skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Places like Houston, Texas are also in an area of unfavorable nature -- namely huge amounts of flooding. Houston solved this as best they could with levees and dams and the like to steer that water away from people. It usually works. Sometimes not (Harvey), but every failure is a learning experience.

California needs to think this way. Fires are natural. We need to focus on steering them away from people. You wouldn't try to stop the rains that create the Texas floods, would you?
Now in that view, it's possible that crypto currencies and/or Blockchainish project may raise the floor for everybody (in the case absolutes matter).
Ooof, yeah, this rings familiar.

Or similar things, where actual risks may be spoken, even to power, and power will even thank you for raising them, and then proceed to ignore them because they're unpleasant and hard to address.
You need to take responsibility for yourself.

If it bothers you that much, don't let yourself get pulled into political discussions! It's really not that hard. Why do you care if other people waste their time arguing dumb politics? Just ignore it and move on!
It looks like OP is a serial spammer that submits cointelegraph articles under his own domain?

https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-removes-backed-by-us...
> en masse

I'm not sure that phrase means what you think it means... Yes, there were ~600 tragic deaths in BC from the heat dome, but en masse means 'as a whole' or 'as a group', and a .012% death rate does not really qualify there.
Forward momentum of the vehicle I guess.
The real news came out last month when the attestations were released. Coinbase is just playing catch up.[0] (<-- better article)

My real questions are (1) Did Coinbase know? (2) If they didn't, Circle presumably lied to Coinbase... so why the hell should we trust USDC any more than Tether? (3) Why is it so hard to create a stable coin where at least 90% is cash? The carry on 10% in treasuries on billions should be sufficient to cover operating costs.

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-11/coinbase-...
Perhaps check out 1729.com, Balaji Srinivasan's newsletter/community building effort. The project is pretty optimistic re: using cryptocurrency's properties for positive goals.
My hair isn’t quite as grey as a lot of yours, but I watched, initially enviously, as college students a few years ahead of me graduated into the tail-end of the DotCom bubble and “massive” (for the time!) salaries and signing bonuses, and then with relief for the boring government contracting job I managed to swing when they all started getting laid off and struggled to make those balloon lease payments they’d felt so clever about a few years before.

Keep your lifestyle small, kids - perhaps take a look at what other lines of work with similar education requirements pay as a guideline; say, a mechanical engineer with a bachelor’s degree. Buy that car with cash, or at least one you could pay off with cash on-hand/in a non-retirement brokerage account.
Read it on Rekt:

https://www.rekt.news/polynetwork-rekt/
ASnd I just received an update from AirSend / another quiet mover, can’t say I interact with it much, bu they have an app now!
uBlock Origin is simply wonderful. I recommend everyone try it out if they can.
Whether they missed the point or not, you're missing their point. Someone willing to be a dick on the internet specifically because there's no fear of physical retaliation is still a dick. Whether they can see the result of their abuse does't mean it is not abuse.

If more people took the concept of don't be a dick just because you're safe behind the keyboard, I don't think we'd be where we are now.
Long term drift on these inexpensive secondary atomic clocks isn't that amazing, sadly.
It’s more of a petard hoisting situation. Some people carved out an subject matter that could have been much smaller and now that some business conditions have changed, they have as much work to do as the next three groups combined. Those other groups, including mine, only have so much work because they’ve taken the message to delegate incorrectly, and instead of an orderly handoff starting three years ago, it’s now rushed because it’s load shedding.

Add to the middle of this that we have deals or licenses running out and have decided that on top of everything else we should save some money too. The opportunity costs are probably killing us. But to keep them from completely killing us, other people are still cranking out major features including architectural changes, so we have those disruptions hitting too. It’s chaos.
I wish more institutions 'tested the waters' with these copyright laws.

Put a newspaper up from 100 years ago and see if anyone complains, if they do; take it down. Subtract 10 years every year until someone does complain.
Notify hn [at] ycombinator [dot] com
No clue, sorry. The SVG for the icons seems a bit wonky, though, since it doesn't render a hundred percent correctly inside Inkscape, either.
It is not guaranteed. You should not treat is as FDIC insured funds.

But let's do a little game theory. Say the market starts losing faith in USDC and people start selling 1 USDC for, say, 0.98 USD.

Coinbase can either let this happen, or they can start using their cash and investments to buy back USDC at a 2% discount.

If Coinbase has every reason to believe that USDC is just fine, then they have a large financial incentive to start buying USDC back. This will raise the market price back to near $1 USD.

That is how they stabilize their stablecoin.

It is game theory and market mechanics and not a government that stabilize stablecoins. If you don't trust this, then you should not hold USDC.
Etsy Crafts AI/ML Cost, Model Optimization Balance
Any chance of supporting python? I have similar plans with py2many and http://adsharma.github.io/pysmt
Regulators should treat stablecoins like banks
I don't like such things being chosen for me, but I definitely like not having things I'm not interested in shoved in my face.
rekt.news
I mean you're not wrong, but the author here understands that the main application is for compact-sized phone camera modules, which in their case the lens et al. are nearing or already in their physical limits.
Yes! It's probably just a demographics thing that will even itself out in the future. I mean: People like you will become managers and there are many programmers in the younger generations to draw candidates from.
Getting laid off is like a breakup, except you get paid a lot of money afterwards. It's not much like bull riding, which is over in minutes and where falling off is a deliberate design choice; a lay-off is the slow culmination of things going wrong over months or years, many of which have nothing to do with you. Telling yourself you'd recover quickly, if you've never been laid off before, is as unreasonable as telling yourself you'll never have a bad breakup[0].

Instead:

- it's okay for getting laid off to suck in the hours and days afterwards

- it's also okay to be totally fine and get another job right away

- be loyal to people and missions, never to companies

- do not tie your identity to your employer

- you're allowed to do things differently next time: you don't have to find someone who's identical to your ex, you don't have to choose to ride a bull instead of a bicycle, and you're not limited to working for companies with a similar culture or business model as the last one

- at the end of the day, an engineer who gets laid off is probably going to get a bunch of severance and go back into another job pretty soon, so it's unlikely things are as bad as you think they are

[0] of course, many people don't ever have bad breakups or get laid off, but expecting the best case can mean getting blindsided by the worst case
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/this-new-approach-to-...

There are proposals to use consumer's electronic trail to create "alternative credit scores". CBDCs will allow this. The WEF proposal includes AI/big data hype, psychometrics, social media use, contacts and purchase history.

Social media and smart devices have also been proposed for use as part of gun control schemes in the US. Some called this a "social credit score".

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/08/30/2037251/the-plan-to-...
Ah, thanks for clearing that up - I didn't research/clarify enough before posting. My apologies to you and them.

I'm so worried about them shuffling names around to suit circumstances I err'd on the wrong side. As an outcast (Australian) trying to look in from far away its frightfully confusing. I mean there's that Saxe-Coburg thing for a start...

'Boris' still annoys the crap out of me though. Does the UK also have an 'actor' as its prime minister? Is he intentionally mishandling umbrella's or not? At least Ronald Reagan was already 'out' as an actor.

I deserved the downvotes, but I have learned.

My point about naming things is still completely valid though. It's hard to have the 'right amount of name' without causing confusion.
I have no crypto investments, but this is basically where the line is for me. If they took the 1 USD backing the coin and invested it in US government bonds so that only a fraction is immediately available (but a large enough fraction to cover the most likely withdrawal rates) then it would be fine with me though they should advertise that more clearly.

If they take the money and invest it in ‘good’ companies, that is too much risk to the underlying assets.

Though I’m American and could see foreigners not thinking US bonds were safe enough.
At the moment, realistically using WebView2 requires shipping a WebView2 Runtime, either a fixed version or a bootstrapper. That's still over a hundred MB. I don't quite understand why that isn't being included with Edgeium, maybe it will be there in the future, but as of now, having Edge installed is no guarantee that any software trying to use WebView2 will work.

I've got too many scars from needing to ship shared Microsoft runtimes in the past to be entirely happy about this current situation.
Nope. The PNW is prime logging territory.

Someone in another thread tried to make a distinction between public and private land, but last I checked wildfires don’t give a damn who owns the trees that are burning.
Galactic Greenhouse
It's not just about insulation. It's also about thermal mass, a.k.a. thermal capacitance a.k.a. heat capacity - how much heat to the falls retain.

In a desert, buildings with thick stone or earthen walls will get cool at night thanks to the cool desert night air. They will stay cool throughout the day and the building's interior will remain cool(er) as a result even in the afternoon. (Conversely, the buildings will remain warm at night for the same reason)

Of course, this is most effective in an environment like a desert where you have a large diurnal temperature swing: scorching days and chilly nights.

But many/all of the same principles can be employed in temperate climates in a modified form, such as with earth-sheltered homes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_shelter
The regulation is the regulation, this is what they have to obey. If this is not clean enough to be auditable, then may be they don't have a legit business. You seem to pass the blame to the regulation when in fact they already knew what the regulation was before they event started into this space.
When I used to do React work I remember reading this article which might help you out.

https://overreacted.io/react-as-a-ui-runtime/

This SwiftUI book is quite short but takes you through a fair bit of how it works under the hood.

https://www.objc.io/books/thinking-in-swiftui/
I didn't say it was acceptable. I hope they all implode.
Not really rotting then are they.
Why would you think USD is safe? It's been dropping precipitously over the past 18 months as the Federal Reserve just increases the money supply exponentially. Just check the USD/CHF pair for an example.
This article links to Azatlyk Radiosy article. I'm not sure of its credibility, but AFAIK it's one of the few (or may be only) independent source about Turkmenistan.
Makes sense. I’ve done some fair share of Erlang myself some years ago.
> (3) Why is it so hard to create a stable coin where at least 90% is cash?

The story on Tether seems to be that it was fine, except that the owners also owned something else that wanted funding, and they couldn't resist funding themselves with Tether's backing funds.
I've worked at home for a few years now, and don't ever want to go back to the office unless:

- Commute is sub 10 minutes

- I get an office with a closing door

In 20 years, I've had that combo for maybe 18 months. I lost it when my team had to move to accommodate a management-heavy org that required the personal offices.
I've just started calling my family on a regular basis. I never used to like phone calls, but I've gotten over it. For other people, if we haven't lived in the same city or seen each other for 25 years and we drift apart, oh well, we'll survive in the same way people have for ages as friends they used to know and love dropped out of their lives.

There are other ways. My wife's siblings have all kept a more or less permanent group text going for over a decade. One of my cousins sends out a paper newsletter to everyone once a year.

The small number of old-time friends in other parts of the country that I was ever truly close to I trust will still contact me if they're ever in the area, and I will contact them if I'm ever in their area, and there's always the 30 year reunion. I don't really need to know what they're up to on a daily basis. I just need to know if one of us ever really truly needs the other, we'll be there, and I do trust that even if I'm not given a live feed of their daily activities and opinions.
I'd be interested and will check this out. I have used plotly dash and love to hear a compare and contrast
The article links to a previous article which in turn links to the official RPi documentation on netbooting. Posting here for people who are curious: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/computers/remote-a...
IT Outsourcing to Ukraine in 2021 – The General Overview
Article is legit, i just dont understand why most HN people are being hater about crypto, generally. Especially ETH
The Two-And-Done rule is fantastic and I would take it one step further.

I am correct, A LOT, when it comes to technical decisions, strategies and the Right Thing To Do™ but that does not mean that my decision is Right For The Business™.

I do not have the full view into what my others see.

- I do not see the CEO getting pressure from investors, board members or customers.
- I do not see the Head of Development dealing with not having enough people to get work done, budget issues or other critical issues that I am not involved in.
- I do not see the Development Manager dealing with people that are having struggles and thus not getting enough work done.

Keep that in mind when someone says no to your perfect idea. Odds are you do not see the entire picture.
How they say it on HN... It's pointless to expect someone to understand something if their pay depends on them on understanding it.
Yes, when you look at those differences any performance drop due to age is going to look tiny in comparison.

What I have found though is a lack of willingness to put up with bullshit. Stuff I accepted as normal in my twenties I'd just walk away from now. This is probably good for the employer but maybe not for your immediate manager.
That's a great article.

I'm 59, and have been out of the "market" for the last 4 years. I have no intentions of ever working for anyone else again. I'm fortunate, in being able to do that.

What did it for me, was the atrocious way that I was treated, when I went looking for work, after leaving my previous employer; just shy of 27 years. I stayed that long, not because I'm a "clinger," but because I was damn good at my job, and they valued me.

It seems that us "olds" are not popular. It appears to be personal and emotional; not based on any empirical data (Did I mention that I'm actually fairly good at what I do?). Quite strange, in an industry known for its data-driven approach.

It didn't take me long to figure out that the current environment does not want me around. I won't go, where I'm not wanted, and I'm incredibly grateful to have the means to do this. I am quite aware that most of my peers do not have this choice, and it hurts my heart to know that they will spend their final years of employment, being treated in such a shoddy manner.

But that won't stop me from working. I just had to set my own agenda. It's coming along nicely. I tend to develop rather ambitious stuff, and the last few years have been fun. I would not have done it, if I hadn't been pushed; so I guess it's all good.
Why are you thankful? Do you need accessibility, and if so, what do you use?

Inevitably someone complains about lack of accessibility of a custom UI toolkit, which is frustrating, because something that helps 99% of people is still an improvement and still worth doing.
> Every other asset has a risk of its price changing. It may be worth $1 today but it may or may not be worth $1 tomorrow.

A rational market would react by revaluing USDCUSD and pushing the price point to where they'd expect.

But we should look to what happened when USDT openly admitted they were backed somewhere around nine cents to the dollar: absolutely nothing, the peg held.

So has the market really priced in the risk of 39% of assets not being cash/cash equivalent? I suspect that's unlikely, but I also expect no material change to USDCUSD. Today, at least.
Trying to get out of it at the moment, but it’s seemingly very difficult.
Wow ok by an interesting coincidence I’m actually needing to upgrade my heating too (everyone moved off the building’s shared boiler, then voted to get rid of it at the one meeting I missed - hats off to them). Installing a new gas boiler and fitting it to the existing system means ripping up some of my (beautiful old and recently refurbished parquet) flooring so if this gives me a way to avoid that AND maybe cool the air relatively efficiently during the worst summer days I’ll definitely need to look into it!
.NET Compact Framework 3.5. Might not sound that old, but it's only supported in Visual Studio 2008. Microsoft keeps trying to kill it off, but the manufacturer I support is still shipping products using it.
WebAssembly Serverless Functions in Netlify
Mostly just a question of the location.
I'm sorry, but claiming "attestations" aren't "worth the pixels they're rendered into" is a gross oversimplification and honestly, an outright lie.

You clearly are trying to do a good thing here by making people aware of risk, but you are inaccurately stating that attestations aren't meaningful.

This is skepticism for skepticism's sake, if you have anything real to indicate what's being claimed by stablecoin attestations isn't true or does not mean that there is $1 USD backing every attested stablecoin, please come forward with that information. Otherwise, it's wildly irresponsible to continue to say what you're saying.
From https://github.com/opencomputeproject/Time-Appliance-Project...

> Where can I get one?

> […] we are currently working with several suppliers and will have their contact info soon available to allow you to puchase an out-of-the-box ready Time Card.
The article also talks about MS Edge not being crossplatfom.
Well.. that's about to change [1]. There's a beta for Linux, macOS, Android & iOS. What surprised me most about all this is that MS even provides the Edge for retired versions of their own OS (Windows 7 & Server 2008). I'm very impressed by that.

For Windows you don't have to include the WebView2 installer, your installer, can basically include a "stub", the evergreen bootstrapper [2], that then goes out to the internet and grabs the latest version.

edit: The great thing about WebView2 is that Microsoft keeps their control up to date. (At least on Windows, not sure what that is going to be on other platforms, time will tell)

[1] https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download/?platfor...

[2] https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview...
Macrovision only worked on VCRs with the Automatic Gain Control (AGC) enabled. It was super easy to defeat by disabling the AGC, or if you had more sophisticated equipment like a time base corrector (TBC) or similar. These dubs will still have the Macrovision as is, but it won't affect the recording's video signal. Using a standards coverter NTSC->PAL for example would completely remove the macrovision from the dub.
Don't forget to count time activating the phone itself. Admittedly I have a cruddy phone (Moto G4), but the phone app itself takes about 1.5 seconds to start, on top of 0.5-several seconds to come out of sleep mode (sometimes it takes 5-10 seconds). And if the lock screen is up, opening the camera takes longer due to the weird swiping motion needed which always takes me a few tries.

Contrast with my DSLR, the on switch is colocated with the shutter. I can turn it on and get a photo in 1.5 seconds.
Xsolla lays off 150 after an algorithm ruled staff 'unengaged and unproductive'
Starbase Launchpad Tour
A super genius could most likely bargain for a pay/bonus cut and 40 hour weeks for 7 figures easily after a few years of demonstrated performance.
Yes – AcuCOBOL had a COBOL development system which was byte-coded like Java (the technical founder had actually overlapped with Gosling in undergrad, I believe) so we already had the capability to copy the compiled program onto most platforms (Most Unix variants, VMS, Win16 and Win32, OS/2, DOS, OS/400, etc.) and launch it with the native runtime. There was also some ability to transparently redirect I/O — you could have any CALL which didn't wasn't in the local compiled code do an RPC call to a remote server, and redirect some or all ISAM operations to either a remote server or (with another license) a SQL database.

Once they had that infrastructure, it wasn't a huge amount of work to package the runtime as a plugin which was configured to enable the remote call & I/O options by default. Which is exactly restating your last point: having already done the hard 95% of the work, this part was straightforward.
This must be industry variant then. 3 of my 4 jobs in the last 30 years have involved non-technical leadership. The exception was working for a "tools" company where software was the product. But the other 3 are at the "edge" where software enables real devices to be more modern/gadgety. In that context, software programmers are a necessary evil to en-smart-ify gadgets that have traditionally been "dumb." And letting software people be part of the direction is too much of a loss of traditional power.
Yup... I have to support VBScript for one of our digital signage platforms. Always a joy...
Just tell them it's to protect your face from CCTV facial recognition. Most of the non authoritarian right is for that.
Yes, that's right. I did mean wet-bulb. Not sure why my brain didn't register this mistake when I wrote it.
No.

IPCC 6th assessment report, summary for policymakers, page 8/42. Read it.

IPCC is the most conservative science body ever created. It comprises hundreds of scientists from all over the world, including Saudi Arabia and others, who need to unanimously approve each sentence. The role of human emissions in the current warming has been assessed without any possible doubt.
Yes, I hear they're struggling financially...
Handling Finances as a Couple
Assuming you can afford to source those better materials. It’s a trade off, thermal quality of materials vs cost/access. We’re heading in a direction where most people will not be able to afford the best insulation and so learning from the past becomes essential.
Well; that or, of course - general wear and tear or even dust in the grooves. Vinyl is very sensitive.
Serious question: What is wrong with this?
Yeah we can probably add something like that soon. Right now we're a tiny team (2 people!) and we're pretty focused on just making our product better and helping existing users.

I can see the value of showing how we are differentiated though!