skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How does this justify handing out free insurance post facto on everyone else's dime?

Wasn’t trying to; was stating a fact. I believe the insurance limits should be higher in general. Also, this was paid out of bank-funded insurance, not any direct taxpayer funds.

> It's nice that the additional interest and in-kind services are pennies and nickles to you multi-millionaires and billionaires

You’re making a lot of assumptions here, so perhaps consider checking yourself.

Furthermore, the SVB returns, for a consumer or bank customer, were not out of line with other banks. The unique part about SVB was their willingness to work with startups, where other banks simply wouldn’t consider it.

Nobody said “it’s not that much money.” It being a lot of money doesn’t somehow instantly mean it isn’t worth backstopping a ton of private citizens, most of whom (no matter how loudly you protest otherwise) are not particularly wealthy, and startups that relied on SVB having been the 16th largest bank in the country, and thus “generally regarded as safe.”
It doesn't call Europeans stupid, talks about westward expansion, or racism. I think you are so on edge looking for anti western bias that you extrapolate what the article said so that it fits your narrative.
ULIDs, https://github.com/ulid/spec, are also already in widespread use and are essentially the same idea as v7 UUIDs.
Yesterday, someone posted a really nice editor too.

I wish one of this is available as a custom element with attributes and callbacks, and I can just use it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_use_of_fire_in...

I'll let you go into the further reading section for more information.
Is it possible that the emails are real, non-spammers and the spammers are abusing your registration form to send a short message entered in the name field to those emails like this person described? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446532
I literally just tested it on my Win10 PC and it's instant (I have all compositing animations turned off).
> And yet a fraction of that amount is front page HN. Clearly a lot of other people believe differently.

A lot of people believe incorrect things about stuff they don't understand, yes. HN most certainly isn't immune.

Outrage bait is hardly a new phenomenon. The unit cost looks insane because it's a side effect of the fact that a defense contractor won't get out of bed without a minimum of a couple hundred grand in the contract to cover the program.
I don’t understand why there hasn’t been a push to replace Powell as fed chair. He’s been so wrong on everything. Everyone knew inflation wasn’t transitory to the point even Janet Yellen made a comment that it wasn’t.
Well, I wasn't going to say so here, but I will because it's important context and might lead Google searchers to this thread: the product I was talking about is Preparation H, a medicated wipe made by GSK Consumer Healthcare for people with hemorrhoids.

(Yes, I have filed detailed reports with the FDA and FTC)
The Map of GitHub-Land
DirectX Work Graphs Preview
Can someone recommend a modern Linux DM/WM and maybe a set of applications which would be as responsive?

I have been running a bare XMonad for a couple of years with `xset r rate 300 40`, and it's okay but far from perfect. The WM seems to process its mouse events with a delay sometimes, and often focuses the wrong window whenever the mouse pointer moves.
Code: It's Trivial
While reading about the extensive controversy surrounding Reddit, I was reminded of this article by Jeff Atwood on constructing a Stack Overflow replica.

I believe that the coding aspect is not the most challenging aspect of developing an alternative to Reddit. Building a community is exceedingly difficult and time-consuming. Often, people tend to overlook this fact when utilizing Reddit, but they deserve immense credit for cultivating such a massive community. I acknowledge the substantial effort contributed by moderators and users, but it is Reddit itself that initially facilitated the connection between millions of users and moderators. Establishing a platform is a challenging task, but attracting and engaging individuals is an even greater challenge.
The iron mining biz would probably expand, pushing prices down.

Iron is just everywhere. I can go out in my back yard and find rocks which contain ore.
Cameron's taken risks in subs that took them to more than 2x the depth and back.

The list of DSVs taking people well past the depth of the Titanic and came back is actually fairly long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-submergence_vehicle#Deepe... Maybe having at least someone familiar with those as an SME would save lives and resource, because OceanGate's going to be sued into oblivion

I was chatting with an engineering student (not finished the Bachelors), and he said that the carbon fibre weave from OceanGate's own video made a 2nd year mistake for not weaving diagonally.

I was chatting with a Masters student in Aerospace, and he said CF is great for tension, sucks for compression. Their use is compression, and in essence had a plastic hull going down to 4000m.

It's not just dangerous things is dangerous. OceanGate flew in the face of basics in engineering, fucked around and found out. If only their CEO didn't flaunt regulations and peddled his shit to naive people and expose them to unnecessary risk and taking 4 people with him.
You’re welcome to be more specific, but I suspect your snide sarcasm has no basis.

Being willing to work with startups has nothing to do with corruption, at all. Period.
Maybe I don't understand this statment, but wouldn't it be bad to have endotoxins in your food anyways?
Paying people to learn how to make plane parts - even trash cans - is not corrupt. It's investing in manufacturing skills and knowhow.

I'd wager most of the money spent on this venture went to the people designing and making the trashcan, not executive bonuses or admin fees.
Free Speech Economics: Subjective wellbeing and empowerment of the marginalized
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15412
> WYSIWYG is awful to work with.

Nearly the entire planet uses WYSIWYG and prefers it
That's not really an excuse - you really only need 3 page loads:

* initial page provided by the service you're logging into - this gets your email address so it can lookup your account and determine which SSO provider to redirect to

* actual login page served by your SSO provider - here you authenticate to the SSO provider. It can occasionally cause another page load to get your 2FA code if configured, or go through further identity checks

* final "page" that consumes the query parameters sent back by the SSO provider - this is often just a 302 redirect to the home page but sets a session cookie.

The main problem is that all these pages are super bloated, with tons of unnecessary JS and BS. All the code for login page that takes a username and password should be able to fit entirely on an A4 sheet of paper - it's literally just an HTML form and a few lines of CSS.

Furthermore, even beyond inter-company SSO, there are shitty companies out there which use such flows internally even though everything is part of the same security domain, hosted on the same infrastructure and thus can be hosted on the same top-level domain and use a single session cookie. Microsoft is a pretty bad one - Teams for example will use a redirect to some other Microsoft-owned domain to get your (already existing) Office 365 session; this is completely unnecessary, they can host all those things on the same top-level domain and reuse a single session cookie seamlessly.
Of course the ultimate accountability would be with the driver, but a) there is little to no accountability left on the road anymore and b) changing widespread behavior patterns is usually a top down thing. You can certainly legislate in a way that either rewards or punishes types of behavior(good/bad driving), or nudges car makers to scale down models/increase safety. Higher gas prices were enough to get me out of a big truck.
That’s what all the section 230 hubbub was about a few years ago.

230.c.1: No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

As long as they are “dumb pipes” they have no liability. When companies started to “moderate” content that was unaligned with a particular political persuasion, the other side claimed they were no longer dumb, but now editors.

AFAICT, any content filtering that is done is to avoid civil suits and provide the appearance of being helpful to society (or at least not fostering the criminal underworld).
I'm not sure why this analysis assumes that the startup doesn't have $5 million of debt or somehow gets back the equity they sold.

They're not in the same position they were before. If you're worth 10 million when you have five million in the bank, you are now worth 5 million without it.

If you sold half your company to get the first 5 million, why would keep working if you have to sell the other half?
Europe and America are not so different in all those things. Regulatory capture is alive and well on both continents. But there exists a kind of spirit and individualism and entrepreneurship in America that you hardly ever see in Europe. Fueled by greed for sure, but the greed of wanting to change the world and become a billionaire, instead of European small-time greed of wanting to buy some condos and let your children live on rent income.

For all the good and bad, a service like Uber could never have been invented in Europe. I remember when it was accepted that taking a taxi was just for rich people.
Speaking confidently in a structured manner and sprinkling in 'facts' has always been quite convincing to humans.
use case for me is: please the product managers with "must has WYSIWYG" but it won't drive me insane to use it
Never mind efficiency - anyone seen the price of a solar panel as recently as in 2000?

Good thing someone took one for the team and invested in scaling this up.
I don't know since I never use the Windows Calculator but it seems probable to me that the newer version has improvements that you don't need and therefore do not perceive. Perhaps it is more accessible to the blind, or the support for Urdu numerals is new. A lot of the reasons why old versions of Windows ran apps instantly is that they excluded the entire non-European world and did not even attempt to deal with complex languages.
On my M1 MBA, I just tried measuring opening Calculator using QuickTime screen recording, and then the "trim" function to determine 10 ms precision. It takes 260 ms. Definitely fast enough for me.
Yeah just don’t do these. Refuse. Usually it’s a bad sign. And I’ve only done one such interview where the time commitment was what they foreshadowed (about an hour), and then gotten the job offer. Every other time it was an email rejection with 0 feedback. Not worth it.
Show HN: A gallery of graphs built with React and D3.js
Many JS libraries exist to build graphs on the web (Vega, chartJS, Plotly...).

They allow to make charts quickly.
But you lose flexibility: you're limited by the options they offer.

I just created a gallery with hundreds of graphs made with d3.js and React.
- Examples are split by graph types
- They all come with explanation and code sandboxes
- Gradual complexity to ease the learning curve

It took me ages to create this project! Feedback welcome!
So Nanos can run quite a few databases today and you should get the same sort of experience that running a database on any vm will produce (that is everything running in the cloud).

You are absolutely correct though that most filesystems in use today were designed to utilize and more appropriately put deal with various aspects of running on actual real hardware which is interesting as compared to running on a vm. I think there is a ton of room for newer filesystems to emerge that are tuned for virtualized workloads vs tuning them for hardware.
There are at least three categories of land. Land that can be mechanically harvested, land that can be harvested by animals, and land that's neither.

If we stop growing beef on the second category of land that's not suitable for combines but is suitable for bovines, well, that could represent a net loss of food.
No, it's actually great. The non-tech people can use your WYSIWYG editor, while you save your document as Markdown (which can be parsed, validated, etc.)
Love the Lincoln Labs folks.

Smart cookies working on tough problems.

Also probably the best radar designers in the whole goddamn world.

I am proud to be even tangentially associated with them.
> If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares

The only way I can even remotely believe that is that 'agricultural' includes pastures which are useless to humans for any other purpose.

Land used for plants intended for human consumption would need to be expanded along with everything bad they require.

I also wonder how high would be the health cost of inappropriate diet because eating meat is brain-dead way of supplying yourself with some very crucial substances. And I don't believe that switching to plant diet would automatically make everybody eat smart.
per the article:
"making cultured or lab-grown meat starts with extracting cells from an animal’s tissue, be it a pig, cow, chicken, fish, or any other animal that humans deem to be delicious. The cell extraction doesn’t kill or harm the animal."
You’re shocked it’s not being done already, and uninterested in why that might be?

I’m of European descent, too. It’s ok. Our ancestors were imperfect. It’s perfectly fine to acknowledge that and to learn from this example where the so-called primitives had better practices than the self-described civilized people.

It’s not a personal attack if you don’t take it personally.
No, it isn’t. Small business owners, for example, also have assets often greater than $250k, as do engineers in the valley, as do tech startups, as do franchisees, etc.
Meat is the most inefficient food you can buy today, the landmass used is massive. Grass, corn, soy... which produce a ridiculously small amount of final product.
If we'd implement what you says, you'd just found a way to systematically prevent protests. Doesnt work.
Yes, I don't want some communist revolution or othering or dehumanization which frequently is a precursor to violence. Are you sure criticizing how other people spend their time is the best use of yours?
No need to be rude
It is much, much harder to maintain a markdown table. You can keep html table cells on separate lines, and have newlines in them. Can't with markdown tables.
It's a simplified explanation of the geometric concept of "tiling the plane" where shapes are placed, like flooring tiles, onto a 2D surface, a plane. In this case I think pattern is just the layman's terms being used for simplicity's sake because, when you look at the assembled tiles, it's the same shape repeated (but not the same repeated configuration of several of these shapes, which is what makes this novel).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessellation
Chatgpt summary?
I yearn for a frosted UI which has chilly condensation which shifts around the edges. Something from TRON but mixed with John Carpenter's 'Thing' vibe which white, blue & other nordic colors.
Horrible idea... Food in the US is already bad, but this takes the cake. It wastes too much energy to create, with lesser benefits than real chicken.
New video undercuts claim Twitter censored pro-Trump views before Jan. 6
Someone who works in the supply chain made a revealing comment on Reddit that has tainted my trust in Amazon.

When you go to a listing (SKU) on Amazon, it shows you a bunch of "sellers" with various prices. These sellers usually fulfill with Amazon (hence, Prime shipping). Each seller sends its merchandise to Amazon's warehouse for fulfillment (shipping to you). Amazon commingles the inventory; all of that SKU goes into one bin, no matter who provided it.

Suppose the sellers are Creator, Honest Retailer #1, Honest Retailer #2, and Sketchy Knockoff. You care about quality, so you pay extra to order from one of the three trustworthy sellers. You still have a 1/4 chance of getting one of the Sketchy Knockoff's counterfeits, because they're all picked from the same bucket.

This also explains why you might see a review stating that someone received a counterfeit, even though they ordered from the creator.
(person you are replying to)

I agree. I was "indifferent" between the Highlander and the Sienna which is its minivan counterpart.

The funny thing is for all the hate the SUVs get for being big and heavy, the Sienna is slightly bigger and heavier.
I recommend The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - proof that the meat industry was already there in 1906.
Lately I've been feeling lucky if I so much as obtain a new/functioning product when I resort to buying anything on Amazon, such as the protein powder I attempted to buy from (apparently) the only place online that would ship to my location. I mean, typically you don't really want "used" protein powder anyway, but when it shows up on your doorstep "new" with the bag partly open and powder exploded all over the box plus some hastily applied Amazon-branded tape somewhat covering the hole in the bag, I'm left with an ominous feeling about the entire operation's quality control. The clerk who assisted with my return told me she's seen people send used sex toys back... Are they now up someone else's ass?? I can only imagine.
As far as I, a total layman, can tell from the excessively wordy study, they are assuming that the process is powered by fossil fuel energy. They spend an enormous amount of time on calculating energy requirements, and about a sentence on energy sources.

So it seems the solution would be easy; don't use fossil fuel energy.

Also it looks like the study only looks at CO2 from meat production, and turns a blind eye to methane, which is the real killer from meat production.
When the law is dumb the law is what needs to change.

You either have a controlled burn that burns up trees and brush.

Or you have an uncontrolled burn that burns up trees and brush and cars and homes and cities and people and every other harmful thing that you really shouldn't burn.
I think people wouldn't prefer it if they actually knew something different. Non-tech people don't even know there's a world outside MS Office suite of tools, which shove you to WYSIWYG by design. From experience when showing somebody LaTeX, it's an eye opener people didn't know existed.
Not convinced making the code hard to debug is a very useful trade-off.

What's the point of making the so smaller to begin with?
But you want to skip training and put them in charge. That's what happened and now the place is on fire. You can clutch to your old dogma and let everyone burn because that is what you preferred or be responsible. You wouldn't give a baby a gun but you are because of the color of their skin.
I do this all the time. I never liked microwave popcorn because all of it has a strange odor and taste to me.

> I like to suspend a paper towel between the lid and the rest of the pot, absorbs excess oil and water.

Brilliant! I never thought of this, and I'm going to start doing doing it. Thank you!
> work like Word.

I haven't used Word much for a while, but the first thing that came to mind here was "You mean like typing a comma and suddenly your picture moves 15 pages away?".

:-)

That said, this is pretty neat. I'm not wild about Monaco because it was crap on mobile the last time I looked (which has also admittedly been a while... at that time, anyway, CodeMirror was the only one I could find that didn't suck on mobile), but still, this appears to be a very worthy project for its use case.
I thought of this too but the high throughput of fluid to get fast cooling would require a pressure so high it would destroy the organ. Running micro tubes through the capillaries would require significant advances in materials science.
There is absolutely no hedge that can stop a bank run, there is literally not a single financial invention that allows both banking and enough liquidity to stop the run.

Except for insurance on that sort of bank run.

Really it comes down to irrational VCs starting this bank run, which inevitably led to the destruction of the only bank that really understands tech startups. And now the same folks are making fools of themselves doubting all economic data (public or private, they all agree) that shows that most sectors are doing fantastically, just not tech. They are also backing a presidential candidate that thinks WiFi causes cancer, and has some of the worst anti-science views out there; in addition these same VCs are pretty much solely responsible for the community backlash against tech, the change from appreciation of tech to hate of tech, as they are outliers with their weird political obsessions that don't even match the rest of the industry.

The result of the interest rate hikes was that there were going to be some bank failures, that's the whole point of trying to cool things off. That it happened in tech and not elsewhere is due to a few bad actors that have more economic power than wisdom to wield it well.
I don't think the assumption is that government is legislating away anything. The decisions are still up to the people, but the reward or consequence will be the byproduct of the legislation. Get a DUI, lose your license for 10 years. Have an incredibly good driving record, get great benefits(not the 5% off your insurance premium).
Being a conspiracy theorist doesn’t make you wrong, it means you believe that the likely motivations or interests of various parties are likely the actual cause of the observed behavior, even when there is no proof.

Here, news outlets probably would have been motivated to carry the “hope” story even if they knew it was false, because money. A conspiracy theorist would believe that because the news outlets probably would have been so motivated, then they probably actually were so motivated.
> because we cannot produce enough plant-based food,

Livestock eat more plant based food that we will ever need though, it's the most inefficient food production for a reason.
In Chicago most stolen cars are used either to joyride or to do a theft of some kind. In both cases ALPRs would be useful to prevent it.
Related:

- "A man sued Avianca Airline – his lawyer used ChatGPT" (27 days ago, 139 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36095352

- "Lawyer who used ChatGPT faces penalty for made up citations" (15 days ago, 128 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36242462

- "Lawyers blame ChatGPT for tricking them into citing bogus case law" (14 days ago, 175 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36257545

Original court documents: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63107798/mata-v-avianca...

The full document from the federal judge on sanctions: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.57...

One of many highlights: dismissing the lawyer's bad-faith argument with a footnote quoting Alice in Wonderland (footnote 12, page 18).
I’m curious how other vegetarians and vegans feel about eating lab-grown meat? My gut reaction to this is “yuck, meat” [1]. I’ve been following lab-grown meat for a while and haven’t been able to get over this feeling, and for that reason I don’t think I’ll include it in my diet as a vegetarian. Intellectually I know that no animal was killed to produce it, but after going without meat for so long I just find the thought of eating it almost repulsive now.

[1] Now I wonder if this is how everyone with a normal omnivore diet reacts to all those plant-based meats.
Even plant farming isn't without issues. Plant farming eventually strips the nutrients from the soil, and then they end up having to use lots of man made chemicals to "fix" the problem.

We have to find a way to be more sustainable in our agriculture.
It's probably the plugins, but even then I would have assumed that timeouts would have made it impossible to load a page that slow.