skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thoughts on Brex vs. Mercury and SVB
Hello everyone. I would love to hear about your experience with Brex and/or Mercury when it comes to startup banking. From what I understand, Brex requires a minimum deposit of $50K and is currently focusing on venture-backed startups, whereas Mercury has no minimum deposit requirement and is happy to work with earlier stage tech startups. Finally, following the acquisition of SVB, are you as startup founders still banking with them? If so, has the acquisition changed anything from your point of view? Many thanks in advance.
Not really, no. Clinton pardoned a couple of friends, and Bush commuted (but didn't pardon) one of his. George HW Bush pardoned one of Reagan's cronies. As far as I'm aware, Obama isn't accused of pardoning any of his allies (or of them needing any).

Trump did this on a wholesale basis. Many of his close allies were convicted, and he pardoned them. Before him, Presidents interfered very rarely, and it was usually a major event when it did happen. In Trump's case, many were convicted of crimes relating to his getting elected -- not just corruption in office, but fundamentally upsetting the rules of democracy itself.

So while Presidents previously were not always angels, there wasn't an expectation that they'd use the pardon indiscriminately. It's a difference not just of number, but in approach, where the process itself comes into question.
$14M might as well be infinite for the vast majority of people.
It's strange that commenters here think a 30-year-old entrepreneur worth $500M wouldn't know that there have been SEC questions around crypto offerings being unregistered securities for years.

It's not some obscure detail, it's one of the key risks of being involved in a new crypto offering as an investor, and I think most people posting here have read years of HN discussions about the relevant SEC positions. Ultra high net worth individuals - especially ones that have launched multiple business lines - are fairly likely to have heard about it. At least enough to play word association and ask someone to look into it for them.
Try sprinkling the whole document with your counter-prompt in white size 0 font.
Lol, i guess we'll hear this allegation more often in the future.
I'm talking about 3 variables for the velocity and 1 variable for the pressure at every point in space(typically a cartesian grid in numerical fluid simulation) and every time step of the solution.
Agreed, I'm shocked he suggested interacting with Facebook at all. Their site uses proprietary JavaScript
John Denver WAS an experienced pilot. Experience can only go so far to make up for the unexpected.
The XML isn't upgraded and there are no tools or XSLT to do it. You end up hand-editing the ui files by hand. Not fun or productive.

There are good reasons why professional developers abandoned GTK+, and this is just one of them.
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Because the outcomes all seem to be the same.
In addition to this I always use the legacy icons, it's much more obvious what they mean. I find the symbolic ones impossible to use, and the modern color ones are only a slight improvement over that.
Happily, file sharing enthusiasts are a critical piece of media preservation.

Piracy is a violent crime, file sharing is not comparable to it in any way.
Haiti-to-Miami flights are getting cut back and may now cost more than $3k
Another factor is in the USA, at the undergraduate level, there is a strong incentive for "professors" (more assistant and adjunct than tenured) to grade in a manner which is totally rationalizable and consistent between students. Administrators call students "customers" who are buying a degree; if a student doesn't like their grade they will complain about it, and if the teacher hasn't explicitly formalized their grading process they will be in hot water. So for example asking different probing questions of different students might lead to accusations of arbitrary and capricious grading. It encourages checklist-style rubrics for grading. Obviously one could formalize a decision tree for more loosely structured oral exams but that's significant effort.
My impression is that Monster at least is less relevant than it was 15 years ago. It's not nothing, but it's not The Place anymore.

Indeed is I think a bit better, but it also can result in you getting spammed by people who have a technical job opening, and see that you can do something technical by your resume, and so send you openings to which you have absolutely no interest.
Of course, you are innocent. But the crowd, as a group, is guilty based on their actions.

That’s like saying “I’m not part of this lynch mob, I was just standing next to the tree protesting peacefully. Innocent until proven guilty.”

For me, if I’m protesting peacefully and 20% of the crowd starts smashing stuff or burning cars, I’m going to split and disavow them.

This isn’t your neighbor who lives next to you that you can’t do anything about.

In my city, a peaceful protest turned violent and started smashing stuff. I’m not sure how I avoid that if I was trying to peacefully protest.
You give Apple too much credit. The original Apple I and Apple II were a hacker's delight. They went public in 1980 and the Apple /// was a failure. Then came the closed architecture of the Macintosh. Ever since Apple has been known as the company least friendly to hackers.
Mad, China, and the Semiconductor Showdown (Part 2)
I recently analyzed some fascinating financing trends as the US and China took very different paths in advancing their AI ecosystems (Part 1 of my Substack post [here](https://eastwind.substack.com/p/mad-china-and-the-semiconduc...))

In Part 2 of my Substack mini-series, I highlight why access to semiconductors is crucial to maintaining the pace of innovation in AI, and why up until the past several years, access to leading-edge onshore fabrication capabilities has been less of a strategic focus.

I contend that geopolitical tensions in Asia and our reliance on the supply of AI accelerators manufactured in Taiwan creates a dangerous reflexive loop, and how that affects the ability for companies in the space (like OpenAI) to continually innovate. I also explore some interesting areas of opportunity that entrepreneurs may look to exploit.

Would love thoughts & comments!
The main geocities-alike web host I used around IIRC 1998-2001 is just gone, as far as I can tell. I think it was called spree.com. The spaces were intended to be used by some kind of sales affiliates, I think, but were de facto just little ad-free (unlike other hosts) web spaces with a decent amount of storage (a few MB, I think?). I wasn't the only one just using it as free web hosting.

I've tried a couple times, and can find no record of the service ever having existed, let alone any of the content that was on it (mine, or any other).
The airshow one looks very much like pilot error... not a great example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296Q

You have an experienced pilot who knew the plane and its safety systems disable alpha floor protection before completely botching the approach. He could have aborted and gone around to get set up properly. But he didn't.

Instead he dropped to 30 feet on idle engine thrust, in a high drag configuration, and didn't press the TOGA button until 4 seconds before the crash. That's not enough time for the engine to spool up from idle.

I don't support prosecuting pilots except in the most egregious cases and I think involuntary manslaughter was the right call here.

Edit: The pilot claimed to have done this maneuver 20 times prior to the crash.
It is not illegal to own and preserve media which is still under copyright. IP is not the problem, the problem is nobody cared until it was too late.
https://archive.ph/Kr45q
You messed up there, buddy. You should have charged for all the time you spent reading up on it, not just the day with the customer.
We need to federalize zoning just like Japan. You should be able to build anything permissible on your land - and if your neighbors aren't happy with that they should buy your land to stop it, or move. Exceptions to this policy should be meaningful enough that you need to get the federal government involved.
It is weird, particularly when the NTSB report lists the following factors before the pilot's errors:

Occurrence #1: LOSS OF ENGINE POWER(TOTAL) - NONMECHANICAL
Phase of Operation: CRUISE

Findings

1. (F) FUEL SYSTEM,SELECTOR/VALVE

2. (F) ACFT/EQUIP,INADEQUATE CONTROL LOCATION - OWNER/BUILDER

3. (F) FUEL SYSTEM,SELECTOR/VALVE - UNMARKED

4. (F) ENGINE INSTRUMENTS,FUEL QUANTITY GAGE - INADEQUATE

5. (F) ENGINE INSTRUMENTS,FUEL QUANTITY GAGE - UNMARKED

It then goes on to discuss the pilot's decisions that contributed to running out of fuel: failing to adequately plan and prepare for the flight, failing to refuel the aircraft, and setting the fuel selector incorrectly.

The next section discusses the actual loss of control, which is 100% on the pilot; he was too distracted trying to turn the glider he was actually flying back in to the motorized aircraft he wanted to be flying to fly it. That may sound harsh, but engine failure is a significant risk in single-engine aircraft, which pilots are generally expected to prepare for.
Well new JVM rules comes with new JVM. So something gotta give. Leaving Java be potentially unsafe just because few customer relied on it would be irresponsible behavior on JDK maintainers part.
Sounds like Big OSHA trying to keep enterprising hackers from giving themselves electrical super powers.
We are a special bunch, I’ll give you that.
When discussing the era of scientific racism, it's a mistake to assume that interest in science correlated with socially progressive beliefs, in the modern sense of progress.
Something from that era that was also published in the form of CD has been archived, fortunately.

http://cd.textfiles.com/directory.html
The Collective Action Problem. Locals have a concentrated interest in preventing development. The broader public's interest in there being housing outweighs that, but it's diffuse. You see the same thing play out over and over again in cities around the world: it's so much easier to organize opposition to housing than support that no housing gets built.
A big advantage with the "new bing" compared to ChatGPT is it'll tell you its sources and you can verify that A: they're trustworthy and that B: it hasn't just turned the source into total garbage. So I hope that direction is the future of this sort of stuff. Although a problem seems to be a lack of access to high quality paid sources.
For me it was Audacity.
Why does this take 10 minutes? I've used some other AI generators and they're fast (a few seconds), so 10 minutes seems absurd to me!

(I'll be back in 10 minutes to check the results though)
What a coincidence, I heard this word for the first time on the latest episode of Ted Lasso, which released yesterday.
Oral exams are very common in Italian universities (many courses have both a written and an oral exam!), I was surprised when I moved to Germany for my masters and met students from various countries who had never taken one!
You end up with people trying to optimize for their own personal well-being at a micro level leading to an untenable macro-level situation.
I was talking more about conventional war weapons. Because those are the weapons that humanity already used and uses to trash itself. So in my book those are the actual most dangerous weapons, not the nukes.
What do you plan to use instead of fossil fuels today?
It's not about "afford" (insurance is, after all, a profit-generating business), it's about being able to.
I've seen video corruption myself on this video: https://youtu.be/XmWgskZFkh4. It's fixed now but there were glitches in the video and audio for a couple of years but somehow got fixed.
There's a line in an old Time Team episode about how Phil Harding [I think] had found one of the most exciting things an archaeologist could find: [Totally deadpan] "A ditch."

Indeed, the things that make good historical evidence are very frequently rather counter-intuitive.
2023 State of Java in the Enterprise Report
You put words in my mouth (corpos bad) and then said it’s oversimplified. It is over simplified, but you over simplified it, not me.
Before 2.0 it was GtkObject. 2.0 just factored it out so you could use it for non-GUI code as well.
Turns out to be a pretty interesting story, and one that I somehow never heard!

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2011/10/17/dracula-vs-nosfer...
In Norway and Sweden (shared grid): Primarily electric hydro + nuclear power. Wind power adds to the mix when it's windy - and it often is.

(Here's the complete picture regarding the grid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continenta...)

There are power cables between RG Nordic and RG Continental Europe/RG Baltic/RG GB but to my knowledge they are all via high voltage DC - so not AC phase synced.
That seems hard to believe for businesses which already rely on Office, Teams and Sharepoint, since Microsoft will be making its version of ChatGPT available for all its products, and the integration will be too hard to pass up on.
> Another example is Israel’s approach to urban densification. Israel increased apartment supply in Tel Aviv by around half through a rule known as ‘TAMA 38’. Under this rule, if 80% of a given apartment block’s residents agree, they can vote for redevelopment, demolish the block, and build a larger one

This was absolutely horrible. So, TAMA 38 was originally a plan for protecting buildings against earthquakes: If the residents undertake a fortification of their building, they get some extra rights in terms of built area on their property. In practice, the regions where an earthquake is more likely have seen almost no use of this arrangement - because fortification is expensive, and real-estate there is not very lucrative. But the Tel-Aviv/Gush Dan region, where there's a housing bubble, has seen massive use of this program - but of course not by residents. Rather, real-estate entrepreneurs make contracts with residents to perform the fortification, or an entire reconstruction of the building, in exchange for using the extra building rights for more apartments. But of course - nobody had any concern for the space around the building; the importance of unpaved ground, trees and vegetation for an urban environment; the extra pressure on all sorts of infrastructure to accommodate a denser populace etc. There are also aesthetic concerns, but let's put those aside. The result has been a massive windfall for such entrepreneurs, and a significant degradation of the quality of life where this occurs - not because of the density itself, but because of lack of urban planning to support it.
When the phenomenon locks out development in an entire municipality, we can stop discussing it as a benign consumer/resident preference, and start discussing it as the public policy problem it is. That's where we're at now.

In the US, I look at it this way: once you get your own school system, you surrender the moral authority to erect barriers to entry for new residents.
Hah I'm fluent in British English but I hadn't considered that was the reason for the word choice. I can kind of see it
> Win32 has no miller column widget

Neither does GTK, Qt or pretty much any other toolkit I've used. It's not exactly a great example of a standard widget.

We could also limit our definition of modern UI toolkits to only ones that support the Touch Bar and POWER9, but it's kinda silly. The vast majority of interaction metaphors are the same between systems. If your OS has a different or unique function that the vendor wants to see used, it's up to them to expose it well.
Hi! I'm a maintainer of https://github.com/rustformers/llama-rs. We're planning to expand our model support soon.
Tesla Q1 2023 Earnings
But there's a big difference between running "very capable" models that use most available resources and consume tons of power and run slowly...

...versus running the best models available, in a few seconds, without using up the memory the main app you're using needs for running.

These are all mainly going to be run remotely for general consumer usage for quite a while I think.
They have the resources to make their own insurance company.
To say the truth, files to be shared often need to be produced first: books scanned and OCRed, DVDs grabbed and repackaged, games actually cracked, etc. There is a scene beyond just people running Bittorrent nodes.
The difference is repetition. Many welders work some form of assembly line, where they constantly are welding the same bracket on and sending the part down the line.

Even if they are not on a line, few welders are designing the bracket, instead they cut it out according to blueprints (this might be a separate person) and then weld it on. Then they look at the next part of the blueprint and put it on.
Me: Can you write a blackout poem inspired by this book?

PDF: Sure, here's a blackout poem inspired by "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid":

Golden strands of music and math,
A puzzle of paradoxes and paths.
Recursive structures, self-reference,
A journey through the mind's expanse.

Bach's fugues and Escher's art,
Gödel's theorems that tear apart
Our notions of truth and certainty,
And lead us to infinity.

An eternal braid of ideas and themes,
That weave together like a dream.
A musico-logical adventure awaits,
For those who dare to contemplate.

Hahaha, not bad :)
Ask HN: How do I learn how my EV works?
I recently bought an electric car and I love it. I realize how little I know about its inner workings. For IC vehicles, there are tons of resources from howacarworks.com to campy '50s videos on YouTube. I'm familiar with how batteries and electric drivetrains work at a high level but I haven't found a good resource for learning the nitty gritty.
I'm obsessed with other people's forever projects. Have you written up the "grand idea" in a blog post or anything? Love to hear more.

I'm trying to break my own BIG IDEA into manageable experiments or profitable side hustles somehow too.
Substack is the biggest threat to newsletters ever
What’s with the fixation with comparing software to a human?
Many variables with many unknowns in chaotic system. Conclusions can and must be made, but they don't translate well into other systems/time/etc.
War leads to impoverishment of the population, and an impoverished population leads to many children, thus more overpopulation.

The number of offspring is a function of the average education and security of the population (especially the female). More education and security (i.e., more middle class), fewer children.

At least that's how I got the popular statistics from Hans Rosling.
“Revelio ” Hints of Supermassive Black Hole Mergers in Nuclear Star Clusters
Asp.net Core – NextJS Static Hosting
This seems like an "ideas guy".

Meaningless drivel.
But isn't nearly all AI generated content "zero shot" to some extent? Like even if it has training for "foo" and training data for "bar", the combination of "foo" and "bar" would be novel and 'zero shot'-y if the training set didn't have "foo bar" examples.

To me, it seems that the only AI generated content that isn't zero shot would be the narrow subset of generations where it has multiple training examples for the exact requested prompt. i.e. anything that is composing multiple pieces of information together is "zero shot".

How should I parse 'shot' in the context of this term? Shot makes me think 'attempts', seems like a weird word to use for ~= "training examples"
Going by the nature of what art has been preserved from the past, I am convinced that what is preserved is likely either to be religious or porn.

Thus, 500 years from now the works they are most likely to know about from this era will be The Passion the Christ and Kim Kardashian’s tape.
Big if true.

One reply in the thread insists that they don't get the same output when copy-pasting the minified code. Can anyone confirm?
Even if nothing changes from here, we have already just crossed a civilization-transforming threshold in machine intelligence.
I started to really notice this during the pandemic, when pieces about tracking software for work-from-home employees started to pop up. Being constantly measured is nothing new to service workers, call centers, delivery drivers or any number of other industries, but it felt like only when it started to impact middle class people who read think pieces did it really get traction as an issue.
I object to NT natively supporting 16 bit apps. I think they dropped that in Win7 or before. Of course with VMs everything is possible but it's no longer built-in.
> If you were hiring would you pay more for a 10x engineer?

Certainly not if there was some tool that made every engineer a 10x engineer. In effect, it would mean that they're all 1x engineers, but that the "x" is ten times greater.

> Its self evident pretty basic economics.

Basic economics says that businesses try to eliminate as much expense as possible. So no business is going to pay their employees more just because they're more productive. All it does is reset the baseline for what is considered the minimum acceptable level of productivity. Salaries won't increase because of that.

> Dev tools made programmers many times more productive. Do employees just stop hiring as many programmers?

Yes, that's exactly what has happened historically. If a tool makes programmers twice as productive, then the business needs half as many programmers. Some businesses may be able to increase profit by doubling the number of products, thus needing to maintain the same amount of programmers -- but that's not the norm.
Ekila: Synthetic Media Provenance and Attribution for Generative Art
It depends on the artwork. Most pulp and scifi comics were progressive and "scientific racism" had no sense from a huge intergalactic biology review. Wars? yes, OFC.

Stereotypes? Back and forth. Cultures were far more isolated back in the day and the typical " 'murican Southern/Chicagoan journalist/NYC cop" on a Franco-Belgian comic-book was given as a fact.
The evolutionary innovations that wait millions of years to come good
BFF Patterns