skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that PayPal actually lets you exchange your PayPal balance for real US dollars
These “stablecoin” shops aren’t getting dinged by nit-picky regulators for minor compliance mistakes. They’re getting nailed for major systemic issues that often border on fraud.
Diffraction blurs the image even for 10MP, given the small lens/sensor. The other 98 MP are used to remove noise, especially at low light
> Mortgage-backed securities were considered AAA assets, which is why so little in cash reserves were maintained

That's fine and irrelevant. Had Tether been around in '08, it would have been accumulating hordes of that stuff to back itself up.
It's awful that Netflix support is telling people to contact their ISPs about this, when it's so obvious that the problem is on Netflix's end and they can just flip a switch back to immediately fix it for everyone.
This is your regularly scheduled reminder that no US persons are permitted to redeem Tether according to their terms of service. Further according to their terms of service only designated customers are permitted to redeem Tether, they at their sole discretion make the determination as to who is the designated customer, they are permitted to delay redemptions arbitrarily, and they are permitted to fulfill redemptions in-kind with whatever garbage backing they may have instead of dollars. [1]

Their “reserves” and ratios and backing mean basically nothing since nobody’s ever going to be permitted to redeem a meaningful quantity anyways - while at the same time being too big to fail in the crypto industry. Exchanges know this.

They are chuck-e-cheese tokens used to facilitate capital flight from mainland China, and to provide 85% of all trading volume in the crypto space. $4.9B of BTC daily trade volume vs $0.17B for USD proper. [2]

[1] tether.to/legal

[2] https://coinlib.io/coin/BTC/Bitcoin
(can't reply to your other comment, for some reason - too deep for Hacker News? :) )

You keep saying "Why are we doing this?" I guess I don't understand what "this" is. You sound like you are being nihilistic.

The problem isn't "lets drive across the US on 20 gallons of gas", but rather "lets get across the US somehow". The math is brutal, yep, that's what we've been saying for decades. I happen to like civilization (mostly!), so I think I want to try to save it somehow.

Switching to zero emissions doesn't fix it, it stops the blood loss, but we still have the massive wound to deal with.

Trees can help (better than we thought, too: https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2021/08/09/planting-f... )

But it will take more. Glad you have caught up to the reality of the situation.
No worry. We made some changes after your comment. They look all good now from my side in Firefox and also Safari. You can have a look again if you have time Ennea :D
> It doesn’t pay to be the angry, unapproachable person in life.

Besides the ageism thing (because I'm still relatively young so it doesn't, admittedly, affect me) I've noticed the same exact thing about cynicism. If you're always angry you will eventually only see reasons to be angry because no one else will keep interacting with you. Similarly, if you're a cynic about everything you will soon find yourself in an environment that only reinforces your believes because everyone else gets tired of it
Balance of rights means nobody has rights.

If you need to "balance" the rights (read: take them away) of somebody to equal the scale, then rights don't exist in the first place.
Tether doesn't have any liabilities, because it has no obligation whatsoever to redeem tethers for dollars.
> The “Two-And-Done” Rule

Two is the right number for this, not three (as the blogpost points out).

Roberts Rules is another formalization of the two-points of discussion before moving on. Any particular debate can have at most, two times when any singular speaker gets to talk. After two tries, the speaker is silenced (to give everyone else a turn at talking).

Two times to talk is the right number, empirically. After that, you're beating a dead horse.
Errata: HPGL, the language referenced by the article as having been “forgotten by most operating systems” and used by most pen plotters, is still in use for every vinyl cutter I’ve ever used.

In fact, vinyl cutters come with a pen holder and are also single-pen plotters out of the box. They’re a tool changing mechanism and a couple of firmware command implementations away from being capable of multiple colors - or you could just manually change the color of the pen and re-run the same paper through once for each color.
I should have written "public perception of police not being sufficiently equipped to tackle gang violence increases".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANOM
God no, I was referring more to vscode (and obsidian, which I use personally)

Don't get me wrong, its better, you can always instantly tell how much work has been put into an electron app, especially on windows (and when you have a dark theme on) because the poorly made ones will use a default white titlebar, whereas those with some effort will have the titlebar match the rest of the application. So Teams has that going for it.

But optimisation wise, yeh, its not pretty. I used to use Linux at work, and it was soley responsible for my twice-weekly crashes (I knew because sometimes, if I were quick enough, I could stop the crash before my laptop slowed to a halt by force closing teams). On Windows, its better, but thats not saying much.
Pretty neat. Maybe it's just my laptop's screen, but I find the scrolling effect on the text to almost hurt my eyes. Cool concept though.
> I am skeptical of the utility of private arms in resisting a home-grown tyrannical government.

…

> I'm aware of involves extensive foreign intervention and/or resistance to a foreign occupier, which is very different.

You say they are different, but you don’t say why.

Effectively all you are doing is dismissing the evidence without reasoning.
All my software ships with a Monkey Island code wheel. https://www.oldgames.sk/codewheel/secret-of-monkey-island-di...
> stablecoins like banks would absolutely have to involve reform of the OCC, whose willingness to actually issue new banking charters has slowed to a near halt in recent years

The article calls for regulators "to subject stablecoins to bank-like rules for transparency, liquidity and capital." Not to literally require Tether charter itself as a bank. Think money market funds or PayPal versus Wells Fargo.
An additional first-run issue - after I got logged in (two links to do so?), the dashboard loaded. I click 'Add Course', and I get a box that says that happened, but no row on the course table. A reload shows the course created.
Modern US houses, at least in much of the country, aren't built to be livable or to survive themselves without year-round temperature control. Partly, this is because optimizing for building survival and inhabitant comfort without AC and with only limited heating is at-odds with designing for efficient whole-house heating and cooling.

Notably, you don't want a very tight, low-outdoor-air-exchange envelope and tons of insulation in your walls if you're going AC-free and not also trying to start a mold farm. And if you want efficient AC you don't want tons of huge, openable windows on every single wall, at the end of every hallway, in all rooms, et c, nor an open, breezy attic (which helps a ton with temp control if you don't have AC, but is just wasteful if you've got it)

AFAIK design for minimizing AC power use and design for being able to tolerate not having AC are a "pick one, and only one" kind of thing.

[EDIT] Oh, and not strictly related to AC efficiency, but it takes a lot more skill and care in material selection to build a house that won't have all kinds of problems after just a few years of natural outdoor temperature swings, in the molding, flooring, even wall alignment & finishes (drywall, mostly, these days), so of course no-one bothers anymore—let the interior hit 90s in the Summer, swinging a bunch day-to-night, with high humidity, and parts that aren't near your heating source reach below-freezing temps at night in the Winter, and your interior will age at least 5 years for every 1 actual year, thanks to damage from huge amounts of expansion and contraction, unless it's designed to account for that. Ditto with aligning houses for optimal airflow, as far as the direction they face. Why bother, since it's always gonna have whole-house AC and heating? So no-one does.
Certainly. Here's the most comprehensive global analysis I could find:

http://www.healthdata.org/special-analysis/estimation-excess...

The discrepancy is of course smaller in more developed countries with better testing.
I was not expressing a critical view of news media simply because it is not contextual in this situation. The “game” is actually very non-specific as to what the “news” is - or anything else for that matter. So, I was simply applying something like covid or global warming to it in order to show that the generalized premise of the game does not hold as a very insightful view of human being’s relationships with their anxiety.
Would WASM solve the performance issue? One can imagine writing a webview GUI in a compiled language in order to get the speed and size benefits.
> Not so much. It was glaringly obvious who these people were from day 1.

That doesn't really matter, though. The thin veneer lets them use their veto in the Security Council, and probably gets China to do so as well.

Same scenario as OJ Simpson publishing the "(if) I did it" book. Everyone knows what's going on. No one can do anything about it.
You can always punch in your digits but Paypal have some great merchant integrations on a wide variety of ecommerce platforms (including ebay...). They're worth studying to this day if you're a startup in the "ecosystem" space.

Everyone hates them but the stickiness is real.
As mentioned in other comments, there are other mechanisms than the reserve requirements by which banks are required to have deposits in cash.
Right. I'm talking about the rest of the computer. How will you manage files on a Steam Deck? How will you access Windows Update? Is your "desktop" going to be covered in icons?

Using Windows on Steam Deck (not using Steam on Steam Deck, using the Windows OS) is going to be difficult because the device lacks a mouse and keyboard on which Windows is dependent. Fixing this for Xbox required making an entirely new UI (for the OS, updates, sign-ins, everything) which Steam has not done for the Deck.
What's the newest -real- language do we think? Not just "gained popularity recently" but actually newer.
you make a very good point. In fact, we just came out of a call with a very knowledgable investor who wants us to go down exactly that route. It could very well be that the managed service route is the way to go. Thanks for the comment. If you'd like to connect directly, I think my email address is in my profile.

re OSS strategy - it's more users and feedback that I firstly think of. For instance, people keep telling us that there could be a really great use case in crypto compliance/auditing - tracking related wallet addresses etc. We don't really know enough about blockchain to validate that, but I think an OSS community could.
My employer doesn't ask me where I've established residency, they ask for my "Home address", and if I can't find anything in our employee manual describing what a home address is other than "where you can receive mail". I don't know what Google's policy is.
What's above senior? Senior++?
GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
It's true this is a problem. It's actually a problem I ran into at another job and one of the reasons I left that job. It goes hand in hand with letting a bunch of a team attrit and then ignoring that fact. I find it often happens when a direct manager doesn't know how to handle their manager or their managers manager. I have also found that in most cases the person requesting the 'critical' item never actually wanted it immediately but after it filtered down from two managers who are desperately trying to look good it became a 'critical' item.

It's definitely a problem and while there are some ways to just work around your boss it's often just easier to find another job.
Yeah, we have an open ticket for that :) i think a better flow would be to just take you straight to your course when you click add course
You might be surprised, I often lead with an ambiguous "so, how's the work life balance here?" and more often than not interviewers jump in with a fair amount of info and sometimes even "knowing smiles". I don't interview with startups though, so ymmv.
FDIC guarantees up to $250k and also kicks in after the bank goes under. I'm guessing it should take some time (a few years?) until the FDIC reimburses the people who lost money.
Share to Dropbox effectively has this behaviour and works pretty well for me from mobile. I only access a fraction of the links but it's fast easy and not reliant on browsers or plugins.

I'm occasionally tempted to modify Syncthing to have the same behaviour.

On desktop I mostly don't bookmark. The site is saved to pdf/screenshot png of the relevant content.
> Why can't we be paid simply for what we produce?

What does that actually mean though, in concrete terms? Profit sharing?
> We're talking about retail customers being able to withdraw their cash, in which case the reserve requirement is the correct number.

It's not, because the Fed will--by law--freely convert reserve assets into cash at pre-determined ratios. Reserve requirements are an anachronism.
What I'm interested to see is when/if a camera like the Lytro will be put into a smartphone.

Does it work if the pixels are much smaller than the diffraction limit?
Climate Data Puzzles
> ... if you read ...

Nobody reads them. They either completely ignore them like me, or search for the "get the fuck out of my way and let me do the thing I came here to do" button.

> It’s just a problem that if you embed tweets on your website, or a YouTube video or something, your visitors will get the associated cookies.

Then don't do that on a government website! Why should I have to consent to that shit when visiting my government's websites? I don't want to use Twitter or YouTube and participating in government shouldn't force me to! WTF?
I think the general aversion to OSS is more that there is no responsible actor. In many cases, if you integrate a third party paid solution you can file a bug on that solution with reasonable confidence it can be a priority. If you use code from another team at the company you know you can file bugs on them. If you write code yourself you have confidence in fixing it. There is a danger with integrating OSS that you have code in your stack that no one knows well enough to fix and no one is responsible for. If something breaks you might have to learn a sizeable amount of code and domain knowledge to make a fix. Filing bugs on OSS is not viewed in the same way as filing bugs on paid third party solutions as whether the bugs are a priority to an OSS solution seems more risky.

Note that large amounts of OSS is used in companies, but it's generally code that developers are expected to know well enough to dive into if need be. And code that is popular enough to be well tested for bugs and known that breaking errors in the framework will get fixes. Examples would be things like Python or Node.js.

As a manager a potential problem you can have is a major bug your team is responsible for that no one is qualified to fix and thus your only reasonable time estimate is unknown. Avoiding certain parts of OSS is often a precaution against this situation.
Way less than that.
Contextually, the person is arguing that being called a russian troll / bot is reducing the quality of discussion and is also shutting up alternative viewpoints.

The "freedom of speech" comment is merely a vent, and such generalizations is rarely fact... just like "A foreign concept in contemporary Russia" is a vent and generalization as well.
History only give us multiple examples of what happens if the people where disarmed in the years before the gov went fully tyrannical. Not the evidence you wanted but good enough for me.

>I think the reverse is far more likely (private arms supporting tyranny)

They would need to overpower gov AND the privately armed non-supporters. Compared to only the gov if the people would not be armed. (unless you assume the tyranny group is actually unarmed because they follow the law but this seems weird highly tyrannical and criminal groups all over the world always find a way to arm themself even in places where private people dont have guns.)
On the other hand you save a lot of time on commute.
For sure! Being tied to MS is probably why they didn't do it. I seem to remember that's why Newell made Steam in the first place, so he wasn't tied to MS.
Unfortunately not, but i will have some at lona-web.org/demos soon. There is a ready to use, barebones project linked in the docs. You have only to clone and run "make server" to fiddle around with it.
That's exactly it! Thank you.

I would imagine it's archived because there's nothing else to really be done. It's basically a blog post. The header can apparently be replaced with three lines.
YouTube suspends Rand Paul over a video disputing the effectiveness of masks
They are moving it to Edge Webview and off of Electron. It's supposed to use 1/2 the memory.

https://tomtalks.blog/2021/06/microsoft-teams-2-0-will-use-h...
Okay. I'm gonna bite. I've been following this series but, until now, the advice has seemed to me to be too-far-down-the-road because my open-source project[1] suffers from one massive issue: nobody knows it exists. And because nobody knows it exists, I struggle to attract users, which means I can't grow a community, which in turn means nobody wants to contribute[2].

So I have to ask: will there be a "Part 4: Making the Project Visible to People who will Want to Use It"?

[1] - Scrawl-canvas, to build responsive, accessible and interactive canvas-based graphics for the web - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/

[2] - I think the order of Parts should be reversed.
Do people comment more than I do? I comment only intermittently, usually if I think the code is going to be hard to read ... and it's not usually on the small details of the code I'm writing ... it does seem magic what they're doing.
I wonder what ever happened to all the newspapers that were fed into services like CompuServe in the 80's.

I dated a newspaper reporter during that era, and all of her stuff went into the online services. But her newspaper's current online archive only goes back to about 2005, even for subscribers.
That's good news. I am glad Reuters was officially able to declare Sweden as the next Silicon Valley thus ending the tyranny of "X is the next Silicon Valley" articles and news segments. Congratulations Sweden, and really, all of us.
"A drone seen flying over the fire in the hours after it started is rumored to have been operated by PG&E or one of its contractors, Ramsey said. The sighting grounded firefighting aircraft for the evening, he said."

Incorrect calculus, scramble the local military with a kill order for the drone, clear the skies of unauthorized craft.
I don’t think people who genuinely believe this are necessarily trolls.

It’s less contentious when someone defends their favorite sports team than a political organization, but I think it’s related in many ways. In the real world nothing is perfect, but everyone gives more slack to organizations they identify with be that religious, cultural, political, or personal reasons.

Of course people can be trolls and also genuinely feel this way.
I just leave my D5600 on all the time and let it go into standby. It can sit for months like that and still take hundreds of photos. It wakes up and focuses with a single half press.
>>>>> That's what cost of living adjustments (social security or other systems)

Isnt that also... Insolvent?

>>>> prudently investing a lifetime of retirement savings

Would you deem people that invested on bonds of the US govt, GM, that they invested prudently?

>>>>If you're expecting the value of a currency to never change, you are asking a fish to climb a tree.

Change implies movement in both directions. Yet what we are seeing is a clear, pronounced, increasing onedirectional slope
Poly Network Hack
Even for napkin math we'd need reasonably good approximations, but we're missing a crucial number (how many virus particles are normally exhaled?) and I don't know if 90% blockage is accurate either (I'm just using it as an example because other posts in this thread have used that number).
All these stablecoins just magically acquire a bunch of commercial paper. Won't tell anyone what the paper is and seem to never had the dollars to actually "buy" the paper.

It seems like they're receiving commercial paper from clients and redeeming it for USDC. And then likely giving the tokens to exchanges.
The whole comparison is specious; there were far more factors at play than "printing money". Central banks print money all the time. It's not just in response to the 2008 crisis; the money supply in 2007 wasn't what it was in 1957 either, right?

At the very least you'd need to quantify exactly how much money over what period of time might be a shock, and what kind other factors play a role. And then, yes, sure - let's not do things quantifiably similar to Zimbabwe or Weimar Germany. But I suspect there's a huge amount of room for most central banks to maneuver between status quo and hyperinflation; merely "some" printing of money isn't going to be a problem.

Indeed there are regularly stories of smaller countries without the kind of reserve status the dollar enjoys that make problematic central bank policies - and even if that has consequences (e.g. Turkey now), that's still a far cry from Weimar Germany or Zimbabwe under Mugabe.
> Careful, commercial paper is most definitely not the same as cash or treasury bills. It could be AAA, it could be BBB-

It could be an IOU from Binance.
The existance of this particular wacko suggests the followup question: maybe the original fire was arson too?
> Merkel’s “everyone is welcome here” politics.
> I’d settle in Switzerland

Is this intentionally ironic?
BeautifulSoup is great if you don't care about the performance at all. Because it is painfully slooooooww.

Lxml doesn't work well with broken html, but is an or two orders of magnitude faster for parsing, and same for querying with xpath.

A part from that, there is also Scrapy which is used a lot, but same it is also very slow, it is just horizontally scalable easily.

There are a lot of times in which scrapping doesn't use html parsing, when you are scrapping pages which change a lot of structure, it might be better to go with full text search, and in this case, the faster the better. And in that area Python is far from the best, except when .split() and .join() are enough. Even re.match is slow because of the algorithm they use is slow

And to finish, Requests is also super slow, if you want something fast you have to use pycurl.
I think you need to learn what the term 'whataboutism' actually means.
My current setup actually involves having a secondary account on my desktop just for gaming with BPM booting up on startup and my PC being set up to log into that desktop automatically, connected to the TV via HDMI. For anything else I've a Microsoft-connected account and a patch on Remote Desktop (which is probably the most impressive feature of Windows, to be honest, at least to me) to allow multiple sessions so I can log into it from my laptop at any time.

I also have two other Samsung TVs with their Tizen OS thingy that has Steam Remote on them so I can log in and play any game remotely from anywhere in the house if I want. It's pretty crazy and impressive, considering that as a kid, growing up it broke my heart that I can't even play the Rayman 2 demo I had because I couldn't afford a 3D accelerated GPU :)