skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Tether is fully collateralized, then if you sell Tether below 1, the buyer can redeem it for $1 and make an arbitrage profit.

The usual expectation is that arbitrage opportunities vanish as the rush of risk-free profit takers closes the price gap. As such, it doesn't matter what other participants are in the market; the arbitrage buyer is always going to be the best bid below 1.

You might see temporary breaks from the arbitrage-free price due to liquidity (e.g. in a thin market, there might not be enough buyers initially).

If you keep selling, you'll eventually get to a situation where no Tether are in circulation, but every last Tether will sell for ~1.

How do you get the idea that leverage matters here?
"Tesla cars cannot drive autonomously by their own admission (they always require human attention)"

Tesla instructs humans to be attentive while this feature is engaged, but obviously the car will keep driving even if the human's attention is elsewhere.

So Teslas do drive autonomously.. just not always as safely as (some) humans do under certain conditions.

Same with ordinary cruise control, which will keep the car going even when the human driver's attention is elsewhere, their foot is off the gas pedal and their hands are off the steering wheel.
Is there though? Where can I use Bitcoin to buy gift cards redeemable for: milk, underwear, dentist, train tickets, a visit to the barber? ( These being the five everyday purchases I last made.)
It's a sparse attention scheme. They store and reuse activations thus "memorising" the past without the need for training. In order to keep the sequence short enough to fit into memory they only recall the k most similar memories from a much larger log.
Why are so few funded startups using serverless?
Seems like idiocracy for sure, but what can (or should) we do about it?
So Tether has become something like an international reserve cryptocurrency, which gives them an "exorbitant privilege"[0], meaning they can do pretty much whatever they want safe in the knowledge that everyone else will do everything they can to prevent them from failing because everyone else would have too much to lose if they did fail. That has kept it going for a long time, and might (or might not) keep it going for a lot longer, but ultimately a replacement reserve cryptocurrency will come.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorbitant_privilege
A whopping 6% of Finland’s energy needs. Used in a few industries, not households.
I use Cloudflare's email routing for my main personal domain. It works well and I forward to a gmail account. I know how it works and I'm not worried about "Cloudflare having visibility" because we literally forward the email and don't store anything.
That sounds like an opinion, and I disagree.

Electricity, water, natural gas, internet, and district heating are utilities. Facebook isn’t. There are no transmission lines or pipes running to each Facebook user directly from Facebook, there’s no physical reason that other social networks can’t exist.

It’s not a utility just because several billion people use it.
Also modern plane autopilots are significantly less limited than that argument claims.

Even a cheaper autopilot in a Cessna can take you from the airspace above your starting airport to the airspace of your destination, including lining up final approach maneuvers, with zero input from the pilot. Modern planes absolutely can fly and navigate themselves, but for safety, operational, and policy reasons pilots often don't use the full capability of these autopilots.
> What happens if Tether fails, realistically?

Well that would not be good for Bitcoin and the entire cryptocurrency market would it?
So some people already posted now-accessible papers that worth a look.
Here is my random pick: "A relational model of data for large shared data banks" [1]

It's a defining paper for RDB data model. I think it's not a exaggeration to say
all the RDB history starts here. (The history itself is covered not by acm but by ieee [2]).

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/362384.362685

[2] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=16074372884446179...
The problem here is not generally but rather those cases where people haven’t waved their rights.
Interesting, the confidence channel of anxiety reduction.
Jet Man by Duncan Campbell-Smith about Frank Whittle who invented the jet engine (in parallel with Hans von Ohain)
Ask HN: How come we keep seeing yet another succesfull corporate todo app?
I wonder how all those companies (monday.com, asana etc.) are constantly reinventing the same wheels and still manage to be a success?

Why there's no point in making another Facebook, but every year I see new "trello" or "jira" getting funded and growing?

What's the secret sauce? How does it work?

I often don't see any major difference neither in the product, nor in marketing messages.
Are there any 1-1 fiat stablecoins that aren't just flat out lies? Like every new crypto coin minted requires a matching real dollar to be stashed away. My impression is that nobody does this because it would mean massive waits to buy the crypto coins when the real dollars run low and because the way to make real money is with leverage.
That's because thanks to computers, clipboards are no longer needed.
i’d certainly be open to review marketing material to evaluate if they were making claims like that in 2019.
> Which women? More women identify as "conservative" than "liberal"

Not even close to reality. More women identify as liberal than as conservative, more are registered Democrats than Republicans, and even within the Republican party women skew moderate rather than conservative. Among nonvoters the gender breakdown on various issues that can be easily identified as liberal or conservative shows that women favor policies that are generally considered liberal.
One cool library I saw recently for helping on the visualisation side is https://github.com/vegafusion/vegafusion

It allows you to use Altair in Python for visualising data, but does the computation in the backend using Arrow DataFusion. Not for 15GB perhaps, but cool nonetheless.
Literally almost every piece of consumer facing software is created using languages or frameworks that derive from Smalltalk-esque principles (OOP, MVP, IDEs, etc...).

And the creative spirit is what brings innovation. Tons of what's obvious now wasn't obvious when someone created it.
I really don't think that's fair to say, there's great teams there that are focused entirely on quality of the products.
I’m trying to say that although anyone is free to buy them, they’re not designed for city-to-city tourist convenience or even as a good substitute for the IC/ICE product for long-distance, car-comparable-speed travel.

They’re for making short, local trips more affordable in a country that has a lot of people struggling with fuel and inflation, and for encouraging drivers to consider transit instead more often, and long-distance trips to the sea shore and mountains are a nice side benefit that is a pleasant thing to discuss when we all feel like there’s a shortage of pleasant things to discuss.

That they’ll make local transit uncomplicated for visitors (no trying to work out where to buy a given city’s tickets, or exactly which fare you need for a particular subway ride!) is also a nice incidental, and I, a taxpayer here, will be happy to see tourists using them, but that’s not why the Bundestag is spending 2.5 billion EUR on this.
"Land doesn't vote, people do."

Well, you could argue that land does vote in the US Senate and Electoral College.
So the LTS kernels have back ported features as well? My understanding was they only got bug fixes, but my knowledge primarily comes from Wikipedia.
Also Hitler or Donald Trump
It was unusual to see it misspelled in a title. The article text had it right.
Pitfalls of AWS Step Functions and How You Can Avoid Them – Ready, Set, Cloud
You did a n=1 study to show GPA is a proxy for conscientiousness.

https://psychology.okstate.edu/faculty/jgrice/psyc4333/FiveF...
Few of these offered for skilled workers.
Is this machine translated? Some parts don't make much sense.
I believe they did it on this video called "Can You Trust Kurzgesagt?". They also removed a few of their older videos at the time because they had this exact issue of presenting as fact some things that were not at all certain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtUAAXe_0VI
More like a patent holder would usurp all the work someone else did and make a fortune off of it after taking 5 years to get through the red tape.
One of the creators of Mito, here. Thanks for your feedback. I wanted to share a couple of nuggets about Mito that have been helpful in talking about this with other users.

1. The core Mito product is open source. You can see our GitHub here [1]. We also have a pro version that has some additional, code visible, but non-open source features. The way that we think about which features belong in which version of the product is as following: Features that are needed to just get any average analysis done are open source features. On the other hand, features that are specifically useful in an organization -- connecting to company databases, formatting / styling data and graphs for a presentation, etc. -- are pro features. So if you are a team that is relying on our pro features, you're helping support the longevity & progress of Mito. If you are not one of those users and using the open source version, then you will always have access to Mito (and can even help improve it!). Of course the line between what features are specifically helpful in an organization and what feature are needed for an average analysis is a bit blurry, and is a moving target as we continue to expand Mito's offering.

2. Mito is designed specifically to not force users to make a big 'switch'. I've commented this elsewhere in this thread, but just to recap: Because Mito is an extension to Juptyer and because we generate python code for every edit you make, Mito is designed to improve your existing workflow instead of lock you into a new system. Many Mito users use Mito as a starting point! They do as much of their analysis as they can in the Mito spreadsheet and then continue writing more customized Python code to finish up their work.

Not requiring a big switch is nice for the user and its nice for Mito too! Lots of large companies have been able to get up and running with Mito in 30 minutes because it fits into their data stack.

Anyways, not that these are the only two reasons you might feel uneasy about adopting Mito, but at least wanted to share why the switch to Mito might be less scary than switching to other tools.

[1] https://github.com/mito-ds/monorepo
Introducing our crisis misinformation policy
USDC is legit: https://www.centre.io/usdc-transparency
If only the owner was reachable to answer for the boxes instead.
Your second point is so true and hilarious.

And not in the "extreme" way your exemple give, you get in trouble much earlier.

I want to connect my headphone to my phone, and randomly my phone will decide to pick up the hi-fi system in the living room instead that I connected once at Christmas to play music, or if I dared opening the door it would connect to my car.

I assume everyone who use Bluetooth on their phone has at some point connected it to some sort of hi-fi system or car or TV or whatever so what, do we all face that problem? And why is Android so terrible at letting me pick which device it can connect automatically VS those it must have a manual request for me? Even wifi settings have that...
They do get reviewed by a lot of people. special interests like industry trade groups, businesses, members of the public with an interest, and congressional staffers. Occasionally a Congress person gets involved due to an interest.

Periodically an agency proposes something that stirs up a firestorm, and rarely (but it happens), they do get overridden by Congress.

Usually it’s handled through the public review comment and strategically done strongly worded letters from interested Congress people or committees.

It’s important to keep in mind that these are the second order effects FROM Congress passing a law to create an agency and funding it.

Because the reality is that if the executive waited for approval from Congress or for the solution to a serious issue to be non-controversial, they’d literally never be be able to
do anything at any such agency. They already are dysfunctional enough as-is. If you think requiring sign off from the even less effective organization that is Congress on everything is going to make it better, I have a bridge to sell you.

And as enticing an idea it might be sometimes to have the DEA, ICE, FBI, etc. unable to actually function, they do generally serve a necessary purpose and them completely not functioning is unlikely to result in anything the nation overall would consider ‘good’.

The periodic Gov’t shutdowns help show this to be the case.

The register, with it’s problems, and even when abused (cough Ajit Pai and net neutrality) is still better than what used to happen, which was the agency would just do it’s own internal policy making and keep it secret until they got sued (which isn’t easy to do with sovereign immunity when the agency declares all potential evidence secret!) or Congress started to investigate. Then half the time they’d shred all evidence and deny all wrongdoing.

Congress has also made it clear they have no interest or ability to provide guidance or fine grained clarification on things at the level to actually be able to run an organization the size of the Executive or it’s Agencies. It would also probably be unconstitutional to try.

If you want to see some agencies that conveniently skip things like the Register, look no further than the NSA, CIA, large swaths of the DOD, etc.

IMO, the real issue is the ongoing massive income tax revenue that feeds the machine. It was originally used to fund the world wars, but never dialed back. As long as that giant stream of money keeps going to the Federal Gov’t, it will continue to be used to justify itself and be spent.

That ship sailed a long time ago however.
Great project and really cool to see this.

Question I have for you is that one of the biggest problems with cancer diagnoses is false positives: "Yes, there is something on your scan, we're not sure what it is, so we'll biopsy it." Biopsy is not a 0-risk procedure, and it can cause a lot of worry and pain, so it's not something to be taken lightly. Also, there are many cases of "OK, it's probably cancer, but the cure may be worse than the disease." This is the classic problem with detecting prostate cancer at an advanced age - it's very likely/probable something else will kill you before the cancer does.

How does your software deal with this issue? I'd be worried if, as you put it, people in a remote area with limited access to experienced radiologists, were given access to this and it came back with "Fairly decent chance of cancer" - what do they do then?
patio11 has been pretty opposed to crypto in general.
I have numerous issues with the stablecoin concept. Neither UST or USDT interested me.

Maker has a pretty well tested tech in DAI, and Reflexer.finance updated this with RAI. My biggest misgiving about stables is they are able to allow whales and other large players to acquire huge amounts of cryptos during down cycles with very little explanation of how the funds were created. Tether appears to print new Tether's on a whim, and how or what backs them is completely opaque.

A crypto purist should have very little use for stables other than as an explicitly entered short against the shakier stables.

Tether and USDC both have blocklist capability. USDC has been critiqued on this as it adds additional gas requirements to every transaction.

I expect further regulatory clamp down on big names such as Tether, and certainly USDC.

The decentralized ones such as DAI and RAI may fare better, but if the Treasury really wanted to lean on exchanges they could.
Patrick is overindexing on the investments portion of the report – which is a little under 5% of backing. There are investment deals and crypto, but it's unknown if this represents the entirety of the amount fwiw.

If we take a step back and look at the key takeaway from the audit report is that amount of commercial paper was reduced and amount of T-bills (essentially cash) was increased by 5 bil. Good news if you think solvency is an issue, but of course they're all scoundrels eh?/s

Tether might have done shady things in the past as the article, but the scale to which Tether operates now (10s of bllns), in addition to scrutiny from SDNY, external audit, etc mean that Tether from before is much different from the Tether now, and it has pulled off the made it portion of "fake it till you make it".
Seems like a non-sequitur in response to his specific statement- OP isn't endorsing naturopathy (nor am I), the discussion is about the specific efficacy of silexan. The linked article is a meta-analysis of silexan by a board-certified psychiatrist. No one here is pro-naturopathy.

If silexan isn't effective, surely you can prove that empirically and without resort to an argument from authority. If a naturopath says drinking water is good for you too, that doesn't mean that specific claim is wrong because naturopathy is pseudoscience (which it is). We're evaluating silexan here.

Larger discussion is that a lot of modern medicine is not based on well-replicated studies, either
unlessI'm wrong, he's in Michigan.
Its pretty frustrating that people are using these shady stablecoins where you can't see the code or assets backing them (eg USDT), when there are stablecoins that are fully open source and you can see the backing in real time (eg DAI)
US inflation dips to 8.3% but stays close to 40-year high
At the low end of automation, there is the long precedent of cruise control being legal. (I assume this applies to TACC also; maybe some lawyer can weigh in.)

Likely almost everyone agrees a excellent-human-driver general-AI grade of full automation should be legal; with a to-be-determined degree of manufacturer liability when a collision occurs.

All of the dispute between those extremes boils down to this:

Should there be a range of automation that is illegal to make and/or use? What should that range be? What current cars fall in the range? Should the illegality be based only on the technical performance, or also on the branding? When such illegal use happens, who all should be liable / punished?
That issue is ... less a factor with a good publisher:

- Much material is rehashing of the same underlying content.

- This is especially the case of reviews, where the real item is the content being reviewed --- a video series, film, music, book, dramtic performance, etc.

- All the lifestyle stuff (sport, real estate, entertainment, "home", "life", "style", "fashion", etc.) is essentially advertising under editorial guise.

- So is much of "Business", unfortunately.

That leaves local, regional, national, and global news, politics, a fraction of business coverage, and perhaps science and technology. Several of those are best treated as specific domains where a specialist publication would better serve you.

I would like a local publication that actually addressed local issues. I'm finding this increasingly and quite frustratingly difficult to find.
And add 30 minutes that you are stuck in downtown traffic because your meeting starts at an inconvenient time.

I can't speak for all of Europe, but here in Austria trains, trams, and subways are way more predictable than taking the car. Sure, sometimes there are delays, but 99% of the time you get to your destination on schedule. When you drive you always have the risk of random delays due to traffic.
That's not so much the opposite, but I agree. If it were 5€ per visit, you'd probably see a lot less of this.
Russian soldiers attach an RGD-5 Hand Grenade to a DJI Mavic 2 Zoom
Too bad companies don't know how to hire, and will disqualify you when the first micro-flaw is found. So people running in with their resume makes no difference.
Eh, I don’t really care about that, as long as the cache is invalidated reasonably often.

But it seems the (obfuscated and minified) JS is still required.
Hmmm, is there such a thing as 200mm 65nm equipment?
“so 9 hours and I used to stay 10+ hours in the office often. “

There is the main problem already. Stick to your working hours. Don’t do free overtime.
I wonder if we might see drop in replacements used in other tech from the past that might be end of life or near to, especially space satellites where power supplies permit.
"there is no way that the car could have reacted to the oncoming car and stopped at that speed, even if its AI system were perfect."

Then they shouldn't have been driving at that speed.
In my opinion Tesla has the largest part of the fault here. You can say "yeah we all know Elon Musk is lying and that is not a real auto-pilot", but I am having hard time to understand why the responsability of a blatantly lying company/CEO is not discussed.
Ey, it's time to move on, this "loneliness" it's a kind of comfort zone. What if you search another position in another company?, this would be a challenge.
If you want to buy my house, you kind of do. Everybody accepts money as payment. Most people don't accept crypto as payment.
Doctor charged patient $40 for crying
I mean I am an American, and I live my life in accordance with American norms.

I just am pointing out how cultural differences lead to different perspectives. I would imagine that Chinese corporate culture around layoffs is also very different from how it is in America.

It’s really difficult to comprehend all of the small details that go into living within a different culture, and isolated components end up seeming bizarre, while they are perfectly logical when you live within the system itself.
Literally never gonna happen
Hmm, I don't think that's accurate. Roe v Wade did say that Texas's statutes against abortion violated the fundamental right to privacy found in the 14th amendment. If Roe v Wade had simply said "It's a federal issue, it's up to Congress to pass an amendment if they want it changed", then I think you'd be right.

But Roe v Wade went further than that, with all the talk about pregnancy trimester nonsense. I buy into the premise of a right to privacy being derived from the 14th Amendment, but there's certainly nothing about trimesters in that amendment; it reeks of the court trying legislate. Either this right to privacy exists or it doesn't, it shouldn't be conditional on trimesters. I think this is where they fucked up.

Anyway, now Congress has to do what they should have done 50 years ago and sort this mess out the proper way.
> Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face (theguardian.com)

Lawyers!
How does it run faster than find? Can I manually implement that speedup using standard unix tools? I need to run find a lot on many machines I don't have access to install anything on.
Perfect! Music to my ears
Hello wonderful person. Are you referring to Anton Petrov? I also really enjoy his channel.
I find myself unimpressed by this "nuance".

* Does the "Top University" need the cash? Who is it coming from, and who is to say they do not need it more?

* Evidence suggests this has not in practice been prevented.
They claim to be doing FRB, but it looks like what they actually are is insolvent.

A FRB is a bank where deposits exceed liquid liabilities (cash), but do not exceed liquid plus illiquid liabilities (cash + investments).

When deposits exceed liquid and illiquid liabilities you can't operate as an FRB. Because you are insolvent.

But this is all irrelevant, because Tether isn't a bank. Your bank promises that you can withdraw your deposit. Tether does no such thing - it provides withdrawals as a courtesy. If Tether doesn't feel like letting you withdraw, it's not going to let you withdraw.