skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why this is something they can settle rather than something that gets them completely shut down

I'm a Tether sceptic. I wouldn't want to be the regulator (note: not prosecutor, different standards) to shut it down.

There was a moment when I suspected Tether may hold U.S. dollar money market securities. That would mean a collapse could spill to our financial markets. But that doesn't seem to be the case. The only people who would get hurt in its wake seems to be those who choose to keep using Tether despite the screaming warnings.

Those same people would make you public enemy No. 1 for bringing down the house of cards. So given the problem is contained to the people who oppose its solution, there isn't a great argument for allocating regulatory resources to this over anything else.
As the developer (but not the OP, of course), cheap is not an attribute I'm inclined to optimize for...
> One advantage in flying - you are pretty much told EXACTLY how to do many things.

Experience shows that will get you safely out of the vast majority of emergency conditions. The ones that are left require understanding and a brain, which is why we still have human pilots.

Runaway stab trim is so serious a condition that the cutoff switches are within easy reach right there on the console. It doesn't really matter how many safeguards there are against runaway trim, the pilot needs to be able to just turn the thing off. It's also deliberate that the electric trim switches override everything but the cutoff switches.

Pure speculation on my part, but I suspect that Boeing thought that it was so easy to just turn off a misbehaving trim system, that the pilots would just do that.

It's sort of like one day I was working away on my desktop, and smoke started boiling out of the case. My first reaction was to pull the plug out. Fortunately, that stopped the fire. If it hadn't, my second reaction would have been to throw the box outside.

My lawnmower, power tools, etc., are all designed so that chopping the power to them is as easy as possible. Even race cars have a large switch mounted on the exterior to shut off all power.
Regenerative agriculture as a concept catching on.

Not quite a technology, more of a process but it's related to what are generally considered technological in nature.

Other than the problem of yield, regenerative agriculture practices really do feel like a cake-and-eat-it-to situation – hybridized farms could contribute to carbon capture, biodiversity maintenance, soil quality regeneration, and a more green beautiful world, all in one swoop.
I think a lot of what stifles competition is the military itself. They aren't a good customer. They have lots of broken legacy systems. There are serious reputational risks.

I don't really mean to suggest 22b is too low a cash prize, but I imagine it takes a lot to overcome the barriers that have been wilfully erected. Much less the ones discreetly erected by incumbent military contractors.
I was ready to come in and prove you wrong but I found this in the Steam Support FAQ:

>Will you be asking me to provide tax information to you, and/or will you be providing 1099’s based on my transactions in the Community Market?
No. Previously we required that U.S. citizens and residents provide us with certain information, including name, address and social security number, prior to exceeding 200 separate sales transactions in a calendar year. We have concluded that this information is not required and we will no longer be asking you for this information as part of Community Market participation. We will also not be providing IRS Form 1099’s with respect to sales activity in the Community Market.

With that in mind, it seems like you can money launder fairly easily, right? I thought that the 1099s were the primary blocker to that.
Yikes, C extensions can't assume they are under GIL by default:

https://github.com/colesbury/numpy/commits/v1.19.3-nogil
Miners consumed blue cheese and beer during the Iron Age
My mom was trained in school to rebuild engines. She's pretty good at it too. I remember coming home lots of times to find her rebuilding carburetors, or with a mess of wiring diagrams laid out all over the garage because she's trying to add some feature that was available on one model Toyota, but not her model. She'd buy old beaters, fix them up, and have my dad sell them for spare cash.

She also taught me everything I know about home remodeling. Together, she and I basically gutted her home and remodeled it, including dealing with sagging outer walls, poor plumbing installation, electrical wiring, cabinetry, hanging doors/windows.

Yet, she never managed to get a job in the field. In the 90s, people just didn't hire women to do these kinds of things.
You allude to a physical universe which has some properties though (laws).
Isn't it possible that women are less interested in long-term relationships in college than they used to be? My parents generation, many women went to college to get their "mrs" - my generation, people dated casually, but most didn't expect to marry someone they dated in college, because they didn't plan to get married for years and years (until they had a career, were established, etc.). Stands to reason if that trend continues, there's even less value in long-term relationships. in college (and my limited anecdata supports that).
Just let him know.
>this must come as a huge transformative movement carried by many people

I believe governmental and industrial interest will follow the example set by these "many people". How do transformative movements start anyhow?

In order to arrive at "the change we need", we have to start somewhere.

We're facing the same general task... just have different ideas about how to approach it.

Wait for it to fall in your lap, or work for it.
Yep title definitely needs an update
It's not, he's simply pointing out that there's even bigger scam out there. That's not the same thing as defending Tether.
I should add here that Sec. of Energy Jennifer Granholm wrote & asked me something about it. No other major impact that I'm aware of.

If your argument is "this would be complicated!" I'd say "compared to what? the 14-year case against AT&T? the case against Microsoft, which ended in no breakup?" Do you really think a breakup of FAANG would be any simpler?

I spent several years at Google working with ads data. By far most of my work was with anonymous & aggregated data. In my proposal, that work, too, would require a license from the Data company, and the owners of that data would share in the profits from it.
That would make sense to me, though it may be possible (and less disruptive) to allow tether to continue under new management.
Step 1. Get a list of the most popular woocommerce apps

Step 2. Look at the Shopify app store. Can find one with the features you need? Or one sucks? Build a better one.

I've already given an example of a table of contents generator for Shopify and how it should be specifically built.
He's saying that none of these studies have shown in the real world that ivermectin effects TMPRSS2. And I've been trying to have an honest discussion from the beginning. I said I'd failed to find what you were claiming, but tried to make it clear that I was listening if you did have some evidence. Luckily you did, but analyte123 pointed out it was weak.

This paper seems to to be a survey of other papers so doesn't actually provide any new evidence itself. It also has a few grammar issues which makes me more skeptical of it, but whatever. The claim made as I understand it is that there is only very weak evidence that `ivermectin` might effect `TMPRSS2` (aka computer models). Since we've done randomized controlled trials we can be fairly confident that ivermectin doesn't work to treat covid. The best evidence I've heard of for it working came from cell cultures where at very high concentrations it was able to prevent covid from entering cells so maybe the mechanism there even is related to TMPRSS2, but I'm just not really sure of what discussion you were expecting.

Your comment read to me like you see this as vindication that ivermectin is likely to be an effective drug, when it sounds like TMPRSS2 has been consistently targeted as a treatment for covid by a number of different drugs and you've still only shown at best weak evidence that ivermectin even effects it
"the online poll surveyed 1,545 Canadians"

Sorry, but 0.00004% [0] of Canadians can't remotely be described as "most".

Unfortunately, the qualifying words "survey suggests" was chopped off the end of the article title, making it seem far more of an authoritative assertion than it really is. :(

[0] 1545 / 38246108 estimated population as per https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/210929/dq210...
Again: Don't you think you should finally do something about your obvious support problems?

Every few weeks we get another Stripe support thread here, because people have learned this is the only way they can get support. I don't blame them, but I blame your company.

Nothing about it is intellectually stimulating.

It's nice to see HN solve someone's problem. Occasionally. And not always the same problem.
The key disadvantage is largely that it bifurcates the library base. Async libraries and sync libraries co-exist uneasily in the same program.

For nearly every popular library there is now a (usually inferior, less robust) async one. The benefits of Linus' Law are reduced.
Pretty big and popular strawman you got there.
Tether has been a boogie man since forever, the traditional system is infinite times more corrupt. Top voted hackernews comment like this? Probably a pretty amazing time to buy some more and short some yc. edit: remember eth being mentioned here for the first time 6 years ago, how the cycles roll.
I believe Offentlighetsprincipen is one of the main foundations of the success of Sweden as a democracy. It acts like a filter on corruption. Dumb politicians are regularly exposed early in their careers. Only really smart, subtly corrupt politicians make it to the top level of government.
This one's my favorite. Not every distribution of readline enables this, so you might need to uncomment or add the binding for history-search-backward/forward into /etc/inputrc or ~/.inputrc. Similarly editrc for programs that use libedit instead of readline to avoid the GPL.
The SQL database is under the control of a central authority. That's actually the difference here.
>> If that bit is set, the interpreter doesn't bother tracking references for the relevant object at all. That avoids contention (and cache-line bouncing) for the reference counts in these heavily-used objects. This "optimization" actually slows single-threaded accesses down slightly, according to the design document, but that penalty becomes worthwhile once multi-threaded execution becomes possible.

Was going to say do the opposite. Set the bit if you want counting and then modify the increment and decrement to add or subtract the bit, thereby eliminating condition checking and branching. But it sounds like the concern is cache behavior when the count is written. Checking the bit can avoid any modification at all.
I went to 3 weddings this year, and each couple being married met on dating apps.

If anything my single friends biggest complaint is that apps are the defacto way of dating, even before the pandemic. Your options were basically apps, mutual introduction, or bars. Even bars I would say were slowing down, at least amongst my age group, because everyone was so busy with work, or just general life stuff.

Also you are dating yourself with that last sentence.
Isn't there a lot of money lost in between all those steps? I mean steam keys cost money, bot farms, I doubt those gems have a very attractive exchange rate (it's a 'last resort' way to get rid of cards), buy / sell cards has Valve's cut, as does said game and the financial processors in between. It just sounds like a lot of effort.

Can people still trade guns outside of CSGO?
i agree, when it comes to things like cryptopunks consensus is what decides what is authentic and what isn't. i still think they are stupid, but i'm at least sympathetic to the argument of ownership and authenticity. you still own nothing more than what exists on the blockchain though, which is self evident based on the fact that people can make all of these clones.

when it comes to hearthstone blizzard decides. you can have every single nft on the planet, but if blizzard decides you dont get to use those cards in hearthstone you 100 percent absolutely don't get to use those cards in hearthstone.
Actually I was removing the editorializing in the original. It's plainly the restrictions and response which caused this financial hardship, not the virus itself. The whole "because of Covid" framing (which is extremely common in articles like this one) is used to push the narrative that there were no possible alternatives, or that the pandemic response was free of significant costs and downsides.
The very idea of NFTs aren't a scam, but many of the current manifestations could be described as scams.
What did you expect the local store manager was going to be able to say or do?
But if everyone asks for last four then it also means everyone has it. You are one shitty site leak away from having all the info needed to identify you available publicly.
asyncio is not a competition to threads, it's complementary.

In fact, it's a perfectly viable strat in python to have several processes, each having several threads, each having an event loop.

And it will still be so, once this comes out. You will certainly use threads more, and processes less, but replacing 1000000 coroutines by 1000000 system threads is not necessarily the right strategy for your task. See nginx vs apache.
How do you sell the game on the gray market without selling the account?
I asked myself how can I code faster just now and I asked myself what slows me down. At the moment it’s local build times. I often drop into Linqpad to sanity test code as sometimes even running a unit test is painful (because of building the code not the test itself)

The team is longer term looking at splitting up libraries but maybe I should see what quick wins .Net has to offer.

For side projects it’s normally the startup stuff, so using those starter kits eg saas with login set up etc. makes sense. I’d definitely look at all the code so I understand it but it saves all that wheel reinventing and discovering the same issues everyone has.
Agreed. Personal responsibility is always a factor. Some people game the system by raising the victim flag which makes them a protected class and the idea that they had a hand in the situation is not talked about cuz victim blaming.
searching for lamb results in: Oh no! Your search returned no
results. Try entering a less specific name.

Ungulate seemed promising, but similarly returned nothing. Maybe a generic name next?
Starting your second failure, or second entrepreneurial project? :)
Wow, hang on, you're bringing up Diablo 3's auction house as... a positive example?? That's a new one. It was, and still is, widely agreed to be a colossal, almost game-sinking failure, and Blizzard couldn't shut it down quick enough, once they understood the ramifications of their decision:

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-24152225

[1] https://www.wired.com/2013/09/diablo-auction-house/

[2] https://twitter.com/Tocelot/status/1439632031726456832
Korea is a high trust society and stalking is a huge problem.
Regulatory agencies create "laws" all the time. When Congress creates legislation, they rarely spell out all the details and implementations. This is left to the agency to interpret, and they have a wide latitude in both interpretation and enforcement.
I usually have a few decoy jira tickets to keep management happy and then do my own task tracking for myself using tools that don't suck.
What's a "specific page" in the context of discussing single-page applications?
> How would some middle- and upper middle classes making eco-friendly alterations to their lives prevent e.g. the destruction of south-eastern Amazonia for farming?

Well, the obvious way would be that they are no longer consuming the beef or other products of destructive south-eastern Amazonia farming, eh?

My question is how do eco-friendly lifestyles go mainstream to the point where the pressure to destroy the environment begins to ease up?

> The reason for my irritation is that I find your view complacent.

Let me reassure you that I'm anything but complacent.

> A few affluent people being more hippyish mainly helps those people feel better.

That's not what I'm advocating here.

The problem I'm pointing out is exactly that ecology is thought of as "hippyish". Gabe Brown isn't a hippie, nor are these folks:

"Homestead Paradise: got barren land, boosted it at a profit"

> Mark and Jen Shepard bought a degraded corn farm in Viola, Wisconsin, and began to slowly convert it from row-crops back to a native oak savanna that would become one of the most productive perennial farms in the country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRPP4Ilpxso

> It doesn't prevent habitat loss on a global scale. Even if they plant a nature-friendly back garden!

Okay, but a mass movement towards ecologically harmonious living would, so what's the hold up?
I'm pretty sure that Valve's marketplace tax makes it much harder for low-margin scams to scale. You could definitely pull off an "exploit" like this today, but the main reason why it's not mitigated is probably because nobody is really getting scammed here. It's like Office Space, where the actual profits from this grift are so minute that the only way it would be profitable is if you stuck it out for several years.
I can't imagine it will be easy to get low latency silky smooth 90FPS+ out of WebXR, even with a pure WASM app. Being at the mercy of the Chrome devs sounds like a challenge.
There might be similar non-doctor medical jobs that appeal more to men's interests & strengths (things, not people). Radiology technician comes to mind (though I don't know the gender ratio).
I've used Postgraphile to do this. GraphQL not REST, same idea though, autogenerated API from stored procedures, it's pretty neat.

Pros:

- Can query DB multiple times, conditionally, without making multiple trips to DB, since your code for a certain procedure is all in the DB.
- Procedures are accessible using any DB client.

Cons:

- Version control of these procedures is not as nice as normal code. Graphile Starter has some tools for snapshotting the DB schema that help, but the DX is still not great.
- Scaling your DB is more costly than scaling compute, so from a cost/scaling perspective this might not be the best idea.
Yes. I've been doing so all week (I just bought a new bicycle, and I wear a mask outside because it offends people and I find it funny), and I have exercised-induced asthma and sweat/overheat very easily. It's been fine. Masks don't impact your body's ability or inability to dissipate heat. The heat is uncomfortable; the mask doesn't matter. Have you tried it?

In any case, my argument is not that it has no potential harm - just that it's ludicrous to say it's as potentially harmful as not getting the vaccine.
Maybe i'm reading too much into this, but are you suggesting they stop trying to prevent it from happening in any channels, because it might be possible in one?
Enjoy your horse paste if you think that is more effective than a vaccine that has been administered 6.5 Billion times and it has a proven very high efficacy.
Stealth will always be important - it's just a numbers game to try and optimize RCS vs an opponent's radar systems. The big thing going forward will be creating resilient networks of shooters/sensors. This is where drones will make their money - spotting stuff via camera or radar for other manned planes, SAMs, or artillery.
California property tax map:

https://www.officialdata.org/ca-property-tax/
Check out sxmo.org if you're going for a minimalist UI. But the big feature that's missing on these old-style UI's (while it is in, e.g. Phosh) is smooth animations w/ direct 1-to-1 feedback, which is critical for usability w/ modern capacitive touchscreens and quite hard to achieve without GPU acceleration.
> the presence of hardware backdoors in the Chinese-made transformer at Sandia was confirmed by Latham Saddler (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0EawFC18MI) who was the Director of Intelligence Programs at the National Security Council during the Trump administration. Latham stated that the Chinese transformer was taken to “one of our national labs,” and something was found in the transformer: “They found hardware that was put into the transformer that had the ability for somebody in China to switch it off.” Not only has this information not been shared with US utilities, this information has not been shared with our closest allies who also have these Chinese-made transformers.
I think you are misunderstanding the term "real-world". Obviously they sell digital content on their platform. That's the whole point. They don't sell "real-world" things like tee shirts or toys.
> It also gives them a complete monopoly on their internal marketplace

Very probably their primary motivation. I'm pretty sure NFTs will be allowed back in as soon as they figure out a way to skim 20% off of every TX.
As much as I hate NFTs and many things related to blockchains, I don't like the idea of platforms throwing their weight around at all.
I actually think in-game content is one of the most legitimate uses for NFTs. It's also cool that since the on-chain data doesn't go away if the game does, it allows for in-game collectables which are not tied to a specific game. Lots of possibilities there.
I think this is a bit of an uncharitable comparison though.

NFTs and crypto are explicitly supposed to have real-world value and uses that are more or less completely divorced from their use in these games. If you delete the game, the items themselves still have the majority of their purpose.

Whereas for the things on the p2p marketplace, their value is entirely predicated on the game they exist within.

Given Steam is a games platform, I think it is pretty straightforward for them to want to keep non-game-related stuff away. Even if it's just from a pragmatic point of view: as weird as it is, lawyers and accountants at this point are very familiar with how to handle users trading in-game things. Pulling in things that exist sufficiently in real life to be in danger of being considered a security is absolutely a big departure from what Valve is used to supporting on its platform.
> but blockchain games / play 2 earn / metaverses are pretty much the future

Football index was a scam, I would argue these "metaverses" are the scams of the future.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_Index
Anyone know why they are launching this only with the Texas insurance and not the California insurance?
> When thousands of people lose their retirements in a gigantic defi crash

Do we have any evidence this would happen? That ordinary people who didn't know they were investing in Tether would lose money in its collapse? (Honest question.)
The lending rates are higher because lenders are paid a premium for owning a potentially worthless (USDT denominated) credit. The idiom that comes to mind is "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller".
> and one day everyone will realise it

No? Why would we think that? There are people who willingly use java; compared to that the problems with python 3 are downright non-obvious as long as you never need to work with things like non-Unicode text.
because presumably steam can't guarantee any of the usual anti-fraud schemes or other obligations they have if the financial transactions happen outside of the purview of the ecosystem.

Obviously it's about control and understandably so because letting uncontrollable financial transactions happen within applications on your platform sounds like a legal nightmare waiting to happen.