skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The carl firmware at https://github.com/chunkeey/carl9170fw should put that argument to rest. That is Wifi firmware source code for the Wifi I currently use.

Easily changed likely means there's a physical knob somewhere that you could accidentially poke as a layperson.

Not that you get a three year CS education, figure out how your distribution packages dependencies, install the correct embedded toolchain (good luck), find out exactly which chip is in your device, fetch the proper firmware source code in the right version, build the thing, figure out how to flash the result onto the chip / read the Linux kernel sources to figure out the filename inside /lib/firmware. That's not easy.

Even if this entire process was packaged (it is--see <https://packages.debian.org/sid/firmware-linux-free>), it probably still doesn't count (or at least shouldn't count) as "easily" changed.
> Surely you just mint the tokens in exchange for dollars

Step 1: find someone willing to give you dollars in exchange for a token that's guaranteed to be worth something between 0 and 1 dollars.

Step 2: find a bank willing to let you be a money transmitter for millions of anonymous pseudo-dollars whose owner you have no idea of, setting off every single money laundering alarm in the building.
The Assange affair is certainly disgusting, but does the US have widespread political persecution the way Russia does?
JSON is an exchange format... sqlite is an exchange format... even protocol buffers are an exchange format...

CSV is only an exchange format if there is no user generated strings in the data... If there are, then you'll almost certainly screw up the encoding when someones name has a newline or comma or speech mark in it, or some obscure unicode etc. Even moreso if awk is part of your toolkit.
The `navigator.sendBeacon()` is an awesome idea, I will definitly implement it in the future (it’s not so hard to do actually).

I would also like to think about how to have the same « safe » communication system for sockets. It’s more complicated.

What do you mean by call/result logging?
holy crap...

maybe it is possible to create microstructures using a phase array ultrasound emitter?
You need to think about how to manage expectations and ability of employees, particularly if they are the only person who does that job. You might take someone on who says they will do something and they don't, or they don't very well. How will you deal with that?

What is a fair way of measuring someone's effectiveness. It is easy to try and be kind but if you e.g. have a salesperson who is not selling, they need to go.

It is tempting to think you can't afford great people early on but plenty of businesses prove that great people sometimes put belief in the product or an interesting job/challenge or potential equity above a base salary.
> they are not sent to the server

The fact that the url hash-fragment isn't sent to the web server is a mere default. There's no controlling what plugins or scripts do.

> hence, they disclose less info to the middlemen

Care to elaborate? I don't see how a url (over tls) exposes more information unless tls is MiTM'd.

> they can be shared easily from person to person

That's a property of the url itself, and not unique to the hash-fragment, per se?
This has been discussed many times, but there is no responsibility on Soros part ; broadly speaking, he speculated that an event would happen, and it did, thus he benefited from it.
As the Finnish PM mentioned in his speech

I am pretty sure Sanna Marin is a woman.
It was hardly "hard money" in 1922, as the Fed was created in 1913, and the dollar started plummeting. If you want to see what a hard money world looks like, look at the 40 years or so prior to 1913, when most civilized nations were on a gold standard.
Wordpress is a cunt, it is fundamentally flawed in its design. The amount of hoop jumping to change the URL of a site is fucking insane (the site's URL is strewn all throughout the database...).

A sane framework might specify the URL(s) once in a config file and/or DB field, but ultimately leaving that side to the web server configuration where it belongs.

After that you can get into all the other issues people are talking about already.
Your welcome, I hope you will enjoy it!

I just released a fix for React/Next stores, so make sure you are using the latest Gravity version ;)
> redeem at Tether for $1

Is the redemption window really open? That's something people have been extremely skeptical of.
There is no upside to holding Terra. If the system works, it'll always be grounded to 1 dollar. Luna on the other hand can go to the moon.

The names are the cleverest part of the whole scheme.
See the RedHat graphics director here: https://linuxactionnews.com/240

He says that Nvidia's interest intensified in the last 3 months. Probably Steam Deck challenging their monopoly is making them uneasy.
What is the difference between the Nazis and Putin's Russia today? A fascist State organized around one man organizing the genocide of an ethnicity to further his geopolitical aims and restore his nation to a position of prominence and prestige in world affairs who destroys not only others but his own people as well.

He's just using Ukrainians instead of Jewish folks seems more like an implimentation detail. Even hating them is completely optional.

People aren't just using Nazi as a purjorative the regime literally fits a template.
You need FOMO.
You make excellent points. Some 6th notes will transform a 5-note melody into an entirely different melody, while some 6th notes would be barely distinguishable from the 5-note melody.
> and I guess that would feel terrible.

Absolutely; there are proud whales saying they lost millions and laughing (not sure why) but I am very sorry for the people who lost a few k$ and now are in deep shit because they didn’t understand what they were doing. The ‘how can this be; I will get my money back right?’ type of thing.
Shall we really rattle off a list of political persecution in the USA? Because, honestly, you can't be so ignorant .. YES: The WEST DOES have political persecution the way Russia does. There is, literally, NO DIFFERENCE.

Of course, we don't have evidence of a thousand Russian secret torture sites, like we do for the CIA (thanks Julian, thanks Edward), so there is some validity to the position that in fact the Wests' oppression apparatus is factually worse than Russia's, since those torture sites are spread across the globe, repressing, literally, dozens of other lesser sovereign states deemed unworthy by America's own utterly fascist military junta ..
The Russians are in no position to ask for anything.

They have proved that unless they are invading a much less militarily capable neighbour (being the local bully) they do not have the resources or ability to worry a NATO force. Hence the reason Sweden and Finland will now join.

Only the nuclear threat remains, which would mean the annihilation of Russia to save one mans ego if it was ever used.
Probably their management is too old fashioned to get this.
Also nice to know: 400 x 300 px found on the block diagram.
No, it was moved. Essentially slided on six purpose-built rails in a three-hours-long operation.
Late but one thing to add is that my parents can now just call apple or chat with them and not call me for - I think my email is not working as I haven't received anything in the last hour.
surely it must be GNU/Terry_Pratchett.
I often use csvquote [1] whenever I need to process CSV with a command-line tool that doesn't support it. For example:

csvquote test.csv | awk '{print $1, $2}' | csvquote -u

[1] https://github.com/dbro/csvquote
Does the NATO membership process have negotiable elements? For example, do different members have different terms, or pay different contributions to costs?

Announcing your firm intention to join before negotiating those parts seems like a good way to be paying over the odds forever...
If Sweden got attacked, most Norwegians would want to help them somehow, ending up dragging NATO into the ordeal anyways, is my thought.
That may have been more true years ago, but now quoting is pretty well defined with RFC 4180, and most tools seem to produce and consume RFC 4180-compatible CSV (which properly handles commas, quotes, and even newlines in fields). That said, there still are too many non-standard or quirky CSV files out there.
It is guaranteed - by Tether. But the effectiveness of this guarantee is what's questioned, and the only way to fully validate this guarantee is to wait until the USD have left any accounts controlled by Tether and arrived in your bank account. You are inside the danger zone and outside of the profit zone until this process has completed. And this process is not instant at all.

[edit] Indeed, as dgellow commented, Tether actually does not strictly guarantee the redemption of USDT to USD. They use sleazy legalese in their Terms of Service to reserve the right to "delay" a redemption in case of illiquidity, without specifying how long that delay may last, so effectively they can simply "delay" your redemption for an infinite time.
Nothflank looks cool!
> Remember, with a stablecoin, there is no upside to holding.

As always people around here tend to see the world from their point of privilege. If you are in Turkey, Sudan or Venezuela right now there is a huge upside in holding a stable coin pegged to the dollar. Only 13% of the world population is lucky enough to live on a stable democracy with a stable economic system.
This is such good news... I hope we see 'real world improvements soon' !

The amount of time, I was 'sucked' with a black-screen after a reboot and the amount of time I wasted with Nvidia drivers ! I swear I would never buy NVIDIA again !
Any Founders in Oceania?
I'm in Australia, but have ideas with an Oceanian target audience (not including AU/NZ). In particular, Fiji sounds like the most promising market to target initially (based on population, economy, etc.), but I'm quite open to consider other locations, and eventually intend to have coverage across many areas.

I'm technical and can code, and would particularly be interested in someone who understands the local business environment.

Also would be interested in hearing people's experiences in the area in general even if they're not looking to do a startup.

(I did try to use the YC cofounder matching service for this, but it seems that you can't specify target location except as a time radius around your current location. Also, searching for similar threads about business in the region returned surprisingly little results.)
The way I understand their business model is: you pay $1 into our bank account, and we'll give you 1 USDT on one of a few chains. We'll invest it in low-risk securities, keep the gains, and give you back $1 for the USDT if you come asking. At least that's the theory, I think they've also been doing lending, it's notoriously shady. But still, a lot of people probably paid them real $ for there to be 78bn Tether.

Edit: in all likelihood, those CPs don't exist, btw. There was a good article by Bloomberg who tried to track those down.
Zwift Cancels Smart Bike Hardware Plans, Announces Significant Layoffs
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Is DDG Down?
Got a pair of these from prof Silver himself. https://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_silver_adjustable_liquid_fi...
At first glance it would seem the same concept. How is it different (if) ?
NATO "expanded" when sovereign, democratic countries CHOSE to apply for NATO-membership, completely voluntarily, because they beleive it was and is the best deterrent for Russia to invade them.

A lot of countries bordering Russia have been invaded in the past 30 years by Russia. Always leaving a trail of warcrimes, poverty, rapes, murdered and tortured civilians etc.

None of these countries were NATO members. No wonder Eastern Europe were eager to join NATO.

NATO is not perfect, neither are the member countries, but compared to Russia, it is pretty much sparkles and rainbows.

(edit: typos)
Hmm good point. But what about honey-pots? That seems like a very easy thing to do as they already have the dataset, no?

Plus you only need images of children in general - not even CP to create those 3 models and then it's just Unreal engine let's say.
NATO is a devensive alliance. It is no threat for a peaceful Russia at all. All else is propaganda. A really democratic Russia may even join NATO some day. (As Western Germany did ten years after the Nazis.)
Just as an FYI that is how the official web spec works https://wicg.github.io/aom/spec/

I'm going off of memory here but I think it's approximately correct. They were playing around with the idea for a while of creating "virtual trees" to handle accessibility and ultimately had to abandon it for privacy reasons because you would be able to imply that anyone who was using the virtual tree was differently abled and that was a whole can of worms that couldn't be resolved.
You're not missing anything, that is literally how it works and the reason it is now failing.
gee, that sounds like... a bank run.
You’re entitled to quite a lot. It is those delightful moments, enjoyed quietly and within one’s own head out of common courtesy, that make all of life’s problems worth it. There are few feelings as remotely good as that one, and we’d all feel better admitting it to ourselves. Doesn’t speak to caring.

They’ll listen to you next time, won’t they?
> Commercial paper is not dollars, so tether effectively admits it is not backed.

What do you think backs bank deposits?
It is strange to pretend to be a democracy, and then give power to long dead men to decide what the rules are, offering a veto to a handful of unelected people to "interpret" what those men decided long ago.

A democracy should make its own rules as it goes. Americans living today ought to decide the rules under which those Americans live, not hope that somehow slavers who lived centuries ago magically determined the correct rules to live by forever.

I don't think writing some of the rules down in bigger type and calling those a "Constitution" helps much at all, and so I'd argue against it as a practice, but certainly a situation in which most Americans weren't born until after the constitutional rules in place today were fixed is not a success. The last successful new Constitutional Amendment to be written was in 1971. If you were born after 1971 your "democracy" never really decided any of these rules, if you were born after 1950 you never voted for the rules you live under.

In its early days the American Republic fiddled with the Constitution a great deal, and that's much less objectionable. Even as late as a century ago, there was some flexibility left in this vital joint, but today it's gone.
As far as I understand, even when used with 256 bits paths, the new encoding is quite superior and flexible and it is a good vectorization and compilation target.
I think religion is exactly the right word. Humans build story's and meaning around otherwise innocuous things. And that didn't just stop with the rise of the secular world.
The Netherland has pretty much the same system as Israel, there is slight geographic representation but nationwide party votes do dictate the composition of parliament.

All the Nordic countries also use a proportional system with multi-member districts and measures to make the overall party representation in parliament align with their national share of the votes.

Maybe the problems with Israel are just problems with Israel rather than their particular system of voting.
i can relate personally to the ’will to violence’ domination sentiment you shared, but on the other hand, there are a few people in my life with whom i’ve discussed this topic with, and really don’t experience these sorts of thoughts or impulses.
>completely volutarily

The CIA has entered the chat.

>A lot of countries bordering Russia have been invaded in the past 30 years by Russia.

I assure you, the West has invaded - and left in utter ruin - far more sovereign democratic nations than Russia has. It was only able to do that due to NATO support, from which bases many crimes against humanity and war crimes have been committed.

The Russians know this about NATO, even if Americans don't.
I'm generally quite critical of NATO, but I would argue that once Putin threatened consequences if Finland or Sweden join NATO he pretty much forced their hands. Despite the skepticism towards NATO in both countries and "pride of neutrality" (for lack of a better term) in Sweden in particular, there is an even stronger wariness toward Russia, and you really don't want to yield to the bullying, because were does it end?
You'd probably enjoy reading Christopher Lasch's "The Culture of Narcissism". It makes all sort of great points about yesterday's hippies' and pop culture personalities' ability to recycle their (frankly) egomaniacal tendencies, and analyzes what gave rise to those in the first place (material abundance, mass media, "youth culture", etc.).
It was explicitly done for that reason. US does the same for Sweden.
The two approaches aim to solve different problems:

- Multiple cursors is for when you want to apply the same edit to multiple pieces of text.

- Rectangular editing (or visual-block mode in Vim) is for when you want to apply the same edit to multiple, horizontally aligned pieces (often of text of the same length).

The overlap between those problems is rather obvious, as the "rectangular" scenario is really just a special case of the "multiple cursors" scenario.

So, when the current scenario could be solved with either approach, which one to use is mostly a matter of availability, familiarity, and practicality.
It isn't "investing", it is speculating. Investing means a calculated return over x. Crypto is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it.
To a populistic loudmouth like he is, he doesn't need a good argument. Also he is trying to relativise war in Ukraine with a lot of Russian style propaganda. Don’t think he has any say in it though. At the same time he is in open conflict for months with the prime minister who wields real power. So if one says one thing the other will say the opposite and call the other bad names. Unfortunately the prime minister is corrupted through and through, as the whole party which forms the government. So citizens are just between the rock and a hard place since the war ended in 1995.
If I were living in Finland, I'd feel safer (against external aggression) if the country was in NATO than if it wasn't.
If I understand this correctly nvidia is moving its proprietary code from the drivers to the card itself. Looks like we are looking at a future where graphic cards will get firmware updates instead of driver updates.
I am wondering with how large the newest graphics cards and ho the power requirements are so much larger than the other components. I see a future where we have PC cases and laptops with a pci slot exposed externally to attach external graphics cards which has it's own power supply and cooling only. It is attached to the PC when you need the GPU power for gaming or work then just remove it for a silent PC. As we start hitting the physical limits for moores law I think such a future is big possibility.
Why did your family burn its homes as they were leaving? To deny it to Russian (or collaborator) settlers?
Reminds me of one of my favourite hack projects, storing the whole content in the URL:

https://wgx.github.io/anypage/?eyJoMSI6IiBTdG9yaW5nIHN0YXRlI...
> Step 2: find a bank willing to let you be a money transmitter for millions of anonymous pseudo-dollars whose owner you have no idea of, setting off every single money laundering alarm in the building.

This was the biggest red flag behind Tether to me, where we are talking about not millions but billions of pseudo-dollars.

The risk profile is beyond anything reasonable that a bank could or would accept. Tether minting $2bn in a week means $2bn cash inflows from mostly people that the bank probably doesn't know, all for what can only be a negligible fee.
It’s not guaranteed at all. Tether made it abundantly clear they give no guarantees they will redeem your USDT. It also isn’t instant.

This is public knowledge and has been well documented for years. Tether is likely to be the least trustworthy actor in the entire industry.
That's exactly the kind of thing that would cause everyone to lose confidence in a coin.
Monero still tries to fit in this niche.

The only thing it's useful for is financial crime though - if your problem is just making a payment you can do it in dollars relatively easily and safely.
> TikTok videos have people celebrating mental illness like Tourette’s

https://tourette.org/debunking-myths-misconceptions/

> Although often treated by psychiatrists, Tourette is not a mental or psychiatric illness. Rather, it is a movement disorder that often occurs along with other psychiatric conditions such as obsessive compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety, etc.
> - Product Market Fit - find that before continuing to perfect the product.

How are these things non-obvious? Isn't that like business lesson numbers 1, 2, and 3?
He is certainly not on Russia's side in this conflict.

https://hungarytoday.hu/orban-hungary-ukraine-conflict-eu/
I think GP was talking about the Finnish president's speech, actually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhLNBxpo8zY
it's not markup, it's ascii art. works well, looks fine to me.
> The Finnish political system was infiltrated by Russian assets (willing or just useful fools) for decades [0]

I just read the whole [0] reference, and I could not find anything related to your claim. Can you give specific examples ? Or can you explain how the article supports your claim ?
From the Finnish point of view the case for NATO has become quite clear. There were a number of reasons why we used to believe Russia won't be invading us any time soon.

1. The invader would suffer a massive penalty for their reputation: didn't stop them from invading Ukraine.

2. The invader would be hit with massive economic sanctions: see 1.

3. Even unassisted, we would be able to mount a defense that can cause major losses to the invading force: see 1.

4. Even though there's no formal defense pact, surely the west would come to our aid: Putin says "serious consequences, remember we got nukes", west backs down.

And as a bonus:

5. If, against all odds, they decide they still want to invade and we get no help from the west, there's no point to actually fight back because they'll crush us like a fly in the end, so we should just surrender immediately: looking at Ukraine, this is no longer obvious.

Usual caveats apply, but I believe the main benefit for NATO is to prevent point 5 from happening.
Super easy to get lost in implementation. Make sure you take a daily/weekly/whatever review of what you're actually shipping, and if it fits the use case.
One thing that is now obvious to me but which I had to learn: pricing needs to not only be reasonable and competitive, it also shouldn't be too surprising.

I read and bought into Basecamps reasoning about no-by-the-seat-pricing(1) and tried it for Submotion. Now, it's always hard to know why people don't try your product out, but two people kindly hinted to me that they were confused by the price and thought that it meant that they didn't really understand what they were getting.

Obviously, as with any advice, this applies in specific situations only but it's now something that I keep in mind, not only in pricing: remove any unnecessary source of confusion, even if it's clever. Not unlike code :-)

(1) (https://m.signalvnoise.com/why-we-never-sold-basecamp-by-the...)
Once you figure out the practicalities of buying $100K worth of Bitcoin for cash, securing it, exchanging it for Tether, requesting the redemption, getting paid out to a bank account, etc, you will see that it's not particularly free money.

People who are already set up with crypto accounts, exchange accounts, bank accounts which won't be closed down or frozen, will do this trade all day for 3%. For a regular punter it's not a no-brainer at that level.
This post is an "insane clown world".