skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not care about the Google IO. But my reasons are far from everyone else's.

I work in ML. And if there's any thing that is cool and/or I should care about, it always trickles down to me within some weeks.
The article doesn't explain how they've been able to keep the "affordable glass" competition out of the market though. Natural monopolies are quite rare. My intuition is that this is not a free market and there is some degree of regulatory capture. I'm guessing not just anyone can set up shop and start manufacturing/selling cheap prescription glasses? Can you import them easily?
Well, if your 'advisors' (usually indicated in reddit/twitter as people 'much smarter than me' by which they mean devs who work on blockchain projects and 'financial gurus' who post a lot of charts with arrows pointing 'in the right direction' (which wasn't hard the past few years as it was generally just 'up' unless Musk posted something)) say it's a sure thing and suddenly you are at the start of a recession with massive inflation and your entire savings wiped out... It is hard to blame them; saying 'it is only money' works when you have money. Luckily there is quite a bit of help and helplines to talk them down.
Fresno is a big city with airport and major facilities and nearer to Yosemite range.
It is totally worth noting that, at least in the case of F-1 VISAs (student VISAs), you can ask for an expedited appointment. I personally helped someone out* who did this and got an appointment in two weeks, while the original appointment would have had a 10 month wait time.

* Because I'd been through this process before, that is.
Maybe it was just friendliness towards Russian people? This war is entirely political. Most Russians don't seem to want to invade other countries.
>> Store serialized state

Learnt recently that Base64 encoding and decoding in JS doesn't quite handle Unicode strings. One solution[1] is to URI encode/decode the text (e.g. JSON):

base64 = btoa(encodeURIComponent( str ))

str = decodeURIComponent(atob( base64 ))

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Base64#the...
It sounds like a joke, but yes, it is the things you can buy that determine a currency’s utility:

Drugs, remittance, ransom, exiting a crashing fiat, and a 21st century gambling experience.
Borrow tether on AAVE/Compound and sell it.
I know that this is completely off-topic but I need to know: how do you make a HN post that has a link _and_ text at the same time? Seems like this form[1] does not allow that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/submit
Here's one argument: plastics aren't all that recyclable.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-laun...
How else will you find out what this years new messaging app will be?
An important distinction between Terra (what is being described there) and Tether (what this thread is discussing), is that Tether claims to be backed by real assets.
> Nobody deserves to be exploited, robbed or otherwise for any reason.

Well they tried to exploit, rob or otherwise me, that is, getting money from thin air without creating any value. How is that fair in any moral system?

(That wasn't what GP said tho.)
Well it definitely does improve the security on the "Wordpress" part, but there's still the custom plugins to worry about. Sure, the Woo* plugins and other premium offerings are great, but there's still lots of niche plugins that don't work together with each other, or break on newer WP versions, etc.
> it's much easier to con a greedy person.

Or a desperate person.
I believe tether will be back above .99 and stay there at the end of the week.

Free pizza on whoever is wrong.
This seems interesting, and I do not know much about this space.

What are some alternatives aside from Gumroad?

How do they compare?
Had to come back because this upset me so much. Here we have an elite person functioning at an incredibly elite level with the strength to reveal their weakness publically with nothing to gain from it but maybe helping others they don't even know and your response is to attack them as being priveledged or coddled. This isn't a seven year old not wanting to go to school and needing to learn a lesson that sometimes we have to work hard. This person has proven themselves already.

Dude your attitude is the reason people don't talk. The reason people OD. The reason they turn to self medicating or self harm. FU! You want an unacceptable view take a look at yourself. If someone has the courage to tell you they are hurting be a God damn human being and understand that they are hurting and don't respond with saying they really shouldn't say anything.
Anne Applebaum can't be "caught out lying" or smeared - because she is doing her job.

Who's going to correct her? The governance structure supports her, has put her where she is, to do the job that she doing - perfectly!

The governance structure would only attack her (or allow for her to be attacked) if she had stepped out of line, reporting on something that isn't on message. But they certainly won't find anything on her!

I notice you don't comment on my info on Zelensky and the Panama papers. Isn't that newsworthy? Is that not a lie by omission?

I mention it because Applebaum is fine to broach offshore issues apparently, and fine to laud Zelensky - but why are his long-term offshore activities unknown to the masses? Would it be because we - the good guys - are as propagandised as the baddies? We're even more propagandised, I'd say.
> There's also https://github.com/valence-native/valence-native that uses Qt.

There's been more than a year without a commit in this project, I'm not going to say it's abandoned yet but that's not that far off I guess, good luck with the issues you'll encounter.

> You can wrap the React Native Web target in Tauri or Electron for Linux.

That's one of the only realistic solution for now in my opinion.
Anecdotal experience, but I spent 2 years studying medicine and during those years I did notice my memory getting much better (due to the large material one should learn), even my working memory - and it was the same way for my classmates as well.

Unfortunately since then it receded, so you sort of have to use it afterwards as well (What I use for CS is more of like indexing then memorization — I remember quite well whether I have met an information and where (often remembering the query that will show me the same page))
Yeah, this is the dark side of all this "diamond hands", "to the moon" bullshit. A handful of winners, a majority of losers, and some people going complete bankrupt because they are foolish.
They don't have to stick the entire $80bn in one bank.

It is the lack of transparency around the CP that is raising eyebrows. Why can't Tether list the papers they are invested in? It is such a simple thing to do.

Could be all their CP holdings are in one company :)
If you put your money in some risky 'investment' that you don't fully understand and lose you made a bad decision, you are not a victim.

It's like if you burn your money in a Las Vegas casino.
You're perfectly describing the sunk cost fallacy. The naifs who overcomitted on a "guaranteed win" investment can't walk back from it because that would mean giving up on a lot (e.g. 50% or more) of their investments, which often as you said isn't money they really had "lying around" (even your retirement fund isn't really disposable once you actually need to retire on it). The failure to achieve the promised growth paradoxically converts them into true believers because they see no way out without admitting they ruined their lives.

A lot of crypto grifters (and even mainstream celebrities) have been actively encouraging these people to sink literally all their capital in coins or NFTs with unrealistic promises and FOMO. They did this because they knew it would work and drive up prices enough for them to be able to cash out by dumping their worthless void money on the unwashed masses.
Yes. Drivers represent enormous amounts of work and large parts of the overall development/IP effort in a GPU. Asking why nVidia don't open source it is like asking why they don't just open source the entire GPU. Answer: because then they'd have a much smaller and less valuable business, if they even had a business at all.
In a volatile market, when most of the trades happen, a trading platform run out of money. Aha.
Absolutely. I graduated with an Associate's degree from De Anza while already working in industry, then transferred to Cal State to complete my B.S. in C.S.
I did it all while working and all without taking out a single student loan or any external (like family) support.
I am convinced that obesity is directly linked to us switching over from saturated fats to unsaturated fats.
Selected solar system objects to scale in size, rotation speed and axial tilt
I'm not sure the situation is comparable to Terra.

If you can't read the Y-axis on a graph, and you only look at the last 7 days, then it looks like Tether has gone off a cliff.

If you read the Y-axis you'll see it's barely moved, and if you zoom the graph out, it's barely a blip compared to previous deviations in price.

Now it may well be that Tether is also heading to zero, but it's very different from the Terra fluctuations.

Check the following graphs for both 7 days and all time

0: Tether https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/

1: Terra https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/terrausd/
That's no how money works, money is mostly created by demand (93 to 97% in developped countries with efficient banking system). And that money is easy to destroy too, you could destroy 93% of existing dollars by reimbursing the debt owned by household, companies and US government.
> There's been more than a year without a commit in this project, I'm not going to say it's abandoned yet but that's not that far off I guess, good luck with the issues you'll encounter.

Or it's stable? Look at the codebase, it's a pretty dead simple bridge. Make your app open source and all those Linux devs you're supporting can help you out!

> That's one of the only realistic solution for now in my opinion.

Yup, and you get it for free with if you build your app with RN and React Native Web.
My issue is that these people are smart, but not "I work at Blackrock as a day-trader smart". In Finance, there are laws against a lot of the easy wins, and now the professionals are entering the Crypto space they're going to run circles around the amateurs.

As in, it's easy to be the best in your local club, but it's a real wake-up call when you try out at a regional.
I agree about your characterization of people announcing the impending death, but it is already back at $0.98
Fill in the first two entries for Title and URL and have "Show HN: " in the beginning of the title, that should work (or Show HN submissions, not sure about other kinds of posts.
USDT is fine? It's been off-peg all day.

I hope if you've got some you've read their terms and conditions.

Do you remember the 42Mil fine they paid a couple of years ago for not actually holding reserves? I'm sure they're honest now though
Telemetry is essential thing to understand how service is used. It leads to better service for all users.

In the case you mention, it should be IMO up to you to prevent this, probably via firewall.

Having standard telemetry environment variable might be for the best. There is a risk in this case to disable telemetry systematically though, even if you want to just block it in one app, which is also not something I as vendor of many tools would want.

This is probably not easy to fix for everybody to be happy. And its probably not that important for security - there are FAR easier way to deduce something about someone then to 1) hack microsoft telemetry servers or transit 2) look into the patterns of use of specific programs. Besides, telemetry data is anonymous. So I guess even in the case you get the data, what could you do with it ? I can send you billion of telemetry data of government services I make, you can only deduce that people start working at 7AM and get lots of passwords wrong before first coffee.
By that logic they still "deserve" it less than any of the crypto grifters that were able to cash out with orders of magnitude ROIs.
Even the studies that assume a lot of people are lying to stay safe are saying at least 60% of Russians support the war and Putin.
VCs don't make all their money from exits. A lot comes from fund management fees. Investing (someone else's) money in a business and then charging 5% from managing that investment is quite lucrative when the values are high enough.
> according to their industry, WordPress is leading the security space

It's not the marketing industry. It's just that some people have this tendency of conflating popularity with supreme quality. "It can't be bad if it's popular".

Specialists in the marketing industry knows very well that outdated Wordpress is a minefield.
I have been saying this for over five years and never had even an attempt at a rebuttal. Most people in crypto with a clue simply accept it as a fact. USDT needs to die for the market to have any sensibility at all.

Six years ago daily usdt volumes would not break 3 percent of bitcoin trade volume. Now they routinely break three hundred percent. It is an indisputable scam and needs the flush it so richly deserves. And I say this as somebody pro crypto who honestly wants to see legitimate crypto do what it can for the world. Transparently manipulating this market the way it has for so long now is not doing that. We need real prices.
Goodness, Rexx. I’m pretty sure I got the job at IBM when I was a kid because I already knew Rexx on the 390, ARexx on the Amiga, and the OS/2 version. I also knew HLASM and ia32 assembler, so I was instantly useful with no further training.

Thanks for the career Rexx!
I'll just repeat r/buttcoin's mantra:

This is good for Bitcoin.

Get the popcorn, we're in for a ride (I hope.)
"stablecoins in general" doesn't really apply here since the two in question work radically different. Collateralized vs Algorithmic. Theoretically the Terra UST stable coin didn't need reserves to keep the peg at $1, unlike Tether USDT, which does.
If it was I'd honestly pull back.

Cryptocurrency has a future and Bitcoin is as necessarily part of it as much as Netscape and Yahoo were necessary for the web. (Or US robotics and compuserve, pick your loser)

The thing itself can survive the collapse of the current winners.
It has been out for a serious while though, just in a very high quality beta. I've personally been using it just fine, though for nothing too complicated
Putin's pan to not let NATO on Russian borders worked out great.
As far as I know dry needling causes the muscles to contract. This squeezes the acids out of the muscles causing a better blood flow afterwards. So as far as I know this is almost the same as a massage but more localized.

But as with a massage, if the cause of the knot in the muscle it not taken away the effect will only be temporarily (couple of days maybe).
The Finnish political system was infiltrated by Russian assets (willing or just useful fools) for decades
[0]. Luckily this has abated in the last decades. The people have deep suspicion of the Russian state but no particular animosity towards russian people in general.

Most finns, especially the young generations, feel most affinity towards west in every sense.

The Finnish language is Finno-Ugric and unrelated to slavic tongues hence there is a huge language gap. Finns don't as a rule undertand russian.

The political and judicial system is based on western principles.

So Russia in general is a very alien entity not only linguistically but culturally as well.

The signal that drove to this was two-fold - first Russia at the end of last year forbade Sweden and Finland joining NATO, clearly signaling it considers these states as "it's property".

Then the war in Ukraine - Bucha and Mariupol - turned the perception of Russia into complete Mordor in a single stroke. It was very easy to replace Bucha and Mariupol with Finnish cities in ones imagination - and we still have people who remember the sound of Russian bombers striking our cities from '40s.

Finns in general do not exacerbate political tensions one way or another and are used to a mostly consensus-seeking political process. So not sure what signals you interpreted as "friendly" and what was just "common politeness".

The relationship with Russia is a bit conflicted - Finland rose from a dirt poor agrarian state to a fledling industrial state when it was a grand dutchy under a personal union with the Russian czar (so "part of Russia" but also "not part of Russia"). Most of the historical goodwill - if any - was destroyed by the russification attempts starting in late 19th century and were more or less eradicated during the second world war as Stalin tried to conquer Finland.

The war in Ukraine has made the Russian state appear twisted, dark, deranged and unpredictable for decades to come.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandization
Note that while it's a good proxy this isn't same as going to the issuer (https://tether.to) and getting 1USD in exchange for 1USDT. Tether is still honouring 1-1 conversion for a minimum of $100K.
My view is that nvidia's hardware can work however they want it to. FOSS firmware would be cool in the same way that FOSS hardware would be cool, but it's not something I expect. I also don't care that much whether the proprietary firmware is stored on on-board flash and programmed from the factory or if it's uploaded by my OS when the driver is loaded.

But I would prefer if the code I run in userspace or kernelspace is FOSS.
genuine question - why does the asset need to be backed? more specifically - who would you need to give the physical currency to?
Every good con relies on greed. The fact that the con artist is a criminal doesn’t make the victim of a con any less greedy. I am thinking of the many crypto fanboys here who have been repeatedly told this is a large ponzi scheme. They had plenty of warnings. I don’t have a huge amount of sympathy for them loosing money. Doesn’t mean the con artists shouldn’t face criminal prosecution (if they broke the law, it’s not a crime to sell tulips to people who think the tulip is worth all of their savings).
Why not use Render.com or Fly.io? There are many competitors nowadays.
Arbitrageurs putting up buy walls at 0.98. Just wait until they ate up Tether's liquidity.
Could you explain that, or give some examples?

I am baffled by your comment. I can't think of anything that fits.
You give me a dollar, I give you a digital currency equivalent. When you need your real USD back, you tell me and I give it to you. That means in an ideal world, you have your stable coins backed 1:1 with real USD.

Of course, this isn’t always the case, and with Tether, there has been much scrutiny over the years that they do not have the USD collateral to back their stablecoin.

Ok, but let’s assume Tether has the USD. Why is it depegging? This is most likely due to sell pressure and Tether’s ability to liquidate their USD holdings. I think Tether has more than enough real USD to deal with the sell pressure we’re seeing now, but the system is having a hard time keeping up.
> the legislature would have 5,000 people in it — clearly not realistic.

Perhaps one solution would be for those 5,000 people to be entrusted with the job of picking (for each bill being considered) 100 "second-level representatives" to go forward and do the hard work of debating and evaluating proposals and reaching consensus.

These SLRs could be a mixture of subject matter experts and people good at political logrolling, so that the legislation which passed would reflect the priorities of the 5,000 representatives (and their voters) while still allowing a meaningful discussion to take place and shape the result.
> convince yourself that 20% interest is a safe investment

So what you're saying is people shouldn't expect to be able to massively multiply their wealth, but that directly contradicts the narrative that "anyone can make it" instead of the wealth and opportunities you're born into determining the likely upper limit of what you can hope for.

I'm not disagreeing, but it's absurd to condemn people for falling for "get rich quick" schemes (and as far as those go 20% is unusually low) when the entire society is built around maintaining the lie that getting rich quick is possible as long as you "work smart" (i.e. don't rely on your own physical labor to make money).
In modern C++, you get the same benefits as are claimed for "lifetime annotations" by operating at a higher level. In effect, a library may adopt responsibility for what the Rust compiler would have enforced, and where it matters, they routinely do. This is no substantial burden. As a result, it has been a very long time since I last encountered a lifetime problem in my C++ code. Sum types work fine in C++. Pattern matching is an extra notational convenience on top of them.

Rust has many nice convenience features, but lacks numerous other powerful features C++ provides. But this is not a good place to go into detail. If you care, there is plenty of material online. The point remains that comparisons, if done at all, should be done based on knowledge about current facts, not suppositions and hearsay.
>Citation?

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/59327

This has been a long-standing issue that has completely ruled out Flutter for us. E.g, the Flutterfolio idle login screen uses 14% CPU on my Mac. For a while it sounded like Google was saying that it can't be fixed. But I think they have done some work to address this issue. I'll be very interested in finding out whether it has been fixed in Flutter 3.
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Dai and USDC is trading at a premium. The market is deciding which ones will survive.
I think this assumption that cross platform UI solutions can’t be extremely fast is a very strange one.

There have been some bad efforts at this in the past which is maybe how you arrived at the conclusion but the concept of Flutter is pretty straightforward and not dissimilar to games in some sense where you just need to push pixels to a screen.

They even have a some game engineers who used to work at EA on the team. One even wrote a popular book on it https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/

Like in short, Flutter is going to be fine. It compiles to native code that just needs to push pixels to a screen, it has a bunch of smart people on it and some extremely heavy incentives to get this right.
That’s an odd example, since she wasn’t even up for election, she was “nominated”. At least two German political parties complained about backroom deals and an undemocratic process.
Agreed, really easy to read, yet so we'll explained on the issues, nice light style with just the right amount of humour. Really liked it.
Very limited anecdotal evidence: about the same as native apps on my android phone. (measured by counting out loud and trying some random apps)
You cannot use Casey's code (GPL) in Terminal (MIT). But he has explained his model. Issue is iirc what he proposed and how Terminal works significantly differ.
Well, they (and most other smartphone makers) "converged" all interfaces into USB-C. I personally use wireless headphones, but is using a USB-C-to-headphone-plug adapter (which you usually get with the phone) really that much of a hassle?
> Most Russians don't seem to want to invade other countries.

Most Russians that a typical HN user would encounter — English-speaking, educated, probably with skills in demand inside and outside Russia — don't.

Typical Russians, on the other hand, are quite openly fascist at this point.
Why do you need to have the phone, beyond the initial registration?
Clever approach! You can extend it to all even dimensions by following the same approach to get:

P[point inside 2n-ball] = (π/4)^n P[x1 + x2 + ... + xn < 1 | x ~ U([0,1]^n)]

Instead of the area below a triangle we have the volume inside a unit simplex, or 1/n!, and of course the volume of the 2n-cube is 2^(2n) or 4^n, giving the 2n-ball’s volume as:

(π/4)^n 4^n / n! = π^n / n!
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