skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was there reg­u­la­tory fail­ure? Per­haps. SVB was reg­u­lated like a bank but looked more like a money-mar­ket fund. Then there’s this: In its proxy state­ment, SVB notes that be­sides 91% of their board be­ing in­de­pen­dent and 45% women, they also have “1 Black,” “1 LGBTQ+” and “2 Vet­er­ans.” I’m not say­ing 12 white men would have avoided this mess, but the com­pany may have been dis­tracted by di­ver­sity de­mands.
Thanks! I asked a question and now see you had already answered it.

For those who are curious why these frameworks are great:

I'm an experienced full stack developer, and I can write React apps in my sleep and I've used a bunch of different state management frameworks including redux/mobx/etc, but my current startup is a back-end API as a service company and I simply don't have the time to hand-code front-ends with whatever flavor of the month developments in the JS front-end ecosystem.

Frankly, I'm sick and tired of the entire front-end ecosystem. It changes too fast for very little gain. So so so so many new tools that empower you but then come with baggage. I don't want to deal with it for some internal apps or basic things like allowing my customers to check their usage balances.... this looks promising!
Didn't Binance have their UK operations curtailed some time ago? https://www.fca.org.uk/news/news-stories/consumer-warning-bi...

> Binance Markets Limited is not permitted to undertake any regulated activity in the UK.

Year: 2021
If you do use CloudEvents, where you you put your custom metadata fields? Do you put them as top level fields, as alllowercase or do you nest them under the "data" field?
give man a Nobel
everything here is true but the “gimmicky” bit. The controller is the most exciting thing to happen to games (outside of the actual games) since the Wii
SVB is the first social media bank run in history; will change industry forever
I also learned some practical things:

Don't plant things too close to each other or to fences. It's amazing how they spread out and obscure views / block paths.

When you put a pile of something somewhere, temporarily, make sure it's not a problem if it is actually there for the next five years.
Not a real crisis.
Recovery on Apple Silicon Macs has changed, again
They'll just start getting progressively more passive aggressive. "Per my last e-mail"
+1, there are some quite juvenile sentiments about employment evident in this thread. If a company wants someone to stay they'll try very hard to make that happen. Not every employee is treated equally.
Daskqueue: Dask-based distributed task queue
They aren't really in the same market though - so it's comparing apples and oranges.

I get comparing Meta against Google, but why would we compare Meta against Apple? They are fundamentally different businesses.
I started working on a distributed task queue library a few months back. The library is available as a python package to install a start using : daskqueue - pypi package

For all its greatness, Dask implements a central scheduler (basically a simple tornado event loop) involved in every decision, which can sometimes create a central bottleneck. This is a pretty serious limitation when trying to use Dask in high-throughput situations.

Daskqueue is a small python library built on top of Dask and Dask Distributed that implements a very lightweight Distributed Task Queue. Daskqueue also implements persistent queues for holding tasks on disk and surviving Dask cluster restart.

I also wrote an article about implementation details: https://medium.com/@aminedirhoussi1/daskqueue-dask-based-dis...
The developed world is really doing its bit here. We have stopped breeding humans at a sustainable rate and are looking at falling populations in the near future as the boomers age-out
Just go with AWS or Azure. Google Clown Platform is okay until you need to have any form of support.

I'm like you, bootstrapper. Went with GCP for 4 yrs until they shutdown my production servers last fri.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35133917
I a lot of ways this feels to me like Zuckerberg taking back the company after the Sheryl Sandberg years. There is no adult supervision any more and Mark is now unrestrained in living out his geek ideology that says engineering led companies are better and layers of middle management are fundamentally wasted. I have some sympathy for this viewpoint but I think it is all too easy to under estimate how special the whole culture of an organisation needs to be to actually make fully engineering led leadership work. I am not sure you can impose it from top down. But it will be very interesting to see how he goes at it.
Show HN: Build ChatGPT-like chatbots trained on your Notion Pages
The question needs to be asked - is Google done competing?
> This allows doctors to be fully focused on their consultation

Here's the thing: rigorous medical documentation is not a burden on the practitioner, but rather an integral part of treating someone. You need detailed historical data to diagnose some tricky conditions and treat them correctly.

What's the tool doing to prevent a practitioner from simply blindly copy-pasting the output without verifying it?

> and saves them a lot time.

Which means more billable. Have you considered charging per medical act performed?
Well, that google post probably was written with the help of AI and itself looks like it could benefit from keypoints extraction service, it's full of corporate mumbojumbo with occasional "Select developers can access", "stay tuned for our waitlist soon", "to testers in the coming weeks.", "more to come in the weeks and months ahead."
In general, very low energy and conservative compared to bold MS moves
I followed the news at the time, did you? Swaths of people who voted for Prop 22 were interviewed after it passed, and asked whether 1) they understood what was in the bill and 2) if they appreciate the changes that took place once it was in effect. The responses generally ranged from "I thought my job was going to get easier" to "I can no longer afford to feed my family".
Which job board are you using? How are recruiters contacting you? What is the salary range offer?
It looks like these AI features are going to add some padding to our messages, and the other end needs AI to undo it in order to save their sanity.

Just look at the "I'm on it" example from their announcement video and what nonsense their AI makes out of it: https://youtu.be/6DaJVZBXETE?t=31
Nope, but something better, e.g. Leptos for Rust which enables you to write Rust code and RsX (JsX equivalent) that runs on the server until all WASM is loaded to run it in the browser
Last time I went to the doctor, he charged me $300 to google symptoms on a computer. Now you're saying I get to pay $300 for him to ask ChatGPT? No thanks. We all know that is where this is going - doctor decision support system, i.e. the AI has access to information locked behind expensive journals that the patient does not.
it sounds like you're removing a checklist from doctors.
Original release PS3s in North America and Japan had both the PS2 CPU and GPU on the board for full backwards compatibility. Later models and the European release units lacked the GPU and so that was emulated in software which caused a few issues. So it was a partial software emulator. Sony later removed the PS2 CPU from later PS3 Phat models and onwards.

Later they released PS2 classics on PSN that use full software emulation. A lot of PS2 games don't seem to work well with that emulator from what we know from jailbroken PS3s. Games also needed specific tweaks to the emulator to work. Perhaps they could have done what Microsoft did with 360 and had but maybe they felt like that was too clunky?
From TFA:

"The bank’s digital-asset clients represented more than a fifth of its deposit base, and Signature’s executives said in December it would work to shrink that without leaving the space entirely. Earlier this month, the company reported it had pushed out $1.5 billion in funds from crypto platforms in the year’s first two months, while taking in $682 million in regular deposits. By then it was touting all the ways it wasn’t handling crypto in a presentation.
Looks great! I have something very similar:

https://github.com/Niek/chatgpt-web
There’s a cultural overlap between the American south and at least Bangladesh (and I assume some parts of India) that I appreciate. Small talk, face saving, indirect communication, social roles, expectations about timeliness, meals, hospitality, that I appreciate. (I grew up listening to country music because I guess that’s the closest thing on American radio to the village music my dad likes.)
also, kids in school or have a girlfriend/boyfriend that you may want to marry.
you really don't want to rush a marriage just because your visa is about to expire.
Have you actually tried to use these AI art tools? They are amazing but they rarely give you what you're looking for unless it's something obvious, like "A painting of statue of liberty in van gough style", even then it's not that great a of the time, extremely impressive, but these systems can't read your mind. Yes they seem to come close but the best results seem to be when you "create" with them, or else you just have to accept what's generated. Which is quite different to actually designing something.

It's an insanely crazy thing to watch the MJ Discord though, woah. However "draw a cartoon in the style of Ghibli" kind of get's boring and it's not original. It meses stuff up too, subtle enough to not be easy notice, but you do notice it eventuall.

You also realize many of these these model have a style of their own you have to work with, or work around to produce something new.

It's almost as if nothing is free?
> and will likely only cause your A players (who are probably still very much in demand) to look elsewhere

I really don't believe that it's a given that Meta still needs them: the entire org was designed for "innovation", and that has certainly been the right call back in the day. E.g. back when they were still on the edge between buying and competing with whatsapp and instagramm on the product level.

But Meta products have been beyond "salvation by innovation" for almost a decade now, what they need to maximize shareholder value is the cheapest setup to keep value extraction up and running for as long as the brands still do their thing. The innovation game is over for them, because the same brand effect that saves the platforms from dying immediately also taints anything Meta buys or starts. Even if Meta had a "Toktik" that had feature equivalency with Tiktok without even a microsecond latency, it would still be stillborn because people just don't want yet another Meta product in their lives (even to the point where they'd rather have a CCP product in their lives, brand awareness isn't exactly a field where logic applies).

These days Meta is in the position comparable to that of a single-field oil extraction company that has no hope for getting claims on any other fields and that has its existing field already fully prospected and tapped. That field is far from empty yet, but they only need people to keep the pumps running, no prospectors, no drillers, no acquisition strategists. Those Meta employees that have been traditionally considered "A players" they wouldn't want to lose and that might actually have been paid absurd sums only to keep them from innovating for the competition are all in the "prospectors, drillers, strategists" group and those have exactly zero value for the janitorial task of keeping the pumps running (edit: more likely negative value, not zero).

(I know, this almost sounds as if I was saying that Musk's Twitter strategy of burning down the house and then trying to macguyver something useful from the rubble was smart, I'm a bit surprised myself. I guess I do think that the aggressive downsizing would have been the rational thing for Twitter to do, but certainly not as a "step 2" after "step 1: throw 44 billion at previous owners". In hindsight, waiting for 44 billion to show up has certainly been much better for previous Twitter owners than doing the downsizing themselves)
How many people out there randomly zoom with their former coworkers that they never met in real life, after leaving their job?

Your 20s are a critical time for your career to make connections and friendships - in person. You need to be around people, making friends over beers and community lunches, and learning social skills in a professional environment.

Are we that spoiled that the excuse is "I don't like public transportation"?

Do companies take a productivity hit when people are in the office? Probably. And many openly acknowledge that, but asking people to come to the office two times a week is not some sort of wage slavery.
just to register that I didn't know about scrcpy or gnirehtet, have no obvious need of either, but they are impressively neat!
There is a specific california law which pierces the corporate veil specifically for unpaid wages.

https://hunterpylelaw.com/2021/02/alter-ego-piercing-the-cor...
Meta owns Instagram and WA both of which have terrific and growing user base. How well are they able to monetise is a different question though.
Are we supposed to believe anything that a FBI agent says?
>Poor performance? Meta is doing great and just had one year of not insane growth.

Public sentiment is terrible and if that's a reliable leading indicator, the company will be in trouble if it doesnt continually diversify into products that distance themselves from the core brand.
Me too!

Rural and temperate? Great. Rural and cold? Not great.

I have a heat pump that's rated to -30C. The energy benefits fall off a cliff when it gets cold.

Can use as primary in the summer and parts of the shoulder seasons. Useless in the winter from a cost perspective.

I think the direction of the industry is great. Needs some R&D cycles to become a primary for all.
This is a strawman argument that falls apart when you start looking at it even a little bit closer.

If MS doesn't buy Activision, that continue can move along perfectly fine and be an extremely profitable company serving two platforms. They have always done this and one could say they produce a "commodity" game. MS is trying to monopolize it and Sony doesn't trust MS that they will continue to keep it a "commodity" product. They could technically honor any commitment by creating a bad "lite" game and have a really good full game only on Xbox for example.

Sony pretty much developed their own IP to make it part of the PS package. They needed more reason for people to buy so they invested heavily and took risks making exclusive games. Some of them panned out and some didn't, but the ones that did help sell the PS. Why should they sell that to XBox? It's considered a feature of the PS.

It's like saying since Tesla didn't sell their battery to other EV manufacturers (making it exclusive to Tesla), Toyota should be allowed to buy the largest drivetrain manufacturer in the world because they started this whole exclusive shitshow.
To run space programs they'll need money. Even with resources they have running both war and space programs will lead to catastrophic consequences. But I suspect that's exactly the way they'll choose.
Both lost significant deposits from crypto blow-ups, reducing their liquidity and tanking their stock prices [1]. That left them uniquely vulnerable to both perceptions [2] and rates (as they sold the short-dated, liquid, low-duration assets first to plug the crypto hole).

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-03-09/silver...

[2] https://www.barrons.com/articles/crypto-silvergate-signature...
Will you sign a BAA for HIPAA covered entities?
My experiments with doing things daily
Yeah, that's exactly how we called it in the USSR. Employer pretends they are paying, employees pretend they are working. How it's ended is well known.
Prompting an AI for 5 seconds to write a bunch of paragraphs that your human counterpart has to then read and think through is incredibly disrespectful of their time.

AI assistants that summarize and enrich information for you, fine. That actually saves time. But this feeding of generative output to humans is way off the mark. It feels like the product people are not sitting down to think what they're doing and just riding the GPT hype wave.
The irony is that FB would probably be doing pretty well if not for spending $10B per year on the Metaverse.
Side-note: your email field to sign up for your newsletter is very wonky with both Safari and Firefox (at least for me). It only lets me type one letter at a time, for some reason.
Presumably any other search engine will be just as badly hit as Google is, so this won't make people move away.
Jobs will be replaced, some will be created, many jobs will change and some will be augmented.
If the screen was broken how did you manage to enable debugging and perform authorization?
The interesting bit that I got is that he made a speech implying that he had weapons of mass destruction because he wanted to scare off Iran. He actually did not have anything left because of the sanctions, but he did not want to appear weak and deal with an iranian invasion. That speech seemed to have affected the US’s decision to invade.
Rad hardened chips use really large node sizes
It still blows my mind how many engineers are at Meta. What are they all doing? Seems pretty comfortable to say that they could lay off thousands more and probably notice no difference in the user experience or revenue of their products.
Surprisingly the WSJ felt it was fine to publish this opinion piece
Depends on the location. I'm an Engineering Manager at $FAANG (MANGA?) and I moved into management after senior engineering roles. At the same time, I'm still programming a lot in my "free time". Your experience doesn't apply everywhere.

As for motivation (I know no one asked): I genuinely enjoy the human aspect of the job and thinking further out into the future with product and engineering leaders. Plus I learned that I really enjoy programming when it's a hobby without the corporate overhead, and that it's less fun (to me) in a company.

Not to discredit your experience - but it's not a universal truth.
Angular Repository and File Structure
Can cryptocurrency just hurry up and die off already?

I can’t think of any technological development that has been more of a net negative for society than cryptocurrency.
Boomers were responsible for the late 90s VR hype train.

This latest round is a re-run.

VR was talked up like crazy then and fizzled.

Zuckerberg is old enough to have been an impressionable kid when that was going on. I remember being very excited about it all.
The US Army is a group of people, too.
I mean instagram and whatsapp are wildly popular
You can ask it how long it has.
No, they're withdrawing it, in 9 weeks from now.
While its about a month out of date... and it has a a NYC focus (but can be changed to show any locale)

NYT - You Call That Snow?! See How This Winter Stacks Up. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/26/upshot/city-s...
> Yes, but for what price?

How can you be this short sighted. How is a dead world in exchange for a few decades of obscene comfort worth while in the slightest?

How can someone honestly say "what about the economy!" when we will be seeing droughts, storms, heatwaves, etc that will cripple said precious economy while sending the quality of life down the gutter?

Was all the plastic treats worth it? Were the wars waged all over the world worth it for the "economy"? Sure you got to structure your entire society around little moving couches and lived in absolute comfort while the lowest were ground down by your little economy.

We have optimized out all that makes us Human for the sake of this god damn ponzie scheme. We outsource child care to afford dignity, outsource art to computers so we can sell trinkets for our bosses more efficiently. We built walled gardens on every block, destroying any kind of commons for shared experience so that each and every person has to buy into silly little monetization devices to even get to know others in their community.

Absolutely inhuman.
Kazakhstan has been steadily moving into China’s political orbit where it will be safe from any Russian retaliation.
Another way to put it is : current crop "AI companies" don't really have a moat. Transformers have existed for many years, and a bit of RL on top of it is not enough to get ahead. It's all about who has the most money to spend training larger and larger, but what happens when they all run out of money for that? LLMs will become cheaper than web hosting
Attention just in itself has zero value. If companies are paying Facebook to advertise there, that is where the value is. Personally I think social media advertising is a pure scam industry, but so many small companies want to play that casino, and Facebook makes that easy for them.
I think mostly we are actually on the same page. One thing I would add in is that starting the whole web analytics endeavour from scratch needs a lot of work, testing and iterations. I am actually thinking that it would make sense for counter.dev to offer an API so that you can use that as a backend middleware or in some other way.

> One of the above suits me as a user; [...]

That might be true. But as roughly said let's say that for over 99% of people, just reading the term "tracking script" already switches off their brain. If you start with "code base specific middleware addition" or "deploy your own tracking http proxy" or something like this you only have knowledgeable techies which well, to be fair could be fair to a more specialised product.

> [...] the other as an entrepreneur.

With hat thinking for me it wouldn't make much sense to offer and maintain the service for basically free since some years already. At least I can cover the hosting costs. So yes, but also a little bit no :-)
not reading yuds unless it takes the form of of harry potter fanfic
Ironically, this sounded like an answer from chat gpt.

But more to the point, a fully self hosted solution (llama), even running on a cellphone, is entirely believable. Look at some of the recent developments with llama.cpp and Stanford over the last week.
It’s almost as if that was already said if you had kept reading past the first sentence.

> I think a lot of people working there just made the calculated decision that Meta being at the very high end of the compensation scale made it worth it.

Is this our level of laziness now? To read the first sentence and base our snarky replies entirely off it, ignoring the fact that it’s a rhetorical question that was answered immediately after?