skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now that there's strong evidence the commercial paper is just fake money

Tether is issuing loans of USDT against collateral in the form of crypto and calling that "commercial paper".

The whole idea that anyone would be sending $70B of actual USD to Tether is now "fucking ludicrous". But the idea that anyone is selling $70B of crypto to Tether during a massive bull market in crypto (and it should be now quite apparent that this is still a bull market) is also "fucking ludicrous". There's no counterparty that massively stupid for either side of those trades.

What makes sense is that people sitting on large cold wallets of BTC are using that as collateral to get USDT loans. They then trade it between themselves and any retail "investors" on a USDT exchange. The loans are USD denominated which provides an incentive to maintain the USDT-USD peg. Since they're loans against collateral and aren't redeemable that removes a lot of the risk of a run on the bank.

It is still crypto-backed wildcat banking script, which won't end well.

I don't understand why so many people who are Tether-skeptics believe them that their commercial paper is something the banking system would regard as commercial paper.

And try graphing Tether issuance denominated in BTC rather than $USD and it is much more stable at around 1M BTC.
> Sorry if I'm Mx-splaining -- I don't know your background

Not at all! All of this is far more advanced than my knowledge on the topic, and very interesting! Thanks for sharing

That idea of representing in the highest dimensionality possible, with some constraint is also very interesting. In that case perhaps the 3D space is being represented in a higher dimensional form that makes it more convenient for some neural processing purpose (e.g. just like we use homogenous coordinates) The 2D-2D case is then just a happy coincidence where the highest representation that makes sense maps 1 to 1 with the actual data.
The CFTC mission statement is:

>"The mission of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is to promote the integrity, resilience, and vibrancy of the U.S. derivatives markets through sound regulation."

I don't see how punishing customers accomplishes that goal.
I'm willing to bet that a lot of the most senior (i.e. older) engineers in tech today, never touched a computer until university. That said, times are of course different. The idea that you'd teach a super-basic never touched a computer course to (non-CS) engineers using textbook like this at a top school [1] today is pretty much risible.

(There are exceptions. I'd characterize Charles Severance's MOOC from UMich as a true beginner class. But, by contrast, I think I'd find MIT's intro class in the CS department (6.001) impossibly difficult if I was having to basically learn to actually learn simple programming on the side.)

[1] https://www2.seas.gwu.edu/~kaufman1/FortranColoringBook/Colo...
Almost all projects start that way as some small learning project. You usually do not build complete applications in 1 day. You usually lean heavy on existing libs or chunks of code you already learned somewhere else. That is what that sort of thing is for. In my 26 years doing this most of what I have written has been thrown away. There may still be some bits here and there living on but I doubt it. Yet at one point all of that code had a use and did it well. That use was me using that knowledge to get things done. Those prototype projects do a lot of that sort of thing. If I wanted to make an scala version of my 'basic editor' it would probably take me at least a week of digging through docs and trying things. But in another realm I can bash it out in a couple of hours. My point was your domain knowledge is what makes you a better developer.
Sorry, to be clear, I missed your point "regardless of if other work by the developer has sped up the interpreter". That's fair, though my personal opinion is that that seems like an incredibly high bar for any language.
There's an interesting social consensus that seems to emerge around provenance and originality of NFT contracts.

Some NFTs are extremely valuable (e.g. Crypto Punks) and attract many clones. The clones may be on the same blockchain and have very similar or even identical art. Or, the clones may reuse the same art but issue tokens on a different blockchain. In all these cases, the social consensus on the value of these clones is approximately $0. It's a weird psychology.
Yeah, cause CS:GO skin trading has nothing to do with NFTs.
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> crypto ecosystem still ended up

It's decades from its final form.
> They run data analytics to figure out what goods are the most profitable, then launch competing products and promote their own over the originals in their listings.

Figuring out which products have high margins and entering those markets is an increase in competition.

Promoting their own listings is only a problem if the competitors can't reach those customers in any other reasonable way, which isn't the case because there are many other online retailers and it's quite feasible for a medium sized competitor to sell directly to the customer on their own website.
You're bringing up a few straw man arguments like the drinking.

The point is "what adversities are preventing this demographic (not individual) from getting the success that other demographics have in this program"

Support should absolutely be given uniformly to all students, but how can you recognize what new forms of support need to exist till you start analyzing things?

You're also focusing on the lowering of the bar of passing to make people pass.

It's not about lowering standards. I'm not sure why people go there, other than the implicit belief that the people who couldn't meet the bar were all somehow less than

It's instead about providing equal footing to be able to reach for that bar. Some people still won't make it. But at least their footing isn't being actively eroded from under them.

Think about family support as just one example. Some people are held back because they need to look after children (their own or others). Providing subsidized daycare helps them out without lowering the standard for anyone.

What about mental health? Someone's just moved away from their family and support group. They're in a class with local people. Their temporary depression is holding them back and it snowballs. Providing student counseling, or creating communities would help them and in turn help others. Again, not lowering the standard.

Now let's talk about discrimination. What if you have a professor with an implicit bias? They are giving certain demographics a harder time. Seeing that they have a much lower rate of passing among those demographics, versus similar programs in other schools, might help identify the program. Again, it hasn't lowered the standard. It's just given everyone equal footing.
For the love of all that is good, I hope this requires my iPhone to allow me to choose different defaults.

I can’t wait until I can use Alexa on my iphone instead of Siri, who now just seems to do google searches with the most basic of requests.

Me: ‘<any question>’

Siri: ‘unlock your phone and read this ad-ridden search result’

This would so improve the voice ecosystem because there would be actual competition.
I made an account and moved some things over. Completely painless. I've seen it suggested a lot but I always assumed there was a monthly fee, so I never bothered. The 12 new cards a month on the free plan is already far more than I could realistically use.
The other thing to note is that gold farming and selling accounts is already a job so it’s actually nothing new.
What specifically is the problem with asyncio? I quite like using it, so I'm curious if there's some aspect that makes it unsustainable?
Something that's developing (based on how it's played out so far) is that some of the characters, perhaps due to their fundamental math ability or their math ability is derived from it, seem to have strong and accurate intuitions. That even number was, in my interpretation, caused by something connecting in her subconscious (describing what would be a spoiler, so rot-13'd):

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nethvat ng gur zrny jnf tanjvat ng ure. Fur unq n ernyvmngvba
gung fbzrguvat onq jnf tbvat gb unccra orgjrra gur gjb zra.

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grezrq vg), cynlf bhg yngre ba va gur frnfba jvgu nabgure
punenpgre.

All that said, the series has diverged rather strongly from the books in some areas, principally characterizations. Some people have been changed substantially. I wouldn't expect any character to match the book version one-to-one.
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No. Chinese people did not landslide-ly chose CCP. Unless you meant won the battle == won the mind.

Communists always knew they didn't win people's mind, otherwise purge wouldn't be the first thing for Communists to do after took power. You think all the authoritarian things did by Communists were because they didn't know people chose them already?
Steam support in-game purchases and trading of goods. I don't understand why NFTs are any different. To me this just about control and they are probably working out the best way to monetize this platform.
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> the ability to make real income off of your time investment in a game is huge.

RMT (real money trading) ruins games, most MMOs ban people for this. It encourages botting and devalues the in-game currency making it hard to play/enjoy the in-game activities because the rewards are so low compared to what paying a RMT seller $1 could give you
I'm going to assume that there is a reason that this isn't a switch control, so that the default is a single-threaded program and the programmer needs to state explicitly that this one will be multi-threaded, upon which the interpreter changes into the atomic mode for the rest of execution?
As long as hackernews hasn't a news feed to keep you invested, as long the damage is negligible.
I'm not seeing any social security numbers in the source. I am seeing some six digit ID numbers though. For example,

<option value="081097">PHELPS CO. R-III - 081097</option>

Am i missing something here?
> Suppose that I see red the way you see green. Then, when I see a stop sign or a fire extinguisher, I'm seeing the color that you would call "green".

Are you sure it is possible to pluck the color I'm seeing out of my head, and the color you're seeing out of your head, and compare them side-by-side, like we could compare two different colors of paint on a piece of paper?

I'm not so sure about that. It seems to depend a lot on what phenomenon "how you see a color" actually refers to.

If "how you see a color" refers to the neural patterns excited by light of the relevant wavelengths, and you and I have the same neural patterns, then we see the color the same way. There is no metaphysical layer on top that can make one of those experiences green and the other red.
There are very few new features in 3.8.

It is a much less important release (for features) than 3.7, which for example added dataclasses and lots of typing and asyncio stuff.

The most significant change in 3.8 is a notoriously controversial new infix operator. Even it's supporters would say that it's a niche usecase.
During the more conventional phase of the 1st Chechen War, the Chechens made good use of hastily dug zig-zag trenches to limit the effects of Russian artillery and air support. The real revolution now is the proliferation of precision weapons and the use of drones to enable targeting for supporting fires. The trench still matters, but now camouflage and deception is equally important to prevent accurate targeting of a position. The marines did some testing in a drone-saturated environment and had to reshuffle their tactical doctrine to put a much higher emphasis on immediately camouflaging their position.
Should there be a funding quota based on gender for startup teams? Or a hiring quota based on gender for CEOs?

In Bulgaria education is free and there are very competitive and selective free high schools that teach languages. When I was there, one high school had a gender quota. The boys admitted needed more than a letter grade less (out of 5) to get into the high school. Another high school had no gender quota and it was 90% girls. Because of the high % of girls in the second school, boys had a very strong additional incentive to be admitted there throughout the years.
House sales are generally available in the US at your tax assessors website.
'Real' (pro) baseball is also boring; so boring MLB has been for years testing out lots of tweaks to make it less boring: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/sports/mlb-atlantic-leagu... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-11/mlb-rule-...
No results for "lamb". This should have been way more complete before sharing here.
I looked. There is no PII on the linked archive page.
It would be better to confiscate Tether's entire reserve, force them to allow tether holders to cash out (for fractional amounts), and punish the execs directly.
She was competing with fewer men for that job in 1944, most of them were busy getting shot at.
I got this from Dr. Greger at NutritionFacts.org, "We presumably used to get B12 drinking out of a mountain stream or well water, based on studies showing vegetarians in developing countries who drink purified water appear to be at higher risk." [1].

He references a paper [2] which states "Logistic regression analysis showed independent association between use of RO water and Vitamin B12 deficiency" in Western India.

That evidence isn't as iron-clad as I would like, and I haven't been able to find any study directly measuring B12 in city/well/stream water.

I don't know much about cow digestive systems, but I know evolution has created many weird solutions across different animals. The cow GI system is very different from humans (4 large stomach parts, sometimes referred to as separate stomachs) which is different from cats (obligate carnivores).

[1] https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-symptoms-of-vitamin-B12...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27437269
I see the insanity of replacing forums with discord is really catching on now. Maybe people do want to be constantly distracted and unable to search for organised information?
Would love it if we could test other universes with different alpha constants to observe their conscious creatures. Maybe they would be human’ and human’’ etc :)
It's a very "boomer" decision. I mean, I can understand Valve trying to protect their users against the unknown, but blockchain games / play 2 earn / metaverses are pretty much the future.

Just imagine VRChat with unique collectibles, immutalized on a blockchain like Ethereum (so the item and the owner is completely verified), and being able to trade them for real money.

It's like when Diablo 3 had a real money auction house. They were early, we still are, but these kind of game features will be the general norm in some years.

So Valve will probably evolve in the future and accept them, when the space looks safer.
> the root cause of every bad Single-Page-App isn’t that it’s a Single-Page-App.

The root cause of https://vector-of-bool.github.io/ scrolling incorrectly when navigating between pages isn't due to bad management or lack of care, it's because it's a single page app that didn't handle scrolling correctly (which a browser would provide for free), and the author didn't notice despite coming in with good intentions.
> those can easily switch to USDC or other stables.

So why don't they? Why would literally anyone choose to hold USDT over any other stablecoin?
Right, but nothing gets done about it. Bring up issues that affect only boys/men nowadays in a public sphere, and you get reflexively labelled as sexist for even having the fucking audacity for caring. This cancerous mentality shows no signs of abating, and it's going to have disastrous consequences in subsequent decades.
>The societal pressure placed on men to earn enough to be a provider or at least earn more than their partners causes men to assign a higher weight to ROI when evaluating pursuing higher education.

It's biological to some degree. Female sexual selection prefers status, so any sort of signaling of status in society will encourage competition and put pressure to select for the ability to signal said traits. Sure it's 'society' that makes status == money, but I think any society that uses money will defer to that.
Is it fair to say that the strongest CORS request allows the weakest? That is, if your server supports a preflighted, credentialed, cached CORS request with weird headers and methods, then it would support just about anything?

Perhaps a detailed walkthrough of that one specific scenario, which would enable almost all others, would be helpful.
> Maybe think a bit harder on what it means to set the precedent if the government can bar you, as an adult, from all employment or travel based upon your willingness to take a drug or not. Or pick up a history book about what happens when an easily identified group of people (who, in this case, are typically stereotyped as being of a certain race, political party, and culture) start being blamed for things such as the deaths of children from a virus, and are stereotyped by the media and those in government as collectively selfish, ignorant, and the cause of all of our problems.

This is gross, it's basically an end to the dicussion. One is an immutable characteristic (being Jewish), the other one is a choice.

Your comment either contains a huge fallacy, or more likely, considering your other comments, pushes an agenda.

> As far as being anti-science goes, the vaccine mandates which do not account for natural immunity or the date you got your vaccines are fundamentally anti-science. Either way, goodbye!

> As far as being anti-science goes, the vaccine mandates which do not account for natural immunity or the date you got your vaccines are fundamentally anti-science.

In Europe at least the green passport also includes:

* a recent test

* proof of having had Covid

But then again, I'm getting nowhere with this discussion and hopefully sane governments won't listen to people like you.
Looks pretty promising. There seems to be quite a lot of frustration with finding recipes, so I think there is a market for something like this.

If you are looking for ways to improve the relevance of the search results, try to prioritize results that contain the exact search terms in the title, then some of the terms in the title, and then in the description, and then in the ingredients.

It's pretty tricky to get right, but I don't think you are that far off.

I'd also get rid of the email fishing popovers, it's very off-putting.
you literally explained a completely nonsensical reason as to why they did what they did. call it whatever you want...
I agree, but this has always stuck out as odd to me. Why is this so true even of the developers in web when people in something like C# are perfectly content using the established tools/frameworks they know year after year? I have seen sometimes seen this in the same person - someone who would never complain about using Entity Framework, but who is always pushing for the latest trend when working in the front end stack.
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This is actually an interesting point. Because ‘space time’ is something.

We have no idea what it even means to be outside of our expanding spacetime into that ‘nothingness’ because time doesn’t even exist there, so we couldn’t compute a thought if we travelled there anyway to attempt to grok what the hell was going on.
If you swap out the SQL DB for a Blockchain it's basically the same thing
Yeah, could be. But in a CS degree program in the 2000s/2010s, the upper classes seemed to be 80% people who started coding on graphics calculators in middle school, or something equivalent.
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> I can afford a 1700sqft inner city calgary home with a garage and a yard for the price of a 900sqft 2bed downtown toronto condo.

I thought that Canada used the metric system. You and also the article expresses measurements in imperial units. Is that still used in Canada?
There is a website, and it's here - https://digiplaygaming.com/, but it really doesn't contain any worthwhile information. "We'll host your web game" - okay? But I was doing that back in 2009 when I first sold a license to my first commercial flash game. It's not hard to embed a game in an HTML document. Clearly NFT's and crypto stuff feature somewhere in there but it's not spelled out, and because it's not spelled out I'm instantly 100% suspicious.
SEO is much deeper than that and what's needed for your use case, depends entirely on your situation. At it's simplest, it's content + backlinks but to do it well, you have to get into the weeds.

I think https://backlinko.com/ is a pretty good resource.

Microinfluencer is the fancy internet word for free samples online to specifically chosen people. Either for direct conversions or some small level of word of mouth.
Is this talking about H.R. 3816? I hate it when these articles mention bills but don't link to them.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3816...
and he's a genius!
My university did no checks on address or anything like that. I went to a private university so that could be why. It is possible that public colleges do more verification.

Honestly I think the best solution is to just give a free ID to everyone. As far as I know every state that requires an ID for voting has free IDs. We should make it easier and more convenient instead of allowing a bunch of alternative forms of ID. Driver's license, voter ID license, generic state ID or federal ID (passport) should be sufficient.
Honestly if you use a managed kubernetes provider it's pretty simple once you nail the concepts. Though you'll get hit with cloud provider issues every now and then but it's really not terrible.

I'd manage services in Kubernetes before I start deploying VMs again, that's for sure.
I'm actually experiencing the other side of this. I don't have any diversity points, so I'm automatically disadvantaged when going for promotions since I won't be helping the company's quotas. (I've had some rare chances to be in some staff meetings way above my level... the things I heard...)
"In one recent instance, Zelalem saw an inflammatory Facebook post from a media outlet that falsely blamed members of an ethnic minority group for carrying out murders and kidnappings that took place on Sept. 27.

The post quickly got hundreds of shares and likes."

So once again, the problem here isn't Facebook itself at all, but the people using Facebook. It's true that posts which gain traction will get shown to more users, but that's not a good or bad thing in and of itself. That's how any social network functions with any post, be it about the latest ethnic civil war news or cute cat videos.

At worst, you could say that Facebook's problem here is their inaction in deciding what sort of local opinions about an ethnic civil war are approved or not.

I know the zeitgeist on HN is to hate all things Facebook and Facebook related, but surely I cannot be the only one who thinks that it's unrealistic to expect engineers sitting in Mountain View to know whether or not it was ethnic group A or ethnic group B that conducted a given kidnapping in rural Ethiopia a few weeks ago and then moderate the conversation based on their own views.