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No Classification Without Representation
Self Correcting Materialized Views
Making Iceberg Work for Operational Data
Sometimes I regret using CalVer (2023)
Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China's Controversial 996 Work Schedule
Making a short film with AI – harder than I thought
Finding startup opportunities is luck, but evaluating opportunities is skill
Cloudflare Builder Day 2024: 18 big updates to the Workers platform
Re:Please do not attempt to simplify this code
on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @06:45PM (#41176254)
Our obsessions never change!
Should Retail Theft Suspects Benefit from Discount Prices?
SPACs resemble venture investments more than regular stocks
The median return of 2022's SPAC mergers: -82%
Show HN: Yarn – publish data reports as webpages, not PDFs
Mac external displays for designers and developers, part 2
Re:Bank Failures Visualized
on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @01:23AM (#35798350)
I wrote a post about this. The frequency of failures was much higher but the individual failures were smaller:
https://yarn.pranshum.com/banks2
Re:JPMorgan Chase Bank Assumes All the Deposits of First Republic Bank
on Monday May 01, 2023 @07:27AM (#35771351)
I wrote a couple of visual essays on the topic.
It's not entirely fair to compare bank failure sizes across times, even inflation adjusted [1]. The rate of asset price growth since 2008 far outstrips inflation.
IMO the frequency of bank failures is more worrying. They tend to come in waves [2].
1: On the size of bank failures: https://yarn.pranshum.com/banks 2. On the frequency of bank failrres: https://yarn.pranshum.com/banks2
Re:Reflections on Migrating My SaaS to SvelteKit
on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @08:03AM (#35712349)
For folks who have used both, how do you feel Svelte + sveltekit compares to React + Next?
Of the top cloud companies, 48 have laid off staff
Of the Cloud 100, 48 have laid off staff
Bank Failures Come in Waves
Bank Failures Come in Waves
Re:Not just SVB. There have been 562 bank failures since 2000
on Saturday March 11, 2023 @03:49PM (#35112545)
OP here, you're right! Argh, this is embarrassing. Thanks for spotting this, fixed now.
Not just SVB. There have been 562 bank failures since 2000
PDF: Still Unfit for Human Consumption, 20 Years Later (2020)
Ask HN: Why are PDFs still heavily used?
PDFs are terrible to view on mobile. They have accessibility issues, navigation is painful, the content is static, and so on [1].Web standards fix many of the problems. So why are PDFs still used, particularly for publishing reports?1: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consump...
Labor force participation amongst American men has been dropping for 70 years
State of startup compensation, H2 2022
Re:The SPAC Fad Is Ending in a Pile of Bankruptcies and Fire Sales
on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @06:10PM (#34989645)
It feels like so much of the IPO class of 21-22 was just a 0 interest rate phenomenon. I did this analysis of fintech IPOs last year. So many of them are down by 80% and growth is slowing. https://yarn.pranshum.com/ipos_int