skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If blocks aren’t being mined fast enough, the difficulty level automatically goes down, resulting in a higher reward for the same hash rate. So in theory, processing bitcoin should never become uneconomic.
Watch the sell orders rack up in real time: https://ftx.com/trade/USDT/USD
After two weeks the difficulty factor should be going down to match the reduced hash rate of the network.
I use this on several of my sites as well. None of them get any significant amount of traffic, so I figured it would be okay to add more names to the list, as a small token of keeping their memory alive.

Browsing the web with the Clacks Overhead extension for Chrome (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clacks-overhead-gn...), I'm always surprised by which sites enable this extension. My latest find is arXiv.org! If you go to any abstract page, such as https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0310077v2 (picked that one at random for its humour), the header will be sent.
>Meanwhile, Windows without hardware less than 2 years old is absolutely worthless.

This is false. Source: Installed Windows 11 from official Microsoft ISO on a laptop from 2016 (6 years old) and runs buttery smooth.

Please stop spreading FUD like this.
But are there any good alternatives to heroku that have a similar approach (i.e. not spinning your own VM) ?
Indeed, PhD students (at least in the sciences) are funded primarily by US taxpayer money, so it’s only in the interest of US taxpayers to keep that educated talent around post-graduation, yet the law doesn’t necessarily work that way at all.
Anything on any market can shift its price to the red or green. Tether and USDC are just tokens, so if there is enough sell pressure and not enough liquidity, the price on an exchange can jump to something else than $1. They are not fixed at a static $1.

It's actually almost never exactly at $1 and the reason why it's immediately pegging back to $1 is because there is an arbitrage opportunity, assuming there is enough backing so that in the worst case the custodian would just buy back the tokens for exactly $1, no matter what the market price is.

Seeing USDT at 0.97 temporarily doesn't mean much more than there is an insane amount of money exiting right now. One exchange can quickly fall to something like 0.97 if there is not enough buy power closer to $1
Its injectable. What are they injecting?
There's probably still some value in it for darknet activities like sales of illicit goods, ransom payments, etc.
It's just that Android might be too much "heavy" for the actual hardware. I don't have any details, sorry. That's what I heard when I was working there.
BTC was at $5k on March 2020, before reaching $60k in April 2021.
I wouldn't say it's ever gonna die.
Only for amounts > $100k. And they’re definitely fractional reserve banking and don’t have $80b in cash
The author does, in fact, bring up C++ herself. It is very strange to have dismissed it while knowing so little about its current status, and so worth bringing up. She didn't have to mention C++ at all.

If you don't see C++20 as a very, very different language from C++98, it can only be because you know practically nothing about the topic. That is totally allowed, but expressing opinions based on knowing nothing produces worthless opinions.
Came here to say this also. You can pretty easily replicate the Heroku workflow with Buildpacks and cloud run and end up with a much better service in the process.
Best source IMO for this is https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
Home is so buggy on my iPhone, it's strange that it's part of the showcase.
> In the short term, they have the reserves for sure.

Why for sure?

Their "audits" and other information provided that they have the reserves were rather unsubstantial, if not outright dodgy.
No, it really isn't. Its help rate can be as low as 15%. Using anything that is only 15% effective as a drug is not only not effective, but can easily be mistreatment. Most of the time, you have to lie to the patient so they can get an effect (IF they get it at all) and then you often have a drug that is consistently more effective than the placebo.

It isn't a helluva drug. It is a bad drug that often simply won't work for you.
Was. They've sold out to the ad churn, laying off journalists, and some genius middle management is steering the company toward profits over quality journalism.

They're a dead outlet, unless they restructure their management to preserve journalistic integrity. That's expensive and they seem more interested in cashing out their reputation.
I cannot understand this point of view. In what world will you keep enjoying your digital cosmetics after the USA army is dissolved?
Load ze tether fud. I'm no fan of USDT, and don't hold it but the same thing happened in the May 2021 crash. I think it's just the high volume of people selling right now cause it to depeg.

I think if it goes too far below you will see the major exchanges go into "maintenance mode" since they're all deeply invested into keeping it alive.
I think a lot of value comes with the Frameworks, with them you get at least source compatibility with macOS and without them the core operating system will just be another Unix operating system without much hardware supports.

So I personally put much more weight on the Frameworks over XNU and BSD userland. There is a reason GNUStep is less dead than PureDarwin :D
> third world brain drain

> native reproduction

You really are a piece of work!
Changing your mind on complex issues like this is normal I'd say.
Math Behind Paper Sizes (2015)
> UST / Luna had substantial reserves.

Did they, or did they just claim to while minting stablecoin in order to pump the price of Bitcoin? Which these guys (Tether) would want to do because the owners of Tether are a massive exchange, and they depend on Bitcoin being high to attract customers to the market, and the first thing news customers so is bring the real objective with them: actual cash.
Sometimes Canadians are said to be sorry too much but for this I am not sure. This is state endorsed child abuse in my opinion.
So you also think jacking up rent is immoral?

If lots of people want something I occupy but I didnt create or make valuable why should I not have to pay society for that privilege?
While the current goings-on aren't great for the citizens of the EU, it may very well be the best thing to happen to the EU itself in a long time. Everyone is reminded why this union is so vital.

If the order of events between this and brexit were reversed, I'm sure the brexit vote would be wildly tilted in favor of remain.
Trauma is the consequences of abuse and ongoing lack of safety, in the body. It’s always been around. I think the use of public spaces to discuss, integrate, and heal people’s personal trauma is relatively new in our culture? Something like that. The rules of social interaction are changing. Being “witnessed” by one’s community or group, or someone, is part of shaking off trauma, but who? What counts as one’s community these days (online)? When do we hold space for whose trauma? There are some good questions there.

Bo Burnham is all about fake authenticity. That was actually a great example, as much as I like his stuff.

And “trauma porn” whose only purpose is to titillate is of course not of moral value. But telling people’s stories and sharing our experiences has value.
yes
https://help.tumblr.com/hc/en-us/articles/226452848-Group-bl...
https://github.com/ballerina-platform/nballerina :) This is an active project.
This is largely fiction, given how large a portion of the electorate will care more about party affiliation than anything else.

It's the kind of broken, bad feature thought up by people assuming everyone would be as politically invested as themselves.
Yeah, it's a certain type of trap. At first it is something to do and some near term goal that exist there. Later when you complete everything in a turn it just becomes exercise of going through a list of actions repeated over half-a-dozen to dozens systems. Maybe games should offer some tools for this, like templates what to build and what ratios and so on. You could automatically set one of these or have custom one made for those needing more special actions.
Actually we need to define melodies first. If we expend from Western music theories, the possibility becomes endless (even from information theory perspective).

Also, how long should the melodies be? What would be our perception chunk for melodies? And what if we have multiple layers?

See how you can tweak the 'melodies' of Kraftwerk's The Model:

https://glicol.org/demo#themodel

In music AI, there is a famous distinction between symbolic and subsymbolic. I guess when the entropy of symbolic reaches some threshold, switching to subsymbolic raw audio sample generation becomes natural.
I have known CC (technically JC, Chaffey) people who transferred to Caltech but there is a strict battery of entry exams.
The processing time for a citizenship application is currently at 27 months. For economic immigration (=PR cards) it's 22 or 27 months, depending if you are a provincial nominee or skilled worker. Skilled trades is 41 months, the new startup-visa is 31 months.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...
So you're pro censorship?

I'm more on the "I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It" -boat. Actually I though most people here would be, I'm a bit disappointed tbh.
It looks like a lovely project - and congratulations on the grant!

How much did they cost backers to buy? It's such a shame that eInk screens are so expensive.
They are building pattern matching as we speak for what it’s worth. One of the main people designing it is in this thread talking about it.
You know that shit has hit the fan when Reddit puts up the suicide prevention hotline in the sidebar.
Finland will seek NATO membership immediately
There was some discussion on plausible NATO membership of Finland and Sweden. At that point the disucssion was based on guestimates from media.

But now it's official. This is not the NATO membership application, but a statement from the political leadership in Finland that they support and suggest parliament proceeds with the application process with maximum urgency.

The President and Prime Minister of Finland have published their position on NATO membership. This more or less seals Finland joining NATO.

In Finnish system, the Prime Minister has most political power but president is the head of foreign policy. Their common statement was the required signal for the parliament to proceed with the process.

Translation:
During the spring, there has been an important discussion about Finland's possible NATO membership. Time has been needed for domestic position formation both in Parliament and in society as a whole. Time has been needed for close international contacts with both NATO and its member countries, as well as with Sweden. We have wanted to give the debate the space it needs.

Now that the time for decision-making is approaching, we also state our own common positions for the information of parliamentary groups and parties. NATO membership would strengthen Finland's security. As a member of NATO, Finland would strengthen the entire defense alliance. Finland must apply for NATO membership as a matter of urgency. We hope that the national steps still needed to reach this solution will be taken swiftly in the coming days.

Sauli Niinistö
The president of the Republic

Sanna Marin
Prime minister
No way! Thank you for so many hours of fun back then. That was such a good game.
> When you notice your navigation app is sending you down a cliff, do you still follow that route? Of course not.

Good point. A person or organization has to be careful about blindly following or being blind to the situation they are in.
Yes. People are "only allowed to claim" to know about the merits of a language that they actually know. C++20 is the C++ to compare against, unless she wants to compare against, say, Rust as it was in 2014. C++98 is simply not an honest basis for comparison.

I don't need "thinly veiled insults" when the facts speak for themselves. The author had no need to mention C++ at all. Then, she would not have found herself making ignorant comparisons.
To me that math doesn't add up very well.

Let's assume that 5 minutes from now, Tether drops to zero. Turns out Tethers were approximately 100% unbacked.

There are currently ~$80B USDT in circulation. Even if you also assume 100% of USDT holders were also Bitcoin maxis who were using USDT as a "stable store of value" when they periodically want to exit their BTC position, the market cap of Bitcoin is still ~$500B, so the $80B -> 0 drop is still only 16% of BTC's market cap (and obviously USDT is not only being used to exit BTC positions but also ETH and every other crypto besides).
A sentence of 6 words that starts with 5 words that themselves form a valid sentence would NOT necessarily be perceived as the same phrase, because the last, 6th word may completely change the meaning of the 5 previous ones.

A new word, as well as a new note, may transform the previous sentence/melody from a affirmation to a question, from a congratulation to a menace, etc.

Moreover, the punctuation used may radically change the meaning of the sentence.

And even more, the intonation and cadence in which you say this sentence, again, influence the meaning.

A melody is not just a succession of discrete tones (at least the article acknowledges that with its ground rules at the start).
This. It can never be economically zero as it has been "bootstrapped" once, in 2009. Someone will always have incentive to mint cheap.
Sounds like a headache for that club's executive members
I was just talking to someone about this.

Perturbations.

Life isn't a double blind randomised placebo controlled study, mostly on rats / students / in a clinical setting / lab, and therefore there's a strong case to be made that we shouldn't necessarily use that model to model our behaviour.

Back to perturbations, I mean in the astronomical sense: deviation of a celestial body from a regular orbit about its primary, caused by the presence of one or more other bodies that act upon the celestial body.

You go to a one or more acupuncture sessions and your life is, in a very literal sense, changed.

It's not just a placebo, you actually went and did something you otherwise wouldn't have, with the intention of seeking improvement, thereby setting your life on a divergent path to what it otherwise would have been.

Over time, the divergence can be drastic.

This a very under appreciate power of our ability.
But like acupuncture, there isn't proof for dry needling working better than a placebo. Studies that are there are, well, bad and looks to be on-par with a placebo. Which means that you get risks without medical benefit. Might as well get a massage, which won't involve someone putting needles in your skin.
Can anyone elin (explain like I am noob), why should the Gil be removed? Why need concurrency in normal python scripts let’s days for web scraping or machine learning ? I don’t really get it.
Polymer forms a bubble in the petri dish. Add more material to make the bubble curvature more pronounced or less to flatten it.

The other side is flat.
I would argue the Phonorix is the vastly superior link.

That blog is the most dedicated to the confluence of 3D, Linux, and open source.

The Nvidia copy is typical engineering marketing copy. The Phonorix post dives into everything with great detail and goes further by discussing the future of open source Nvidia support with the upcoming technologies, and existing technologies (Noveau, Mesa, etc)

Nvidia fanboys care little for Phonorix because that site consistently points out how unfriendly and uncooperative Nvidia has been with the whole of the Linux community. (Web search for yourself Nvidia EGLStreams GBM.)
Saw this popup on google maps today, seems like it's in a lot of places. I just ignored it and did my mapping, slightly obscured.
Yes, the problem is it only does that around every two weeks - and that’s at a normal block rate.

If hash rate were to suddenly drop say 90% then it could take months to adjust
I appreciate your suggestions. I will tone it down, simplify it and try to repost it again.
Proportional isn't one system, there are further details and depending on them gerrymandering can still be possible (but less important than in winner take all).

For example the mandates might be distributed proportionally globally or per district. In the latter case gerrymandering works when you have rounding problems (10 mandates per district and one party has 9% of support). There are also usually thresholds under which you don't get to the parliament altogether, and the "wasted" votes are distributed proportionally between the other parties - so again, gerrymandering still works when this is done per-district rather than globally.

This is exactly the situation in my country (Poland), and gerrymandering isn't a thing mostly because of people looking at it as corruption and protesting whenever some government tries to do it (last time it was PIS trying to change voting borders to add a lot of PIS-voting countryside to the capital city to finally win elections there :) - after protests they didn't do it).
> Culture isn't a poster you put on the wall.

Good one.
Interesting idea. Mathematically it seems that it would on average create a perfect distribution. But it'd also lend itself to some substantial variance.

Imagine you have a 650-350 voter lead in a state with 10 districts. The way you maximize the number of competitive election is by packing 3 districts 100-0. The party with 650 voters now has the same number of voters remaining as the party with 350, for the next 7 districts.

Mathematically this works out perfectly because the party with 650 voters has an overall seat expectation of (3 + 7 * 0.5) = 6.5, but if you run the math further here's how it looks. The party with 35% of the representation gets (assuming a 50% outcome per competitive election):

===============

0 seats = 1%

1 seats = 6%

2 seats = 16%

3 seats = 27%

4 seats = 27%

5 seats = 16%

6 seats = 6%

7 seats = 1%

===============
I'd definitely put a significant amount of money to buy it at $2K, and almost literally everybody I know would too.
You’re probably being downvoted by Americans, but you’re right. What better way to break away from Russian gas than using coal. Poland’s already doing it.
Only the Chromecast is interesting, but that is really becoming less and less every day due to their aggressive advertising.
Why Ukraine’s army still uses a 100-year-old machinegun
They announced this is coming later this year, today.
That's a great link! The numbers are absolutely mind boggling to me. I just still can't believe how much money is involved in this completely unregulated market.
That's how capitalism works, specifically delivering to capitalists the difference between the product's value and the worker's wage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploitation_of_labour#Surplus...

It can be difficult to remember that the system wasn't always like this.
Yeeeeehaw
That's a common myth. It has no benefit relative to placebo, i.e. needles placed at random.

And needles placed at random do seem to have significant placebo effect for some conditions and people.
"Elsewhere on the website, there’s a letter from an accounting firm stating that Tether has the reserves to back its coins, along with a pie chart showing that about $30 billion of its dollar holdings are invested in commercial paper—short-term loans to corporations. That would make Tether the seventh-largest holder of such debt, right up there with Charles Schwab and Vanguard Group."

Commercial paper is not dollars, so tether effectively admits it is not backed. The risk of default on commercial paper is huge compared to dollars held in reputable banks' accounts.
He obviously meant it, all his books are full of references like this.

The Annotated Pratchett File is a longrunning effort to document these references, though I'm not sure if it is really being maintained any more -- the Going Postal page is empty.

https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/
Thanks! We're selling the dev board for 89USD along with a free 3d printed enclosure and free shipping.

Edit: typos
> the whole Internet would soon be completely bogged down with useless overhead packages filled with spam and ads

I’d love to be on your internet where this isn’t already a reality
UST is Terra-coin, which collapsed 3 days ago.

USDT, Tether, is a completely different coin. the one we're discussing today.

---------

UST + Luna had substantial reserves. They proved it with their actions this past week. They weren't *enough* reserves mind you, but they were posting their BTC-wallets on Twitter and showing the movements.
> the legislature would have 5,000 people in it — clearly not realistic

why is it not realistic?
I would love to parallelize a plugin script in Cura, the 3D print slicer. It does a bunch of embarrassingly parallel calculations, and could be made at least 16x faster for me. Because it's a plugin, though, it isn't pickle-able and multiprocessing doesn't work. I managed to make it work in a branch, but only on OSes that can fork processes. On windows, the plugin spawns multiple GUIs because importing the cura package apparently has the side effect of launching it...

If there wasn't the GIL, I could just create a thread pool and be done, and Cura could continue to be a delightful mess. :-)
> First of all, do many people really need a set of library functions and data structures that collectively work as a linker?

Yes; people who unit test.
Farmer relatives.
Finland Applying for NATO Membership
> You have to actively manage your career - and your happiness - in any job.

Truth.
In Australia, while there are some specialist high schools with a different focus (e.g., agricultural sciences) students can otherwise take on a trade apprenticeship from Year 10 (15ish yo) as part of completing their secondary schooling.
Your dad, like most people, probably doesn't understand money. And the idea that fiat is bad for average people isn't just a notion.

Fiat with inflation is designed to reduce the burden of debt (among other things). If I borrow lots of money for a long time, I want the money to be worth less as time goes on. Then, when I pay my debt, the cost to me is lower every month, even though the dollar amount is the same.

If you have capital and leverage debt, this system is fantastic.

If you are poor and cannot borrow, i.e. leverage debt, then your money supply is constantly reduced.

Most people are poor, sad fact. Most people are not benefitting from this system.

Bitcoin is designed to be free of control. Institutions have lots of control currently because they have more capital to invest and sophisticated trading techniques. They have purchased their way into a powerful position within the environment. This is irrelevant.

Those people that have experienced hyper inflation already understand the implied value of Bitcoin. In time, everyone else will as well
> If you've been honestly working on the assumption that it is, then you deserve to lose your (real) money to some crypto VCs on an island somewhere.

The sad reality is that many poorer and financially illeterate people have been tricked by VCs and other grifters into this with billions of dollars spent in advertising. So, no, they don't deserve to lose their money to these assholes. These assholes need to be prosecuted, fined and put to jail if necessary.
You're right. I like the concept of "orthogonal tools" (definitely better than cross-sectional).

I see Makers' tools as "vertical" (niche, contextual, expert tools) vs Managers' tools as "orthogonal".

All company workers use Slack (or Jira or email) but many hate it (mostly Makers). Managers, on the other hand, have no better tools to align with Makers.
In times like this I miss the trollbox.