skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you! Right now we leave it up to the sellers to create their own FOMO & decide how to use the drop feature. Right now, the drops don't expire after a certain time period automatically, but that is a really cool feature idea! The two most common things we've seen are sellers whose drops immediately sell out (in which case they just delete the drop from their website) or sellers whose drops don't fully sell out, and it that case they typically leave the drops on their website moreso as curated collections for people to shop after the typical drop window has passed.
This trend line would suggest otherwise: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=buy%20usdt,buy%20...

(Virtually every corrupt country in the world is eagerly pouring fiat money into USDT at an accelerating pace)
I feel like this Tether "scam" story has been posted to death. The NY AG investigated, and nothing came from it.

I guess there's a "where there is smoke there is fire" element, and something could happen. But... where's the beef?
What does it matter? Your users will just run it in Edge using IE11 compatibility mode, which "will be supported through at least 2029".

I see no devastation here...
It is a more general form of a Ponzi scheme, where you substitute the nominal positive returns from Madoff's scheme with a theoretical stable price, when in reality both schemes should (if the author of this article is right) offer a significantly negative return
Your point about the traditional financial markets is reasonable but it's not what the author is discussing and they have no obligation to do so.
I'm relocating to Bay Area right now, would love to live in SF, but the schools are grossly mismanaged so I'm going to MV instead. I doubt I'm the only person.
Would you agree that "outflows are only possible because the inflows are big enough so that the new investors can cover the payouts for the old investors until eventually the bubble gets big enough" is a hallmark of a Ponzi scheme? You could disagree that that's the case for Tether, but that's what the article lays out, no?
What is one's best course of action if

- they believe that tether is shady and aren't interested in owning, using, participating or encouraging its existance and use

- they still want to own and use cryptocurrencies

- they like the ease of use, low fees and coin offerings on binance compared to the competition

?
LOL I funded that one and they never shipped anything.
> The only downside pretty much is the weather in comparison and that too not by much.

Sports, bars, culture, muni metro, proximity to the ocean, proximity to nature (I can be alone in natural parks with less than 30 minutes of driving from my house in SF), jobs, dating, restaurants, I could go on.

I'm not even someone that plans on staying in SF (I actually don't like it that much), but there are lots of downsides if I left for Sacramento. I realize there are upsides as well, but I think it's disingenuous to say 'Sacramento is as good or better than San Francisco except for the weather'
Sure, go to coingecko or livecoinwatch
This is what I love about Microsoft. While Google is eager to go ahead and cancel Google Cloud Print and say "find an alternative before next month", Microsoft would be the company to announce it'll be cancelled in 2023, extended support lasts until 2029, and you can buy Extended Warranty 365+ for Business that lasts until 2067.
I've built such systems in C++ before, and they really are extremely useful. You get much more efficient logging (in terms of CPU time, code size, and bandwidth on the wire), and it's automatically structured. printf style logging seems extremely primitive in comparison. It also pairs very well with asynchronous logging (just sticking the logged data into a ringbuffer to be transferred in bulk later), since then you can stick logs statements practically anywhere, often including interrupts and whatever mechanism you are using the transmit the logs.
To summarise, Tether is bad. Tether, like all the other attempts to create shadow banks, risks becoming systemically important while not being capable of maintaining their dollar peg if there is a large demand for liquidity.

What Tether is not:

- A Ponzi Scheme. Tether makes no guarantees on returns for investors. If you have $1 worth of tether it will never be worth more or less. This is as opposed to a Ponzi scheme where your $1 increases in value (on paper) but those returns do not represent an actual increase in value, but just a gamble that enough people won't try to withdraw their money.

- A scheme to pump up the price of cryptocurrencies by creating unbacked tether from thin air and using that to buy cryptocurrencies. The balance sheet summary published shows that they have reserves equal to the amount issued, with varying amounts of liquidity. In addition, this was the conclusion reached by the NYAG. Note that "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence", this could still be the case but there is no credible evidence of this.

- Backed entirely by bank deposits or by bags full of dollar bills. They are instead using a number of debt instruments of varying degrees of liquidity. Although this is contrary to their initial claims, it is not dissimilar from any organization purporting to hold "cash", like corporations, etc. And realistically at the scale they are at there is no realistic way to hold that amount of money in the traditional banking system.

Tether is still bad! Read up on Rohan Grey's critiques of stablecoins from a systemic risk perspective; he's a very clear thinker in this space with a vast knowledge of historical antecedents for exactly this kind of thing. It's just not bad for the reasons that people think it's bad.
Oh yeah. I appreciate them disclosing their stake. I just... don't think their logic is very good in that sentence. But its kind of a tangent and unrelated to the rest of the post.

I remember reading some advice from some seasoned traders years (maybe ~decade ago). Knowing the future is overrated. Timing is everything.

Even if you knew that Tether was worth $0 as of the year 2025 with a magical crystal ball, if you don't know all the price points between now and then (and therefore are unable to make an appropriate "timing" for placing your bet), you'll lose money.

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I think a lot of us around here are willing to bet Tether is worthless. But when does everyone else realize it? That's the big question for any bubble. Timing is everything, even when you are correct.

In the meantime, Tether will be worth $1 or so, and "be operational". So even a perfectly accurate crystal ball seeing into the future doesn't help you in the now.
Hopefully this gets adopted en masse! THANK YOU!
In at least many places in the US land ownership is transparent. If you know a parcel of land you can search the county records office's website and find out who owns it.

It doesn't take a blockchain to make a dataset public.
That's certainly true. A career in tech became widely popular and trendy for millenials and now zoomers (I believe CS is now the most popular undergraduate major across US colleges?). Basically once people realized you can make more money in tech than on Wall St, a percentage of new grads who would have moved to NYC diverted for SF.
The essence of a Ponzi scheme is claims about above-average profit rate. Holding Tether by its essence can’t provide you more profit than holding cash.
I've seen several commentators blame AWS! Before AWS, startups needed to budget for web servers and similar hardware, and a place to put them. That meant bigger offices with more floor space, plus power and similar services. Once AWS came (2007) startups could be anywhere, with the city tending to be more attractive to younger folk.
With Ponzi schemes, investors give money to a portfolio manager. Then, when they want their money back, they are paid out with the incoming funds contributed by later investors.

With a pyramid scheme, the initial schemer recruits other investors who in turn recruit other investors and so on. Late-joining investors pay the person who recruited them for the right to participate or perhaps sell a certain product.

Call Tether whatever it is but it's neither a pyramid scheme nor a Ponzi one. The funny thing is that people don't really understand that banks are not able to cover in case everybody wants their money at the same time either and their dollars are stretched as much as Tether is. If people have confidence in Tether it will hold, if people don't it will crumble.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/09/ponzi-vs-pyramid...
Huge companies can build up trust and fail less easily, so it makes sense to me that creditors would be more willing to lend to them. If you are small, it is probably easier to get liquid capital by selling ownership stakes.

As you've mentioned, I don't think deciding what industries we should focus on/invest in is within the purview of the Fed.
Interestingly, the Gemini dollar (GUSD) is backed by real dollars, and is thoroughly audited, but regularly has fluctuations of +/-8%, even when Gemini does redemptions on demand. That’s a lot more than USDT (and DAI, for that matter) vary.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/gemini-dollar/
you know, on some level I enjoy the abstract graphic design in this UI change, but I get the sense this resembles a kind of fast fashion more than genuine progress towards better UI design.

(Not that the iphone is any different here, if anything, apple often seems to move further from their professed design principles to pursue a kind of tech fashion.)
This sounds really weird. What was the perf problem you were seeing? (aside from whatever has gone wrong with encryption failures) For context, message sending latency should be measured in tens of milliseconds, at worst, unless the server is completely overloaded with federation traffic.
Seems he hasn't done much of anything and it's more that he rubbed everyone the wrong way. And is being opaque in his decision-making to the point that the volunteers believe he's being dishonest. I get it, but it still seems like an overreaction.
Was a rewrite the best way to increase customers? Or was there more energy and resources dedicated to marketing and sales?
This must be what hell is like.
The Twiddler, maybe? https://twiddler.tekgear.com/
Paypal doesn't print I pressume? Only receives fiat deposits.
That would take months to play out.

It's not like the FDIC will honor your withdrawal request the same day you made it.
In don’t see it on the CMC chart.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
RobustIRC does this: https://robustirc.net/docs/robustsession.html

(Disclaimer: I’m a developer of RobustIRC)
>I have not been tested on the fundamentals of programming taking interviews from FAAGM and other famous tech companies

I've interviewed at three of those letters, but as a senior manager, and I (somewhat ironically) better covered my nearly 20 years of writing code (as an IC, to use the parlance of the industry) than the interviews given to coders.

I could certainly solve hard coding problems when needed, but later in my career I was doing mostly system design, which is figuring out how to put all the bits together in a way that could be built modularly and operated efficiently. Another question from one of those focused on how to handle an actual problem that came up regarding migrating log analyzers when a simple cutover wasn't possible. In general, I love those kinds of questions because my experienced and knowledge come in to play.

It boggles my mind when senior ICs get dinged because they're not able to traverse a tree in the way someone wanted in 30 minutes while coding in a plain text editor on a video chat. IMHO, 5 minutes to install the correct package and write a couple tests should be sufficient so we can get the REAL discussion which is to talk about whether a tree is the right structure and what we should do about it if it's not. ;)
If you’ve been on for 20 years, you’ll remember they last time this happened. It’ll sort itself out.
All those browsers have to use Safari (WKWebView) internally so they are close.

There’s an important difference, these browsers can also run additional JS on web pages and partly compensate for missing content blocking capabilities. This could help to an extent, but I am not sure if the said browsers do that.
> Being "backed" by something is a concept of a bygone century that doesn't really apply to the Gen Z economy.

If it's so unimportant then why did Tether lie about it? This, on its own, seems like a pretty big red flag to me. The kind of red flag that smashes you in the face.
The dollar is the reserve currency of most of the world because of the explicit threat of violence. This isn't hyperbole, this is reality.

It's simple. You take the loan in dollars, then pay us back in goods, sold at a discount in dollars. If you don't, we sanction and embargo you. You try to break the embargo, we sink your ships. You try to make your own regional currency, we assassinate you. This is why you can afford to purchase expensive goods yet the people who produce them can't.

This is the fundamental basis of the modern world. That more people aren't actively aware of this is the powerful result of ideology.
I started working at my town’s library during the summer, putting books away. When I later started to learn about algorithms and data structures, I kept thinking back to pushing that cart of books around the stacks (sorting them ahead of time was faster), rebalancing the distribution of books among a shelf, etc. Tons and tons of CS concepts are made physical in the library.
Aaah, I thought “going down” was referring to the price moving.
My understanding is it requires true names and is unevenly enforced.
I can transcribe audio from meetings in almost real time. It doesn't actually require blazing fast WPM to do that. I get plenty done. And no, the first working squeezebox prototype is not my daily driver. Second version I hope but it's more about the process and I wouldn't be surprised if it is just the next entry in a fairly long line of keebs to challenge my original ergodox full-hand and walk away leaving the ergodox as king of the hill.
same story; non paywalled

https://californianewstimes.com/what-happens-when-virtue-sig...
A different take on blockchain with encrypted functions
Switching to static binaries would solve some of these issues.

Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27009044
The entirety of the crypto space is a distributed Ponzi scheme.

All of it is backed by dollars[1]. That is what people want, they want more dollars so they get more out at the end. There is vastly less dollars sloshing around the system than the current ~$1.6T valuation of all crypto.

Crypto as a business would have ~$1.6T in liabilities with maybe a few $10B of actual cash on the balance sheet. It is very balance sheet insolvent. Once outflows exceed inflows for a sufficiently long amount of time so that the cash drains to zero it would then hit a liquidity crisis or cash insolvency.

This is basically the same thing as a Ponzi scheme, but there's no one person or entity running the whole thing.

[1] Yes, really its all priced in dollars, everyone investing in it wants the number to go up, nobody barely remembers "in it for the tech" or "1 BTC = 1 BTC" these days, we're all watching the dollar value of bitcoin bounce around because that is what ultimately "backs" Bitcoin. It isn't an alternative currency at all.
I think the danger zone thing is saying if it drops to $18,500 then at this point the bottom will fall out and it will drop a lot further.

If it doesn't drop below $18,500 there could still be danger. Of course danger means it will then drop, well, you know ... below $18,500!
Thank you for this :)
The government promising by law to pay everyone back does build more confidence than Tether's 2.3 cents + outstanding debt from other exchanges.

This is why I stick with defi stablecoins.
This is what you are looking for WRT debt [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_de...
AMD's Zen 3 CPU refresh is about expanded manufacturing not performance
AI Generated Music Video
For preview URLs how are y'all handling SSO? No SSO provider supports wildcard redirect URIs. Looking for ideas...
Yes, if you record the USD value of both sides at the time of trade. If you only record the execution price of your BTC/USDT trade you will need to later find the price of BTC/USD and USDT/USD at the time of execution.

Trickier in the sense that it requires more attention than simply recording the execution price and fees of a BTC/USD trade.
Age 14, I worked 2 hours a day, 5 days a week at the local fish market doing clean up and end of day work. Nasty stuff. I worked the summer before college at a friend of my parent's warehouse basically relabeling overstock canned goods with a white label for use in restaurants. Hot, loud, and smelly job. During my sophomore year, I thought I wanted to drop out. My dad said he could probably get me into the plumber's union, and no disrespect to plumbers (they probably make more money than I do), but the memories of that work made me go back and give college one more shot. It all worked out in the end. I graduated, found work, and am still in the industry happily three decades later, but it all could have gone the other way if not for those hard manual work summer jobs.
> Coinbase and Binance and the others have locked up some very high powered lobbyists at this point. That’s where Madoff went wrong...

Madoff was extremely well connected, and numerous reports to the SEC were ignored as a result. His empire came down when he confessed to his sons, who immediately called the FBI.
Last time I was there (which was admittedly like six years ago) the person I was visiting said they got some stipend to be used at the cafeteria. Entirely possible I've misremembered.
They are overloaded with registrations; they might have blocked gmail temporarily because gmail's spam filter.
I have an app at work that has a Search box. Used to accept regex patterns for selecting a host by name or description on the inventory list below. When clicking on that search box, it pops up a list of other search terms that I've entered on other web sites, which has absolutely nothing to do with this app. And when in a zoom meeting, I really don't want others to see my previously typed-in searches.

At least this is one of the top complaints about my app that I get from the customer service folks that use it. I ended up somewhat fixing this by renaming the field, but sometimes it will still pop in something strange -- is Chrome picking up the word "Search" that appears as part of the user facing page content, even if the field ID is different?
Right.

> There's a public ledger

Nothing to do with this.

> we can find out exactly how many people bought it at every price.

None of them afaik will tell you how many people. Trade data tends to be anonymous and only give you price, amount, and side for each trade. There’s no way to differentiate between 2 people trading back and forth 1 million times vs 2 million people trading once each.
But the NFT is supporting them directly, if they minted it.

I personally think NFT's are silly, but there's zero argument to be made that they aren't supporting the artist. The artist minted them in the first place.
Ye you need oil and saw dust on your hands to design machines properly. In a SWE analogue running the milling machine would be ... using computers? Workshop experience is harder to come by than computer dito.
This is more of a rant on Pi-hole than related to Youtube ads but...

Pi-hole can be fine but it isn't effective if you want it to block not only the lowest hanging fruits which a browser adblocker could easily block too but also stuff that doesn't follow the rules and might use hardcoded DNS IPs if they can't get the reply they want from the DNS server. With some Windows PC's, Apple devices, Chromecasts and Androids I quickly saw Pi-hole hang because of tens of thousands of requests if I tried to force all DNS through it. Because I'm a geek I turned to my homelab instead of the RPI4 and ended up with two nginx load balancers with two Pi-holes behind each (yes, 4 Pi-holes). Even though they were now running in virtual machines on a dual Xeon HP Proliant they still died when they got flooded. The hardware could easily take the hammering of requests but the software not so much (often the counter skyrocketed to 40000 requests before it died). Now I just block 100% of DNS requests at the gateway/firewall (OPNsense) instead and oh boy does it catch and log a lot of stuff the Pi-hole didn't. The amount of software that use hardcoded DNS, make example.com requests and try to reach RFC TEST-NET IPs is just staggering.

Sorry about the rant but just in case you didn't know that Pi-hole is only effective against good network citizens like, well, now you know.
Just to be clear here: retired for windows 10.

People talking about certain spaces (eg healthcare) where Citrix on windows server is the norm are going to support ie11 for the lifespan of windows 2019. So don't pop the cork just yet..
That is quite a caveat. Public transportation is a must to have a cultural scene that is both vibrant and not homogeneously upper-class at scale.
Who could forget this gem of an interview with the Deltec Bank Deputy CEO? https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/l5m2my/gregory_pe...

> "Every tether is backed by a reserve and their reserve is more than what is in circulation," said Gregory Pepin, Deltec Bank's deputy CEO.

What business does the bank have in auditing Tethers? Why would they care? They're just holding funds.

> “We can see it firsthand, so I can confirm that.”

That to me more reads like Deltec is heavily involved in the actual day-to-day operations at Bitfinex/Tether. Which wouldn't be surprising - after all, remember when Bitfinex and Tether were claimed to be entirely separate and independent entities.

It's a little bit of a stretch to say that Bitfinex has been able to get Deltec on board with keeping this all going by providing a "partnership" above and beyond the usual "banking relationship", but that's very much the vibe I get from all this, and as I said, to me, it just increases the sketchiness of everything.

Oh, and WTF, I watched the video of the interview with the "Deputy CEO" of Deltec Bank, self-described as a "50-year-old bank [whose] customers range from asset managers to high-net-worth individuals"

It's a damn "kid" who looks to be 30 (edit: 33) at most, sitting in his gamer seat with red slashes in the black, wearing a Razer gaming headset.

He has almost no photos on the internet, his LinkedIn profile is full of multiple spelling errors ("Independance Weath Management"), who claims to be a Professor of Finance at a University in Lebanon (a year after graduating from a Lausanne University) while working for numerous Swiss funds, oh and in Jacksonville, Florida, simultaneously.

How the hell are people taking this seriously?!?

And according to his profile he apparently graduated with a Masters in Science from HEC Lausanne (prestigious Swiss university) when he was FIFTEEN. I'm sorry, I'm crying now with laughter.

Funnily enough, Deltec bank removed him from their website when this interview was published, then re-added them when people asked questions, and then arranged a very quick website complete "redesign" (I use that word lightly - this looks like a WordPress template that they've struggled to fill with any content whatsoever - most of the pages are effectively empty, many of the buttons to "learn more" are not linked to anywhere). Oh, and in among the re-design, the bank went from 55 years old to 70 years old in the space of six months...

Sources:

- https://wallmine.com/nasdaq/tenx/officer/2087842/gregory-pep...

- https://www.linkedin.com/public-profile/in/gregory-pepin-0a8...
Stanford CS 161 undergrad algo course

https://timroughgarden.org/videos.html

U Illinois CS 374 undergrad algo course

https://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/

If you are just looking for code in dozens of languages, Rosetta Code has many examples

http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Tasks

Best of Luck ;)