skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.paxos.com/attestations/

> Paxos Trust Company has engaged Withum, a nationally top-ranking auditing firm, to independently verify at specific points in time that the entire supply of Paxos Standard tokens is consistent with USD in reserve accounts at U.S. banks held and managed by Paxos.

> Withum performs month-end attestations of these accounts using standards established by the AICPA.

An independent third party verifies and attests to the fact reserves match supply every month. Looks fine to me.
Waiting for my Face Dancer servants
More importantly, take away something, and provide no alternative in any way while taking in lots of money while causing considerable external cost to others. Then offer cheap platitudes and maybe hint at throwing more money their way.
D.C. Circuit Court: Preferred Typefaces for Briefs [pdf]
This is very interesting read. Reminds me of this article.

https://www.arneswinnen.net/2016/07/how-i-could-steal-money-...
Configure output isn't compiler output, so I guess we've got to the bottom of this mystery.

> With Gentoo, you could configure the system exactly as you wanted, down to the compiler flags.

This doesn't give you the control you think it does. Most of the customization you refer to is basically adding a USE flag to make.conf and running "emerge whatever" again, which I maintain isn't much of a teaching tool.

You end up learning about Gentoo, not software, compilers, operating systems, or computers.

> Instead of targeting a well-known arch (ex: i686), Gentoo let you set your compiler flags for the entire system to match your exact CPU.

This is a good example. So many people ended up thinking (incorrectly!) that this benefited them in some meaningful way, and thought that they were learning and customizing, when they still don't know, even a decade on, that '-O2' and '-O3 -march=native' are for almost all
tasks indistinguishable from a performance standpoint or how to even go about measuring the difference.

Gentoo is like a show on the History Channel: it sure feels like you're learning!
We know that life only emerges in very specific conditions, that most planets do not have. We also know that even in very stable Earth, we have had billions and billions of species that developed and disappeared and we now only have a single specie with technological capabilities - and for a very short time at that, all things considered.

If the universe is 'rich in life', most of it is probably micro-organisms that get wiped out every now and then by drastic changes on the planetary scale.
No, I got that you don't like either IntelliJ or VS Code. But I saw the narrow gap for a joke and decided to wiggle through.
SoundForge was quite capable back in the day. It was probably one of my first chances to "remix" works and probably helped shape my worldview (as weird as that sounds. Making music from music was a pleasure and not a 'bad' thing).
I like 2/29 as some systems are dumb enough to only bug me once every four years instead of once a year.
> I would not blame solely company PR departments for this, often the press exaggerates claims for clicks.

PR specifically knows how the press reacts and tailors their messages accordingly. Also, there's a lot of cross-pollination between people working for PR and people who work in the press.
Try 39 meters, weighing 400 tons for just the first mirror in sequence of 5, and that's without supports and actuators and everything else.
> the fact that the world is an illusion.

I may not be disagreeing with what you mean, but one should be careful to differentiate between concepts, that are knowable, and things they refer to, which are not¹. Lots of confusion stems from mistaking the two. From what you were taught are apples to the world or ones own self.

As an illustration, if I slap your face, you may argue it is an illusion, it may not affect your later in life, and you may not even remember it. I take it as true, that words nor imagination are no match for an actual good slap. After a slap, people may disagree whether it was a slap, they may have illusions about who, what, how or why .. yet I don't think many will argue it is an illusion in the sense that nothing in fact happened.

¹ Well, most of them anyway.
Indeed, you can cherry pick individual examples of inaccurate reporting from literally any media outlet.

It seems suspicious to me that this commenter picked out a story criticising the right that had some innacuracies when it's largely media outlets on the right that have a history of actually repeatedly reporting outright lies in recent history (see Fox, OAN, Newsmax etc).
Agreed, but thats the tragedy of desktop ui development. Either you get pretty but electron app where loading a few hundred messages grinds it to a halt

Or you get ancient looking Ui

Or you get platform spesific stuff!

Actually Java applications are kinda reasonable compromise
> and why each new generation will forget past lessons.

This is also a reason why open source is such a useful concept
the open source community was a lot harder to take seriously back then, its hard to remember/imagine how much licensed and in-house software we ran back in the late 90s, but so much was either paid for or bespoke
I would not buy a car that comes in Ikea flat packages and you have to assemble it yourself. On the other side, in aviation this is a thing and I really plan to build a plane from a kit when I will have the time and money to do it.
Veganism. Bicycling, no car, no airplane travel. Joining protests. Help block coalmines. Going to prison for lorry surfing a fracking lorry. Watch Youtube videos in the worst quality. But we're f*cked.
When I'm OK with the defaults, LaTeX is a breeze.

When I want to change something nontrivial about the formatting or style, it's a nightmare. For example, there are zero mature fonts besides the default computer modern that also have math rendering that's aesthetically acceptable to me. And I forget the details, but typesetting is handled in such a way that the kerning around things like hyphens is broken. I've fixed it manually before in places where it was particularly egregious.

Also on this point: an ungodly number of hours are wasted every year by academics figuring out how to contort LaTeX so the resulting document complies with NSF grant specifications, which you must meet or be auto-rejected. In particular, NSF requires one-inch margins, but there's no way to force the typesetting engine to strictly respect the margins you set. So at the end you're left to turn the visual margin guides on and check there are no margin overruns, or you risk getting your proposal set to the trash (theoretically, at least).

I've also heard that LaTeX editors are development disasters with a bus factor of one. The NSF really ought to fund them, because if we wake up one day after the maintainers of all the popular editors die and Apple/Microsoft force an operating system update that breaks compatibility, paper writing in the physical sciences will grind to a halt.
I ran across the following observation a little while ago: the volatility of one's currency should be less than the volatility of the goods purchased by that currency.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say I’ve probably meditated for a lot longer than you. I highly recommend The Mind Illuminated.

Edit: oops sorry for actually clarifying why I may be an expert on this subject
Ask HN: Where to sell a 16“ MacBook Pro?
I bought one for personal use last year, and I'm wishing I'd waited for M1. I'd happily "downgrade" to the new Air if I could get some of my money back, but Apple's trade-in rates are atrocious.

I'm wondering if some niches out there still specifically want an Intel Mac, and I figured HN would be the most likely place to find them. Perhaps people who are worried about hardware freedom, or those who want to run Linux on it? Any others? Is there still a market out there or am I stuck?
Sure, but then do "similar images"
Sure, but that's regular releases, not LTS
A lot of religious radio types tend to play fast and loose with transmit regulations, or even quality of hw to prevent randomly sprouting harmonics few channels away (a certain somewhat "loud" case in Poland was illegal rebroadcast that managed to spill over to airport frequency...)
Not sure why you're being downvoted, the differences from the reporting and the actual call are exactly the sorts of differences you'd expect if their anonymous source was someone who had heard the call once and was conveying the wording based off of memory. There's no significant difference in meaning as far as I can tell - Trump was still instructing them to find him votes.
Off the top of my head:

Not doing market research.

Taking too long to release v1.

Not spending enough time on marketing.

Lifetime licenses.

Obsessing over piracy.

See also:
https://successfulsoftware.net/2009/07/21/ten-mistakes-micro...
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Love the problem you guys are solving. Can't really trust Amazon reviews much.
Citation please? Like the above post, I’ve not seen any criticism of this that points to the government - this is a total straw man.
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Or maybe nobody really wants to spend Bitcoin because its only use-case is wild speculation and this is just a marketing stunt on Visa’s behalf.
I've long thought human greed is going to be the Great Filter that we won't pass. You've managed to say exactly how that comes to be.
> You've not met me, but I'm a left-leaning individual who thinks the drama about "cancel culture" is mostly invented.

Your position is the same as the ones he's met. That was his point.
Even with extended life span ain't nobody ever going to another galaxy.

Even if we could travel at the speed of light, it would take 2.5 million years just to get to the nearest galaxy.
Right, I was making the assumption this problem was solvable and that the contradictory ideas could be hashed out. You can imagine that happening with a single Muslim and a single Christian, it happens all the time that people have conversions with a close friend. The critique I pose is of scale.
no 4k but that's ok because the rpi4 would overheat and throttle itself if it even hardware accelerated it anyway
I've always internally thought that there are some languages that our brains just _don't_ like.

I used to think that there was "something wrong" with me for finding C++ verbose and C expressively dangerous, or to find myself reaching for multi-line awk, sed, and bash scripts that did _stupid_ things when I "knew" that a better solution existed but I didn't know how to _express_ that solution concisely.

Perhaps a more concrete example would be this: I don't use python often and some of its syntactical quirks get me every time -- like, for example, None as a method to insert a new axis by convention in numpy (so much so that numpy define np.newaxis as an alias to it). It makes total sense but at the same time, the fact that the language likes having what almost looks like a C NULL as a method to insert a dimension seems...wrong, like it should be a syntax error.

I've now just come to realise that hey: if you can't express this concept well in one language, and you _can_ in another, it's well worth prototyping the solution in the right domain and one could always write something in a "sensible" language later if it turns out to work.
Minor late correction: “San Joaquin County” should have been “San Joaquin Valley”. (Or, since Sacramento was addressed elsewhere, it could have been in broader context “counties with the other significant Central Valley cities.”)
> Who is 'people' here?

People in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

For example, when the Bitcoin/Bitcoin Cash split happened, you had people dumping one for the other to manipulate the price in their favor, you had miners that decided which one they wanted to mine, exchanges that decided which one they wanted to put under BTC ticker and some people that just stayed on the sidelines waiting to see which chain would prevail.

For a brief moment, Bitcoin Cash was actually close (in price, adoption, etc), but then eventually people chose the original chain as Bitcoin and we know the rest.
Good point. Fiddling with blur in Gimp does remove plenty of that dither noise. Though of course now my eyes keep trying to refocus, just like in the olde times.
Truth is inherently human, we cannot conceive of a truth that isn't humancentric.
I've found the exact opposite - Audacity used to be instant, but these days its UI is dog slow. It seems to struggle badly on high-DPI displays: it is almost unusable maximized on both macOS and Linux (X11) if you have a 4K or so display. It feels like it's actively gotten worse on this front.

I'm hoping this is something that improved in 3.0.0, because using Audacity is becoming increasingly impractical. I was just trying to listen to 10 tracks one by one yesterday and even just muting/soloing a track would take about a second; it was horrible. Shrinking the window helps, but it's silly to have a tiny window and scroll around when you have a 4K display.

I kind of suspect this to be a windowing toolkit issue, and originally I thought it was macOS-specific (since I first noticed when I tried to recommend it to friends who use that), but ever since I moved to a 4K screen on Linux I noticed it's bad here too...

The Mac story is here:
https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=111105

The workaround is, well, not using HiDPI mode which is silly. But Audacity doesn't even seem to support HiDPI mode on Linux properly to begin with (the entire UI is small), so that's not it per se... I guess wxGTK just struggles when it has to draw 4x as many pixels?

Apparently it's bad on Windows too: https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?t=111857
I think this is not a good reason to replace LaTeX. The big advantage of TeX over other systems is the extensibility of the language. Yes, the language is strange, but you get used to it, and it does what it's supposed to do. So I think that, just like UNIX, replacing TeX will never be completely done, unless something really great shows up.
Would you also have to set cache control headers?
How do you eventually repay that loan (or at least pay interest)?
Doesn't seem to be open source, though.
Anathema FPS is about making friends and making enemies
Ask HN: What books have you read recently?
And without a doubt these people (PMs) proudly call themselves "allies" to the cause. SMH.
Perhaps you cannot, but I can.
Reinventing LaTeX can be done. The huge problem is to reinvent the ecosystem of packages. This would take several years, if not decades.
I wonder if this project will stay sustainable when V100 prices in other clouds drop below $1/h. This is not unthinkable considering A100 becoming more widespread.
Let's hope the Chinese start asteroid mining soon so we can get the military industrial spending firehose pointed back at the space program
With Clang 13 you can literally format your hard drive using undefined behavior
What has WebRTC got to do with me personally? Please try to speak to the topic, it makes for better reading, and threads much less likely to lead in the wrong direction.

> If you do both STUN and TURN it works on most networks

TURN requires clean outbound UDP/TCP connectivity which is far from ubiquitous, there are numerous corporate firewalls where "CONNECT <x>:443" is the best that could be hoped for, and even in some of those, where if the resulting connection did not include an obvious SSL handshake the connection would be immediately reset.
It can be genuine, virtue signaling, and profitable all at once. They aren't mutually exclusive.
Apply that same limitation to stocks, art, any of the millions of homes where the buyer doesn't live in...what is your point?
I like Nova, a lot.

But I think the critical mistake it makes is not copying the VSCode extension API 1:1. I don't think Nova has the spread/appeal to cause people to develop (complete, high quality) extensions.

The core editor is important, sure, but the extensions for VSCode make it what it is for many people. When your implementation story for them is rougher, it's going to suffer.

I wound up just sticking to my old-school Vim workflow due to the above. shrug
Thank you for keeping Hacker News a clean and a productive environment for rational discourse. I see you a lot across posts and I'm not sure how much automation you use, but it's clear that you put in an extraordinary amount of effort in tending this garden.

Thanks dang.
If we should compare it to any other successful FLOSS project it should be good ol' GIMP
I bought a MBP, turned it on and started working.

I'm partly joking here, but overall I've been trying to use Linux as a desktop environment for nearly 20 years now. It's come a long way but it feels fragile to me. I've been able to do something as simple as a reboot, only to find the graphics go wonky and I'm left with a terminal to debug it.

I even ran FreeBSD as a desktop OS too. That worked well but was also fragile (less so than Linux. The BSDs are solid options.)

Maybe as I get older, wiser (ha!) and more patient and I'll give these things a try again (because there are Apple/Mac related issues slowly cropping up) and perhaps they will work better.

I even gave Windows 10 a serious try recently, using all the latest console emulators to get a better (Linux/iTerm like) experience, VScode, etc. The "sub system for Linux" worked well for a bit before it didn't (file permissions, moving between the two operating systems, etc.)

Ideally I wish I could find the experience I desire within a FreeBSD based desktop environment because then so many hardware options become available to me. Old and new.
My biggest pet peeve - just allow me to save a .wav file without having me make a project or 'export' it! It would be a huge time saver as I am usually just editing one file at a time, not mixing.
> Sadly most people don't care nor should have to but the decentralization […]

"Decentralization"? Bank of America Global Research just released a report today that said:

> 1. Concentrated Ownership: About 95% of Bitcoin is controlled by just 2.4% of the accounts, and distribution is heavily skewed towards the largest accounts. By comparison, the latest Fed data suggests that the top 1% of Americans control about 30.4% of all household wealth in the US.

* Francisco Blanch, with Savita Subramanian, Philip Middleton, et. al. "Bitcoin’s dirty little secrets". BofA Global Research, 17 March 2021.

Probably not even Russian oligarchs have that much control.
I disagree that distributing wealth would reduce division and strife. It would only increase it.

Which is not to say that it's a bad idea -- there are many positive benefits to having social insurance, for example it encourages risk taking and entrepreneurship if you know that failing wont cost you your ability to get healthcare. Losing a job stops being an existential tragedy, which means it can be easier to lay people off.

But one thing it does not do, is reduce division, which increases with equality and decreases with inequality.

Equality is an unstable equilibrium in which everyone jockeys for power as the society is torn apart by constant strife.

This is why the upheavals of the late 60s occurred after rapid reductions in inequality in the 40s and 50s.

Make one small group the boss, make it clear no one ever stands any chance of challenging them, and suddenly you have stability. Make everyone equal, or within a stone's throw of the boss, and you see a lot of stones being thrown.
> Not the best headline, but I think it's a great app idea.

I agree. It's not the guilt that's the problem, it's the catastrophic climate change.
Thanks, I hadn't seen that before. I really liked the line "People think we're a Ruby shop, but actually we're a UNIX shop. Everything else is an implementation detail".
It may very well be after it ,still due to “black swan” type events. With technology continuing to progress, there may be a point where a small group of dedicated people can construct enough nuclear warheads for a nuclear winter, or engineer the perfect deadly virus with a large incubation period. And/or if we develops AGI, that a single malicious group controlling an AGI can end all life on earth. Technology will continue to advance, and it is easier to destroy than to create.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk
Anyone else remember using Goldwave in the pre-Audacity days, or its multi-track cousin Multiquence?
my first youtube video! Built one of these at school. Oddly, it wasn't for a project, it was because a professor needed 100 copies of a cd done for some reason or another, and paid me for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsQKTUYtZvo
I guess everyone should know what a DAW is.
Yep, I get that it looks fine to you. That’s because you don’t understand the difference. That was the whole point of my comment. You spend 5 seconds googling and say “yep, good enough for me”.

This is the crypto world.
What's always been interesting to me is the well-known "NY1":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NY1

Carried on Charter cable systems in NYC, various other systems throughout the country. Sometimes on channel 1, sometimes on other channels on different systems - likely due to technical challenges.
But much like ratings systems are actually used as approval/disapproval systems, such a system would instead come to represent ‘what is the most profitable moderation’. Such a market would optimise towards profit, not quality.
But what about all the other bids and asks in the book? If you’re trying to drive the price down, there will be buy orders at higher prices your sell order will be matched with first.
I haven’t yet, but I will take a look tomorrow
Would you be able to share a copy of the guide?
> ConTeXt is not targeted toward authors of scientific papers

Absolutely true.

I would posit that most people writing LaTeX aren't writing up papers in it either (Most journals prefer or require Word these days).

ConText isn't just for books though..it's great for any sort of thing with formatting...like, say, a resume.
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You never identify who is taking the different sides of this bargain. It is almost as if it is a fate accompli that some people want to pretend is some sort of trade undertaken with some other people, because trade implies consent.

In fact, it is what it always is, a rich person taking something in order to sell you a poor replacement while calling it progress.
I can envisage the explanation of the root cause. "example.com." is seen as for examples in documentation, and what is the case here appears, rather, to be placeholder values in softwares that have not been fully installed and configured with the correct information for the company. This might not be the case, but it seems likely. And yes, the "invalid." top-level domain might have been suitable, although one might equally question the wisdom of an application that is sending mail (rather than complaining loudly) when its mail settings have not yet been configured.
It's not a conversion. It's basically a separate language.

(Well, technically, the same language, but imagine all the std. library functions are different).

They're also very different philosophies.

LaTeX tries to do do everything semantically, and hide the details.

CoNTeXt otoh admits that concreteness matters, so you generally say what you want. Think "empahasis" vs "bold, underlined, 15pt text".
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