skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tether in all probability is a scam. My comment was in response to a very specific claim about what it means for a security to be backed.

Something backed by commercial paper is by definition backed.
> it's saying that AAA is actually a CCC−

Strongly analogous to the eurobond crisis, and the mortgage tranche issue; there was a period in 2008/9 where all sorts of things were downgraded overnight.

> Take for example the US dollar treasury bonds. Even countries and people opposed to the United States and everything it stands for agree that it is AAA. People that hate the US agree that the USD is a stable currency and their bonds are secure. Literal enemies, legally at war will prefer to use USD over their own currency for many transactions!

Yes - and this is why Americans panicking about financial mismanagement always come across as so out of touch. USD is the currency everyone else runs to for safety.
Rising sea levels: House worth 381k collapsing in the ocean in Rodanthe, NC
The people complaining about the price tag: I get it.

But the OP-1 is literally the only piece of music gear you can bring on an airplane and write a whole song.

Why has no one else figured that out? With all these groove boxes etc, why has no other music gear taken the step of being portable and all-in-one.

Show me another way to write a song in an airplane, and you can have my money.
Many military analysts predict that Russia will come out of the conflict as a much weaker country especially with the recent flood of heavy weapons that are being sent to Ukraine.
In comparison NATO expenses are at least 70% of Russia's GDP and we can see from the past that NATO has already coordinated military operations (in Operation Allied Force, NATO deployed 1031+ aircraft and 30 warships & submarines, and in 2011 it performed an operation that lasted 222 days with virtually no impact on the coalition members).
With that said, one can expect that there will be no possible 'consequences' if Finland/Sweden join NATO.
That's the problem: the kind of issues the GIL prevents is notoriously hard to reproduce and debug. It would probably pass 90% of the test suites out there, unless you wrote yours with multi-threading in mind. Same for empirical tests by QA teams - they rarely cause enough load on the system for the bugs to surface. I might be too pessimistic here, but this really looks to me like a disaster waiting to happen...
Live coding in VST is already possible:
https://youtu.be/tmmBhBmIEW0

Glicol is also an audio library, so you can write VST plugin with Glicol:
https://github.com/chaosprint/dattorro-vst-rs
You can point to any change in public sentiment as 'manufactured'. Doesn't mean it actually is. This seems the opposite: aggressive neighbour starts biggest war in Europe since WW2 has influence on public opinion of much smaller and weaker country.
> No, I was just pointing out that its functionality doesn't really justify the price tag when you compare it with what's also available elsewhere

Yeah, I agree with that, which I thought my previous comment made clear, maybe I wasn't clear enough.
> Not sure how you arrived to the conclusion that saving state is "extremely difficult, or downright impossible".

I was thinking about modular synths mostly, and patching cables (also: Volca Modular).

Yes, individual synths can save/export settings, but if you want to save a whole combination with different machines it's a big headache; whereas in a DAW it's so trivial you don't even think about it.

But ok, we are sliding into the "hardware vs software" debate, which won't be solved here or there, or ever.
I mean, you've got a lot of studying to do if you're only just now learning about Gladio:

https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Operation_Gladio

See also:

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/9446...
> his objection to DoH was that it's designed to blend in with HTTPS traffic, and is difficult for network operators to filter.

Why's that a bad thing?
The problem is you’re using your own perspective to imagine how Russia is assessing the situation. That’s the big mistake.

You could run the same analysis for the US involvement in Vietnam.

1) The US was anti colonial after WW2 (the US assumed colonial holdings would foment communist uprisings), and had given the Philippines it independence.

2) The US had no real strategic interest in Vietnam beyond a non-communist aligned country. it had negotiated a neutral policy towards Laos with the communist bloc. It wasn’t interested in resources or territory, at least not in anyway similar to what France had done.

Why on earth would North Vietnam think that US was just replacing France as a colonial power? That’s absurd! No way they think that, it’s just rhetoric!

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Of course after decades of being under the colonial yoke of France, Vietnam had a very different perspective. It was clear post-WW2 France was hell bent on restoring the colonial structure. And the only thing France understood was military defeat.

So the North, very reasonably, thought the US was lying about any sort of “neutrality in IndoChina” and that Vietnam would have any sort of independence. So they held to a hardline and were willing to sacrifice 2M+ Vietnamese for the goal of total victory and independence.

Think about it from Russia’s perspective. They had warned in 2015 about their "red line" for NATO expansion.
Nobody asked about your opinion of NATO, answer the question.
> Nobody wants war.

Objectively, this is not true. Putin wanted war. Leadership around him wanted war too. They wanted war they will win fast, but even if that succeeded it would be war too.
Tether didn’t lose its peg. It’s redeemable at $1 via Tether’s site as usual. The market price difference is making arbitrageurs more rich, that’s all.
These headlines are FUD.
Not just difficult, it impossible. There’s no provisions for removal.

The closest thing to kicking someone out of NATO would be all the other countries simultaneously withdrawing and forming NATO 2.0.
Yeah, new packaging might pull me over
Nobody is pressuring Russia, that's Russian propaganda. They want to paint themselves as attacked and surrounded, but it's them attacking sovereign neighbors and trying to expand beyond their borders. Who would have any interest in invading Russia? China attacking from the east would probably make more sense than NATO attacking from the west, but I've never heard anyone suggesting that as a realistic event.
It's a groovebox - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovebox
I already gave examples of media/politican manufactured narratives in the parent post regarding the Nato discussion.
Because concurrency issues are notoriously easy to catch.
I don't know, I'm not American, and don't care that much. I was referring to this part:

> I'm just tired of the USA paying for everything when we don't have the money.

Which seems to be one of the things that made the previous President the President.
Because it destorys native browser features. For example find-in-page, hove to see where a link goes. Right click a link to bookmark, open in private window or copy the URL. If the page has anchors I can get a link to them. If I save or print the page it is an image rather than text (with all of the above features).

Some of these can be reimplemented easily, some of them with effort, but some just aren't possible. Plus the exact behaviours depend on what browser you are using, so you can't reimplement them because you don't know how the user's browser behaves.

For games or image editors this is probably fine. But for most apps this is a huge depredation in usability.
As an employee learn to manage expectations. You can push back projects with deadlines if you manage expectations early enough. Fail that and you'll have pissed off stakeholders.

Trying to convince managers to do something won't always work. Presenting them with a growing problem and a solution will help convince them.

You might think your product is bad, but there are likely people making more money than you with worse products. Start selling early.
How Much Is the Ocean Worth?
- The decreasing barrier to ship products means sales & marketing is what differentiates successful products versus products with 0 users.

- After building a high growth / high churn product, I am OK sacrificing decreased growth for a significantly decreased churn rate. Great product with high churn is a hard business to build, even when customers love the product.

- One of the highest leverage decisions you'll make is deciding what to build. You can achieve a 1x, 10x, or 100x outcome with the same blood, sweat, and tears depending on what market you decide to build in.

- Choose something that aligns with your strengths. A good idea for me, might be a terrible idea for you if it doesn't leverage your specific knowledge (Naval calls this product / market / founder fit).

- Product is really freaking hard and relying on external contractors sucks, give someone technical a significant % of your company to own product development.

- Google Search & YouTube are likely one of your most important acquisition channels, because these are the only two platforms that consistently surface old content. Chances are, G can distribute your content better than you can yourself via email / social / copromotions, etc.

- High performers are cool, but high performers that document what they know so junior level team members can execute at the same level, or better is even cooler. Document everything you expect to hold someone accountable to doing in a specific way.

- Email recaps let me skip 10-15 meetings per week. I get the agenda, notes, and decisions that were made, and can jump in (but usually don't) at my leisure without sitting through the meeting.
> If "commissions of neutral experts" were a real thing that exists we could just dispense with democracy and rely on them!

No, we have democracy in order to choose between competing policies and ideologies.

An expert comission has a pre-defined, fixed policy - produce fair district maps, and they work to carry it out.
The idea that no-one can carry out a task without bending the result to suit their personal views is absurd. If you ask some car designers to design you a saloon car, they'll design a saloon car, even if they personally prefer sports cars.
If you are in B2B Enterprise, just having a quarterly meeting with your customers vs having none can be the difference between a success and a failure for this customer.

All business are different, there is not one road to success, there are as many as successful companies. As a result non-contextual business advice is usually useless.

In B2B Enterprise also. Most companies fails not because they don't have a good product, but because they don't sell well enough
I care more because I understand it's happening in european soil, just on EU borders and Ukranians feel as Europeans as Romanians are.

So yes there's a gregarian component to it, yet it also have a huge impact for us. Russia did this because they know we're dependent on their energy and there's little the EU can do without stomaching huge economic losses.

It's not about peace, It's about interests,a power struggle. Russia also invaded Georgia, and Azerbaijan had a war with Armenia yet the EU did almost nothing about it.

I'd really like to have a paceful relationship with Russia, as it's on our best interests, but it seems they don't think the same about us.
The other cohort of people who hate Wordpress are marketing/content people who've had the pleasure of using an install that lacks full-time developer maintenance for long enough for it to break, and being "stuck" with that breakage (or, worse, wading into the freelance market trying to find someone to fix it without a scratch rewrite).
I had no idea Jon Batiste was so beautifully insightful and wholesome -- well worth the read!
I was a contractor before I was an employee because Salesforce was starving the beast until they made CRM features. Never work with MBO Partners. They do not give two shits about you, just your money that they take a huge percentage of.
This is literally a copy of the Wikipedia article you listed earlier and it does not support your accusations.

Do you have any sources that support any of your other claims?
Improving the HTTP Archive pipeline and dataset by 10x
I love Manufacturing Consent! Even though I don't agree with it's implied worldview I enjoy Chomsky's skill as an eloquent polemiscist.

But Chomsky does not really understand the world outside US.

I am a Finn and I can guarantee Chomsky does not help you in understanding what happened here. We share 1500km border of Russia. We feel the geopolitic shifts in our backbones.

Almost every finnish male regardless of wealth or class would be up in arms as a combatant in the military if Russia was to invade. You can't have more skin in the game than that.
Yeah I can see it has a keyboard, presumably some kind of synthesiser.

It also appears to have some recording facility, but not clear how to get audio into it - can't tell what ports it has. Is the recording feature just for sequencing internal sample and synth sounds?

Or... they highlight the new version now has a 2.4ghz antenna - do you stream audio in/out over bluetooth?

A little explanation of basically what it can do or how they imagine it being used would go a long way
Wow. Absolutely amazing.

About writing VSTs, does it require JUCE, etc.?
> they are not sent to the server

This is, usually, a huge disadvantage. E.g. the filter parameters in the article.
But will Russia really win? As of the last that I saw, Ukraine was doing remarkably well in getting Russian forces to pull back from many positions they initially captured, and what they have captured has cost them considerably. A German invasion of Poland this is definitely not in terms of agility. It's more like Italy's invasion of Greece, but without a bigger power to step in and take the reins. Putin can try other means of pressure, or go all out, but so far, the former isn't very visible and the latter will prove much costlier, even if he somehow takes a majority percentage of Ukraine. In other words, even if he did pull off exactly that, what then? How much would it cost to continuously occupy a country of 48 million largely hostile people? Remember what the U.S. occupation of Iraq cost? For how long could the 10x smaller Russian economy sustain anything close to such an expense bill while maintaining a friendly puppet regime, let alone directly occupying territory?
> failing to achieve our crowdfunding target goal (we had ~40%)

Fwiw what I've heard regarding crowdfunding isn't so much that you put your product on a crowdfunding website to raise money, as much as you already have a marketing plan with enough people on your email lists etc who're willing to pay money, and once the Kickstarter/indigogo is live, these people come to the site. That's also how apparently those "2000% funded in 2 days!" stuff happens, which isn't surprising if you look at how shady some of them look.
It's not about how we perceive a threat to them, but how they perceive it. It makes no sense to destroy one's economy for Ukraine, yet here we are, so their calculation considered it more important.
BTC already dropped another 1000. Will continue dropping.
Maybe they are buying them? Just not at enough speed to avoid a decrease in price.

To buy them they would need to take their real USD, probably spread across investment instruments (e.g. in an ideal case where all they say is true, they would sell some government bonds they're holding), and bring it to an exchange where USDT is below 1 dollar. Then on that exchange they would go and buy, and make a small profit.

Based on the fact that they have managed to keep this thing around 1 USD for a long time, they have probably been doing this. But we don't know how fast they can do it (have to be faster than the others selling it), and we don't know how much cash they really have so they may have to stop doing it at some point if enough people try to sell.
Please notify HN mods directly at hn@ycombinator.com

I've done so in this case.

HN's long-standing policy in the case of clickbaity or vague article titles is to replace them with one from the text itself if possible. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9695092

The last sentence of the abstract here seems to offer a couple of options.

In my own submissions, I'll note where I'm making such substitutions and why. Usually for length:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I think all countries bordering Russia at the moment see an enemy on the other side. And not being in NATO is clearly not a guarantee of not being seen as an enemy by Russia, so might as well join NATO.
Yes it is: https://github.com/Xe/site/blob/main/blog/heroku-devex-2022-...
> They’re as bad (in my opinion) as others, therefore it give them right to do evil things

Are you even trying? You do understand that you aren’t talking to three years old? Anyone with half a brain will understand why this rhetoric is wrong.
> an offchain change which people should respect even if there is nothing technically forcing them to follow it

Ah, the good old trust-less blockchain. Proved by maths, not by trust and decency and conventions like traditional finance.
I agree that disruption is the other major threat, which they also pour billions into via acquisitions and VC activities. My guess though is that the possibility of govt action is what really scares them, and most of the tech elite. You can tell when Google realised this by noting that they went from spending almost nothing on lobbying to spending quite a lot (coinciding roughly with their transition from “don’t be evil” to “c’mon, man, be real “)

It’s not that long ago that Microsoft was facing the very real possibility of antitrust, so it’s very much something leaders of tech companies have a duty (to shareholders) to defend against.
Blog – sq feature comparison with GPG
I wouldn't specifically say "MVC"; one could argue it's the best argument for many design patterns or QA approaches, as it flagrantly ignores all of them.
> Why has no one else figured that out?

It is literally not the only piece of music gear you can bring on a airplane and write a whole song...

Just a recent example, the Syntakt is very capable for writing full songs. So is other gear in the Elektron lineup, namely Digitakt.

Otherwise you also have (cheaper) gear like the Novation Circuit Tracks that can also do the same.

I mean, a cursory search for "portable grooveboxes" should have revealed a ton of results for you, that are able to do the same job as the OP-1 but for even as low as 1/4 of the price (the Circuit Tracks)
The idea is actually good, and a great gateway between crypto world and fiat world.

The actors (looking at you, Tether), might not necessarily be.
It’s called Macbook with Logic Pro.

You can send your money directly to Apple.
Have an unfair and protectable lever from the get-go.
Here's 30 years of experience for you:

1. Few business problems can't be solved by more sales.

2. Cut expenses when the storm is approaching, not when you're soaking wet.

3. You can't eat assets or inventory. Don't get emotional about what you own, only about your cash balances.

4. Banks are your friend only when you don't need them. Corollary: One bank for borrowing, one for cash balance accounts.

5. 70 completed calls per week. Not emails, calls. You can do it, start now.

6. Don't be an asshole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_Rule

7. Hire and retain "T-shaped" people. In difficult times those employees execute across multiple domains.

8. Client, vendor or employee drama is quicksand. You assist with a stick or a rope, you don't jump in with them.

9. Don't romanticize work & try to avoid romance getting in the way of work.

10. You're only as happy as your unhappiest child. Prioritize good parenting over work. Good parenting = SOS: Self awareness, objectivity, selflessness.

11. Get a prenup. No, really, do get one.

12. Pay yourself according to a financial model that prioritizes healthy business cash balances, and not your personal desires.
Im doing a project in Vercel (NextJS ) and Firebase and once you get used to the recent Firebase api changes (they are fine but makes searching for answers harder) it is a fairly ok MVPing solution. You can go a long way for $0
> You can buy glasses from online sites owned by the world's largest lens manufacturer who sells the identical lenses to B&M stores

Link please!
> to me, "russian propaganda" is the same as "american propaganda" which demonizes the other and calls their version as the "ultimate truth".

This only means that you're misinformed and haven't really followed the situation.
Who would burn money, that would be madness... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Qu...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9SzDFGbsFI&t=390s
Not sure, this however seems comprehensive, but I have no time to read in full this second:

https://www.justsecurity.org/66574/can-turkey-be-expelled-fr...
I believe you raise some good questions and I have contemplated many of those myself. I do believe what we are seeing in Ukraine is different though qualitatively and quantitatively. I will give my reasons below.

1. Ukraine is in Europe, now that should not make a difference, but it does. Historically conflicts in Europe (in contrast to other parts of the world) have a much higher tendency to escalate into world-wide conflicts.

2. Ukraine, in contrast to Iraq, Libya and Syria is a reasonably functioning democracy (although with many issues).

3. The rhetoric out of Russia (and this is from Russian TV channels etc. not western propaganda) towards annihilation of Ukrainians is quite different to any of the things being said from the west in the other wars. There is also no evidence that in any of the other conflicts the US or its allies were using rapes as a systematic weapon against the civil population.

I also take issue with a couple of your points, you mention Afghanistan and Syria as being razed by America and its allies, you conveniently forgot the role of Russia in the destruction of those countries (Aleppo was destroyed by Russian mercenaries and Syrian troops for example). You also didn't mention Georgia, or Chechnya, were essentially nobody said anything either although it was Russia who invaded. In fact I believe most of the west was hoping for a quick win for the Russians in Ukraine as well, so they could just go back to "normal".

You say:
> does not equate to waging a war against america like its being done against russia.

That is a very weird interpretation of what is going on, no matter if you believe that there is propaganda on both sides, lets not forget Russia invaded Ukraine. It is Russian soldiers fighting Ukrainian soldiers, so far no "Western" soldiers are involved so how is anyone waging war against Russia?

Finally, I find this sort of argument highly suspect. You argue that Iraq, Libya, Syria were unjust and lament the fact that there was not enough being done, but now you argue we should ignore Ukraine because it's Russia who is doing it? Is your argument, as long as the people I like do it it is ok? Were you not the one who were complaining about exactly this earlier?
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Run Ubuntu on M1 MacBook Air Using UTM
UTM is an amazing software that allows us to virtualize and emulate different OS's such as, different flavours of Linux, Windows, older version of macOS etc on the latest ARM architecture based Mac's.
There was actually some talk of Russia joining NATO 20 years ago. But then Putin wanted Russia to be fast-tracked without meeting the requirements while "unimportant countries" would be ignored, and I guess at that moment it became clear he didn't really get what NATO was about.