skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like, say, a bunch of Chinese firms who need cash quickly to pay dollar-denominated bonds, all selling their Tether at the same time?
The full changelog is here: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/version-1-6/changelogs/...

For those who wonder what the 15 extra modules are, here's a quick summary:

Algorithms:

- enumutils: generate case statements from enums, and utils for holey enums.
- setutils: adds functionality for the built in `set` type.
- packedsets: replacement for `intsets` that allows distinct types.

Operating system:

- tasks: basic primitives for creating parallel programs.
- sysrand: create cryptographically secure random numbers.
- tempfiles: create temporary files and directories.
- vmutils: enable/disable VM tracing in user code.

Javascript:

- jsbigints: arbitrary precision integers.
- jsfetch: wrapper for the JS Fetch API.
- jsformdata: FormData wrapper for the JS target.
- jsheaders: Headers wrapper for the JS target.

Metaprogramming:

- genasts: alternative to `quote` for metaprogramming with explicit binding.

Misc:

- socketstreams: wraps sockets as streams.
- importutils: allows access to private fields from another module.
- strbasics: high performance string operations.

You can check out the modules themselves at the stdlib page: https://nim-lang.org/docs/lib.html

There's also loads of quality of life improvements across the board to existing standard library modules and general backend, e.g.:

- float to string is 10x faster,
- JSON serialisation is 20x faster,
- better compiler messages,
- memory management performance (e.g., ORC is 10% faster)
- `static[T]` improvements,
- improve `enum` type conversions and allow `enum` overloading,
- new design `concepts` that compile faster,
- build system and cross compilation improvements,
- unicode operator symbols,
- VM improvements such as working with `addr` at compile time.
It removes connectors and may remove buffers. It is hard to pop a memory SIMM out over time using a laptop if everything is soldered in.
"patent trolls who fortunately lost"

It's of course okay to express this opinion. But given all the facts on the table dismissing them as mere patent trolls seems quite unfair. I encourage you to read up a bit on these people, who are/were i. a. accomplished art professors and programmers.
Not to mention lost productivity. I wonder what the dollar amount for my lost productivity over my lifetime due to poor sleep would be. Probably very high.
There are firms that look for good opportunities to short stocks. Find some credible bad news, short the stock, then publicize the bad news.

If the news is actually true, this might even be considered a public service (as well as obviously a way to make money).

They probably wouldn’t do until they actually got a tip. Also, they might short crypto-related stocks if that’s easier.
To me adjusting the level of enforcement is like the “fine” knob. It absolutely needs to be adjusted according to the situation.

But it’s not the “coarse” knob. You can only turn enforcement up or down so much before you need a paradigm shift.
Sadly the scheme behind crypto extends well beyond tether. This is what happens when you have money sloshing around unregulated market with very loose margin and leverage limits, free money afforded by central banks, and an absolute mania.
What I am hearing is that nobody has found an error in his derivation; instead, everybody has chosen to continue skating on the v^2/c^2 estimate arrived at without having done the detailed maths.

In general, anytime mathematical rigor is at issue, I will prefer to bet on the plasma fluid dynamicist over the cosmologist.
The best frameworks are the ones that cater to users working at a range of abstraction levels. Akka is a good example of a project that aspires to this and largely succeeds at it. If you are working at a particular abstraction level and need to drop down, it's a consistently polished experience. I have never had a shocking moment where I opened a door that users weren't supposed to open and saw something that users weren't supposed to see. Everything is created to be seen, understood, and used. And even in the rare cases where it's not supposed to be used, it's still designed to be seen and understood!
We don't know exactly how that conversation unfolded. Anyhow, they were lucky at the end
yes, I know Phonak hearing aids were doing that since about 2012.
For some of our more severe hearing impaired patients it was a noticeable improvement in speech comprehension.
10+ engineers is also 3 designers, 2 online marketeer, 2 managers, etc. They would need so much more revenue than a solo dev.
Wow! 2015 crypto is that outdated now? Thanks for the heads up! Now I'm feeling my own age lol.

Anything else you'd recommend that isn't mentioned here yet?
I feel like this has been solved for a while now (at least on pixel devices in my experience)
I think this is a great point. As I understand the situation the police won’t bother with sub 1000 crime so I think they are way less likely to get a call or statistics for these sorts of crime. Maybe if we turn what’s left of the war on drugs into a mental health project then we can eliminate some of this. Doesn’t seem like there are any easy answers though.
How about more tweets? The information density on modern everything is utter garbage.
It is really good and has been like forever. You of course have to spend equal amounts as for an iPhone to get a high end experience, and it was like that back then as well. Many people failed to understand this and bought shitty underpowered handhelds, and blamed Android for being laggy.
So what do carpenters use for analogies?
I dunno. Setting power limits on 3090 at >50% has nearly linear effect on performance.
> I'd say that JS is moving closer and closer to Perl in its write-only-ness.

I've never understood why it's common to dismiss Perl as "line noise" while, outside of contrived or unusual Perl examples, it's way less line-noiseish than what I see in certain languages that are, evidently, very popular among people influential in the JavaScript community.

Implicit, repeated re-assignment of a magical "%" variable while adding a two-character punctuation operator to reverse the "direction" that values "travel" is clean and more readable? In what universe?

The example that also uses Underscore, especially, reads like some kind of parody.
> For decades, the FDA has regulated hearing aids as a prescription medical device — an arrangement that adds to the cost and effort people must expend to get them.

What is the rationale for this?
Does car insurance cover items stolen out of a car?
Ahhhh, good point. Every time I hear framework I immediately think "node/web". My prejudice / conditioning.
If mainland China launches an invasion of Taiwan the US will support Taiwan by providing intelligence, support, and weapons as far as they can. That's it. The US will not directly engage the Chinese.

The US have probably 'asked' the Taiwanese to build fabs in the US/Japan/etc in exchange in order to minimize disruption. The Taiwanese are in no position to refuse and that might actually provide a financial backup for the elite in exile, should it come to that.

I think the message here is that the US think that Taiwan will be taken if China decides to act so that contingency measures should be in place well in advance.
I think we will see "micro fines" and electronic car systems in the next 10 years.
Go over the speed limit for a certain period of time (eg, 10 mins)? Microfine. $5.
Park in a no parking area for too long? Microfine.
Don't signal your turn? Microfine, $0.50.

Yes, a nightmare.
It's perfectly fine to be 'direct' to Youtubers doing these kinds of things. They are (often) the ones abusing the social contract, not you.
Dupe (both on front page)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28920954
It's a million for each submission
To me, the tradeoff of an expensive modern machine vs an cheaper iterative process seems logical. I think it's funny that a second hand shop has the fancy equipment... but they must know it sells glasses more effectively.

Here, the machine results are used as a starting point, validated by A/B but I don't know if the human part is effective or just theater.
When people say "hey, Tether is no worse than the existing financial system" I wonder if they don't understand the difference between holding a fraction of deposited money as reserves, and only having a fraction of deposited money as assets, period. As far as I know, when the latter happens in a real bank, they get shut down, shareholders lose their money, and only the FDIC saves the depositors.

Just because that's the primary factoid I know about banking.
It’s almost certain now that Tether doesn’t have fiat currency to back up its claimed value. But it’s a convenient fiction for everyone to keep believing as long as you’re not the one holding the Tethers when everyone suddenly decides to stop believing.
Cryptography Engineering is essentially a re-release of Practical Cryptography, which was published in 2003.

For the audience that Practical Cryptography contemplates, I like both Real World Cryptography by Wong, and Serious Cryptography by JP Aumasson.
Property is about who has the right to control something, not about scarcity. Although its original application was to a physical object, it's not limited to physical objects. So, "stealing" can be considered in both a narrow context and a broader context. The narrow meaning refers to literally taking a physical object away from someone else and giving it to yourself. But the broader meaning is wresting exclusive control of the property from the lawful owner. So, in that sense, copyright infringement and license violations can be legally thought of as theft.
I'm imagining three skeptical dogs. One cautiously enters the net. The other dogs watch as the first is lifted and flown away. I wonder what the other two dogs would think then. Hopefully they'd see that anywhere else is better than where they've been stuck. And I guess drones have been dropping food so they would have at least some positive experience with drones in the past.
Neither Canada nor New Zealand are in EUrope.
Or use kaiser.
Can you describe what you did? Breaking out of React for rendering means you are in deep shit. In fact, I’d love to see the hoops you jumped through, which I’m certain you will brush away as ‘not a big deal’.

But I am an American, so I won’t put up with any inconvenience and don’t consider it virtuous to do so (we fought a war over a tea tax after all).

But I’ll take a wild guess:

A bunch of useRefs? I’m excited to hear all of this.
I've got a higher end audio setup, I can put the sound calibration mic in the listening position etc (think YPAO / Audyssey etc). But you get little weird sync issues at times between sources / displays etc.

On a whim I tried Apple's wireless sync. It's end to end, and works as well as I could with manual tuning (which I would do by filming at high speed a time audio sync track)

https://www.reddit.com/r/appletv/comments/itm711/psa_wireles...

So they demonstrated a consumer device could, in a few seconds, generate a fantastic sync solution across my entire input -> output -> room stack. Or I could spend an hour fiddling around in settings.

Airpod pro's provide a some level of isolation already especially if you run the fit check. airpods are also not that bad.

You could do a calibration curve at factory if needed for drivers. You could run a very user friendly process to fine tune, in the comfort of your own home, a profile of your hearing loss. You could update this anytime.

You could then also obviously offer some presets to amplify things in a targeted way. At the dinner table? Focus on voices. At a concert, do a music preset.

We've heard all this before with camera's by the way. The iphone doesn't have a "real camera". Yes, I used to shoot full frame. Yes, the iphone's cameras are "crap". But for many people they are "good enough", and they have other benefits, ease of use, easy to learn, not a big extra expense etc.

Let the market decide, apple can provide a warning -> if you want to wait for insurance to approve a hearing test, then schedule one, then wait for a device to be ordered and ship, then go back, then be dependent on an audiologist to tune things for you etc you should do so, but if you want, try out little app here to see if it helps.
Zeke = ZK = zero-knowledge?
The guy who wrote the book about the making of the iphone sent a bunch of emails to tim cook with tracking enabled and each time it was opened by a windows device. other comments in this thread have more links the story.
> Developing for the browser is a real challenge. I think working with html / css /js has been a neglected skill for a long time - most software engineers look down on that type of work and its rarely covered in comp sci course work.

IMHO, those are job skills and not comp sci topics. They shouldn't be part of a degree program (except the most superficial treatment required to get some ugly UI up that may be required for something else). You have your whole career to pick them up.
> I actually vehemently disagree and will fight to allow people to break the rules.

I think we agree actually. I didn't say it was good that rule breaking is getting harder, just that it's a fact.

We have a lot of enculturation around a certain level of surveillance and visibility. Things are quickly becoming more visible and we will need to adjust. Preserving grey area can be part of that, but only if we decide to preserve it.
It is, but it's perhaps incompatible with uploading your private images to a cloud service.
Do you think that finally tuning their photo processing software to produce good results for people with darker skin tones (to match the good results they already had for lighter skin tones) is empty posturing?

They literally acted instead of talking about it.
Cautionary tale: Opticians

I went for an eyetest. A woman with 3 years post-grad training sat down for 45 minutes, ran a battery of tests, detected a bacterial infection in my eye, sent me for a
hospital appointment the next day, and gave me a prescription that I filled out online. My payment to her - 25 quid.

I did get her some chocolates to say thank you.

Now name another (para-)medical area where the medical part is a loss leader for the rest? (I am worried i will hear a lot of Americans ...)
Polack does not seem to be one that makes the theories of the commented (Bratton) clearer by drawing a preliminary untangled map. Before commenting on Bratton's ideas themselves we should (unfortunately) clarify them by reading them directly, as Polack's review does not really work as a summary.
someone got really worried about the
"optics" of Wallgreens closing shop
How are you going to sustain the largest economy on earth if your populace isn't hypnotized? Most of the work that needs to be done is not intrinsically or spiritually fufilling.

So there must be an alternative synthetic rewards system- which inevitably requires some form of mass hypnosis to remain dominant in the aggregate psyche.

It's no coincidence that all the research in this space was shut down in a hurry right around when the CIA figured out that LSD and the pikhal family weren't going to help with this at all.
Why do you think your initial reading isn't his intent?
The real question is basically how much is it leveraged. We learned this from so many other frauds/crashes. It's not so much that "as long as there isn't a run on the bank it's fine" it's that an outflow of a tiny percentage could effectively be a run on the bank, since they may only be backed by a tiny fraction of what they claim to be backed by. It's one thing if they have 90% backing. What happens if it turns out it's only backed 0.05%? A run on the bank won't kill them, an averagely bad few days could see it all collapse. This is exactly why banks have regulations.
The issue occurs if the new state is inherently lower energy. This is already the case with prions.
Completely agree. It was painful and it was weird the things he explained and the things he didn't. The listserv looks like a listerv. When that isn't going to make any sense to anyone who doesn't knkow what a listerv is.
Then there was the reference to the Hashemite Republic of Jordan. I was like, "is that some breakaway part of Jordan? But no, it just seems like the Hashemites are the royal family? ugh.
Vue took the Front end route in the world of back end headless commerce
Thankfully, in the context of laws in the US, I believe the 4th amendment may be helpful here. But other places will not be as lucky.
Or people will accept it as paper dollars and carry on regardless. Honestly this wouldn't surprise me - it'll just be a representation of the dollar that things use as an intermediary step.
Ah, I see you're a mathematical formalist. That's one philosophy of what math is, but it's not the only one.

What's going on in my mind when I visualize 3-dimensional manifolds and manipulate them? Cutting pieces apart, reattaching them elsewhere, stereographically reprojecting objects embedded in a 3-sphere. I don't see where the symbols are exactly here -- it seems like I'm (at least trying to) manipulate "actual" mental objects, ones my visual cortex are able to help me get glimpses of. Everything I'm doing can be turned into symbolic reasoning, but it's a fairly painful process. It seems closer to the basis for the philosophy of intuitionism, that math derives from mental constructions.

I think it's rather interesting that many creatures (including ourselves) have a natural ability to at a glance tell how many things there are, up to about five objects or so. Maybe it's useful evolutionarily for counting young, or for detecting when a berry has gone missing, etc. I think it's also rather interesting that many creatures have episodic memory. Sometimes it seems to me that the invention of symbolic number derives from these two capabilities: through our experience that things can happen in sequence, we extend our natural ability to count while believing these "numbers" are meaningful. Each number is a story that plays out for what's been accumulated.
Chrome in-the-wild bug analysis: CVE-2021-37975
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28877341
I would presume the question was about the physical and chemical state of the lithium rather than the atomic makeup. Like whether the lithium is ionized, whether it's a powder or crystallized solid, etc.
Have you tried Nimler? It’s pretty nice! I haven’t used it for a year or so.
There are a lot of people for whom this isn't the case:
- car owners/homeowners whose deductible is higher than the amount stolen, or who worry about higher future insurance rates by making a claim that is mostly eaten by the deductible
- folks who don't have insurance, like students whose laptops are stolen in cafes
- international visitors
- other tourists who don't realize they need a police report to get insurance coverage, or who don't have insurance
- stores like Walgreens who presumably self-insure against theft. I am not an expert, but I would assume most retail self-insures against theft (i.e. does not carry insurance for petty theft). Interested to know if folks think that isn't the case.

I think the data is totally inaccurate. In other places I have lived, I would make a policy report about any crime, expecting the report to generate some good. I wouldn't bother in SF, unless, as you mention, I really expected to file an insurance claim.
so they can trade on it before announcing it and then with the profit pay for the bounty, assuming they pay up or assuming tether falls. Tether has survived thus far everything thrown at it. The market is evidently very confident about tether.
I do not think the method you are describing would usefully increase safety so it seems like a bad idea to me.
Swatch Beats! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
Weird that their solution was to get rid of the names instead of just using more desserts from other cultures. If they want inclusivity and to bring awareness to other cultures, seems like the best option, no? Now nobody gets to see their favorite dessert as an Android OS name.
Not much different than Windows, Linux, etc (operating systems)

K8s basically implements a distributed OS that schedules across machines instead of CPU cores

Not-too-long-ago AWS had a significant outage due to misconfigured ulimits (Linux os)
"Number" is an informal concept in mathematics. The real numbers are a specific concept with multiple formalizations.

A model of a number system is an assembly of behaviors, rules, or objects which behave like the numbers you want. I don't see the circularity here, and given that they are tackling an informal concept of number, I don't see any loss of clarity either.
Tranching is a thing. It's fine. It works, if you don't pretend AAA-rated securities, which have--and historically had--a very low risk of losses, are both safe and liquid.

If tranching were all Tether were doing, it would just be fraud. You can't sell a senior tranche on a pool of assets as a fully-backed security and call it a day. But whatever, Tether did that and more, nobody cared, we're on the next tier of the Narcissist's Prayer [1].

The new problem is we have circumstantial evidence that at least some of Tether's assets are Chinese developers' commercial paper. That's a risky asset. Even before Evergrande and Sinic defaulted, it was a speculative asset. (Now it's a distressed one.) If that's what we know they're in, how bad is the rest of their balance sheet? Tether claims to be over-collateralising their crypto-backed loans by 30%. An LTV of 77% will start losing money in a 25% crash. Bitcoin...does that a lot? For an asset they understand, they've set their risk limits woefully low. If that's what we know they're doing, how thin is the rest of their capital?

We're going to see a run on Tether. Not might. Statistically, the assets Tether holds will sometimes go down. Sometimes a lot. Most of the time, that will be fine. Some times, however, Tether will get a redemption at the same time. (Assets going down and investors redeeming things are correlated.) Most of the time, that will work out. Some times, however, Tether will need time to avoid their own selling driving down the asset's price. Most of the time, that will be fine. Some of the time, however, the person making the redemption request won't have that time. They'll blow up, and they'll blame Tether. This will prompt additional redemptions, which will force the aforementioned fire sale until, in all likelihood, Tether kills its domain and steals the money. (The last part is a novelty really only afforded by their setup.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28880280

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-07/can-you-t...
Well, that might be a matter of interpretation:

"I point out that the often voiced claim that in the general theory of relativity (GR) geometry and gravity are ‘associated’ with each other can be understood in three different ways. The geometric interpretation asserts that gravity can be reduced to spacetime geometry, the field interpretation claims that the geometry of spacetime can be reduced to the behaviour of gravitational fields, and the egalitarian interpretation affirms that gravity and spacetime geometry are conceptually identified."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S18711....
Why do you think that freelancers “generally work in front of a massive iMac screen?” That’s anecdotally very wrong, especially depending on what type of freelancer you’re talking about (the term alone is too broad to be useful).
I recently got a new M1/MBP and really love the utility of a customized TouchBar (using BetterTouchTool). I'm sad it'll be gone! It's actually great - but certain functions are missed (like a dedicated volume buttons).
Nope - that's his real last name. We have some mutual friends and via FB I can see at least a dozen family members with the same surname.