skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I truly don't see what happened in his administration that was unusually awful. (and I didn't vote for him) Given the constant hyperbole on matter, and now, in the aftermath, I think the antics of his detractors just look ... hysterical. Quite frankly, I think it's these antics that would be likely to see him re-elected. Food for thought.
Are tethers on Tron now??
Not the only way. California and Washington have legal protections for employees. IP you create outside working hours, on your own hardware, and wholly unrelated to your job, is your own.
> Most of the crypto heads on Twitter actually seem to believe that it is properly backed.

I don't think anyone genuinely believes this. But as long as everyone knows the game, but the peg holds and their bags are pumped, then nobody cares.
" They seem confident that there will be no repercussions to minting money out of thin air and, so far, they've been right."

For the most part the crypto market being unregulated means that there can't be any consequences, except for market consequences. And market consequences are vaaaaastly worse. It's basically like having no one make you wear a seat belt. Sure seems fine until you're just dead.
I’m not saying tether is fully backed (I think it’s been admitted they’re not), but do people not understand how it even ostensibly works?

When people sell other crypto for tether/USDC, they are essentially “buying” tether/USDC. Which tether and circle “print” out of thin air… but ostensibly back by selling the other crypto they just received for real dollars.

With the huge crash, a lot of people were selling their crypto.
My apologies, you’re right.

I mistakenly submitted the link after I logged in to the Firefox account in order to register for the waitlist, hence why it looks strange.
Same. I fully blacklist working for companies that do this.
Peanut butter: thick, my dad always called my PB&J's "choke sandwiches" because it was layered on so thick.

Jelly: very thin layer, adding just a bit of flavor
I use a ROM from the e.foundation. It is definitely not comparable to trusting "some internet rando not to inject spyware into a ROM build".
> Circle has passed multiple audits.

Circle has absolutely never been audited. Circle, like Tether, has published attestations, which do not remotely approach the thoroughness of an audit.
Bitcoin: by limiting issuance to 21M we have made price manipulation of our currency impossible

Tether: hold my beer
For the most part, they don't get 'stained-glass windows and such' and beside that, our capacity to remember people is independent of stained-glassed windows. It takes overly broad, maximalist interpretations to make this into much of an argument to begin with.
If you've sent me a friend request on Discord, send it again, I think I missed it
Sorry had to edit my reply ;)
or let's just say, fuck taxes
> the moral imperative to work

So how many hours goes to the moral imperative side, and how many to the "I like to have nice things" side?

Because I'd be willing to accept that I have a moral imperative to work 8 hours a week. And as technology improves, that number should decrease.
He forgot about Clojure after a minute or so. Never forget your audience.
This has been talked about on centauri dreams lots of times. Example: https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/12/10/developing-focal-...
Azure AD password reset page(s) looks like a phishing site
Now you're figuring out the west's informal caste system. Now apply this concept to the equity pie slices that go to startup TLAs vs founding engineers and be amazed...
there's a perfectly suitable alternative to Twitter in the interoperable open web. Folks should be making demands to policymakers to push publicly funded content into publicly run infrastructure.

Also, some people are just blind to the faults and complaints people using Twitter have. I would invite people come check out /r/Twitter on reddit for a rough idea what kind of sentiment people have with the service.
I apologize for my pointed accusation. I did indeed experience the difficulties of at-home care, it can be too much for a few loved ones to manage. The training isn't there. I think you paint the overall picture well from experience. I'm glad to hear that the average case of dementia, when properly looked after, can be milder on the person than I imagined.
Hard to say. Considering that Biden got way more votes than Obama, I realized it was Obama riding Biden coat-tails all along. Biden was then the gifted orator it seems. Bill was lucky the economy did well I guess. I think Mick's shot in 2012 was also quite lopsided.
This thing has been bugging me the first time signed an employment contract years ago.

So from what I understand is that everything I do on conpany property (that includes coding in a pub but on the company laptop) belongs to the company.

So what I do is to first code it (any new idea that I'm working on) at home on my personal setup (including cloud an all). Then I release everything on a Apache V2 + MIT combo with CC BY SA 4 (for pics, vids etc) that I think covers everything.

Then I host it under a github organisation (I am the admin of the org but the code is not hosted directly in my profile). Then I go back to the office next morning and ask one of the junior team members to fork it.

In my head, I'm thinking that yeah well, I wrote something in my personal capacity somewhere and then somebody from the company forked it, so that's not my problem.

So far so good... And the department is too much dependent on me so avoids any confrontation anyway. But I have always wondered, if this is fool proof? Can somebody find any loopholes in this approach and make it better...
Tether could allay these concerns by getting audited and cleaning up all the investigations against them.
>If smart people don't make 'em, you don't get a vote, you don't get a seat,

I don't understand. If I develop a new kind of missile and sell it to the government, I don't get a say in what that missile is launched at.
Removing a window isn't erasing anybody.
It's still vague. What about something created prior to one's employment that is directly applicable to the business. Do they automatically have claim over it? Can you not make any changes while with that employer?
So in other words, long term, it's backed by toilet paper.
The marketing on the homepage needs an overhaul. Took me a really long time to understand the product! The automatic code changing at the top was super confusing. Clicking on the demos didn't work. A lot of the demos had locks on them (???), which is weird -- the demos help me understand the product, why would they be locked? More confusing, a lot of the locked demos had been unlocked by sponsors, so clicking on them worked! So why was the lock still there?

Also the tag "more than syntax highlighting" is what threw me off. I thought this would be an IDE extension or something that extended syntax highlighting in some cool way. I thought you were just using markdown as an example. Maybe "supercharged markdown code blocks" might be a better tag line.

That's probably the biggest thing I see as a production-ready blocker. The feature itself looks cool based on the few demos I saw.
Impossible or incredibly hard? Well impossible right?

Because OP did not get back their account.

Once your account is locked it is impossible to get it back, the bits that make up your account are instantly wiped right? Some L9 at google waves a magic wand and it's gone.

No one who ever got wrongly locked out of a Google account has ever gotten it back, so it's impossible right?

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And yes, hundreds out of billions is acceptable collateral damage.

In case you didn't know, all systems are subject to similar tradeoffs, even ones of life and death. Planes aren't just designed with safety in mind, trade offs are made knowing they could cost lives because no one could afford to travel on a plane that was twice as safe for 10 times the cost.

The water you drink is treated knowing that X incidences of illness and death occur for Y amount of contaminates because no one can afford water that's significantly more expensive for marginal benefit.

Fraud is the same. You have to accept hundred out of a billion chances of going wrong because no one will pay not just a monetary cost, but a convenience cost. Most people won't be happy if Apple requires ID to make an iCloud account for example...
Not convinced that people will move to segregated communities, but I don’t think love of twitter is a majority. Not very many people I know use twitter.
I guess since I'm not a student there this doesn't make me that mad. Why would i care? Did they remove his research & discoveries out of the libraries too?
Great to see some competition in this space. If someone can make a compelling offering it should be Apple - but it's not easy.
Especially I think selling advanced headsets for $3.000 is going to be difficult unless there are really killer applications built.
Mmm. Fascinating ... am wondering already how well the JVM would run on it. Also maybe this could the solution I've been looking for for "Just enough OS for Virtualbox" and have it run on baremetal. VBox has one of the best VM management UIs in my opinion.
hold whose life valueable to who.

the very consent required for life doesnt exist.

people dont consent to being alive.

holding someone who feels suffering alive would be considered torture.

when you strip away the selfishness that is keeping others alive, suicide might be the only truly zelfless act.

i do not think you need a complicated ai to allow a suicide machine. you treat it as you would the way we sane people regulate guns. cool down periods, background checks and coercion checks.
Strange to see war starting to surface the mainstream zeigeist, as it's been happening predictably in slow motion as the consequence of obvious incentives for about 18 months, and then it goes up all at once. From everything I can tell from reading about previous ones, war is a kind of triumph of the absurd, where meaning is extinguished and all that is left is the violence until the attrition establishes some coherence again.

My bets are Russia re-establishes some of its soviet era borders between the Black and the Baltic seas, including Ukraine, then possibly Latvia or Estonia. Israel is almost out of alternatives on Iran, and China will consolidate Hong Kong and Taiwan in Xi's lifetime. The only thing standing in any of their way is the alliance of Biden, Bojo, Macron, and Trudeau getting enough democratic traction for a draft and total war. So nothing, basically.

Anyway, remember to act surprised.
Where did it came from? From taxes? Then ok, it probably would work.

Now if it came out of thin air, right from the printing presses, a whole lotta hurt of inflation
Tracing makes a bug easy to spot
Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Paul McCartney
CLI and JSON would be amazing if terminals made a step forward too. Because both raw json and triangled in-browser console json logging just suck for daily reading. A new terminal could either detect patterns or use explicit cues in json to format structures, and show raw data on demand. E.g. this json5: [{_repr:"ls:file", name:"foo.txt", type:"text/plain", size:512, access:"664", …}] could be presented as usual ls does, but processed further as json. A whole lot of representations (and editors) – including ui-based – could be added to the system (e.g. /usr/local/share/repr/ls:file (+x)) to format any sort of data, instead of formatting it in-program with getopt and printf. And when there is no repr file, well, you still have triangles mode. We’re too stuck with text=text=text idiom. Structure=text=ui would be so much better.

(I’m aware of powershell and am ignoring it consciously)
"This was a triumph..."
I don't know. I'm not an expert but seems like there should be some institution that figures out whether financial games like stablecoins are actually economically beneficial and whether they should be regulated in some way or other.
> Compare that to the Googlers who constantly complain about their employer

The current set of Googlers that are complaining aren't the ones that built the company though. Google's success was built in the late 90's and early 2000s when they really revolutionized internet search and then email. I would argue that since 2010 they have lost this edge - even Bing and DuckDuckGo give better results now for many searches. Many of their interesting projects today are acquisitions.

I'm curious if SV's culture has changed in the last 15 years, and what future impact this may have - at least from the outside it seems like some of the brutal meritocracy attitude that made SV great has died off.
>When people sell other crypto for tether/USDC, they are essentially “buying” tether/USDC. Which tether and circle “print” out of thin air… but ostensibly back by selling the other crypto they just received for real dollars.

You're missing the previous links in the chain. When you sell your crypto at an exchange, your counterparty isn't the exchange, it's another person who wants to buy crypto. Therefore you making the trade doesn't cause new USDT to be printed. That happens before the trade, when your counterparty made the deposit.

Money flowing into the cryptocurrency ecosystem causes tethers to be printed; money flowing out causes it to be destroyed. If people were all simultaneously cashing out (on net), it would stand to reason that tethers be destroyed, not issued.
FireClean was notorious for trying to shut up a guy who disclosed that it's basically just canola oil with additives. But even so, there are many people who use it without it gumming up. When it happens, it's usually when you store a gun lubricated without using it for a long time.
Recommend starting with part 1 of the article if you want more of an overview: https://www.unison-lang.org/articles/distributed-datasets/
They seem confident that there will be no repercussions to minting money out of thin air and, so far, they've been right.

Tether and bitcoin have been very robust, bitcoin has crashed and recovered many times now. But I have to say that every single bubble has involved the statement "so far, they've been right." as the follow-up to "this time things are different".
Or "Paul McCartney as founder", as Tyler Cowen referred to his piece on a blog.
Ask HN: What are the iOS streaming video libraries used for TikTok Live?
I'm exploring live video over ios iphone. What are some live video libraries I should be aware of? Does anyone know which tools Twitter, Facebook and TikTok use for their live video streams on ios? Thanks in advance!
It's still a great deal for the perpetrators to only make 1MM in liquid capital after defrauding billions. Non-market consequences of theft include jail time and forefeiture of funds outside of an LLC.
Alright, just wanted to get from the high-minded "nobody wants to defend democracy anymore" to the underlying "if we don't get all our best people working for Lockheed Martin, the Chinese are going to put us all in concentration camps".
1) That's definitely useful info, I was not actively aware of the Editor List. If it shows up on the first Ardour startup I probably closed it out just to have more room available in the default setup.

2) Also wasn't aware of the "primary modifier key". What I noticed from giving it a quick try on my project is that when holding down Ctrl cannot solo a single track in the Show Editor Lists -> Tracks & Busses window (clicks are prevented). Nor does it allow me to adjust individual volume sliders per track within a group. But seems to work for all the other track controls.
I know this will be a dumb question but does one sit it up?

I am used to creating "web application" and running it on a
web server of some sort: Apache / IIS /Lite.

In this perspective the web server or what not handles a lot of the complexity,
thread pools, isolation, restarting, logging etc etc.

I frequently see applications like this that is "one binary" and you run it by starting it on the command line.
That is easy , no worries.

But how to handle running it "in production", were I want to ensure that it is up and running all the time?

If I wanted to put this on my VPS and share it with the net, what steps do I need to take?

systemd?
(k8s I really hope not)
Try with the dev version:

https://raw.githack.com/mrdoob/three.js/dev/examples/?q=node...
I agree for ill and end of life.

But I think it's more complicated for otherwise healthy people temporarily passing through a mental illness crisis or untreated depression. Though there is a distinction here in it's a government providing the means. Anyone can figure out a means themselves.
Tether claims that they are not printing money. Whether they follow their own rules is disputed, but there are rules.
Right now I think a good analogy is it's like musical chairs. The game is fine as long as the music is playing. When the music stops, someone's gonna lose big.

The problem is when the music stops and there's a run on crypto. People are trying to get out of $USDT and convert it into cash. Exchanges have to have buyers of $USDT so they can exchange $USDT back into cash for anyone that wants to. But they can't just create dollars out of thin air. If there's no buyers for $USDT anymore than the "currency" flatlines, it's no longer tied to the dollar.

If Tether were truly backed 1:1, Tether itself could just buy $USDT with its own cash on any exchange, and that would be enough to keep their currency afloat and stop the run.
Lifting is probably just a single part of the whole process, in your scenario, helicopters will move the pill-up from ships to land
High school: I would have tried to have more fun. A bit less emphasis on college prep and. Bit more emphasis on just being a kid.

College: I would have gone to a state school. Sure I got a reasonably good education at a private liberal arts college, but I could have gotten my sheepskin for less money and with subjective quality difference.

Here again - I was so focused on getting out into the world and making money, where I should have been working on becoming a more interesting person. Take that art class, take that dance class. Go to that kegger in the woods with your friends. Join the rec league basketball team, etc.
> Why does tether seem to bring out the tinfoil theories from people that have absolutely 0 background in finance or crypto market structure or econ in general.

Hilarious. People with backgrounds in finance are for the most part the group of people that have made an issue about this, myself included.

But more curiously, I'm not even sure what you're attempting to to convey with this comment? Do you think that a background in finance, or econ, is necessary to understand the incredibly simple business that Tether operates, and the even simpler reasons of why it is likely problematic (if not an outright fraud)?
The same was said about the vaccine mandates
We can already do this without blockchain.

Think about Wikipedia. Yes there is still some bias injected into the editorial process - but is it a better or worse than a truly decentralized free for all?
I heard an anecdote 15 years ago that Walmart at the time opened 600 new stores a year. If that anecdote was true, this isn't that surprising to me with such a large shift we've experienced during the pandemic of increasing online purchases. It might be expanding too quickly, but it doesn't seem insane to me.
Developer portal is used for unlocking the bootloader for LG phones, which would allow you to install your own custom Android software.

LG has promised Android updates for 3 years after them exiting the smartphone business, but once those 3 years are up, third-party software would be the only way to get updates.
Please don't take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents and especially not nationalistic ones. That's not what this site is for.

(Edit: and we've had to ask you about this numerous times in the past. That's not cool.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You can't remember, therefore it doesn't happen.

Magical thinking there.
neat overview of mathematica, or wolfram desktop or whatever.. angle being language design.. but yeah, clojure disappeared as soon as the camera turned on.
are you the ardor guy?
They never will. There is no liquidity. How many crypto people have cashed out all of their money? The scam is to build up this community of people who are convinced that the USD is going to be worthless in the future and that crypto is going to be only way of buying things in the future. Like Maddof there is no end game, just keep telling people that their gains exist and that they are idiots if they cash out, forever.
Yeah, the time scales involved are my go-to counterargument to the people who say other intelligent creatures should have conquered the galaxy by now.

I suspect that for all realistic lifeforms, given travel at a few percent of lightspeed max, the ROI on interstellar travel (both on the financial and the individual-sacrifice-vs-benefit level) is so bad that you'll essentially only do it when your solar system is doomed.

And that takes you from exponential growth down to essentially zero growth.
There are thousands of scientists who didn't get windows. In practice the methods by which "who contributed the most" were often not particularly fair. Isn't it possible we could re-evaluate who we want to have a window? The other people are still in books.
> cleaning up all the investigations against them

This makes it pretty obvious that you're not arguing in good faith. I guess you would have given Steven Hatfill or Wen Ho Lee the same advice?
I didn't dig deep but:

- vechain lead worked in supply chain

- he thought having a unified blockchain based tracking system would be great

my few insight in the world made me like the idea because a lot of people are basically doing semi manual tracking, boring and slow.. so a system for this would be a good benefit
Looking at the readme.md, I don't see what time series models are implemented. For example, are autoregressive models, ARMA models, and exponential smoothing implemented? Probably, but I don't see those terms listed.
Digitizing paper with OCR remains highly people intensive
That snot good.
On the unreasonable effectiveness of streak tracking
So was Margaret Sanger yet we still love our abortion clinics
> The problem is that if there were legitimate buying of BTC with Tether, which is plausible after the ass-whooping USDBTC has taken recently, new Tether would need to be issued to keep the 1:1 peg.

Um, no. Not sure how you think markets work, but this isn't right. Suggest you ask yourself if you really understand this topic, or if you own some crypto and thus have an incentive to believe you understand it so that you can dismiss it and enjoy the sweet crypto gainz.
Low intensity conflict. It's always like that.

Someone shoots at someone somewhere else. It just a background noise. Why bother?
You won't hear your bullet. Even if you could, it won't change anything anyway.
My mistake, dang! I should probably find the time to reread those guidelines, eh?
Yes, and yes.

Never underestimate the capability of other people to ruin your day.
Depending on the jail you use as a baseline, that might be a scary way to die.
This argument that we should keep statues (or windows) to remember history doesn’t seem to hold water to me.

What are we remembering by keeping them? I don’t think that anyone argues that we should be _erecting_ statues to figures we don’t admire - who, if they’re intended as cautionary tales are surely _more_ worthwhile to think about. So it’s not just that they serve to help us remember figures from the past.

So should we instead keep them to remember that the people _were_ once admired enough to get statues? That seems like a very odd second-order reason to keep something.