skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most damning detail I've seen comes from US treasury TIC reports, which fail to reveal matching bond ownership inflow to the country that is the reputed host of Tether's segregated bank account.

It is possible that Tether holds funds in some kind of strange non-interest-bearing account, but that seems highly unlikely. Another possibility is that the primary bank is actually a wrapper around some overseas correspondent bank where the funds are really held.

Occam's razor: a company selling a 1:1 hedged coin should have absolutely no difficulty whatsoever proving on a daily or hourly basis that all coins are verifiably fully hedged. It should literally be the company's prime directive, and in this particular case, especially following the endless stream of controversy. The fact they haven't managed to convincingly achieve this even once in 7 years is all I need to know.

The whole thing stinks terribly. Good luck for those who invest in it, but I'll be there if/when it blows up to quietly feel smug about it all
yes wildlife (crocs, box jelly fish, snakes, scorpions, ...) but more annoyingly sand flies that will feed on the puss from infected mosquito bites and lay their eggs into them. ability for the most benign scratches to heal is much reduced in this place which is perpetually wet.

Wikipedia notes that the first time somebody made the trip wasn't that long before our protagonist in this post decided to skip the peninsular:

> The tip of the peninsula (Cape York) was finally reached by Europeans in 1864 when the brothers Francis Lascelles (Frank) and Alexander William Jardine, along with eight companions, drove a mob of cattle from Rockhampton to the new settlement of Somerset (on Cape York) where the Jardines' father was commander. En route they lost most of their horses, many of their stores and fought pitched battles with Aboriginal people, finally arriving in March 1865.
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> Why should i send a dimension as a string?

You shouldn't because a dimension is a number. Something 4 feet long is twice as long as something 2 feet long.
Obviously, he meant that the heatpump mined the cryo out of outside cold air… cryomining, cryptomining, same thing, right ?
I'm in the research community and I think you're significantly underetsimating the effect of firing Gebru and Mitchell. Machine learning is the hottest research area in computer science and ethics of ML is possibly its hottest subfield. And people pay attention to employers' actions. I think Microsoft Research is still feeling reputation effects from closing down its Silicon Valley lab 10 years ago with no warning. It sent a message to everyone who worked there that they had no job security, and plenty left for academia. The research community is not going to forget about Google's actions here nor, for the most part, will it view Google very favorably.
No they are a genuine lab with scientists; but I agree that the homepage is misleading.
If journalism is important, maybe the winning strategy is to have it be funded by taxpayers who have some control over what journalism exists. Because I wouldn't exactly call Murdoch's empire "good journalism" and that is where the "river of gold" would flow towards in this case.

"Journalism used to be funded by ads, ads are now being spent on Google/Facebook, therefore Google/Facebook must fund journalism" is bogus, IMO.
I think so too.

(However, the largest single day drop in BTC history must be pointing at something, and that cannot be ignored ...)
I am a huge fan of Nextcloud and I couldn't agree more. My upgrade path is to just start a new instance with a fresh sync, because I was traumatized by a turbulent and uncertain upgrade on all of my instances once about two years ago. This is a product I love and choose to rely upon for my data, every day. I'm interested in the bells and whistles and I want the platform to succeed - my preference would be an LTS for my critical data, and the option to spin up newer features separately to test before adoption.
They are slowly becoming more common here in Germany. I'd say about half of the houses in the newly developed part of town have one and a few older ones are retrofitting them as well here.
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The Ami is designed specifically to be driven without a licence, from 14 yo. I think those regulations exist in France, Italy and The Netherlands. As such it has a lower speed, it's also as stated weatherproof and can haul a friend / toddler or shopping safely.

Tbh the idea of a car is a bit redundant compared to a proper smartrail system. Hang the rail from streetlights to free up ground space. You can run AC power and cat6 in the rail, it's separate from pedestrians so driverless is easy, no parking issues, no need to store power so you can run a pod at 300mph to take a family/ palette point to point, and hanging means you can run it straight into factories or halfway up buildings.
Heat pump is 3x more efficient at heating than any electric resistive heat.
I do stay awake at night and wonder yes.
A town isn't supplied at 220V. More like 33KV. At least 7.5KV.
Maybe this is obvious, but are "Lightspeed Briefs" meant to be a pun on Fruit of the Loom (often abbreviated as FTL) and the scifi trope of FTL (faster than light) travel?

That was my thought when I first saw this episode many years ago and I can't tell if I'm reaching or it's one of those things that's obvious to everyone else.
My urban apartment has a heat pump and it's nothing special. I even pay the heat bill and they still gave me a heat pump. I have no idea why someone would say they aren't viable. Not only are they viable, they're typical for new construction in warmer climates.
I've always championed DAI for a stablecoin. I don't know why it's not more popular. https://makerdao.com/en/

Instead of it being (supposedly) backed by a dollar reserve, it's collateralized by ETH and several ERC20 tokens in a smart contract. The smart contract does things to make DAI tend toward $1. It's been out for years and I think it has worked pretty well: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/multi-collateral-dai/

It works through collateralized loans.
Unfortunately, they’ve got the data... that alone will attract talent and money.
> (probably is now)

This kind of argumentation makes cryptocurrency proponents so insufferable. There’s no evidence Tether is backed, but somehow we can just assume in a parenthesis that they probably are, and then go on a tangential rant about banks or fiat or digital gold or something.
You're forgetting the various fluids : oil, coolant and associated tubing, filtering and pumps, the radiator and fan, the starter/alternator, the gearbox, the transmission, the air filter, various belts ... Quite a bit more complex than the electrical alternative.
This isn't particularly unusual. The opinion section is a fine place for dissenting views. Consider a news article covering the abuse of elderly in a nursing home, with an opinion piece defending (or explaining, or whatever) the nursing home - this could be good.
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This is only true if we accept your unstated premise that BTC itself isn't a big ole Ponzi scheme.

I guess we could argue, "It's good news for our slightly more subtle fraud if the blatant, obvious fraud gets stamped out."
> You’re paying for a certificate no one respects or cares about.

Somewhat tautologically, the people paying big bucks presumably care about the tokens. Sometimes that is enough
Agreed. It's all about perception, not about actual value added. Just see e.g. the costs of environmental pollution that are not even considered when 'calculating' the added value.
I built a telnet app in 2021
In my experience of running my own Nextcloud instance for over 4 years, I've never had an upgrade break my instance. Caveat: I'm on the stable channel and I only update when the client prompts me to update, which is a few point releases into a new release.
You make it sound like they have been taken down globally. That's not a "minor change".
That was the conclusion of the AG.

Case is moot. Tether is definitely sketch, but it’s not this massive money laundering/conspiracy HN thinks it is.
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Follow that work to Carl Jung.
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Makes sense for B2B services where data collection is the core product (i.e analysis, crash reporting). I can see businesses wanting to pay for a service that wouldn’t take their metrics and sell it. But what about B2C?
Banksy also showed that the value of art is subjective with his movie "exit through the gift shop".
It is "we". Almost all people I know will make selfish decisions that harm others for their own advantage. It seems to be simply human nature.
Here is an alternative: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5-usa. Before complaining about the price, try to find any other phone made in USA.
do you want to cite a specific paragraph?
That's fine, because it's not exactly clear what "ld" stands for to begin with. If anyone asks, you could just say that the W and E stand for "Weally Efficient".
Maybe not en masse, but the market for households' second vehicles is still pretty big. I think there's a lot to be said for subcompact electric cars appropriately sized for solo commuting and shopping. It's limitations don't matter so much when the primary car can do all the bussing and long distances.
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And then even before BIOS/EFI is Intel’s ME or AMD’s PSP. And when control is handed over to the BIOS/EFI, the processor is pretending to be an 8086-era processor running in “Real Mode” (16 bit). The BIOS/EFI have to tell the processor to stop pretending (switch to “Protected” (32 bit) or “Long Mode” (64 bit)), do their things - and in the case of the BIOS, switch back to Real Mode - and then hand control over to the OS. It’s layers and layers of complexity all the way down. It’s astounding how much technical debt there is in these machines, and yet they still work.
All currencies are imaginary. Money is a human construct.
Exactly. This is why, when someone sees the front page of a physical newspaper in a store, we detain then until they've paid 10 cents for the privilege.
I’ve recently taken up flying - it’s by far the best thing I’ve done :)

I’ve seen electric motors changing gliding drastically these last few years and a proper electric engine for GA would be a game changer.
In addition to being “nothing”, even the side of the road is often not suitable for an overnight tent. The vegetation may be dense. There may be dingos too (had some around my tent, not pleasing) and worse, humans (stories of barfights on restareas are common).
Think of the NFT not so much as the art itself but as the artist's signature on the art.

Much as a widely reproduced celebrity photograph can go from essentially valueless to thousands of dollars with the right signature, so too can digital art with the right digital signature.
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> You don't have a nextcloud problem, you have a system administration problem.

Those aren't mutually exclusive. Sure, better dev ops would make major upgrades safer and easier. But for a hobbyist self-hosting their own instance, a LTS release would be a godsend to save them hours of unpaid work.
I didn't specify a direction, so I'm not sure how I can be describing the wrong one? My point is that the price of ethereum doesn't have to move at all and yet his mining rig will become unprofitable after a time. The hash rate will increase and/or more efficient miners will come online, leaving his equipment needing to mine faster or use less electricity in order to generate the same returns.
Editing my response because OP has edited theirs- putting my original comment out of context.
If you prefer gas, you could use it to power a gas generator and use that electricity to mine bitcoins. All the waste heat from both the mining and the generator could be used to heat your house
I remember places like Zeuxworld would try to archive everything (even before DigitalMZX came around) and was impressed with the size of their library. But then I'd stumble on personal websites on places like Geocities or Angelfire where people would post their ZZT and MegaZeux worlds. The worlds on these personal sites weren't in any of the archives. I wouldn't be surprised if there were still a handful of these on the web alone. Who knows how many old hard drives out there still hold rare games and engines
I was going to post a similar reply, but the more I think about it, the more I'm not sure that we're going to get the old sense of journalism back. I'm not sure what the future is, but I don't think it will look like the past.

> Google and Facebook aren’t supplanting journalism - they benefit from it: while responsible citizens like you and me may prefer to read a news article rather than skim the headline or article preview and post a take on our timelines - I can assure you the majority of the “news”-consuming public definitely prefers the latter.

Google and Facebook are, for the reason you point out at the end: people only read the headlines. You never actually leave Facebook or Google. Facebook and Google are your source of news. We've just accepted that "news" translates to "headlines republished on Google or Facebook". We're having an existential crisis in journalism because Google and Facebook are supplanting the news.

More than all of that, though, is that I don't think people actually care about the news anymore, or the news of old anymore. There's not enough demand for balanced investigative journalism anymore. People are pretty happy with the status quo of grassroots efforts and extremely hyperbolic reporting (on both sides, it's not a partisan effort). I strongly suspect that if I asked 100 people to pick their favorite newspaper or news program and then asked them how they decided, I would get 0 responses that say "because I looked into it and they have the shortest record of inaccurate reporting".

Or maybe I'm just getting jaded as I get older.

Journalism is going to have to fundamentally change. We can legislate revenue to these organizations, but that's not going to force people to read them. Which is the root issue in many ways; people aren't reading them. The Fourth Estate is still dead if they exist but nobody pays attention.

We need a new way to keep people informed. Something that can pull people's attention like clickbait, but with a better quality of information. Perhaps if we can figure out a way to film news events in VR, that will have enough novelty to bring people back for a while. News about rocket strikes in Syria would be a lot more attention-grabbing if the news could make you appear to actually be in the street when the rocket strikes. Although I guess then we have to deal with the fallout of that; not to be a luddite but I have to wonder how close we can get to actually putting people in violent situations before it starts having similar effects to actually having been there.
That would still be a good thing. If everybody would switch from cow's milk to soy milk we would cut green house gase emissions by two thirds.
The affects on land and water usage are even greater.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46654042
> The issue is that if it isn’t backed they can print more at any time.

That’s how all banking works. China, for instance, never even publish how much money they click into existence.

Not saying it’s correct, just explaining how the system really works. They really do “create” money. Even synthetic shares are created on the stock market (largely when creating ETF blocks), see “naked shorts”. It happens all the time.

Here’s an explanation on how banking & interest work in a digestible way: http://anuparty.org/on-interest-slavery/
> Some crypto currencies (don't call them "crypto", that's lame and wrong)

"Cryptocurrency" is more than twice as long in letters and syllables. I think we've reached the point where "crypto" is disambiguated in most contexts from "cryptography", or did the author have a different reason for calling that abbreviation "lame and wrong"?
> Sure, tether wasn’t backed at all times (probably is now), due to governments seizing their funds. 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.

Exactly. Tether has made no claims about the quality of the collateral they use to back Tethers, so they can probably get away with some very questionable accounting. Anyone who actually has skin in the game understands this about Tether. If you want to take the risk, go right ahead. I've traded at least $50M in notional volume over the past 3 years and never, not once, have I touched Tether.
It is supremely ironic that we’re supposed to believe that the best way to escape money printing is to buy a cryptocurrency that was invented out of thin air, which is continuously mined (during most of our lifetimes) out of thin air by doing useless calculations.

Or even worse, a basket of multiple crypto currencies, where the number of available crypto currencies and crypto assets grows larger every day.
Bernie Madoff's fraud was big and awful, but, if the allegations about Tether are true, then (edit: for the purposes of this particular discussion) comparing the two is a category error. Madoff's fraud never raised any questions about whether the exchange rate between USD and some other currency was legitimate.
Super interesting project and tech, but it’s competing with USDC (and similar USD-backed tokens). Adoption will just take longer for DAO-backed stablecoins.
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Exactly.

We've traded confidence in centralized, old world financial institutions, for decentralized, techno-utopian...financial institutions.

Same s**, different marketing.
I'm a little bit worried with the shift from a 'cloud' storage solution to a groupware software... I only need the storage bits but it seems they are focusing on the groupware thing lately...
You can take redemption from tether and they will wire you the money, they are in fact registered and regulated. on several exchanges it can be exchanged into fiat, for smaller participant.s

It would collapse a long time ago, if it weren't backed.
Here's a Finland example that was posted earlier. It makes it seem like it's already working.

https://helsinkismart.fi/case/waste-not-want-not-data-center...
I speculate this article is because of the firing.
Tether is Tether. Bitcoin is Bitcoin. The fact that exchanges exist which allow you to trade one for the other does not make them the same kind of thing.
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Probably has, even though there's still a lot of people who smoke. Think it will be a while before it really can be considered a more rare occurrence/habit.

Considering how many people still do it, it could be considered as part of our culture.

Otherwise i don't know any sources of radiation. Besides some places where the atmosphere is getting thin, and getting skin cancer is very normal, like Australia.
Isn't that asking too much. How would a researcher also know how mitigate the problems they identified.
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I would think cows eat more than one type of grass. I went to Mt. Mount Rainier and saw a mountain meadow for the first time, and was blown away how pretty and diverse it was in grasses.

So do Swiss cows in the Alps make the best milk?
> To that extent that Nintendo has any influence in this area, I'd say they're quite supportive of people using their old hardware.

Nintendo is a member of the Entertainment Software Association (https://www.theesa.com/), which AFAIK is the main entity lobbying to keep console jailbreaking illegal.

Not to mention the fact that Nintendo shuts down online services and digital stores for old consoles, which means that you can't even download games you've purchased anymore.

Also, the issue isn't about whether Nintendo wants people to play old games on old hardware, it's that Nintendo doesn't want you to play new software on old hardware, and that they're actually able to enforce this through the DMCA's arbitrary special restrictions for video game consoles (by comparison, jailbreaking phones is perfectly legal under the DMCA)

That both suppresses competition, directly hurts consumers, and is just wasteful.
To echo what the other replies are saying: mine has been running on a DigitalOcean droplet since early 2019 and I only had to reboot it once.

It syncs everything, the iOS app and web dashboard are adequate. I would recommend it (but I haven't tried anything else, other than Google Drive or Dropbox, of course)
This is the first time I'm even hearing about NFTs so I might be way off, but I would imagine that the token would be somehow linked to the identity (keypair) of the creator, and that is where the authenticity aspect comes from.
Wait a minute. The conspiracy answers given by AI sounds like a confirmation of facts! (Text written by my own AI model)
I've been trying to bring attention to this project for years. It directly addresses the whole "proof of work is proof of waste" problem. Some of my earliest submissions to HN were about GridCoin, and they largely went compeletely ignored, glad to finally see it on the front page. At least with BOINC you end up with something more worthwhile than just bruteforcing hashes.
I like this definition. Not sure that the "non-intersecting" condition is necessary. I was thinking about a different one, given by the condition that the path never goes farther than d meters from the sea (while encircling the part of the land that is farther than d meters).
So EBCDIC is like “ASCII” in that there isn’t one true definition (people making 8 bit code pages and claiming it was ASCII)?
"Do you have some references?"

Here's one of many if you google.
https://natural-fertility-info.com/study-wi-fi-laptop-comput...

"Are you sure you're not mixing up heat and radiation here?"

I'm not. If you look at my other statements in my comment, you will see that distance plays an important part in RF exposure. Energy dissipates rapidly and is generally minimal beyond 6' when we are talking about sub-watt consumer devices.

"Not to mention it seems we have more commercial exposure too. We have GPS, satellite TV, StarLink, cell towers, etc all vying for 100% coverage. However, I didn't look up the wavelengths, so these might not be an issue, or might cause some other kind of issue."

You quoted me in the above and complained about speculation. You can see in the italics that I acknowledge that I don't know if the distant transmitters cause problems or not.

"Do we know that those kinds of RF are linked to it? X-rays to your balls, sure! But GPS and cellphones? Evidence, please."

I've already linked one study. I'm not going to google everything for you. You can us PubMed too.

I'd also like to ask where your evidence is that it is harmless? Did you also miss the study that said specific brain cancer incidence is raised by holding a cell phone to your head? It seems your position that it's all harmless is just speculation.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cell-phones/what-the-cell-ph...
Or JSON lines - whose website looks very similar to NDJSON's:

https://jsonlines.org/

This format works great when using Amazon Athena (Presto) against log files written with one JSON object per line.
Oh, since I do not use Facebook or Instagramm and only occasionally whatsapp, I can very well imagine a world without that all.

Still, if enough people would be fed up with FB, their dominance would fade away. Well, afaik Telegram (and Signal) gained lots marketshare lateley, so lets see
> On the face of it, it seems to me like tree-sitter could server as a perfectly fine building block for generating LSIF or whatever from a code file.

It does seem this way. Another reply [1] this post makes the same point with a nice proof-of-concept as well.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26230900