MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krrishd | 2025-09-14 06:25:23+00:00
> But then can you have a world where all the money is only stablecoins and backed by "something"? I think that has interesting implications for monetary supply and central banking

This strikes me as among the biggest macro risks, and (IIRC) is one of the reasons banks are fighting to prohibit stablecoins from granting yield (to keep the banking system working).

A different primitive that is related to stablecoin but not the same thing, popular among banks, is the "deposit token" - basically a stablecoin, but backed by bank deposits rather than 1:1 cash reserve, and operated by banks. eg. JPM's "JPMD": https://www.jpmorgan.com/payments/newsroom/kinexys-usd-digit...

Not sure how popular / active they are yet, but I imagine they will become a bigger deal as stablecoins are further regulated / banks push harder on their own interests.
by stabbles | 2025-09-14 06:25:26+00:00
> - The fact that it's essentially unstructured data makes it hard to work with generically. If you have a username + password and need to use those in a script, you'll need to implement your own parser in your shell language in every script you need it in.

Fair, but you can use your own conventions.

> - `pass generate` to generate new passwords, maybe thanks to the above, replaces everything in the pass value by default. So if you had e.g. a password + secret question answers, if you use `generate` to get a new password it'll wipe out your secret question answers.

Just split it into `site/pass`, `site/secret-question`, etc. The fact that it's just using a directory tree is quite nice.

> It's very difficult to review history. I stopped using it a while ago, but since everything's encrypted `git diff` won't give you anything useful

`git diff` would be an odd command to run on generated passwords even without encryption. What matters is that you know when the last change was for a password or site with `git log <file/dir>`, and you can just `git checkout -d <old commit sha>` if needed.

> - The name makes it nearly impossible to search for

in the terminal `$ pass` typically suggests the associated package.
by nobodywillobsrv | 2025-09-14 06:25:55+00:00
The problem is this kind of long form "thinks" miss the basics and even uses polarising denialist phrases like "fear mongering"

There is a an obvious incoherence and even misreasoning present in the people most ruined by the new media.

For example, you might want to drive the risk of something to zero. To do that, you need to calmly respond with policy every bad event of that type with more restrictions at some cost. This should be uncontentious to describe yet again and again the pattern is to mistake the desires, the costs and the interventions.

I can't even mention examples of this without risking massive karma attacks. That is the state of things.

I used to think misreasoning was just something agit prop accounts did online but years ago started hearing the broken calculus being spoken by IRL humans.

We need a path forward to make people understand they should almost all disagree but they MUST agree on how they disagree else they don't actually disagree.They are just barking animals waiting for a chance to attack.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-14 06:26:06+00:00
> Chinese/Indian/etc will even be as open to US students as the US has been to them

India has been opening campuses abroad like IIT Madras in Tanzania [0] and IIT Delhi in Abu Dhabi [1] to cater specifically to building that kind of relationship in Africa and MENA. The majority of seats allocated (66%) are for foreign nationals.

Top Indian programs like IIT Delhi have been very active giving fellowships and subsidises for students and researchers from ASEAN [2], the African Union [3], Pacific Island nations [4], and Afghanistan [5]

And Vietnam would do similar programs as well for poorer ASEAN nations and a number of African countries (notably Angola and Mozambique) as well as Cuba

Japan has been running a multi-decade long international student and R&D collaboration program that helped jumpstart South Korea and China's R&D capacity in the 1980s and 1990s, along with much of ASEAN's more recently (my SO is a product of that). Same with South Korea as well.

[0] - https://www.iitmz.ac.in/

[1] - https://abudhabi.iitd.ac.in/

[2] - https://asean.iitd.ac.in/

[3] - https://www.itecgoi.in/index

[4] - https://www.itecgoi.in/Sagaramrut

[5] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-14/india-off...
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-14 06:26:10+00:00
We were talking about “polarization”. Not the fact that he was elected. Was social media to blame in 2008 for the “divisiveness”?

Right now the Supreme Court said that ICE could target people based on the color of their skin and it’s big like Obama won the hearts and minds of the states where Jim Crow was the law of the land in the 60s.
by Animats | 2025-09-14 06:28:16+00:00
There are some real questions here. If you issue a "branded stablecoin", are you responsible if the company holding the reserves goes bust or is "hacked"? Probably. You're certain to be sued. Can't disclaim that liability. Can't be anonymous. See the new GENIUS Act [1].

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/158...
by rootsudo | 2025-09-14 06:28:24+00:00
"It’s a totalitarian state who has been jailing its wealthiest businesspeople on a whim, causing many to flee, and it’s about to embark on an invasion of its peaceful neighbor."

To be fair and very frank: the USA does the same things

Peaceful neighbor: greenland or mexico (sure the cartel related violence but it isn't per se state.)

Jack MA is the famous chinesse example, but it was close enough for bill gates, howard hughes and mark zuckerberg.

Totalitarian state: It depends, as someone born in the USA, I've felt much freeer in China then USA. USA states and cities have been pushing things such as teens/kids can't be alone - yes it isn't federal.

More recent, just look at the turning point usa assination - don't want to get to political since that's a black hole of political theater there but - that isn't common outside the USA.

Credit system: USA's credit system is much more abusive then china's social credit system.

While most of the issues are just present in the current administration, and should go away with the next administration - China has acted more responsibile and more consistent with it's policies while the USA is going all over the place lately.

But for terms of currency, both are not great as of now - the rmb pegged to dollar will change soon, usd reserve currency is eroding everywhere.

tl;dr buy gold I guess
by physicsguy | 2025-09-14 06:28:44+00:00
I listened to a British politics podcast the other day called Not Another One and they were discussing that among western governments there is some looking at the UK’s porn block because in general politicians think that things have gone too far in children being able to access to extreme content, and that if 20 years ago it had been suggested this had been where we’d be, it wouldn’t have been seen as acceptable. They used the example that if you want to publish a very explicit book in the U.K., the Obscene Publications Acts would put limits on you doing so, but putting it online would be allowed
by archdang | 2025-09-14 06:28:46+00:00
Two days before the January 6, 2021 insurrection, there were already clear and documented warning signs that violence was likely. Intelligence units within the FBI and DHS were aware of this chatter, and the FBI’s Norfolk office even issued a report on Jan 5 warning of extremists preparing for “war” at the Capitol. Social media and fringe platforms (Parler, TheDonald.win, Gab, Telegram, etc.) were full of posts openly discussing storming the Capitol, bringing weapons, and even targeting lawmakers.

We can conclude with very high certainty that joining this clamour with promises to send busloads of people to fight was a call for violence at the time.
by scottgg | 2025-09-14 06:30:03+00:00
Moreover it’s not even possible for us to engage in _honest debate_ about the impact of social media anymore.

Absolutist positions without nuance are the norm, and the folks who control these platforms control to a very large extent the narrative to push surrounding them, both directly through the platforms themselves and indirectly through lobbying and the obscene pool of capital they have siphoned off.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-14 06:30:38+00:00
However D still needs the ecosystem and support from platform vendors.

Unfortunately that was already lost, Java/Kotlin, Go, C# and Swift are the platform holder darlings for safe languages with GC, being improved for low level programming on each release, many with feature that you may argue that were in D first, and Rust for everything else.

Microsoft recently announced first class support for writing drivers in Rust, while I am certain that NVidia might be supportive of future Rust support on CUDA, after they get their new Python cu tiles support going across the ecosystem.

Two examples out of many others.

Language is great systems programming language, what is missing is the rest of the owl.
by zozbot234 | 2025-09-14 06:31:11+00:00
> It works poorly when you don't have everything nailed down and might switch a lot of stuff around

If you're prototyping code you can just do defensive .clone() calls and use Rc<> to avoid borrow checker issues. You don't need maximum efficiency, and the added boilerplate doesn't hurt that much: in fact, it helps should you want to refactor the code later.
by userbinator | 2025-09-14 06:31:25+00:00
would copy this to build their own Firewalls.

Just about every company already uses some form of this on their network, especially those in highly regulated sectors like banking and other finance-related industries.

More usefully and perhaps "on the other side", I have a proxy on my network to block and modify requests for ads and other content I want to "censor".
by ArtTimeInvestor | 2025-09-14 06:32:14+00:00
1:1 cash/cash-equivalent reserves, which means the best they can do is things like US treasuries / money-market funds

Whether US Treasuries are "cash equivalent" is debatable / depends on the specifics. A dollar is worth a dollar tomorrow. A 10-year US treasury might not.

Are you saying the holder of a stable coin is not taking a higher long-tail risk than the holder of a dollar in a checking account of a bank?
by haikupoems | 2025-09-14 06:33:45+00:00
I think the difference is that there is still a maintenance of stored value, but that stored value is now able to earn more yield than what you would by depositing it at a bank.

In both the cases described in the article - using Unit or Bridge - you pass on the work of stored value to someone else. But Unit doesn't earn as much by being the stored value as Bridge would because Bridge is invested into T bills / MMFs. Hence, Mercury coin is better than running a bank using Unit.

Is that fair to say?
by krrishd | 2025-09-14 06:35:18+00:00
Yeah that's a good flag.

To be even more specific though, "cash equivalent" and the sorts of treasuries that implies are specifically short-duration ones (ie. this cash cannot be parked in a 10-year US treasury either)

Cash equivalents are short-term commitments "with temporarily idle cash and easily convertible into a known cash amount"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_and_cash_equivalents
by lithocarpus | 2025-09-14 06:35:19+00:00
While you're not technically wrong, I find this whole approach to be not good.

And actually, if as a lot of science is now suggesting, inflammation and damage due to eating oxidization-prone lipids (aka refined oils) in combination with refined sugar is a big part of the cause of arterial damage and heart disease, that could be easily be the biggest root cause in most of these cases. The bacteria if they even play a causal role at any point, could be a result of previous damage due to diet (and lack of exercise).

The paper's idea of treating heart disease by giving patients antibiotics seems really problematic to me. Destroy your health with poor diet and lack of exercise, and then once you start to feel the effect of this, take antibiotics and destroy your gut health too.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-14 06:35:43+00:00
I think D failed to gain widespread traction for other reasons though:

1. The use of garbage collection. If you accept GC there are many other languages you can use. If you don't want GC the only realistic option was C++. Rust doesn't rely on GC.

IIRC GC in D is optional in some way, but the story always felt murky to me and that always felt like a way of weaseling out of that problem - like if I actually started writing D I'd find all the libraries needed GC anyway.

2. The awkward standard library schism.

3. Small community compared to C++. I think it probably just didn't offer enough to overcome this, whereas Rust did. Rust also had the help of backing from a large organisation.

I don't recall anyone ever mentioning its improved safety. I had a look on Algolia back through HN and most praise is about metaprogramming or it being generally more modern and sane than C++. I couldn't find a single mention of anything to do with safety or anything on your list.

Whereas Rust shouts safety from the rooftops. Arguably too much!
by nechuchelo | 2025-09-14 06:35:51+00:00
I do want C++ to be a safer language, but I don't think inheriting the Rust safety model is the way to go. It is in a way revolutionary but has major downsides like inability to deal with cyclic data structures without clumpsy workarounds.

I don't want to play with a plastic sword, just put it in a sheath.
by shakna | 2025-09-14 06:36:11+00:00
> You can probably read this, even if you wish you couldn't.

Um... Nope. I can't.

I can get some of the letters, but not most of them, unfortunately.

Love the concept, and the art, that goes into things like this. But I just cannot read it.*

* I have nerve problems in my eyes. I'm not legally blind... Most of the time.
by uncircle | 2025-09-14 06:36:29+00:00
I’ve been wondering the same thing about meditation: it is “known” that is is good for you in the long-term, but I wonder if spending time focused on a point in your mind is a very good idea for people that spend a lot of time stuck in their own minds and thoughts. In periods of solitude, I’ve found meditation to increase feelings of depersonalisation and solipsism, that I can easily imagine could precipitate into psychosis for some people. I don’t do much of it any more, and for people like me, I believe physical exercise to be a much better counterweight to too much thinking.

We push these one-size-fits-all suggestions, but we are never told who have they modeled from; not everybody is the same, and our minds are even more diverse than our biology.

Also, re: running on autopilot: the goal of mindfulness is to be aware of every waking moment, yet our biology is very much tuned to running on autopilot because it is so much more efficient and frees CPU time for higher processing—you don’t want to be focusing on every muscle when you walk now, do you? Is it such a great idea to overrule our energy conservation protocols our brains depend upon?

(Sorry for the off-topic, your comment was too interesting)
by CheeseFromLidl | 2025-09-14 06:38:03+00:00
This is the first in a very long time that I’ve seen my thoughts written down by someone else. Unfortunately I didn’t get out and thanks to 2 burnouts & counting I’m stuck in a shithole country doing shithole jobs.

If you’re young and want to get out, get out. Don’t take my path of studying and working until a path emerges. If I could do it again I don’t think I’d even finish secondary education and just pack my bags at 17.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-14 06:38:49+00:00
Spot on, since C++11 the committee has increasingly started to design and add features to the standard without any kind of implementation, only after the standard gets ratified, the implementers eventually find out that the design is broken, or has flaws.

A strange phenomenon akin to the Algol 68 days, and no other ISO based language is taking, where standardising existing practice or having a full test implementation is still pretty much what it being done.

How many export templates, GC, type traits defect fixes, volatile behaviour changes, modules, contracts,.... can implementers still put up with?
by adrian_b | 2025-09-14 06:39:55+00:00
Here the problem is that past "time" values and future "time" values should be different data types, e.g. "Time" and "FutureTime".

A past time value (e.g. the times of logged events) actually is a time value that is known and it should be stored as a TAI or UTC value and when desired it can be converted to any date/time format for presentation purposes.

In most cases, a future time value is not a known time value yet and it must be stored as a more complex data type, at the minimum including the local time and the time zone, but for more distant future dates preferably also including the exact geographic location, for the eventuality of changes in the time zone laws.

Therefore, both you and the poster to whom you have replied are right, but you are right only when talking about future time values, while the other poster was right only when talking about past time values.
by anotherpaul | 2025-09-14 06:41:44+00:00
"The most unique finding in our study was that viridans streptococci seemed to colonize the lipid core and wall of an atheroma as a biofilm and that this biofilm was not recognized by cells of the innate immune system. "

This is a pretty cool finding. Biofilms are also beyond reach of antibacterials usually. And seing a commensal become a problem due to "location, location, location" is also cool.

Nice article. Cool leads
Show HN: How to Spot AI Chatbots vs. Real Humans: 5 Proven Detection Methods
by leoli123 | 2025-09-14 06:42:45+00:00
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by krrishd | 2025-09-14 06:42:51+00:00
This is a great question, I actually don't even think it's strictly a matter of "more" yield.

To dig into your example a bit deeper, there are a few general differences with an (eg.) Unit vs. Bridge.

- With a BaaS like unit, you're often actually forming a partnership _not just_ with Unit (a software provider), but the partner banks Unit works with. More specifically, you're operating two sorts of programs with the partner bank: programs around "money transmission" (_moving_ money on behalf of customers) and around "stored value" (_storing_ money on behalf of customers). Each of these programs tends to be pretty involved - as is having to be in a three-party agreement etc, working with an old-school bank, under legacy banking constructs, etc.

- With Bridge: Bridge is your single partner. Bridge _itself_ has partner banks for the sake of both banking + money movement, but when you store customer funds as stablecoins in a crypto "wallet" Bridge spins up, it is operationally different than if you were to store them as fiat in a customer-specific bank account you opened at Bridge's partner bank, under a classic FBO/DDA program. The partner bank Bridge using is more involved in the money _transmission_ piece, when you want to receive customer funds in as fiat, or push customer funds out as fiat - but the funds being stablecoin at rest would seem to reduce the burden here.

So yes that might result in some cost-saving, but it's also just (vaguely) _easier_ to do from a technical/operational POV.

(Some of the details above may be wrong / vary by provider / etc - but having worked with both of these sorts of providers at some length, this is my "felt" difference and high-level understanding).
by Towaway69 | 2025-09-14 06:43:40+00:00
Have a look at Erlang-Red[1] which uses Erlang for the basis of making a visual programming environment.

Erlang-Red is inspired by Node-RED which itself is inspired by flow based programming.

[1] https://github.com/gorenje/erlang-red

Disclaimer: I’m the author of Erlang-Red.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-14 06:44:38+00:00
I dislike Go's minimalism, however it fits something I have been saying for years.

Many languages that predated Java and C#, already had everything that Go offers and then some.

Modula-3, Oberon, Oberon-2, Active Oberon, Component Pascal, Eiffel.

Had Java and C#, just like those, had full support for AOT compilation, value types and the same low level programming capabilities, and many stuff that was still written during 2000-2010 in C or C++ would not have happened, and maybe C++11 would not have been as relevant as it was.

During that decade many people kept writing C or C++, because they lacked mainstream alternatives for AOT compiled languages, and not because they were into low level systems programming.