skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On paper, you're basically entirely right. Stablecoins including FB are all smokescreens to sell managing fiat on an internal database for you with "blockchain" wrapped around it. This project and stablecoins in general have nothing to do with cryptocurrencies. With that said i can tell you at least one solid reason why any issuer would do it. At a bare minimum they can earn overnight on the holdings since stablecoins don't kick back interest to date. Although with stablecoin competition that should probably start happening until it squeezes to 0 and then it really wouldn't make any sense except to like monetize spying on you I suppose or something. But to take an example, at this point tether is generating 75mm a year for free for it owners at 0 risk. It's the crypto equivalent of a "free" checking account that doesn't pay interest. Not that any exchange was paying interest for fiat deposits in the first place so i'm not sure to what extent that's relevant for cryptoexchangess, but for FB obviously it would since they're starting from 0.

With that said I can imagine one reason why users would care for USD stablecoins. The US has made owning and dealing with USD directly an absolute horrendous nightmare for international users and US citizens abroad following FATCA et al. And this way you can claim you never owned or touched USD which means whoever is holding stablecoins for you instead of USD doesn't have to file truckloads of paperwork for you to open the account. That's a regulatory loophole though one could imagine the US would start complaining about if this really took off.

There's one remote reason I can think of that people would flip to stablecoins vs fiat if they had some tax view that that wasn't a constructive sale and it could benefit from some likekind kind of treatment since its a "crypto" and not a "fiat". It's obviously a silly argument and there's no way the IRS would fall for it (nor do they even accept it between regular cryptos) but i can't speak for other jurisdictions.
Brooklyn Burger King Delivered Beef Whoppers to Customers Expecting ‘Impossible’
Great advice and in regards to kids I ended up sitting on the floor with our 18 month old today for over an hour, just blowing bubbles. Watching him learn to blow the bubbles himself and seeing the joy on his face was pretty special.
Product opportunities?
I haven't read it, but that certainly sounds a lot like saying that the map is, in fact, the territory.
Python's RecursionError Is a Misnomer
Public Blockchains and Randomness. Why Is Trusted Randomness So Important?
and also to car wiring
Not quite since git purposefully excludes the computationally hard proof of work requirement.

In git you use other external signals to determine which fork to select in the case of diverging histories.

With blockchain, all participants are untrusted, so you just go with the longest chain by convention, and rely on the fact that it’s extremely difficult to build such a chain.
Interesting choice: Simplenote's Windows and Linux clients are written in Electron.

https://github.com/Automattic/simplenote-electron

> simplenote-electron is the official Simplenote desktop app for Windows and Linux.

I'm only being annoying and flame-war-ish to you about this because I'm somewhat tired of "framework hate." Case in point, you still use VSCode because no better alternative exists for Angular development. So, I still criticize your initial comment where you chose to proclaim that this app that you haven't tried should be written differently, even though it's written the same way as an application you rely on.

It might be interesting to read one Electron developer's take on the issue:

https://medium.com/@felixrieseberg/defeating-electron-e1464d...
Tried to list all “MySQL server has gone away” possible solutions
This is the primary culprit in my experience and is what is responsible for the small, pea sized stains as it never seems to want to stay together precisely as you're transporting it to your plate.
You're on the verge of a breakthrough.

Capitalism as typically practiced works like a Ponzi scheme. It's not sustainable without someone, like a government or a standards body, setting boundaries. For example: Banks destroy economies without a government saying "you need to have x cash for y loans" and "you need to pay into this fund to insure you against bank runs."
I came across this yesterday but wasn't sure what to make of it.

I have no prior for themoscowtimes.com. When I googled for corroboration (as a non-Russian speaker) all I found was blogspam citing this article.

It gives me pause because, as reported, it seems almost comically reactionary. "We're going to make our own Chernobyl show but with CIA saboteurs because some historians don't say it didn't happen." From the article:

> Still, an attempt will be made to put an entirely different spin on those events. Russia’s NTV channel has already announced that it is shooting its own “Chernobyl” series based on the premise that the CIA sent an agent to the Chernobyl zone to carry out acts of sabotage.

Can someone with access to Russian media corroborate this or provide insight?
1950s engine tech was as efficient as today’s. So why didn’t we use it?
Softbank kind of reminds me of the Icelandic banks in the last bubble, in that in both cases I was wondering how they managed to get all the money they had.

Just before it all went off that time, these icelandic banks were buying up everything in sight, and I was thinking "where are these banks from a small country getting this kind of money"

Softbank seems similar, in that the scale of its funds is absolutely massive for a single company (vision fund one at $100b and suggestions of a second $100b vision fund in the offing). If there's a lot of fancy debt going on, it's the kind of that seems like it could blow up in spectacular fashion (as the icelandic banks did last time)
Well, if we're going to do that, I think this extended "Nazi" label should also include militant Islamic anti-Semitism, as from ISIL, Hezballah, Hamas and the like. Since there is a fairly clear line of descent from the early-20th-c. anti-Semitism that Hitler drew onto, to present-day Islamic fundamentalism and extremism.
Enforcing Code Quality in Elixir
This article, like others before it, doesn't give any technical information. I'm still waiting to see a published report detailing the extent of the "shoddy standards" or backdoors in Huawei devices.

Some years ago, a technical report was published about backdoors found in Samsung Galaxy devices [1], yet Samsung devices are still sold all over the world today.

[1] https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/Samsung...
To me this was the most fascinating bit:
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Historically the Mosuo lived in a feudal system where a larger peasant population was controlled by a small nobility. The nobility was afraid of the peasant class gaining power. Since leadership was hereditary, the peasant class was given a matriarchal system. This prevented threats to nobility power by having the peasant class trace lineage through the female line. This system has led to numerous distinct traits among Mosuo society.“

But there is no reference.. if true this is some clever social engineering by the nobility!
New study identifies molecular aging 'midlife crisis'
Protecting Your Code and IP When Doing Contract or Freelance Work
He doesn't really know though because only Huawei has been properly audited.
I don't work on Linux, so that is not a relevant question for me. Also, I often find Electron apps to be way more terrible than their website counterparts, so I just use those. That would still be true on Linux.
I think you mean, by interactive, something with a user interface like a gui. First, see functional reactive programming.

The only project I used it for that was interactive in that sense was an interactive CLI tool. However Oskar Wikstrom wrote a screen cast editing tool so he could make his Haskell screen casts.

I don't think functional style prohibits interactivity (see: purescript which is strongly influenced by Haskell, we use it for all frontend web work now).
My thoughts exactly. I used to have a relatively high paying rock-stable job that enabled me to plan for an early retirement.

Then I made the "mistake" of thinking about what I would do after said retirement. Then thought, why not do that now, when Im still young? So off to grad school I went.
Everything happened earlier than you think
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
China Telecom has minimum routing safeguards. I don't know how it works exactly, but I've heard anecdotes from Chinese network operators on multiple occasions, they say you can even steal free IP addresses from China Telecom through BGP, and normally they don't even care...
> But to take an example, at this point tether is generating 75mm a year for free for it owners at 0 risk.

Tether has got hundreds of millions of dollars worth of funds seized from their banks.
The Persecution of Daniel Lee
Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acel.12970
Using Google retargeting ads, less than 5% of desktop traffic goes on to click anywhere on my website. And it's worse for mobile than on desktops.

Source: I setup Google Analytics event tracking to trigger on every page click.

Edit: change 10% to 5%. And it's actually only 2.5% over the past 14 days.

Edit2: and that was from ~200 clicks over 14 days.
puts?
Is that an unreasonable assertion, when society pressures women much more heavily to place importance in their physical appearance?
holy shit Jita scammers have come out into the real world now.

"send me 1,000 isk and i'll send you 2,000 isk back!"
If you ever get a chance to see Abbi Patrix tell this kind of tale live, grab it. He's great.

(Web presence is mostly French, but he sometimes performs in English too.)
Reacting strongly to receiving the genitals of a stranger who is statistically likely to be stronger than you and probably able to pin you down without too much trouble is not paranoia.

It's one thing to send empty death threats online. It's another to push your genitals on someone who's within 30 feet of you (AirDrop's range). This is the last thing that I'd want to receive at night while commuting in a dirty bus or while walking back home in the dark alone.

Yes, disabling the feature is a solution. However, I'll bet that most people are not aware that they have it on or don't suspect that it can be a vector of attack.

The problem here is people abusing of the system. Don't blame the victim for it. If anything, blame Apple for not explaining the feature better or for a not allowing to keep the feature to "everyone" and disable image previews.
> But the real reason it’s as nutty as a AOC’s Green Deal ...

I hit this and immediately stopped reading the article. First, it's the "Green New Deal". Second, it's not solely AOC's work (though she is probably its most prominent proponent). Third, it's not nutty; it's, if anything, a down-payment on the work we need to do to address the climate crisis. Not to mention the rest of the article (up to that point) has nothing to do with the GND, so the author had to go out of their way to make themself look like an idiot.
I’ve played it! Still have my HP48 though I only use the 50g anymore (the Prime is terrible). Unfortunately they didn’t feel like porting RPL to ARM and instead went the Saturn emulation route.

When I was younger I tried programming a simple interpreted stack language using the hpgcc tools to compile the interpreter to an ARM binary. Testing with simple loops, a naive interpreter was 80x faster than sysRPL! It’s too bad HP hss stopped caring about craftsmenship anymore.
I'm not sure about new investments but I'd say that the author of OP's article is onto something here.

Softbank backed Lemonade is about to IPO in 6 months with a 2 billion dollar valuation. Neither their valuation nor an IPO makes sense to anyone in the industry. Lemonade is 99% marketing hype. Both the insurance book and the tech at the company are suspect at best.

The other one that's hit my radar recently is Compass, another Softbank backed company looking to IPO in the next 2 years at a stupid high (I've heard $5b) valuation. But they're cash flow negative with no path to profitability and they're increasing their spend rate instead of lowering it. So why would your average investor buy the stock?

Neither of those are mentioned in the article but it does seem like companies backed by Softbank are behaving pretty strangely.
Yeah, you would need to overlay Git with a client that selects a repository’s master branch based on a PoW scheme included in the commits.
Databases can handle multiple concurrent writes just fine and have since the 1970's.
I like the "So it goes" reference -- excellent article btw :)
SQL in my experience is not designed for workloads where you want to compute together/return a ton of values from a ton of rows at once. Its good where you need to cherry-pick just a few rows belonging to one user from a databses of millions of row (e.g. CRUD operations).

tl;dr:

simple CRUD operations on few rows scale fine

data-science/analytics stuff involving millions of in one query scale rather badly
Capitalism requires a constant increases in abundance. Tech provides that.
"Marshall McLuhan, casual viewin', heads buried in the sand."
Why Not Rewrite It in Rust? (2016)
I also read the article, but I wanted to know whether I should trust that security researcher since I can hardly imagine worse practices than those leading repeatedly to logins with hardcoded passwords (aka backdoors).
Last weekend I overhead two older gentlemen talking about climate change. They were both agreeing with each other that it's all 'cyclical' and that clearly there are businesses that stand to benefit from climate change research. This is in Canada btw.

I don't know how you convince these people. Luckily, they're on their way out, but they still represent a large portion of the voting population for at least the next decade. Do we need more intense floods and forest fires every single year until they finally admit that maybe there's something to this climate thing?
I come from laravel world, but lately I've been playing with Hasura as a backend, since javascript is easy to drop in anywhere I've started using knex for my migrations. Works pretty well for my use case.
What "rule of capitalism" are you referring to?
There are definitely cases like pre-conditions and validation that are natural early exists. There are other situations where it would sound really off and confusing to phrase instructions for a human that way. Not an easy task for an automatic code-clean-up tool to discern!
I was basically a 50/50 bisexual, and after a failed marriage to a woman with jealousy issues, I knew I didn’t want a purely monogamous relationship so I was open about that up front. I started dating in the poly scene, and eventually ended getting close to a guy who was also dating my future wife. She and I ended up clicking as well (most people in the poly scene are bisexual to some degree), and we all eventually decided since we were hanging out and sleeping together every weekend, it may make more sense to do that under one roof.

I’m out to everyone in my personal life: we tend to hang out with a lot of polyamorous people / swingers and LGBTQ people. I’m also out to a few people at work, though only in an LGBTQ diversity context (I personally lump polyamory under the category of “Queer” along with heterosexual people into “lifestyle kink”). I know a few people at work who are also in poly relationships — which is how I learned it helps to designate one spouse as the “work spouse”.

When open-minded monogamous folks find out, their reaction is mostly curiosity — which is why I think an openness to polyamory is way more natural that we would think. When I mention the three income thing it really strikes a chord: when we have kids, we can have one parent stay at home full-time without sacrificing quality of life. And it’s not much more expensive than living in a monogamous pairing since we have one grocery bill, one mortgage and one set of utilities.
While I don't like the "let's teach everyone to become coders!" thing that some companies seem to be pressing, I think this is a great addition for dabblers, or for people who are on their parents computer and want to do something quick without installing a bunch of junk. I really like this.

Edit: Oh, I see it's from the store. Well, that doesn't help anything at all.
Yes. As Sun's corporate slogan says, The Network is the Computer!
From my point of view Huawei is in the top-league security wise, with all British firms and most US firms clearly behind.
There was publication ban on the disaster, no one knew it was that serious.
Interesting... On the same day Facebook announces plans to launch their own cryptocurrency.
Well, the godfather of the PLO, Amin al-Huesseini, hobnobbed with Hitler and Himmler, and tried to raise an Arab legion for the SS, before returning to fan the flames against a peaceful partition in 1947, so the link isn't all that hard to trace.
Ive never had the experience of teams feeling like it was performing well or felt fast. It's probably the laggiest apps in the Office suite.
Pretty sure HFS doesn't actually store any directory separator. A directory, after all, is just another file, each one containing its own children. Classic Mac OS used ":" when it needed to use something as a path separator.
Threshold ECDSA – Safer, more private multi-signatures
> I setup Google Analytics event tracking to trigger on every page click.

Thank you, I now feel as good as I'll ever feel about using uBO.
The title is inaccurate, if you write "python" in a Terminal and you don't have Python installed, the Windows Store will launch and show you the Python app/installer from the store.

There will be no Python already installed or included with Windows 10.
Thank you for the detailed reply and good luck with the service.
> as far as I know it's still extremely difficult to generate a file with a given hash

I think this might give a false impression, "still extremely difficult" here means that you'd need to do on average far more than 2^120 hash operations to do this. If you had a billion computers that could do this one billion times per second, and you did that for a billion seconds (ie several decades) you're still doing a billion times too few operations to have any significant chance of finding your pre-image.

However, because all Merkle–Damgård hashes (MD4, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512) are subject to length extension, you don't need to generate new collisions you can just length-extend an existing one at leisure.

That is - take the | operator to be a string concatenation. At a high level if I know A, B such that MD5(A) = MD5(B) then I can trivially choose x and have MD5(A|x) = MD5(B|x) without doing any of the collision work again.

"Sponge" constructions like SHA3 don't do this. If somebody finds a way to make A, B such that SHA3(A) = SHA3(B) then almost certainly SHA3(A|x) is not equal to SHA3(B|x) for arbitrary values of x because the output from SHA3() is a summary ("squeezing out" the sponge) not the internal state itself.
I'm a fan of rooftop solar for quite a few reasons. One of those is that it is effectively the only competitive choice that a consumer has for cases where the utility charges excessive rates.

But lets not kid ourselves here. Utility rates in much of the country hover around ~.12/KWh (less in many places, much more in some places). The levelized cost of solar, inclusive of its initial outlay is often very close to this in the best of circumstances.

For example, with a well placed (facing south) 5KW system in the southeast, I can expect to produce ~7000 Kwh per year. At an initial system cost of $7000 (assuming a tax incentive of 50% and unincentivized cost of $3/KW), that system will pay for itself in about 8 years.

If your rates are exhorbitant or your incentives are much higher then this all changes. But higher rates also mean that the utility has a lot of room to lower rates economically.
> What he seems to have missed is that no matter how complex the machine, it always has a creator and a master.

This was written in the throes of the Industrial Revolution. I suspect he was aware.
I just couldn't deal with the metaphors and attempts to be witty in every single sentence.

The overall point is valid, but the article is awfully written.
Title here is missing the critical element at the end "on Youtube" that is present on the article.

The HN title makes it sound like Google was engaging in the harassment, rather than not banning a particularly obnoxious and rude provocateur from YouTube.
It's interesting seeing this the same week Apple announces it's cutting out of the box Python.
Not sure about other comments, but this one isn’t necessarily wrong. https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-hbos-cher... also takes issue with the execution threats.
Fascinating. There's more information on the Mosuo wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosuo

The wiki articles are not especially well written. I'd love to read a book about this.
I'm charmed. I'm dizzy!
Actually having now read a link elsewhere in this discussion (https://www.thedrive.com/tech/26050/exclusive-toyota-hydroge...)...

It seems that _liquid_ hydrogen escapes from small containers fairly quickly (weeks) and requires temperatures close to 0K, so cars use pressurized hydrogen _gas_ (700 bar for the Mirai) which doesn't escape.

_Mass_ storage of liquid hydrogen is no problem (months).
You keep repeating "Russian". It happened in USSR. Chernobyl is in Ukraine. USSR was not only Russia, but 14 more republics that are more or less independent countries now.
AWS IRC chat channel can be a God-send when you are stuck and need direction pronto. The only caviat maybe that its best to hit the AWS IRC chat channel during North American (especially EST) work hours.
Also for ham radio antennas. I hate them.
Would someone explain to a scrub what "route leaking" is? Would this be an issue because the leak receiver could inspect traffic that it wouldn't have gotten otherwise?
COL is low, ignoring our housing prices. :/
I work as a software developer in RTP, and I really like it. (I'm in the Microsoft office, which by the way is hiring.)

School districts can vary. I live in Chapel Hill, which has truly excellent schools. Durham can be hit or miss, and I don't know much about the Eastern triangle like Morrisville, Cary or Raleigh.

Other nice things about the area are that the food is generally really good, and it's easy to take a weekend trip to either the mountains or the coast, if you like that.

One downside is that there are lots of software engineering jobs, but the big internet companies for the most part aren't here, except for a small Google office in Chapel Hill and the Microsoft office, which is also fairly small. It was worth it for me to leave Google to live here, but YMMV.

I'd be happy to answer more questions if you have any.
True. But they still 2-3 billion working for them for free. And then that's a specific example where they went and made poor choices with their funds etc. On paper if all you do is create a "stablecoin" and segregate funds in an interest bearing account and don't touch them then its free running interest to you.
consider: it's "nutty" because it's politically infeasible, not because it's wrong.
Stop posting this. That's isolating some weapons testing fallout from the 1950s, not civilian reactor spent fuel.
Saudi Arabia and MBS are reported to have invested heavily in SoftBank, especially the vision fund.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/business/softbank-son-sau...
probably more likely that only mentally ill people become celebrities.

normal people dont reach the .00001% of society
Show HN: What Got Done – a lightweight alternative to status meetings
As written, the bill, whatever you want to call it, is nutty. Specifically in implementation. While the idea behind it my not be nutty at all, its hard to call bs on that statement..