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PaywallBuster··on TSMC’s 3-Nm Push Faces Tool Struggles
you didn't read the whole line

> 55% [a healthy level at this stage in N3 development], and TSMC looks on schedule to boost yields by around 5+ points each quarter.

PaywallBuster··on Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit
Coming from EU, one month notice both ways is the norm (a lot of people get hired on temporary contracts 6/12 months before becoming full time employees)

Only once I've given ~ 3 months notice simply because I didn't think I was a good fit in the company long term and I didn't have anything lined up yet.

PaywallBuster··on Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years
many networks will not approve your website with shady content

so then you're running ads for porn, sketchy software and VPNs or wtv

PaywallBuster··on Ask HN: WWYD? Built a company valued at $1B and may walk away with nothing
Not sure why'd you get a COO with big fat compensation with only 6 months runway left

You can look into alternative funding venues like Crowd Funding, but given the market conditions looks like you should aim at becoming cash flow neutral at least within a short period of time

PaywallBuster··on UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k
Or they're not even in the UK nor have any sort of work permit / visa.
PaywallBuster··on I don’t want a new phone, but I’m probably buying one
buy 2nd hand
PaywallBuster··on CFTC sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao [pdf]
he was certainly a key player

> SBF jokes CZ couldn't visit the US

> CZ announces he will sell his full stake in FTT (a huge percent of the float)

> Alameda was extremely leveraged _based on their FTT holdings_, once FTT started crashing they went under water on their leverage and started fire selling assets at a loss

> some of those assets belonged to FTX custumers

PaywallBuster··on Block loses 20% of value as Hindenburg Research alleges fraud
Doesn't look like Block's collapse would cause any issues with the financial system
PaywallBuster··on Block: Inflated user metrics and “frictionless” fraud facilitation
for context: I'm seeing 200k position against SQ using puts, strike price 50

Current stock price: ~ 65

PaywallBuster··on Ask HN: Can any Hetzner user please explain your workflow on Hetzner?
Ansible for server configuration/changes/deployments

Rundeck to automate/schedule jobs/deployments/upgrades or scale deployments (to fleet of servers)

PaywallBuster··on Ask HN: How would you build a budget CPU compute cluster in 2023?
or hetzner

beefy dedicated servers for 50/100 eur per month

you can use it for a few months and return it any time monthly contract)

PaywallBuster··on Bandcamp Unionizes
right

> We are committed to protecting the benefits we have, fixing historical disparities within and across departments, and promoting equitable conditions and economic stability for all of our colleagues

PaywallBuster··on Credit Suisse sheds nearly 25%, key backer says no more money
Many banks offer "money market" accounts, wouldn't it be similar?

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

PaywallBuster··on The fall of SVB and how I tried to save as many straps as I could
if you read the post, this is not a loan for a couple of days

> Brian McDanial (fantastic attorney) at Wilson Sonsini figuring out exactly how to structure the fund

it's a gamble/bet that the deposits will either be made whole or paid more than they're offering (90-95%)

But with such a nice offer, the fund was most likely to make little to no profit so it would be more like "public-benefit corporation"

----

If you're around the right circle - founders/VC doing capital raising you probably know a few people who often invest or may have "exited" already

so you can just get in touch " would you like to save SV startups?

I'm planning to make a fund that will buy SVB deposits at 90% or more from companies to ensure they have enough liquidity for payroll and other operational costs

This is mainly in the public interest by helping startups survive through the whole ordeal until something is sorted out so unlikely you'd make a profit here

"

PaywallBuster··on The fall of SVB and how I tried to save as many straps as I could
I think it's reasonable post

> Clearly shows the consequences of missing payments:

  > personal liabilities to directors/officers
> What a private sector solution could look like

> What were the alternatives (Hedge funds offering 60/70%)

> How quick this solution would be up and running

Maybe the author can add more details but it's interesting enough already

PaywallBuster··on Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud
right!

Most services are probably well served by AWS/Heroku and others and simply saving the engineering time on developing the product, or optimizing when it becomes a problem

AWS can be 2x as expensive as DO for a simple VM, which you can easily work around by acquiring Reserve Instances or using "spot" instances

but, the "AWS premium" becomes a problem: - 10x when dealing with bandwidth which you cannot do much except a very big enterprise package and getting some discount that even then it will be multiple times higher than the alternatives

The way I see it, AWS is great but you need to consider your 1) key infra requirements 2) consider cost effectiveness of different solutions/services 3) consider alternatives i.e.

- Cloudfront is fine, but if you doing 100 tb/month probably Cloudflare would be best! - Lambda is fine but if you doing 100M requests/month EC2/ECS would probably work better (or more cost effective)

Consider 1) what you need to get started and ship 2) what you need to scale up 3) what's the most cost effective solution long term

The requirements will change over time, be ready to adapt!

PaywallBuster··on Iran discovers world’s second largest lithium reserve
Is Tesla gonna become a Defense company?
PaywallBuster··on The Inverse Jim Cramer ETF
by the same company who made SARK

https://www.trackinsight.com/en/fund/SARK

The short index of ARKK Innovation ETF by Cathie Wood

PaywallBuster··on Tell HN: Gitlab Premium pricing increases incoming $19 to $29
They do have CI/CD

Some companies look like they never moved away from Bitbucket

And now that they have some half-assed CI/CD offering, _some_ companies are moving into it as the first CI/CD tool they've ever used

PaywallBuster··on Dropping the creator of ‘Dilbert’ is free speech at work
so far as I've been following him

the covid pretty much killed the income from dilbert comics, and he's creating a commotion because it has near 0 impact on whatever residual income he's getting from it

PaywallBuster··on Dropping the creator of ‘Dilbert’ is free speech at work

    I'm accepting criticism from anyone who has seen the full context here.

    The rest of you are in a fake news bubble but I trust you suspected that.

    Scott Adams Interview - It's Okay to Be White

    https://www.youtube.com/live/oeFA-n3SMRw?feature=share
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/162983363644608102...
PaywallBuster··on Newly public companies going private again
IPO at 1B, valuation drops to 200M after 1 year

Buy back shares at 1/5th of the price

PaywallBuster··on Nextcloud and OpenBSD = <3
you should search for 'storage vps'

some providers have a dedicated category for these nodes _still using_ HDD

most VPS are only using SSD/NVMe (even attached storage) so it will be too expensive as you can see

example time4vps - 1tb storage is ~ 5 eur https://www.time4vps.com/storage-vps/

PaywallBuster··on Portugal proposes to end Golden Visas, curtail Airbnb rentals
Portugal ends Golden Visas (GV)

"attracted 6.8B euros in investment since its launch in 2012"

6.8B / 11Y = 618M/y

Min inv = 280k

618M / 280k = 2207 GV houses sold/y

Avg amt sold/y = 150k

https://foreignbuyerswatch.com/2021/05/11/total-home-sales-i...

Golden visa share = 2k/150k = only 1%

https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1626534923619434497

PaywallBuster··on Ask HN: Why on Earth does Europe have 3 month notice periods to switch jobs?
half the mass shootings are done by young/students?

South europe countries have ~ 50% youth unemployment and very little prospects however there's no mass shootings?

PaywallBuster··on Ask HN: Why on Earth does Europe have 3 month notice periods to switch jobs?
most countries are probably 1 month only

3 month could be for senior-leadership and other high level positions

PaywallBuster··on Binance Says Stablecoin Partner Been Told to Stop Minting BUSD
With rising interest rates it should be making plenty of money

> $16b BUSD issued, 3 month tbills ~4.6%, so $713 million run rate divvied up between Paxos and Binance, of which a decent portion probably subsidized user trading fees on the /BUSD pairs

https://twitter.com/BowTiedIguana/status/1625069835645497344

PaywallBuster··on Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff
unlike other companies Gitlab is _still_ not profitable

https://ir.gitlab.com/news-releases/news-release-details/git...

Fiscal Year 2022 Highlights:

Total revenue of $252.7 million GAAP operating margin of (51)%; Non-GAAP operating margin of (39)%

hence cutting costs before borrowing money becomes too expensive (0% interest rates are gone)

PaywallBuster··on IRS Free File: Do Your Taxes for Free
I think foreign owned LLCs need someone to submit on their behalf (CPA or something)

I've looked at https://www.trybookmate.co/tax previously

PaywallBuster··on US startup's bladeless VTOL can reach up to 0.8 Mach
no paywall: https://newatlas.com/aircraft/jetoptera-bladeless-hsvtol/
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