skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which people?

The people with opportunity capital that are now frequently denied the ability to rationally utilize their capital to acquire discounted assets from other irresponsible actors? Those responsible actors with capital - biding their time forever - are being routinely punished in this corrupted system of constant government intervention and bailouts.

Bankrupt GM would not have vanished, its pieces would have been acquired at a steep discount. Pandemic mega airlines would not have all vanished without government bailouts, some of them would have been acquired for cheap (and essentially all of their assets would have been acquired one way or another).

Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway for example, is typically extraordinarily responsible with its capital and most often maintains enormous reserves, ready to strike when the opportunity presents. The post great recession era has been a nightmare for him in terms of deploying capital, because the Fed was performing a decade plus long handout program to investors, making their assets artificially more expensive to fake prosperity. Buffett, one of the ultimate capital actors, is very heavily handicapped in these scenarios, insofar as he's unwilling to act as recklessly as the rampant speculators that commonly blanket Fed bubble markets (whether housing bubbles, dotcom bubble, or the couple of more recent bubbles such as in crypto).

So no, not all with capital are served by this environment of Fed & US Government fraud. Many would do far better without it, picking up cheap assets for pennies on the dollar when other irresponsible parties take insane risks and implode.
> Haynes manuals were fantastic! Are they still popular today?

Yes, they are still popular in the hobbyist community for many cars made before a certain date. The manuals are highly accessible in the US because the public library system generally hosts the digital copies, so if you have a library card in most states, you can access the manuals online. Help support your public library!
"First, we collected an initial sample of human data (Acquire) and used it to train ‘virtual human players’ which were recurrent neural networks that learned to imitate human behaviour during the game and voted according to the same principles as human players"

The entire test was virtual including the "human-centred" component. They also mention it may have the same limitations as any democratic system in the real world of tyranny of the majority.

Bias and alignment related to AI will likely be limited to the same methods we have always had for society. It will potentially only be more effective at enforcing a particular type of existing flawed system - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-the-bias-paradox
We've effectively had 100% deposit insurance at the "too big to fail" banks since 2008 and the lending restrictions you are predicting have not happened.

The fundamental problem is that we had effective 100% insurance at the "too big to fail" banks but not at the others. People just didn't think about that until quite recently, and when they figured it out, they panicked and were going to move all their money into the too big to fail banks unless the government stepped in.
not all of these are considered active, some may have gone gray in presence, but still exist in some form.
In the 80's in Arlington Heights the pizza of choice was either Dondi's or Wayne's. Sadly, Dondi's changed ownership about 15 years ago and went seriously downhill. They finally went out of business last year. I have heard that Wayne's is still in business and is still great.
Tangential, but if OP is the owner of the site, could you talk a little bit about your book writing process?

- How you write

- How you render the PDF

- How you develop your plans

That kind of thing. I find it super interesting to self-publish software books and I've been slowly writing one for about a year now. Really curious about this stuff in general and it looks like you've got a solid process down.
Nice find. You may be correct that it wasn't intentional due to the lack of documentation around the change, but I do note they updated tests for the refactored function [1], and the tests clearly show different behaviour from the original implementation [2].

I'm surprised this wasn't picked up during code review. Also surprised no unit tests for the original implementation, just the new one - if you're going to refactor something, add tests for the original implementation if there aren't any already.

[1] https://cs.android.com/android/_/android/platform/frameworks...

[2] https://cs.android.com/android/_/android/platform/frameworks...
this is clearly untrue. it’s an input, a black box, then an output. openai have 100% control over the output. they may not be able to directly control what comes out of the black box, but a) they can tune the model, and they undoubtedly will, and b) they can control what comes after the black box. they can—for example—simply block urls
You are slightly misinformed, if I may point that out.

They moves to eastern europe whatever they could. This started over 20 years ago.
>Since arriving in Lisbon, he joined a father’s group called Expat Dudes and Dads, and his son is learning Portuguese in preschool. “Lisbon means safe harbor,” he said. “My family needed safe harbor and we found it here.”

This is a very poorly thought-out statement. There's no reason why an upper middle-class family shouldn't be able to move to Europe, but claiming to need a "safe harbor" is a bit of a stretch.
Except if you see "the problem" as ingrate agitators, it very much is "solving problems". I'm not making a moral argument for political violence. But we live in an era with a peculiar recent history and we tell ourselves a progressive story of hope, triumph of justice, rule of law and non-violence based on that recent history. But if we look more broadly at history, we see powers which endure a long time on oppression and occasional mild reform or compromise. It tells a different story which I think we should be congizant of and which should make us guard more jealously democracy and less certain of its security in moral rightnes.

People can take power and dominate you, your family and everyone you know. And the "moral arch of history" will fuck itself off for 1000 years with only a sting of martyrs to its credit.
Ok, but it has all this information already. So why is this surprising.

A real test of it's abilities would be synthesizing a NEW type of nuclear reactor.
Oh very cool - thanks for filling me in!
How do I quickly see how good a VC firm is?
Without having to do the diligence myself, of looking at the portfolio, fund sizes, returns, etc. on Crunchbase/Pitchbook.

Looking for VC firms that hire interns/analysts, specfically.

Is there any website that "ranks" how good a VC firm is? Obviously, you can't necessarily put them all in a linear ranking. But you can, for example, have rough tiers like SWE: T1 (FAANG), T2 (Uber, Microsoft, Spotify), T3 (Twitter, LinkedIn, Snap).
Compile-time strings, I think so? In that all identical strings simply point to the same data. Otherwise no.
Sort of amazing that someone could write an article referencing bank panics, the Great Depression, and the role the Federal Reserve without even mentioning what constraints that the pre 1999-Glass-Steagall would have placed on a bank like SVB.

Would those in the know classify SVB as primarily a commercial bank, handling the deposits primarily of businesses (they don't seem to have been in the car-loan and home-loan sector, but I have no idea), and loaning to other businesses, or as an investment bank, with a large portfolio of stocks and bonds? Did SVB have a trading division like Goldman or JPMorgan does, i.e. SVB Capital? What's the SVB Group structure all about?

Glass-Steagall seems to be getting a lot of attention as a possible contributing factor in this story in other venues:

https://www.newsweek.com/bring-back-glass-steagall-opinion-1...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/15/opinion/silicon-valley-ba...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/yellen-glass-steagall_n_64136...
> A better argument for advanced math: it's not always clear in advance what math will be useful. A popular example is Riemannian geometry, which had no clear real-world value when developed, but ended up being used for General Relativity a few decades later.

This is the classical argument, but I don't think it is plausible. It seems even less likely that, say, transfinite set theory will ever become remotely useful than string theory ever becoming useful.

The argument "it might be useful in the future" can justify research in any theory whatsoever, no matter how esoteric. It's like defending an outlandish conspiracy theory by pointing out that it is possible that it is true. That's technicality correct, but what matters here is the probability that it is true, which might well be close to zero. Similarly, while we can't rule out that transfinite set theory might have a useful application someday, this probability is so small as to not being worth discussing.

I think people should admit that they are interested in theoretical math (as opposed to applied math) for its own sake, like people who are interested in cosmology or string theory or theoretical philosophy or whatnot. Pointing to the technical possibility of future usefulness seems to be a dishonest fig leaf.
Id be surprised if 5% of college students "grow their souls" weirdly clueless thing to write. Not hard to find out that most people get business, psych and econ degrees. And even english or history majors half ass it just to get through.
I submitted a paper to eLife a month before they announced the change. (It was published last month.) I'm worried that 5 years from now, hiring committees will think of eLife as "not a real journal".
Some insurance companies have plans where you plug a module info your OBD2 port and get discounts for “safe driving”
I guess, voice is not your password
> without extracting into a procedure

That's a one second problem; just give back the value via VAR parameter; the design decision is well justified in the referenced article.

> do everything you can do with Java expressions

"exceptions", not "expressions"; what do you think one cannot do with the Oberon approach?

> you need to have an external variable that gets populated

That's the Pascal philosophy; even an index variable of a FOR loop has to be declared up front in the declaration section; either you like it or not; personally I prefer the in-place declaration approach, but the language would become much more complex and it doesn't make sense to just rebuild C++ or Java.
well we made university free in New Mexico, and it's free or cheap in a lot of other places.
There are some industries where suits are still regularly worn, though even in these fields (law, banking) it is less common than before. In Silicon Valley, lawyers only wear suits when going to court or to depositions.
Can you offer some specific examples? And what company size?

Currently using gusto but curious.
Improv brought me joy. There isn’t anything like it.
There are multiple paths and different designations you need to earn to work them. The more letters you can get after your name, the better. So you don't need a degree, but there is a moat to cross.

Agencies: oops, all sales!

Claims Adjustment: small claims to bigger claims. These are usually independent outfits that service many carriers for their geographic area. In some jurisdictions you can get hired with no experience but you will earn more if you have any kind of background in accounting or appraisal.

Quote & Bind | CSR >> assistant underwriter >> underwriter >> sr. underwriter. These are your big corpo jobs at an operations center.
Single digits what? What are you measuring here? Files, lines, KLOCs?
Exactly, I booked somewhere for a concert in November for April.

The place recently cancelled, looks like they sold the place and it was on the market and they were simply using it as an Airbnb in the meantime, now everywhere is booked or way more expensive.

Booked another AirBnb but it seems a little sketchy, so having to find a hotel to book as a back up and wait for more reviews and cancel whatever one is not the best option at the time.

The problem is you can trust a hotel, you can't trust an airbnb, although they are much nicer.
Not sure why this article is flagged. It's legitimate and accurate in my opinion. He's not saying it's bad to democratize music, he's saying that nobody has the money or the inclination anymore to DEVELOP new artists. As a result, we don't have a good soundtrack for our lives anymore. There's presently just very little comparable to past decades in terms of artistry or performance. There are quite a lot of current artists that would benefit from better management, better oversight, and honest feedback.
Put another way, the songs that get popular will always be the most accessible of the set of songs created in a particular year, but the sheer amount of quality songs we have to choose from is 5% of what it was in 1974, 1984, or 1994. That's not a subjective boomer or xer opinion that's simply an objective fact. And the reason for that is the lack of curation and oversight that the labels, love them or hate them, used to do.
Ever listen to the first album of a now-famous artist? It was often only so-so. Very rarely did an debut album come out well. Most of the time it took 2-3 albums and many years of performing before an artist really found their sound. There are 100s of examples. Yes, occasionally there's going to be a Boston record, or a Billie Eilish, or Appetite for Destruction, or Pearl Jam's Ten, but it's actually quite rare and when you read into it you find out that those artists were often working musicians for many years first and the band was manufactured by the studio to ensure complete success.
GPT4 is impressive but all this is hype. It recreated it because some one else created it previously. Its not like it created a new game from scratch !
When this happens to a bank, the FDIC should step in, make the bank liquid again (perhaps by trading the bonds and other investment products for cash), evenly pay out every customer with whatever there is, pay up to $250,000 per customer for the shortfall, if there is any. If there was no shortfall, pay out to investors/debtors. Then shut the bank down.

I think a lot of people perceive the bank as having zero assets and the FDIC is covering 100% of the deposits. Some $200B or whatnot. But most of what people deposited didn’t just vanish.
Brave has vertical tabs built in too, though they're behind a flag. But similar implementation as Edge and they work well.
Why weren't the likes of JP Morgan competing with SVB for this business?

And notice that in 2018 SVB was explicitly relieved of the increased regulation accompanying the "systematically important" label.
A React component is supposed to be a pure function, a mapping from props+context as input into an output which is a React element plus sideeffects (which when executed by the React library will often change the context). State lives in the context.

To illustrate statefulness: If you drop a flummy ball on the floor, it will bounce back and doesn't change. If you drop an egg, it will change and you can't drop it easily again. The ball is stateless, the egg is stateful.
Let the Fed itself offer protected savings accounts to the public?
2008 is an interesting data point to include in there because wasn’t it government intervention that was forcing banks to take on riskier loans in the first place?

The rest are solid data points at a glance though.
TikTok is adding a third feed just for science and math videos
Yes but also many hostels are rank. The last one I booked into in South America I just had to assume the bedding had been changed. And it was a good job I was waking up early because the piece of paper for a curtain was about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
>The only thing keeping everything together is folks not panicking.

That applies to a great many things in modern society.
This could give you some clues: http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html#:~:text=How%20import... (see part II)
Hyper inflation would be a catastrophic risk to the entire economy. If it happened in the US, it would be a catastrophic risk to the world economy.

Insofar as everyone should be worried, startups should be worried. However, the only way to manage that risk would be to focus on markets that would be insolated from such a risk. That would be economies like Russia, Iran, North Korea, etc... many of which US startups can't operate in anyway.

One should be aware, but there isn't much you can do against hyperinflation in the US and the world.
They serve as a decent socioeconomic filter since many sports require the parents of the player to be of at least certain economic means.
RDS traffic that is handled differently than generic customer connections

Is this documented anywhere? I would assume it's handled the same.
Re nfts, I'm kinda not clear on the question, I think because we don't have a clear societal statement of what an nft is or is trying to accomplish. Literally what an nft is an entry containing with a url on a Blockchain with certain properties around non fungability. Saving that has almost no issue because distributing the bits in a blockchain is one of its fundamental purposes. Now saving the file referenced by the nft starts to become more interesting. My interpretation is that we should respect do whatever the rights holder wishes. If they want to allow saving, great, if not, then don't save. The problem seems to be the rights assignment of nfts aren't really communicated or standardized afaik. Some feel like the nft should represent the ownership rights of the work, some feel like they should represent the ownership rights of an instance which may or may not transfer the rights of the original owner. Some feel it should have nothing to do with rights transfer and instead just be it's own thing. Any of these stances (or others) are fine with me, and if any disallowed saving that seems totally fine. It would be nice if whatever scheme/contract was either standardized or easily identified for each work/nft. Images on the internet already have this problem and systems like creative commons attempt to help, something like nft-commons could really help make clear what rights are implied by the nft and thus which images referenced by nfts could be saved.

So re ipaddresses what characteristic differentiates the from property? For them to be useful it would seem they must have pretty much all the same characteristics.

I agree there could be a world where people could torrent whatever w/o repercussion, in the same way there could be a world where we didn't have to wear pants. It's not where we are, but we can imagine and reason about it.

But even in such a world, should a singer not be allowed to make a contract where they sing but won't be recorded, or a contract where they are recorded only if the folks follow copyright law? Effectively isn't this what many trade agreements are, one country will give another favorable trade conditions X in exchange for Y which includes 'your population can't torrent'. The country voluntarily does so because X is worth it. In fact elsewhere in this thread someone said exactly this happened in their country. Should this contract not be allowed, why not?

So I feel like even if you started in a world that allowed torrenting, if you allowed contract law, you would inevitably evolve to a world that disallowed torrenting, because that's a contract some people would want.
I believe that. Others may have had a different experience to mine. I was always searching for a class that would give me the “real” Linux experience but nothing really exists like that, I think you just have to live with the tools for a bit.
> a lot of maintainers bulk close hundered of issues as "nofix", "no activity after 3 months", and so on

God, I hate this. Every time I have an issue with something, look it up on the issue tracker and find the exact issue I'm having autoclosed as "stale" by a fucking bot because the author didn't reply "this is still an issue" once every 24 hours, it instantly makes my blood boil and I avoid using the software in question as much as possible in the future. Nothing screams "I care more about github numbers than my users or the quality of my software" more than this.
One bite everybody knows the rules
Most of the folks laid off aren't on any sort of maternity leave. Of the tiny fraction on maternity leave few logically will have just gone on leave the day they get laid of. Statistically if you pick a random time in a 24 week period the average remaining duration is 12 weeks. Its also meaningless to add the severance that google already agreed to pay and maternity together to decide if the total is reasonable, even more so when you are picking the edge case on an edge case of a long term worker laid off right after going on leave. It's not even clear more than one person in the whole cadre actually meets those criteria.

We are talking about presumably a fraction of 1% of laid off workers receiving an average of 12 additional weeks of pay which for google is a rounding error. Most wont be receiving this benefit and of those that will the majority will have closer to 30 than 60 weeks of pay total.
What’s wrong with inflation? We want to encourage growth & investment rather than hoarding of money, inflation is good because it punishes hoarders.

Recessions and bubbles occur more often in unregulated economies.
Given some of the ridiculous takes here if I were them I would also have waited four months for a resolution and not mentioned it unless it was an emergency.

And as someone who lives just downstream from this plant and would have been directly impacted from drinking the water: yes, I will continue to be trusting the Minnesota Department of Health over reactionary HN commentary.
I was sad to see the EFF jump off a cliff trying to keep the Register of Copyrights unaccountable to the public and I was sadder to see IA jump off a cliff with this boneheaded move.

Some actions are just catastrophically stupid, even when viewed from orbit.
And people today happily buy voice assistants themselves.
I’m switching my job next month. That means a lot of new acronyms to learn of software components, departments, and projects. Anki helps me learn them.
Magical Monetary Thinking at the Fed Killed SVB
Thanks. Something I've noticed is that cars much improve after about 30,000 miles (48280km). I guess things like the cylinders get lapped by the pistons.

I want to own a more environmentally friendly car. Right now I think I'm best served by keeping my existing Golf for as long as possible and just trying to keep the mileage down (I live in the country not a town/city).
dildog joined the same company I worked at for a short time and I met some of the cDc folks through that. It was a good continuation of my life education on “no matter how good you thought you were [with computers], someone is better.”
The Fed already announced their solution. They are making loans available to those banks based on the acquisition cost, not mark-to-market value, of those treasuries.
Show HN: Caption generator for your social media
I recently discovered several tools that allow users to generate captions based on their input descriptions. I have now built this app that streamlines the process even further :)

Try it out at https://image-to-caption.io/
That popularity beyond being removed of course, came after most of the people who didn't support him were dead
Functional Arrays in Elixir and Erlang
Insuring 100% balances is fine, it’s up to them to set premiums and banking policy directly.

I disagree. Why should everybody suffer higher fees, higher loan interest rates, and lower savings interest rates so that a small number of rich people can be stupid with where they put their money? If your business puts its money in the hands of reckless yahoos and can't pay its salaries it should have to get a loan to do so until it can get its deposits back from the failed bank.

Every time we remove a piece of accountability we inject permanent stupidity into the system.