesce to a bailout because they might be just as vulnerable.
Not so sure... remote working was a thing already before Covid (just think of the millions of hours wasted commuting daily, not to mention the tons of CO2 emitted), Covid simply accelerated what seemed to be an inevitable evolution to a revolution. Now we have arrived at the "counter-revolution" stage, where the powers that be (managers) try to turn back the clock to the "good old times". Let's see if they will succeed...
Which is likely to be passed on to consumers via increased costs; in an already unfavorable economic climate for lower end of the income gradient.
It could work as a forcing function: "people are saying mean things about our code and it harms our sales, let's rewrite"
Isn't he now doing a lot of NordVPN ads himself in recent videos too? Turns out everyone has their price.
What is "capitalist" about requiring FDIC for a retail banking charter, then the same government creating the requirement (at gunpoint of licensing scheme) takes the money for that requirement, and creates a "insurance scheme."

Only it turns out that "insurance" is a fraud, as it is misrepresented. The premiums are advertised as being for backstopping up to 250k in the account, but it turns out this was a fraud and actually it's whatever arbitrary amount they choose all the way up to the biggest holder in the bank. And when they're finished, they'll assess a "special assessment" which totally isn't a tax, nevermind the licensees have no choice but to pay it.
> This is a case of the Rust community overselling a minor feature as a game-changing novelty.

Sum types reify control flow into an object from which said control flow can be retrieved. Compiler checked sum types remove the possibility of retrieving inconsistent control flow.

The transform is equivalent to callback to future.

It's one of the things that looks unimportant until you use it. After that, the absence is repeatedly experienced when working with C++. We don't use tagged unions much because the ergonomics are terrible.
This has been brought up before, Netflix does not work with a VPN on. It knows you’re using a VPN and blocks you (asks you to disable it.)

Yes this is true even with NordVPN, which I bought specifically to be able to watch Netflix on when expressVPN didn’t work.
> hide behind linux proxy and set up packet dropping (can be done with nftables) random packets.

I used a similar method to simulate running our software on a government network when I worked in defense.

Timeouts and packets dropping all over the place. Government work sucks.
It's not terribly dissimilar from the Glass Cliff. You set your diverse hires up for failure, and then they fail, and then that failure gets pinned on them. It may not be malicious in nature, but it can definitely have negative effects on their career paths.
Startups rely on a lot of infrastructure that society provides. Things like supply chains, energy grids, financial systems, and defense.

When the infrastructure we rely on functions well, our community can be ignorant to the fact that we are reliant on this infrastructure.

This past week we saw a breakdown in one of our critical inputs. As a result, you are now hearing stories from people that helped work to fix the problem at a layer in the stack we don't usually think about.

Think about this more as a glimpse into a technical domain that has always been there, but you are generally able to be gleefully ignorant about. It's interesting!
Where are those banks getting the additional cash to pay higher fees?
Yeah, and similarly, you can probably get Bedrock to run on Linux through WINE. You can also play Breath of the Wild on Windows with community-made emulators. But what's interesting in this question isn't what's technically possible through enough ingenuity from the community, but what's officially supported.
If I still have to hire a contractor, then why on Earth would I direct buy from you? The only reason I'm even interested in reading this post is the idea of installing myself with no contractor involved. I can't imagine why anyone not interested in self install would ever want to direct buy. Too much hassle to still have to go find a contractor willing to do it.
Calculating π on Pi Day
The point, though, is that NordVPN advertises their VPN as being the only reason your bank account information isn't stolen when you use WiFi.
> I don't care because it's just the privacy of my neighbors (and their friends and families)
Posted this on another thread about VPNs a few weeks ago. Reposting here since I think it applies.

I've recently been describing what a commercial VPN provides to non-technical friends and family as a type of "global virtual Internet cafe" subscription - the pros and cons of using a physical Internet cafe mostly apply. An Internet cafe isn't inherently (i.e. due to technical benefits of underlying technology) any more or less secure than connecting to your home or work wifi/network, and the Internet cafe knows who you are and what websites you're visiting, but your ISP/employer doesn't (since you're "at" the Internet cafe, not on your home/work network).

Of course, your ISP/employer does know that you're visiting the Internet cafe, and in the case of work (and some ISPs) can stop you from doing so.

If you visit a website from an Internet cafe, the website may still be able to figure out who you are, just like they can when you bounce between different networks normally. And of course, if you login to your account on a website or put your shipping address or something in when buying something, you're self identifying (unless you have throwaway accounts or forwarding addresses or whatever).

And finally, if someone really wants to figure out who you are to a high degree of confidence, they will.

I find this lands pretty well and is close enough to being technically correct without getting into the details that non-technical people would start glazing over if I got into.
Your own choice of words betray your misunderstanding.

> someone else’s unique combinations of bits

If you take a piece of paper from a pack you purchased and you take a pen filled with ink you have likewise purchased and you right the entire contents of this post on a piece of paper what makes your paper, decorated with your ink, by the sweat of your brow MY combination of bits.

Nobody needs a special right the ordinary property rights we have understood to exist for thousands of years are sufficient for us to agree on whose paper it is. I would need a special right to imagine that the words you chose to inscribe transformed it into MY paper.
Unfortunately it wouldn't support our customers to send us fx-wires.
Onboarding email should be just a template. Or, even better, a small template with a link to bigger template. As a manager, you should demonstrate your empathy in a welcome 1:1 meeting.
I meant exceptions as a user of the language. You can decide not to throw. You can mark functions noexcept.

Granted, it's more awkward when you consume 3rd party libraries, but you can still wrap them in noexcept interfaces and be fine with terminating when an exception is actually thrown or do something else. Not much different to a panic.
Apart from being sloppy, any worrying bits of code throwing up security red flags to you?
If you can turn that into a service where I can engrave things on a plaque and have someone throw it into a garden of my choosing, I'm sure you can build a successful startup out of it.

VaaS, Vandalism as a Service.
Doesn't offer currency accounts with wire instructions unfortunately.
If ChatGPT is useful people are going to use it anyway, even if there is negative publicity because when you bait it with "Is X race superior to Y race?" it gives you a non PC answer.
IBM is a good dividend stock. That said, there are certainly stocks you could have bought and held over the past couple of decades (as well as many index funds) that would have had better returns overall.
> My understanding is that a majority of venture-backed startups in the US as well as a majority of venture capital firms all their had their cash balance deposited at SVB

Dataset needed.
Zuk should get rid of his foil board as a show of solidarity
Is this behavior only enabled by their client? If you use your own OpenVPN client to connect to their OpenVPN server are you avoiding this behavior?
So were you the "last guy standing." or did you go elsewhere?
All the Things We Do Not Know About SVB
We are looking for a multi-currency account to receive wires from customers. Buying gold does not solve this unfortunately.
I try and learn Rust by glueing all things together (MIDI, Open Sound Control, Audio I/O) into little commandline utilities (e.g. routers), it's mostly to keep myself happy; quick results keep me pushing. Whether it's a good idea to start with a plugin depends on your experience (e.g. writing such things in C or C++).

Active noise cancellation would be too involved for a first attempt (at least for me). Here's an unfinished project: https://github.com/materoy/noice
For regular denoising there's these (haven't tried them):
https://github.com/jneem/nnnoiseless
https://github.com/bennetthardwick/rust-obs-plugins/blob/mas....

Here's an aggregate for sound related things: https://rust.audio/
Overviews/libraries:
https://github.com/kfrncs/awesome-rust-audio
https://crates.io/keywords/audio

• Some videos:
- Rust for audio developers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yom9E-67bdI
- The nannou framework:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPFv3adyLB4

• Here's a real good article by Ross Bencina that goes into the intricacies of realtime audio, don't allocate/free in the hot parts of your code !
http://www.rossbencina.com/code/real-time-audio-programming-...

Other things to check out:

fundsp - a compact library with DSL for typical dsp things
https://github.com/SamiPerttu/fundsp

nih-plug - a plugin framework
https://github.com/robbert-vdh/nih-plug/

Nannou
a creative coding library that glues the needed parts together in a very clean way, will get you results quickly; the more difficult parts are already implemented, and it's a good place to learn.

I started trying to understand and use obvious libraries like `cpal` for cross-platform audio I/O, `midir` for midi I/O, and `rosc` for OSC.

Finally, I found `Programming Rust`, by Blandy and Orendorff a real nice condensed read. TRPL by Klabnik and Nicols is very readable as well, but I prefer Blandy/Orendorf. All in all, plenty of information, just a bit scattered over github / youtube and other places. Any way, my advice would be to take things step by step, learn from examples, and you could do worse than embrace chatgpt for rs pair programming as well (at least to get started) :)
This is exactly what I was getting at, thanks.

To give another example where this comes up: keeping backups of your data is prudent. Encrypting those backups is a good idea in a lot of cases to protect your data in case of device theft. While most modern systems make this as simple as possible for the casual user it still helps the user to have a basic understanding of what’s actually going on and the implications.
Meta is undergoing a standard phase transition. It was innovation fuelled previously, but now it is value fuelled (milk the existing machine, take care of regulators, be part of the establishment). Intel and IBM are similar examples.

So Zuckerberg, to prevent this, has the right strategy - the pirates inside the organisation strategy. Jobs did this with the Mac project. The question mark really is whether the Metaverse can deliver to take over from the Social Media platforms it has. Even if you accept the promise of Metaverse, according to Carmack the execution has been poor. Normally you just buy your way out with promising startups when execution is poor but the regulators will be heavy with Meta nowadays.

Meta has star power with AI/ML. But on Metaverse there isn't much consumer data to process (yet). So its innovation vector can't be realised.

This effectively means the stars of AI/ML won't help Meta into the future. If they leave, it could be a good thing (if we are taking the value-fuelled hypothesis as their future).

Meta I think will switch to a MBA-led approach to maximise existing value, shed its research aspirations, and switch to hiring the best mechanical/devices/hardware talent it can to improve execution on Metaverse.

Under this appraisal of Meta, broad and wide layoffs, letting the superstars go is the right thing for the company. Unlocked from Meta, those engineers will forge the next great wave of tech companies. The future will be made over the next few months as those start-up fevered ideas will actually get a footing. So I am most hopeful despite the bitter pill of current economic realities. In the short term there is real pain, particularly those relying on visas or the generous healthcare provisions from the company.
In my mind Raid Shadow Legends definitely pulls ahead quite a bit.
I know that. I am not deluded into thinking the US media is not at all influenced or affected by the US govt. But the point here is that the US news are free to say whatever it wants until the US govt says otherwise. In China, it is the other way around, the PRC tells the news what to say and the news isn't allowed to push a non-approved narrative, at least not on any noticeable scale.

In fact, Fox News is so biased it is literally being sued right now and you can be sure Biden administration won't lift a single finger to help it. The current govt actually condemns almost everything Fox News say.

That is why no single news source in the US speaks for the US govt. Unless all of them agrees with each other, they are just speaking for themselves.
For anyone curious about the top H1B recipients (FY 2019) - https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/data/h-1b...
I am ethnically Russian, and I have never held Russian citizenship (and have no desire to), and also have never lived there. You're just waving hands around trying to cover your *-cisms. Next you'll be telling us that Russians do not exist (you're already basically saying that). Now, who does that one remind me of, let me think...

I recognize that I live in a bubble and have a small circle of friends, but neither I, nor any one of them adhere to that stereotype you've mentioned that is supposedly required to "be Russian".
My impression of the FDIC action was more that Silicon Valley was lucky for being the first domino that nobody wanted to fall. It could have been any industry or sector facing challenges, but the FDIC was primarily concerned with restoring systemic confidence so that they could avoid a more widespread crisis.

That's more (this bank is) "too triggering to fail" than (this industry is) "too big to fail".

If SVB was a later failure in an ongoing crisis, it doesn't seem like the FDIC would have been prioritizing it because of some Silicon Valley connections.
NordVPN do logs and you will get caught if you do crimes using their services. It happened before during the Dutch KPN blackmail case and it will happen again. Everyone at BalCCon was warned about this a few years ago.
> Could they have raised back money by selling shares and return to solid ground? Also probably yes.

For the record, I believe that's "definitely yes". As far as I'm aware, they were securing additional funding at the time they put out the announcement that ultimately triggered the run.

Which makes the whole panic that much more frustrating (even if it is understandable from a game theory perspective), and likely would've been avoidable if the CEO hadn't completely f*ked up the messaging.
I agree that the press release is way too long. I'd add one more specific recommendation for anyone who ends up in a leadership role:

If you're ever in a situation where you need to lay off or otherwise end your relationship with employees, contractors, etc., avoid using terms like "garbage collect[ion]" in the press release, even if you think it's in a section that's not directly about the people you're letting go.
You want to know if companies stop growing for a decade or so after a mass-layoff?

If so, yes, they do. But it's incredibly hard to decide on causality there, because companies are only expected to do mass-layoffs when the management believes it can't grow anymore.
Is your comment made possible by curiosity stream?
The problem that I’ve seen a bunch of times with the similar lazy-autoload approach in .NET Entity Framework is that someone accidentally/naively serializes one of the EF objects rather than projecting it to a POCO first, and then Prod blows up when the serializer dutifully follows all the relationships in a complex nested object and ends up pulling a massive amount of data from the DB and then tries to log/send 1GB objects at N requests per second. Oops
NordVPN are far too aggressive about youtube marketing to not be sketchy imo. Open source client doesn't really help because whatever sketchy shit they're up to is probably mostly on the server side anyway.

I wonder what their total youtube sponsor spot expenditure has been. It must be a ridiculous amount of money.
I brought Designer Today magazine out of the mothballs
I just brought my 20+ year old design magazine out of the mothballs, it has thousands of free graphic design, 2D and 3D modeling tutorials among other things. All free to learn from, no signups or anything required. Currently only available in the US and Canada at the moment due to copyright concerns.
The Brain Drain That Is Killing America's Economy
Google doesn't own chromium, they can't just do anything they want with it. Yes they contribute a lot to it but they don't own it.
half the people there dont believe in the metaverse. That's their long term strategy that they've sink billions of dollars into.
Right, the scenario you describe is exactly WHAT I mentioned: Competing tasks for threads.

This article is NOT exactly about that. It's about allocating more threads to a thread pool. I'm addressing the pointlessness of using PID controllers for allocating new threads.

So your point is mistaken and redundant to mine.
> A few years back there was this issue of MacOS apps launching with a delay because the OS was checking with Appe if you are allowed to use the app. IIRC, this was just a bug

Convinced this is why Spotlight is so janky on iOS lately and you’ll be just staring at a blank list while searching for a local app.
It is literally the first result in google.

The wallet addresses are linked on this page:

https://academy.binance.com/en/glossary/secure-asset-fund-fo...
My one hope in all this is that some tech workers who drank a lot of corporate kool-aid over the years, i.e. the “we’re a family” managerial nonsense, will finally see the reality of the industry we work in and the real aim of quarterly capitalism which is profit and growth at all costs every single quarter. Your well being, since you likely attach it to work, is not part of that formula. You are expendable and will be sacrificed on the altar of profit at a moments notice.
I don’t understand the alienness can you elaborate. Maybe I’m alien.
Analyzing Interactions in a Slack Communication Network
The lesson here is that often these "serious" programs are still entertainment and are not rigorous and you should always retain some skepticism and not believe what they say verbatim. This includes things like Myth Busters and so on. I'm not saying they are lying on purpose, but they have schedules and expectations to fulfill, so they may stray from time to time.
You make it sound like it's a maths problem, and that we have to abuse humans or nature but must chose at least one

All I'm saying is if you stop eating cheap sea food we won't have to send underpaid humans to risk their lives to catch them. Put you money where your mouth is
His ideology and distrust is propagated down the managerial ranks. It's an entire culture built on distrust and exploitation.
I mean, the site is named "Computers are Bad," which fits.
I'm not a dev but still highly technical, and devs turning their noses up at "CRUD stuff" always makes me laugh. It reminds me of the musicians I know who won't play in certain styles because it's not "meaningful" or "true to their artistic vision". Bud I was at your last gig, you don't sound that great even when you're playing "meaningful" music.

Similarly, most of the devs I've worked with that are obsessed with "exciting" work still turn out pretty questionable stuff, and their careers would probably be better served if the built out a "simple" CRUD app, took it really seriously, and then examined the effects of their design on other teams.
Hey, I don't think any real decision theorists would take something like this seriously. And if any would, then let's change the definition of a real decision theorist to exclude them.
If people are getting things done, but these things don't matter -- that's the fault of leadership. Leadership should have clear goals/OKRs/outcomes that they've agreed to. These people should be getting these things done. If they do these things and they don't matter -- it's likely not their fault.

And this applies doubly so for a junior product manager. I was not long ago VP of Engineering and if my team built stuff, using best practices and on time, but what we built didn't matter -- I couldn't blame them. It's my fault. It's my job to make sure what we build matters.

But if I can give a set of OKRs and you can drive to make those happen -- those people are gold. Now you can argue with me that the OKRs were bad. That's fine. Fire me. But the person that delivered it -- those people are worth their weight...
In my opinion these AI committees would make sense with true AI being developed. We're not there yet, LLMs being advanced nlp and probabilistic discussion simulation.

With LLMs ethics are not much different than what you follow with regular computing - don't still people's data, don't give the people's data you stole anyway to other people, don't let the people you gave that stolen data do evil shit with it, apologize for the shit that people did with that stolen data you sold them and don't change anything.

ps: I'm a layman in llm so my opinion counts for shit
Bearing in mind that I don't spend 6 hours a day on lesswrong (or even per month, not even if I include podcasts tangentially inspired by it), and I hadn't even heard of SBF until his crypto-thingie did what I expect every crypto-thingie to do, that caricature you're painting is going to be one of those ones that need a lot of labels on everything.