skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't just 'create' a Bitcoin out of thin air and say - hi guys, here is my Bitcoin.

But a private entity (based in Bahamas) can do that with Tether. And you can use those to buy 'real' Bitcoins. It works perfectly until somebody tries to convert a big enough amount of those Tethers to real USD.

In real world, I'm not sure it's a very good example, so feel free to challenge it, would be:

- somebody prints perfect fake 100$ bills and floods the market with them

- prices of real goods go up significantly

- at one point somebody notice that those fake dollars have a small red dot in a corner

- they become instantly worthless, and all prices crash as there is suddenly much less real dollars than everybody thought

It's not a great analogy as there is nobody guaranteeing the conversion of those fake dollars to true dollars in the first place. Tether pretends to be doing that - but it appears more and more that they are just printing them out of thin air.
Marketing and Sales is always better. But rewrite was needed because we pivoted a bit and changed our target market and after lot of validations and testing.
Bad words belong to all of us. I use words that can hurt, and words that have been used to hurt me.

The N word is interesting because most white people are very hesitant to utter it. It's a rare, off-limits place that isn't accessible to every person of privilege who otherwise feels entitled to go where they please.
Anecdotal but this isn't my personal experience at all. Almost everyone I know is moving home to be closer to family like the midwest, east coast, etc or to awesome lifestyle towns like Park City, Truckee, Jason Hole, Boise, SLC, Boulder, etc, etc. Of 20 people I can name off the top of my head who've left SF area, only a couple migrated from SF to Oakland, etc.
> I think you mean `with`, not `where`?

Indeed, my bad.

> the better one would be a function returning datetime in the format of :erlang.localtime: `{{Year,Month,Day},{Hour,Min,Sec}}`

I see what you mean. Yeah, I agree with the rest.
I actually would love a service that did this for something mortally/individually affordable.
Nothing. It's still up.
Super dangerous enclosure. Looks like you could open it with just a fingernail.

Australian standards require coincell battery holders to: "have a battery compartment (or other enclosure) that is secured (preferably with a captive screw, a bolt or mechanism) such that it requires a tool to gain access to the batteries." [1]

There are probably more stringent standards in other jurisdictions (hear California / Europe).

[1] https://www.littlebird.com.au/products/safe-battery-pack-for...
In order to use Instagram Shopping, a seller needs to already have a website (current popular options are Shopify, Squarespace, Wix, etc.). These websites are time-consuming to setup & update, especially if you're a reseller with constantly-changing inventory. Most of our sellers just need a simple platform to facilitate the checkout but we do have sellers on our premium Website Plan that includes IG Shopping.
Rss/atom can be static files, AS can't.
I’m wondering how this is different from Elastic Beanstalk.

Seems like it’s somewhat easier to use and it supports HTTPS without extra setup, aside from that though I’m not sure.
Yeah, if you want to take it out past 5 years, you can make your own estimates. You just won't have the benefit of Edmunds' data. You are right that you will save on transaction costs if you do not buy a newer car every five years. You're also a bit of a special case in that it seems you only put about 5,000 miles per year on a car. I'd estimate your TCO on that car to be about $2K/year, which is pretty frugal. It wouldn't make sense for you to buy a new car, because you'd be losing depreciation to age faster than you'd be wearing the car out. At 20 years, you'd have only 100,000 miles on a car that would be essentially fully depreciated.

It is pretty tough, though, to get the cost of ownership on a car driven 15,000 miles/year below about $3,500/year. By comparison a new compact will be $5k to $6K per year in total cost of ownership. So if you are wondering why gold doubloons are not accumulating in the chests in your basement that much faster than they are for the guy who drives a new Honda Civic, that's why!
The arguments that blocking ads are somehow unethical or depriving a business providing a hosting service of its cut of ad revenue hold very little weight for me.

If a service wants to ensure viewers pay, it would be easy enough for any organisation with the resources to offer large-scale video hosting in the first place to put the content behind a paywall and earn revenue actively from giving access to that content. That way, access without paying would be more difficult and, in most places, probably illegal.

But these services typically don't do that. Why? Presumably they have made a decision that offering the content openly is in their interests, even if they then have to rely on passive revenue channels such as ads, affiliate/referral payments, or promoting associated brands.

In that case, I don't think they have much right to complain when a lot of people access the content they make freely available in legal ways but without contributing to indirect revenue streams when they have no obligation to do so.
3. It includes a music subscription that makes it more expensive than Netflix, I find this quite insane considering they’re in the business of hosting user generated content.
Think of it like taking aspirin for a headache. It works. Then later, you get another headache, so you take more aspirin. To expect more than that for any treatment is as unreasonable.
Are there any other passion, old style, useful sites that you know of? I remember coming across two on HN - one on trains, train schedules etc and another on plants (I believe this one was by a couple). Unfortunately I didn't bookmark either of those, I don't remember the URLs anymore :(
Horray. How about figuring out a way to lower the hadrons discovered per dollar ratio and maybe i'll be more excited
Similar for me. I first learned of Taleb through another short book called "The Survival of Rats in the Slush Pile" which examines ideas from "Fooled by Randomness" as they relate to fiction publishing. (Taleb in turn briefly references this book somewhere in "The Black Swan".) This was actually encouraging for me, because it meant my stories being rejected by publishers did not necessarily mean my writing wasn't good enough; quality is an important variable up to a point, but "luck" also plays a major role. Recognizing that means you can more effectively leverage it.
https://text.npr.org/998241894

That's good news.
You could do worse than taking a look at relevant videos here (https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCTp-iVOtTrKau0skmfZlo5Q).

A lot of it will come down to the value of your time. You can sell directly yourself but deal with headaches and scammers, or you can sell to someone like Rudy for what will likely be ~50% of prices you'll see online. Part of that is that most of your cards will probably be considered in "played" condition, either light or heavy.
Hm, this works and is about as terse as `pattern_tap`:

:erlang.localtime()
|> case do; {_, {h,m,_}} -> {h, m}; end
|> do_something

Not that I'd want to do that in production code, but I felt a bit nerd-sniped here, to see the shortest way I could find without dependencies.
I've been slowly making my way through a course on udemy, in Javascript, focused on DS&A - https://www.udemy.com/course/js-algorithms-and-data-structur.... I've been developing for 10+ years, mainly on Frontend, but it's given me more confidence in how I approach writing code.
Not especially, no.

This is more akin to finding new molecules (hadrons), given known kinds of atoms (quarks).
if the price would be a quarter it would make sense, but running a 1cpu 2gb instance for 24h*30d will cost 25 USD, wtf... (without data transfer rates..........)
Atom is basically RSS' successor, fixing some ambiguities in RSS' (lack of) spec.
Apparently they are not associated with Andrew Lee anymore. They were sold to Kape (formerly Crossrider) in 2019.
They've always been mildly popular with a smaller crowd but recently it's all Twitch and Youtube. One streamer bought something like $10,000 worth of pokemon, others followed suit and now everyone's into it again.
I say it's a buying opportunity in the sense that in 5 years from now it will be worth more than it is today but short term, who knows. Green bitcoin will be the next iteration. There will be a lot of talk about it and green bitcoin miners will be able to charge a premium for their coins since each bitcoin is unique. The premium will force all miners to eventually quit or move on to green power. My suspicion is that eventually miners will develop green power sources just to mine coins. Bitcoin has a long and bright future. This is from someone who has no bitcoins but can see the obvious.

The real danger is that countries will start to outlaw it but that has always been a danger.
Wait, do you actually have the money then?
It's funny how the West criticised China or Russia for censorship and firewalling the internet...
Now they seem to be in a contest who makes more restrictive and privacy-free network...
Is it unsophisticated of me to assume that an ETH crash will just cause everyone with GPUs to switch to a different cryptocurrency? I'd expect miner demand to remain firm unless there's a broad crash.
"Church" often means "congregation", so he probably meant changing parishes, emphasizing that although the broader denomination remained the same, individual parishes/congregations/churches were often substantially different.
Short answer: early Silicon Valley needed space for fabricators, the dotcom era needed space for data centers, then around 2010ish there were enough cloud providers and internet connections you could start a company anywhere but you already had plenty of talent in the bay and San Francisco is fun.

Long answer could be a phd thesis but “people needed lots of space until they didnt” kind of suffices.
I'm saying platforms can't have it both ways. If they want to avoid ad-blockers and video downloaders then pick another medium, or invent one and create a new thing that achieves this objective. The web is not TV. Public content on the web is public and user-rendered. That's what made the web and YouTube what it is today.

YouTube has every right to create a proprietary YouTube client (which they do on mobile devices) and prevent browsers from accessing it. Don't serve files to my browser if you don't want me to use them.

Creators, for better or worse, are putting themselves at the mercy of YouTube, as serfs to feudal lords. I'm sympathetic, and happy to pay (and do) for your goods directly, but don't complain to me if your lord mismanages your affairs.

Even TV users had VCRs to save content "offline".
Even though the Black Lotus value is mostly as a collector's item, in game, it has the advantage of being extremely versatile. As someone said, all decks are better with a Black Lotus. It is the most expensive because everyone wants it in their deck, no exception, and more than a one if it wasn't restricted (initially, it wasn't).

Ancestral Recall may be more powerful but it requires blue mana, which may be an issue in a non-blue deck, of course you can use a Black Lotus for that...
In 2020, San Francisco’s sales tax revenue dropped by as much as 70 percent in San Francisco’s downtown, which relies heavily on restaurants and hotels.

Mother of god...
What are your favorite one sentence results in math?
FWIW I got in shortly after I posted this by capitalizing the G in Gmail.com
Yeah it is, the people cashing out now are being paid by the people buying in now and the whole thing is a grossly balance sheet insolvent entity. When the cash in the pot hits zero and there's people lined up waiting to take their money out the the Ponzi scheme is busted.

This is precisely what happened to Madoff when he had no cash to meet redemptions as the market crashed in 2008. This is what is going to happen to crypto eventually, but there's no one person in charge of crypto. Hence, distributed Ponzi scheme.
My point is more that it sits in roughly the same semantic space as ‘lessons’ and ‘learnings’, yet there seems to be room for nuanced differences of meaning. Yet I don’t see people object to ‘teachings’ on the basis that we already have the word ‘lessons’.
Compared to IE5 and Netscape Navigator 4, it was a great browser!

The issue was the length of time that it stuck around for.
I don't think it's fair to base a topic on the loudest voices in the room. That is a road to madness.

I still wish to see more interest in technical discussion of Bitcoin here. Like the new BIP proposal expanding the scripting capability of the protocol. I don't know what percentage of BTC discussions on HN are in either bucket, but I hope at the very least it would be 50/50. Don't you agree?
I have a separate profile that is set-up for Google (In Brave). You could also use a container tab if using Firefox (Or even a profile, but FF profiles don’t work as well as Brave ones).

You can also see the YouTube creators who have BAT accounts set-up.

I do pay for YT premium family as well as I don’t want other family members to see ads.

Regarding FF profiles - if using more than one at a time, you need to set the others to -no-remote, and then opening links only ever opens up in the main windows. In chromium browsers when opening outside links whatever browser profile that had focus last opens the links).
So the following is okay:

1. bitfinex asks some influencer to do some influencer things for them

2. bitfinex hands them a $100 bill

but the following isn't fine:

2. bitfinex hands them 100 USDT tokens

But hold on, corporations don't often pay people using paper bills, they pay them using ACH, so is the following fine?

2. bitfinex transfers $100 to their bank using ACH

Probably fine right, given that there isn't really a difference between getting paid in ACH vs paper bills. But some companies are old fashioned and don't do ACH transfers, they issue checks instead. So is the following fine?

2. bitfinex writes them a check for $100

Well, a check is just an IOU right? It's only a promise to pay them something. If you try to deposit the check and the check bounces it's not like the FDIC will save you. You'll have to chase after them for it. Given that fact, and recognizing that USDT is just an IOU, is there any difference between the above and

2. bitfinex gives them 100 USDT tokens

?
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Note that the rules limit has now been increased from 50k to 150k. Sorry if we failed to publicize this sufficiently.
I completely agree with you. I just think the norms around what makes someone a jerk aren't universal.
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Case in point: Israel and Palestine :-(
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If you enable all key events there's going to be a "key release" event between the r and e and all subsequent letters of reset.
> Sadly that HN thread is biased toward the person/team that is "leaving" Elixir because it wasn't a good fit for them

Having a balanced pros and cons are great for everyone. Not every thread should be praising Elixir else people won't be able to make an informed decision before selecting a language to build their business on.

I'm personally more interested in cons of a tool as opposed to the pros. This way I can assess whether the failure points are within the acceptable parameters or not.
Oh shit! Several times more?
Maybe you should actually read some actual data about Soviet Union. Saying that Soviet Union caused more suffering over longer period of time than Nazi Germany is way off.

And by the way - free healthcare and free higher education are actually very good things that worked like a charm.

I hope you will not have children, also.
The difference is, of course, that exchanges want to encourage liquidity in USDT and they might not have the means to offer USD, especially if they're based in regions with tighter regulations so bank wires are out of the question. Just because they can convert USDT to USD doesn't necessarily mean they can offer the same means to everybody else.

Even the staunchest believer in crypto will have a hunch there's something funny going on with Tether, but so far most people have been willing to look the other way as Tether and other stablecoins answer a genuine need: how to represent fiat money in the crypto ecosystem when centralized banks refuse to play along with their own downfall.
I love my Kinesis. Could never switch back.
The issue is that statements here about topics people don't understand are often outright wrong, but go unchallenged.

For example you said that FB can't be sued over this. That's wrong - it's just unlikely to succeed under current laws.

The rest of their problems with it are probably true, but the specific point is incorrect. That's the point being made here.
Wouldn't Tether in effect be a Ponzi scheme if the value of 1 Tether permanently drops below 1 USD at some point?

The reasonable assumption here is that Tether (the entity) does some sort of embezzling in the background, which means that their assets will at some point be so much smaller than their liabilities that there's no way to maintain the illusion that 1 Tether is worth 1 dollar.

Ergo money has to keep flowing into Tether to maintain its price. That's close enough to equivalent to the critical part of what I understand a Ponzi scheme to be.
I've interacted with IRC servers via telnet a ton of times. But overall I think that era of protocol design is unfortunately long passed (looking at you SMTP)
Initial reactions:

- It's great as a quick pick up and play game

- I would love an option to speed up animations

- I would definitely add attack power to the attack buttons

- When replacing an attack, it would be great to have a comparison view for the selected attack (or relative values next to the new values)

- Add some icons to the move buttons for effects (like attack up/down, etc.)
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Running transaction 563s....
> ... per dollar ratio ...

LHC - Large Hadron Collider - Geneva, Switzerland - Most likely CHF/EUR. Not sure why you would care how much is being spent on it.
No; "disabilities" is insufficiently specific. The features that Apple is adding to Apple Watch wouldn't help a blind user, for example -- they're specifically targeted at users with limb differences (like a missing or abnormally formed arm) which would prevent them from touching one wrist with the opposite hand.
I don't know - I would say there is a massive counterparty risk too - my understanding is that to short Tether, you need to do it on an exchange. And if this ponzi theory is right, I would be pretty woried about the return of any money from the exchanges.
Well, everything in the economy is a ponzi scheme in a loose sense of the word. The real question is whether it provides a value that allows its price to be set on a market. A classic ponzi scheme has no value beyond its commitment to yield a return. There are several arguments for why crypto might have a priceable value, and one has to decide if they're persuasive. I think the comparison to gold isn't actually that bad for a coin with a predicable increase in supply, like doge.
yah, the problem is in the invitation to make a serious mental model mistake on how options are valued, how they pay off, and what the hidden pitfalls are.

i’m all for democratizing access to (and the returns from) equity markets, but this isn’t about building wealth through long-term investing, or even about price discovery. it’s sharks looking to part small-time gamblers from their money.
The university I attended had large smoke stacks that old maps said belonged to the power plant. I never saw anything come out of them, so I assume by the 90s they had switched to using city power, but I wonder now if it was common for universities in the old days to have their own power plants?
Currently transaction fees are so high because of bitcoin block subsidies once the subsidy asymptotically approaches zero there will be much lower transaction fees because miners only incentive will come from the fees.

There are far too many blocks being mined not because of volume of transactions that need to be included in them, but because of new block subsidies.
What makes you think they won't just lump it on a couple of juniors who rarely ever touch it, and even then only for critical bugfixes?
(Yeah, well, for varying values of "5"...)
> the OG companies like Apple and Google and Facebook

History time. It's kind of amusing to see these companies referred to as OG, when there were many generations of Silicon Valley startups before them. The real OG was probably Hewlett-Packard, founded in Palo Alto in 1939. Another key company was Shockley Semiconductor, founded in Mountain View in 1956. Eight key employees left Shockley in 1957 and formed Fairchild Semiconductor, gaining the name the "Traitorous Eight". Fairchild led to over 126 startups, sometimes called the Fairchildren, including AMD, Altera, LSI Logic, National Semiconductor, and SanDisk.

Two of the Traitorous Eight, Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce, left Fairchild in 1968, founding Intel in Mountain View. Later key Silicon Valley companies were Oracle (1977), Sun Microsystems (1982), and Cisco (1984). Although Apple started in 1976, it wasn't a dominant company until years later. Google (1998) and Facebook (2004) are relative newcomers.

Information on Fairchild's influence: https://computerhistory.org/blog/fairchild-and-the-fairchild...
I don't think it's directly this malicious. I think it's more just a blindspot. If you're a 40-something partner at a major VC firm, who bought his home in Palo Alto in 2005, then the "cost of living" is largely invisible to you. Sure you may have a sizable chunk of home equity locked up, but that's not a monthly cash flow issue.

Intellectually you know that being located in the Bay Area is a major burden to the ramen-eating startup founders that you fund. But it's a lot easier to rationalize that away with justifications around "cross-pollination of ideas" and being in the "intangible benefits of being an innovation center". Certainly a lot easier when you're not worried about making rent on your 400 square foot studio.
> Miners are the loud, trashy guest who can pay.

I upvoted your comment, but I think it is worse than that. If miners were willing to pay for their own damn hardware it would be closer to ok. They instead want to externalize the costs they create, by trashing the hardware without paying for the repairs. Remember that Hetzner rents servers for a fixed monthly fee and the miners weren't getting charged more than anyone else, or getting stuck with the repair bills.

SSD's are rated for a given number of DWPD and if you exceed it, the warranty is invalid (the drive firmware monitors the usage). So Hetzner has to pay for the drive replacement that the miner trashed. Even if warranties covered the replacement, that just shifts the costs to other SSD buyers instead of to Hetzner. It's not an attractive proposition either way.
This mini-thread is about USDC.
I don't know about you, but for me having access to youtube means that I can do things like fix my car, learn about medieval hats, see what kinds of weird animals exist, etc.

These sorts of things improve my life immeasurably and definitely give me a sense of 'satisfaction' that I would not otherwise have been able to achieve paying someone to fix my car, watching a reality show on TLC, or going to the library and reading a book about ducks for the 50th time.
>Not sure why you would care how much is being spent on it.

It's easiest way to see how "big" something is
Care to elaborate why you think the comments on this rover are nationalistic? Or, do you feel the same way about comments regarding NASA or JAXA achievements?

Disclaimer: I'm a China/Chinese national.
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