skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What proof do you need that collateralization, replete with shady or non-existent audits, is not a source of stability, and that something interesting, like approaches using pure mathematics, are more auditable and, in the short- and perhaps long-term, more stable?

The dream collateralized stablecoin, audited in some transparent way, is still vulnerable to a good old fashioned heist.

The gatekeeping of all projects that don't see the bank vault as the holy grail of community economics feels unbecoming of HN to me. This is creativity and science at work.

Again, I understand that, in addition to sincere efforts to find an algorithmic solution, we get ponzi scum peddling their things. I don't understand why people buy those, and that's an element of human nature we can hopefully overcome as this process goes on.

But you're watching collateralized coins fail, and your response is, "the only valid approach is collateralization!" ?
You're talking about backed stablecoins which are only a subset of stablecoins. In the common usage of the term, stablecoins include both backed stablecoins and algorithmic stablecoins.
The way I read it he is including the computer in that $1200 cost. Seems realistic, that's about what my computer (surplus Supermicro server) with a similar amount of storage came out to.
The example at the top of the documentation is just so much fun :)
It depends how much redundancy they have. They could have 30TB mirrored, which means 60TB worth of physical drives.
I don't know but I'd say this comment sums it up pretty well more generally https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31409576
Then I guess you only watch extremely popular stuff? It's easy to get stuck trying to find moderately successful shows or games from the 90s. Kenan & Kel was a gigantic pain to find. I'm never going to delete that.
Nothing is better than the 10% of the time that siblings get along. The problem is that 90% of the time they actually are fighting with each other and its way more frustrating to deal with as you repeat the same exact arguments you've made every single day for the past 2 years.
At least where I live in Europe, it's almost impossible to not pirate. The government has strict controls on media and so it's impossible to even get access to most movies. Netflix, Amazon Prime and other streaming sites have been completely neutered. HBO Go, Criterion, etc. are completely inaccessible.

In the US, it's a different story. Everything outside of Karagarga is available to be streamed, or at least purchased on Bluray/DVD. The only big thing is quality. Streaming has atrocious quality for the most part.
gopher://worldofsolitaire.com/

This gopher hole is a good example of how Gopher doesn't have an notion of cookies. You can see what is either gamestate or some sort of session id encoded in the URL.

Another way to do this kind of thing is to generate "parallel universes". It involves generating enough gopher "directories" AKA "pages" to encode every possible game state and then link them together like you would a "Choose Your Own Adventure". Essentially trading dynamic page generation for hard drive space.

You can see an example of the "parallel universes" approach used in the easter egg text adventure game located at:

gopher://GiantGopher.com:70/--/Winnifred_Huck
You're meeting a friend in an hour, so you enjoy your moment for a while before you see them
You spend time with a friend and are happy for them. After you bump into your coworker and chat for 20 mins about politics. Interesting, but you disagree. But you have lunch with a neighbour soon, so off you trot to go see their holiday pictures. All looks lovely yada yada yada - 1 even after the other, can being digested with context. Time is taken to enjoy or question certain things.

You are enjoying your moment for 1 minute. You open your phone and scroll facebook. You see all of that within 1 viewport. You haven't enjoyed your moment for long - you haven't enjoyed other's success cos you're still kinda angry about the political post etc.

It's the speed at which this all happens.
An 80-minute documentary on the making of Super Mario World
Git is too complex for many software engineers as well. It has a lovely engine crusted over by a terrible UI.
Where do you figure that is? I'm always looking to broaden my horizons.
> We can outsmart, and have repeatedly outsmarted, all sorts of potential disasters.

While this is my general take on these kinds of things as well, it's good to keep in mind that it takes just one outlier disaster to never be able to outsmart anything ever again, and perhaps it's just dumb luck that we're in a timeline where that didn't happen so far.
Don't be afraid of failure! You're tougher than that, trust me. Turns out failure is pretty easy to get over. What's harder to get over is a life full of regret.
Yeah interesting, I have seen most of these projects (mentioned in the blog post) but not looked closely at Pythran.

It does say it's specifically for numeric code. That is what I hinted at in the blog post around use cases for Shed Skin vs. string- and dict-oriented code.

There are quite a few numeric accelerators for Python, and I even chatted with Travis Oliphant (of NumPy) about another one he was prototyping.

But there are fewer for the kind of program a shell is. mypyc and shed skin are the 2 I mentioned that are most similar. We already have an approach that works, but it just needs "labor".
The secret ingredient is crime.
If its not QA, who else is auditing and reviewing your code?
Not really a service if it doesn't work. :)
The code can't exactly prevent it unless your collateral is another crypto asset but then you can't peg against something like the Dollar because the crypto asset is guaranteed to fluctuate in price. Code can't enforce anything outside of the blockchain. It has to rely on an oracle and oracles can lie.
You don't need better than +/- 50 feet.

That's enough to get you on the correct street.

The bot doing the repair can figure out exactly where the pothole is.
DAI has just survived a massive down turn.

I think your point is broadly sound, though. But it's not an argument against algorithmic pegs; it's an argument against stablecoins _in principle_. And on that point, I agree.
> Mosquitoes are among the most prolific pollinators and many ecosystems depend on them.

Some definitely are, they are also an important source of biomass for extreme northern latitudes.

Anopheles is fucking useless.
Landfills sequester carbon on the net, and release enough methane (at first) that it's practical to turn it into electricity. That compares favorably with any other pathway for waste.

Reducing waste is good as well, this law is a silly way to do it.
I had a rig on Vast. It wasn't 100% utilized. It mined crypto when it wasn't rented for ML applications.
Microsoft – 'send a check or money order for $5.00'
This was in the NOTICE file accompanying AzCopy and Bing(!) found it elsewhere. I get the necessary licensing information, but would anyone at Microsoft know what to do with a physical check for $5.00?

I kindof want to try it just to see what happens.

>>Microsoft makes certain open source code available at https://3rdpartysource.microsoft.com , or you may send a check or money order for US $5.00, including the product name, the open source component name, and version number, to:
Zettelkasten is nothing new and just hype. Only shows that you just don't know this space, and it's history. Obviously there is improvement, but it's not in methods or data-structures, it's with technology and implementations. We are now at the point where we can move fast with implementations and glue much more features together.
But there could be, right?

It’s just that actually backing your PLNC 1:1 with actual Złoty[0] you can actually retrieve, leaves very little room for the people behind the coin to get rich.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_złoty
An entire generation of programmers, including myself, started their programming career with QBasic because it was included on every computer running MS-DOS and was easy to get started.

I have tried to re-create this simplicity with my own site (https://akedo.app) and one of the first games I re-created was actually a Nibbles clone called Python (https://akedo.app/play?g=8eolqpn_fk-kr1TLi_WmKw).

I've yet to create a Gorillas clone but that's next on the list!
So prior to banning single use bags, people relied on single use bags. Who would have guessed!?

I have a spoiler alert for the future for this author: The overwhelming majority of people will start choosing to walk around with a bag full of reusable bags when they need to.
This isn't really a "practical use for blockchain tech". Rather it's just a positive way to use the side-effect that blockchain tech requires computing components that generate a lot of heat.

Ultimately the heat output has nothing to do with how the tech is used (like bitcoin). If Bitcoin (or other cryptocurrencies) stopped holding value people wouldn't heat their homes like this because it would cost more than traditional heating methods (as someone pointed out above about heat pumps.)
I have tried fasting by skipping breakfast and I have mostly failed because I am unable to endure when hunger strikes. I am interested to learn the mental methods you use to over that struggle.
Safe Control for Mobile Robotic Arm with Control Barrier Functions
> I think by chasing "DevOps" they no longer deliver a tight product offering like GitHub

I'm looking at this move/marketing of theirs as a show of being in opposition to Bitbucket which (along with other Atlassian's products) is made for managers.
It is available here:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bike-outliner/id1588292384?mt=...

Mac App Store version is subscription based. I know many people don't like that, that's why my direct download version is not subscription based... but for Mac App Store upgrades are a pain/impossible. So subscription.
Congratulations on the release! It’s cool to see more outliners with multi-item text selection. The “fluid” animations look really delightful — I’m jealous! I know you’ve shared some details about the animation implementation, but I’m curious about how much system stuff you take advantage of. Is your view accessible through VoiceOver? What parts of the Cocoa text system do you use (or, what do you use instead for layout and shaping)? (https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Te...)

I think you started working on this around the time I was working on multi-block text selection in Notion. I remember seeing a preview tweet in a Andy Matuschak thread and thinking “great minds!”. When I started working on it, I was so surprised that no outliner I tested had multi-item text selection! It’s a unique fusion. I’m curious about how you handled deletions across different indent levels… Do you know of any other outliners with it besides Bike and Notion?
Well, I wouldn't say they do the opposite of what's intended, they just do the opposite of whatever lie they told you to get you to accept it.

In this instance, the proposal is to dramatically increase the price of housing by giving away free money to people that they can only use if they buy housing
> international sanctions

Not really, in these cases banks themselves decided to not give away "their" money
Regardless of ads or Internet connectivity requirements, I can find hardly any acceptable games on phones/tablets, in mobile app stores. If you want to play games on the go, I suggest a proper videogame console, like a 3DS.
C# popularity surges in Tiobe index
I suggest trying Lagrange https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange
Long Form Question Answering in Haystack
I agree. My 4 year old loves Fortnite.

Reasoning through combat strategy, even in the age-inappropriate context of gun battles, exercises higher level thinking that clearly remains off when watching Ryan’s world.

To be fair, the article does say watching videos had a positive effect as well.
I actually achieved the same, with benefits.

The hack is here: https://github.com/any1/wayvnc/issues/7#issuecomment-6570922...

Benefits are: two way interaction :)
some new news while we're all waiting for USDT to lose its peg...
Does that account for the differences in kinds of traffic collisions? I have heard that female drivers tend to get in collisions at intersections, and male drivers tend to get in collisions changing lanes. (Or was it the reverse)?
Fiat currency isn't pegged to a specific value, but it does have government backing that gives it a baseline value.

Want to own a house? Even if you buy it with bitcoin, you're going to need fiat to pay for the property tax bill.

Get paid wages? Even if you get paid in bitcoin, you still need fiat to pay the income tax bill.

Sell something? Even if you sold it for bitcoin, you still need fiat to pay the sales tax.
Yes and even with MPEG-2 patent expired, they are still offering that https://codecs.raspberrypi.com/mpeg-2-license-key/ so not sure how that cost breaks down today.
Ah, thanks. Makes sense that other extensions will also work for this.
I did and i removed the parent comment. If you'd like me to delete everything, i'd be happy to oblige.
I am "management/director" level, so I don't need to go too much in depth in any specific topic. But I need to know enough to help my teams and clients and to make sound architecture decisions.
Link to the actual paper [1] for anyone who wants to skip the blog like me. Its a good read covering some problems I have been working on for a while.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.04596.pdf
Citation for [0]?

I've even read the fine print for my current ISP here in the US. Unless you mean cap as in it's not possible to download more than that per month because your download speed is too low.
Have you read Kim Stanley Robinson? This could be a paraphrase of "Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful." from Red Mars.
> It could just only deactivate the car if the car is stationary.

Right, stop once for a traffic jam, car loses sync with keyfob, and you'll become a stationary target on a highway.

Better swap out those batteries in your keyfob real quick before that 18-wheeler smashes into your car with kids in the backseat!

But hey, at least your car won't be stolen!

> Problem solved.

I guess this proves my point I was trying to make in my original post. Every xx months a sensation article like this comes out, and suddenly everyone, even on HN, becomes an expert that will 'just' solve the issue with a naive solution.

Car manufacturers, hire smart engineers. If the solution was simple, they would have fixed it already. Cars are always a trade-off between safety, security, reliability, affordability and practicality.

Great that your solution makes car theft resistant, but if also kills people, it's not such a great sell...
It's in part because of a lack of knowledge as to what it is; it's a disease without an obvious cause, nor an obvious cure. They can't cure it, but it seems that physiotherapy and mental health care seem to help... a bit? But honestly it comes across to me as them trying to make you no longer think of it as a disease, that is, to just accept it and take it as it comes. Which is shit imo.

The condition is also one for which there is no test; it's one that is diagnosed via exclusion.
I merely point out that this is the example used by the writer of the article. Who seems completely unconcerned about poor people.
Yeah I’m with you, I think the response itself might be an indicator of a certain personality type or if negative then a clue of unhealthy thinking habits.
Wow, I'd kill to get one of these in the states!

VW only offers the ID.4 here, which is a ridiculously huge car.
European countries are capitalist democracies though (modulo the EU institutions themselves, which aren't, but let's put that to one side). The differences between Europe and the USA are tiny compared to the differences between capitalism and communism. They aren't profoundly different third ways or anything like that. I live in Europe and the place I live has mandatory health insurance, rule of law, relatively free speech, a strong finance sector, good ease of doing business and high inwards migration. From the perspective of an average person life here isn't much different to life in the USA.

W.R.T. Europe doing better on those statistics, can you cite that? It's not really true I think. The USA and western European countries are comparable in terms of percentage of migrants:

https://worldmigrationreport.iom.int/wmr-2020-interactive/

USA is ~15%, similar to the UK, Spain, France, Germany. Of course they would all be much higher if controls were relaxed. Many people would like to migrate to the USA but cannot, even from western Europe. Notably pale on the map: eastern Europe, China, Russia, Latin America etc. Migration stats are as I said - communist countries have very low numbers of immigrants and capitalist countries, which certainly includes western Europe, have much higher rates.

For life expectancy it's the same story. USA and Europe are very similar. The USA is a bit lower, probably due to higher rates of obesity, but there's not much in it. China, Russia and especially North Korea are both quite a bit lower.

https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy

"We could for example consider an economic system that included a basic income, which would allow it to be much more redistributive while still being market based"

Theoretical non-capitalist, non-communist systems are usually communist on close inspection. UBI is communism in its purist form, renaming it doesn't change that. If you want to know how well paying people regardless of work goes, take a look at the current rates of inflation, backlogs in government services and economic chaos that lockdowns and furloughs led to. That's peanuts compared to what a meaningfully sized UBI would entail.
> The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

The Founders covered this in their writings. The defined rights were not to be considered the extent of the rights afforded the people.

They worried about including a specific Bill of Rights as it would lead to belief rights were indeed limited to the things they included.

A right to one’s own bodily agency, to discuss and engage in medical discourse and behaviors, is not explicitly called out in the Bill of Rights but it’s also not explicitly denied. The court uses that logic constantly when it empowers elites.

I think it’s pretty obvious America is done for since the people themselves believe now the powers that be can police their speech and agency in private settings when it’s merely what they don’t agree with.
What if it wasn’t enough to live on, but enough to significantly impact the ability for the poorest to survive? Say $3600/yr = $300/mo.

Don’t you think that could increase the pool of STEM candidates from poor families without creating a large new subculture like you’re describing?

That being said, I don’t think even a greater UBI would decrease STEM candidacy. UBI would have to be massive before people stop wanting to be in STEM. If anything, the problem would be that we lose the bottom rung of unskilled labor.
How hard is it to integrate the key into phones? If it uses a separate UWB radio it must add some cost and power drain.
Still, that's not solely "the market". The values of the person managing the company and the perceived values of their customers (societal values) have informed that decision.

If it's true that there really are no disposable bag regulations in Switzerland, then the much different outcome under the similar regulations also supports my point. If New Jersey thinks it has a problem where bags need to be reused more, then it would make sense to spell that out in law and nudge towards the overall desired solution (more reuse) rather than simply banning "disposable" (ie cheaply made) bags and hoping that people will automatically reuse more resource-costly ones.
Is there any way to actually show the details of a remote flatpak package without installing it first? Something similar to apt show <package>?
> If other people find their ideal job, have a tropical vacation, etc. it makes me feel... good?

This sounds like a misunderstanding. Being happy for friends (real friends not "500 Facebook friends" friends) is not mutually exclusive with these news invoking bad feelings inside you (shame, feeling of inadequacy etc.)
Do you have any actual points to make besides calling out strawman for being insufficiently correct?

Maybe you could recite some of Musks achievements or otherwise entertain us
As a 5TB MP3 hoarder myself (along with ~50GB/day of movie/TV pirating), I was curious as to how much content 30TB actually is, so I checked the average file size for my last 300 downloads of mostly 1080p shows and 2160p movies. They averaged 3GB, so that's roughly 10,000 pieces of long form video. Presuming an average bitrate of 14Mbps, 30TB is ~4,760 hours.

The average adult watches 3 hours per day. Given the OP's hobby-level interest in collecting the content, we can probably double that to 6 hours per day, which makes for 2.5 years worth of content.

Even though I'm squarely in the 6+ hour category, there are maybe 100 or so favorite movies that I've watched more than once, and once per year I'll re-watch a TV series (this year's revisit was Halt And Catch Fire). But even adding all of that together, we're talking about maybe 500 unique videos over ~20 years.

I can't wrap my head around needing to store 10,000 videos forever for the tiny chance that you might want to watch one that isn't still available through Usenet, private trackers or reasonable paid means.
I watched a lot of X-files on German free TV in the ’90s, and I only found out later that it was edited to remove the most graphic scenes. Imagine paying for streaming and not even getting the full content.
Unlike the authors of this research paper I am not a trained clinician, so I can't tell you. However I would note that the first exemplary value in the link you gave me is "REMOVED".
If you have access to therapy, there is a modality called EMDR. From personal experience, I strongly recommend it.

EMDR is traditionally used to treat PTSD. You play back memories in your brain with distracting bilateral stimulation and exercises that help reduce anxiety and panic. Over several sets the sympathetic response is dramatically reduced or eliminated.

Even if the underlying issue isn’t a “trauma” with a capital T, chronic anxiety has trauma-like qualities that still seem to respond to EMDR (at least in my experience).
This should be the top Comment!
Once again, the only thing that maintains value in an asset is the collective belief of said value. This applies to currencies and other assets. It doesn't matter what assets you have backing a peg because there's always a trust element. Even if, say, the US dollar was 100% backed by gold, there'd still be a trust element that the government would honor redemptions. Once again, the US dollar has never been 100% backed by gold. It was a peg, which doesn't even require you to hold any gold. And FDR changed the peg, which was a sovereign devaluation. The same thing could've happened with 100% gold reserves.

And what gives the US dollar its value is really the long dick of the US government.

What we're seeing here once again if Crypto Andys learn exactly why the financial system is the way it is.

An algorithmic stablecoin is ridiculous. Collateral helps but it all boils down to trust. Consider this quote:

> Deus Finance reacted by halting the redemption process in order to try and stabilize the coin.

This is exactly the sort of intervention a central bank performs when managing a currency. So what exactly are we gaining with crypto?