skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. It means that they could fix things if the price dropped to 0.90, but not if the price dropped to 0.80.
Turkey does have some recent history of "balancing" with Russia, but I'm not convinced its decisions on the Straits are an example of that. My understanding is that under the Montreux Convention, Turkey closes it for everybody involved in the war or nobody, I don't believe it allows Turkey to block one side of a conflict's ships but not the other, unless it is a conflict in which Turkey itself is directly involved. (In a direct war between Russia and NATO, Turkey would probably just tear up the Convention anyway–but doing so in peacetime would likely be considered by Russia to be an act of war.)

In practice, however, closing the Straits has a much more negative impact on Russia than NATO, since the major NATO naval powers (US, UK, France) were never likely to send ships near Ukraine anyway, and as non-Black Sea states the Montreux Convention subjects them to special limits to which Black Sea states are not subject. In fact (according to some sources), the Straits are still officially open for the US/UK/French/etc navies, so long as they don't directly join the conflict – although I imagine they'd be rather hesitant to exercise that right at the moment, due to the risk Russia might interpret such an act as hostile.

If it is true they allowed some Russian ships through before closing it–that could have been simply the slowness of government decision making, plus the legal complexities involved, rather than a deliberate "balancing" act.

If anything, I think this conflict has caused Turkey to turn away from the "balancing" and move more firmly into the NATO column. Reminding NATO of their value helps silence the ongoing "can we expel Turkey?" debate, refusing to do so would have given it more steam. Turkey has been selling its TB2 drones to Ukraine, which Ukraine has been using to great effect against Russia – not a very good example of "balancing". Ukraine's successful use of Turkish drones is very helpful to Turkey, because it gives them more information on how they perform in an actual conflict (which they already had to some extent with the Syrian civil war, the KPP, etc, but Russia is a very different kind of adversary from the Syrian government or the Kurds), and also helps attract potential buyers.
If I was in court over that, I'd argue the UI being dogshit is because of the management of the product teams, not because of the engineering department/technical limitations/technical merit (or lack of thereof).
He has poured considerable amounts of time and money and other forms of backing into regime change in a number of NATO members; he extensively backed Le Pen and Zemmour, Trump (and enjoys public support from a number of US senators), has close ties to Gerhard Schröder, and of course has extensive networks in the British Conservative Party - sufficient for the current Prime Minister to appoint a Russian as a member of the House of Lords over the objections of British intelligence agencies - and Brexit.

It only takes one of those to pay off at the right time.
>> And this doesn't only apply to crypto, look at how many countries with currency pegs can maintain that when their economy turns down

> These assholes need to be prosecuted, fined and put to jail if necessary

Who gets put in jail when assholes running a country swindle their people's currency and the peg slips or otherwise they steal from the social wealth of the nation?
What would NATO ships do there? "Balancing" would only make sense if NATO was directly a part of the conflict.
You don't need to go that far. Corrupt (low level) employee sells lab animal remains at wet market would probably be enough.
Even sociologists/antropologist who put emphasis on "rally around the flag effect" claim that support for war in Russia is actually high right now. And that hate toward Ukrainians is high too. Your explanation completely disregards the distate and hate toward Ukraine/Ukrainians that was hyped up for years.
I think both of your questions are answered on the page. Maybe not in the direct manner in which you have asked, but my understanding is that recording is possible with the mixer accessory mentioned towards the bottom, and the antennas are for the Bluetooth MIDI feature heavily emphasised towards the top.

Maybe they do need a FAQ with a basic Q&A format, though. e.g.

Why does it have antennas?

How do I record?

What do the knobs do?

How many instruments are included?

How do I transfer recordings to my computer or phone?

etc.
> > none of my smart peers had anything to say, either.

> It's because they know. I think everybody knows that crypto is a bubble.

You're conflating 2 different things. Your parent poster was talking about Tether specificly and why it's a scam. Whether the whole asset class is in a bubble or not is a whole different discussion.
Then you're effectively arguing that Finland never should join NATO. That's fine. But if someone believes that Finland ought to join NATO (and many people do), now is the time to do it, sparks or not. I just think it's misleading to argue it as "they should've done it before anyone realized it might be needed or wait until it's too late".
I agree 2 and 3 are facts, but the error is you think they are relevant to how Russia see the situation.

I understand you think that perception is wrong, but remember, global geopolitics is not about "who is right", it's about "how do we find the least violent solution to this conflict".

If you read MacNamara's book on Vietnam, he actually goes back and talks through the war with the North Vietnamese leaders at the time. The big takeaway was there were plenty of opportunities to de-escalate the conflict (acknowledged by both sides), but each side was so sure they were right that there was no backing down.

It's a tough pill to swallow to realize you could have gotten the same thing as you have today without killing a few million of your own citizens.

Edit: Your reply "If Russia wants to go nuclear over this, then so be it" is the most horrifying thing I've read in a while. But regardless there is a lot of evidence to show if Hitler had been restrained early in the lead up to WW2, before Germany had rearmed, it could have prevent WW2.
Apply your technical skills to a non-technical business. Dont start a tech startup in a tech hub. Run a business completely unrelated to tech and use your skills to improve that business, theres SO much low hanging fruit out there.

The venn diagram of tech skills and a non-tech business is where the opportunities are. This applies to many other unrelated skills.
That is a nice tool !!!!.
I partially agree here.

if a component is core to your strategy or product then by all means make sure it's rock solid.

but if you're iterating on your product and you don't know which feature is going to be used then don't waste time perfecting it.

we put together in days products that we shutdown in 3 months, we would have never been able to move at such speed if we took our time plan, design, develop ...

and business people do come with a lot of things that go nowhere (depending on your company sales culture of course and product maturity)
There are people "in crypto" who believe the FDIC will make good any losses on their investments; which they hold because "crypto can't be controlled or monitored by governments!"

I'm expecting the talking heads to have to spend time on "why there won't be a bitcoin bailout" today or tomorrow.
And, Turkey delivers one of the most useful weapons Ukraine has - Bayraktars.
> For example, the += operator looks atomic, but under the hood, it's made up of multiple python bytecode instructions, so the GIL won't apply here.

Sure, but any call to a native function which doesn’t release the gil (which is most of them at least for the builtins) is currently atomic so something like dict.setdefault.
Regardless of the value of Bitcoin, anyone should ALWAYS only invest (or gamble, in one sense) amounts that they can afford to lose.

I don't know why anyone does otherwise.
>Mutual, consenting sexting between two teenagers can't possibly be illegal, can it?

Yes, it can and it is. Though most reasonable places would probably not enforce it harshly.
...So now the Finns are joining NATO to participate in NATO war-crimes?

I did once have to sit through a Finn slaughtering a karaoke version of "Sweet Caroline", but I would hardly consider it a war-crime.
'secret purchases from databrokers.'

Don't you complain about mah free market libertarian data brokers!
Only if by "emerging markets" you mean Binance (and other crypto companies). Because that is almost certainly the source of any CP that Tether holds.
> No, it diminishes. NATO is a defensive alliance. The more members it has [..]

A similar line of argument about alliances and treaties preventing war was used before the First World War. We all know how that ended.
The stronger Russia tries to blow the cloak of NATO away from its borders, the tighter its neighbours will seek wrap themselves in NATO.

(Aesop's fable of The North Wind and the Sun.)
I have a hard time feeling sorry for these people. Sure, they may have gambling tendencies, but at some point, one must reckon with the consequences of their actions, and reap what they sow.
The polls in Finland showing > 50% support at the start of the war, and now even > 70% support for NATO. So this has seemed inevitable for almost two months. Any other choice would have been political suicide for the leading party SDP, and probably would have resulted in a new election. Whether it is the right choice I am not yet convinced, but basically it is now or never if Finland wants to join. Later it would be impossible to join.
There are rumours, for example, that quite some of Tether's reserves are in bonds (treasuries etc.) or commercial paper. There is secondary market for bonds and even commercial paper, but it is rather slow (OTC, not on an exchange), and if you need to sell bonds or paper in distress, guess what sort of price you're going to get...
Anecdotally, I'll note that some USB-C stuff is rather power-hungry, compared to MicroUSB gadgets. I have a portable solar panel that easily charges my Kindle over MicroUSB, but struggles to make headway with many of my USB-C devices. I don't know if this is due to USB-C itself consuming power somehow, or if the higher amount of power that USB-C can supply means that USB-C devices put less effort into keeping power requirements low.
That was announced like 40 minutes after the crash… doesn’t make sense
I recently learned via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31257248 that ASCII has the idea of records and fields ever since. It's just not used, but workaround CSV.

No improvement of CSV handling will ever improved on that.
How has appeasement worked out in Chechnya, the invasion of Ukraine and seizure of Crimea, Georgia, shooting down a civilian airliner?

What shall we give Russia this time? Then when they come for Poland or Romania, who do you suggest we offer to rape and murder?
Every USDT they buy below 1 USD will increase their "backing level". So if they only stole let's say 5% of the funds to buy cars and boats, a price drop could slowly move them back to 100% backed.

Assuming they have all the USD somewhere, but locked in all kinds of instruments (bonds etc) they would not be able to pay out without rapidly increasing wait times. And that will drop the price more and more because it increases doubts on whether they really have the USD.

That drop further incentivizes them to use the USD that they do have quick access to to buy USDT on the market instead of pay-out their 1:1 redemption option. Which will increase the wait time even more and thus drop the price even further as USDT holders get spooked.

But in most of those scenarios the guys behind Thether will make a lot of money.
>I'm just tired of the USA paying for everything when we don't have the money.

It's not like the rest of the world is forcing USA to spend so much on military. Apparently USA just wants to be military superpower.

>We all know Russia will win.

I don't. There is no military victory in sight for Russia as long as supplies keep flowing to Ukraine. Putin can't back up but someone else can, even if they shared Putin's ideology because they can blame Putin for failure. War ends after Putin is displaced or dies.
AKA bank run.
If you can blame government without any evidecne he can praise governments without any evidence

You seem to not address fraud in the market, like snake oil salesmen, at all
I've been considering doing something like that but I am not at a point in my life to be risky like that. When I have permanent residency or citizenship in Canada maybe, but until then I'm happy to just be an IC at Tailscale and write out these articles on my blog as the spirit moves me.
I’m an American. For many decades the idea that the U.S. props up the rest of world at the expense of focusing on our people has been a strong one. It was very strong going into the 80s but has becomes less so since then. It is still used from time to time galvanize right leaning people. There is a strong isolationist bent within the U.S. too.

I do believe Trump was correct to criticize the lack of defense spending by many NATO countries and I too think Europeans should largely defend themselves. Personally I favor a multi polar world and would like the U.S. to retreat so to speak.
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> I was thinking about modular synths mostly, and patching cables (also: Volca Modular).

Ah yeah, I don't use modular synths myself (and that reason is one of them, patching cables manually seems like a hassle).

> Yes, individual synths can save/export settings, but if you want to save a whole combination with different machines it's a big headache; whereas in a DAW it's so trivial you don't even think about it.

As mentioned earlier, Program Change MIDI messages solve this. I have about 10 hardware devices I use for music making, and all of them responds to Program Change messages. Everything is driven by the Octatrack, so changing the project/pattern on the Octatrack makes every device in my studio load the right patch instantly. Once you've setup the audio/MIDI routing with your hardware, it's actually pretty easy to use.

> But ok, we are sliding into the "hardware vs software" debate, which won't be solved here or there, or ever.

Agree :) For some, hardware is better, for others software is better. Truth is probably somewhere in-between and/or both depending on context.
Doesn't the US follow any political or foreign interests? I am sure they gain from stabilizing their dominance in some way.
I use diffchecker.com almost daily for debugging outputs. Great simple UI
> One way to make the weirdness of the "other parts infinitely far away" concrete is to recall that, say, the Empire State Building can fit entirely inside of an n-cube with sides of 1 cm, for sufficiently large n.

That’s a striking illustration. Even the entire Earth fits into a 1 cm n-cube, but — and that’s important — only diagonally.
> redeem at Tether

Find me one person that has ever done this. Just one.

I will wait.
Ask HN: What to do when the stock market falls like this?
I agree using React just for that is overkill. And yes, I'm talking about how it snowballs when you later get more requirements like now we need this dropdown to change accordingly, now we want to show validations as you write, now we need to check for email uniqueness before submitting, etc, etc...

But, the worst part in my experience, is that without one of these "opinionated" frameworks such as React or Vue, each new developer that joins the team (after others leave) have a total different idea of how to organize the code, or they have a hard time understanding the "custom" organization and ideology behind the structure you've had to invent to keep in maintainable.

Again, I'm not a fan at all of frontend heavy frameworks, but they do solve a real problem, specially in large apps and large teams or teams with a lot of turnover.

I'd say it is the exact situation in the backend regarding using Flask vs Django, Sinatra vs Rails, etc... having a set of imposed opinions and structure have long term benefits as soon as you're not the only one working on the codebase.
Jon Batiste is a ray of light in an increasingly bleak world, what with wars and economic hardship ahead. May his light shine brighter.
Ok be specific which states?
Of the anti-semitic sort, apparently.
Well, why haven't they? Any country is free to form their own alliances.

Living in eastern Europe does not guarantee a balanced view of the situation, though. Russia is a very large part of eastern Europe, and balanced views of the situation will get you thrown in prison.
They can probably make up the losses from the sweet deal on: "Fifa® Grand Corruption, Human Trafficking and Sex with Minors"™
All paid for by taxpayers so overall a net cost which is what matters to the average citizen.
Kinda broad statement for a direct citation. However feel free to browse the Wikipedia article about the Ukraine many if not most of their recent crimes are listed there.
You mean a half century of closing the wealth gap (while healing from the labor disruption of freeing the slaves), and somehow still managing to go from being a war torn country to world superpower?
not op but Java and C# are horrible, too.
Interesting points. I think I agree with your last one. However, a NATO member has not actually been attacked so it's "merely" the spirit of the alliance that's been tarnished. And at the same time the Russian army has been humiliated, so seems like this whole thing has been lose-lose.
I'm convinced TE is just a show case for pricing consultants
What’s lovely about this post is that it follows the rule of bold claims producing interesting counters. Here’s my hat in the ring: I have had a really good time with the Elektron Model: Samples. It’s among the cheapest grooveboxes and comes with all the effects, parameter locks, and preloaded samples you need to do some great things.
You can get really close by using the one click Dokku deploy on DigitalOcean. Technically it is your own VM, but in practice you just set your git remote to that IP and use it like you would a Heroku instance. It even supports the Heroku build packs!
Now that’s funny!
1) Of course, joining NATO is picking a side.

2) But still Cuba was permitted to stay within the Eastern block. Why did Russia not choose to just sanction Ukraine then but allow NATO membership (that would the comparison)

3) Yes, of course, but really surrounded by NATO members. Could you imagine Russia permitting a NATO exclave inside Russia? And Russia certainly makes it sound like they have nuclear weapons there (see their latest drill last? week)

Russia/Russian government is allowed to perceive it any way he wants, but that might not dictate NATO policy.
…and many normal people have suffered so bankers could have their fun. This is so evil on so many levels, that few people in suits can have such an impact of whole country finances. We all believe in a dream that it’s competition and market prices that drive economy, and then this happens.
Here's a plugin that does the thing you need. 50% of the code is the thing you need. The other 50% of code is stuff promoting the pro version.
I'd thought that there were only a few prototype Erkanoplans built, though it seems there actually was an operational fleet.

There's a particular larger model intended for defence purposes which saw only a single prototype, now abandoned.

The Soviet Navy ordered 120 Orlyonok-class ekranoplans, but this figure was later reduced to fewer than 30 vessels, with planned deployment mainly in the Black Sea and Baltic Sea fleets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-effect_vehicle#Soviet_U...

There is one specific prototype which has seen some attention (article and videos), the so-called "Caspian Sea Monster":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea_Monster

On HN a couple of years back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24857096

For water use, hovercraft tend to be more flexible. They still experience issues in rough water, and though they can cross flat unimproved terrain (beaches, swamps, snow, meadows), they perform quite poorly on slopes, particularly laterally, and generally have poor lateral stability, notably with high winds.

Hydrofoils accomplish much the same capability on water. Tracked vehicles on land. Not having to support your mass dynamically also helps. That said, hovercraft remain useful for military marine beach landings. And eels.
30 cold emails? this is 100x harder than you think. start by targeting angel investors who are experts in your space; they have more time (VCs see 5000 pitches per year and invest in 12). one well connected angel with conviction in you can provide you all the intros you need. note that getting acquired also starts with the warm intro game, so start working on it now, there is no avoiding it.
I think the people who we would describe as victims here don't have a sophisticated mental model enough to understand that financial speculation is a zero sum game. (Or indeed that in a liquid enough market, the risk-adjusted expectation of any deal is zero.)
For Paul's take, ref: https://archive.is/MbQ79 (discussing "political nature" of DoH with Peter Lowe).
> It cannot be understated, removing the GIL will be a HUGE deal for Python!

I am not sure about it. Python explicitly trades performance for simplicity and the GIL simplifies a whole lot of things and because of it, there are multi threading issues that will never be encountered by Python code.

In addition, because of Python’s popularity, there is a massive amount of code written in Python (and other languages as extensions) and any change cannot introduce a bug.

Finally, there are other alternatives to Python that are more performance focused.

If you are having huge issues with Python performance, maybe you are using it in a matter it was not designed for.
USDT is the worst in this regard since you have to deal in massive volume. The minimum withdrawal is $100k and fee on that is the greater of $1000 or 0.1%.

https://tether.to/en/fees/
For reference there is 42.7B on Tron and 39.8B on Ethereum. Tron is not a "main bank", there is just more demand for Tether there. Compared to Ethereum Tron has 0 transaction fees for USDT and has much shorter block times.
I solved my chronic lower back pain by using a standing desk. Using NSAIDs just hides the fact that we are sitting to much.
Not all media is owned by weapon manufacturers. There's tons of independent media here, unlike in Russia, where the government dictates what the media are allowed to say. They can't call the war a war, for example. That is propaganda. The West allows all viewpoints, including the Russian one. It's just that the Russian propaganda doesn't stand up to even the slightest scrutiny.

Also, Iraq was not a NATO war. It was just the US and UK, and many NATO members opposed it. I would certainly still like to see the US war crimes in Iraq prosecuted. But that does not in any way justify the Russian invasion or war crimes. Two wrongs don't make a right.
We have constant booms and busts now, even though we have more liquidity, people who should know better, math to describe what's going on, 'tools' to try to prevent it...
You can even do it on an iPad!
There is no article, and it's also not clickbait since there are in fact new ToS. The assumptions that you imply say more about you than about other people.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tether-reduced-exposure-comme...

The CTO of Tether issued a statement earlier today stating that Tether has significantly reduced its exposure to commercial paper and now holds the majority of its reserves in US Treasuries. That should be super easy to verify, yet he refuses to release any details, saying to just wait for their next quarterly update on reserves (which in the past has just been a one pager someone typed into Excel).
Pricing is hard to find. https://www.lemonsqueezy.com/docs/help/getting-started/fees/

Basic seems to be 3,5% + $0,30. No mention of what's basic.