skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing your experience, given how I treat software it sounds like I would extremely frustrated with some things that "the average user" doesn't mind at all. Sounds like I should give it another year or two before considering Nextcloud (because her, I assume they're working on it!)

> (I can't seem to make a bullet point list on HN)

For short points: indent with two spaces (longer become horrible on mobile). Or just do double newlines between the points like a normal person (;))
I meant it as a figure of speech, in that the 2 parts can't see eye to eye. I care about the legitimacy of the space and I am not a big fan of these backed stable coins, because they can't be easily verified.
OpenAPI 3.1 which was released recently, uses JSONSchema 2020-12 as the primary schema format. As a result, we can expect further consolidation of tooling, etc in the community.
Trust is a lower energy state than distrust. I find it unlikely that society wants to incur the massive expensive of climbing that trust gradient for no benefit.

Any society that adopts trust will be able to compete very well against a society of no trust.

Thst is my conjecture at any rate.
Are there any other active government investigations of Tether/iFinex that we know about?
Here's a current R32 system by Daikin:

https://www.daikin.co.uk/content/dam/dauk/document-library/d...

SCOP is at 5.15 and that's a seasonally adjusted value. So over the entirety of the winter the unit is expected to deliver 5.15 units of heat for each unit of energy. The unadjusted COP is 6.27. For this unit operational limits are listed at -15C/5F and I think there are units that go quite a bit lower. I haven't looked at that much as -15C is plenty for us. And this is with air to air. With air to ground much higher efficiencies are possible.

For cooling it's even better, with the equivalent SEER at 8.75. The improvements have been so good that the efficiency scale is already at A+++ because the A standard has been so exceeded.
Most, probably all, of the people who died didn't have a choice, their power was cut off for the entire neighborhood. The bill they can't afford for the most part hasn't even been mailed yet (bills are generally monthly, this event wasn't that long ago).
What's confusing is that in addition to the slap on the wrist of 18.5m and the prohibition for BitFinex to operate in NY, it is written:

"agreement with iFinex, Tether, and their related entities will require them to cease any further trading activity with New Yorkers, as well as force the companies to pay $18.5 million in penalties, in addition to requiring a number of steps to increase transparency."

What are these steps to "increase transparency"? On activities related to these 850m or on the 33 bn+ printed since then?

To benefit whom? New Yorkers cannot use BitFinex anymore. If it's now irrelevant to the NYAG because from NY's point of view BitFinex is out, why ask for "a number of steps to increase transparency"?
To answer the question you would need a service like thousand-eyes [1] to show you which region is not responding. Cloudflare uses Anycast and when you ping 1.1.1.1 you are actually hitting a different set of clusters specific to your area. This is why the ping time is so low for many people. HN users are all over the place and unlikely they would all list their location.

[1] - https://www.thousandeyes.com/ [paid service, happy customer]
The world would certainly be a strange and sad place if the best thing for everyone to do with their wealth was hoard it in currency.

Not holding wealth in cash has been investing 101 material long before cryptocurrency. It is fascinating how crypto proponents took over that narrative to imply that crypto was the only investment that could escape inflation.

They’ve also spread an idea that money printing is the singular source of inflation, which isn’t true at all. Bitcoin, for example, is an inflating asset due to hype-driven demand. It hasn’t spiked upward 100% of the time because USD became 50% less valuable overnight
Just because it's harder to develop on than modern devices doesn't mean that there aren't people who know how to do it/want to do it. If I knew that I could sell my indie game on the Nintendo DS, which sold 154 million units and a huge number of them are likely still circulating around, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

But more importantly, the only thing that matters is the end-user experience. The people playing games aren't going to care if the developer had to wrestle with some funky toolchain and weird hardware quirks. They just want new games for their old, but still fully functional console.
It looks like it might be this:
https://jsonlines.org/
Which I hadn't heard of before.
State Partitioning
That last paragraph does not seem to be true. Well only if you're an "an absent-minded person" according to:

https://www.petcoach.co/article/teflon-toxicity-ptfe-toxicos...
Conventional beekeepers aim to harvest the maximum amount of honey, with high honey yields being viewed as a mark of success. When farmers remove honey from a hive, they replace it with a sugar substitute which is significantly worse for the bees’ health since it lacks the essential micro-nutrients of honey.

https://www.vegansociety.com/go-vegan/why-go-vegan/honey-ind...

Humans can live without honey, bees need to survive.
Can you share your study/findings? It'll help me and others who are searching for the same.
BTC was growing way to fast over last week, large sales into buying dip is something that happen all the time.

Price will be back to the rough linear growth in 5days.
That's perfectly fine with me. I just object to the previous argument that I pay not so much for food as for the ambience etc.
Seems to have some support for tape backups too. https://git.proxmox.com/?p=proxmox-backup.git;a=tree;f=src/t...
I would also prefer to trust that source, however it is written as a press release. So they write it to make them look as positive as they can and stress the Bitfinex bad points. The blockcrypto article seems to indicate that the accounts were now balanced, but the ag.ny.gov makes no mention of it, which is expected if they are still trying to paint bitfinex as a wrongdoer, but calls into question their impartiality, so it becomes difficult to accept either at face value.
And if they used made up tether to buy a bit of extra btc or a lot they would be even further ahead. The easily exploitable opportunities for fraud surrounding tether is huge. Bernie Madoff should be jealous.
How hot is hot? A few days ago it was -18 here and now its 27. In a few months we will hit 38. I'm sure I dont want to be doing computations then.
> 1) I upgrade from 17->18->19->20->21 and hope nothing breaks!

I did a similar path (started from 18 iirc) and nothing broke.

But there's a catch, because I have some safeguards in place:

1. Nextcloud has its own dataset in a ZFS zpool. I take snapshots hourly, and I took a snapshot just before upgrading

2. I run nextcloud and its own postgreql via docker-compose. the docker-compose file along with the configuration and data are stored in nextcloud's own dataset. This means that os-level dependencies are not a problem for me. this also mean that reverting the whole thing to before-upgrade is very easy: just rollback to the before-update snapshot.

3. (unrelated) snapshot are replicated to another location, which means that I might perform the upgrade on that other site and switch the dns when it's done and if i'm satisfied. I don't do that, for my personal use 1-2 hours downtime it's okay.

4. I'll let nextcloud perform its auto-upgrade procedures, take a snapshot after every upgrade, and at the end I'll perform the tasks suggested in the self-assesment page (adding indexes, changing columns types etc).

You don't have a nextcloud problem, you have a system administration problem.
Thanks for finding a better paper, I just went for the first paper with the relevant title as I was on my phone.
OpenAPI 3.1 which was released recently, uses JSONSchema 2020-12 as the primary schema format. The incompatibilities has been completely resolved as of today.
From 2019:

https://www.coindesk.com/tether-lawyer-confirms-stablecoin-7...

"The USDT stablecoin is only about 74 percent backed by fiat equivalents as of April 30, says its issuer’s general counsel.

Tether, the company behind USDT, holds about $2.1 billion in cash and short-term securities, wrote its general counsel Stuart Hoegner in an affidavit Tuesday. Hoegner is also general counsel to Bitfinex, a crypto exchange which shares executives and has overlapping owners with Tether.

The two companies are at the heart of allegations by the New York Attorney General, who says Bitfinex borrowed more than $600 million from Tether after losing as much as $850 million to a currency converter."
What? Really?

Well, for a start, the hilarious _Good Omens: the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch._ Co-written with Terry Pratchett, also a great radio serial and a wonderful TV series from about 3 years ago.

Secondly, multiple superb novels, such as _Stardust_ and _Coraline_, both adapted into successful feature films; _Neverwhere_, a low-budget British TV series; and _American Gods_, a huge, big-budget TV series.

Everything he has written has a rich vein of humour. Even perhaps the most tragic of the Sandman series, _Death: The Sound of her Wings_.

"You keep doing that, you know what you're going to get?
"FAT PIGEONS!"
"“why didn’t your monetary ideas work for Venezuela/Zimbabwe/Weimar Germany?”"

What a bizarre response. They weren't even attempted there as the literature shows.

https://gimms.org.uk/2020/11/14/weimar-republic-hyperinflati...

Presumably you also believe heavier than air flight is theoretically impossible because bad pilots crash planes.
Causing? Maybe. Contributing to? Probably. Toss is compromised gut bacteria (due to other environmental factors) and it all adds up.

That said, drinking soda as if it's water, regularly consuming junk "food", as well as going weeks without breaking a sweat is a great foundation to build such a crisis of convergence on.
This statement about technology removing middlemen is not true it can be disproven with some handful of examples.
Crockford (and many others) found that the many flaws inherent to XML warranted a new specification, so JSON was born. If you have an issue with JSON, go create your own spec, don’t shit all over the perfectly capable, simple, elegant specification that is JSON.
I think the following definition is well-defined and would be acceptable to the vast majority of people:

A minimal-length, non-intersecting loop for which every point on the coast is within d metres of at least one point on the loop.

The only parameter is d, which I think most people would happily set to 5 or 10 km for a country the size of Australia.

It may not be unique, but I think anything obeying this would count.
£500,000,000 wasn't enough to get James Dyson's electric car company off the ground. The future of cars will not be more democratized. The proposed democracy will rest in electrified non-cars. Which is not a bad thing. But what's to convince a Western person to give up his car? Making them more expensive won't help. Making tiny, very cheap things more socially accepted and desirable will. (Note: this CANNOT just be done by punishing car owners)
The Ice Storm as it was aptly called.

We were lucky that we were on a road designated as an emergency route, and though power was down, our internet still worked.

My dad was handy so he set me up on my laptop with a car battery, and my life as a shy, hypersensitive, introvert who found solace being away from people and on my computer - learning to code through adding features and a fixed ASCII interface for the text-based MUD I was building - debugging as I went, using my mother's university account server to host it initially; he also brought in a BBQ and heated the house with propane - not recommended as you need to know the cautions.

Photos: https://www.google.com/search?q=1998+ice+storm+canada
Silver Sparrow: Things You Need to Know
I agree that as a standard it isn't great. However the fact that it is so successful shows that the minimalistic design has benefits for adoption.

And regarding integer ranges: Any user has restrictions on top of the generic format. Some fields have to be present for the application to work, some fields have to be a string, others an array. Some integer has to be between 0 and 100, some array has to have 5 elements. Given that 99% of integers in practice fit in a signed int32 there is little problem (97% are probably 0, 1% are 1, 0.5% are -1 and only the rest other values ...) If you are on the edge you have to know and work-around ...
Oh hey it's Victor Viela. He's known in the Super Mario World ROM hacking community on a patch that adds SA-1 functionality to that game too, with some truly insane effects:

https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=viewthread&t=104830
As someone who hosted his own as well, I agree with your sentiment exactly. I've taken down the server that I had hosting my own instance before this, and I am delaying setting up a new one simply because of what you've said here.

I imagine that those of us that want that kind of stability are encouraged to go with their hosted offering, but hopefully they'll see the value in having a slower and/or more stable release process.

For what it's worth, the upgrade process for the last few major versions went mostly without a hitch for me. I do have to give them credit for that. The only thing I continue to struggle with is the encryption design. I always end-up with some odd state for some files I cannot recover from.
I wonder how strong the "family only, no entry by conversion" element of Judaism was at the time/place. If we consider Muhammad a person acting on human motivation (instead of divine instruction, a somewhat divisive approach considering how insistence on the latter appears to be the strongest theological moat of Islam), it could well be that Christianity was only referenced as a gateway, as a precedence for a form of Judaism that welcomed people not born Jewish, but that the goal wasn't at all Christianity (from far away), but an opened up version of the local Judaism.
Yes. I follow the daily numbers for my county.

The vaccines seem to have an impact, but it is hard to be sure. There are a lot less old (>65) in the new infected list, which used to dominate the list. The younger groups seems to be be about even by age group. However there are many potential confounding factors, and I haven't done a proper statistical analysis so I don't want to claim something.
Correlation is not causation. And your mental model of how the cryptocurrency markets work is likely way too simplistic--did you know that cryptocurrency perpetual swap derivatives clear over $350B in daily volume?

Pretend for a moment that Tether pulls a Nixon, and closes the "dollar window" ending redeemability. Then what would be the difference between Tether and e.g. the BitMEX XBTUSD perpetual swap contract? Just think about it for a while.
Not really answerable in general terms at this point. People have shown they will pay for some apps but not others. Social apps require the network effect which is hard to build so adoption is the hardest problem to solve, hence any friction (e.g. payment) can lead to less people signing up etc.

But other apps are fairly easy to get people to pay for where privacy could be a key differentiator. Let's be honest, very few actually do give you privacy beyond maybe a couple of email providers. Spotify which people pay for to remove ads still winds up using data about you and almost surely selling profile information as a revenue stream. I don't know this for a fact so feel free to correct me, but I would be shocked if they didn't as most companies do today because charging $10-15/month is hard to build a large company off.
He did not skip leg day once in that time.
The issue is that if it isn’t backed they can print more at any time. But they claim it is backed to avoid inflation devaluation of the currency. Banks are not lower to print currency but tether can at any time. The potential for fraud sufrounding tether is huge and no one is checking over them. Do you trust them? They are already known for lying. This is why banking regulations exist.
"I think what most people associate with meat is actually the flavors that go into the meat-centric dish most cuisine is based on."

Don't forget to add some MSG to get a savory umami flavour.
Herd immunity kicks in somewhere less than 100% vaccinated (should start seeing some numbers coming out of Israel in the next few months). A sizeable percentage of the population has had Covid already and therefore has some level of natural immunity (not full, but better than nothing). Furthermore, kids have been shown to spread it less (and we're not vaccinating them currently, reducing the population 20-25%). So all that said, 100/100 is a pretty good short-term target. Yeah - we can and should do better in the long term, but ~100 should get us into a sustained decline (but not eradication - to your point about requiring more long term).
Gemini offered/offers USDT?
And there's Amazon Ion too - https://amzn.github.io/ion-docs/

"Amazon Ion is a richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical data serialization format offering interchangeable binary and text representations. The text format (a superset of JSON) is easy to read and author, supporting rapid prototyping. The binary representation is efficient to store, transmit, and skip-scan parse. The rich type system provides unambiguous semantics for long-term preservation of data which can survive multiple generations of software evolution."
"Contrary to online speculation, there was no finding that Tether ever issued tethers [USDT] without backing, or to manipulate crypto prices," said Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor.[1]

[1]https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/95207/bitfinex-tether-ne...
Apache Kafka and Go
All art or collectibles can be destroyed and nothing lasts forever, as Banksy commented on with the shredded painting stunt. This cat art piece is just as valid as other modern art sales, including the original "upside down toilet" that founded modern art. I recommend the book "What Are You Looking At?" to better understand modern art.
I mean health-wise, as the article says. You measure it with objective measures. I m not sure why it s distasteful to you?
Weight loss and proper exercise will probably deliver 99% of the improvements for 99% of the people. Stressing about heat, radiation, micro plastics, or other random stuff seems like extra stress for not that much benefit.

Most people in Western world are either out of shape, or straight up obese. It makes sense that, that will have huge negative effects on fertility.
The promise of this headline is amazing. Sadly, the linked page appears to be a X-prize / Latitude prize type competition to find a way of doing it, rather than an actual product.
My experience has been that trying to do huge things to a dream setting either just ends the dream it doesn’t really work. For me, it was easy to get to a state of , okay I’m lucid, now what? Only thing is to go with the flow, surf rather than control. I imagine with lots of practice it can be better handled.
see my sibling comment for an idea on how to set nextcloud up for easy maintenance.

disclaimer: i have updated several version, but haven't upgraded to version 21 yet (it just got released)
Oh, come now - comparing Marxists to people who "believe computers work via magic" is a little harsh.

Econ departments don't have Marxists for the same reason philosophy departments don't have Buddhist scholars: it's just not where they belong. The Buddhists belong in religious studies, and the Marxists belong in the political science department.
"Backed by something"! It sounds so reassuring when you phrase it that way.
A lot of people do. For example driving over the speed limit because they can't be fined.
> Sure, tether wasn’t backed at all times (probably is now),

Even Tether admitted that they weren’t backed by funds, and that was before they printed most of their current supply: https://www.coindesk.com/tether-lawyer-confirms-stablecoin-7...

I don’t understand why anyone would be in a rush to take them at their word when every new piece of evidence demonstrates that Tether’s operators are not interested in behaving honestly.

> Also banks do this all the time, every time they issue a loan for instance. The bank only keeps 10-30% collateral on your home.

Fractional reserve banking doesn’t mean banks can simply print more money than they have on the books.

Regardless, if a bank loses funds due to fraud or government intervention or whatever, they can’t simply continue pretending they had the money all along.

I don’t understand the desire to pretend that what Tether is doing is normal or good for the crypto community. It’s not.
Looks like Tether is taking the settlement as an agreement of no wrong doing and that no tether coins were issued without backing.

https://tether.to/tether-and-bitfinex-reach-settlement-with-...
It wasn't that long ago that compariing .NET to Go was insane: Go was far faster but now it's a toss-up in some cases. Go still wins on small size of binary but in cloud workloads does it really matter if my lambda in go is half the memory and half the execution time when the "bigger, slower" C# version is still under 128MB and executing only a few milliseconds slower? In cloud cost terms the difference is small enough not to matter.
No , i mean lower sperm/egg quality. Why are people quick to jump to extreme conclusions here?
You're right, the compression step is mechanical. Heat pumps are the most carbon efficient after ~0°C.
So in most parts of the globe electrical heat-pumps are the most environment-friendly. Thanks I Edited my first comment.
I think there’s support at 40, will jump on because this stuff is too obvious at this point.
> Christians on the other hand consider themselves a superset of Judaism. For the most part they don't dispute Judaism (as it existed before 0AD) and think of Christianity are an updated/evolved version.

Can you clarify? Because the Gospels are largely the accounts of a man who spent the most impactful years of His life disputing Judaism as it existed at the time.

Also Christianity cannot be an offshoot of the religion now called Judaism, because the former precedes the latter chronologically. Rabbinic Judaism is significantly newer than Christianity. The old Hebrew religion died with the Second Temple.
There are natural consequences of speech, and there are legal consequences of speech.

Natural consequences are things like if I say "I hate people who wear hats," and I get an internet mob coming after me to defend hats.

Legal consequences would be if I happen to wander into a jurisdiction that has outlawed badmouthing hat-wearers, and I get arrested.

Legal consequences of speech are restrictions on free speech, because they are something humans specifically and deliberately chose and could un-choose. Natural consequences are just that: natural.
Madoff’s fraud took decades to unravel, too. You’d have looked silly declining to invest there, until the collapse.
You can supply heat no problem. What I was talking about was recovering energy from heat, which is physically limited by Carnot engine. The percentage was Carnot engine efficiency. Note that it is impossible to create Carnot engine in real life, so actual efficiency is much, much, much lower.
There are better options.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/710/124/9ce...
Yes they do. They usually have classic resistive heating elements for when the outside temperatures drop too low for the heatpump to be efficient.