skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They really do have the money, but would rather spend it on Lamborghinis and coke.
IDK, according to the graph on CoinMarketCap it has been down to mid-to-low 90s several times in the past, e.g. in early 2020.

Sure it's been really stable for a long time now, but might this just be another "bump"?
In the short term, they have the reserves for sure.

In the short term, this is more of a classic bank-run. The Terra-coin + Luna scared a lot of cryptocoin holders, and now they're running away from another stablecoin.

Even if Bitfinex had the money, the amount of traders leaving USDT has to be a colossal amount. The amount of money Bitfinex can transfer at any given time is limited, so the peg will bend and buckle.

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The big question is: does Bitfinex have enough reserves to weather the storm? Not just this short-term storm, but the whole shebang that's about to happen? We will find out... eventually.

UST / Luna had substantial reserves. But it clearly wasn't enough. Probably because Anchor promised 20% gains and there was simply more UST in existence than the amount of USD put into that system.
Really? I've worked most of my professional life with Java and that's never been the case. Teams were always fairly small, 3 to 5 people. The 20-people (!!!) team you mentioned in your anecdote sounds like it would have failed with any technology.

A better characterization of Java is: reliable, battle-tested, bureaucratic, needlessly verbose, and used for many enterprisey (aka boring) projects. That doesn't match Zapp's personality: he's brash, self-promoting, ignorant, deluded about his own importance and accomplishments, and cruel to subordinates -- who do the actual work.

So Salesforce is a far better match. Failing that, an Engineer Manager job would also suit Zapp.

Hermes is a better match for Java, at least for bureaucracy and suitability for mind-boggingly boring tasks.
As an utter n00b in modern web (all ends, front and back) development, what does it even mean that "static" sites are free, but so is also running Postgres?

If I have a "static" site, then I can't have any backend code that talks to the database, is that it? So the actual web pages can't use client-side Javascript to customize page content by talking to a backend, that talks to a database?
I find your remark strange: the author is mainly comparing the scalability of Rust vs C.

C++ does provide tools to build scalable software, and was already doing so in 1998 (few new features on this front since 98 I guess? Maybe modules, but using them for portable development in 2022 looks difficult given their state in compilers that aren't MSVC). I don't think this is a reason to prefer C++ over Rust (if anything, the tools for encapsulation and modularization provided by C++ are way less convenient and efficient than Rust's--speaking from experience of C++14 and Rust here). Also C++ has the massive drawbacks of lacking ADT, forcing headers on users (which is elaborated in the post I believe) and not offering a "safe mode" like Rust does (the tooling is also massively better, but somehow cargo felt like a hindrance to the author of that post, so there's that).

It did surprise me that the author wouldn't elaborate on why C++ was not chosen, when her argument made it look like it could provide some of the advantages she found in Rust. However, she doesn't *have to* elaborate on every possible subject in that post, and implying she doesn't know the language (anymore) because of her not focusing on the reasons she didn't use it looks like a dubious stretch.
Wow that looks fantastic. Sadly I have to cut back on buying dev toys that I never end up using, but I wish you all the best.
"If you don't have your own story, you become part of someone else's."

- Captain of an unknown boat in Castlevania s3e3
Nice, living in glass-house with no curtains! Who do you want to be seen by today?
AlloyDB is nothing but their own forked version of Postgres with some improvements. Neither it's open source nor up-streamed to validate their claims.

Android/iOS releases for past 4 years, you can simply skip and you don't notice any changes in Visual/New Features/Performance aspect
You see, countries are formed by white people. What existed before can be safely ignored.

Really shocking how an immigrant describing his decades long naturalization process has triggered so many white men!
Nope. Someone else already announced what they’re doing at least a year before and also, it’s Google, who don’t have a good reputation among colleagues and friends. We all have our own Google horror stories that invoke disinterest in their products and services.
Hahaha that’s true.
They are actually redeeming them on their website for anyone that wants to.

> @paoloardoino
GM
Reminder that tether is honouring USDt redemptions at 1$ via http://tether.to .
>300M redeemed in last 24h without a sweat drop.
12:38 AM · May 12, 2022·
That’s cool, but writing a coding blog with fake markup might confuse people. This is feedback. Not insults.
Would BTC be worth buying at sub-$2k?

I never saw the use-case for it.

I’d sooner use a faster, cheaper, more energy-efficient, more centralized crypto like XLM or XRP.

But even then: for payments it’s hard to compete with Visa/Mastercard for speed and safety.

And as a store of value all crypto is crazy volatile.

If BTC goes sub $2k, would anybody reasonably want it anymore or would the emperor have no clothes?
When did supabase start supporting analytical worklods?
Check out Moo2Mod [0], by far the best mod for MoO2.

[0]: https://moo2mod.com/
My study isn’t peer reviewed or anything so it’s just like my life or whatever, but it helped me save my life. I don’t know why it was effective, I was skeptical throughout. I still am. But it was one of the most effective treatments for severe acute anxiety I’ve ever had, it not the most effective.
I always thought that in such a situation ATC would get a flight instructor with experience on that plane to the mic as quick as possible.

I have a couple of landings in a commercial simulator (A380 and 747). It is manageable in good weather and in proper landing configuration. But I would have no idea how to operate the instruments properly. I'd need someone very familiar with the plane to talk me into the proper configuration.
While true, I believe it doesn't significantly change the tradeoff between Rust and C++.

Also, nothing in the post lets us infer that the author doesn't know C++11 and later.
Yeah, Sony cameras are higher number models are higher positioned models. Canon is lower number is higher positioned models. But they follow a very boring number/variant/generation naming scheme. At least until they announced the a1 which is positioned above the a9.

Then there's Nikon that just decided to pick numbers outta a hat.
The people who pay for RHEL want the stability. So a faster-updating OS is technically superior but requires more regular testing & development work from the customer side.
I give it 3 months :p
But seriously GCP products are rarely discontinued if not ever.
The main difference is that in the western use of needles they don't really follow paths on the body, you just work over an area to create the spasms that result in a knot loosening etc.
Technically, i guess they could "have a little trouble acting so fast", buying everything at $0.9 and back up to $1, and pocket the difference, scolding people for their lack of faith.

Practically? Yeah, it's goner.
Entirely agree with that assessment. All my clients love the Kirby backend and as a developer it’s a pleasure to work with the system.

Documentation for first-time users could be better though. The YAML page structure took some time to wrap my head around. Also, as it’s flat-file, backups are trivial – just copy the folder or commit everything to a VCS.
Right, trying to compare GDP and "market cap" is like trying to compare the Amazon river with Lake Michigan.
Yeah, this shit creates chaos and makes it impossible to get a good read on the market. Wouldn't be surprised to see a record BTC ATH, though for ignominious reasons
A Tale of a Trailing Dot
> Our brief experimentation with Qt Widgets, on the other hand, revealed a shocking level of dysfunction in basic UI-layout implementation, in what is supposed to be a very mature UI toolkit.

That matches my experience. Getting Qt Widgets to resize in an even remotely sane way proved to be just about impossible.
May be transmitting to ATC with proper terminologies was learnt by watching the pilot do it? I assume there's not much to do as a passenger in a small aircraft like Cessna 208?

Btw, This got me curious and looked into Rowan Atkinson's (Mr. Bean) similar plane incident[1] where he supposedly maintained control of the aircraft mid-air when his pilot was incapacitated and the pilot recovered eventually to land the plane. All information on this incident points to Rowan not having any prior flying experience.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_Atkinson#Plane_incident
NO U

If you really think this limo logo is due to Mormonism, let us see your evidence.
I figure it might be an outlier, it takes 6-10hrs to get decent at landing (that is to say reliably) but doing it one time without killing everyone on board can also be attributed to dumb luck - this is with the other assumptions of having maybe been a passenger close to pilot, MSFS etc.
I think it's too specific an acronym to be a coincidence, and if you read "Going Postal", it's a pretty clear love letter to the hacker culture, so in my mind officially recognized or not, the connection with FSF is there
“Will Tether collapse by the end of 2022?”: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/9121/tether-to-collapse-...

Community Prediction: 33%

My Prediction: 50%
Ask HN: Choose Etcd or Consul?
Commits of Consul are getting more and more active, and the development of Etcd is slowing down a lot.
Ref https://ossinsight.io/analyze/etcd-io/etcd?vs=hashicorp%2Fconsul
FTA: Overall, there was still a large amount of excitement and curiosity about nogil mode from the attendees.

⇒ I don’t see this as a team of worn-down maintainers, but rather as a team of seasoned developers, who know you don’t turn a project with millions of users around on a dime.

One question I miss is whether the set of locks this change introduces is the optimal one.

I would think that, if it were to be improved upon in the future, C extensions would have to be changed again, so you’d rather not do that often.
Google will allow users to control how ads are personalized on Search, YouTube
There is a correlation between BTC and GPU / graphics card price.
And there's the stupid quantities of energy devoted to mining.

At some point, processing bitcoin will become uneconomic. It will then be unspendable, and the price will then drop to zero.
You love to see it happen. Truly love to see it.
Well for web dev it would be simpler because you can get rid of workers which in turn reduces the overall memory footprint of applications since the code is shared, the local caches are shared and the connections are shared.

Edit: For backend services it would probably put Python around one order of magnitude away from Go in terms of memory usage to serve the same load, enough for teams not to consider switching.
Lots of people are irreparably damaged by toxic workplaces. One of the insidious things about it is the amount of physiological and mental damage being done may not be consciously noticed until far too late. Even to the point of suicide, heart attacks, etc...

Many companies view their workers as a consumable resource, that they can burn up as much as they like. After they burn you out, they bring in the next "victim".
This kind of company ideology also attracts sadistic and psycho managers to it, who enjoy creating and inflicting stress and trauma on those they have rank or control over.

These days, it is better for workers to make their mental and physical health a priority. Always be looking for a better company, work environment, or an option that's more suitable. If the difference is between being happy or losing your health, remember that there is no going back or use for money, when you are dead. So a person should take any bad work environments or sadistic supervisors as the "dead serious" threat to their life and happiness as it truly is.
Flutter is miles ahead of React Native at least in this regard
Stabilization by symmetric bank runs.pdf
I love Xperias design. But my experience with one was terrible. It came with a snapdragon processor that the phone couldn't properly cool down so if I had the camera app opened for more than 30 seconds, I'd get an alert saying that the app had to be automatically closed due to high temperature.
He did and was cautiously optimistic on the mailing list.
The glitchy / beta (alpha?) level performance testing tools introduced by Google in the last two years have also been contributing to the lower scores and the constant changing of the scoring metrics has not helped developers such as myself get a strong hold on what Google wants. We are just now within the last 6 months really getting a strong foothold on things like CLS when using page builder plugins such as SiteOrigin Page Builder. They added a features in October last year that really knocks the CLS to zero and we've seen mobile scores way up in the 90-100 range now. WordPress can perform well with a well implemented caching system such as the one WPEngine setup on Google Cloud.
The immigrants are here in the millions already. Look around you - unless you are in some bumfuck county with no economy.
I don't think they are backed. Too many signs suggesting otherwise.
How about not buying goods made in China anymore? That could prove hard though..
Since when are links to random forum posts allowed for this type of stuff?
Google develop products for three reasons :
a) To maintain (and hopefully increase) ad revenue, their cash cow.
b) To attempt to diversify from this single source of income. Except this will never happen, nothing will ever come close to the income ads generate for them. They know this, but they have to look like they’re trying, both internally and externally.
c) To create a false sense with the masses that they are a cutting edge technology company, to maintain the Google brand and thus keep people using Search. This includes things like Google Glass, silly natural language toys, self driving cars, etc. None of these things are even intended for mass production / consumption. Google IO is merely a showcase for these technology throw-aways, nothing more.
I love watching the bubble collapse.
Enso (YC S21) Is Hiring Rust Developer
Matt Levine characterised these schemes as

> The basic structure of the trade is (1) Ponzi, (2) acceptance, (3) diversification, (4) permanence

But it seems backing it with a virtual currency that can go to zero and diversification with another virtual currency wasn't a sound plan.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-11/terra-...

Crypto has become forever mired with the worst parts of banking and none of the benefits of currencies backed by entities with reserves that have value, and supported by laws, taxes, and large militaries.
Here's an example: embedding Python in other applications. Out of the box it's impossible to just start running scripts at will from multiple threads. Which happens to be what our application does, because as you say we want some speed/concurrency so have a backend running multiple threads C#/C++. But on top of that some things are customised in Python, and now we use IronPython which has no GIL so that all just works. Is this a huge game changer? As a whole, no, but for us: yes it would be awesome if we could just use Python.Net (which is just a layer over CPython) out of the box without having to deal with it's GIL.
COVID was unknown. It's perfectly reasonable to shut things down when there's an unknown disease going around, even if it turns out not quite apocalyptic.
Performance is not binary. If you can be productive with Python and get closer to your performance goal, you get the best of both worlds. A lot of people who aren't primarily programmers don't have time to write everything in C++ (or keep up with development in that area). A more performant Python is a huge win for everybody.
> and now they're running away from another stablecoin.

From another not so stable coin. Fixed that for you.
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You can believe whatever you like, but the fact is that changes in C++11 and C++20 change the tradeoff between C++ and Rust in fundamental ways. The only way anyone could believe otherwise would be by knowing precious little about the topic.
Or we could realize that we already have socialized healthcare, just in the stupidest most expensive way, at the ER (who can not refuse anyone service) and change it to a more effective way. No one is arguing that ERs should turn dieing people away, so we not only have it, but it's pretty much universally supported. Now we just need to agree to have it in a better form.
I was not an employee so this could not be really accurate but, I would say:

- There was way too much bureaucracy.

- Software, security, design choices were decided by some kind of committee that didn't have sufficient expertise.

- Competition between teams.

- They wanted to do scrum, without knowing how to do it.

I think their actual expertise was focused on hardware design and manufacture (they build and assemble most of their hardware components in their own factory), and probably firmware devevelopment.
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The fact that they've been minting billions of tether without collateral should make it abundantly obvious that this isn't a stablecoin and never had been. Anyone can pretend to have a peg in the good times, that doesn't mean there's really a peg or that the peg will remain in bad times. And if you can't count on the peg in bad times, it's not a stablecoin. If you've been honestly working on the assumption that it is, then you deserve to lose your (real) money to some crypto VCs on an island somewhere.

And this doesn't only apply to crypto, look at how many countries with currency pegs can maintain that when their economy turns down, and then look at how many people actually seek to own the currency at that point rather than a currency backed by something (like a gigantic economy).
Even if the medical sector would use plastics nowhere, a sudden vanishing of electrical insulators would be catastrophic.
>For example, Chrome Desktop, Firefox, and IE did not enforce HPKP if they encountered a cert from a user-added CA. Why does Android do the opposite? I don't see the threat model they are addressing.

From what I understand in the post, desktop Chrome and Android Chrome are the same. If you add the user-added CA to the user store, it doesn't need CT. If you add the user-added CA to the system store, it does need CT. On desktop, everyone adds them to the user store. On Android, most reverse engineers added them to the system store, which causes the problem.

> I don't see the threat model they are addressing.

The idea is that if it's in the system store, Chrome thinks it must be a real CA and thus needs to follow real CA rules, whereas if it's in the user store, it's a weird CA that the user likes and wants to be treated specially, so the CA doesn't need to follow the rules.

To focus more in on threats: a system CA is a big juicy target for hackers or malicious governments, because it can issue a cert that any device will trust, so it needs lots of oversight, like CT. As opposed to a user CA, which is something tiny, that likely only this specific user trusts, so it's not a big target for hackers, and thus doesn't need to follow CT. This whole thing breaks down if the user adds a cert into the system store, because then Chrome thinks it's a big target and needs a lot of oversight, when actually it's a tiny target and doesn't.

Disclosure: Google employee
Look at the front page of https://coinmarketcap.com/

There are 10114 different coins listed. Even if cryptos will deliver on the promises of the fully decentralized future, are we going to need that many different instruments?

Today practically all merchants takes Visa and Mastercard. Some even take Amex, and a minuscule amount take BTC. Does anyone take a coin from page 73 of coinmarketcap.com?
> they clearly have a bit of trouble with cost/benefit analysis if the complaint is that the test count will double in CI for a ~16X increase in the amount of code that can be run in parallel on even consumer machines

You can already use multiple cores by writing C extensions that release the GIL and with multiprocessing. That double CI cost and additional work isn't just for core python but for the entire ecosystem.
You need to show up with $100k to do the redemption. Granted if you did the round trip with only $10k you’re looking at peanuts in arbitrage but it _is_ a way for them to prevent real arbitrage that feeds into itself.

I bet the fact that people wanting to short don’t believe they have the funds doesn’t help. But hey if you are a millionaire short tether might be worth setting up the recurring trade out!
I'm curious what is your background to have this crazy to me ideas.

Are you from some BRICS country?

Russians with Austrians and Prussians have destroyed the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795. They were forcing russification on us. After we regained independence we had to go trough another war with Soviet Russia in 1919. Fortunately, we stood our ground in 1920. But then we got attacked by Germans on 1st of September 1939 and backstabbed by Soviets on 17th of September.

Both Germans and Soviets proceeded to mass execute Poles. Both were attempting to destroy Poland. Under direct orders of Stalin Soviets mass executed Poles in Katyń Massacre. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Poles were send to Siberia to camps of long death.

My grandmother lived trough the second world war. She still remembers hiding as a small girl from Russian speaking soldiers who were raping children and women indiscriminately.

My grandmother managed to escape Poland before the martial law of 1981. The quality of life in the west was incomparably better than in the communist block.

If CIA was involved with Solidarność I can only be grateful to USA. I'm really grateful to my parents generation who decided to join EU and NATO right after they kicked out communist regime. My grandmother visited Poland for the first time some 6 years after we joined EU. She could not believe how much better life was in Poland at that time.

Today, I work in Belgium, I studied in Netherlands and live in Finland with my Finish girlfriend. I'm welcomed as a friend and equal everywhere. European Union is what Europeans for hundreds of years of unending wars could only dream about.

But Russia is bend on dragging us back. NO!
To add: BitPrime was a very small operation. They do have 22 people on their about us page, but I would guess most of those are founders, sweat-equity, or intern-like (few salaried, even though salaries in NZ are wayyy lower than US).

> wants to buy, say $100m of an asset

https://www.bitprime.co.nz/about-us/ says:

Victories
Crypto Bought:2M+
Crypto Sold: 90M+
Users: 30K+

Very small. This isn't a sign of cryptogeddon.
Bare-Metal STM32: Using the I2C Bus in Master-Transceiver Mode
Wow! This is moving really fast, forget what I've said. xD
Video-to-reels: A tool to automatically edit videos to post on Instagram Reels
I'm curious if anyone can comment on their experience using the HTML renderer.
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And all of this butthurt anger because an immigrant dared to describe his decades long legal immigration process.

How dare this immigrant talk about his never ending struggle.

Shut up and put up or else white man's feelings are hurt. And don't call me a bigot either.
Steve and Larry share their employees salaries with each other to avoid a bidding war over top talent.

Lucy finds out and orders Steve and Larry to stop doing that.

Now Steve shares salary data with Teddy and Teddy tells Steve what the market average is.
Larry also shares salary data with Teddy and also learns what the market average is.

No collusion! But the effect is the same. That's why they earn the big bucks.