skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First Republic was #10 in % of holdings not covered by FDIC

That's actually a good thing: it means a small (relative) haircut the uninsured have to pay for everyone to get their first $250k guaranteed.

When a bank fails and there's a small handful with over $250k in their account, they're going to lose everything over $250k to cover everyone else.
Makes them sortable via standard text sorting algo's, too.
I've been playing a bit with stacking transformer adapters to add knowledge to models and so far it has met my needs. It doesn't have the same illusion of intelligence, but so far it's just as good as a multitasking intern, so I am still having fun with it. I wonder if this is basically doing the same thing.
> 2) What type of wages do you expect people to be making in Hollywood? It seems like a pretty hard industry to make money in. The people making money will be executives and superstars who need no union.

Funny, the superstars themselves certainly do not agree with that sentiment in general; and indeed, the industry was infamous for exploiting superstars prior to unionization.
Devastated?

So, like F5 tornado or cat5 eyewall landing? Or a richter 9 earthquake? Or a nuke exploding?
Had the same issue as well. Dry air in the apartment and flickering screen when interacting with an IKEA chair.

Solved by adding a "tail" to my chair using a piece of old speaker cable. There is a metal part on the bottom of the chair that the tail can be attached to.
I don't understand why an actor needs to be tested and marked as secure on first interaction. There must be signals so that the server could initially trust an actor in some case. For example, why can't the server trust a never before seen IP attempting to sign into an account that hasn't been experiencing incorrect password attempts? Is Cloudflare just a case of a one size fit all solution?
The "prompt" part is just as dumb.

Should we call a sysadmin a "prompt engineer" too? No, because that would be stupid.
If they are relying on being good at what they do? Probably not.

If they are relying on the fact that they are in a guild? Probably. Good thing too. They should be making money by being competent.

That is why we should be resisting unions. We're paying money for nothing when we interact with unionised industries, and in software we'd be protecting weak engineers at the expense of people who are good at their job.

If everyone unionises, that just means everyone is worse off. If you want to protect economic dead weight then we just end up with a basic prisoners dilemma scenario where the optimum outcome is everyone cooperates and bans unions.
Yeah, it was a bit more than one van.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enB2QL9Ulus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGLfs376wXE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnMM1lObp0Y
Workers are permitted to form a union. By and large, technology workers choose not to exercise that right.
Thanks for the link.

The thing that strikes me most is how the writing culture was alive and well and indeed, the writer is gifted with a style that transcends the bureaucracy that surrounded him. For me, it's like paradise lost since I've said aloud that if Uber did boats, the slowest among them would be superior to any method on land in a city that judged from a plane is a snake's forked tongue of rivers surrounded by traffic on goat paths and train trestles that look like a motocross racetrack.

The fact that CIA was doing this at the time gives you a rough idea of how thoughtful they were and how the choice of time and place many Americans enjoy at work today is a feeble attempt compared to this magical existence. I can only imagine the organizational conversation that occurred to put this commute in place, particularly given my own experience with government and FFRDCs. To me, the improvement in cadence, community, and cognition is clear, but I doubt those views are widely held today. I know I'd sleep better at night if I rowed an actual canoe twice-a-day instead of a water rower.

;->
I think people start to get weirded out when you start talking about changing the composition of the atmosphere that they breathe and also they don't realize how ironic that is. Aren't we already about 100ppm above pre-industrial CO2 levels already? At this point, why not throw some other gasses in there to try and cool it down a bit? Honestly, given that it's the cheap, half-assed solution, I assume it's the way things will eventually go.
How many more competitors (factories) do you need to see before it becomes painfully obvious that businesses don't and won't care about global warming unless it becomes material to their bottom line? (Or they're companies who's executives believe in that mission, eg Patagonia).
Note I don’t believe policing is in even the top 25 most dangerous jobs in the USA. I’m not sure the “extremely “ dangerous applies when driving a truck or most construction jobs are more dangerous.
Software superstars far outperform Hollywood superstars. That isn't close either. Some of the richest people in the world are people who succeeded in software. The wealthiest people in the world for the last 5 years have been ex-computer technicians.

The difference is instead of wasting their time with union politics to try and make their lifestyle work they were busy trying to figure out how to make money. The answer was a resounding "not unions".
> The learning curve to do bash even adequately right, while perhaps not too steep - is definitely quite slippery.

Haha, yep.

I think a good metric for the difficulty of a technology is how awful StackOverflow answers and code snippets are. Bash, C, and CMake are the worst in my experience, in that order. :p

> it unfortunately does not yield anywhere near to productivity benefits in other domains, compared to the the other languages mentioned.

I assert that this depends on what you're doing.

If you're doing general programming (e.g., making an application for end users), a general purpose language will be better than a command language.

If you're doing system programming (e.g., an automation or installation script), a command language will be better than a general purpose language.

Bash is Unix's command language. If I rewrote my maintenance scripts in Python, they'd be these awkward wrappings around Linux commands that Python naturally treats as second-class citizens. My Bash scripts are much better to work with, and I feel more productive with it in systems work than Python. It's awkward and weird, but that's probably inherent to being a useful and compact command language.
Are repeat Covid infections dangerous? What the science says
> kill the (dumb) industry of sweeping deposits into <=$250k accounts at many banks

I like that system: it props up several banks instead of just one "winner-take-all" that does the most risk and externalizes the costs to uninsured depositors (and sometimes FDIC) when it blows up.
Because fine artists are something cultural that adds beauty and a new way of looking at the world around us. The Mona Lisa is different from a 1982 Ford Escort.

I mean, maybe you don't see it that way, but most of humanity does.
Most Language Models Can Be Poets Too
Athena Provisioned Capacity
Real estate gets around $150B per year in federal tax cuts. End that. Housing goes down. Inflation fixed.
looking for some testers and feedback
We'd be in better shape if we kept the rules we wrote after 1929 to keep 1929 from happening again.
Diagnosing deception: How doctors solved a woman’s dramatically faked condition
while unlikely to default, also extremely unlikely to payoff early because of a move or death.
So you agree, then, that the union/guild is good for its members?
You might want to fix the first link. It's a video of a cats weight loss journey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enB2QL9Ulus
Have you tried PostmarketOS? If your old phones are on this list[1], you absolutely can turn them into a very affordable k8s cluster!

[1] https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/All_devices
...no, I'm pretty sure my problem with acme - and plan 9, actually - is that it's so mouse oriented. Clickable text and mouse chords are not by any means a bad system, but what I really want to do is never have to take my fingers off the keyboard
https://archive.ph/R08qM
This was my initial approach - we tried letting him flounder for a year - he just got more and more behind and more disconnected from school and family. The existential dread kicked in from time to time, but was never enough to break the immediate gratification of distraction.

The only thing we've found that works is removing technology as much as possible, which, once the immediate habit was interrupted, he's been very grateful for.
> I'd bet the median union member in Hollywood is poorer than the median un-unionised Red Hat engineer.

There's not the same market, for the third time. Stop ignoring that aspect. I never asserted that everyone in Hollywood is better off than the average engineer at any particular company, or whatever dumb strawman you want to come up with.

You dismiss the role of unions for the highly-compensated in Hollywood but ... do you have no curiosity about why they exist? Why the superstars aren't constantly trying to tear down the union? Can you imagine no world where the superstars were worse off if they had been the victim of more predatory behavior early in their career before they were superstars?

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I'm not fully sure I even agree that SV startup culture is the highest risk-taking environment in the world. SV startup culture in particular is VERY well-capitalized companies, greatly lowering the risk for founders.

You will see a lot of people in that world complain about it being hard to hire - they don't want to compete with bigtech salaries. The salary/equity difference between founders and employees means the latter group is often shouldering as much or more risk, without as many chances to take money off the table. So, typically, you get inexperienced kids who don't need great health plans or benefits and will work for less money. Easy to see ways a union could be mutually beneficial there - no need for every startup to have to worry about company-provided health and benefits, for instance.

Management being worried about a strike seems perfectly fine - employees are in exactly that position regarding being laid off constantly in most of the US (at-will employment). So employees know not to fuck around, generally. Maybe it could be a better thing if managers similarly had to respect their employees a bit more - maybe it would prevent a lot of the "let's hire a bunch of new people during a pandemic just in case this weird blip turns out to be a permanent change, however unlikely that seems otherwise!" idiocy that started a bunch of this at FAANG companies, if "we can just lay them off easily if needed" isn't as easy as all that.
Which is fine. I'm happy when they have that choice, because that's balanced. Owners have the choice to go it alone or combine too.
Former Apple employee sentenced for stealing $17M
Just my guess but he probably would not have said that
It’s fine for swimming upstream of Little Falls. People swim in it all summer (and occasionally by accident in colder months).

It’s mostly fine below Little Falls as well, unless there has been a ton of rain recently.

Edit: here, in case you don’t believe me

https://www.potomacriverkeepernetwork.org/robert-dreher-urge...
I think the point that you don't need that level of money anymore. You could do the same level of exotic software on a Raspberry Pi for 50 bucks.
Like with Snapchat, almost all of mine are camshow and crypto spam. It must definitely be some kind of demographic thing with what you're active in; lonely nerds for the camshow spam? Lmao. It also wouldn't surprise me if there's lists for sale of people of xyz demographics.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35614190

> Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu

I mean, come on.
Read the balance sheets and income statements. Every credit union will publish them. And as you own shares, you can pose questions to their investor relations and ask questions at their AGM.
One of the things I hate about the Steam Deck is the previously Windows using video game community dominating the reddit community, etc.

Everyone is looking for the kind of hacks that Windows users seem to tolerate while also posting fairly simple and low detailed problems, and expecting support.

I’m sure that scales okay for Windows gaming but not for niche Linux gaming.
A friend used to say those were the only things MS do (did) right.
Throw a honeypot into the mix.

Anything that reaches addresses that you don't use gets marked as spam.

Common prefixes will work for cases where they're guessing your address, and hidden mailto links will cover situations where they're scraping your webpage.
I've never seen the show but it sounds good and reviews were decent.
Given that it was killed off after one season, is it still worth the watch? Does it end well?
Imagine the penalty for murdering a Nigerian price.
That's hilarious. Prompt engineer jobs are already becoming obsolete.
Looking from employees' side I don't see it is specially worse that someone got job for few years and then laid off vs never got hired because all companies are super cautious about any economic slowdown that may happen in future.

I understand it takes some mystique of brilliance off of CEOs, CFOs and founders and make them seem rather ordinary. However I'd say this is a fact known to most who have given few thoughts about how real world works and how luck / random fluctuation can play a major part in outsize success in life.

Of course media can't really put in such plain language as it would just blow up million narrations about man and woman came up on top when all the odds were stacked against them.
One of the best baas out there is Pocketbase built on top of sqlite. I tried all the other popular ones out there like Supabase, NHost, appwrite but Pocketbase just blows them out of the water.
It's hard to take any of these breathless articles seriously when they say, "Exploded SpaceX rocket devastated a town..." and the like. It's obvious the people writing the article either don't know what they're talking about or they're intentionally being disengenuous for clicks. The controlled explosion of the SpaceX rocket did not devastate or hurt anything. It happened far offshore at 30k foot up.

The "damage" is almost exclusively to and from the concrete pad being blown apart by the rocket plume into fast moving chunks and dust. The chunks did not devastate any of the town. The wildlife reserve was similarly not devastated. The worst "damage" to non-SpaceX property was the spread of concrete bits and sand.
That's not the difference. You're being willfully obtuse. Less imagined "time-wasting union politics" [whatever you think that means for SAG] doesn't change the TAM for an Oprah or a Brad Pitt to let them be a Jeff Bezos.

You latched onto the stupidest of all possible ways to interpret my post and compare the two fields because you don't want to engage with the actual things Hollywood unions do or how they actually work.
Increase corporate taxes like everyone was telling them to. Soak up the COVID PPP helicopter money.
Because in a car you are still inside a manmade container?

(And therefore everything filtered)
And the ping utility.
There many that are! An interesting question is if increased competition (from the same competitors) comes at the hand of government regulation. Let's say for product X there are competitors A and B. They're not really actively competing, and in fact, have divided the market up between them. Then along comes the government, and says "Hey you two (John Deere and Caterpillar, or Apple and Google), you've formed a duopoly", and pushes some regulation (say, right to repair, or 3rd party app stores) on them.
Well, there are people in unions who can't succeed without it. But if the software industry starts to unionise:

- The highest paid software engineers will be worse off.

- The quality of software will be lower.

- I expect the average software engineer to be worse off.

You're chasing a local optimum that is substantially worse than where the software industry currently is. The answer to Red Hat laying off 5% of their workforce isn't to lock in permanent barriers to entering the software industry.

I'm part of the software industry. Unions will make me worse off.
I buy Brio at Longo's market when I am there.
I think a closer-to-real example is the problem of playing a collection of blackjack tables. All the games are the same, but sometimes the state of the decks (ie, which cards have been discarded) will lead to better odds of winning. If you know the state of the decks at each table, you can always choose to play the table with the best odds of winning. This type of strategy has been used to win piles of money in Vegas, FWIW, though it leads to ejection if you're caught.

This is similar to the 'ratchet' examples in the wikipedia page - you play the game with the best odds, and use one game to 'cool off' until you're in the right state to win the second game again. The games in the wikipedia article are kinda unsatisfying, though - there's too much dependence on player state.
Most commercial butter doesn't even bother anymore, but there was a time they were adding annatto to butter to give it the yellow color.

The carotene, for anyone who doesn't know, comes from grass. There is none in corn.
That was my thought, unless they meant that the "spam" is 10-minute videos conveying 30 seconds of information.
>about half of which is paid out in three-year intervals to incentivize commitment to long-term performance

"Long term" for an operating system is slightly over three times "long term" for an executive. And I'd bet it's more that negotiating executive salaries every year requires more executives which would cost more, long term incentives aren't the issue.
Amazing. I used the list 20 years ago religiously.
Why are people reading obituaries on YouTube?
> Thats not something I care about

Well what's the point in having a debate about any of this if you've yet to experience closed source software taking something away from you?
Did you distinguish unique impressions? What about bots?
> Accounting professionals will be able to spot trends and patterns that would have gone undiscovered without AI, thanks to AI’s capacity to handle enormous amounts of information rapidly and precisely.

What exactly is the accounting professor talking about here? What can handle enormous amounts of accounting information rapidly and precisely?
Definitely availability. Almost every grocer here has it, though in a couple it's hidden away. Most of the other options require you to plan your trips a bit more judiciously.
It never stops surprising me how quickly satellites in LEO move
You're welcome - thank you for the diligent moderation!
I’m genuinely surprised/impressed both Box and Dropbox still exist since they’re single-product-line pure plays, for enterprise only (no way do enough consumers pay for either to matter), and both are competing with what is either free or very cheap to bundle alternatives from MS and GOOG (and what company doesn’t have either 365 or G Suite already?? I know Dropbox tried to make its own office suite a few years back but I’ve never heard of anyone using it. So, it’s a testament to some amazing sales guys that they’re even alive.
Sounds like the promise of the ‘paperless office’. Not holding my breath. Accounting doesn’t take very kindly to hallucinations or doubt.
Autonomous electric ferry to begin commercial operation in Stockholm
https://www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/increased-mutations-in-ch... here's the most comprehensive article

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3548427/ also has some numbers
now government ids are just passwords?

and it shouldn’t matter as much if it’s an extra participant in the conversation?
no, u cant rly fix this market easy without causing huge price level problems, again, worse

only solution is to smooth over until assets start rolling off/inflation cools enough for rate cuts towards 2%
As impressive as the number of Starlink satellites is, the service has become unusable for me in Southern California, particularly for video calls. I’ve been told that the bottleneck is land stations, not satellites. Either way, I’ve had to cancel my Starlink service both at home and work.
> unionising has been a bad stratagy (sic) that loses. That has been true pretty much forever.

If lowering hours, raising pay, better working conditions are a losing strategy.

> Trying to muscle and threaten the organisation in the world most willing to give you money is wildly silly.

Glad these organizations never muscle and threaten.

I think you have the direction of money mixed up. The workers create the wealth, and the heirs who own IBM stock parasitically expropriate dividend profits from those workers surplus time. The money flows from the workers creating wealth to the aristocratic expropriating parasites.

There are two parties here - the workers creating all the newly created wealth with their labor, and the heirs who parasitically expropriate profits from their surplus labor. We know you're not on the side of those of us doing the work, so it's clear which class you're representing.
The people in a wealthier industry have more money than people in a poor industry. You just picked an answer that shows that.

Unions will make the software industry less wealthy. Eventually that will flow down to wages.

I'm not being obtuse, I'm being effective at getting wealthy. An approach I encourage for everyone else in the software industry I might add. You're holding up an example that is worse at making money than I am and saying people should copy it. No! People should copy the industry that is effective at minting millionaires. People should be copying the freedom of software rather than software copying the industries that unionised and stayed poor.
Fundamentally broken? How?
I personally have a dot-email address.

And you left out dot-edu.

And I get a fair bit of ham from other weird TLDs. So I think a whitelist is a bad idea. But that's because I prefer to have some spam get through than have ham get blocked by mistake. Even with my very sloppy algorithm, the only time spam ends up in my inbox is if a spammer spoofs one of my contacts, and that is extremely rare.
It made my day, I vote to keep it
https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/bank/ - Here's how many banks have collapsed in a given year for the past 20 years.

https://i.redd.it/ooln252yxjna1.png - Here's a visualization of the size of the banks which collapsed. It does not include FRB which was comparable to SVB at about ~200B AUM.

As you can see, we're nowhere near the number of banks that could collapse, but, with the collapse of FRB, we've passed the total AUM of banks which collapsed during the height of the '08 GFC. So, that's a little staggering...

Personally, I'm not expecting any others to collapse, but I also wouldn't be surprised to see up to five more. Moody's downgraded six banks when SVB collapsed - one was FRB. All of the others seem to be doing okay for now, but only one (Western Alliance) is trading higher than its price at time of downgrade.
Young, single and renting, yeah, not so bad. Older, married, mortgaged and possibly kids, well, having to uproot and possibly sell a house in a down market and also possibly live apart for a while, sucks. People bet a portion of their lives on their employer and there’s a lot of hassle recovering from unplanned changes.

And in the states, cobra can be expensive. Not everybody can run barefoot.

Edit: forgot, might have to scramble re immigration upon layoff.
Aside from the dual NICs and dual m.2 slots, with no out of band management and no ECC memory this just seems more like a NUC to me.
its low probability but not impossible i think

depends if the party line the media plays goes from "xyz bank might be unstable" to "small banks might be unstable". if that jumps from fintwit to cnn, houston, we have a problem
> but why wouldn’t you fire people now?

Trust. If you want people to want to work for you, you shouldn't be seen getting rid of people for no reason at all.