skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moderna might get bailed out...though I am skeptical how they would justify having so much cash in Tether rather than an actual bank and as such I highly doubt they would get terms as favorable as the banks got in 2008.

Tether itself certainly would not get bailed. There is literally zero chance that the US Government would decide to help keep Tether pegged. Tether simply isn't important enough to the broader economy, it only exists so that sketchy businesses that have trouble interacting with banks can have an easier access.
I guess there's really a couple different failure modes for a pegged coin:

1. The backing organization isn't actually fully backing the coin with the backing currency. Too many people try to sell the coin at once, and the backing organization goes bankrupt.

2. The backing currency loses its real value, so that you can no longer exchange it for goods and services. You can buy as many as you want from your pegged coin, but all your money is gone. This could happen if the backing currency is another volatile coin, or if it is a fiat currency subject to hyperinflation.

I read Matt Levine's article on UST, and by his account it fell victim to the second failure mode: as holders lost confidence, the value backing Luna coin went down toward 0, due to the backing mechanism diluting the supply ad infinitum. Right now, Luna is at a low but positive value (in USD), and Terra has lost its peg, mainly because the backing mechanism is too slow. If it were infinitely fast, Luna would become worthless, and Terra would be worth whatever value speculators would gamble it at.

My apologies for the confusion, I got mixed up in the last comment. If you enforced the peg by contract, then you'd need a steady stream of buyers who believe it is valuable. But if you have a backing organization who can always provide a backing currency, then the peg can be maintained through arbitrage alone.
Underground and generally unpopular aesthetic? Really? Biggest sci-fi movie of the 80s? Blade Runner. Biggest sci-fi movie of the 90s? The Matrix. And these aren't just the biggest sci-fi movies, they were huge cultural phenomena when they came out. They definitely transcended the genre. Following those kinds of things the cyberpunk aesthetic became so ingrained in reality we barely even see it anymore. Screens of adverts plaster every new city centre. Even the term 'cyberspace' and other internet slang literally came from cyberpunk novels. All of that is mentioned in the cyberpunk articles. But the point is it's outdated and we need to work beyond it and create something new which can have a similar influence on the future.
Any way is to paste inside a non-textrich area like the browser address bar and then immediately copy the content again to get rid of the styling.
A goal for Nota is to gracefully degrade in the absence of Javascript. This already mostly works, since we do server-side rendering to fully generate the HTML contents of the document before providing it to the client. When you first visit nota-lang.org or willcrichton.net you are seeing the pre-rendered document.
Square state, two Congressional districts, relatively uniform population distribution but one party clustered in one section of state.

Sometimes you get different outcomes if you divide state in half north-south vs. east-west, depending on how the cluster is divided between districts.
> most dynamic languages do have a non-trivial type system

Lol
Coinbase has KYC ("Know your customer") policies explicitly to comply with anti-money laundering.

https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/managing-my-account/up...

Edit: besides that, the point of 'laundering' money is basically to get it into a form where it is officially yours, in the light, with taxes paid. The NFT is a conceivably 'legitimate' transfer of value. I made a thing and sold it for money, and declared and paid tax on the capital gain - boom, legitimate.
If the moves were made at 11 months I'd agree. It'd be really unusual if there was some large vest at the 4 year mark. Unless maybe they've recently been granted something for retention.
CASM can be distributed unimpeded, negating the positive aspects of such technology.
Reminds of that good will hunting quote, "you don't need each other to be perfect but just be perfect for each other". I think too many people have been spoiled by choice and social media, too many long laundry list of wants, too easy to give up when things get tough. A good relationship is a balancing act of loving yourself, loving the other person for who they are and not who you want them to be, and a little of them having traits that are compatible with you.
How so? I addressed exactly the points you raised.

Provided you with reasons why I find him inspiring and others don’t.
Then will all respect I must disagree. I said that I am ethnically a Hong Konger. When China broke its UK treaty (effectively, a temporary neutralization treaty that granted autonomy to HK for a period of years), I also felt in my gut how horrible that was: it was cultural genocide, in my eyes. But at no point did I need to dismiss Chomsky's theories or find it invalid in scope. I have no problem pointing out how US and UK foreign policy escalated Chinese actions that harmed HK people's autonomy and oppressed young Hong Kongers' democratic party. And unfortunately I have to point out that if anyone objects to such a comparison, that the similarity is obviously not the same in magnitude compared to an international war, but the moral philosophy and political dynamics is a proper analog, just on different scales the way triangles are similar but have different magnitudes. I know this may not fully explain why I disagree with you in Chomsky's validity, but this is at least to suggest to you that someone in analogous situation may have a valid reason for a different assessment of Chomsky, specifically due to how one interprets his leftist ideas.
Going too deep in the rabbit hole feels like procrastinating sometimes. I also do get stuff done but mostly when a hard deadline is set. So I tend to go into the rabbit hole until I only have a few days left. I also have good feelings since I love studying about things.

I did an experiment on myself where I just design a project and start implementing it right away without any research. When I get trapped, I just did a quick Google search and solved the problem right away instead of trying to study about other solutions or other variables about the problem. I got the project done rather quickly but code quality, solutions that came from the top of my head weren't that impressive. I know iterating will enhance quality, but before I iterate I need to study better solutions or at least research to get ideas for better solutions in order to iterate.

The result of that experiment was just that I was able to get things done a bit quicker if I just did things without studying and only "find solutions" when I encounter problems. Going deeper needs knowledge, but when to start building again when I acquire "enough"?
Ultimaker and Makerbot merge to form new 3D printing company
In the context of hours of time, I perceive `15' as just an alternative symbol for `3pm'.

Likewise, I perceive 1539 as an alternative symbol for 1536, as I like to keep my clocks three minutes fast.
Greater Fool Theory maybe: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
If someone is making money, good for them.

My dislike of bitcoin is mostly due to its enormous energy usage. And the scarcity of GPUs.
There's a very weird strain of culty utopian-maximalism in our culture right now. It'd bother me less if the entire last century wasn't filled with horror stories about what can happen if this sort of childishness festers too much.

I assume it's yet another consequence of social media's effect on culture: being as hysterical as possible has suddenly become heavily rewarded. The downstream effects on broader political culture (and culture in general) are utterly fascinating to me.
Wow, I guess this is also why my local steam streaming (well, I use Moonlight but same difference) started lagging out of nowhere. I first noticed it 2 days ago, but before that I clocked 30 hours no problem, so I guess this is a brand new problem.

Gonna try turning off all my Mac devices location services, thanks for the tip.
More funding for teachers that can put eyes on the target because child abuse happens in the vicinity of the victim. If you really want an efficient solution, you have to start there instead of putting everyone under suspicion.

The exception is human trafficking and it isn't a crime done by common criminals or lone offenders, it is done by organized criminal gangs in a large scale that can be targeted individually.

I have no obligation to make any suggestion for not wanting my chats surveilled for that matter.
The word you're looking for is "Schadenfreude".
It’s sad when scams shut down as innocent people get hurt.

But I think the positive is that things that were clearly never sustainable in the long run, like Terra seems to be, blows up sooner rather than later to limit the negative impact.
I think this is a dump discussion here... look at the stock price of amazon, apple or what not. In perspective of the stock market, it is nothing special when u look at the crypto assets...
AFAIK Pandoc doesn't really have a story for interaction. Like, "show a tooltip when someone clicks on this text". That's the main value add for Nota.

Nota doesn't require users to specify the implementations of things like footnotes. The goal is the user just says "@Footnote{content}" and the document renderer takes care of all the layout. And you can swap in different implementations of the Footnote component.
Corrected for inflation, John D. Rockefeller is probably the richest American ever.
I am impressed.

I have a few ignorant questions:

1. There are three bright blobs on the image; I assume they are the same object, behind the BH. What are they/is it? They said the image was averaged; so presumably whatever the blobs are wasn't moving?

2. Is it correct that the rest of the ring, ignoring the three blobs, is the far side of the accretion disk? Why can't I see this side of the accretion disk?

3. According to the article, at least one submillimeter telescope was important. But submillimeter is infrared, isn't it? I thought infrared was blocked by dust, and if there's one thing there's a lot of at the centre of the galaxy, it's dust?

[Edit] Questions 1 and two were prompted by this remark in the article:

"The new view captures light bent by the powerful gravity of the black hole"

The only "light" I can see is a ring with blobs in it; that's why I suppose the ring in the image is not the accretion disk, at least, not as viewed from the pole. Most other commenters here assume (or know) that it is the accretion disk, and we are looking at a pole.

But if that is indeed the accretion disk, then that isn't light that's been bent by the gravity of the black hole.

Perhaps the explanation is that many other commenters haven't actually read the article, possibly because they already know the story.
...castles made of sand. Fall in the sea eventually...
A small annoyance of Preview is that the PDFs it displays don't render JPEG2000 images correctly. I found this out due to the project we're on. Some of the PDFs were generated about 20 years ago with JPEG2000 images in them. Acrobat Reader does display them correctly. I can't stand Acrobat Reader, but in this one case it's a better PDF viewer than Mac Preview.
Good question! I'm not entirely sure, perhaps it's defense against the compiler optimizing the initialization out?
Thanks for sharing! The idea of also downloading some stuff and just playing around is helpful. Might do that alongside courses
Amazon is one of the largest companies on earth. How much has it paid in dividends?

Netflix?
Alibaba?
Given what I've heard about working at Tesla, it comes across as unsurprising that Musk isn't really big on the whole workers rights thing.

After all, if those workers were smart and had high IQs, they would be CEOs, not workers! (/s)
Plants grown in Apollo lunar regolith
This to me reads as such.

"Hey, look, just take risks, because if you don't, you'll be poor AND bitter."
This looks great and affordable! Thank you!
It's not really forgettable if any app can request a scan at any time – collect wireless logs, then start the Maps app, you will see repeated scans. Locationd doing this ever so often might be acceptable, but not when any app can do this, repeatedly.

Also, 25 milliseconds is about a round trip across half the continental US. Not really sure that's a good tradeoff for devices that are mostly stationary.
people fear what they can't understand / hate what they can't conquer.

there is a distinction here to be made between the various crypto implementations and blockchain as an idea/technology. Cryptos will come and go, there will always be a new scam to run (crypto or not) but IMHO blockchain tech is here to stay.

Do you hate the cruptobros? too bad. Do you also hate stocks? Or options? Or the housing market? Or inflation? People are always greedy AF. I like it when people go all doom and gloom when bitcoin goes down 50% but nobody bats an eyelid at netflix being down 70% YTD, or Facebook down 45%, or Tesla 40%. The whole market is down 20%.
I guess we could just throw our hands up and say nothing will ever change, but I think things could change, and a great first step would be a grassroots push to adopt voting systems which make it easier for 3rd parties to break in.
Sorry, taxes comment was out of place. Just frustrated.

The loans aren't interest free, they have a variable rate determined by supply and demand. For USDC its been pretty steady around 3%. There was a day or two last year where it spiked to 40% when Justin Sun removed billions of his capital.

In response to wire transfer, I was more complaining about having to be at a physical bank branch to do it. Not sure if that is unusual either.

edit: Just remembered that normally I wouldn't have to physically go to the bank. I had to do so to make sure it arrived in time for the signing. I think they told me it would take a day or two if I did it online/over phone? But being there in person they said it would "probably" arrive in a couple hours
This deserves to be the top posted comment, but will certainly never be.

Controversial Take:

There is effectively no ceiling on the value potential of Bitcoin.

If you live in a hyperinflationary environment, of which there are tons of examples in the last 100 years, the value is known. To people living with the $dollar and expecting endless monetary superiority, it is hard to recognize.

It's important to note, there is incentive for miners to use renewable energy. Vast amounts of capital have propped up renewables that languish for lack of a proper demand. Wind isn't on demand, nor is solar.
But there's never any discussion of the waste and pollution that subsidized unproductive green energy solutions produce.
Mining can utilize 100% of that supply. It acts as a reinforcing mechanism for investment in clean energy.
How is this lost on people?
Seriously.

HN: "Firing a millionaire on paternity leave—and by "firing" I mean continuing to pay for the rest of their leave, plus probably a bunch of severance—is horrible!"

99% of the rest of the US: "WTF is paternity leave? Is that when your boss generously lets you use some of your annual leave for part of the week in which your kid is born?"
Sure it does - for example the portion of the hour in front of the minute hand's sweep is "in the future" whereas the portion of the hour behind the minute hand's sweep is "in the past" and the portion of the hour under the minute hand is "now".

Three categories, and the distribution of the current hour's minutes between them
It's not okay to poison political opponents even if they are just much a piece of sh*t as the poisoner.

But if Navalny isn't okay, let's talk instead about Russia poisoning Yushchenko in 2004 with dioxin...
Isn’t there usually some sort of removing of the skeletons from the closets before a deal closes? Yahoo revealed there massive data breach while
their deal was closing and such.
Orwell was not really an anarchist in his political views. You can get a fairly good overview of his political views from The Lion and the Unicorn:

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
I will probably trade my karma for this comment, but have you looked into other protocols ?
You mention the processing fees and the finality time, I've heard of several projects that are already better than Ethereum on this such as Hedera Hashgraph, Avalanche or Algorand.

Saying that "crypto has not lived up to its potential at all" merely 12 years after Satoshi mined the first bitcoin is laughable if anything.
It took 15 years of the internet to have Facebook.
It took 27 years (!!) of the internet to have something like TikTok.
How can you say that crypto will amount to nothing ?
Some of Bucay's book are in English. Rolón has a column in a radio show, in Spanish.
I like buying my cocaine with BTC/Monero.
That only works because HN is, mostly, politics-free.

I'm not a regular Twitter user but afaik that platform is pretty heavy on politics, more than that, it's pretty heavy when it comes to a certain political spectrum, the other side has been mostly de-platformed by now. I don't consider that as a healthy platform to comment on for the general public (even though, I agree, it might be ok for people who happen to share the same political opinions that have not been banned by the Twitter higher-ups).
Red Hat Embraces DevSecOps
Yes, washes out all of the shitcoins and brings people back to Bitcoin—the way it should be.
I'm really confused how you're confused. What is a better way to become the richest person than by owning and growing a series of hugely successful companies that provide products and services to people?
It's strictly better though in terms of being able to budget time in the conditions GP posted as the net "last pay day" remains the same.

Psychological effects notwithstanding
x64 emulation for Windows on arm Already exists. It is not based on WOW style technology. Furthermore 32 bit arm programs do exist on modern Windows on ARM, using a version of WOW64 very similar to WOW64 on x64 cpus. But they also have x86 WOW64, based on the Itanium version, that had to do binary translation.

- "C:\Program Files" <- ARM64 programs go here, as do x64 programs!
- "C:\Program Files (Arm)" <- ARM32 programs go here
- "C:\Program Files (x86)" <- x86 programs go here

I'm not sure how things like "Common Files" work in C:\program files, unless they made mixing arm64 dlls with x64 exes and vice versa just work. Which they probably did. I'm guessing they did not want another WOW version, since it was already bad enough to have to ship 3 different copies of certain system components, and they did not want to need to include a 4th copy, especially as ARM devices are often a bit light on storage space.
I don't see the issue either. In a fancy job like this it seems much better to get fired now so he can calmly plan his next move, instead of them waiting for him to return and then firing him, which would just waste everyone's time.
I think this makes perfect sense, but I agree it can be annoying. I wouldn't want a copy-paste operation to be lossy by default. If I were copying a table or something like that, I would almost certainly want that formatting preserved at the destination.

To me, the real problem is that when you don't want to bring formatting along, it's not obvious how to do that, and it's not implemented universally. Fix that, and I don't think there'd be as much to complain about.
I feel like you’re missing the part where I said I was father of four. I failed to mention I recently helped my oldest with newborn twins (if you’re thinking 2 is twice is hard as one, you’re wrong, it’s more like 4x).

I’ve accrued some experience with newborns. It’s a very tired time at times. It’s a time of wonderment. Especially with your first, it’s surreal, after 2 weeks you can barely remember “what was life like before this again?” But despite its otherworldliness, it’s also a lot of downtime. It’s different than normal downtime, because you’re tied to this growing little life, but it’s there. And I did indicate that it is in the latter half where having this project to work on would be ideal. Guess that’s just me and apologies if that seems insensitive. It worked for me.
So ALMA, being an array, is a bit of a different beast than single-dish telescopes like the one where I'm employed; they do indeed have an array of antennae and correlate all the collected data at a central correlator (at least, for normal observations). My institute has a single, much larger primary reflector (30 meter diameter) and does not require such a process during normal observation. However, during VLBI observations, which EHT is, the receiver is dumping data to four collector computers, which is what I was referring to as "nodes" generating ~16Gbps of data apiece.

I wish I could shed some more light on the ins-and-outs of exactly how these observations work, but I just run the computers, man. :) What I can tell you is that in order to move data off of the collector machines, they typically use m5copy, which is a part of the JIVE project (they have a Github repo: https://github.com/jive-vlbi/jive5ab). All communication between the control computer and the collectors happens within a private, physically-distinct network, but it's just standard commodity networking equipment between the control computer and the collectors. The folks in charge of the node's design are in the process of removing some of the bottlenecks to make electronic transfers more viable (the current spec doesn't even include a 10Gbps uplink!).
Black markets are also interesting question. How high coin value you actually need for them to operate? Certainly not tens of thousand, probably a few hundred would still be enough. If crypto was token for exchange.
This is a great perspective and I largely agree with it. There needs to be a "return to sanity" market-wide.

That said, regarding your perspective on crypto's limited utility, I just want to point out there's a crypto few folks have paid attention to which actually addresses your issues head-on: Nano is a feeless and PoW-less crypto which has been around for a few years and was started by one of the early contributors to Bitcoin. Nano is not a "hot coin." It's seen little market speculation and it's not programmable and riding the smart contract wave; it does one thing well: transacting. It's free (as in truly and completely free, fee-less, zero cost), near-instant (<1 second transactions/validations), and green a(~0.1Wh per transaction, or for context about 1/6 millionth of the energy cost of a single Bitcoin transaction). It's also decentralized, without being mined/staked, so it's not controlled according to the interests of miners/whales.

This seems to me the holy grail, so I'm always surprised that discussions of crypto on HN don't mention it or even that that veterans like yourself don't seem to know about it. Maybe it's still too young/obscure? But I think it will see significant interest post-crash as it fulfills the initial promise of crypto—it's money you can by a coffee with, send across borders at zero cost, make micro-micro payments with, etc... you know, like real money, just better.
This article is political propaganda.

The concept is not dystopian because she's just proposing community moderation, like any message board has. She is not proposing government control.

It's a bad idea that makes no sense, but it is far from "Orwellian".
How many of the people in this thread saying:

The OP-1 is only for rich techies. Musicians don’t use it.

Are folks who enjoy making music & who have tried the OP-1?
There is no revolution to speak of. Tesla is an evolution in the high-end EV market. In the mid-range market Tesla was late to the punch and faces stiff competition, and in the low-end market they aren't an entity to speak of.