skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing from the article that people should probably pay more attention to:

> A hallmark of Tether is that its creators have said each token is backed by one U.S. dollar, either through actual money or holdings that include commercial paper, corporate bonds and precious metals. That has triggered concerns that if lots of traders sold stable coins all at once, there could be a run on assets backstopping the tokens. Fitch Ratings has warned that such a scenario could destabilize short-term credit markets.

Even if Tether is 100% backed and not fraudulent at all, a bank-run scenario could result in Tether needing to sell off billions of dollars of its assets very quickly.

What happens if there is a precipitous sale of the assets that currently back the Tether token? Would there be ripple effects across the rest of the economy if additional volatility creeps into the commercial paper market as a result?

Regardless as to the actual risk, concern over this specific scenario is animating much of the regulatory interest into stablecoins. One would expect restrictions to be imposed on what types of assets may be used to back stablecoins, and for explicit reporting requirements to be imposed as well.
I'm excited for generics to land in Golang so we can have efficient set implementations instead of abusing maps.
This article is very thin on content.
Just for completeness, there's also an option for that in the regular settings panel.
do you even live in the UK?

the political deadlock was completely resolved after the 2019 election... now the government has a huge majority and is rock solid politically (as is normally the case)

other than some toilet roll shortages in March last year, there have been no visible issues whatsoever
> It would be more honest and to just say cops have the right to search you at will.

Except they explicitly do NOT have that power. They found a "trick" to pretend like they are staying within the law, while really not.
I don't know how to help someone that far gone. – MetaFilter
and https://listudy.org/en is a great free study complement to lichess
Michael Bloomberg threw his fortune at becoming president and lost miserably. Jeff Bezos is the most hated person in Washington. I don't see any evidence or a correlation that wealth is buying people political power, at least in my country.
Two EVs are way easier to manage than one EV and one ICE car. Because you can trade them off at a distant charger.
That is an amazing video. Thank you.
(2009) please
I'm in the Midwest, and I went to Toyota and Honda and a few others looking for a PHEV SUV (Plug-in Hybrid) recently.

At Toyota I mentioned being interested in the Rav4 Prime and got laughed at by the dealer. He proceeded to tell me that they're only likely to receive a grand total of 2 Rav4 Primes all year and that all of them are pretty much going exclusively to the coasts.

He actually said he's known of a few people that have taken flights to California to buy a PHEV and drive it back to the Midwest.

I actually couldn't find any PHEV SUVs at any dealerships we went to and I'm probably going to end up leasing just a Hybrid (not from Toyota though) for a few years and hoping EVs are more prevalent when the lease is up. I was really wanting to not put out any emissions while around town, too.

Granted there's a Tesla dealership in the area and we could probably get one of those, but we do like to make long road trips sometimes that would be enough out of its range. I'd also be fine with a Sedan, but my wife is dead set on getting an SUV, so the PHEV SUV was supposed to be the compromise.
2022 Mac Pro Rumored to Use Intel's Ice Lake Xeon W-3300 Chips
What are you talking about? Flamewar? Other accounts? You sound like a conspiracy theorist my friend. That isn't me I'm making a rhetorical point...

I don't know what you think that site you linked shows. I never once mentioned scorched earth...

My views on China don't matter I suggest you reread the thread and really think about what my comment is actually saying here.
What is Citizen's endgame here? Do they want to be some vigilante justice group? A private army? Protection racket?
I am not surprised, social media companies got bigger and became de_facto platforms and are mostly located in significantly left leaning cities (~90% voted Democrats in west coast cities).

Any expectation of people working in these predominantly left cities/companies, living in their bubble, to take a neutral position when doing anything on their platforms (FB, Twitter, Google and lesser degree Apple) which effects the whole US and other countries is a fantasy.
Old money (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_money):

The Du Pont family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Pont_family#Family_tree

The Vanderbilt family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanderbilt_family#Vanderbilt_f...

The Rockefeller family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_family#Members

The Astor family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astor_family#Astor_family_tree

The Ford family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford_family_tree

The Mars family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_family

S.C. Johnson & Sons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._C._Johnson_%26_Son

We'll have to wait and see for the Kochs and Hunts.
Yes, in the UK it will be a massive problem. But practical issues seem to be irrelevant to those making policies.
Not true. You don't need to charge everywhere you park. One can park at home, at the office or at the mall. One is enough, and once a week, too. So that's already less than 7%. And since the vast majority of households have a plug at home, you can probably divide that by 3.
Maybe its no longer democrat/republican.
Maybe its big tech and whatever directly or indirectly threatens it.
For example, big tech likes to source workers globally (bigger labour pool, cheaper wages) so any form of patriotism/nationalism, no matter how reasonable or modest, is an anathema to it.
Debt, the First 5,000 Years is not the only text on this subject and it isn't canon.

He's meaningfully wrong about a lot of things, and he's missing the 75,000 years prior to his story beginning completely.

I strongly suggest reading some Szabo to fill that picture in. Shell money (ivory money sometimes) was a lot more money-like than Yap stones are.
At 1000-1500km range for short haul, it’s not easy and can’t be done just by drop-in replacement with existing airframes, but with clean sheet designs, it is feasible. Especially as lithium metal electrode and lithium sulfur becomes available. In fact, it may be feasible to do up to 4000km range eventually (big challenge, but feasible given state of the art aerodynamics and improved structure and battery… and definitely possible with out of the box thinking, as a crewed solar-electric aircraft has demonstrated a flight of nearly 9000km, ie from Japan to Hawaii).
That's exactly the response the CCP would want you to think that they would post right below that comment.
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Give me one Web 3.0 thing that a non-trivial number of people use that is not directly related back to cryptocurrency itself (speculation, exchanges, gambling, etc.).

A product? A service? A game? A hosting solution?

The only one I can think of is Sia and maybe FileCoin if they actually ship something useful, and those have only a tiny number of actual users.

I guess maybe Steemit if someone actually still uses that.

We are now in year 13 of the cryptocurrency revolution and I'm having trouble thinking of anything you can do with this stuff.
We have repeatedly seen that they're not backed by what they say they are backed by. I don't think anyone is saying that Tether has $0 - that would be stupid, if nothing else they've probably got cash "in transit". But if they aren't 100% backed - even if they're 99% backed - that's a BIG problem. You know who gets to give out money-tokens without actually having the money? Banks, and only banks. You know why? Because they're subject to a metric fuckton of regulations that Tether are not subject to, and because (in the US anyway, with limits, blabla) the government guarantees that customers won't lose money if they fail which they do not do with Tether.
This trend has made recruiting so easy. We started asking our top performers for referrals. We pay whatever we paid in Palo Alto. It's a constant stream of high quality resumes.
Usually the automatic updates run at night when it’s plugged in and on WiFi. I’ve never seen my phone ask to do it during the day unless I ignored the update for a few days.

I also believe Apple is doing some kind of rate limiting. Whenever I’ve upgraded iOS or MacOS on day one the download is painfully slow on my gigabit connection.
> Some pretty wrong things in here, like insinuating that the only value of crypto is to criminals, and all but saying that the reason there are hackings to things like critical infrastructure is because crypto exists

Both of these are true.

> Then it flags bitcoin as an environmental hazard

This is true.
>YMMV but I've found KP's service quality to be extremely high

Multiple studies have shown that Kaiser is more efficient and effective than the UK NHS for about the same cost.

Examples:

* https://www.bmj.com/content/324/7330/135

* https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7426/1257
You cannot consume your way to prosperity. The only way to permanently increase the standard of living is to increase productivity.
Just get an office with a door.
Kinda miss the panhandlers though, right? /s
> I've said this so many times: But what does it doooooo???

Are you asking about Bitcoin or Crypto? Bitcoin doesn't do much atm, but Ethereum does stuff, and Bitcoin Cash is pretty practical as a currency at the moment. There's plenty that can be done, but the market will have to decide what to converge on.
Not sure where you're living, but here in central NC we've got a record number of huge apartment complexes being built left and right over the last 4-6 years. Cheap too. It's never been easier to live "somewhere denser".
Russia disconnects from internet in tests as it bolsters security – RBC daily
Yes I've had similar such dialogues with law enforcement when caught speeding.
It's so much worse than that. It's, quite literally, a right wing psyop. It's well established that people's fears about crime are much more correlated with news coverage than actual levels of crime.

I'm having trouble finding it right now, but there was a recent survey that showed something like ~55% of Americans think crime is higher than it was in the early 90s. It's not even remotely close. We're back up to... 2012 levels.

Meanwhile, Citizen is Nextdoor but even more extreme. You can see all this crime happening all the time, increasing the perception of it being extremely common. What happens when crime becomes a major political issue? Reactionaries get elected. Who's funding Citizen? Oh look, Peter Thiel. How surprising.
Possibly. If anyone would like to check if their iPhone was infected by Pegasus I wrote up some step-by-step instructions here:

https://arkadiyt.com/2021/07/25/scanning-your-iphone-for-nso...
Here's one small example that I found illuminating and funny.

Bezos (a major political donor) lost a NASA contract for 10 billion to SpaceX. He freaked

So the US Senate, looking out for their buddy, simply added the 10 billion to their next budget directly for him:

https://theintercept.com/2021/05/25/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-s...

Just one small example
> Seeking to prove that cutting taxes for the rich increases income inequality and doesn't impact GDP growth isn't cutting-edge research, it's borderline tautology.

People said this after Reagan was elected and that idiot Laffer got to shape tax policy. They were laughed out of the room with the "grown-ups" in it, and was certainly not seen as a tautology back then. Nor has it been seen that way by a couple of generations of Republican tax cut boosters, including (notably) Grover Norquist.

> Who cares about income inequality (or even GDP growth in the first place)? What you really want to understand is: how well off are people in society? What is the distribution of life outcomes? GDP is a famously flawed metric for quality of life[0].

Caring about income inequality is quite different than caring about GDP. And it is precisely caring about income inequality that become a visible point of difference between the left and right, particularly since Piketty's book.
It’s a thing.

Mega backdoor Roth is an even bigger thing:

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Mega-backdoor_Roth
Someone is going to try livestreaming a fleeing suspect and end up getting riddled with bullets.
If I said "why is this hard?" or "it's pretty easy to use google and look up the fact" to you in person, you'd think I was a dick. The calibration is fine, you just got called out.

More to your point, it's not a question of whether or not it could be an environmental benefit, it's about grid capacity. Is it realistic/feasible for the grid to handle the increased load for more EVs (assuming we expect no interruption in current standard of living while simultaneously meeting Paris Accord goals in 2030)? Texas, California, and New York are asking people to conserve energy due to grid instability before there's a mass of EVs on the road.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when the market liquidity his salary is traded and valuated against depends upon his not understanding it."
No amount of new technology, training, equipment, or funding with change this. US policing is fundamentally a broken system.
This sounds like the labor theory of value.
> Superchargers are all over the place and charge nearly as fast as filling up a tank.

This is not at all true. Filling up even a larger 25 gallon gas tank can be done within 10 minutes. Even the newest Tesla Model S Plaid on the fastest supercharger takes 52 minutes to go from 5% to 95% (https://insideevs.com/news/515641/tesla-models-plaid-chargin...).

> Range is not really an issue either. Unless you're regularly road tripping 400+ miles, an EV will handle the trip just fine.

Range can be an issue for numerous reasons. Your range changes based on load, temperature, and the road. If you're driving in cold conditions, uphill, with passengers and cargo, your range isn't 400 miles - it might be half that. Plus even the longest range Tesla currently gets only 396 miles under the ideal conditions of the EPA cycle. Unlike with gas cars, you can't just carry an extra can of electric charge to cover yourself for a rare longer journey.
Does anyone know what TSLA is doing with all that data? I think everyone knows now that home power monitoring lets you know every web page visited, every show watched, and every appliance purchased. Who are they selling it to, is there a way to find out? I always wonder when people sign up for solar why this is ok.
https://epic.org/privacy/smartgrid/smartgrid.html
Pretty bold to lead the article with “I‘ve never quite understood.“ I think the article would have been way better if the author would have taken the time to at least understand a bit why cryptocurrencies are worth a lot to a lot of people.
Well the infrastructure certainly needs to be built, but the solution is straight forward. You just place slow charging stations where the cars are parked overnight.
he has >1M subs on youtube, and I hear CPM on chess content is among the highest in the industry, so he's probably making quite a bit more even without sponsors
That's unfortunate. I hadn't picked it up yet, still working through the first one.
Yes, the thing that is most likely to bite them is not legality, it's liability as a result of them paying people to do things.
Lucid Motors (EV mfr) debuts on Nasdaq
There's a lot of great EV discussion here on HN but I don't see Lucid mentioned very often, which is a shame because they look like a real Tesla competitor and another company that could help bring mass commercialization of EVs, especially in the US where they're building them.

The TL;DR is that CCIV is a SPAC funded by Saudi money (about $4B worth) that just merged with Lucid (it was created for that purpose), so now the car company is fully funded for production and went public with their stock.
If you only provide incentives as tax credits for buying new EVs, you’re really only getting a small % of a wealthier segment of the population to buy them. And in many cases there are problems; look at GMs current predicament with the Bolt. They have to advise people not to charge overnight and to park outside because their batteries might catch on fire. The EV market sub $40k is still very weak. They’re also impractical for anyone who doesn’t park somewhere they can charge.

Now look at hybrids and PHEVs. They can be as much as $15k cheaper out the door, but they still cost a bit more than a traditional ICE vehicle. If your goal is to reduce the emissions of new vehicles as quickly as possible, you should use a more “all of the above” strategy. Incentivize small hybrid vehicles & make them cheaper than similar non-hybrid vehicles, and suddenly the majority of cars priced under $30k being sold would be hybrids and you would cut emissions significantly.

Ultimately if you want the market to solve this problem, you need to get the financial incentives aligned. Right now they just aren’t, it’s just pumping up EVs that are still niche & ignoring other more effective short term solutions.

FWIW I’d love to see some kind of subsidy for used hybrids & EVs too, many people can’t afford to buy new cars at all but they might consider at least switching to a hybrid if it’s economical.
TSA issues new cybersecurity rules for fuel pipelines
> why would you want the state to allocate those resources

You're making this about "big government". A red herring straw man.

That's not the point. The point is that it does not go to your children or whomever you choose as inheritors (aka your dynasty). There are many ways this could be handled. For example, when you die, the resources/wealth reverts back to the commons. A simple way to do that would be to it distribute equally over the whole population.

Or perhaps distribute it equally to everyone under the age of, say, 30.

Regardless, that's a whole other topic. It's separate from the point being made.
You're assuming that they began with the plan to commit fraud, rather than just failing at their business and then lying to cover it up, which is far more likely.
The global lithium-ion battery market is expanding at a CAGR > 25%. Hardly a struggle.
I think there is a possibility of things going the other way around of what grand parent is expecting. Once USDT implodes there will be a bank run to sell those tokens for fiat, bitcoin, Ethereum or even other stable coins. That until exchanges cease accepting those or doing trades at all. Some might become insolvent.

In the end people who leave their funds at exchanges will be the one with the short end of the stick.
Unless you're doing management-by-seance, dead people - no matter how exceptional - don't run organisations.

And besides, only private wealth is subject to inheritance tax. Public corporations don't die with their founders, and private businesses are assessed for value, usually with significant tax breaks.

None of this changes the fact that inheritance is the opposite of true meritocracy. It gives the mediocre an unearned safety net and starves, stresses, and distracts talent from a modest background.
Yes it's anxiety inducing but doesn't it just tell us the truth of who we are?

If you can't handle the anxiety, nobody is forcing you to have it on your phone nor are they forcing you to be part of it.

In other countries, the government has cameras everywhere and use the footage to find and prosecute. Apparently America prefers to have individuals take on that role.
> As for not working as hard, plenty of rich people have recently declared the majority of their wealth won't go to their children.

A lot of them are actually putting the wealth into foundations that their children will end up controlling. I believe Warren Buffet has done that.

So even though their children might not have all that wealth outright, they still have the influence and wealth that comes from control of that wealth through the foundations.
Puffin is solving a problem that doesn't really exist.
> At 1000-1500km range for short haul, it’s not easy and can’t be done just by drop-in replacement with existing airframes, but with clean sheet designs, it is feasible.

If it can be made cheaper than the California High Speed Rail, I've got a market for you right here...
No - I'm not familiar with a file buffer. That sounds like a neat concept I'll look into for Python too. In general, I've been moving away from REPL workflows due to hidden state and lack of reproducibility.
Think about this in the context of the discussion. Does it follow that we should ban crypto if it doesn't appeal to you? Or should you just not use it personally?
I don't think Toyota cares about Tesla so much, but they have to care about VW- the largest car manufacturer. VW's push into EVs must have them terrified.
I've probably lost 20-30 lbs over COVID. I credit it ENTIRELY to working from home:

- I have extra time each day due to a lack of commute, which I spend walking with my wife.

- I don't end my day with a stressful commute, and this has helped me get into a daily exercise routine.

- I'm not constantly surrounded by free junk food.

- I'm not in a loud, noisy, crowded office environment, which leads me to stress eat.

At this point it would harm my health to return to the office.
IOMobileFrameBuffer has seen a lot of vulnerabilities over the years:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-0227

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1097

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5843

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4654

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13879

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-4335
News and oldies concerning “Dark Emu”
You may have a vision for your children, they may not follow-through. Most family businesses fail upon generational transfer. Most children I know who believe they are inheriting money don't bother to work, the children of wealthy children are usually far enough removed from wealth creation as to believe utterly irrational things about money.

If wealth is large enough, then useful incomes can be maintained in perpetuity - meaning the great, great grandchildren are still living off of the wealth created centuries ago.

The latter case was common in Europe, but relatively rare in the US due to the estate tax. Historically, landed gentry were rarely bastions of wealth creation and innovation - and are usually more focused on fending off threats to their inherited wealth than creating more wealth.
It's a very difficult situation when your country's right-wing party gets high on their own supply of conspiracy theories, ignorance, and bigotry and starts organizing violent attacks based on it.

Seems like companies shouldn't be required to facilitate that behavior. (And legally they are not, because of the First Amendment, which is the same reason these people can find other forums for such discussion, even if it is difficult to do so.)

I imagine it must be disturbing if people in your social circles start becoming radicalized to such a degree that much of society shuns and shames their behavior. Would be hard to tell right from wrong, I'd think.
How many Unix graphical OS distributions are there even, let alone how many are installed?

Nautilus, the default file manager of GNOME (and by extension Debian and its children such as Ubuntu) handles recursive merge. This isn't an issue on Linux.

It's obviously bad design to have something as high level as a file manager be a glorified 2D wrapper of 2 command line tools.
I live in Chicago. We have fireworks year round, some neighborhoods more often than others.
Usually you will hear fireworks far more frequently than you hear gunshots.
I swear Linux is a religion and its believers must CONVERT the heretics.
Debian 11 Bullseye – an overview [pdf]
Is there any reverse-engineered write up of how it was done anywhere?
Another article with some pics from 2016 about early Japanese typewriters

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23898649