skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Institutional stables (USDC,USDT,BUSD) are backed by traditional USD (more or less audited)

Sorry you can't say USDT and "more or less audited" in the same sentence. Literally un-audited. It's an empty vault in the Bahamas lol. [1]

Institutionalized stable would be a better description of USDT.

The issue is algorithmic and partially-collateralized stable coins are all, each and every one of them, vulnerable to attack. They purport to be $1, but you know fundamentally they are not. Therefore you can attack the peg and walk away with boatloads of money. This is actually how Soros made his money - he broke the GBP when it was pegged. [2] It's much easier to break these pseudo-dollars since the market is unregulated, you can do whatever you want, and they're small potatoes in the world of tradfi.

[edit] This is a great listen on the whole thing. [3]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-07/crypto-my...

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/george-soros-ban...

[3] https://cryptocriticscorner.com/2022/05/04/episode-71-terra-...
Totally agreed! Unstructured downtime is crucial. For many people you might also add a fifth bucket for their spiritual life (or maybe that overlaps enough with what you're describing).
Melinda Gates is serious about womens reproductive health and vaccinations, I agree with you in general, but the complete divest before death, not giving to the kids, and health focus gets my upvote.

But otherwise yes: eat the rich.
Once, the SGIs with MIPS were the fastest computers on the planet. Now MIPS is almost dead.
One thing to take into account is inflation. Rich people don't contribute to everyday inflation as much. Distribute money from rich to poor and you have the price of jets and basketball teams going down but the price of cheeseburgers going up.

I'm not against taxing capital gains just not sure redistributing it directly to the average person actually gets you anywhere. To me you figure out a way to fund and/or start more smaller businesses so maybe you have a fighting chance at real competition which is probably how we got into the billionaire problem in the first place.
Another option is using Deno!
Some random notes of Rust and Go
I'm recently involved in a project using both Rust and Go, wrote some notes about them, from a user's perspective, posted here:

https://gist.github.com/Jimmy-Z/89d8cbd18cd2e8df75ab24b0e3c0a7de

It's kinda hard to remember the difference between rust for and go for, especially when you wrote them side by side.
You don't say! We have had about 20 PyScript/PyIodide commercials in the last week already.
> Ballerina team told me that in the future Ballerina will not be hosted on JVM.

They also told me that back at Kubecon in 2018 :D
Currently you can still buy games if you have a VAC-ban, which is good. But already today you can be excluded from playing other games if you get a VAC-ban in a different game, and there are some other consequences.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/647C-5CC1-7EA9-3C...
Looks like this has already been created, back in March?

Here's their charter: https://github.com/WebView-CG/charter/blob/main/charter.md

This reminds me, back when I used to do app security, one of the issues with webviews was that some apps would hide much of the UI that users are used to seeing in browsers to make security decisions. So if an attacker could, via some vulnerability, redirect the site being viewed in the webview to one of their choosing, the user wouldn't be any the wiser.

I think it would generally be better if webviews, by default, have restricted navigation, and the developer has to deliberately whitelist domains they wish to view in it. Rather than having to write a navigation delegate or similar to implement their own whitelist, which most developers won't bother with.
Didn't they have a lot of Russian tech in their portfolio as well?
Connect Multiple Repositories on Gitpod Using Tailscale
Not the video from LTT I ment, but another one where the heat -> swollen battery problem is mentioned:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY7-sECF3Dw
That makes sense .. but I'm guessing they have to solve the problem sooner or later anyway, I don't see how a Mars colony is going to get over this problem unless of course we ship all those useful telephone dusters up there ..
Considering that Putin never really lied about his goals, despite being extremely under handed and secret with his methods, W's judgement wasn't too far off I'd say.

There seems to be a lot of disagreement and bad judgement around "best interests of his (Putin's) country".
A technical detail. Monitors (synchronized) record their owners as the OS thread, which makes the VM not know whether the carrier or the virtual thread owns a monitor, as they both share the same OS thread.
Yes and they earned it through gainful employment thereby theoretically contributing the same or more to society…
CompuServe's consumer dialup service started in 1979, their non-consumer services go back to the 1960's, at basically the same time as The Source. CompuServe bought The Source sometime in the late 1980's which means it was dead before dialup online services hit the mainstream in the early 1990's. This is why you likely don't see much mention of it. Another service I used back in the day which you don't see much about is the BYTE Information Exchange, BiX, which was started by BYTE magazine.
I feel this is a bit more nuanced. You need to account for what is likely/possible to happen in the future. There's no "easy to change" that remains that way. To give a specific example, I've recently created some small apps for automating interaction with a terrible-enterprisey-crud software. The first one was written as a quick script. The next one had some organisation but remained a crappy script. The next one as well... The problem is that now I need to maintain the previous scripts for a very long time. Every new app I make now abstracts the windows it interacts with into separate controller classes. I made the change in my approach too late and it's both too much work to rewrite everything written initially and it's really annoying to support it too.

I know it's a bit of a hindsight thing, but the time to change the approach was when I was about to write script no 2. I should've invested a little bit of time into research and proper structure, but didn't. A bit of complexity saved me in later development...
Not about this either unfortunately: https://bind.zone/
They are a serial short seller. That means they need to retain credibility with their reports to keep their business going. That, combined with general skepticism and a fully-disclosed short position, I think should make it quite easy to fairly evaluate their short-report.
Sounds like a very direct link, then.
> I can't imagen what someone would do with all this money.

Either splurge or save.
I cry bogus.

> Bartlett describes herself as an "independent writer and rights activist."[3] She writes commentary pieces for RT's website.Critics contend that her advocacy amounts to participation in a disinformation campaign whereby the aim is to lessen the responsibility of the Assad regime for the acts of indiscriminate killing during the war.

> In late 2016, Bartlett gained controversy over a video that went viral, in which said that Syrians "overwhelmingly support" Bashar al-Assad, as evidenced by the results of the 2014 election.[13][14] The election was seen as illegitimate by a number of countries and international organizations,[15][16][17] while Russia has endorsed Assad's mandate. Further, she has characterized the White Helmets as being part of a Western propaganda campaign, alleging that rescues by that organization are hoaxes whereby they "recycle" the same children in footage of staged rescues,[13][14][18] and that "no one in eastern Aleppo has heard of [the White Helmets]".[13] In the same video, Bartlett falsely claimed that the al-Quds Hospital bombing in April 2016, where 55 died, never occurred, saying it was rebel propaganda.[4][19] Bartlett's claims were amplified by Russian-controlled outlets such as RT, Sputnik News and In The Now.[20][13] The claims were found to be false by Channel 4 News and Snopes.[1][3][4][5] The broader "same girl" internet meme has been categorized as a derivation of the "crisis actor" conspiracy theories

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Bartlett

This person is a Russian troll.

Please do some basic fact- and credibility-checking before posting Kremlin propaganda.
PyOxy Initial Release v0.1
Very well done, this brings back a lot of memories and nostalgia.

For example, searching for: jeff bezos

returns the 1997 shareholder letter.

https://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/irol/97/97664/rep...
Reddit thread https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/comments/umsaak/got_l...
Confusingly, it doesn't seem to have much to do with data-oriented design.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-oriented_design
Elon at Twitter is good for Bitcoin.
> Not sure where the claim about taking immigrants is coming from

The link was right at the bottom of the comment and if you click it, you'll see data sources mentioned prominently.

As of 2020, the US has 50.6 million foreign born immigrants, while Germany, which was #2, had 15.8 million. Adjusted for current population it's fairly close. The UK, in contrast had 9.4M, and Spain 6.8M. All of these countries have immigrant populations compared to world averages.

You could nitpick at time frames or various other ways to slice the data but there's no defensible claim that the US accepts fewer immigrants than most countries.
Cost of living in the US is weird. When I am in the US, I don't feel poor as long as I do what 'regular Europeans' are doing. I could go to Whole Foods and pay a small fortune for bread, but as long as I go to Aldi prices are quite European for me. There are many ways to spend lots of money, you can find restaurants where you can spend your weekly income for a family meal, but fast food and fast casual restaurants are not more expensive than in Europe. Houses (outside metropolitan areas) and cars are often ridiculously cheap.

And then there are some things that are just insanely expensive from a European perspective: out-of-pocket medical expenses, college, lawyers, cable TV... makes it very hard to compare.
ELI5 Why stable coin are a thing when I can trade bitcoins to USD?
That’s why sites ask you first with their own dialog, and only if you say yes do they pop up the browser dialog.
I work in an international company and it is very difficult to compare EU to US, our US employees are on average 1.5x more expensive but, with that money they have to pay for more expensive healthcare with poorer coverage, and to get their kids to a good school they need to live in very expensive neighborhoods. For us in the Netherlands school quality is roughly homogeneous and when you get cancer you will never see a bill or suffer financially.

But 30k at 7 years of experience in IT is pretty low if you ask me (we’re talking before tax right?), for us that would be called "modal", about what a nurse or police officer would make?

I work in the Netherlands (large healthcare company) and make about 100k (12 years of experience after my PhD), however, I think my company pays quite well and when applying at other places I'd get about 85-90k? Depending on the company, larger is higher I think.

The way to a higher pay (but higher risk) for me is becoming independent I think. Then I'd probable be able to ask for 150 an hour (as consultant/sw dev). This be fore tax, no pension etc.
I use https://wave.webaim.org/extension/ with good results
Naked greed from FIFA it sounds like
https://www.eurogamer.net/new-report-says-fifa-wants-more-th...

Ask for an extra half billion dollars, end up with nothing. Quite a fable. I can't imagine there will be many queueing up to take on the license after EA (certainly not at those rates). The only competent player in that area were Konami, and they are in a nosedive into F2P disasters.

Sounds like some of the falling out was each side not wanting to cede the rights to capitalise off stuff like NFTs, which is hilarious.
It's a good thing you're looking for an automated solution, because with that attitude you're not going to find any accessibility problems on your own :P

https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/
Which housing markets are most exposed to the coming interest-rate storm?
On mobile the entire site is exceptionally horrid.
UX problem - order in tech stack dropdown looks like to be random. It will be more sane and much easier to search needed tech visually if it was ordered alphabetically.
I think carrier-locked devices may want a SIM to boot upon first install of the OS, though you can remove it later on.
You hit the nail on the head there, I would add that today it's more the KISS crowd throwing a fit.

Can't imagine the frustration deva must have.
Just speaking for myself, but if I can't fully self-host or run a service offline, the odds that it will be gone/I'll have to find a replacement after a (buyout|bus accident|burnout) really get in the way of embracing tools.
How does that help someone who wants to stream to a network-enabled TV?
>it is telling that you believe the "size of the government", as defined by mostly military spending

Be honest here.

None of the budgets of any governments mentioned are "defined by mostly military spending".
I read it several hours before writing that comment.

Regardless of the motivation for the naming having come from tormenting bee-hating guy, the naming had to make sense. The developer in question would probably not have gotten away trying to call a registry root "fiddlestick". He had a boss, and peers, and they signed off on "hive".

Perhaps that person had some creative name for the entire thing instead of "The Registry" (Apiary? Ha!), which perhaps had been overruled. The "Hive" jargon is not really end-user-facing, though.
Isolating Functions at the Hardware Limit with Virtines
Sort of.

The mechanism by which they turned garbage mortgages into AAA was 1) tranching, ie having junior and senior tranches, and 2) the assumption of low correlation (not all borrowers will run into trouble simultaneously).

Arguably, here we have something equivalent to the assumption of low correlation: if a few people here or there dump UST, you can indeed maintain the peg by issuing LUNA against it. But if many people simultaneously do it, then the whole edifice collapses.
I don't think there are many programs taking advantage of 1G RAM on windows 95.
This is truly wild to watch happening in real time. At the time he published his post, UST was around $0.90 and the recovery path to near term stability at $1 seemed plausible. At the time of the HN post, it was at $0.30 and the death spiral to $0 seemed plausible. As I write this comment, it's sitting at just about $0.50, which is obviously not a stable position for a stablecoin. It seems self-evident that a stablecoin ever being closer to $0 than $1 should destroy confidence in it, but apparently not immediately!
sounds more like for maintainers from tauri. deno/rust/websymboly capacitorjs PWA group seems got the stuff right in this webview directions than monolitic electron. If we must go the chrome route, then NWJS would also be more preferred than Electron.
You are right, we'll see how things turn out, and if, as a result, they loose more licensing.. or not
It has more to do with lending rates. The 10 year peaked above 3% and ibonds now yield 9.6%. Ponzi’s are getting a one-two punched. Suckers now have alternatives to seek better returns. Scammers and exploiters now pay to leverage up ponzi run ups.
It's like if the devil and the antichrist split up. Yeah it's probably a good thing, but it's really hard to be happy about it. Even EA's way of selling it is "don't worry, we'll still charge you yearly for the same features including the money sucking ultimate team."
You can remove your crypto price risk, while still remaining on-chain (and outside the traditional regulated banking system). Some people like that.

ETA: Though, as some people are learning now, you're not actually removing your crypto price risk.
My dear home country uses exchange rate trickery to charge a 50% tax on remittances.

Sending USDT to my friends and family instead of USD allows me to give them money without the implicit tax, while having an exchange rate that's simpler to understand and not doesn't risk crashes like Bitcoin.
As someone in a similar situation I have mostly internalised the unexpected u, but the ones that still end up getting me (and which I had to go back and edit in this very sentence) are the s/z swaps in the ise/ize trigraph.
Sure, if you put on your tinfoil hat.

What caused the 2008 crash was nothing to do with loose monetary policy. If you recall, that began in earnest after, and in response to, the crash.

It was loose regulatory policy. In no small part that Clinton rolled back Glass-Steagall in 1999. [1] Toxic mortgage-backed CDOs didn't have to become a systemic risk in the first place. There were a lot of contributing factors, but low interest rates weren't really top 10.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_repeal_of_the...
Please explain to me why there is a package "iseven" and "isodd" if not for the fact that some Javascript kiddy was unable to work this out for themselves by applying the intrinsics of the language, standardly ..

Because I firmly believe that crap like this happens because the language itself is very, very dumb.
> gun rights advocacy, and gun-related law enforcement were and continue to be racist, along with quite a lot of the rest of US policy and society… There is indeed a consistent principle there – white supremacy (and more generally, rich straight white male supremacy).

As a non-white immigrant to American, this uniquely American form of self flagellation is remarkable to me. Of all the things I find noteworthy about America and its history, I think of those other things you listed. The “racism” is among the least notable of characteristics. Historical slavery and dominance by the ethnic majority is what America shares with countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East—not what sets it apart!

Sometimes, though, I feel guilty for pushing back on this sort of thinking. This depredation of one’s own history and cultural heritage is incomprehensible to me as a foreigner, but maybe this zealous self loathing is actually what drives America’s distinctive capacity for self improvement.
Shale gas: the problem with EROEI (2011)
Symbolic regression outperforms other models for small data sets
DAI is not an algorithmic stablecoin. It is an overcollateralized stablecoin. They are very very different.
I've read that whole article and I'm still no clearer as to what they actually do. I understand Amazon's "one-click" technology, as Amazon already has all my address and payment details saved.

Am I therefore expected to create an account with Bolt so they can store my details and offer a "one-click" experience on downstream e-comm sites? How is this different to what PayPal offer, especially given PayPal is ubiquitous?
At this point it has 96 upvotes, so clearly some of us find the content useful!
Except if most of your collateral is USDC and USDT which are allegedly backed by real dollars
Some jurisdictions don't consider trades towards stablecoins as taxable events
Not sure about the US but my SEPA transfers in the EU frequently do take 2-3 days (sometimes it's instant but at least with my German bank account it often isn't).
> I prefer coding everything by hand, because I don’t like the huge piles of garbage that the automated generators create

Once upon a time, in faraway places, "properly" was pretty much an implicit mandate. (Then, it started becoming called "OCD" even in technically oriented environments. To which, some rebutted "it's called, if anything, /benefiting from "obsessive" "compulsive" /oder//" - but history has not yet finished unfolding.)

I recalled recently in these pages the impression that could have made on some of us in formative years the aesthetic result of organizing code and data for resource use sensitive machines like the 8-bit. If you have to deal with resources that call for optimization, you produce structures, "crystals" instead of "amorphousities": that is a good school. Your product will be polished in its apparent form, and also in its internals - if the former is a form of art, the latter also will be made accordingly: that was a very good school.
Emphasis on "less audited": https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/08/09/tether-reveals-m...

"The order further finds that Tether and Bitfinex’s combined assets included funds held by third-parties, including at least 29 arrangements that were not documented through any agreement or contract, and that Tether transferred Tether reserve funds to Bitfinex, including when Bitfinex needed help responding to a “liquidity crisis.”"

https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8450-21
/usr/games should never have existed in the first place, imnsho. If it's a small game, its binary could just have been put in /usr/bin. If it's a large game, it probably should be in /opt/$game.
A multi-parameter persistence framework for mathematical morphology
Synthetic stablecoins using economic games implemented in smart-contracts to achieve pegging are not magically 1:1 with the pegged asset (even a representative currency would break this ratio sometimes), they are a set of mechanisms to bring the currency towards this goal ratio. The problem isn't that UST is below peg, the problem is if it can't return above or at peg, this is the point where most synthstables fail, where they fall into a negative loop and just slowly die. However there are at least some that have not failed this, but have not been tested at these scales. Either way UST turns, we will know more about how we can make stable coins.
Synthetic stablecoins are the most important technology of our time and a very large step for our species to organize ourselves.
So from what I can tell they removed those constraints earlier today, and after a brief attempt to prop the peg back up somehow, which saw it hit $0.95, the UST price has been back down between $0.3 and $0.5.

I don't imagine that anyone will find themselves sued successfully...
Plus I'm guessing the plane eventually made its way back to the west coast.
Jwz: How to Fix Social Media
This was a sad week for me. I've basically spent the last year working on Terra. Everything moves fast there, so many new and shiny things and people excited for them, most of which did work, until it didn't I guess. I always felt like it had permission to fail, moving fast breaks things, but it really hurt when it happened.

I just removed my last asset there. I'll be eternally grateful to them. I didn't have good job prospects as a fresh engineer from a collapsing economy. They really had an use for an arbitrageur, I took notice and without asking any permission or having any knowledge or experience I was helping all these different markets there not falling off price, and perhaps I have a roof over my head thanks to that. I'm finally going to sleep since yesterday. I guess it's time to get a job, I just need to recover mentally.
Any telco has been separating out call data records, billing rules and billing for years.

You should also differentiate between selling a product/plan and fulfilling it.

What you sell and what you fulfill are two different things, one is a price, the other is a cost, one is a product/PLU, the other is a SKU.

So what you're selling is a plan, which is a subscription, which has a price and other billing related stuff (periods, expiries, seats etc). The outcome of that is revenue. There may be wrinkles like discounts and coupons and free periods and etc, but that's all on your sales and billing side.

What you supply is features/services/logins etc. They have costs/expenses.

There needs to be a map between the PLU(s) and the SKU(s).
International Fertilizer Association
I wonder how much is sales of FIFA vs NFL games and their corresponding license fees

Sounds like this could also be a warning shot for NFL or anyone else having funny ideas