skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a poll, not a meaningful analysis. Anecdotal experience is all that's needed to know it's BS.
I agree - I wish it was more stable and a little less promiscuous. Having your instance have to access the cloud for apps and updates is sort of counter to the "control your own server" sort of mentality.

Sort of like docker - do you have to go through their root namespace for everything?
Those two quotes aren't necessarily contradictory, they're about different timings. Tether could have been fully backed when issuing new tethers, and stopped issuing tethers during period(s) when it wasn't fully backed.
>> no serious competitor?

There are plenty. There is no mirror corporation doing exactly the same thing under a different name. But there is no mirror to Microsoft, Google, Apple or any other large tech corp. These are corporations backed by ironclad IP laws meaning nobody can every play on exactly the same field. For something like facebook, the competitor is all things not facebook. Every time you share a new story via SMS, you are competing with facebook. Every time you send a message via email rather than via facebook you are competing with facebook. And ever time you visit a store's own website rather than their facebook page, you deny facebook a tiny bit of the world. That is the serious competitor.
Seems logical they would given the investigations and the reason they supposedly didn’t have the funds at the time. I don’t think tether is necessary or a good idea, simply stating what I see.

Frankly, the AG admitted it was backed, just not “the entire time”.
At my organization I'm unable to get even virtual machine instance(not local) for testing and CI, yet they are perfectly content with testing software on production server...
Actually they are able to spin-up some virtual machine for me - but without root access... So if I need some software or library I need to ask them and wait for days...

Plot twist: can't run any virtualization software on my development laptop and we are cut off from "the internet"(so no ssh or remote cloud).

Advice?
LOL

"Contrary to online speculation, after two and half years there was no finding that Tether ever issued tethers without backing, or to manipulate crypto prices."

I like how they say "this report doesnt include wrong-doing" instead of saying "we didnt do anything wrong"
Go read more economics. And maybe trade some financial derivatives, lose some real money and see how that sharpens your mind.
A capacitor (or two batteries) would improve acceleration performance without the need for as much of a trade-off.
0.5kg of CO2 per kWh is the average for electric grids around the world.

1kg of wood produces around 2kg of CO2, every 400g of firewood gives you 1 kWh, so 0.8kg CO2/kWh.

That’s slightly worse than mining. Bitcoin is wasteful in its total energy consumption which is not reused, but 99% of the power you put into that GPU will be released as heat.
I know at least 3 who died directly from it. I know far more who you could reasonably say died indirectly from it.
"Contrary to online speculation, there was no finding that Tether ever issued tethers [USDT] without backing, or to manipulate crypto prices"

I hope that ends the spreading of FUD - claiming that bitcoin and other cryptos are propped up by the printing of fake tethers - which seems to spread here every time there is a sharp rise in prices.
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In the list of: "practical suggestions" in the article, they talk about literally everything except for weight-loss and getting in shape.
That's been my experience as well. I have run Owncloud -> Nextcloud (when it was first released) since at least mid-2015, and I am on the same instance I first built.

I stay on the stable channel, and I get a notification if an app or nextcloud itself has an upgrade. The biggest issue is that the "Security & setup warnings" sometimes tells me I need to upgrade my database (and gives me the exact commands to do it) after an upgrade.

I will note that the upgrade has taken longer over the years (it used to take 5 minutes, now it can take over 30 minutes), and I think there is an issue with the backing up stage.
I know one, a co-worker. He was not young, and like the rest of the organization had been working at home since mid-March.

A women down the block, whom I did not know, died of it last year. Nor was she young, nor in particularly good general health.
Ever since we have added tailwind to our build, I can hardly remember writing CSS.

The ability to customize the naming and spacing of the classes as well as the responsive helpers are a true gift.
How many people own a raspberry pi with a screen (or two), battery, wireless connectivity, and enclosure with built-in digital/analog controls? Probably less than 154 million[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_cons...
If you remember your dreams it's a sign of bad sleep, so yes it's probably true.
I think it is just a question of odds. If there was a bit more of 1,5 deaths per 1k people and and the average us citizen knows about 600 people, then about 1 in 3 will know someone who died.

I do not think it has to be someone exactly in your close circle, I think 'know' here means people you meet and maybe you have no contact with.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/science/the-average-ameri...
The problem is that the news sites don't have a loyal audience of readers, and instead rely on traffic redirected from Google and FB.

> This is already covered by copyright law and the news sites can tell Google not to index the site and provide less OpenGhaph data for Facebook.

They can't delist with Google, because then they don't get that traffic.

They can't provide less data, because then FB's algorithm won't shove their article into enough people's feed.

They can't sue for copyright infringement when they specifically granted both Google and FB permission to use their content as part of their listing.

It's a really tough position for newspapers. The solution is that they need to charge readers directly for news. But that would be a massively difficult undertaking (though the success of the Guardian's "support us directly" campaign using the Wikipedia model does show some hope). It would also mean changing a generation's worth of journalistic practices.
I feel very fortunate to not know anyone who has died. My brother got it and got over it pretty quickly. So far he's the only one.

One of my friends traveled to 11 states, ate out regularly, etc. and never got it. Crazy.

(please don't take these statements as any sort of COVID denialism, just sharing some personal experience).
Madoff took in large sums of money, gave out little and lied about solvency. Tether is 1/30th the market cap of bitcoin, yet there is a magical belief (based on anonymous articles) that it's the primary source of price levitation.

If true, Grayscale would have this same power.
I misinterpreted your comment then, apologies!

But, it's not a given that we'll have a significant enough increase of miners for that to be the case and time will tell (unless you happen to have knowledge I don't!)
The competition for Facebook is owning the social graph as a means to fuel advertising profits. Google+ failed, sure. Instagram would have been eating Mark's lunch right now if he didn't buy them, and he knows it.
Is it possible to use, say, S3, and meet these criteria?

(Then, something more complex or special purpose, like say Amazon Elastic Transcoder or something).
No one would care how many Bitcoin they had without an exchange rate.

Tether printing is a convenient way to inflate the exchange rate. Remove Tether printing and the exchange rate falls.

As long as people talk about Bitcoin in terms of the exchange rate, Tether and Bitcoin are deeply connected.
Of course. Mamet is suggesting that they could have survived the exhaustion, injury, cold, etc., if they hadn't given up. But their embarrassment at their predicament short-circuited their survival instinct. I'm reinforcing nraynaud's comment above about how too many sailors lost at sea die before they should because they give up hope.
> How do you measure the quality of a human

Net worth obviously. Riffraff are mostly worthless creatures.
For an individual. For most companies an increase in the fair value of a financial asset is a taxable gain, unless it can achieve a special accounting treatment. But I doubt a position in btc wouldn't be fair valued.
Tether isn't a bank. It's a stable coin supposed to be backed by real dollars. But that's of course not the case in practice.
Yeah .. and a dialog my wife pokes fun at -

Me: (snoozing/dreaming) what's behind my head?

Wife: A pillow.

Me: Oh! I thought it was a spaceship.
Oh, yes, precisely. That’s one thing about air travel that people don’t really understand. They think fast = inefficient, but as long as you’re supersonic, speed is roughly independent of efficiency. You can have you cake and eat it, too!

This is not really true for any other transportation method. Cars and buses and boats and even trains have an efficient vs speed trade off especially at higher speeds.

And there is an efficiency advantage of speed in that you can get by with just a cramped seat because your trip time is short, a few hours. A similar trip in a conventional train, cruise ship, zeppelin, or sailboat may require bringing along basically a small apartment (or “sleeper car”) which is much heavier and can destroy the efficiency advantage you might have otherwise had. And the same vehicle can be used many more times for the same route if its speed is much greater, which (combined with the lower vehicle weight per person) reduces the effective embodied emissions of the vehicle per passenger mile significantly.
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It makes for a great marketing opportunity, yes.
Would probably correlate with 1 in 3 Americans know someone who is obese and has resulting comorbidities.
How do you change shoes after 6 months, when in the middle of the outback?
FX dealers I have dealt with definitely want to know who they are trading with. The information is extremely useful. It's not better for them not to know. If you lose trust in a counterparty, there is a reason.

Exchanges all over the world have membership comprised of people who voluntarily group together to create and enforce trust. Using a different denominator for transactions wont take away the forces that cause this state of affairs.
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Ha. The exchange reporting the highest volume is... Bitfinex. I believe you that Bitfinex would lie.

Coinbase is reporting $210 billion daily volume.

Is every market lying? Or are you just personally wrong?
I don't watch tv. I'll check out the novels you've pointed me to, thanks.
Possible, but I would tend to bet its just a high sugar and sweetener diet more than anything. Obesity is not uniform at all. In pre covid days of seeing many people, I would rarely see anyone who is obese (northeast american), but that's because I'm in an upper middle class bubble. These days I'm pretty good about avoiding heating up plastics and what not. Growing up it wasn't on our radar at all. Point I'm trying to make is plastic exposure is pretty high for all populations, whereas diet varies tremendously by social class, and the composition of it has changed significantly since the 80s.
If you buy a large engine for a generator the manufacture will have one pin on the ECU for the 50/60hz switch which just changed the RPM. Generators are not enough of a market for the manufactures to make their own engines (unless they have other divisions that also need an engine for something else) that meet emissions, but they are large enough a market overall that companies that make engines want to get in on the extra profits they can by selling to the market (they get to spread the cost of emissions development across more engines), and the 50/60hz RPM needs are only a few hours to code/test on top of all the other work they are doing anyway.

There may be minimum quantities in your engine order, though the contract will provide for spare parts which might get you a single replacement many years after the generator is manufactured (if the rest of the engine is still available)
| Dollars are backed by faith in the USA. Is there any difference ?

Jesus lord, yes, absolutely. The weight of the US Empire and all its combined military and economic might versus what... some shell corporations and the whisper of a promise?
The anecdotal experience is just as garbage though. Something like this will have very clustered behavior. I.e one grandma dying will color up quite a large number of people (probably 50+). The number is very fathomable.
I don't disagree but as a hobbyist I don't really want system administration problems. Well and I was mostly interested in Nextcloud as a possible alternative to Dropbox/Google drive with versioning and, I hoped, backups.

However the only proper backup solution that I could confidently state would allow me to recover should disaster strike was the one you just explained e.g. putting everything in docker and snapshotting the entire filesystem. At which point I'm basically running 3 virtual file systems on top of each other just to have a better UI, which seemed a bit silly.
DAI is very cool.

If you want to really blow your mind, check out RAI: https://stats.reflexer.finance/
Or your friend got it and was asymptomatic.
Polls are meaningful analysis. They always publish the details somewhere, in this case the analysis is here: https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/...

1,000-person panel, weekly poll over the last 52 weeks.

That's a little small, but not that small. I wouldn't trust statements about demographic minorities out of their tiny fraction, but the 1-in-3 number across all 1,000 probably scales up with a single-digit MoE.
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"Move fast and break things" is a valid approach in motorsports, where the track and surroundings are uniform and predictable, and where the drivers are trained and behave predictably, because they're all going the same direction at roughly similar speeds in very similar vehicles. The drivers have also all opted in to the greater level of risk that is inherent when trying to push the limits.

It is absolutely not an acceptable methodology on public roads, where conditions vary wildly and unpredictably, many different kinds of vehicles are on the road, plus pedestrians, animals and various buildings and structures that are not designed to dissipate forces in the event of a crash. Moving fast and breaking things in a public road context means maiming and injuring innocent people, who have not been consulted on whether they want to participate in semi-controlled tests of self-driving cars.

The advancement of technology is not a goal in itself.

There is an argument for using self-driving technology on motorways, because they are very uniform and simpler than other types of roads. They have traffic flowing in one direction only, segregated from other types of traffic. Get that working properly, and we may consider rolling self-driving tech further onto other types of roads.

RE: Texas, they literally chose to cut off ERCOT from the east and west power grids of the US, in order to avoid regulation. If they had not done so, they could have drawn on power from other states, significantly lessening the impact of the snowstorms, which would have saved both lives and property. By choosing to cut themselves off from the larger interconnected grid, the politicians in power put their constituents in a severely disadvantaged position, for purely ideological and irrational opposition to sensible regulation.
> You can take redemption from tether and they will wire you the money

Tether says they will. Has anyone successfully done this?

> on several exchanges it can be exchanged into fiat, for smaller participant.s

No one says you can't trade USDT. But that requires a counterparty, and if it turns out that Tether is mostly backed by air they may evaporate as well.
And yet there are more than 500k deaths in a population of 330M. I mean, the odds are there.
You’re ignoring the systemic issues that come from having Tether printing drive the price action.

You may not have touched Tether, but Tether’s influence on asset prices can’t be understated. You are at risk by trading assets that are inflated by Tether.

These things aren’t uncoupled.
Not remotely, no. That number would be more like 99 in 100.
That does seem the weak point. The body can conserve calories in many hard to observe ways.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S18714...
I think it depends a lot on what type of job you and your family members have and where you live.
One of my friends traveled to 11 states, ate out regularly, etc. and never got it. Crazy.

Some people have had it and been largely symptomless.

I don't know anyone who has died from it either. This is probably mostly commentary on my lack of social connections more than anything else.
How difficult would it be to write a Coq plugin to perform these translations?
The thing I like about Coq is that it appears to have better tooling than the other theorem provers (coqtop, proof-general for emacs), and you can extract code for other programming languages. I haven't looked in great detail at the alternatives though.
Read the settlement agreement: https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlemen...

Page 4 of the agreement:

> 20. Because of Tether’s inability to conduct significant banking activity during this time, it could not itself hold dollars sufficient to back the hundreds of millions of new tethers that had entered the market. Until September 15, 2017, the only U.S. dollars held by Tether ostensibly backing the approximately 442 million tethers in circulation was the approximately $61 million on deposit at the Bank of Montreal.

That's 14% of the cash required to back the issued Tether.
Here's some knowledge from the time I was into lucid dreaming (6+ years ago):

Some people classify the lucidity of a dream as "non-lucid", "semi-lucid" and "lucid".

"Non-Lucid" is just a normal dream.
"Semi-Lucid" is a dream in which you know that you're dreaming, but you don't have real control and are just going with the flow.
In real lucid dreams you're fully aware that you're dreaming and can control yourself (movement & talking).
Experiencing a lucid dream is just plain awesome in my experience. You know that the experience is not real, but it feels real.

Controlling the dream itself (surroundings, other people, flying etc) is something the dreamer has to learn, as it isn't as straight-forward as just thinking/saying "I want to fly now"/"Let there be an orgy". If your brain doesn't expect something to happen, then it likely won't happen.

Flying is relatively easy because it really doesn't change your surroundings. I just imagine how I'm flying and it happens.

To change my surroundings I usually use the "spinning"/"blinking" trick: Either spin around or slowly blink with your eyes while imagining what you want to change. With some good luck it happens.

But dreams are unstable. Things can change quickly and without your control. It's a constant fight against your subconscious. A fight which often leads to waking up.

I have a recommendation for anyone still reading: Instead of flying or fucking/killing people (those were the most common themes on the forums back then), just talk with the people in your dream. You're not talking with real people, you're talking with yourself, but it doesn't feel that way.
Talking with dream characters can be useful for introspection, as dreams are heavily influenced by your feelings.

Man, that all sounds so esoteric and non-scientific. Just my experience.
probably 54 Hz- split phase power has a GND, positive phase, and negative phase: https://techblog.ctgclean.com/wp-content/uploads/Split-Phase...

Alternating phases would be hooked up to one phase or the other, with negative phase poles connected backwards. I know traction motors are brushed, so probably the generators are as well. If that's the case then you should be able to just bolt new wires on (brushes are consumables, so they are easily replaceable).

edit: managed to misread your conclusion as it would be 110 Hz, lol.
We had an English teacher who used to chide us for writing with anything other than a pencil till the 5th standard, and after that, would insist that we write with ONLY fountain pens.

Chelpark Turquoise and Bril Royal blue were my favorites too. They both looked brilliant on paper!
Those in lower socioeconomic classes are the ones I've known who've gotten it, mostly because they were forced to work in offices or some public facing role where they had to interact with a lot of people. There is a terror of small business owners who act like despotic lords of a fiefdom, that I find to be some of the worst actors in general.
> Any user has restrictions on top of the generic format.

The problem is that you are not guaranteed to know, as a JSON library user, that the library has not mangled the numbers it received on the wire prior to your application receiving it - so you don't know if you having .a set to 42 is the result of 42 being sent over the wire, or an implementation dropping bits that are outside the range of you library's support. The RFC does not mandate what a JSON implementation should do in case of numbers outside its' support.

> Given that 99% of integers in practice fit in a signed int32 there is little problem.

Until you hit that 1%, and you find this out the hard way, and you have no way of solving it because you don't control the emitting side. Again, this has happened in practice to me, when a Python library was emitting large numbers as numbers (as the RFC permits), while the receiving side silently casted to 32-bit floats, losing data (as the RFC permits). Both sides are right per the spec. Technically, everything worked as per spec. Practically, the product was broken.

99% of the time you might be okay. But the 1% of edge cases makes it that you can never rely on JSON, which makes it a bad interchange format if you care about reliability and safety. You _can_ make it work if you severly limit yourself and are deeply aware of all the possible issues that using JSON has (and there's a lot more). Or you can just pick some other standard that solves these basic things for you (eg. Protobuf).
I’m visiting Germany from India right now and it seems to me that everyone around here will pay an extra buck for higher (perceived) privacy. Whether it’s for email, VPN or anything for that matter
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This is a common anecdote. Long time vegan/vegetarian has onset of pain or tiredness and after one encounter with magic meat all problems go away immediately. No one ever knows what was missing in the diet, because it does not matter anymore. For you it is pastrami for others it is organic grass fed cattle, chicken, fish, or oysters.

The disease you were likely suffering from was mental. Being different wears on you and the micro aggressions of being a minority wears on you after a while. The food industry ads, cooking shows, bbqs, nostalgia, that random guy that says being vegetarian is dumb or deadly, etc. The mental pain builds up and causes the damn to break after a while.
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Ending redeemability? Can you redeem a tether for a USD today?
Since when are semiconductors anywhere near "simple"? An EV can be made in a garage. Look at airplanes - small companies indeed are successful.
How are the houses centrally heated l? I live in the Southern US and we do not have harsh winters. Most houses are heated by gas or electric furnaces (central air).

It’s interesting you can also use remote cooling from lime pits.
The Myth of “No Code” Software, Part 2
Walks through the problems inherent with attempting to make something "no code".
it is not largest, not even close.