skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For stablecoins like USDT, the company behind the protocol is responsible for holding reserves that fully back each token.

I don’t think full backing is technically required for a stablecoin. OTOH, such a promise, if believed, helps a stablecoin stay stable, and having made the promise it becomes the firms obligation.
Definitely not lindy.
Yes, as opposed to Germany and France. Surely being a part of a supranational union that has its laws and courts means you renounce at least a part of your sovereignty.
I don't see the problem in what you describe. Seems like a problem only for people who find the truth inconvenient
What would you have used in this case?
This article starts out strong by pointing out that using a vehicle to harm or kill really should be illegal, but then it drives off into the weeds comparing vehicle attacks to urban planning and highway construction. That was to me at least a significant distraction that diluted the impact of the piece.
“ I think the two methods are complementary and should be use in combination”

This should be repeated many times. I am getting very tired of the constant need of people who want to have a strict ideology and find the one true way of doing things.
RIP thank you Dan for making the internet a safer place.
News coverage has always been narrative driven to some extent, but previously that was more in selectivity of coverage. The quality of reporting has been in a long slow decline due to a mix of sagging finances and low-no quality control competition. The 'Action News' TV format significantly degraded things, and then blogs and specifically conservative-targeted media drove adoption of the narrative approach.

This revealing interview gives an interesting perspective on the media business around the turn of the century. Note that this is a pdf archive copy saved to draw attention to a particular segment, and I'd urge you ignore that and rad the whole thing. I can't link to the original as it vanished some time ago, and this archive predates the establishment of the internet archive. Thus the presentation is biased (sorry) but it's the only complete copy of the interview I know of.
https://zfacts.com/zfacts.com/metaPage/lib/Weekly_Standard_M...
The answer to this question is that senior executives within the Post Office knew that Horizon had faults and deliberately withheld the information when prosecuting the sub-postmasters.

This is a fundamental breach of the prosecutor's duty to disclose any evidence that undermines the prosecution case or supports the defence case. This duty continues to exist after conviction so timing of knowledge is irrelevant.

The judgment is telling in that there are records in which Post Office officials made statements that minutes of meetings about faults in the Horizon system should not be taken so as to avoid having to disclose them in proceedings.

It is corporate failure on an unimaginable scale and three convicted individuals have died before having their convictions quashed.

Yesterday's judgment is long but very readable. I would anticipate further fallout and understand there may be a live police investigation on the basis that several individuals may have perverted the course of justice by either proceeding with prosecutions or omitting material evidence from testimony.
agreed as well
I think American wrestling and or BJJ are much more practical than Judo as a martial art for police, but Judo is better than nothing. Judo is good for getting things to the ground, but the ground system of Judo is inadequate for many situations. (I’ve trained Judo and with many judokas, even advanced ones just aren’t very good on the ground without some other ground fighting system). Regardless it’s a big step in the right direction.
Hydrogen transport is actually quite complicated. There are many villages where you buy gas in cola bottles, so I wouldn't bet on hydrogen to be available, even in 20 years. Gas powered generators will be more likely.

> seriously we drove a electric car on the moon

How else would you drive on the moon? ICE needs oxygen for combustion.
It's not philosophical, it's the law. And GP dismisses the overwhelmingly higher rates of arrests for non whites as not being a systemic racism issue and assumes that white people commit fewer crimes with no data to back it up.

> If we are overly fixated

Sorry but that is gaslighting and victim blaming. Tell the parent of a black teenager to not be overly fixated on police reform.
Excellent use of sarcasm, I have to say, but it isn’t an unfair generalisation that Russians don’t speak English very well.
English isn’t and hasn’t been commonly taught in Russian schools like in Europe
A paper I read a few months ago compared instruction density between a few different ISAs. Thumb was 15% denser and aarch64 was around 15% less dense compared to x86. Unfortunately, mode switching in thumb impacts performance which is why they dropped it.

RISCV compressed instructions are interesting in that they offer the same compact code as thumb, but without the switching penalty (internally, they are expanded in place to normal 32-bit instructions before execution).

If they added some dedicated instructions in place of some fused ones, that density could probably increase even more (I say probably because two 16-bit instructions can equal one 32-bit dedicated instruction in a lot of those cases).

It’ll be interesting to see what happens when they start designing high performance chips in the near future.
In Tucson, Xerocraft, a nonprofit makerspace, has lathe and Bridgeport knee mill [0] and is run less formally. Also, Tucson is cheap and somewhat funky. You might like it.

[0] https://xerocraft.org/pages/metalshop

Edit: Sorry, someone has gutted the web site, removing most of the information. The space itself has existed for quite a few years and I have been a volunteer member of staff since 2013. The tools are real. Despite the appearance probably given by this new website, the makerspace is not vaporware.
This doesn't seem to be a different problem in kind than teaching people to write programs. How do we do that other than teaching them some mechanics (syntax, how to run the compiler) and then setting them a lot of exercises to gain experience?

The same seems to apply to debugging. A student needs to be introduced to the basic concepts and commands, and then practice. Just same as with a writing exercise, the instructor can have specific problems to practice specific techniques.
Can't edit above comment. Invidious to the rescue [1]. Just enable 'proxy videos' in settings (circle icon).

https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=2_8vTl6D940

and

https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=taNwWilMVLg

Notes: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
It sounds more like a scheme to defraud banks.

An actual business with a factory is going to look like pretty good collateral to a bank making a loan, but the bank loses money on the loan when the company goes bankrupt. It’s not in the bank’s interest to do this. But bank employees could’ve been bribed, sure.

So this sounds like a form of “long firm fraud” or maybe “control fraud.” For more about it, I recommend reading
Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World.

(Not that I’m an expert; I just read a book.)
I agree with the point about time travel debugging. I find it so intriguing that I've been playing with it for a little tool to make VR games. Anecdotally, it has helped me a lot with debugging.
Collins wrote a book about his experiences - more of an autobiography up to 1974. He talks about this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrying_the_Fire
If you have a timing related issue fixed by a debugger it's probably going to be fixed by printing/logging too.
Saying it was the software absolves others of responsibility. If anyone knew it was buggy and went forth prosecuting these individuals anyway, they themselves should be sent to jail for criminal negligence.
Also adding 255.0/8 and 255/4 which is essentially just... IPV6. So we're finally going ipv6, I guess!
A lot of ink is spilled on the details of how to make compilers go from taking text and turn it into fast executables, but I believe that the User Experience of compilers is as important a subject as those, but there's very little information about it in the literature, outside of a handful of papers and the design documents of existing compilers that do focus on this.
Part of the reason it works is it forces you to reason about the code, otherwise you won't know where to put the print statements.
Taleb may just be annoyed that he missed the biggest black swan in the last decade.
What an excellent example because Star Trek was itself so very progressive for its time. Yet despite that may plot lines still centered around very rigid sexist assumptions.
Justify to whom? If you put in the research and work to build a thing, you get to have it exist.

Even if there are already similar projects, each next one may end up with a novel variation that could contribute to the broader understanding. Or even if not, even if it's just like all the others, it still has value for those learning from being involved.
If you're unable to ship PineTime to your country and if you're looking for a watch to tinker with checkout wasp-os[1] project which runs micropython on some easily available NRF52832 devices.

Also Aaron's ATCWatch[2] which runs Arduino compatbile firmware on the aforementioned devices and more; His Daflasher app has made it possible to flash firmware to to NRF52832 devices without any HW tinkering.

[1] https://github.com/daniel-thompson/wasp-os

[2] https://github.com/atc1441/ATCwatch
Is there any place in the world where there is a norm that political donations are private?
This story has been covered for a while by the investigative/satirical magazine Private Eye in the uk-

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/justi...

There's also a podcast about it as well-

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast/49

It's a fascinating and heartbreaking story. The film Brazil made real.
There is a more recent edition of "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" worth considering: https://www.amazon.com/Compilers-Principles-Techniques-Tools....
To-Do List Junkie
A big part of the problem is that the post office is not accountable as it's a government organization. A private company would be bankrupted by this, but the post office will just be bailed out by taxpayers.
It is different for every state. My state has a class of offense below misdemeanor, petty misdemeanor. Petty misdemeanors are not considered crimes in my state, the max penalty is a $300 fine.

We also have a special class of speeding ticket for a dumb “parkway” freeway that rich white people lobbied for and received a 45 mph speed limit by state constitutional amendment. Any ticket in this zone for speeding between 45-55 mph is a simple $100 fine that is not even recorded or reported to insurance. This means the speed limit is effectively 55 mph, and an easy way around the constitutional amendment.

This freeway is I35E between downtown St Paul, MN and Mendota Heights, MN.
Guys, when you give people the ability to share things, they'll share things with each other that aren't true.

Facebook is as much to blame for this as Gutenberg is.

The extent to which people will go to avoid accepting that grandpa actually is racist is astonishing. No, dude, Facebook didn't make grandpa racist. It gave your racist grandpa the ability to talk to other racists.

Facebook accurately detects that your grandpa wants to talk to racists and gives him that ability.
Hahaha, yes, this is indeed me! I love the eDiscovery business. Such a fun problem to solve.
AMD have a license from ARM. Supposedly, Zen is pretty flexible. I’d love to see where they’d get just by swapping out the ISA.
People at RM knew about it. They were covering up the operation and protecting the system, which already cost tax payers 100M.
Print debugging not (really) working is haskell is... Non-idea, and a bad pairing for bad real debugging. But test cases are usually easier to figure out. Presumably there's a balance discovered by people in big projects but it never seemed as good as normal approaches to me.
Yeah so “defund the police!” Should actually be “fund better police training!”

Of course the AOC-type libs are utterly wrong. Biden is right.
Not brew, but a very similar set of issues were faced by the GitHub team with the CocoaPods project, which at the time worked similar to Homebrew in that they used github as a CDN/host in a somewhat uncommon way:

https://blog.cocoapods.org/Master-Spec-Repo-Rate-Limiting-Po...

https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/4989#issuecomm...
Price was part of it but even the company thought that they really needed to be used on sidewalks and they spent a lot of money and effort lobbying for that to be legal. (Though to be fair bike lanes were less common in the US at the time.)
A Silly Anti-Disassembly Trick
I don't believe white and black people are on the same footing economically. They've been held down since slavery and it still affects them today. Here's a few examples: real estate redlining (even though that was banned it's still happening today in other forms https://projects.newsday.com/long-island/real-estate-agents-...), the Tulsi race massacre (This story is crazy), urban renewal (Fillmore, West Oakland), all the neighborhoods they destroyed building freeways through them (https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/role-of..., https://usa.streetsblog.org/2021/01/11/senate-considering-10...). The crack cocaine sentencing disparity split up families, creating the single parent unit, throw in the gang explosion in the 90s, and tough on crime sentencing, it's amazing people make it out of the hood.

Do you think we can improve the damage we've done through policing?
These "political" HN threads are often best read starting from the bottom of the page.
It turns out that whatever limitations there are to that approach hardly matter in practice, since Wirth developed a wide variety of languages this way, and they work just fine.
NIPR and SIPR don't talk to the global routing tables for v4 and v6. Generally if a DOD person needs to access commercial internet resources for things, it'll be through a separate commercial network purpose LAN, or through something like an rdp session to a Citrix thin client to do that.
To some extent you always do, it's a give and take. Just wait and see what the future trade agreements will bring. Spoiler alert - India is really keen on making it easy for their IT people to work in UK.
Possibly, but does that make him wrong?
> but in the UK these people would have been unable to get a public defender

Absolutely not the case. If one cannot afford a solicitor one will be appointed.
> We'd laugh them out of the room.

sells all my SPAC positions
It's Nigel Farage.
There are state laws now being passed that make “blocking roads in protest” a felony, while legalizing running over protestors with your car.
I’m admittedly lumping candidates who don’t reply at all with those who ghost the first interview. I view it as the same kind of behavior, as they quit the process early without an apparent reason.
PRE-IPO Companies of 2021 Part 3
If you've ever used visual studio to debug c/c++ code you just know why the linux crowd mentally works around it.
Go to https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#f-... and search for “ New in version 3.8: The equal sign '='.”
Probably a bench warrant gone rogue over time. Surprised it didn't make its way into the NCIS system, ending up as a felony arrest related to a simple traffic stop.

Dispatchers and police don't have full access to the details of the warrant either. They see "felony" and immediately change the interaction protocol, as we have seen too often the past few years.

Ms. McBride will probably spend another ten years doing the "expunge" dance as well.

Lazy, unaccountable, and inexcusable.
Also can't hurt that shit talking crypto will help gain publicity/sell books.
okay I fixed the spelling of his last name
If they're not actually using the whole /8 (highly likely), you can setup a 1:1 NAT. basically from network b, if you want to talk to network a, you find out the address in 11/8 that corresponds to the 10/8 address and vice versa. You can use split horizon dns to make it mostly transparent.

Every networking problem in the world can be solved with more NAT or more encapsulation :)
If you want to know what happens go read "Heart of a dog" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_a_Dog
same in both cases. Either you put up a PR or a stack set with no reviewers and send that to whoever needs it. In the stack diff approach you can actually add reviewers for the “non controversial” parts that are ready for review and not add reviewers to the ones that aren’t ready yet.

In both cases you can rewrite your commit stack after-the-fact to add new ones, make fixes etc.
Architecture follows philosophy. Skyscrapers (internationalist style) and large curved glass buildings (modernist style) have the same core philosophy as neoliberalism, for instance. Brutalism came about as an explicit rejection of aesthetics and "higher purpose" to building facades - an idea deeply rooted in materialist philosophy, hence its adaptation by the Soviets. The grandparent comment demonstrates this perfectly: "IMHO a healthy society should be "above" this sort of stuff". Your argument to building materials is also an example of this - while it's true, it is reductionist; living in a concrete jungle is not better than living in a wooden fishing village just because the materials are less flammable.

The philosophy of architecture isn't really a "anthropomorphological argument" when architecture exists for humans, at the behest of humans, and represents human values. The idea that a building is just a box that people exist in is itself a philosophical position, one that is exemplified by brutalism, and one that I and many other people are opposed to.
No, because processors don't run ada directly.
I think that's a fair counterpoint, but I'm not sure it covers the whole charge.

What Facebook does is both to limit the diversity of opinion to which a single user is exposed, as well as extend the reach of particular points of view (those on the more extreme end, which are more "performative"). That creates validation of points of view that can be expressed harmfully, and creates a gathering cloud of cultural force that would likely not exist without it's influence.
I've never understood print debugging, at least in a web dev/nodejs context.

I don't begrudge people having their own approach to things, but almost universally when I see people use print debugging they seem to take quite a bit longer than just break pointing at the problem area.

If your code is in an unexpected state, it's much easier to hit a breakpoint, examine local values, and then backstep through the call stack to see what went wrong. I dare to say that in a single threaded context, it's almost objectively more effective.

Versus the alternative of using printlines, you basically need to map/model the state flow out in your head which is prone to error (limited capacity of human working memory).

Is it not easier to directly see the problem rather than doing mental math to make assumptions about the problem? I can't see a case for that being more effective.

Most of the time I see people print debugging it seems to be because they haven't used the debugger much... either they aren't comfortable with it, or didn't bother to set it up, or see the mental mapping approach as more "mathematical/logical"... or something. Takes you back to the school days of solving algorithms on paper :)

That being said for simple problems, I've used print debugging myself (again, usually because I'm too lazy to setup the full debugger). Or for multithreaded contexts etc, where thinking it through can actually be more effective than looking directly at the problem (multiple contexts)
It would explain why time seems to go by so slow when a person is bored: Not many people want to watch that simulation, so lack of CPU cycles slows everything down.
India's Descent into Covid Hell
Why don't you at least look into the study methodology before answering with such certainty? Since Pew Research uses the same questions, there's no shifting of the "Overton Window" (I'm well aware of the concept).

So this poll measures both absolute and relative movement.

I actually agree that there has been some shifting to the right of the Overton Window in fiscal and economic issues only as the Democratic Party has abandoned its traditional working class constituency. But that has no bearing on this poll.
A better comparison might include a non-EU country. For example, can the EU create law (known as a regulation[1]) that would be enforceable in Canada or Japan?

No, but it could be done for Germany and France. EU law is legally supreme in EU member states. Now, you may argue that France is not less sovereign than Canada because of this because France acceded to this via its own sovereignty.

However, if you told me you're still your own boss because you let your boss be your boss I wouldn't be persuaded quite as much as if you were actually your own boss, and that might indicate how persuaded I'd be by the France's-acceding-is-full-sovereignty argument.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_(European_Union)
The factories (and businesses) are used as collateral to get loans from banks. The banks are getting defrauded when the company goes bankrupt and the loan isn’t repaid. The injured workers are collateral damage.

If they got away with it then it would just look like a normal bankruptcy. Extracting the money already happened with more or less legitimate-looking business expenses.
Sign up for a $50 dollar loan from the website to charge the robot
It's a little more like saying:

Everybody knows the source of the leak is old plumbing and the root cause is an old handbook effectively denying residents the right to repair. Let's update the handbook so that residents can do some repairs.
Yes. I'm not going to summarize it for you. Read the articles that are the original reporting. They contain many details of the post office knowing they had problems and covering them up, allowing folks to be prosecuted rather than to own up to IT problems.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56859357
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52905378

Also please don't post leading comments as being "devil's advocate". It's the laziest form of rhetoric, "just asking questions".
Is this like an open-source Find My?
Scooters without a helmet (their normal and usual use case) are way more than "kinda" dangerous.

I don't think the fact that these are extremely dangerous to their rider is a reason to ban them, though. Let fools fuck themselves up on these death traps if they like. The danger to uninvolved pedestrians is a great reason to ban them from sidewalk use, however.

There is no justification for vehicle use on the sidewalk.
Dan was a wonderful human. I truly cannot believe that he took the time to help create something with me.

Absolutely god damn heart breaking.

A wonderful reminder that true brilliance and humanity can coexist.

Thank you for everything
Not just Chinese companies. I know of one FAANG company that used internal IP addresses in the 11.0.0.0/8 space (in addition to, not instead of, RFC 1918 space).
IT crowd - Richmond and his flashing lights

https://youtu.be/12LLJFSBnS4
I definitely think we should create debuggers that can step backwards. Would be incredibly helpful
If one person owned all the Bitcoin in the world would they be rich?
What about imaginary mathematicians
You can also do print debugging with a debugger. Just have a breakpoint that doesn't halt, but instead simply prints the values of interest to the debugger console. This is particularly nice for things like debugging interrupt handlers where the time taken to print output normally is too much to accept.