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> I’ll also throw in an honorable mention of sxmo and its wayland port, which I consider the equivalent to the underdog tiling window managers on the desktop; which is to say its only option good enough to consider using.

It’s a funny thing indeed.

sxmo seems to be the only option not focusing on competing with Apple and Google on a “good enough for mainstream” ux.

I mean Phosh is nice and all. Having frameworks for contacts and calendars just like in Gnome is nice. Pulseaudio working just as on the desktop is great too. But the total experience still leaves the impression of a very subpar iOS/Android copy.

sxmo though, that has decided to not compete with Apple and Google on what they do best, but rather do their own thing and re-envision what a Linux smartphone should/could be.

And I like it. I like it a lot. It’s by far my favourite Linux smart-phone experience so far.

I just need a better phone to run it on, and the Pinephone Pro could be that phone.

New phone or not, I’d also appreciate if sxmo managed to rebase on/ship for Mobian too. The package selection for pmOS and Alpine is pretty weak in comparison.
pypy also has a GIL.
Would those loans be called commercial paper by any accountant’s definition? We have two data points:

* Moore Cayman, the auditing firm doing Tether’s attestations, says they have commercial paper. They risk penalties for blatant lies

* Bloomberg reporter Zeke Faux say Tether’s accounts and said they have “a lot” of Chinese commercial paper

The massive loophole in the attestation regarding CP is Tether management policy is to value it at redemption value, even if the CP trades below par. So, they could buy the worst quality CP, for say $5 billion, with a redemption value of $30 billion, and the accountants would say “yup, $30 billion of CP per management policy”

That seems easier than a pure lie. NYAG has also seen the statements for recent months. I suspect a total lie would carry more risk than the blatant misleadingly accurate statements I outlined above.

Some of the paper could also be to crypto exchanges, collateralized the way you say. Then it would technically be CP. Tether has denied taking CP from affiliated entities but they use a narrow definition. Only majority ownership counts as affiliated I believe, since they consider their loans to Celsius non-affiliated despite part owning celsius.

Also those Celsius loans are USDT denominated with crypto collateral.
And you may have to show him during pair programming. Telling someone 10 improvements rarely changes their workflow.

Letting them see/discover the change will drive them to try
I dont think they are. Money laundering, like any other financial service, costs money.
Doesn’t this ignore the vast number of systems between us and the visible star?
its not different than someone that everyone overwhelmingly trusts was found to have moved the reserves.

here everyone just expected them to be doing that, and eventually they did it, not different than someone nobody expected to be doing that eventually being found to have done it as well. these cases prove that at one point they had not, even when everyone assumed they were. its like taking a time machine back to 2016 and telling people "hey actually they're fully backed", its interesting to find out, from the state's investigations, that they actually were.

thats the only chronology I explained.

lets play a new game: what's inaccurate about what I said? seems like thats a much more productive discussion.

the reason I think the distinction matters is because its resolved now. And that resolution involves Tether still existing. So our passion about a systemic threat to crypto and maybe the broader financial system will not involve the state doing something about that. which is fairly important to understand, both for your decision to use it even if briefly, or for espousing your passion about why others shouldn't use it.
> only a job for young unwed women

That's interesting, I always kind of assumed it was for bored housewives, because in my direct experience most of my women teachers were married to doctors & lawyers, and it seemed like they were able to pursue a career in teaching because it didn't matter that the job paid next to nothing because they had a husband with significantly more income.
In "Ma Bell" times, they explicitly owned the instruments by which one connected to the phone network, and leased them too you for a monthly fee.

We're coming back to that, but now we don't know who "owns" which rights to which use of our device and there's little hope of, say, legal redress where no "one company" is responsible.
> Gross has also put some significant work into improving the performance of the CPython interpreter in general.

Earmarks work, folks!
This doesn't sound bad... wouldn't the best company eventually win out from word-of-mouth? Unless you had to choose under duress or the receiver would shock you or something
> Significance was a word before statistics used it to define one of their concepts. Just because a field takes a word people used in everyday contexts and used it to define something doesn't mean that the everyday meaning disappears.

That doesn't answer what I asked: what exactly is the meaning here because I remain unconvinced that it's not simply an empty buzzword inserted that transferred from it's usage of statistics, especially when used in conjunction with percentages.

> Edit: Another example is significant digits. Significant digits is a much older concept than significance in statistics, and maps much better to the original meaning of significance. Basically significant things are things you can't ignore when you do your analysis.

Indeed, and that has a meaning that I understand which is also morphologically transparent, but in this supposed meaning of the word which you've to elaborate upon it is neither morphologically transparent, nor do I actually see any meaning in it and I still feel it's used as a buzzword to simply make use of a fancy word for it's own sake.
Where and how it occurred provides a bit of context, as far right extremist attacks have happened in the area before.

Given who and where, it's not unreasonable from a bayesian perspective to be highly certain this was a politically motivated murder. That region has had neo-nazi problems for many years
This is just false. I've run Vault in an Enterprise and unless something has changed in the last 12 months, Hashicorp's recommendation for Vaul has been 1 Consul cluster for Vault's data store, and 1 for it's (and other application's) service discovery.

Sure Kubernetes's secrets is a joke by default, it's easily substituted by something that one actually considers a secret store.
It is defending Tether, because he is wrong. Some things are worse than other things. Fraud is worse than the Fed. No one sensible would claim the Fed is as bad as, say, Bernie Madoff.

Formally, his tactic is known as “whataboutism”
I don’t know.. consensus reality is what I would call the reality that is portrayed in media or mabye the reality that fits the most nr of people.

Objective reality is best described with particle physics but that stuff can’t be understood by the human mind. The human mind can’t keep track of so much complexity at once.
> With this scheme, the reference count in each object is split in two, with one "local" count for the owner (creator) of the object and a shared count for all other threads. Since the owner has exclusive access to its count, increments and decrements can be done with fast, non-atomic instructions. Any other thread accessing the object will use atomic operations on the shared reference count.

> Whenever the owning thread drops a reference to an object, it checks both reference counts against zero. If both the local and the shared count are zero, the object can be freed, since no other references exist. If the local count is zero but the shared count is not, []a special bit is set to indicate that the owning thread has dropped the object[]; any subsequent decrements of the shared count will then free the object if that count goes to zero.

This seems... off. Wouldn't it work better for the owning thread to hold (exactly) one atomic reference, which is released (using the same decref code as other threads) when the local reference count goes to zero?

Edit: I probably should have explicitly noted that, as jetrink points out, the object is initialized with a atomic refcount of one (the "local refcount is nonzero" reference), and destroyed when the atomic refcount is one and to-be-decremented, so a purely local object never has atomic writes.
Already in 2020 (I forget just how early), __ice9 on twitter was pointing out bromhexine and stressing the importance of blocking both ACE2 and TMPRSS2 binding ("dual-entry inhibition"). This is not an area I personally know about, but it's worth bringing up for the enthusiasts for censorship.

https://twitter.com/__ice9/status/1368634545717788677

If it works, the OTC nature is important. Hard for any drug to be very effective if the get-an-appointment-see-a-doctor-get-a-prescription-get-it-filled system takes you well past peak viral load before you even start using it.
Under this scheme, objects get freed when both local and shared counts are zero. By using a special value that makes the shared count non-zero (for eternal and long-lived objects), it ensures that should the owner (for some reason) drop them, they will not be freed. No extra logic has to be introduced, the shared count is non-zero and that's all that's needed to prevent freeing.
You should update your Twitter to point to your new website? Its pretty much identical to your old website, so perhaps it doesn't matter at all.
I’m pretty sure no one thinks digital IOUs are worth more than the word that’s behind them.

It’s not reasonable to conflate decentralized cryptocurrency with digital coupon IOUs.
Selling thin pieces of cardboard with images of athletes printed of them, which don't come with any legal rights whatsoever?

Oh, that's the sports collectibles trading card industry.

NFTs on blockchains solve the problem of provenance and permanence.

You need to do a bit of effort and think about why anything is worth anything at all. Why is the Mona Lisa worth millions but a forgery worth nothing, even if they are indistinguishable from one another?
The former isn't really possible right, as you have to pay at minimum gas fees. The latter is extrinsic.
But that doesn't incentive say a PHD candidate at Harvard to agree right? They're not making any money from this new startup and they'd probably get a lot of positive news coverage if they could show a cheap cure to covid. Certainly now things are a bit locked in place so it would be harder, there would be some repetitional damage at stake, but I'm just very unconvinced a cabal of biotech startups really has the power to keep a lid on something like this
Basic question: why doesn't this affect the currency pair exchange rate? If lending rates reflect the (realistic!) idea that holding 1 USDT is less valuable than holding 1 USD, how does 1 USDT trade at par?
Given the shenanigans that Cambridge Analytica pulled with global elections, I don't remotely trust that these were organic posts and not some sinister state actors being assisted by an amoral data analytics firm.
Just speaking from experience :) Not sure why people find this idea so controversial - it's not a bad thing that men and women are different.
I've recently ordered a PinePhone. At 200 bucks I consider it a donation. I encourage other people to also buy one, even if it is not what you expect. This along the Framework laptops is definitely the way to think about consumer products. I wish appliances were also manufactured open source. Imagine fridges, microwaves, toasters, etc. Things that you can open, understand and learn from and maybe eventually build your own thing if you have the will and time to do so.
Yeah, Instagram like sites need to built with rust, using a react app, oh wait no it was built on top of python and Django, yet somehow they became successful. That says a lot about how much it can pull to, may be you expected something thats not intended for Django to do?
I think the best case scenario it would be useful if game host goes out of business, primary game server closes but users still have assets which persist on the chain. It'd then be possible for the community to resurrect the game and use on chain data to restore functionality
ASSESSEE NAME AND ADDRESS ARE NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE
PER CA GOV CODE §6254.21
They're a scam the same way that buying a star in space for someone is a scam.
At times they've claimed that it is in the billion dollar a week range.

But their cash backings say that that was most likely always bullshit, even as they move to "other instruments" (cough Chinese junk paper cough).
> You need to do a bit of effort and think about why anything is worth anything at all. Why is the Mona Lisa worth millions but a forgery worth nothing, even if they are indistinguishable from one another?

How much is a museum map from the Louvre with directions from the entrance to the current location of the Mona Lisa, signed the museum attendant worth haha.

They are of course distinguishable. One was actually physically created by the artist.

The images the URLs point at are 100% exactly identical, and you do not have the right to the image in question. You may not even have the right to display it to anyone.

You're just buying the plastic sleeves the baseball cards come in without the card itself.

> NFTs on blockchains solve the problem of provenance and permanence.

[edit] Not really no. After all the provenance is on faith that the person who originally sold the NFT is both the original creator of the work (or authorized to sell it) and that they have the legal right to do so, probably, who even knows.

Trust me, the judge is the judge of that, not the blockchain. Blockchains only actually work for concepts wholly encapsulated by the blockchain. Art is not that.

And as for permanence, no, it's just a URL. The contents may disappear, even in IPFS.
I tried Eukaryota, but also didn't get anything. One assumes their implementation of full taxonomic search is still on the roadmap somewhere...
Two Key Focuses (and a Checklist) for New Engineering Managers
I find group chats with different groups of friends and family has filled this niche. There's no ads. There's no technical barrier to entry. No need to even sign up for a service. The stakes are low, messages can just be a meme or some nice photos from a day trip. The only downside is the ephemeral nature of texting. Even then, my MIL figured out how to save pictures to her phone and they occasionally show up in the calendars she makes as Christmas gifts.
Way to go Sam! Mark my words: our generations' Carmack!
...I did not know this. So thank you for letting us know.
Disclaimer: I've never owned or bought a crypto thing in my life.

Most of the biggest games in the world run on selling skins, the natural evolution of that is going from a position where a game developer says you own that skin because there's a record in their database to a position where you own that skin because you have the NFT and the developer recognises your NFT.

It gives portability to something that already has massive massive demand. I do expect gaming crypto currencies and gaming NFT's to absolutely dwarf everything that came before in the crypto space.
Haskell's layout is beautiful. Its custom operators are beautiful too. That's totally not important for its role of research functional language, so that part is pure art.
Show HN: Create real-time banner/dp on Twitter and increase engagement
It does, because the increased efficiency means ads are more profitable on the larger platforms. Bigger matching pools mean better conversion rates.

Why would you spend more money to buy a less-well performing ad?

Why would you display a less well paying ad on your web property?

If you're doing search ads, you cannot fund the megawatts of infrastructure to keep pace with google if you're working with smaller margins. This is not theoretical - adwords/search has destroyed almost all of the competition, save those who have other ways of funding themselves.
Again, this assumes facts not in evidence. The idea that men are just more interested in engineering than women is a retcon over the fact that most (but not all) engineering fields have sharp gender imbalances. The correlation is demonstrated, but the causation simply is not. It's just as possible (and in fact more likely, I think) that engineering fields are making mistakes that retard participation from women, the same way other STEM fields that are imbalanced towards women are making mistakes that retard male participation.

You see the same just-so storytelling when it's observed that women achieve more chemistry doctorates than they do physics doctorates. "But women are interested in medical careers". A chemistry PhD is not part of the ordinary path towards getting a medical degree. Or with math: "women are interested in being teachers, so they get math degrees". Not PhD's, they don't.
Steam still has plenty of gambling
Maybe there is more to diversity than promoting every individual facet of Anglo culture, or subsidising old white guys to tell jokes about violence against women?
As someone that has most of my value in crypto, a life long gamer and programmer: a 2 fps version of the first halo doesn't really sell it sorry.
profit motive and reasonable expenses are diametrically opposed.

I sincerely hope you never find yourself bankrupted due to some condition outside your control.
The gender gap is real but not in the way MSM presents.
And it’s extra wrong here, as the sum of all consumption would absolutely go down, regardless of whether the outliers contribute or not.
Ask HN: How do you cost-efficiently host your small personal projects?
As the title says, how do you all host your small personal projects with an eye towards cost? I've ruled out hosting them locally in my home lab.

I'm putting together a small personal project related to one of my hobbies, basically a tiny web app. It will have a small Postgres DB, a basic Flask API, and then eventually a TypeScript frontend. The MVP is essentially creating a query-able backend for contest results, though eventually I'd like to expand it to a whole management platform for these contests. The events happen infrequently (~3 times a year at most) so the data grows in (small) bursts and is otherwise static. At this point it's entirely text and number data as its currently managed through spreadsheets.

For deployment, I'm considering:

* AWS RDS + EC2 (or the GCP equivalent) for the db + API
* Fly.io (or another provider in this space (Heroku?)) because deploying at the edge is appealing and their DB pricing seems reasonable
* Fully manual via VPS / dedi hosts like OVH/Vultr/Scaleway/etc

AWS/GCP is appealing because of familiarity through work and it offloads having to manage the databases myself and the data centers are closer to our user base. EC2+RDS works out to ~$20/mo for EC2 (t4g.small) + ~$25 for RDS (db.t4g.micro), GCP is about half that (~$25) for an e2-small and db-f1-micro.

Fly.io is similarly appealing with the benefit of edge deployments, not that my application is particularly latency sensitive. Fly.io would be between ~$7 (free tier compute + basic postgres) and ~$20. Heroku would be between free and $16/mo (for the $7 hobby dyno and $9 hobby basic psql)

OVH et. al are appealing on a cost basis, but feel like they would require a lot more work to ensure similar reliability to the other options. Kimsufi would be between $10 - $40/mo depending on the data center location (Canada or France), Vultr (VPS) would be $10-15/mo, Scaleway Dev (VPS) instances would be $10-$20/mo, Hetzner (VPS) would be $10-$15 (though the downside being their data centers are in Germany and Finland while the majority of our users are in the USA). Specs seem better for the money for these but at the cost of having to manage all of the infrastructure myself.
> Thanks for the feedback. We're working on some potential solutions to this and in the meantime we refund everybody who requests one.

A proper solution is to not charge in the meantime. I know its an aggressive stance, but the dissonance with the exploit and pricing model is strong. You should feel wrong exploiting people claiming you'll fix it later.

Wanna get paid? Find a way to do that without exploit. You'll find a potential solution a lot faster if the money stops rolling in until you do.

Either way, this is a terrible sign for your focus and compassion as business that toes the line with claiming to be a therapy or treatment for a medical condition. How can anyone believe you truly do the right thing and care? I don't think apps care about me, but an app like this that presents itself as an alternative to therapy I expect to be an exception.
> Men preferring to work with their hands over books is observed over many cultures

If the books are about robots and the manual task is taking care of kids you'd draw the opposite conclusion.
Can one get a legit prescription for Ivermectin to treat parasites in humans? Absolutely! Is Covid a parasite though?

Where do you believe that the average person is getting their over the shelf Ivermectin from?

Do you have an alternate hypothesis for Ivermectin shortages for livestock at feed stores or the sudden increase in calls to poison control and hospitals for Ivermectin overdosing?

Why would the CDC issue a warning specifically about consuming livestock medicine if it was a minor isolated occurrence?

Is there any large scale clinical study (that has not been retracted yet for data manipulation) let's say with more than 1000 participants that clearly shows any benefit to taking Ivermectin for Covid? I'll give you a hint, the answer is no.

The largest double blind placebo controlled experiment for Covid Ivermectin (3,500 people) (https://www.togethertrial.com/trial-specifications) clearly states: Ivermectin : Trial Stopped for futility
Not according to this:
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/FRA/france/birth-rate
I'm fine with it so long as it is really because that is how they want to live their life. I'm not fine if they want to be, and have the ability to be but something prevents it.
>I'm more surprised that anyone still holds Tether,

The price BTC shooting up right now (it is around $61k as I write this) is probably because lots of USDT holders are starting to realize what a bad idea that is.

If you were in their shoes ... what would you be doing right now?
I love that idea but the cynical side of me says a game dev wants someone buying new stuff on their platform, not importing already bought stuff.
I’m unclear what the risk is in asking someone out for coffee, lunch, concert, or whatever. Just be polite and accept a no of given. What am I missing?
And some others will look at the incompetence of 1 person/team and use it as a reason to takedown the whole government...
I also just learned that by visiting one's own profile, one can see which submissions and comments they've upvoted—which is private, unlike favorites[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28880623