skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I see. As the OP I can say that my wages aren't through the roof, and I don't think they ever will be. I'm a developer and under 100K. I'm not sure anyone I know in this industry has a "through the roof" salary. I don't know anyone at Google. Given how hard I work for the money I do make, I'm expecting to unionize or go solo with my own thing, before my salary somehow goes through the roof. Either of those are more likely.
Meet the growing group that enjoys wearing a mask 24/7 like a fucking retard.
Because we know that Alameda and Cumberland do not, on the whole, possess $63 trillion in USD. That's the official number of "outstanding Tether" posted on the Tether website [0]. If these allegations are true, the other holders of Tether total a couple million, meaning Alameda and Cumberland together must have trillions of holdings. Which, based on filings, we know isn't what they're reporting.

[0] https://wallet.tether.to/transparency
i'd be very sceptical of what a16z published about crypto topics; they are heavily invested both financially and reputationally.

their whole game was/is leveraging their clout to give credibility to the scene, therefore increasing the value of their investments.
Giraffes May Be as Socially Complex as Chimps and Elephants
Anyone who works at a large bank and says any investment (let alone crypto!) is “100% ok” should be fired. That’s day one stuff.
My point was that as price drops & quality rises, there's an increase in consumption.
Definitely not a consumer-level cost as the desired count of target devices climbs.
You can buy stablecoin at the exchange you prefer (because it has low fees or supports your preferred payment method).

Then you can transfer them to other exchanges and buy crypto there. Works the other way too. You can optimize your trading and withdrawal fees this way. So very mediocre utility.

The only entity the stable coins are most wonderful deal is the the one that emits them. They basically have money printing machine for the crypto-economy. And if the project tanks they are left with hard money in hand and everybody else ends up with now worthless stablecoin, because the only source of it's value and utility was the stability.

Some stable coins like DAI have bit more indirect mechanisms of attaching their price to dollar. This seem to work and managed to keep DAI value stable without any manual intervention while ETH price (which is involved in control mechanisms) swung wildly.
There were multiple failures. Two automated braking systems were disabled, and they moved from a 2 person testing standard to a 1 person standard. I think there might be others, but those are the big ones I remember. It took a number of circumstances for that collision to occur.
How many have permanently reduced lung function, vascular disease or are living with long covid?

The death rate isn't the only metric, especially now with the vaccine.
I don't do Netflix so my solution is to never start!

Never will become a customer and honestly with their woke, there's nothing of value anyway!
I'd agree if only less people confused productivity with work / time efficiency and then get annoyed when the quality declines. As an old German proverb says, Gut Ding will Weile haben, which roughly means good things take time.
I was just wondering why, of all the subway systems in the world, the author would pick Boston, which as far as I can see in 1952 had all of 3 "real" subway lines plus the Green Line, which at that time was probably still a streetcar? According to Wikipedia, he didn't even have any connection to Boston...
fuck your mask, fuck your vax, fuck your mandates, in general fuck you
Biden recorder the most votes in history, while winning the fewest counties.

12 million vote increase over Obama with 300+ fewer counties. Must be wildly more popular. Yet was losing the nomination of his own party. Can't 10k views on youtube, but somehow more black people turned out to vote for him in Detroit than Obama.

Also don't forget, Biden was losing 5 key states, until somehow overnight the mail-in ballot rate reversed overnight. The rate difference between in person and mail in ballots was not seen in others.

The stacking of improbabilities is a head scratcher.
I, like 40%+ of Americans have doubts about this Election.
These minting were done as loans --- on an IOU basis.

An IOU is a promise to pay --- not the same as being paid in hard currency.
But... what's the benefit here?

Why can't I buy the game item with actual fiat currency (or its many non-crypto microcurrency equivalents like what MS and Sony operate for their stores)? They can also intermediate its authenticity and ownership between games.

This is how things work right now - there are lots of promos where some in-game addon or item is provided upon validating ownership of some other thing. All of the major stores (see: Steam, PS, Xbox) provide this functionality.

The only real difference here seems to be decentralization - but how does that benefit me as a consumer? I know there's a lot of words spewing around re: "authenticity", but I still fail to see the practical applications of a virtual hologram sticker on horse armor.

But this echoes my overall feelings about crypto - it presents many downsides and few upsides. The only consistent upside it provides is decentralization - but it's only an "upside" insofar as it is ideologically attractive to adherents. In nearly all cases the decentralization provides no tangible benefit to the bearer.
Yes, or even plastic and glue or acrylic, or even lego, anything has better chance than convincing wife. ;)
I think a lot of these things are less important by the day though. Are VPNs or advanced security software even necessary if everything is in Notion/Google Docs and something like Codespaces is being used?
Gemini pays 7.4% APY interest on your GUSD/DAI stablecoin holdings. This is better than any bank in the universe.
The latest on Elastic’s stance on open source
I think this is the first time I have ever seen Glitch used for anything.
Fine art print – crypto art
> browsers may delete your IndexedDB database under certain conditions

Safari will happily delete your IndexedDB database after 7 days of inactivity.

It deletes "all of a website’s script-writable storage after seven days of Safari use without user interaction on the site". That includes:

- Indexed DB

- LocalStorage

- Media keys

- SessionStorage

- Service Worker registrations and cache

Source: https://webkit.org/blog/10218/full-third-party-cookie-blocki...

Found via: The pain and anguish of using IndexedDB: problems, bugs and oddities - https://gist.github.com/pesterhazy/4de96193af89a6dd5ce682ce2...
> it's important to note that this is an alternative to Facebook Kats

TIL about Kats. My assumption was that this was a reference to Prophet, which has not been treated favorably lately on HN.
listen to uncommon core, every episode starting with the first, and you'll have a nice view from the inside. signal-to-noise ratio in crypto is atrocious, high signal sources are alpha
So, you think that if you swapped R and D in the dataset, then the algorithm would always make the D win? Given that they are talking about open source tools, that should be trivial for someone to prove, if they were so inclined.

It sounds to me like you just don't like the possibility that "your side" might be doing something politically nefarious. And don't get me wrong, it's likely that both sides are gerrymandering. It just so happens that republicans have more governorships and other state power, and have had much more opportunity to draw districts.

You should be happy about the existence of mathematical tools to try to prove when someone in power is choosing their voters, instead of the voters choosing the person in power.
Likely people at these companies never grokked that Localization is both nation and language - they conflate the two. That's a sad level of stupid.
> If any meatspace bank was found to be doing that they would be raked over the coals by the SEC but it doesn't make people trading in USD suddenly worthless

Lebanon’s central bank was found to be engaging in funny business. Its currency crashed. Tether is akin to the central bank of USDT, not another player in the system.
Provisioning lots of Raspberry Pis would be a use case, so definitely less and less a consumer-level device as the scale of output climbs. Such is the entire field of computing hardware.
> but the same thing could happen to GOLD, BTC, or even Picasso paintings

In fact, it has happened to the first two, at least temporarily. Someone who bought gold in 1980, say, is probably not particularly happy with it as a store of value today (adjusted for inflation, they _may_ just about be breaking even now assuming that they paid no transactional or storage fees); the same goes for someone who bought bitcoin in May. Or, er, an hour ago.

Picasso's time will presumably come, too.
Interesting, my comment was based on the assumption that the tidal volume of human breath would be much larger than the tube/mask, but it seems I was wrong, it's just 500ml for an average human breath, opposed to 6 liters of lung volume.
+1 on this, I'd be very interested too. I own a domain I'd like to use, and the entity I bought it from offers prepackaged email services I can attach to it. But it's not really running my own thing.
That love and purpose can be found in the bleakest of circumstances is indeed true and amazing.

That Belarus recovered is not obvious.
Obligatory link to The Ultimate Productivity Blog: https://productiveblog.tumblr.com/
Tesla was quite the polymath.
I am not a blind but I would much prefer hearing latex formula word by word than whatever alternative they came up with(e.g "a slash pm b" or "slash frac a b"). I really doubt you can unambiguously say long formulas lot more succinctly. Even after having looked at the formula, I can't follow a lecture without having to look at the board and that is human translation which would be better than MathML.
> No KYC needed.

That is a legal opinion not a technical one, and it's far from clear that the enforcement of KYC will be kept off coins forever.
Thread in question: https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/p16h0z/this_fuckin_...
> Clinton's accusers came out of the woodwork after that

It's not as if there weren't accuser pre-Lewinksy either.
Hey. Reach out to me, see my profile.

Let's get through this together. (I am just a dude, I'm not selling anything...no agenda)
Even in the worst case, they've done tons. They've facilitated a wealth transfer to the taxi takers of America from vcs and the Saudis.
Yup. Tether pulled the same trick repeatedly, and it was fraudulent.

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-...

> Tether published a self-proclaimed ‘verification’ of its cash reserves, in 2017, that it characterized as “a good faith effort on our behalf to provide an interim analysis of our cash position.” In reality, however, the cash ostensibly backing tethers had only been placed in Tether’s account as of the very morning of the company’s ‘verification.’

> On November 1, 2018, Tether publicized another self-proclaimed ‘verification’ of its cash reserve; this time at Deltec Bank & Trust Ltd. of the Bahamas. The announcement linked to a letter dated November 1, 2018, which stated that tethers were fully backed by cash, at one dollar for every one tether. However, the very next day, on November 2, 2018, Tether began to transfer funds out of its account, ultimately moving hundreds of millions of dollars from Tether’s bank accounts to Bitfinex’s accounts. And so, as of November 2, 2018 — one day after their latest ‘verification’ — tethers were again no longer backed one-to-one by U.S. dollars in a Tether bank account.

An actual audit looks at more than a bank balance snapshot.
I took a look. I can't really understand it (unless I spend the whole next week on it... which I will probably do). Could someone with more expertise in the topic explain me how it is done (high level overview)?
As I said, "defined more broadly," which I'm also arguing is the pertinent way to define public and private domain.
Just ask yourself, what productive use of USD reliably yields 8.88% plus a spread for the intermediary? (For regulated boring banks, net interest margin historically is around 3%.)

Banks doing C&I lending to modest risk (but still not "rated bond issuer") companies are charging mid-single-digit rates. Those banks are generally paying depositors way under 1%.

There do exist loan portfolios legitimately producing these kind of yields, but they are not trivial to produce. Actively managed and monitored specialized portfolios -- where you would really want to diligence the track record and underwriting/origination methodology of the lender.

Don't get me wrong: dislocations do happen and arbitrages do open up, sometimes for far longer than you might think. But fundamentally, if this is non-Ponzi finance, someone must be using those funds for a productive enterprise that yields enough to cover the cost of capital. What is that in stablecoin lending??

(Source: I am an investor and former operator in specialty lending company, having sourced/raised capital in > 100 debt and equity deals.)
I have seen cyclists with backpacks around, just like for door dash, deliveroo etc. I thought that is their mode of delivery. Based on your comment it sounds as if my initial assumption actually correct?
reddit should just be killed off at this point. The only good thing about it are the smaller subreddits. The self-proclaimed "front page of the internet" has become the "cesspool of the internet" catering to the lowest common denominator of people out there. Tiktoks, tweets, fabricated AITA posts and more of the low brow variety abound.

reddit (in general) has a clear and obvious political/social agenda apparent to anybody with a functioning brain.
Does your time not have value? The monthly tithes should more than pay for it.
I was 20 in 1991 in Europe. I was flying regularly without any flygskam. The USSR was just falling and we were all sure it was an unmitigated good (we still didn't know that the Russians will die by scores and see their life expectancy drop like a rock); Germany was just reunited and we thought the EU was a great project, not a bureaucratic monster working for the oligarchy; Hell, I even believed there were nice guys and bad guys in the Yugoslavian wars. I probably even believed that voting counted. Future was bright, and open. Year 2000 was still ahead, with its wonders.

My mother was 20 in 1968, and it was the good old days. They believed the revolution was around the corner. Present was somewhat grim, but future was bright; in her years of political activity she saw the pill come, abortion rights, women rights enhanced, the end of dictatorships in Spain and Portugal, the end (in civilised countries) of death penalty, the crumbling of USSR.

My children are in their 20s; my son refuses to learn to drive because cars are evil and he doesn't want to own one, ever, because they're bad; he's hell-bent of enjoying the now because he's pretty sure that there is no future, except climate catastrophe, incessant wars, and electronically-enhanced surveillance; he thinks that democracy is a complete scam and he forgets to vote if I don't nag him weeks in advance. He's just as disillusioned as I am, but 27 years younger.

So I think the picture is more complex. The global direction of evolution is much more important than the objective starting point.
The Surprising Genius of 3D Printed Rockets
> general purpose computing device

There really isn't, at least in the US Code. If there was and this law was referring to it, it would refer to it "as defined by U.S.C <number>".

This discussion from a year ago illustrates my point; this bill is PR fluff and the one they actually discuss putting into law will have to be more specific https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24191018
> not trendy "key value"

You can put anything in an SQLite record so it can certainly be used as a key-value table. Where at least the values can be arbitrary binary blobs.
How easy is it to "mine" liquid ammonia compared to water? The additional efficiency might be meaningless.
The deviation it accepts are about crops, rotations, resizing, etc. It's not "gee, this bridge looks orange, so I'll just say it's the Golden Gate."
I picked up hairygum.com a few years back as a joke for a friend who like to play the hairy gum trick in his high school days.
A good starting point is Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts by David Gerard.
“Open App Markets Act” – Can't force devs to use the store’s payment system
Headline is false. Slightly less than half of people make less than the "one-bedroom housing wage" calculated for their state, which is the amount per hour the person would need to afford a one-bedroom apartment if and only if you assume (1) they work only 40 hours and (2) live in an area at or above median housing cost for their state and (3) do not spend more than 30% of income on housing.

Data here: https://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/oor/2021/Out-of-Reach_...
>Either way, Reddit should be throwing an insane amount of money and equity to get a Sheryl Sandberg like executive with a track record of juicing monetization.

You mean that they should spend as much money as they can on ruining Reddit.
To a Salmon’s Eye, Spirit Bears Have Natural Camouflage
I bought derivadev.com about 6 years ago - I was going to create a site that was just full of (working) code snippets for all of the little problems I've had to solve over the years (think stackoverflow without the comments and wrong answers).

As with many other things, I never got around to making it...

edited to add:
Since most of my development work seems to be a derivative of some earlier project, it seemed apt
There are chains that have been doing this for decades already; see TownePlace Suites by Marriott.
FWIW - I noticed the Jupyter notebook rendering is far better on GitHub.dev.
The Internet Archive using a Flash emulator written in Rust and compiled to Webassembly to preserve historic Flash animations and make them playable in modern browsers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25154128

https://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-fo...

https://ruffle.rs/
I guess it's mostly in my head but somehow the thought of a random Uber driver puting my food on their back seat as opposed to some specialized container comes to mind, and I found that very unappetizing.
I wonder if happiness is influenced more by some absolute level of joy or is it more influenced by the rate of improvements.
In short: yes, at least anomaly detection. That's one of the main things on our to-do list.
A huge portion of an engineer’s job (especially senior level engineers) aren’t strictly technical. This seems to be something people miss.
Definitely a question of the requirements justifying the scale and cost of output.
$63 billion, not trillion.
I like this occurrence of essentially modern FOMO - Fear Of Missing Out...

“But why do you not come to me instead?”
“Because I cannot leave this place.”
“Why?”
“Because, any moment, something tremendous many happen.”
I get the impression this is a tool made by technologists for technologists, rather than for people who spend a lot of time typesetting math. Academics (mathematicians, physicists, etc) don't have the same concerns as technologists, and the specifics of browser tech in particular are't relevant.

Latex is basically the mathematical (computer) lingua franca right now. Theres an entire cultural and technological ecosystem around latex thats been built up for many years. We even message each in latex notation when rendering isn't available! Theres decades of documentation online. Most important of all, its dead easy to use for most use cases!

Perhaps MathML is technically superior in some ways, but none that the people typesetting math are concerned with. That this is browser oriented tech in particular is already a disadvantage, as the browser is not a priority to us. In this way mathjax feels like the superior tool for users. It attempts to work with users rather than dictating to them.
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It's not just a dev container, it's meant to be your workstation, with the code files being stored in it and not on your personal machine. So if I want to install IntelliJ, Beyond Compare, etc. Or even if I don't want to bother with setting up tunnels and port forwarding for testing my web app locally, I could use Firefox in the VM, etc.

Seems it would solve all the issues, which are specifically that it mostly works only with VSCode or terminal apps, but with a remoting solution you could run anything you'd want.
Not a Googler but we do have a monorepo... you can start with a team specific path, but you feed that to the build system and ask it to identify all the other paths where your (transitive) dependencies are.
Not forcing per se - the arbitrage incentivizes market makers to keep the value roughly in the expected range. This happens in any asset class but the mechanic is quite straightforward in this case.
I've tried fixing the local dev stack - all of the scripts and Docker containers in the world still can't predict the ways in which something might break when it's running on 100+ different laptops with different developers with different unique preferences for how they like to get things done.

My expectation is that if you roll out something like Codespaces a small minority of your engineers will resist because it doesn't fit exactly how they want to work.

Meanwhile everyone else will get back several hours of productivity per week.
The article wasn't very clear; I think it means the related footprint of internal operations, such as real estate, employee travel, and the like. At least, if you go by https://www.epa.gov/climateleadership/scope-3-inventory-guid...

The military is a separate article. A sankey diagram would be less ambiguous: https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/
They do not maintain that million dollars as dollars. They instead buy all sorts of stuff. Only a small portion is maintained as dollars.

If there is a run on Tether tomorrow it will collapse. You won’t get your money. Assets will need to be liquidated, and some of them might be junk.
Or, how about this: the projections have always been absurdely inflated and were effectively predicated on not having to follow any local rules, thus avoiding the time to market and legal overhead that traditional companies face when doing business.

You cannot ignore reality forever. What you can do, as Uber proved, is borrow against the future and playing the VC ponzi game until that game no longer works... and hopefully you've IPO'd so the real cost of your early profits is distributed over the foolish greater population.
Would you trust a bank that promised a 7.4% APY savings account, or would you go "hmmmmmm..."?

> This is better than any bank in the universe.

"If it sounds too good to be true..."