skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would not be that difficult to guarantee Tether price if tether actually did what they originally claimed. Take usd in, store that in diversified bank accounts/liquid treasuries, and if there ever is downward pressure on the Tether price, use your high quality liquid reserves to buy Tether back (while making profit!). And of course, if you are open and audited on your operations, there is very little reason for a downward pressure for the price.

Now, of course, if you decided to _not_ be open and _not_ hold your reserves in safe assets but instead decided to invest the reserves to speculative gambling tokens or shady commercial papers, then it really is difficult to keep the guarantee if the gambling token loses value.
I think the person you replied to agrees with you, and was just being snark
What bothers me about Waymo is how they pretend to compete with Tesla, saying their self-driving tech is better etc... Ok but what even is your product?? I had to look that up, and supposedly there are self-driving taxis somewhere in the US that they're controlling that you can sign up to _beta test_. I don't even recall seeing any in the two cities of operation, SF and Phoenix. Only see Waymo training cars being driven by humans around Mountain View. Like 15% of any given Google employee parking lot is filled with Teslas.
I don't think the point is "China is not an authoritarian regime", but rather that America is more authoritarian than most Americans think, or are willing to admit.
Your explanation is incorrect, please see my reply to the comment under yours. You should edit it so people aren’t misinformed.
The high buy volume at $0.98 is due to arbitrage. This is to be expected before the final crash.

People are using the opportunity to net an instant 2% return. Buy $10M USDT at $0.98, redeem at Tether for $1, take home $200K of profit instantly.

Thing is, this will only last until Tether runs out of liquidity. Then all bets are off.
This is a critical detail. The Left Alliance and the Green League parties are perhaps the two most skeptical parties towards Russia in Finland.
MSM is Methylsulfonylmethane, right? How can something be the cornerstone of it, are you thinking about another meaning for MSM?
That's not what I meant; I meant 'they' believe cryptocurrencies are better than other assets (outside NFTs) as in; they ALSO believe those are better than other assets. I wasn't saying NFTs are better; I was actually saying (well meant to say) they are equally superior in 'their' belief.
"Persecuting people like Pinochet" isn't really the bar.

I was alluding to the time he brought the military into the legislature to force through his 'crime package.' [1]

Belorussian leader Alexander Lukashenko refers to himself as the "last dictator in Europe" and I don't think he "persecutes people like Pinochet." He was also elected.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/02/10/804407503/troops-occupy-el-sa...
That's just a 2x speed increase.

More than 5x can be achieved with the GIL included (and has been promised, by the new Microsoft Python-speed-up initiative and that Python dev who made a similar proposal).
It essentially doubles the length of the border with Russia for NATO. Currently it is 1,215km long [1] and the Finland/Russia border is 1,340km long [2].

1: https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2021/10/p...
2: https://finland.fi/life-society/a-border-that-once-divided-n...
Just to put in perspective: a number of non-crypto YC startups had their treasury in UST. The reverberations of this will be massive.
> send Linus a pull request

Linux doesn't do pull requests. You actually send your patches as an email to a kernel maintainer (different people accept patches for different parts of the codebase) and then they'll review it. They'll pass it up to someone above them, and they'll pass it to someone above them, and eventually it makes its way to Linus.

That's why Linus is famous for angry and aggressive emails. He's not shouting down new developers who have made a simple mistake. He shouts and swears at the people employed below him who failed to properly do quality control and code review.
Usual caveats that I'm not a diplomat, don't have all the facts, etc etc., but this doesn't seem like a rational move for Finland or NATO. The UK just yesterday agreed to protect Finland in the event of an attack, and the UK's involvement would likely bring in many other NATO powers anyway, so arguably they're getting protection they'd otherwise have to pay for for free. And actually, officially joining NATO will have consequences, as Putin has lined out. 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.

It's a fact that Russia feels threatened by having NATO on their border. It's a fact that Ukraine and Finland also share borders with Russia. It's a fact that Putin is not going to allow himself to be removed from power by the West without a fight (at this point it's a case of stay in power or get killed). Can the West not have a bit more nuance in its collective foreign policy, recognising these facts and that we're far from living in a perfect world with flowers and rainbows? 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.

EDIT: sigh, are we really just reddit these days, using downvotes to express disagreement? I'm not going to change my mind based on downvotes. Comment to tell me how I'm wrong.
> let the government dictate the morality (like it should)

Here's a radical alternative, though: Let the people decide what is moral, and force the government to follow those moral principles.

I'm hopeful that if you asked people "Do you want uncompetitive elections where the government chooses its electors rather than the electors choosing the government?" a super-majority would say "No!".

Unfortunately that's not really the question that gets asked at election time. Instead we end up with a terrible Prisoner's Dilemma where the question is more like "Do you want a fair system that lets the other side win more often?", but such a question is itself a result of the systems that the major parties have put in place, and in any case fails the Rawls "veil of ignorance" requirement for a moral question.
It's a completely different league of dislike.

It's not like American TV shows aren't playing on Finish TV, or cinema hardly plays Hollywood movies.

If there was a true dislike, it should affect media consumption.
You can charge it to that, but you don't want to keep it there, will cause the battery to age faster
how do algorithmic stable coins work?
The end times are upon us!
> But again, 1USDT is ALWAYS 1USD on tether.io.

Until you can't redeem and 1USDT is 0USD on tether.io. The price on a 'random orderbook' is reflecting this risk.
Please, it's a personal preference where I wish to spend my money. I'm not doing it for "the greater good".
Would not be surprised if they were keeping their treasury in UST as a number of other companies had been doing to earn 20% yield from Anchor.
They only have to care about the Finnish border in a military fictional grand plan sense not a everyday practical sense.
Are we now hiding food recipes in interviews? The next step after blogging life stories, I guess.
She was proposed by EU Council and then elected by the parliament exactly as specified by the treaty:

> Taking into account the elections to the European Parliament and after having held the appropriate consultations, the European Council, acting by a qualified majority, shall propose to the European Parliament a candidate for President of the Commission. This candidate shall be elected by the European Parliament by a majority of its component members. If he does not obtain the required majority, the European Council, acting by a qualified majority, shall within one month propose a new candidate who shall be elected by the European Parliament following the same procedure.

Article 17(7) Treaty on European Union (TEU)

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

To be honest, I don't even know what is the legal basis of the whole lead candidate idea. Do you know?
Let's hope that Sweden will also follow suit.
My money is on the "Steam-Deck Effect".
...and if you run ads for your risky investment scheme in which you falsely claim it's not risky, you get into trouble.

Aren't there some fairly good reasons for finance to be highly regulated?
Looks like you should able to add markdoc into Docusaurus with plugins etc.
Whether conflict-resolution can be performed automatically or may require manual input is important at scale.

Human editors may cause the content within a CRDT datastructure to become inconsistent in the sense of "is this document understandable by another person", but they can't cause conflicts that block the editing process on-disk.

On the other hand, git merges can -- and frequently do -- involve conflict resolution that isn't effectively handled -- especially in a distributed system -- by automated measures.
> Most Russians don't seem to want to invade other countries.

This is true for basically every people every time in history. People care about food, family, a house, medical care. All is well until some government starts pushing them into a warring state of mind.

Examples from the previous generation of European wars, when Italy invented fascism, Germany followed suit ten years later and both countries started to think about land grabs in Europe and Africa. We got WW2 first but only 12 years after the end of it France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux started the process [1] that led to the current EU. All friends again.

My bet: without the current leadership and their propaganda very few Russians would think about invading other countries so be ready to reach out to them when it will be all over. What we don't have to do is to start a process like the one that led Germany from the defeat in WW1 to desires of revenge and WW2, or Russia from the defeat in the Cold War to the current attempt to create its empire again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Community
I'm curious: why does the banker use Tron as their main bank?
In my understanding that process takes several days at least and the reimbursement is done at the leisure of Tether, so I'd wager a lot of panicked investors won't take the official redemption route (that only works for large sums as well) and try to sell on the market instead.

Hard to say if Tether will still honor the redemption if the price falls below 0.50 USD, as they likely don't have enough reserves on hand and from their transparency report is seems that more than 50 % of their reserves are tied up in commercial paper (Chinese real estate some speculate), which should be quite hard to liquidate in the current market environment.
>Can anyone elin (...) Why need concurrency in normal python scripts let’s days for web scraping or machine learning ? I don’t really get it.

That's not a noob question. That's a loaded question, from a perspective of knowing what people use Python for.

People use Python for all kinds of things, and a lot of them would be faster if they were able to take advantage of multithreading without the GIL.
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> How can Russia pressure and disrupt the process when NATO members are the ones most afraid of Putin?

Hungary is also a NATO member and yet its president (Mr. Orban) has been quite chummy with Putin.
Luna gets the returns from the assets the 'real money' was invested in. Terra doesn't.

The people using Terra give up their returns to Luna holders for the convenience of a universally acceptable exchange medium that is pegged to something else of value that isn't universally acceptable.

As with all leveraged investments to problems occur when the underlying real assets fail to perform as expected. Or at worst don't exist at all.
Don't even have to click to know what that is, first thing that came to mind when I saw this headline
It’s a great read! Well researched. Read it just last week after a recommendation here on HN.
Ahhh I misread that, I apologize. Thanks for the clarification.
A slightly better strategy:

You do exactly this, but you don't proof it to anybody. Then there is constant doubt and the price can fall down a bit, e.g. to 0.97.

Then, you buy back your stable coins and you make an additional nice profit.

As long as there is no other more trusted stable coin demand will increase again and you will regain your market share.
Covid-19 left hundreds of thousands of printers vulnerable
How does the sell pressure play out? Is this other people willing to sell for 99 cents, 98 cents on exchanges because Tether can’t fulfil orders fast enough? I assume they are always willing to buy at $1 else it all collapses?
If they did it bit by bit then all nato can be a target. There is a strategy about this as far as yes minster goes about nuclear bomb detention. You just very hard to press the button if the other side just bomb say another country not in nato. And even if … Coalition never easy work especially you do not give them pressure.

Thanks in a dark sense Russia basically sealed the Ukrainian identity and possibly the nato. With Ukrainian blood and theirs.

How can a chess playing nation think so badly. Just bomb others to surrender … Mongolian blood?
With Finland being part of the EU, an invasion of Finland by Russia would already pull in 90% of NATO (per Article 42 of the EU). With most of NATO already needing to care about the border, this should not pose too much of a challenge.
> I think the "private website" space is shrinking - despite what adverts for Wix and Squarespace might infer.

The fact that Wix and Squarespace have been advertising hard for a time, is a sign that they see the market approaching saturation, or shrinking, or both, and they are fighting the market (trying to drum up more interest) and each other (to get the bigger share of what is left).

> WP, … Who-tf is the target market?

People who don't like (or have available) an industry specific preferred solution nor the time to DIY, who have not yet hit the point of realising that growing with WP can be as time consuming as DIY.
So you’re saying it’s always been a contest of belief.
> something that rhymes with money laundering

Oo, sign me up for some "bunny conjuring", please!

Alternately, "sunny wandering" and "honey squandering" both sound like they could be delightful ways to pass an afternoon. But I can tell you right now that "funny pondering" is hella overrated.
I think if the parts were cheap and no special engineering was required, there would be a lot more people doing conversions. (And a lot of local shops that would do it for you if you paid them.) New EVs might outnumber converted EVs 100:1, but even that would be huge. Right now hardly anyone does it because it's super hard and pretty expensive. It just doesn't make financial sense.

(I'm currently in the process of converting a Mazda RX-8, using a Netgain Hyper9 in place of the original engine with the transmission kept as-is, and about 400 pounds or so of lithium iron phosphate batteries.)
>Unfortunately, Python 3.11+faster-cpython work has already superseded some of it, i.e negating the trade-in he's trying to accomplish!

If "Python 3.11+faster-cpython" didn't also remove the GIL, then it didn't negate anything he's trying to acomplish. He wasn't going for a faster Cpython alone, but for a Cpython without GIL.
Just because I asked this question, doesn't mean I'm rich. I just asked it out of curiosity and giving whatever I can, if I had the option.
It’s already written: Mutant 59. Good read.
For some background, in 1990s Russian president Boris Yeltsin said to Finns, you never need to fear again. That fear came back when war started, but it became also political before the war. On December 2021 Putin stated that Finland & Sweden should not join NATO. Finnish President talked to him and noticed a change in Putin, that he was serious.

Invasion of Ukraine had not started in December 2021 yet, but it became urgent issue for Finnish President as it was seen that Finnish & Swedish NATO membership was being tied to Putin's war rhetoric at the time. Then came Finnish president's New Years remarks which was seen as a serious even in neighboring Sweden.

It's notable though that in Finland politicians have used wording "Nato-option" for decades, this conditioned the public to know what to expect if things turn sour. In Sweden NATO membership is a bit more difficult, because they didn't have such wording.

In Finland decision to joining NATO was mostly driven by sudden opinion change when war started. This opinion change was so radical that government didn't need to campaign for NATO, leadership could just focus on getting support from NATO members. Finnish and Swedish government have already negotiated with most of the NATO members so the application phase shouldn't be too hard.

Before war only ~20% favor, ~50-60% against

25.2. 53% in favor, 28% against

11.3. 62% in favor, 16% against

6.5. 76% in favor 12% against

See polling data from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland%E2%80%93NATO_relations
a) This only works for some applications and a very bad fit which does nothing for others. Namely, this only works if 1) you have few hot code locations 2) that code uses data structures which can be feasibly mogrified into native data structures with Python accessors 3) the granularity is low, meaning few invocations doing lots of work each. If any of these conditions aren't met, "native extensions invoked by Python threads" tends to be ineffective but maintenance-intensive.

b) Introducing native extensions means deployment and distribution becomes more difficult, and introduces a whole new and large class of issues and caveats into a project.

c) Native extensions are not written in Python. (Yes, Cython exists, no, it's usually not a good idea to write more than glue in it).
I use Google Maps for this and it still works very well...?
If you use intrinsics, you don't have to deal with the different calling conventions of each operating system, so I have used intrinsics for that reason alone, since I otherwise had to write separate versions for Linux and Windows or have a lot of conditional code.
> 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 we've had peace.

I think you should go and tell Ukrainian people that their country is a buffer zone meant to act as a burnt ground, and they are not allowed to work towards joining the alliances and economic systems that they want to join in order to better their livelihoods and stop facing the former-USSR-level of poverty. Same stuff with regards to the Finnish and Swedish people and their current will to join NATO in order to defend against an unpredictable old man with a grandiose idea of reviving the old USSR.

Believe me, going there and speaking directly will work better than commenting on HN.

EDIT: yes, I downvoted, and here's my share of a comment.
Their monolith is millions of lines of code, one of the biggest in the world, so I don't think some 2 year startup writing a blog "how we moved from Ruby to Go" is quite the same as what Shopify will have to do to rewrite their monolith.
Add to that the cost of losing productivity since they have so many Ruby experts.
This will be completely disruptive at a time where Shopify has to grow like crazy and add new features.

So I think they know what they're doing.

Also I'm somewhat skeptical of all those rewrite success stories, it seems to me like a CTO or principal engineer deciding to make the rewrite will never admit that it was a bad decision since his job depends on it. So of course he will make the case how great and beneficial the rewrite was. I bet there are many stories where the rewrite was detrimental to the business.
Hungary would be the only I can think of that might veto but they already said they wouldn't.
AMD and Intel both have open source video drivers and I really doubt anyone has cloned them.

The non-free features for the Nvidia cards and many other chips are achieved by the card itself running closed source binaries. It is actually probably a better way to protect IP anyway since no one can decompile the encrypted binary (well until recently...).

Open source and proprietary software exist as a duality. It's not an absolute expectation that everything will be open source but Nvidia is very late vs its competitors.

Google, Windows, macOS, etc. all have large open source parts. Games are kind of an exception because they are treated like a single work of art. Also, crucially no other software or hardware has a game as a dependency so interoperability isn't a concern.
I can see it (am spaniard), and there's definitely propaganda. But ultimately it was Russia who invaded Ucraine and the reasons provided are very vague, at best.

The Speech Putin did had some etnonationalism BS and claims of defending the land agains the threat of NATO. In most bordering NATO countries what you have is SAMs (anti-air missiles), and honestly pretty much any NATO country could claim that they feel threatened by Russian nukes.

And there's apprently plenty of gas just about the Dombass region and to the west of Crimea, such a coincidence.

So yeah, propaganda all around, but if you cut through it there isn't much left for russian sympathy.
One upside: 0.5-1% interest per day at Bitfinex.

> Remember, with a stablecoin, there is no upside to holding.

The people running Tether has a stake in the upside. It's this moment where they need to convert their supposed holdings to sustain the price. It's not going to be expensive (maybe even profitable) given the high yield of USDT right now.
I removed the section on Terra. Like I said, I didn’t want to get into complicating the explanation, but point taken on the nature of algorithmic stables as opposed to collateralized one. The point I was trying to make was that Terra actually did have collateral, in the form of BTC.
>powered by an ESP32 module

Immediate questions raised include "Which one?" and "Why aren't you telling me which one in the first place?!". Particularly so for a product that is supposed to be open source.

There's major differences between ESP32 modules. E.g. only some of them are on RISC-V CPUs. The others use a CPU which is less common and less well-supported by open toolchains.
There is this one person. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ano_Turtiainen

Not a lot of material about him written in English though. But he is a member of parliament and has been openly pro Russia recently. He was expelled from his party already earlier and now runs his own party. I don't think people take him seriously.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220512081442/https://www.indep...
Can we please learn the difference between fascism, nationalism and nazism?

Putin nor his supporters haven't gone full nazi. Full fascist, perhaps. Nationalist, definitely.

He used the "denazify Ukraine" slogan when Zelenskyy is actually Jewish not because of deep seated racial or religious motivations, but just to get more of the populace to buy his belligerent cause. Putin just cares about Crimea, Sevastopol, and the strategic importance of the Black Sea (oil and military).
I've tried looking, but can't find a good battery for it. Could you maybe link a few examples in the FAQ?