skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
90% of the value is allowong people to dump crypto to anltber asset that is crypto-osh but is "pegged" (the truth of which is more like a consensus of biased investors) to USD but doesnt trigger tax problems the dame way axtjally cashing out would.

the backing by a physical dollar is whats supposed to peg it to make the fiction that holding $1m in tether is equivelant to holdong $1m.
TerraUSD is more immediately relevant
https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/stablecoin-terra-collapses-...
* mumbles something about 'lots of people' are not the POTUS in the face of countless, countless court hearings to confirm that fraud didn't take place at scale and the result was valid.

* opines about the effect these continual denials have on a rabid, angry ... loser ... voter base.

* the result? Jan 6.

If you can't see that, good luck. It's f@cking so simple.
https://archive.ph/hwQ7t
That may be. It also makes it hard to reason about what could possibly be appropriate.
Georgism lowers the cost of achieving density and removes subsidies paid from cities to suburbs and rural areas from the tax system. In exchange for that, some variations of the system which offer a citizen’s dividend make it possible to subsist on rural land due to its low tax value. Doing so results in significant wage losses for the vast majority of the populace so it’s unclear how popular such a strategy would be.
0.4% is like a rounding error, or normal variability. They should present data from years ago.
> It always amazes me how anyone can be technologically literate and still think world governments should be given the benefit of the doubt when it comes to things like this

Yes I do think that. I'm very familiar with how the EU institutions work and I don't like it, so I'm no fan boy and certainly not trying to defend these kind of proposals.

I realize I'm preaching to a very cynical crowd here but I just don't see EU countries locking up innocent people accused of being pedophiles en masse by some garbage AI (different story entirely in the US or China).

Justice here massively leans toward giving people the benefit of the doubt, imposing light sentences etc. much to everyone's frustration.
The message here is a private message. The title of this post contains the words "private communication" same for the title in the actual post.

Have you not actually read anything about the post ?
> These are all problems invented by Crypto bulls to build a narrative for why Crypto is widely useful.

These problems happened to me and still happening.
Swift transactions in USD from US to UAE are getting double converted (at cost of 2.5-4% of the total amount) and it’s very difficult to get meaningful answer from the bank support about what’s happening
Strange how he has so little to say on Colbert's show. As in, he comes across as shallow, when it seems he's actually not. Maybe he's still a bit camera shy.
The invasion of Sweden would most likely be limited to taking over Gotland to control the Baltic sea north of it.

(Think Crimea not the full scale invasion of Ukraine)
Way more than that. It will take the market with it
On r/gemini (named after the NYC-based exchange), it's a misconception that I see (and occasionally dispel) very frequently.
Hi res cams in any room that record on super safe gov cloud day and night I would say.
I’d love to know, specifically
> It's a fact that Russia feels threatened by having NATO on their border.

Yes, but not in the sense they want you to think. Russia feels threatened that it won't be able to invade freely wherever and whenever it wishes. Since they can't do diplomacy without holding a gun somewhere close by, it makes them weaker.
Closely related- I remain mystified as to why FIX Protocol chose to use control characters to separate fields, but used SOH rather than RS/US or the like.
[1] looks like a hastily prepared landing page for a dropshipped AliExpress product. 1 photo, no video. Why only Google Calendar? How to 'use your phone to connect'? Is there a companion app? Why is contact page under Policies and labelled Imprint? Why 2 Privacy Policy links? About us section reads like boilerplate scam and links off-site to some random blog. Line height config looks ugly in bottom nav area.

At least it works without Javascript.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIvRljAaNgg&t=182s
Er, nice story, really entertaining to read, but I think it would benefit from actually mentioning the "competitor" app that he ended up paying money for. I mean, he won't ship his own app anymore, so no harm done in mentioning it, right?
regarding point 1 if we are already at the point that you have to write a C extension to workaround language lossage, we can already assume you know C. At that point it is just easier to rewrite in another language that dealing with FFI.
What is it that people say here when there's an article that claims there is a shortage of labor?

Raise wages (the price of labor) and the shortage will go away. Why doesn't the same principle apply here? We can just raise housing prices and the shortage will go away.
The worst thing is that, while the EU proposes dubious stuff like this, the police doesn't actually try to remove such content from the internet or are at least really ineffective at doing so. There was a documentary[1] from the german public tv station NDR in which reporters / journalists managed to delete the majority of content from one such CSAM forum, by sending deletion requests to the hosters. The police just... did nothing about it? :/

It's mind boggling. It would be nice if only 50% of the energy put into laws with questionable results like this, would be used to give victims of sexual child abuse more help and support (or, in many cases, some at all) to continue living as much as possible despite the monsters in their own heads that such sexual abuse creates, wouldn't it? :/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iItLpwkQMUQ
Sadly without official english subtitles, but you can run this article about it through deepl.com: https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/panorama/kinderpornog...
Have you ruled out power supply issues and are you running at stock clocks (for CPU and RAM as well)?

Anyway, going from "at least once a week" to "once every 3 months" means that 90% of your crashes have been fixed.

> with some undecipherable error message in dmesg

What kind of message would you expect that would be more decipherable.
> I have never seen anyone statically linking Qt anywhere, even with a commercial license.

from a quick grep on my hard drive, Telegram and QBittorrent statically link against Qt on Windows ; my own software also does, on all platforms. I assume there are others.
But, just like with Germany, it would take some "de-Nazification" (de-totalitarianization) first... And I'm not talking of Ukraine here.
Yeah, it’s just dense. Lots of great info in these things but you should know most of it from memory or only need it on the ground. It’s a legal requirement to carry in the plane but i don’t think I’ve ever needed one while in the air…yet
Be a Java Developer
Good technical people are critical to success. Most technical people aren't good so pick them with care.
When a company changes their terms of service you can go demand they cancel your membership if you don't agree. But since you don't pay for twitter it's sort of moot.
I almost think these efforts will need to succeed in become applied in a way too authoritarian way before there's a sufficient backlash. Unfortunately that means there's likely to be a lot of collateral damage.
To remain in the ERM the UK had to raise interest rates to alarming levels causing a deep and unnecessary recession. A lot of negative equity for home owners, unemployment rising back to 3 million. It's was unsustainable. Soros and the other speculators did us a favour ejecting us from it. The UK had about 15 years of low inflation growth after we that so Soros deserved a medal.
The thing that I think some people miss about Tether is that it's not about whether it is backed enough it's either fully backed or it isn't. If it's not, it's not a question of whether it's back enough to weather this storm, it's about whether the people running it think they can weather this storm. If they think they can keep it running they'll sell whatever backing they have and keep the peg. But if they even think there's a decent chance they can't permanently sustain the peg then the best thing for them to do is take the backing and run, not sink it into a stable-coin they now know isn't going to work. That's going to happen way before they run out of money.

Let's say for example, Tether is 20% backed and there's $100Bn of coins so the backing is $20Bn, and people start flooding out of it. Let's say $10Bn floods out. So the guys running it have handed out $10Bn. They now have $10Bn left, and money is still flooding out. Do they really continue to hand over the cash or do they say "Well, the whole thing is about to explode anyway, I'd rather keep the $10Bn cash I've got left". At which point the holders of the coin have to play "Find these fuckers and sue them" which will be difficult since they've got $10Bn to fight/flee/hide.
> These are all problems invented by Crypto bulls to build a narrative for why Crypto is widely useful.

These are real things that have happened, although they're not very widespread. The question is whether using a risky system with no safety net is better than risking this: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/personal-banking/current-account...
>different from a bank

Depends on the country. In the US, FDIC insurance requirements mean that depositors will be reimbursed up to $250,000 if a bank collapses, so there's very little risk. If you need more than $250,000 in cash then you should probably have multiple accounts at different banks or park the money in some other highly liquid low-risk assets that are, as much as possible, uncorrelated.
Absolutely.

Some people (especially the ones profiting from the current system) do not want to change the fundamentals though. In those cases shortening the feedback loop by cutting the cycles could also mitigate the problem. Also reducing the obscene amounts of power we put in a selected few hands could help.
I think he was exaggerating to make it a more interesting read. Or, at least, I hope so...
My understanding of this technology was it was usually a hash or fingerprint of some form of the material, to be compared against a database of hashes of known-bad material. I doubt EU countries have the infrastructure or budget to run models across everything, no?
Not sure about that. You can't keep toddlers and children clothed all the time.

The basement seems like an adequate place for a wardrobe/diaper change, even though that makes the whole situation even weirder.
> In time of war, Turkey not being belligerent, warships shall enjoy complete freedom of transit
and navigation through the Straits under the same conditions as those laid down in Articles 10 to 18.

> Vessels of war belonging to belligerent Powers shall not, however, pass through the Straits
except in cases arising out of the application of Article 25 of the present Convention [no longer applicable] , and in cases of assistance rendered to a State victim of aggression in virtue of a treaty of mutual assistance binding Turkey, concluded within the framework of the Covenant of the League of Nations, and registered and published in accordance with the provisions of Article 18 of the Covenant. https://timinhonolulu.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/montreaux-...

So basically, if (a) Turkey declares that there's a war and (b) Turkey is not a party to that war, then (c) Turkey is authorized to close the straits to warships of belligerent parties.

There's some exceptions in there about ships returning to their base, but it'd be a pretty big loss of face for the Russians to beg Turkey to agree that a sudden rebasing of ships qualified.
Per another comment in this thread, that is only accessible to "verified Tether customers", which means you payed them directly for the USDT. If you bought it off Coinbase for some ETH, you don't have any right to recoup it from them (though presumably Coinbase or whoever sold it to them does).

Also, they reserve the right to delay fulfilling your order indefinitely, so they don't actually guarantee anything even if you did buy directly from them.
> Do you have a source for that?

It's a waste of time for everyone. Prisons are overcrowded, court cases take years to get going, criminals being caught red handed are released before cops even get the paperwork done, there's plenty of rock star defense lawyers.

> They're the cops. They just ask for more resources and get them.

Not in my part of Europe, on the contrary.
if you need a fun language to learn to make TUIs, haskell has the brick library :) . I've heard very good things about it, it's declarative, only downside is that it doesn't support windows.
Was in similar boat recently, I'm not that up to day with the whole X11 vs Wayland, but dammit am I mad !

I feel like JUST as the "Linux X11 Discrete Graphics Scenario" started to become more stable and less (not none, but less) of an issue to setup and upgrade without getting black screens, the Linux-world is now turning to a "new windowing server" i.e Wayland, we starting all over again sigh

Maybe the answer to having a decent and carefree discrete graphics Linux stack is to fork (Don't you dare link to the XKCD comic about 'Standards') SteamOS.

They are at least motivated (as it's part of their core product) to make it work most of the time. And have a done boat load of good work for Linux ecosystem. Well done guys ! :)
You could make money off Tether's collapse if you shorted it the simple way (and managed to time it very well) - borrow units of Tether from someone, sell them at $1 (ka-ching) later purchase the same quantity Tether at $0.00001 and return them to your lender for a tidy profit.

I suppose if Tether collapsed to the extent that it was impossible to trade it at all, you'd have a hard time buying the worthless Tether back. What happens if you're short a stock traded only on the NYSE and the stock exchange itself disbands? Or maybe the better analogue is, how do you fulfill your end of the deal as a short seller and return the shares owed to your counterparty if the company disbands in the meantime?
Suffice to say a “cheap” developer costs way more than $6k/year
As an American living in Germany and paying taxes to both, welcome and willkommen - heard nothing but good things about the Finnish Army while working for ours over here.
The rate of coin generation matters.

Imagine a world of 100 people and 100 dollars.

If the population doubles, and the 100 dollars remains fixed, the value of the dollar has increased.

If more dollars are not printed to maintain some inflation, people will slow spending hoping for 300 people the next year.

Now, in the case of BTC, it’s not global population that matters, but the population of interested users, which could go from 10,000 to 100,000,000 in months. If BTC can’t be mined fast enough to maintain a balance of coins/users as interest skyrockets, it is, by definition, deflationary.
Interesting to read the spread of opinions on multi member seats here, and a strong element of "doesn't work" from people who I think haven't experienced it.

Gerrymandering made a single party run Queensland for 19 years. it was very real in Australia, but the downside of democratising the election method was dis-enfranchising the rural voter. Multi Member would fix this.

No matter what, I think the vast majority of people here agree the US system is particularly bent out of shape in many respects.
I am not denying any of this. I only have a minimal idea of how the situation is or was in the Ukraine, and don't claim to know. I hope the best for all of them.

I just struggle with the idea of sending weapons to a country that has a well recorded near history of human right violations. In my opinion the public voice is less about the actual people but about political fears.
Then encryption becomes evidence of guilt, unless you give up the key so they can search it to make sure you're not guilty.
absolutely the best time to join is now. russia can't do jack shit about it. in 10 years, a preemptive strike would be probable.
Boring businesses are the best.
Nothing you wrote makes any sense. We are talking about stable coins. Where does speculations fits here? Also could you make an argument without making accusations?
s/Americans/People/. FIFY.
The goodness of salespeople is measured on two orthogonal axes. The one that everyone pays attention to is "money brought in". The one that is hard to evaluate is "lies to customers".

"money brought in" is air that your company breathes. "lies to customers" is poison that your company drinks.
Plus, I assume that this would make it possible for distributions to provide signed modules, making it much easier to use secure boot on systems with NVIDIA drivers (before you had to sign the drivers yourself after building them).
>> the OP-1 is literally the only piece of music gear you can bring on an airplane and write a whole song.

Apart from...

* Laptop with your favourite DAW

* iPad with GarageBand or Android Tablet with Caustic

* I would put Novation Circuit in similar category though depends on your definition of whole song

* Synthstorm Deluge

* Digitakt Elektron?

* Some of the Roland grooveboxes and systems

* Some of the Akai APC/MPC or Native Instruments Machine? Not fully familiar with either but I thought e.g. Akai Live lets you do a full production

* Bunch of other stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting

I feel we are actually in a bonanza and cornucopia of portable music creation devices! And that's a good thing :). Heck even the Yamaha Reface is super portable, battery powered, real keyboard, lots of sounds, and you can hook it up to phone or a simple recorder/looper to make good stuff on the go. OP1 might be the smallest by some metrics, that may or may not be seen as a good thing.
what sparks.

russia is 100% committed to ukraine. there's nothing left to catch fire.
"A peg is only as strong as how much money you have to defend it."

Which is why, in the case of the Soros story, it was the Bundesbank that broke the BoE, not Soros.

The Bundesbank refused to issue DMs to buy up spare GBP liquidity. And that broke the peg.

For a peg to work the currency issuers on both side of the fence need to act in unison, since intervention can only cap, not collar. If both play their part then the peg will be unimpeachable.

Until the Federal Reserve decides to maintain stable coin pegs by buying them up in return for new dollars when the dollar strengthens against them, then the whole concept is doomed.

It's not the market that decides whether a peg survives. It's the currency issuer on the strengthening side.
Here is the construction of the n-ball volume and n-sphere surface area constants up to n=26. Those denominators get crazy.

double nbv[27];
double nss[27];

// n-ball volume constants (index is exponent and n-ball dimension)
// nbv[n] = nss[n-1]/n (n > 0)
// nbv[n] = 2pi * nbv[n-2]/n (n > 1)
nbv[0]= 1.0;
nbv[1]= 2.0;
nbv[2]= M_PI;
nbv[3]= 4.0 * M_PI / 3.0;
nbv[4]= pow(M_PI, 2.0) / 2.0;
nbv[5]= 8.0 * pow(M_PI, 2.0) / 15.0;
nbv[6]= pow(M_PI, 3.0) / 6.0;
nbv[7]= 16.0 * pow(M_PI, 3.0) / 105.0;
nbv[8]= pow(M_PI, 4.0) / 24.0;
nbv[9]= 32.0 * pow(M_PI, 4.0) / 945.0;
nbv[10]= pow(M_PI, 5.0) / 120.0;
nbv[11]= 64.0 * pow(M_PI, 5.0) / 10395.0;
nbv[12]= pow(M_PI, 6.0) / 720.0;
nbv[13]= 128.0 * pow(M_PI, 6.0) / 135135.0;
nbv[14]= pow(M_PI, 7.0) / 5040.0;
nbv[15]= 256.0 * pow(M_PI, 7.0) / 2027025.0;
nbv[16]= pow(M_PI, 8.0) / 40320.0;
nbv[17]= 512.0 * pow(M_PI, 8.0) / 34459425.0;
nbv[18]= pow(M_PI, 9.0) / 362880.0;
nbv[19]=1024.0 * pow(M_PI, 9.0) / 654729075.0;
nbv[20]= pow(M_PI, 10.0) / 3628800.0;
nbv[21]=2048.0 * pow(M_PI, 10.0) / 13749310575.0;
nbv[22]= pow(M_PI, 11.0) / 39916800.0;
nbv[23]=4096.0 * pow(M_PI, 11.0) / 316234143225.0;
nbv[24]= pow(M_PI, 12.0) / 479001600.0;
nbv[25]=8192.0 * pow(M_PI, 12.0) / 7905853580625.0;
nbv[26]= pow(M_PI, 13.0) / 6227020800.0;

// n-sphere surface area constants (index is exponent and n-sphere dimension and n-ball dimension - 1)
// nss[n] = 2pi * nbv[n-1] (n > 0)
nss[0]= 2.0;
nss[1]= 2.0 * M_PI;
nss[2]= 4.0 * M_PI;
nss[3]= 2.0 * pow(M_PI, 2.0);
nss[4]= 8.0 * pow(M_PI, 2.0) / 3.0;
nss[5]= pow(M_PI, 3.0);
nss[6]= 16.0 * pow(M_PI, 3.0) / 15.0;
nss[7]= pow(M_PI, 4.0) / 3.0;
nss[8]= 32.0 * pow(M_PI, 4.0) / 105.0;
nss[9]= pow(M_PI, 5.0) / 12.0;
nss[10]= 64.0 * pow(M_PI, 5.0) / 945.0;
nss[11]= pow(M_PI, 6.0) / 60.0;
nss[12]= 128.0 * pow(M_PI, 6.0) / 10395.0;
nss[13]= pow(M_PI, 7.0) / 360.0;
nss[14]= 256.0 * pow(M_PI, 7.0) / 135135.0;
nss[15]= pow(M_PI, 8.0) / 2520.0;
nss[16]= 512.0 * pow(M_PI, 8.0) / 2027025.0;
nss[17]= pow(M_PI, 9.0) / 20160.0;
nss[18]= 1024.0 * pow(M_PI, 9.0) / 34459425.0;
nss[19]= pow(M_PI, 10.0) / 181440.0;
nss[20]= 2048.0 * pow(M_PI, 10.0) / 654729075.0;
nss[21]= pow(M_PI, 11.0) / 1814400.0;
nss[22]= 4096.0 * pow(M_PI, 11.0) / 13749310575.0;
nss[23]= pow(M_PI, 12.0) / 19958400.0;
nss[24]= 8192.0 * pow(M_PI, 12.0) / 316234143225.0;
nss[25]= pow(M_PI, 13.0) / 239500800.0;
nss[26]=16384.0 * pow(M_PI, 13.0) / 7905853580625.0;
Exactly. In fact, it's even a bit of validation that maybe the market you're trying to address actually exists.
Not ancient, but optical telegraph systems were a thing.

> The most widely used system was invented in 1792 in France by Claude Chappe, and was popular in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph
True but they would also be faster (probably more so) if Python had a jit compiler. Just seems that people want Python to be something other than it is. I guess the assumption is that it’s easier to remove the GIL or jit Python than the alternative, which would be to port whatever libraries to another ecosystem. Maybe a safe bet although there’s no deadline for GIL removal and that’s been a goal for decades.
> > Talk about missiles within range of Moscow and so on. Obviously these comments make no sense.

> Why doesn't it make sense?

Because Moscow has been in range of missiles for decades, Baltics and Finland and Ukraine in NATO or not.
Ah yes, another skin color detector.
> C++20 is the C++ to compare against

Admitting that each ISO standard is a distinct language (so, C++ 20 is distinct from C++ 17 and C++ 03 and so on) and insisting upon naming them this way would of course satisfy this concern. But doing so would also highlight the uncomfortable reality that C++ 20 isn't a real language programmers can use yet - compiler vendors are still implementing this standard and won't be done for a while. It would also highlight the fragmentation, you would need to pick one of these different C++ languages to write some software, and in doing so rule out using the others.

And that's a pretty poor alternative to Rust, which is one real language Maxime and her team were able to use to write this software.
Down the drain: The elusive ‘default’ PulseAudio sink (2018)
I read through this guy JohnHaugeland's history for a page or two to try and figure out if it's a troll account or not. It's not a troll account, just your average HN poster. Absurdly arrogant, with a tendency to go from single-line, fairly innocuous comments to full-blown ranting essays attacking people. I'd forget about engaging him anymore.

The sad part is that if we met in real life, I think we might agree on a few things.
They did internal audits but not external ones, which of course it's what everyone assumes
It would be a lot easier to trust the words of government if they didn't lie so much! The prevalence of conspiratorial thought is first and foremost a consequence of the well documented misbehavior of the US government and media.

More philosophically, citizens of a democracy are not supposed to trust authority. They should be antagonistic, questioning, and never blindly accepting any statement. It is a civic duty to push back against anything questionable, even if you turn out to be wrong.
Happens in music. Producer will make arbitrary change and now they are a co-writer and qualify for royalties.