skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never understood, can you cash out your tether at any time to fiat?
I still do not understand why it even exist? Is it a tool to get around trading in USD?
Why is it so popular? This speaks massively against cryptocurrencies itself, seems like they need an artificial crutch.
Sounds like people use them knowing it's a dodgy tool, but they all hope to not be the bag holders once it collapses. This never ends well.

And finally, how does tether profit from it? Directly via fees or some other constellation?

But hey, people have invested in shit coins, ICOs which were held by even more intransparent companies.

Makes me wonder how the marketing for such things is propagated.
How can you be “long BTC” - it’s a currency not a stock. You might say “I’m long USD” but then you are really saying you believe the US economy will grow, and the value of its currency will strengthen.

Given Bitcoin isn’t attached to anything… what does long mean?
Ask HN: How do you stay on top of everything you find interesting on the Web?
There is so much interesting content that I have a backlog of many articles I want to read but just can't find time to. That combined with RSS feeds, social network and news, it seems impossible to keep track of everything.
Interesting... my friend and I were just talking about racialized inbreeding in people, the sort of thing people do (consciously or otherwise) to give their offspring social privilege in some racial dominance hierarchy. It strikes me as similar in some sense. Trading off long term genetic diversity for relatively temporary gain to you and your own offspring.
That’s NY state, not the US.

Things will get real when SDNY get involved.
Preemption sure is non-deterministic from POV of the thread. But what's the point of it anyway? It's not like you handle HW interrupts in user-space and need to wait for some value in memory mapped register.
I'm your age x2. Here's how it worked in the old days. You walked your area with friends and showed off in front of the girls you met. You met girls at the (church) youthclub or disco. You met girls at a bar or nightclub. You met girls at school and at work. You met girls while on holiday. I knew many girls in real life. I kissed a few but the only girl I ever 'hooked' up with was my wife. We were friends for 6 years before we started to date. I have been happily married for 25 years. My advice to you is twofold. Don't put yourself under so much pressure. Second, go out and enjoy other people's company. Life often tends to be you meet someone who connects you to a girl. This new world of cutting out the middle man seems strange to me but then where there is money to be made people will find it. I'm not sure it's important what you choose to do but find a real world activity where you can connect with others. You may make friends there, meet a girl, or just enjoy other people's company. You may even experience some drama there but that's part of the learning of being young. Thankfully some of the plans I pursued at your age didn't work out but it was all part of the journey. Good luck young man :-)
> People value that other functionality more. You may not like it, but that's how they are.

I've once listened to a presentation given by someone from the company behind AdBlock Plus. They were explaining their (back then) new "Acceptable Ads" program and how an overwhelming amount of users chose to let the program enabled.

They even had a pie chart showing over 90% participation in the acceptable ads program and interpreted it as user choice. ("That's how they are")

After the presentation I asked whether they've tested how many users actively enable Acceptable Ads participation in the settings if it's off by default. To noones surprise they did not run such a test.

Not changing the defaults should not be interpreted as user choice if the same settings end-state is not reproducible with other defaults.

Usually any default, no matter how hostile, stays set. The reality is that users can be nudged easily and rarely ever change any settings at all.
The edges really show for smaller craft. At low Reynolds numbers lift gets funky. A lot of flight research is around making very small things fly efficiently.
Yes, it's called celebrity endorsements and expect to give up 70% or more of the revenue. That celebrity will then pretend that it was their idea and that they built it and you're just a tiny helper who assisted them with their grand product vision.

It feels a bit stupid to give up the bragging rights, but in exchange you're fully shielded from those pesky customers.
Am I alone in thinking that maybe this is a good idea?

When someone opens the door in one of those cabinets, glass doors always cloud up. Then I have to wait and wait for it to be clear again, and in the meantime, some other customer will often come by, open the door, and grab something, and I have to wait all over again for it to defog.

I do see a lot of opportunity for abuse, but I also see a lot of potential.
If they’re holding USDs they are bound to US regulations.
I see today’s internet as it is discussed in this article and in public discourse in general (with blockchain and all) as a massive black box dragon that has grown completely out of control and is now literally devouring the world. [1]

Another radically cooperative alternative is starting to emerge: fully agent centric networks, where modular and transparent app logic/functions validate and share the information that is important to a specific network of peers. Combine that with the exciting work of Mikorizal and Sensorica, which turn the model of Enterprise Resource Planning upside down (or as they describe it: “merging REA [the Resources Event Agent accounting method] with some ideas from Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) , Work Flow Management (WFM) and Constraint-Based Scheduling (CBS) systems” [2]), to create ‘Network Resource Planning’ systems and ‘Open Value Networks‘.

In other words: they are re-rooting economic networks for the digital age in a way that “enable[s the] internetworking among many different software projects for resource planning and accounting within fractal networks of people and groups.“ By focusing on protocols instead of platforms, a more balanced and horizontal web of trust and transparency can emerge.

The most exciting projects in the dWeb for me, that I mentioned above, are: http://valueflo.ws + holo-REA and holochain.

[1] https://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/seeing-wetiko-on-capit...

[2] http://www.jeffsutherland.org/oopsla97/haugen.html
China's interest in Taiwan has nothing to do with economy.

The CCP and Xi in particular have turned "reunification" into a matter of national and personal pride.

More substantially, they see Taiwanese independance as a threat because it could serve as an example to independance movements in Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and probably a few more.
over the years I've been so dissapointed with pens[0] at some point I've given up. but maybe I will muster the will to try again :-)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Concerto
You know the 2008 crisis is still fresh in a lot of people’s memory right?
Not just showing something mundane, but actually showing what is behind the screen!

It’s like connecting VR goggles to a front facing camera, so you can watch what you would see if you took of the headset.

As art, I’m kinda digging it too.
Or how great April fool's ideas can actually be if they turn out to be real
CIG had stopped implementing new CryEngine changes at 3.7. So they just had to include the changes from 3.7 to 3.8(where Lumberyard forked).

They said it took 3 engineers one weekend of work, using a diffchecker.
It took a few bank runs to get there though. The government backing is also 50/50.
print tether, deposit it into an exchange, buy btc, tether is now back by an asset (btc), btc now higher in price, repeat
I've started to experience this going from an external consultant to an internal solo developer. We have removed so many bugs by removing complexity in the business. There were unmaintainable messes everywhere. I used to think the code was the problem. The real problem was the business had grown organically and the processes were inconsistent and complex. Simplifying them meant we could remove entire systems. Edge cases have been removed and all the code that handled them.
This is relatively easy to block, given that these companies publish their IP ranges. Similar to the Tor block, blocking "datacenter IP's" simply becomes the norm. This is why you have companies offering "resi's" or residential proxies to bypass such blocks for some years now.
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You're not a loser because Tinder didn't work out; you're one of millions who find 'online socializing' to be inadequate by itself. Go meet people. It sounds like this was hard for you to admit, but for some people this is a regular conversation between them and friends (and in some cases, any stranger who will listen). So forget the embarrassment & try to become more comfortable talking about it.
Almost nobody understands software then, by this definition.
In a word, no.

Banks are required to more in assets than they have in client liability, and to write down the value of those assets based on risk. So they have >100% coverage.
Smart people have failed to outsmart business people.
Who said anything about love? Freedom isn't about love, it is about being an autonomous agent. Perhaps it is presumptuous, but you sound bitter.

Freedom means facing the consequences of your decisions. Sometimes you take a risk and it pays off, other times you lose. The real travesty, for me anyway, is living around people who are too scared to take any real risks in their lives. They will be the first to break in the event of a real tragedy. Resilience is built by making and learning from mistakes
> But what's the point of it anyway?

Some people empirically find it improves their applications' performances in some situations.
Can you run turbo pascal ?
Unlike a money market, Tether has no obligation to redeem (per their own TOS) and to date nobody has ever provided proof that Tethers have been redeemed.

Imho, it’s far more likely that Tether has very few assets backing their issuance and that a crypto implosion could spark contagion in other markets.
Runaway house prices: the ‘winners and losers’ from the pandemic
Solution: don't use copy-on-write?
Am I missing something about how much crypto is out there? I get that bitcoin is worth 50k each etc and so on, but the net amount of actual real world money that has gone from IRL into crypto I have assumed to be quite small (ie it's either money laundering going in and out just leaving fees behind, or it was coin bought for a dollar each and now the owner thinks it is worth a Tesla, but the amount of actual value transferred so far is one dollar)

So, forgive me, if there is not much actual wealth been put in, if it collapses why is it a risk?
I totally agree and I don't think it's crazy to consider it more safe than centralized stablecoins run by companies.

If there's a bank account, it's possible the entity managing that account could become insolvent or that someone could run off with the funds.

If your collateral is locked in a smart contract that's properly secured, it's possible to create a situation where it's technically impossible for anyone unauthorized to lose the collateral, either by embezzlement or by losing it with poor managmeent.

I'm honestly not sure whether it's more likely that DAI has a contract bug or USDT/USDC/GUSD/BUSD/TUSD/etc becomes insolvent due to some external factors.

If we had a global credit crisis and banking institutions were failing, I'd feel a lot more comfortable holding DAI than one of the stablecoins that relies on the traditional system.
I don't think using paper in a reasonable and conscious manner is "wasting" the paper. Most of the paper waste, I suspect, is from different uses (like printing tons of crap in offices). Thoughts?
I’m not quite sure what point you’re making here. Spanner ensures causality by waiting until TrueTime tells you that the commit time is considered “in the past” for all replicas. There’s nothing swept under the rug here and this is a theoretically sound way of ensuring consistency (as long as you’re willing to sacrifice correctness if you’re not able to keep clocks in sync).
It's like the Xbox Verification Can story.
The 2008 crisis was the banks losing their assets, not the banks lying about their assets.

Though yes, it amuses me to see crypto advocates' reaction to 2008 was to enthusiastically defend the right of crypto companies to do worse whilst pretending not to.
YourBase Promises Software Testing Acceleration
Scroll further down on the IBKR table. 1.6% is the rate everyone gets. If you manage 200 million for example, you pay 0.75%. Some other currencies have 0.5% interest.

https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=46376
The post is saying:

- don't drop the info gathered from checks while validating, but keep track of it

- if you do this, you'll effectively be parsing

- parsing is more powerful that validating

"Extra steps" would be keeping track of info gathered from checks.
> I get the impression that many of those vocal "Killer" players that strongly prefer open world PvP are possibly over-represented in MMO design efforts.

That's precisely correct. I've been in WoW from 2007 to 2012 and you could tell that the people who loved ruining the fun for everybody else were the most vocal in the forums. They also became quite good in painting it with innocent colors: "think of the roleplaying aspect, are you not an RPG anymore?", "the world feels more vibrant and live", "fights for resources happen in the real world, let's have a realistic game" etc.

While in reality they simply enjoy obstructing other people's gaming. And this has been evident for so many years, and it has been known that these people are the minority -- it's truly puzzling why they haven't been shut down, hard, at least a decade ago.

The only good explanation that I have ever found was: part of the game devs are those griefers, and they defend the open-world PvP on internal meetings.

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The other kinds of players are indeed much more quiet. I personally started playing WoW because I wanted an RPG and I didn't care about the MMO aspect for a long time. But it's what the market had available as the best game in the genre at the time. My regret from back then is that I didn't aggressively scan the market in more details. I surely would have found a single-player RPG to my liking.
with parallelization you can come up to speed - on big machine with several cores may be still cheaper than many cloud instances

of course no option if your 'target' blocks tor ips
I think a problem with my line of reasoning is that, as a society, we don't really want to care about the objective measures. I don't pick sides in this argument, but there is an ongoing argument about things like "women have a lower population standard deviation in intelligence, so we'd expect them to be underrepresented in high-demand fields like software engineering, and low-demand fields like <politely left blank>", and the other side (ignoring those who doubt the empirical basis) just say "who cares? as a society we ought to treat people equally regardless of the hand they were dealt".

That being said, I think your analysis is correct. I think, if you removed a lot of the technology-based attractiveness (make-up, haircut etc.), attractiveness is probably just a heuristic for genetic or general health. Of course, this is an empirical statement, so I imagine it is something that could be/has been studied, I was more commenting on the fact that the article totally ignores this thinking.
I am specifically referring to the Lancet letter that is the subject of the article (full text: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...).

Relevant excerpts:

> The rapid, open, and transparent sharing of data on this outbreak is now being threatened by rumours and misinformation around its origins. We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.

> Conspiracy theories do nothing but create fear, rumours, and prejudice that jeopardise our global collaboration in the fight against this virus. We support the call from the Director-General of WHO to promote scientific evidence and unity over misinformation and conjecture.
Not to mention there are quite a few people seeing the same signs of a crash now as in 2008.
This is easy to block since all IPs of these cloud machines will belong to the same ASN.

Advanced scrapers mostly use residential IPs nowadays, but there are some services to detect those too, e.g. https://focsec.com/
Gamozo focuses on security and optimization topics.

While his content is not structured as a tutorial, he explains his line of thinking very well.

https://www.youtube.com/user/gamozolabs/videos

https://www.twitch.tv/gamozo
It's actually float* - which is a pointer to a float (hn's formatting can eat these sometimes)

example:

float* f = GetF();
// In a C world, you rely on the documentation to tell you how long f is valid for.
SomeFunc(*f);

// We _know_ this is safe.
std::unique_ptr<float> f = GetF();
SomeFunc(*f.get());
There's no way, currently, for digital to compete with the precision and tactile feel of paper. One day we may get there, we are advancing remarkably quickly (pun intended).
Imho this is not true at all. The underlying assumption in your argument is that Tinder provides an accurate assessment of your issues, which is not true. Tinder dating success reflects a heavily skewed dating market that focuses on shallow metrics, such as how photogenic you are.

There was a study done by one of the large dating sites that showed 20% of male profiles get 80% of the matches.

Now, this skewed proportion does not obviously reflect real life. On dating apps a carefully curated, often fake persona can do well.

Personally I find dating apps in general to not be good places to find a partner at all. Ive had much more luck meeting women in the workplace or school etc.
I thought of input validation for web forms.
Similar thing I guess. In Haskell you can create a type that you know is a validated email address but you still need a validation function from String -> Maybe Email to actually validate it at runtime
It just means that you think people are willing to buy it from you at a higher price later in time.
Some people describe monads as "programmable semicolons" - they're pretty much the general concept of sequencing, "do this then do that", or indeed of imperative code. I don't think they're necessarily the ideal abstraction - something like ArrowChoice is "better" in a lot of cases - but in practice they seem to come up a hell of a lot, you can represent almost anything as a monad.
It does answer your question why you would use one over the other: because of irrational non sequiturs.
Good links, thanks
There are lots of Windows machines around with subpar or buggy OpenGL implementations.

I used to develop a Qt/QML app for Windows it was impractical to leave hardware acceleration enabled. In then end, using Mesa/llvmpipe everywhere was just more reliable.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali says MeToo is having a moment in America's muslim communities
It's more like putting the "extra steps" at the right place in the code.
I thought it was mostly because of the slight upward angle of the wing which creates air compression under the wing and suction above the wing.

If you try to move a flat object through water, it creates pressure at the front and suction at the back. If you tilt it diagonally (and move it right to left), you get pressure in the bottom right and suction in the top right.
A common and wrong explanation. The pressure differential is created by the fact that the air is being pushed into the lower side of the wing.

It's much simpler than that anyway. The wing forces the air downward, so the plane must be forced up.
What is your argument? Is it what's called whataboutism? I find it "intellectually tiresome"

https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/great-dinosaur-foss...

Fossil hoaxes from China are not some distant outlier incidents, they're very recent and systemic.
Its complex...The example normally given is, the wing is shaped a little flat in the under side and curved on the top. So that would explain the flow as you mentioned. However when an airplane flies upside down, its not sucked into the ground ;-)

It seems nobody really knows:

"No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air"

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explai...

Edit: Added brief from article above:

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- On a strictly mathematical level, engineers know how to design planes that will stay aloft. But equations don't explain why aerodynamic lift occurs.

- There are two competing theories that illuminate the forces and factors of lift. Both are incomplete explanations.

- Aerodynamicists have recently tried to close the gaps in understanding. Still, no consensus exists.

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Yeah, the usual explanation of "air goes faster over the top because they have to meet at the end" is BS. Especially the 2nd part. A video about the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKCK4lJLQHU

But the explanation I can come up with is: lift is a force due to low-pressure regions caused by laminar flow over a surface. It is essentially "form drag" (caused not by the profile facing air directly but by the aft part) but the tricky part is that it is not directly parallel to the flow of air, but also depends on the orientation of the wing.
The Sparcstations ran pretty much okay on Linux though, even though in benchmarks Solaris seemed faster.
Exactly, and with the press of a button they can create BILLIONS and noone bats an eye.
For 5 years in WoW I only learned to hate those who were ruining my idea of gaming fun. I wasn't marked PvP (PvE servers) but I occasionally found a quest hub that I needed and of course, all NPCs were killed.

It's one of the reasons I left WoW. I don't want to be at the mercy of somebody like you who creatively invents a beautiful justification for stopping me to have my gaming fun.

I am sure whatever it is you are telling to yourself makes sense. But not to me.
That's still better than matrix_add(c, matrix_mul(b, a)) though - you can't do A.mul(B).add(C) in C
If you bypass the whole "attack only the points of the analogy which do not relate to the argument" and focus on the points of the "analogy" that make it a suitably demonstrative specialization of the more general argument (and thus a formally valid argument, which in general an analogy is not, and thus a neither is a strawman counterargument), then:

General Premises:
1. Agent A enforces Action X onto Agent B
2. Action X hurts C with some probability. Not Action X hurts B with high probability.
3. For all persons D under A, the probability of Not Action X is vanishingly small.

Reasonable Argument:
1. If B performs Action X bad things happen to C. This makes them partly responsible. However, under premise 3, B's counterfactual contribution is vanishingly small, whereas A's contribution is close to 100%.

Unreasonable argument:
1. As the final link in this particular chain of events, B is wholly responsible for the harm done to C, because had they suffered harm with high probability, they would have ensured the reduction of the probability of non-harm to C by a vanishingly small amount.
"Us1035.iheart.com"

I have a strange feeling that your sources are as poor as your ideas.
> I'd guess most of the centrally managed ones make their money investing the deposited USD to earn a safe rate of return as profit.

Yeah and liquidating these might tank something else, which might tank something else, which might piss people off enough to get serious regulation through. That is the problem.
That's really surprising. I suppose it makes sense if it happens at the time of setting up the machine, and an explicit notice is given to the end user. That should circumvent any privacy and security issues.