skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I heard, Tether had invested heavily in "emerging markets" instead of the established US markets, which explains why nobody at Goldman Sachs has dealt with them.
> popularize FPGAs, GPGPU

The very opposite: it made GPUs and many other components more expensive.
So let me get this straight:

There are bitcoins. They get mined and etc.

There is ethereum, it processes transactions and people pay for the processing with "gas". Gas is ETH. ETH need to be mined and etc.

This could all happily work in a self-contained world, where there's no actual underlying assets reflected in BTC or ETH. But that's not "real" as in, gains/losses can't be turned into fiat currency, which is the government approved way to pay taxes and debts.

So now someone wants to be able to convert BTC/ETH/XYZ/ABC into USD (or AUD or CAD or etc "trusted" fiat currencies).

So the stablecoin is created, supposedly backed 1:1 with fiat USD. However, there's only vague assertions that this is correct and none of the bank regulation that ensures that banks actually are backed.

That stablecoin, Tether, is unaudited and no one actually knows what it holds. But for some reason, people "trust" it.

Now there's another "stablecoin" called Terra, which isn't backed by any assets in the real world. It's entirely "backed" by the fact that it can be converted "freely" into Lunas.

For an even more abtruse reason, people were "trusting" Terra.

Then the tide went out and Terra/Luna is actually naked.

Now that has focused attention on Tether and people are testing it. Because Tether has real assets, it can (for now) convert at 1:1. But it has artificial limitations on that conversion, limiting it to a minimum of USD100K.

So unless you have 100K of Tether, you're relying on finding some other buyer of it if you want to sell. People are desperate to sell, so the "price" of Tether is dropping relative to its USD peg.

Someone is buying that Tether on the market, accumulating at least 100K and then going to tether and converting to real USD.

But Tether have put a whole bunch of artificial time restrictions on that conversion, which means that the tide hasn't gone out yet.

When it does, either Tether does have 1:1 backing of all the Tether out there, in a way that can be easily liquidated so that it can pay out, or it won't, and the "peg" will collapse.

When that happens, anyone holding Tether is left holding the bag.

And that means anyone that had BTC "backed" by Tether is out of luck, so is anyone with ETH, or any of the other endless coins out there.

So the whole thing collapses, those that get out early and convert to fiat will be rich and everyone else screwed.

Gee, sounds like a standard bank run but with extra steps and without the Fed.
I do this all the time. In fact I do it with various items - there must be a name for it.

Every time I get my drill out (Makita) I start singing "Nikita" by Elton John. There are more, and the interesting thing is that I find it difficult to recall them.
For large players it is 2% instant return, and they just have to be early enough before Tether drops the ball.
The world doesn't need to change for them. They already have successful closed source drivers.

You're right that this isn't about nVidia suddenly deciding to open source anything, but it's still good for compatibility reasons.
They're certainly not Russia-aligned. They've never liked each other, and Turkey has been crucial in strengthening Ukraine's defense with their Bayraktars.
A simple "inherit from parent" checkbox for each settings dialog?

So you adjust all the settings for each, say, city in the first few rounds; then, when you have several countries, you click that box in each of the cities and from then on set it just for each country; later, click it in each country and just set for whole planets. If later you want to micromanage some specific city or country, just uncheck the box only for that one, and let all the other cities in the country / countries on the planet keep following the settings of their parent level.

That's for geographical entities. But perhaps something similar could be set by inventing hierarchical levels for more abstract concepts like technological / economic / military / research strategies. Or maybe it doesn't even need to be invented; maybe they are already bundled together in sub- and sub-sub-concepts in some games?

I don't know, I haven't played any games of this kind for... Since Civ 1 or 2, maybe mid-nineties. This came to mind because I've been thinking about doing something like this in a (totally unrelated) piece of software I'm designing in my head.

[Edit: Tpyo]
It is not, but I think it removes a giant blocker for a truly OSS driver with Mesa/nouveau.
I wonder if an easier solution, albeit maybe a bit too cyberpunk dystopian, would be to just work in a pitch black room where you could use a projector shining on the farthest wall.

You'd have to be able to touch type though, otherwise every extra inch of distance between keyboard and monitor is somewhat fatiguing when you are constantly glancing up and down.
That would be fractional reserve cubed … or something!
You didn't answer the previous posters question.

I actually am well aware of the crimes committed by NATO members (I would argue that they were not under NATO mandate though, except maybe Serbia, but that's a different argument). BTW the most atrocious crimes go back way more than 20 years. I also know that many western nations have been very nonchalant about violations of international law by their own allies, and I seriously hope that one of the outcomes of this crisis is that the Europeans in particular realize that to be believable you can't close your eyes just because it's your "friends".

All the above is true, but that doesn't change the fact that the motivation of the former eastern block countries is driven by a deep skepticism/fear of Russia and their politics of invading and repressing their neighbors. There is a reason why the Baltic states and Poland are the largest supporters of Ukraine, there is very strong opposition towards the Russian state, despite all countries having large Russian minorities.

Also with the (certainly justified) complaints about the "aggressive west", lets not act like Russia is some sort of innocent victim instead of being wannabe imperialists that are worse by pretty much any standard (and China is a completely different discussion).
> The WEST DOES have political persecution the way Russia does. There is, literally, NO DIFFERENCE.

There is a difference between "the west persecutes" and "the west is just as bad as Russia". I think just because the west does something bad does not immediately put them on the same level as Russia. Yes, both sides claim they are nigh-perfect and the other side is the worst ever. Just because both sides aren't near perfect doesn't mean that therefore both sides are equally bad.

As a side-note. One of the sides has unilaterally invaded another country with intention to annex the last year. Whilst the other countries latest invasion is 20 years old, and now generally admitted to have been a bad and illegal invasion.
All that Tether really need is for enough people to believe that they probably have enough collateral to handle any potential bank run. Those people will buy up discounted tether and prevent the bank run from even happening.

Though, the mess with TerraUSD has clearly knocked a bunch of people's confidence in Tether. I wouldn't be entirely surprised to see it crash.
On my PC I can open chrome and stream to the Chromecast on my network. I drag videos from the desktop onto chrome and it plays fine.

Only reason I have chrome installed lol.
Soros opposed Russian hegemony in Ukraine (2015). Since then he has been the popular target of conspiracy theories. Some even go as far as to call him a Nazi supporter. It mirrors exactly what we see from Russian propaganda because it is exactly that.
For EU-based PaaS, check out Clever Cloud. They are based in Nantes, France and have servers in France (Paris, Roubaix) and Poland (Warsaw), and other locations outside the EU.

I host my Node.js apps & databases (PostgreSQL, Redis) there and their GitOps is smooth.

https://www.clever-cloud.com/
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Python has multiprocessing.shared_memory[1] since 3.8 to share arrays between processes, which accomplishes the same thing and circumvents the GIL issue.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.shared_mem...
Royal Mail wants fleet of 500 drones to carry mail to remote UK communities
Yeah, it's just removing Periscope & adding references to other paid services, which have their own terms.
Thanks to EU we are aware that plain text website is tracking us.

...What for?
The process was quite fast mainly because most Finns are very pragmatic, clearheaded people and intuitively understood how the rules of the game had changed. You can't game a 76% support for any cause in a few months in a liberal democracy.

The root of the matter is that without NATO membership conscription would have become morally untenable. And hence the backbone of Finnish defence would have collapsed leading to need to kowtow to Moscow for all eternity.

Before invasion of Ukraine the economic costs on top of Finnish defence forces were considered to be sufficient deterrent to Russian agression, on top of the material and personnel costs such an invasion would cause.

Ukraine demonstrated that with political impetus, Russia does not care about either economic costs, nor about materiel or personnel costs in it's mad imperialist fantasies.

IMO The cost of NOT joining NATO would have been de facto loss of sovereignty.

Furthermore, due to the closeness of the Russian border, without NATO membership Finland would likely have been perceived as a not very good target for capital investments, killing the economy. While Finland has advanced technology, it is very capital poor - hence needs healthy injections of capital from the global market.
Link should be https://teenage.engineering/products/op-1
The second currency is required for the same reason that three card monte requires three cards.
>Television is not an official means of state communication.

Not in democracies, no. But in Russia? The editorial line is handed down by the guys in charge.
The design is beautiful, but it's not really clear from this page what it is.
Few years ago they had bug that was doing the same thing.

https://community.hackernoon.com/t/canoncial-link-missing-re...
> There is a strategy about this as far as yes minster goes about nuclear bomb detention

This is the clip about Salami Tactics and the Nuclear Deterrent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o861Ka9TtT4
It’s not possible to separate.

Most everyone has a political opinion. Only those loyal to a party are going to be in a position to make decisions.

Expecting those people to be neutral is absurd. Best you can hope for is appearance of neutrality.

Remaining options is for one side to try and be perfectly neutral usually the weaker side. The other side will definitely take advantage of this.

Or both sides will try and get as much as they can without it being too blatant.

In a tug of war game. It’s all of nothing.
> who stand to gain billions in profit from every single NATO base built

Broken window fallacy [0]. That money spent on bases is a cost we'd rather not spend because it could be spent on other things or just saved with reduced taxes giving us citizens more of our money back.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
"Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent"
I am totally with you. There is so much propaganda in this war it's borderline impossible to get anything but a cloudy view on things.

Until recently Ukraine was only in media for their gov breaking human rights and stuff like this, and now it's suddenly the long lost brother we all love so much.

Sure RT was full of bullshit, but so are many local papers, Facebook and everything else.

People taking clear sides when all they know is very filtered propaganda is sadening at least.
>A big thank-you to the library of the University of Antwerp, who sponsored this feature. They’re one of two major teams or projects I know of that use GoAWK – the other one is the Benthos stream processor.

That's great to hear.

Are you planning to add support for xml, json, etc next? Something like Python's `json` module that gives you a dictionary object.
Source credibility labels don’t change whether someone reads low-quality news
The problem is one of ethics, though: It's one thing to say "I've used it to move money" and "I believe and trust that they have the reserves they claim to have and I'm willing to hold USDT forever". If you just use USDT as a hot potato, your "calculated risk" is meaningless and you should be calling out that Tether is a fraud.
> We can't just go on ignoring that Putin exists and has demonstrated he is willing to follow through with his threats, especially when it comes to NATO expansion. I'm no fan of him nor his regime, but thinking he'll back down if we just escalate the situation a little more is fantasy.

I'm Swedish and support joining NATO. We are not ignoring anything, we are hoping for peace by preparing for war. Protecting ourselves is not an escalation, even if Putin sees it that way. I think he is much less likely to escalate against us if we are in NATO.

I'm saying this also has someeone who will have to fight if it comes to that. Sweden has conscripted military service and if Puting brings us war I will have to fight it.

> The former USSR states in Eastern Europe have until now (or until the early 2000s NATO expansion at least) served as a half-decent buffer zone between the West and Russia, and it's served as a relatively stable diplomatic saddle point in keeping the peace.

The "buffer zone" countries are free, sovereign and independent states. Millions of people there vote in democratic elections to decide on their countries leadership. They are free to apply for NATO membership to protect them from Russian aggression and they are free to apply for membership in the EU. Denying them these rights, in the hope that Russia will just leave them alone if they aren't "threatening", is both morally wrong and naive. If the Baltic states had not been granted NATO membership when they were we could very well be looking at Russian tanks in Tallinn, Riga or Vilnius now. They were right to join when they did.

In 2014 Ukraine chose its path of aligning with democracy and the west and reject Russian coercion. When Ukranians rejected Russian dominance Putin made a choice, and he chose violence.

I think I understand your viewpoint though. It would be better if no-one had or needed military strength, mutually assured destruction through nuclear weapons and alliances. It would be better if an omnipotent force could just plan stuff out so we didn't need war. But the key fact is that people are willing to kill and die for their right to self determination and Russia is willing to send its young men to kill and die for historical claims to territory and conquest.

I saw this in another comment of yours:

> I noted in my comment that there was actually peace in Eastern Europe before NATO expansion.

I think that peace had more to do with Russia not yet being capable enough to invade anyone. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union Russia has been scrambling to rebuild it's military, and they are unfortunately making progress. Luckily they seem to have made less progress than they hoped.
Kind of feels like Python is in a bit of a mess in no small part because the maintainers didn’t do a good job of blocking bad ideas. For example, exposing virtually the entire interpreter as the public C extension interface (can’t optimize much without breaking things, thus driving more dependence on C for performance which makes it even harder to change anything and leads to insanity in the Python packaging ecosystem).
Thanks, now I understand why he's in half of Fidesz's propaganda posters. In not a pleasant way of course.
Can you also set the decimal separator? Some countries use ',' in numbere like 10,5
> "Wow, their pricing looks almost too good to be true?"

Yes, and that's exactly how Heroku started too. You bait as many people as possible as early as possible, often by giving subsidies, free stuff and extreme price cuts that make you stand out. Don't forget to give away silly swag and free stickers at random "cloud conventions". None of that is sustainable in the long run (because you're bleeding cash), but your goal is to grow a large user base and get the word-of-mouth out there quickly. Once you have amassed a large population of users you start tightening the lock-in across the entire platform, and slowly raising prices across the board. Or, you keep raising money from VCs to cover up the losses with the promise of being profitable one day. Rinse and repeat.

This is the story of pretty much every cloud provider out there. The cloud is just someone else's computer.
Honest question, how do I know that you saying this is not a typical response from a US-troll farm?
“redeem at Tether”

Ok I have a bridge…
That's true, but NATO isn't the be-all and end-all of European mutual defence, for example there's also the Northern Group of countries, which even includes Sweden and Finland. NATO is the ultimate fallback defence pact, but being in NATO in no way prevent countries, in or out of it, from forming their own independent defence arrangements. Just this week Britain's prime minister very publicly guaranteed Britain's commitment to defend both Sweden and Finland.

I have to wonder to what extent the development of these alliances might have been influenced by the concern you raise though, you raise a good point.
Yes - it is...

It's stable - not fixed.

The stability of the coin allows for minor flucuation in price - these are then arbitraged out.

Today's drop is clearly an indicator of market moves, cash-outs, etc.
There are some MPs in the far-left party (and the single MP party VKK) who are against NATO but they're in the minority.
Yeah. Tbh, I haven't seen any news that would be significant for hackers in particular, the posts are mainly for software Devs.
It is because of things like this and more that I decided not to live in the US and moved home after grad school. Of course many of my friends and (then) countrymen/countrywomen decided to live in the US and chase the dream.

For me it was clear that I would never be accepted as a citizen regardless of how many years I live there or what passport I hold. People would continue to mock my religious beliefs and culture pretending all the time that it is a joke.
I have my personal method for memory and it served me well for now. When you are reading book read chapter title than take couple minutes and think "How/why would I do that".

Examples: "Linear systems with 2 variables" just think about it builds you understanding and it is easier to remember something you understand. Than you read chapter and get second opinion on problem. Bonus point if book has exercises on end of chapter. Then after thinking and before reading go to last exercise in chapter and read it, to answer "why" question, best exercises for this are "Alice have 3 apples ..." style exercises. Try to solve it before reading.

This method works best for STEM books, but it can be fun to try it on history, fantasy books if the have spoliery chapter titles.
> Especially the younger generation sees both Russia and US with somewhat strong dislike.

I mean, it's possible to think that your local cops are kind of jerks and bullies, while still infinitely preferring them to the Mafia.
The point I wanted to make is that many (most?) retail customers deposited USD at a CEX like Binance/Bitfinex in exchange for USDT. So your retail fiat dollar didn't go directly to Tether Limited, the exchange bought liquidity from them.
You can stake crypto to make more crypto too!
Contabo object storage EU server is down but their status page reports all good
I'm posting this here because it's an incident that greatly eroded my trust towards contabo, and I believe other people could be interested.

I signed up to use their object storage in order to test it; today I noticed it's not working.

I expected to see this reflected on their status page at their status page [1] but it's not.
I wrote to their support 45 minutes ago and got no reply (not even the canned "we received your email" one), and the status page is still unaware of the outage.
I understand shit happens, but IMO status pages should tell you when it does.

[1] https://contabo-status.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20220512100801/https://contabo-s...
Tech workers are fleeing FAANG for Web3, here’s why
And the other 10% take 2 years (if your product costs more than 10k$).
>Kaliningrad is going to be squeezed ...

I assume you mean Königsberg?
I think it's probably accepted that NATO indicated to Ukraine very early on that the chances of it joining were a distant dream. Not withstanding complications relating to deep cultural and historical connections between Russia and Ukraine there were basic issues of governance, market regulation, military preparedness, etc. It's not a case of "we'd like to join NATO!" - "Sure, come on in!". However, what NATO couldn't do was publicly say "No, you cannot join, ever". So instead they were given rather weak pleasantries by NATO as to their possible joining at some future point, same for Georgia and other states.

Why couldn't NATO publicly say "No!", particularly in the many years of Russia demanding we do so? Well, in my admittedly weakly understood opinion NATO are all "typically" open free liberal democracies who believe in self-determination by their peoples. Telling a nation they cannot possibly join us because a third party nation says we cannot allow it sends a somewhat mixed message. Perhaps more importantly it would've signalled to Russia early on "sure, this is your territory - do what you wish, we won't interfere". Is that a message we want to be sending? Buffer states only remain buffer states while all sides are sure the others will retaliate if they invade - Article 5 is the ultimate guarantor of that.

What's more I very much doubt NATO saying "No!" would've stopped Ukraine from asking, again and again. Even when it became clear that any chance had vanished following the annexation of Crimea they still asked over and over. Even when the Donbass flared into open combat assisted by Russian forces. Even when Russia had rolled tanks into the territory they continued to ask. And it seems to me at least their mere "asking" to join, regardless of what NATO may have privately said (and doubtless Russia were made aware) was the issue for Putin.

NATO is an incredibly powerful military force - I don't think everyone fully understands just how powerful it is. If it wanted to take on the worlds autocrats, dictators, malign regimes, etc. it could - quite easily - without resorting to any nuclear sabre rattling. That it doesn't, that it has with minor exception - typically related to easing command and control of operations rather than "military might" of its assigned forces - remained a defensive alliance speaks volumes as to its intentions.

In fact the worst thing to come out of this war is how it is showing "might makes right" in the worst possible manner. To those nations who wish to subjugate their neighbours (or their own people) despite an overwhelming majority of the world saying "Don't! Stop!" - just get yourself some nuclear weapons and NATO, the West, the World won't/can't do much to militarily stop you. That's setting a pretty awful precedent.
The linked discussion is pretty inane, and sadly doesn't display much knowledge of monetary history.
>>What is Putin's play?

Why it has to be Putin's play? A lot of people seem to take for granted that Putin knows what he is doing and has a long play with an eventual win.

History is full of leaders making terrible mistakes that eventually put the last nail in their coffins, I don't understand why some think that the only possible option is that there must be something that we are missing because Putin is so smart and has so much control that this can't simply be a huge fail on his part