skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair comeback. I think of CSV as modern, but Wikipedia tells me it's almost as old as AWK (depending on how you count). It seems to me it's used more heavily now as an exchange format, compared to say 15-20 years ago, but I could be wrong.
Market pricing and arbitrage pegs it, is how I understand it.

It's "worth" whatever price the bid-ask spread meets at.

It's exchangeable for USD to the company. As long as there isn't a bank run where they'd stop fulfilling exchanges, when the price drops below $1 anyone can arbitrage it. It reached like 95 cents earlier, anyone could've bought millions of it and got USD for it at like 6% profit. It creates buy pressure/price support as the price falls.
Right but how... where does physical money come into play?

How can I or anyone get 1 physical dollar from selling USDT? All I've ever done is exchange some coin => USDT and vice versa.

So if no one is actually asking for a physical dollar, why does it need to be backed by a physical dollar?
Eh, but minting Luna increases the supply of Luna and thus devalues it, therefore a run means that the price of Luna increasingly drops as you mint more, meaning you have to mint more Luna, it heads to zero, you're dead. It's the opposite of stable, because a run actually accelerates itself. What am I missing here?
> Crypto will continue to fluctuate wildly as it always has.

Which is as much as an unfounded absolutism as stating the opposite. While there's not fundamental limit to what you're saying, there might be qualitative differences though going forward: I can still go into a store these days and buy tulip bulbs, it just doesn't cost me two salaries...
I can't comment about the specific situation in Finland but generally this does not seem to be true. Due to a EU directive, streaming Providers like Netflix have to offer at least 30% of local content but these are not watched proportionally. The most popular content remains English/international. For example, according to a 2020 Netflix survey 25% of most viewed titles in Spain were local, with the UK (10%), Germany (8%), France (8%) and Italy (8%) following.

As for music, Finland is known for their unusual and thriving Tango, Polka, and Heavy Metal scenes but most consumed music is nevertheless produced in the US and the UK. This doesn't have much to do with what is offered, it's just more popular. Generally speaking, popular culture is global in all Western countries, with English as the lingua franca.
They can also be kicked out ;)

Edit: Here is some thoughts one it: https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/28337/on-what-g...
> Talk about missiles within range of Moscow and so on. Obviously these comments make no sense.

Why doesn't it make sense? I'm not for Russia nor for NATO, but what is the purpose of the alliance if not against Russia as a remnant of the cold war?

Wasn't the same kind of reasoning used by the USA for Cuba resulting in its ~blockade~ "quarantine" and almost war/invasion?

It seems to me there's a certain rhetoric meant to cast Putin as a crazy warmongering dictator who foolishly wishes to revive the Soviet Union. In part this may be true, but it seems to me that these arguments are meant to distract our gaze away from the US (and NATO in extension) as the global superpower it is, how historically it has moved against the USSR and Russia and its part in the world stage.

*Obviously Putin/Russia is to blame for invading Ukraine.

edit: Adding a few words because I think I have not been clear. I'm not arguing for Russia or against NATO. I'm arguing that from Putin's perspective it makes sense; an alliance historically against the USSR, now expanding near Russia's borders can be seen as a potential threat.

The rhetoric is "I was watering my garden and some crazy guy attacked me", but that is removing the context. And that context exists even if you believe that NATO=good & Russia=bad.
They actually do decent work in ML but don't share their models and can't use those models in products because of their large size. So it's little to see.
The spiky shape of the n-cube can be used as an illustration of the “myth of averages”, i.e. the observation that basically no person can be considered “average” or “typical” as soon as you consider a number of dimensions (famously observed by the US Air Force when trying to adjust fighter jet cockpits to the average dimensions of pilots [1]). If you consider n variables along which people and their experience can vary, the space that is “reasonably close” to the average (e.g. an n-ball or even an n-cube with side length 1−ε) becomes vanishingly small compared to the full space.

I find this is an important concept to keep in mind when designing systems and products. When you reach a certain complexity, most cases are edge cases and designing only for the “typical” case serves almost nobody.

[1]: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/on-average/
Microsoft has also been funding a team to work full-time on making Python faster: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/21/05/17/0225252/micro...
What’s his rationale?
the source code is the worst part of it all.
Because it's an intentionally obtuse Ponzi scheme. You can stake Terra on Anchor protocol which was advertised as up to 20% yoy return for lending your Terra. This creates demand for Terra, which in turn creates demand for Luna, as you can only mint new Terra by burning Luna. As long as there are newcomers buying into the ecosystem, Luna will increase in value.
Matt Damon at least should never get work again. Except maybe shilling jewellery on PVC.
There is no diplomacy with Putin. What do you want to agree with a man who lied straight in the face of all western world leaders?

A man who awards medals to soldiers committing crimes against humanity.

Even Xi seems to be surprised at what is taking place.

How can you trust anything that Putin signs or says?

This man understand strength and strength only.

You can talk softly or harshly, but carry the biggest stick you can afford when talking to Putin.

And do not trust anything.

I think people really do no want to believe how absolutely evil Putin is.

As an example, Putin quoted a song during press conference with Emmanuel Macron in early February about Ukraine:

"Whether you like it or don't like it, bear with it, my beauty."

The full quote from "Sleeping beauty in a coffin" song by Red Mold would be:

> Sleeping beauty in a coffin, I crept up and fucked her. Like it, or dislike it, sleep my beauty.

Putin just casually quotes songs about necrophilia with regard to Ukraine when planning a war.

And then awards soldiers who probably actually did carry out necrophilia in Ukraine.
> If it's such a huge game changer why don't some of the large enterprises which rely on Python fund this work?

Because lots of code in python relies on the GIL to act as a synchronization primitive for threaded code (either explicitly or implicitly) and removing the GIL will break that code in subtle ways and there’s no appetite in those companies to fix that.
Ah so in theory I should be able to ask the USDT foundation for a dollar and they should be able to give it to me?
This. Bitcoin is essentially the USD + US stock market in 1922. Hard money and unregulated securities markets already broke the world once. The crypto wizards somehow managed to forget a century of hard won lessons.
Redeeming Tether via the official route takes several days as I understand (in the current situation probably more like several weeks?). So if you're a large investor you have the choice of either trusting Tether to be able to make good on the promised redemption, not knowing if it will be the case for days or weeks, or you can just go to the market and sell your Tether there at a 2 % loss. As an investor I'd always go for the second route as there's large downside risk and almost no upside potential when redeeming via tether.to. No sane investor would risk losing 100 % of their assets to escape a 2 % haircut.
> In practical reality, if Russia were to attack Finland or Sweden now, the answer from NATO would be pretty much the same as if they were already members.

Really? Why is this true of Finland but not Ukraine?
As a European I also view the US as increasingly corrupt and short sighted. There is a difference though, as GP pointed out. It's not true/false.
Ponzis can be very profitable. I think algorithmic stablecoins are stupid too.
You might want to check Videostream for Chromecast ? There's both a mobile app that links to your PC and also a desktop app. Last time I checked, VLC also allowed casting of videos on your PC(although iirc was more iffy with subtitles, etc) though not sure if there's mobile support, and I believe there are also other paid apps that can be used to cast videos.
If you're referring to seeing videos directly from a hard drive without a PC, a TV with usb support should take care of that (long time ago, I had even a Bluray player that had usb and was used in similar fashion to cast videos from a usb flash drive)
WKWebView is open source but apple can always decide to change APIs and break apps. Happened before with their tracking prevention.
you sure?
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/4/22960739/russia-internet-b...

"Russia says it's blocking Facebook in alarming new censorship push" blocking facebook is censorship but blocking RT is defending free speech? nice
> Finland as both democracies and [constitutional] monarchies

I really appreciate your detailed exposition of this complicated issue, but I can't help picking up on this one example you used. To quote a character from Die Hard: "As in Helsinki, Sweden."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Finland
Reach out here - that should not have happened. (that's what they told me)

https://hackernoon.com/contact
Why are we pretending conventional war between NATO and Russia is a thing?
> As opposed to the Dart culture? Quite a sweeping generalization. There's bad packages in every ecosystem. There's really good packages in every system. Pick the right ones.

Not every ecosystem is created equal, they are better testing cultures than dart (such as ruby for example) but they are also worse ones and javascript is definitely worse at that.
Packages you install will be on average less tested and less care will be put into the dev experience than in some other languages.

They are exceptions of course such as RN & React but they are far outside the norm.

> Sure, I update major versions every year or so. Past 2 years of React Native have been easy.

As with any other JS project, RN and React are not the main issue but everything around it is and you certainly need extra packages.

> That's plain false, they for sure do.

Have a look at those apps and tell me if they look Material (they don't).
Finland joining NATO benefits the military-industrial complex immensely. There are HUGE profits to be made in the effort required to get NATO and Finnish military standards aligned.
He's against it for sure, but AFAIK doesn't actually have a veto.
What I did to destroy Russian pontoon bridge over Siverskyi Donets, a thread
> I think you should go and tell Ukrainian people that their country is a buffer zone meant to act as a burnt ground, and they are not allowed to work towards joining the alliances and economic systems that they want to join in order to better their livelihoods and stop facing the former-USSR-level of poverty.

I didn't say we should dictate policy to Ukraine - they're a sovereign state like the rest of us. That doesn't mean we have to let them join if they want to, just like we don't have to let Russia invade a sovereign state without sanctions. I noted in my comment that there was actually peace in Eastern Europe before NATO expansion. NATO could easily have used that as a reason to disallow the membership application from Ukraine, but I think we were too determined to quell Russia's and Putin's global influence so we let it happen. Was it even necessary? If Russia had attacked Ukraine in the 90s, would the West not have responded in a similar way to how it is doing now? Not sure what NATO has gained here. In my opinion diplomacy is all about recognising the world isn't perfect, and, when there is a need to, holding your nose and letting bad people run their countries as an alternative to something worse. Yes it's a tragedy what's happening in Ukraine right now, and yes Putin is a tyrant who would ideally not be in charge (weird that I now feel the need to have to say that, because it should be self-evident to all rational people).

> EDIT: yes, I downvoted, and here's my share of a comment.

Was my post low effort or malicious?
There is no strong distinction in backing: USDT just has a slightly more believable story.

Also the price of a stablecoin can shift from it's peg, even if it has 100% backing, when there is latency/congestion/spread/volume for the arbitrage trade.

That said, there is a whole heap of plenty of evidence that USDT is not backed by dollars 1:1.
2014 adjustable liquid lenses: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3933712/

Describes both a dial-based and a less mature fluid-based technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9FpEWQkg-w

Dial-based: https://www.designboom.com/technology/eyejusters-self-adjust...

DialVision review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge3H0FtGUw8
If you're just using AWK features, mawk is still the fastest. GoAWK is faster than awk in most cases, on a par with gawk, but still not as fast as mawk (see https://benhoyt.com/writings/goawk-compiler-vm/#virtual-mach...) ... except for scripts that make heavy use of regexen. Unfortunately Go's regexp package is still quite slow. You could also try frawk, which is a JIT-optimized AWK written in Rust -- it's really fast, and shares some of the CSV features (but not the @"named-field" syntax).

But for most everyday usage, even for large inputs, GoAWK's performance is quite sufficient. The CSV support, and its use as a Go library -- they're more important to me than raw speed at this point.
You’re misreading. That comment is a powerful, personal realization he’s had and shared with us and a really, really interesting thing to watch happen. I’m serious. You’re explaining to him what he’s just realized so hard that I can taste the holy-shit bile through his comment. Welcome him back to the fold. Don’t lecture him.

I never thought I’d see it actually happen, and I’m kind of blown away I’m in the same thread. It’s actually possible for the hardcore believers to snap out of it, and that’s the unquestionably greatest thing I’ve heard in three long years. There is hope. I was genuinely starting to wonder.

Note that this isn’t personal and I had no idea who he was until five minutes ago. I just type some shit in the username box every time I sign up.
> Finland should have applied for NATO 10 years ago or in 10 years, not now with the tense situation.

10 years ago, it was reasonable to believe that Russia would never invade a neighboring country, so joining NATO wasn't seen as necessary or preferable to maintaining neutrality.

10 years in the future, based on what we're seeing now, Russia may have already invaded/attacked Finland and it would be too late to join NATO.
Turkey is a NATO member, but it didn't join the international sanctions.
If the price continues to fall and they can keep arbitraging, they could easily do quite well out of this (assuming they have a reasonable amount of reserves).
I've got over 130 apps on Heroku for my various SaaS products and client websites etc. I feel like I'm going to experience a world of pain very soon to migrate away to another provider... I just took a look at fly.io and they seem too dev-opy for my tastes these days.

I opted for Heroku after going down the whole Linode route years back and have never looked back. I enjoy the simplicity of deployment and not having to worry too much about servers etc.

I recently got to play with Render and DigitalOcean's App Platform and they were okay... just not sure if they'll be suitable for Rails (Postgres/Redis etc). I want something straightforward like Heroku, but without the issues of late. Oh and the costs...
Thought this link might actually be more helpful by the way if you're interested but Dart team does all of their language design in the open on Github which is pretty cool and also gives you a lot of context about how things end up the way they do.

I also mentioned elsewhere in the thread how impressed I was just watching that repo in general for a year. They clearly give a shit on a such a deep level about building a solid long term language in a way that I was totally unfamiliar with say coming from a Ruby background previously.

Here is the section on pattern matching specifically https://github.com/dart-lang/language/tree/master/working/05... and this is the design spec itself https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/master/working/05...
If you're suggesting billionaire investors are never bond holders I'm confused where you got that impression.
This shows you how wild and wooly the "early" days of rails was - I forget whether it ran its own instance of sqlite, or was just a completely in-memory hash of hit counts ala counts[controller][action] += 1 that you had to retrieve. Either way it was extremely primitive, predating really what we think of as monitoring and analytics data being its own process and pipeline. But that was also part of the genius of it - as you say, you'd be hard pressed to hack something together that solved a real problem for customers in an afternoon that way these days.

I do think it would be a great thing to incorporate into a monitoring and observability tool - my day job at the moment is related and I hope to work in that area of research a bit. Necessary Disclaimer time: my opinions are my own personal opinions, not professional opinions or those of my employer or anyone else.
> There is a slight difference between de-platforming Russian propaganda channels in the West, and Russia jailing anybody speaking about the war in any other terms than those approved by Kremlin.

It's worth considering that the former is probably more effective, and certainly makes fewer people upset.
Gotta retrace that $400 price sooner or later!
Not really HackerNewsy, but I thought it was interesting to see active military intelligence operations published in the same style as "how we improved our SQL response time by 20%" type threads.
Were the first few generations of wireless earbuds that bad?

I bought my first pair a year ago and haven't had a problem with them.

I don't have a dangling cable get caught on things and hurt my ears.

I don't have one ear stop working because the cable has got damaged.

I don't have to untie cable knots.
It's a stablecoin. It's not supposed to move at all!
Kaliningrad is going to be squeezed ...
If you knowingly put money in a scam where you send the previous person 2x the amount they sent and the music stops on you, you deserve it because you know the risk and choose it. So there is a line where it's acceptable to victim blame.
Circumstantial evidence of what? She explicitly said:

> When I offer to prioritize BIPOC conversations, I'm offering a little equity: a chance to offer a little advice, answer questions, or give a little encouragement. I also can sometimes give portfolio feedback, or an honest evaluation on where an application might go.

This is clearly pre-application support. There's no suggestion that other people won't get it, or that their applications won't be dealt with fairly. That would be illegal. Offering pre-app help to disadvantaged and under-represented groups is not.

I'm coming at this from a British and European standpoint but our rights here aren't that dissimilar. The guidance on Positive Action is much closer to what she's doing than the crime you're inferring.

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/advice-and-guidance/e...

And you'd block access to your social platforms if you had this shit raining down on you, I guarantee it.
Digital artists' post-bubble hopes for NFTs don't need a blockchain
i literally said i come neither from russia nor america so i am basically more "independent" from you if you are an american citizen or the like.

manning/assange anyone? oh they are terrorists right? for giving sensitive information to enemies but russian or chinese defectors are given "protection" because they do the same for america but if russia/china goes after them, well..... you know
But not as the benevolent dictator.
That Python dev (Mark Shannon) is part of the Microsoft team :-)
Tether just burnt $600M worth of USDT, which I think means their reserves have dwindled by $600M. Am I reading it right?

https://twitter.com/whale_alert/status/1524675158836973570
https://static.cambridge.org/content/id/urn:cambridge.org:id...

In this work, we demonstrate curing of PDMS (Sylgard 184, Dow, MI), and UV adhesive (NOA61, NOA63, NOA81, Norland, NJ) lenses. The PDMS lenses are cured by incubating them at 80 C for 1.5 hr, at 60 C for 4 hr, or at room temperature for 24 hr. The UV adhesive is cured by exposure to light at 365 nm (a 36 W consumer grade nail lamp) for 2-5 min, depending on the thickness of the lens and the specific adhesive chosen. Since both PDMS and Norland adhesives are immiscible in water and have densities between ~1.03 (PDMS) g/mL and ~1.12 g/mL (Norland), the water\glycerol-based immersion liquid allowed us to precisely control the density difference. Since preparation of PDMS involves intense mixing of the base resin with a cross-linker, we degassed the PDMS mixture for 20 minutes before injecting it into the bounding surface, in order to eliminate any bubbles trapped in the fluid due to the mixing.
they already said they wouldn't
When looking at things like this you always need to consider a rally around the flag effect. When a country is threatened by outsiders, it tends to result in a dramatic increase in support for government and its leaders. After 9/11, Bush's approval rating hit 90%, the highest ever recorded for any US president. And it stayed inflated (though not to such insane highs) for years, including through at least the start of our invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Russians now feel as though they're under attack by the West with an ends of destroying them not only economically and politically but also culturally. That is going to send support soaring with the perceived threat there is orders of magnitude greater than something like Bin Laden. So you're not going to be able to get level-headed responses until [likely many] years after this ends - similar to how if you polled the average American circa 2001 you'd get dramatically different views on the actions we took than you would if you asked them a decade later, even beyond the countless discoveries outside the "fog of war".

This is one reason I also think our ongoing response is not the right path forward for any outcome other than escalation. The more we arbitrarily attack anything "Russian", the more we frame ourselves not as an enemy of the war but as an enemy of the Russian people and even the Russian culture. And far from achieving a de-escalation, this just seems it will inevitably march us that much closer to WW3.
> (~10.7cm)

Maybe also X cm x Y cm
Do I miss something,but isn't the real solution for this to elect using proportional representation?
VASAviation have posted the full ATC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MDwzNtDMlA

Unfortunately, the instructor-led talkdown was done via a phone call.
They can do a lot of things. None which are good for Russia but their leaders might perceive this as a direct threat to their sovereignty and take extreme measures.

Either they stop this now or it's all over anyway.
This is reckless - we need to start a path of de-escalation - give Putin an offramp. Get to back to calm waters.

Then let diplomats do their little dances until there is a hopefully more reasonable people in power on both sides.

Nobody wants war.
Mid-2001 - the dot-com I worked for folded. Switched to an enterprise (B2B) company that wanted to bring their legacy systems to the web. Win-win. Pay was conservative but the stability was what I needed then.