skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question: what happens when I buy USDT using another currency than USD? e.g. EUR or BRL. How can USDT maintain its parity with USD under such circunstances?
Do you have a sense of what that depreciation factor is?

If it’s nearly equivalent to overall population growth, it may not matter.

(For what it’s worth, I’m with you for the most part. Just curious. I’ve been short-term wrong on BTC since $102 and I’m trying to figure out if I’m long-term wrong as well.)
One of each. Mine is a Kickr, wife's is a Kickr Snap. It is nice to ride at the same time.

It does take up significant room - our basement family room is more than half exercise equipment (2 trainers, 1 Concept II rower). The remaining space is barely enough for sofa, TV on a sideboard, and a bookshelf (which is half full of bike helmets and related gear).

In therms of dollars, yeah, it's pricey, but compared to gym memberships (now all cancelled), or the bikes themselves, it's pocket change.
Ask HN: Would you fly on a 737 Max 8?
Popular Canadian carrier WestJet has started to introduce the 737 MAX 8 back into service and is replacing flights previously using 737-700 and 800s with the MAX. It’s likely other airlines will follow suit, and some may not give you the flexibility to change your flight.

So, if your flight was changed to a MAX, would you fly on it?
Yes go ahead and innovate around them as they steal your intellectual property.

If the Chinese networks / markets were so easy to penetrate as you are suggesting, why would Google have to spend so much time developing a separate search engine for them to be approved by the CCP? Why wouldn’t they just use the search engines that are already out there? It’s pretty obvious as to why.
I don't understand. You're asking why concerns about trying to prevent backups of a user's own data are relevant in a discussion about a bug that reportedly causes catastrophic data loss?
And screenshots are not searchable
> And if you have access to SS7, you can do it without the middle-man $15 service!

This doesn't really seem to make things any worse. Surely it's easier to have $15 than it is to have access to SS7.
By the way, probing at connection time, that I mentioned in my original comment, isn't actually necessary. The GFW will just scan known popular-ish hosts, trying ‘connect-ip’ and banning everything that works as a proxy. (Connection-time probing would just make it easier to discover the hosts, such that collecting the IPs and stats separately is not needed.)
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Small aside : « be free, work? » those are antinomique in my book.

The author of this job listing must be from the United States.
As an artist I actually like the crazy colorful tiles signs.
>BTC did not become “A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,”

I understand that people are disappointed by this thus seeing the idea of BTC as a whole as a "failure", but given the fundamental properties of the system (finite supply, distributed network) it was never possible for BTC to become a currency used widely in everyday high volume transactions. Impossible.

Hal Finney even recognized this in early discussions predicting BTC wouldn't be used in high volume but more likely as a reserve asset, which BTC can absolutely be. Functioning as a digital gold, despite people's aversion or annoyance at this concept. Acting in concert w/ other payment methods or fiat currencies used for payments, taxes, commerce, transactions. A store of value to complement inevitable debasement or dilution of uncapped supplied fiat.
It doesn't need justification, but for outsiders it might need explanations.

There is no value in risk in itself.
What investment is not a Ponzi scheme? Real estate and stocks rely on a greater fool that was later to the party to come buy them at a later date. Stocks have appreciated in value so far past what they are worth for a dividend that we have had to give up that charade long ago.

From the wiki for Ponzi scheme-

> The scheme leads victims to believe that profits are coming from legitimate business activity (e.g. product sales and/or successful investments), and they remain unaware that other investors are the source of funds.

TSLA has a P/E of 1,181 right now. Peloton is 1,660. Amazon is even 80. How is it any different right now?
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About 40% of all Dollars were created in 2020:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
For me it down just few minutes ago.

For curious reason, Nitter still can parse Twitter API (read-only).[0]

BTW, Android Central's provided a good tip, when there was "Twitter Down" on September 23, 2020[1]

> If you're impacted, your best bet is leaving things alone for a few hours and waiting for Twitter to fix their mistake; maybe go outside to enjoy the autumn air (weather on the East Coast is surprisingly nice today).

Just apply a hotfix: $ sed `s/autumn/spring/g`

[0] https://nitter.fdn.fr/twittersupport

[1] https://www.androidcentral.com/twitter-users-accidentally-li...
Yes, you need to read millions of tweets. Have a nice weekend.
SDKMan
I sent an email to that address on the 19th of March.
The issue is that millions of passwords per second can be tried against the hash on an average computer and there's no good reason to give the hash out in production.

To anybody owning a Terramaster NAS then i'd advise to set a random password of the maximum length possible.
Who Are the Alan Kay's and Douglas Engelbart's of Data Science?
I'm trying to learn more about the greats in data science, and am having a hard time finding the Alan Kay's of this field.
> There is only one way forward: The external costs of the economic activity must be internalised.

So true. Even if, as OP posted, you did something like cover the Great Lakes in green algae, if you fail to force everyone to internalize negative externalities, it would just be a matter of time before any gains were destroyed again.
What makes you assume the probability of contributing is 0 though
You will have similar issues with other protocols as well. I have seen physical bandwidth limiters, windows drivers, corrupt winsock LSPs etc mess with IMAP traffic. I have seen middleware replacing SMTP commands sent from a client to server for no good reason, such as replacing "EHLO hostname" with "EHLO **".
“A ‘Worst Nightmare’ cyberattack” that we all... just take in stride? Either the consequences are themselves clandestine, or cyberattacks aren’t as meaningful as our headlines would indicate.
Why? At this point, the browser is mostly an app runtime, so I don't think avoiding HTML and CSS is necessarily a bad thing. With some tuning it could even be faster, although I don't think any project has gotten to that point yet.
Curious, what part of Zwift did you find confusing?

The set-up is dead simple. You need a stationary bike of some sort, usually with some sort of BT speed or power sensor. Pair that to pretty much any standard tablet or laptop, run the Zwift software, and off you go.

Slightly less "auto-magic" than Peloton, but nothing particularly confusing either.
I'm gonna have to ask you to show your work.
No exactly what I was looking for, but a good start. Thank you!
No, peer review is “there doesn’t seem to be an major errors and the thinking is reasonable”
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But there’s no indication from benchmarks that it would have much better performance then the MacBook Pro. Indeed, it would be expected to perform less well on some common tasks - and it has half the battery life. I can’t even find a benchmark comparing that particular laptop to a MacBook Pro. Did you find one somewhere?
Hi - author here. By all means ask around. I can only tell you that I've received may corroborating anecdotes over the past year. Many telcos even assumed I was writing about them specifically, when I wasn't! I also have a second post that has some more logos and names where I based this article on -> https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/
Linux mint adds more quality of life features than vanilla Ubuntu. Including working HIDPI. Try it.
Ehm. You all are aware that 5G was created with the expectation that in the future all networks (and core functions) will be cloud-based? The last remaining HW will be the physical antenna and some PA/LNA and some local signal processing. You connect fiber to that and everything else is a operator-as-a-service model - running on AWS/Azure/GCP.
Twitter Web Is Broken
I am confused generally. My old Dell xps 13 didn’t have thunderbolt but I could still use the exact same USB c to display port cable that I used on my Mac mini.

I am unsure if you need thunderbolt specifically to use USB c to display port cables. It seems you do not need thunderbolt but I am not an expert.
This is a political problem. Not a tech boi problem.
This is the homepage for me currently, any idea what's going on?

Edit: Extracted the image via the GET call, did Twitter's image hosting server get compromised?

https://imgur.com/a/fjWyIFH
Codecov's recent security breach[1] wasn't noticed for three months, and was caught by someone checking the shasum[2]. While it's best practice to validate the checksum on every download yourself, people obviously aren't doing that.

I made a small website where you can see that at least someone is checking these things: https://www.hecksum.com/. It's a rushed-out-the door MVP. There are only two projects supported, and it uses Airtable as a datastore and frontend. But I shipped, so that's cool.

If you want to contribute, the most valuable thing would be pointing me towards projects you want to see[3]. It's up on GitHub[4] if you want to contribute code.

There are a ton more features to add, like making it easier for people to verify the sha themselves. Interested to hear any thoughts.

[1]https://about.codecov.io/security-update/
[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26820145
[3]https://airtable.com/shr5gJ8tLGmqoBEem
[4]https://github.com/hecksum
https://status.twitterstat.us/ is disappointing.
Their news was chosen b.c. it's simple and because the point of the website is to inform yourself about their news (i.e. other peoples' news). Thanks for pointing it out though. I did not think about that.
It's definitely an authoritarian measure as it involves a central entity interfering between two third parties (Facebook blocks a newspaper from talking to you).
It can also be seen as having a left bias because it seems to imply that owning money and buying mansions is inherently bad (why would they hide it, otherwise?) and therefore that rewarding people for their work (even when you don't agree with the nature of their work) is wrong.

Liberalism is a tricky word, because Modern Liberalism or Social Liberalism (or just Liberalism in the USA) are almost the opposite of Classical Liberalism.

The Political Compass avoids the terms and use:

- Authoritarian (Fascism) - Libertarian (Anarchism): from "everything is controlled by a central entity" to "everything is decentralised"
- Left (Communism) - Right (Neo-liberalism): from "everything is nationalised", to "everything is provided by the market"
Full-time software engineers in London, what's your total compensation?
Inpsired by the poll of SF & the Bay Area, this is a post targeting current full-time software engineers and software developers in London, UK. The last one I could find of these was from 2003.

You should include base salary + cash bonuses, also include pension and guaranteed stock option income if you know those figures. Years of experience would also be interesting.

Turns out I can't make a poll because despite lurking for years I rarely post :-(
But that's exactly why this tweet feels hypocritical: facts haven't changed. He is suddenly criticizing Bitcoin on facts (e.g. its volatility) he probably knew about when he initially invested.
The backing of a national currency is productive capacity of that nation and the control of the government over that capacity.
I use deft. A hot key brings up the list, then typing narrows the list based on name or content.

https://jblevins.org/projects/deft/
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It's been common knowledge since... Forever really. I doubt there was a specific person. It just spread across industries due to the known limitations in performance.

Excel was well known to not be able to handle large datasets back in 2006 when I started in data analytics field. I'd guess Excels limitations go way back to when it was originally released.

Excel is very good btw. A marvel in many ways. It just becomes painful with big data around the 100-300k mark.
Hm. Here's the various limits for Excel:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/excel-specificati...

Everything from Excel 2007 and up supports 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns, if you use the XLSX format. The older XLS format tops out at 65536 rows and 256 columns.

You can, of course, "shard" worksheets ;)
This seems transparently ridiculous coming from someone as famously thin-skinned and pugnacious as Taleb.
If Microsoft releases a solution for viewing big data in Excel, does data have to become even bigger to be "big"? They're stuck endlessly chasing a carrot! :)
> mines would shut down

This sparks an interesting thought (for me) - gold mining (and really, any mining) is intertwined in modern times; copper mining produces gold as a by-product for example. We derive palladium and platinum from refining for other metals, we get sand for concrete from gold mining, etc. Point being, the mining industry is interwoven as to what is extracted for refinement, the by-products of that refinement (and the environmental destruction :() which of course is all economically intertwined. A mine probably won't shut down, it would probably shift to another focus?

But Bitcoin is mined for one thing (itself) and produces environmental waste (heat, etc.) with no by-products (another coin?) and no other mining (Monero?) produces Bitcoin as a by-product. So it makes me think that while it sounds good on paper to compare Bitcoin to Gold, it really doesn't work like that in real life.
Crypto fans will write a few articles why it doesn't matter tether is backed and suddenly it won't matter.
See: "Where do the Yields come from in Crypto"[0]

It is no secret that in a crypto asset bull market, people are "shorting" fiat to leverage long rising crypto assets. Additionally, just by virtue of overall liquidity entering the space longing assets there is demand for speculation and transaction volume, thus demand for fiat, across the space.

Various protocols on ETH are providing decentralized trading (Automated Market Makers), as well as other financial primitives like lending and borrowing.

So... yields accrue to those who supply fiat liquidity to borrowers (who yes, are speculating on crypto assets; "shorting" dollars). They also accrue to suppliers of liquidity to AMM's in the form of transaction fees to the various protocols. So, "monetary velocity" is high in DeFi and crypto now, so yields go to those enabling it.

When bear market comes, it is almost certain the double digit fiat yields will decline. But will they still be higher than pitiful bank and sovereign bond yields? Maybe. Also at that point perhaps lending crypto assets to those "shorting" ETH/BTC and longing fiat will mean decent yields on that side of the trade.

Ultimately these decentralized DeFi protocols are cutting vast layers of middle men where traditional banks and monopoly players take huge cuts of the overall economic value and velocity[1]. Instead of NASDAQ or Goldman Sachs or whoever to take a tiny cut of transaction fees from financial transactions, you do by supplying liquidity to decentralized finance platforms. So there is room for some decent yield to be sustainable. We'll see.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ6MQsjOS0I

[1] https://blog.bitmex.com/yes-i-read-the-whitepaper/
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It’s nice how they equivocate over the ease of entry and their security policies:

There was another unsettling report about passwords. A security researcher in Bangalore, India, named Vinoth Kumar told NPR that he had found the password to a server with SolarWinds apps and tools on a public message board and the password was: "solarwinds123." Kumar said he sent a message to SolarWinds in November and got an automated response back thanking him for his help and saying the problem had been fixed.

When NPR asked SolarWinds' vice president of security, Brown, about this, he said that the password "had nothing to do with this event at all, it was a password to a FTP site." An FTP site is what you use to transfer files over the Internet. He said the password was shared by an intern and it was "not an account that was linked to our active directory."
Clearly you’re not going to arrive at a good answer starting from first principles. Industry research groups have the numbers, but they’re locked behind paywalls.

Starting from the other end, the Stackoverflow survey has 50% of devs identifying as full-stack. Most surveys have Java as the #2 programming language, where it’s been for the last 20 years. That says nothing about how those devs are organized among teams, but I don’t think it points to such arrangements being “rare”.
Given a choice, no! But who gets to choose ?
Like many others unfortunately.
You're right, I misunderstood the usage. That does make the possibility of using the path more compelling
Because of the sheer amount of effort that browsers have put into solving all sorts of tricky problems, such as internationalization and accessibility. Once you try to render your own text inputs, you're committing to replicating a mountain of functionality. HTML is deceptively simple.
If you’ve worked at an MSP, you realize this is the case with a lot of companies. I worked on the infra of a pretty major publisher and their full time staff literally didn’t know anything about their platform. All the websites had been written by contractors, and then the maintenance was handled by us. It’s actually insane.
I was never great at Guitar Hero and couldn't fathom how people would play Through The Fire And The Flames, so I made a robot that could do it for me.

The video explains some of the technical details but I'll highlight a few other key points.

- My first attempt at note recognition was looking for specific pixels on the screen. The thought was that I would be able to detect if a pixel changed color and, depending on the color, it would know which note it was. The game outputs at 30 fps and on faster songs, it would miss nearly 30% of notes.

- The note recognition was eventually built using computer vision from OpenCV and specifically blob detection. It took a fair amount of effort to hone in the perfect filtering to make note recognition was highly accurate.

- Implementing the solenoids threw me for a loop. I ended up burning through a lot of them since I'm new to robotics and didn't understand the relationship between power, volts, and current. At one point I was giving these solenoids 4x the power it was expecting. Needless to say, they burnt out quickly. I eventually talked with a robotics guy and he gave me a 30 min crash course which straightened me out.

- The whole project, from idea to the YouTube video I linked in the post, took 2 months. It probably cost nearly $1,000 for everything (raspberry pi, pvc, solenoids, AC/DC power converter, relay modules, paint, stickers, etc). That might seem high, but like I said, I was learning about volts/current and part of that learning process was destroying many solenoids (oops).
> any idea what's going on? wtf

It's just down. Not sure you're going to get a detailed root-cause analysis right now.

> Extracted the image via the GET call, did Twitter's image hosting server get compromised?

What makes you leap to that conclusion? That's just their login page.
What region are you in? Make an Ask HN asking for people to forward their annoying recruiter emails to you that are in your area. Then just email those people and be straight up.
Seems like it could be a nice addition,

I like the concept in general, like a GET w/ data or a cacheable POST, meant to query/retrieve information so you have a semantic distinction for that as well.
I really wish app developers would throttle their prototypes. They tend to run overpowered machines, but then they're oblivious to performance problems their apps have. As a consequence, users have to keep playing catchup with developers' computers. I feel strongly about this. I can't say with a straight face that the growth in apps' resource consumption over the last ten years reflects in improvements in their feature-set. Feels a bit like how gold fish get big if you put them in big aquariums.
Do a ton of excel work - the 1m row limit is surprisingly low. And sharding across worksheets is miserable in my view
Show HN: Engineers, Want to Debug JSON Web Token? Refer JWT Tool
I think they're more wondering why two separate users are posting nearly word-for-word identical comments.
Although Constantine legalized Christianity the claim that he created the Catholic Church is misleading.

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/constantine...
How should open spectrum help? Do you think you can run infrastructure on scale better than the current operators?
The Carpenter Who Built Tiny Homes for Toronto's Homeless
I haven't seen the homepage in years. Could very well be their new style.
My Twitter app using their API doesn't seem to be impacted by the outage this time. It was the case earlier this morning and last night.

I hope they will post an article about what happened.
The specs page for the Pro on Apple's site was up front about this and still is. Check it out here: https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-13/specs/

Scroll down to Video Support and see: "One external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz."

When I was making a buying decision back in November, the limited external display support came up in every analysis & review I read. I'm not trying to give you a hard time here, but I genuinely don't know how you missed this.
Not so much for bbq but oxtail used to be scrap meat, but the price is ridiculous now
https://github.com/xeals/signal-back
That would be a great simulation game, like Pinball Construction Set!

Build your own Digital Bitcoin Pusher Games:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypXHkfdVvYM&ab_channel=WhatT...
Zorin was my first distro (on Arch now), and it was a choice of Gnome or Xfce (both skinned to look the same). Aside from a few applications by Zorin, and many preinstalled, the theming and easy layout changing is the primary difference from Ubuntu I think.
The million row mark for excel while widely known is never taken seriously by anyone who actually uses excel often. It's performances collapses around the 100-300k mark.
This is amazing. I wonder what % of people would recognize that it wasn't written by a human. I thought that some parts were confusing but the idea that it was written by something like GPT never occurred to me.
Apple does have a history of standing up to the US governmental agencies. The CCP will not allow Huwawei to operate unless they bend over to them. See what they did to AliBaba a few days ago, not to mention how they disappeared their CEO.
That's just how it looks now. It has for a while.
Honestly, the Mac M1 should support two screens via USB-C. But for those having issues like I did, an ultrawide screen is the "best" solution. A 35" + Rectangle (or any tiling window manager of your choice) has been a killer combo.
That chart shows the federal reserve assets, not the total supply of dollars. It's a pretty interesting chart, but it doesn't support the statistic you quoted.
I like the eclectic selection of problems. I wish I had seen something like this when I was growing up; a manageable set of problems with the hint of depth.

It’s easy to snipe a nerd, but nerd sniping a non-nerd.. That’s gold.

FWIW:
- No margins on the side on iPhone in portrait.
- Math formulas are clipped on the top in landscape.