skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> complete ban on all non-productive financial schemes

I surprised myself by how sympathetic I am to this proposal, given I've made a career in finance. The problem, however, is separating productive from unproductive schemes ex ante.

> "futures trader" extracting value from the system buying/selling futures has done no "real" work, their profit comes exclusively from making others pay more

Great example. In 1958, the Congress banned "the trading of futures contracts on onions" [1]. By the 2000s, increased price volatility--which had to be borne solely by farmers and distributors--prompted "the son of a farmer who initially lobbied for the ban to advocate a return to onion futures trading" [2].

There is a middle ground between banning and a free for all. In the former, useful financial products and innovation is suppressed. Finance is about allocating real resources in our economy. Bad finance is bad. But on the other end, everyone steals everything, and investor self-interest gives way to the animal spirits we saw leading up to the Panic of 1907, the Great Depression, the S&L crisis, the Financial Crisis and whatever we'll call crypto.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act#cite_note-fo...

[2] https://archive.fortune.com/2008/06/27/news/economy/The_onio...
Where?

I just went on docker hub. I search for Redhat Enterprise Linux and RHEL.

I get ubuntu with 1B+ downloads. I get oraclinux, amazonlinux (?!?), alpine, debian and more. If they are releasing docker base images they are doing an absolutely terrible job getting them distributed. I'm honestly kind of shocked to see amazon here, are people developing against Amazon outside of just spinning up hosts on EC2 etc? Amazing. I might do that myself.

Edit: Amazon Linux looks fedora based for 2022 forward, but with 5 years of support - that's not a bad combo if they can deliver. I'm going to try it for my next project. Their Amazon Linux support has been poor in the past at times.
People have been saying this a long time. "Fundamental economics" isn't even a real thing, it's made up theory with almost zero predictive value.

At a very basic level if people get up in the morning and go to work, and continue to want cars and tvs and houses and vacations, it's hard to see the economy really going to hell. We've had many scares over the last 100 years and we keep chugging along with a bump here and there, because people keep going to work and keep buying cars and tvs and houses and vacations. We just went through a global pandemic and are basically fine.

It feels pretty resilient.... unless we make a hard turn into communism, which appears to be a sure fire way to destroy an economy.
> The more one tries, the more one becomes the source of funding for others while not really getting any personal gratification or gain.

It's unfortunate that you can't derive any gratification or gain from your more-than-half of the extra money you make when trying more. But it probably won't help to blame it on less wealthy people commuting to work.
> internet

> no transmission lines

> no physical reason that other [social networks] can’t exist

Sorry for nitpicking, but you can get internet without transmission lines too (just as phone service) - and it's still an utility :V

But I am just nitpicking, sorry :V
Wasn’t he American?
He didn't deny the NDA and settlement. SpaceX could easily make a a statement that it didn't happen.
A disclaimer that it isn’t for diagnosis isn’t generally useful when everything else says the tool does diagnosis.
China’s Stimulus Tops $5T as Covid Zero Hits Economy
A lot of people think HyperCard should have been more what the web was like.
Huh?

There is a very long and plainly wrong string of Supreme Court decisions which stretches all the way back to the nation's founding. The courts are very good at precisely the opposite thing that you're describing.

I think most people kind of assume that the courts are this sort of shining beacon of enlightened liberal thought: they occasionally seem to have "duds" -- but those are intelligent and well reasoned duds. They're interpreting the constitution in a way some don't like, sure, but still upholding it nonetheless, right?

I mean, this thread here about civil asset forfeiture is a great example. If you ask any non-lawyer brained person whether it's wrong, they'll say, yeah, of course it's illegal for the government to just steal your shit. Why is this even a question?

Oh, but no, you see, the courts have wisely decided, using an argument that you might hear from a 5-year-old ("actually, this piece of property is actually a mystical ghost that we can treat as a people!"), that stealing your shit is, in fact, legal.

I really encourage anyone curious about this powerful and unaccountable institution to read some of the shittier Supreme Court decisions. They are often, simply put, stupid. Like, a regular non-lawyer person can read them and handily "eviscerate" their arguments.
If Tether is telling the truth in their attestation, they held $5 billion in cryptocurrency a month and a half ago, and had only about $160 million in extra assets to cover their liabilities. Given the extent of the collapse of the cryptocurrency market (and markets in general, do note), by Tether's own words, Tether is either insolvent or required someone decently steep infusions of cash. As far as I'm aware Tether has not announced either, so either Tether is lying about its own solvency or... Tether is covering up its own insolvency.

Actually, come to think of it, Tether does claim to publish asset and liability totals (if not breakdowns) in near real time, so let's see how it's doing. And, surprise, Tether somehow still has just $160 million in extra assets over liabilities. In fact, between the attestation date of March 31, 2022 and the latest update as of last night, this buffer has changed by just $186. That kind of performance is... well, not credible.
Suggest a better methodology crisscross, I'm happy to listen. The problem with $1 flat is that anyone can sign up and manipulate it over time, holding it a fraction of a cent under isn't hard for a moment each day. Constantly maintaining a few cents under each day is much, much harder, feel free to go look through historic charts of what it costs to sell tether for USD over the last few years.

All it takes is a few days of near zero in the next year to win the wager. Isn't that what patio11 has said would happen for what 4 years now?

I'm offering a chance to capitalise on such deep knowledge, surely that's a no-brainer choice for someone so convinced that Tether is done for?
China eases Covid-19 test rules for Canadian travelers, other countries
I know what you mean. I suspect future people will marvel on how we managed to do things and how we invented and discovered things. At least that’s how we see our ancestors now, but yes, some of our behavior will look quite barbaric
The post states:

>"It is well-understood in the cryptocurrency community that Tether’s reserves are a polite fiction. If pushed on this, clueful members of the community, such as their co-conspirators, will (quietly) admit that Tether depends on a de facto guarantee of support from members of its consolidated group, such as Bitfinex, which can inject more equity at will.?

Can someone say what is meant but "its consolidated group"? Is this a loose alliance or something more formal?
I read that article but it doesn't seem to actually say much, other than "leaning styles == bad." My best guess is that the author has built a strawman and his definition of "different learning styles" is markedly different (or narrower) than the common understanding of the phase.

I consider myself a pretty open-minded individual and a strong adherent to the idea that (properly conducted!) science furthers human progress, health, and happiness. But there's no way anyone can convince me that, given the exceptionally wide variability in the way human brains process information, that there is "one true way" to teach somebody something. Or even "one true way" for a specific individual that applies to all subjects.

For instance, there is an entire generation who seem to learn faster and/or better by watching well-produced videos on a topic. For them, reading a textbook or other forms of documentation takes too long or just plain doesn't work. This is basically what all of those modern online course sites and coding bootcamps are doing.

I'm the complete opposite. I'd rather sift through book-sized volumes of written documentation and tutorials (or in a pinch, a textbook) to quickly gain an overall big-picture view of a topic and then dive into specific details as necessary. For me, watching videos takes too long, and I get bored and sleepy watching them. Give me something to read, reflect on, and play with.

Another example: my son, unlike most of his peers, can't sit still in a classroom. Nor can he watch educational videos for any particular length of time. He is not (yet?) a self-directed learner because if you put him in front of an electronic device of any kind, he will tinker with all of the settings on the device instead of using it for its intended purpose. However, he absolutely excels at one-on-one tutoring because I have managed to teach him some fairly advanced (for his age) math, computer, and electronics concepts just by sitting down and talking about these things with him as if it was just casual conversation. The problem, of course, is that the way schools are structured, this cannot possibly scale even to just the kids that need it the most.
(I'm skeptical of the very premise of colonizing Mars, but putting that aside..)

I expect what forms on Mars, at least initially, will resemble the high seas a lot more than it does any country. You'll have facilities owned and commanded by corporations operating under flags of convenience, more or less free to engage in any nastiness they like (at least until a navy or coastguard with guns shows up to enforce their will on the facility.)
There's a direct ask for support in the form of paypal donations right there on the linked page. He also funnels traffic to his youtube, where he has well over a quarter million subscribers. He has quite a cottage industry selling doom prepper news.
Are there verifiable numbers available on whether Tether has a net outflow of fiat? That's the real question. If they're under-reserved, and there's an ongoing net outflow, they will at some point run out of money.

There's definitely outflow. Tether's reported market cap peaked at $83 billion in early May, and now it's down to $74 billion. So at least 10% of Tether has already been redeemed. There are other major stablecoins now, so nobody has to use Tether.

This is one of those things that will look fine, until it doesn't. As has now been demonstrated several times, stablecoins have only two stable points: 1 and 0.
I had an art teacher affectionately remind me the etymology for amateur

> borrowed from French, going back to Middle French, "one who loves, lover," borrowed from Latin amātor "lover, enthusiastic admirer, devotee," from amāre "to have affection for, love, be in love, make love to" (of uncertain origin) + -tōr-, -tor, agent suffix
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amateur#etymology...

changes the feeling of it all when you get that context, someone who loves a subject pretty much--no qualifications skill wise or regarding depth but they love it and should presumably take things seriously to some degree as any lover would.
Hey, looks like Matt Schlapp is taking up this narrative:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjb7ad/cpac-head-promotes-ab...
How could it be harmful? Is it just because of errors, i.e. false negative means person won't talk to doctor and won't be caught early; false positive means needless worry, maybe tarnish more general medical industry? Or something else?
At this point, I’m convinced Mars is going to be some sort of neo-feudal territory.
> a bunch of unhappy losers mindfucked

Ahh, the soothing voice of reasoned tolerance, never stigmatizing our diversity but instead magnifying our commonality of purpose and experience.
I like the language of wants, but it might be good to reference the industrial design of iPhone mini, but with the caveat that plastic is okay. The pixel a-series I think has a nice plastic. As did Xperia. Pre-pixel, my Moto X (2013) was knocked out of my hand by the dog while sitting on the front steps so many times, but never broke the body or screen (literally hit and bounced off every step on the way down, no case). This could be key to a case-less small phone. And rugged and case-less could be a big feature.

I would also say, a small phone is a great opportunity to add whatever features are necessary to offload usage to a watch (Bt,BtLE), car, smart home (UWB), smart glasses, ear buds. This seemed to be the way Essential was going. I would love the ability to hear my texts, either in ear buds or smart home, and hold my phones power button like a walky talky to dictate responses, almost like Android Auto. (Maybe even a knurled physical dictation button on the rail right next to where the gboard microphone soft button is located). And have UWB smart appliances know I was approaching and 1-factor authenticate me. All this to say, don't skimp on the innards which can help the device grow with accessories. I think accessories are really where a manufacturer can win. Where your phone just becomes a remote so all your other devices know it's you.

And when you are looking at the phone and using it, it needs to be weighted (battery down?) at the bottom so it balances in the hand better, a la Palm Pre (I so wish I had bought one instead of waiting for a second generation). No more pop-sockets!

I also suspect that narrower is more important than shorter. And thicker is better for battery and the bend test. Remember when Pixel 1 had an angle to its back? Imagine a phone that can lay firmly on a flat surface on slight angle, just enough to go into portrait or landscape mode, and not wobble. And if the speaker were on the back, it could use the flat surface to reflect the sound back at the viewer. (I think rog or another had an angled phone back that looked like broken glass).
Querying complex JSON objects in AWS Athena
That seems unfortunate, since my shell's autocomplete puts that trailing slash in there by default.
The default scaling is fractional on recent MacBooks.
Plato's Crito[1] deals directly with this question, after Socrates has been found guilty and sentenced to death for 'Corrupting the youth', his friends offer to help him leave the city rather than die.

To paraphrase, Socrates says "Though not explicitly, I have by my actions agreed to be ruled by the laws of Athens by carrying out my life here and not choosing to move away to somewhere with a different set of laws"

[1]http://www.columbia.edu/itc/lithum/wong/textclip.html @ [52b]

I believe Plato will say they consented to be governed by this state, not at birth, but throughout their life by choosing to stay in a place that is governed by this state and enjoying the benefits.
> is this a kind of thing people say?

Is what a thing people say?
A big issue with this type of support is that the risks are correlated. Sure there are multiple big supporters of Tether right now, but if the sky starts falling and one of them decides to rush for the exit the others will likely make the same decision around the same time.
Arriving to your comment late; I apologize.

I want to be clear that I think this style does indeed have merit, regardless of its origins. I like it--I prefer _reading_ and _comprehending_ code rather than superficially skimming code--I believe the style serves that goal wonderfully. I do not think that a thing adopted because of one's respect and adoration for an idol figure invalidates the value of the thing, _but_ I also think I spoke much too harshly and I recognize that people are allowed to like a thing and take it from another person without idolizing the creator.

However, I still believe the style originated with Arthur. Again, I don't think that's bad, and I agree with you that there is indeed some spirit of Iverson's work spread around different computing communities in the way they write C. Then again, _I_ did not have the presence of mind to spontaneously write Arthurian C without reading his code first and thinking really hard about it, so I am perhaps making the mistake that everyone else is similarly limited. I've tried to find independent exemplars of similar styles without success. Again, I write that down as a personal failing.
Wow, that was a really well written article. I shed a few tears by the end
Isaac Newton, Wright Brothers, almost any pioneer is doubted since it hasn't been done until they did it
The fun thing about Dunkirk is that the story doesn't need the viewer to understand that there is a bit of magic with the timeline. It's just a good story, but for those so inclined, it is fun/neat/impressive how the time was manipulated to tell the story.

We all like different things, but just because there's something you don't like doesn't mean that it is not impressive to others.
> Operating System: An operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. There shouldn't be one.

I like this one especially.

It rings true if you imagine a world where you have complete control over your machine, you don't worry about possibly external code breaking or extracting your stuff and so on.

But lets just pretend we don't need to worry about these things for some reason. It would be so powerful. And I don't mean you have 'root' privileges, I mean your programming environment owns, controls and _is_ everything that happens. No black boxes, no overhead, nothing. Just _one_ runtime that is integrated all the way down with the expressive power of a Lisp/Smalltalk/Self or similar. It's sad that this doesn't seem like a viable option.
Where will this end? I mean, wearing a mask to the grocery store is a grave, grave imposition, on the level of certain genocidal historical events. I'm not at all sure of your assertion of your minor freedom there is valid.
Almost. Circle is more than just Coinbase.

And anyway, your cheap jab at Coinbase has no comparison with Tether. Circuit breakers are not an invention from crypto exchanges. Besides, they also are one of the investors in Uniswap, which lets you trade without any middlemen.
Yes, but you'd also be a former professional. Amateur also isn't meant to be a negative term, it just means you do it as a hobby rather than as a profession.
It would be super fun to implement an intelligent head() function that shows a representative sample rather than the first X rows. Do the profiling & identify a collection of rows that represent the overall distribution.

You could develop some IP around efficient and effective ways to do this. Probably would require an ensemble of unsupervised methods.
10M bounty paid for a Web3 bug
> Aren't sales of Bitcoin for Tether taxable anyway?

Maybe in US, but not everywhere. For example in Poland where I live crypto to crypto transactions are not taxable.
Show HN: BCG: Tech investing navigating a bumpy period
The website is cleared marked as a breast health awareness tool and not for diagnosis. We are not doing any decision making for humans. However I would like to point out there are quite some FDA approved mammo AI products in the market at the moment.
Generated files. If you're searching for every place something shows up so you can change it, it's annoying to have to filter out the stuff that'll get updated automatically (and will mess up timestamps if you update manually.)

Also, backup files. The fewer irrelevant results, the more useful a tool is.
I watch an _absurd_ amount of PBS content on YouTube and other science channels. Not as many math channels but certainly a few. I am so angry this was never recommended to me earlier, and full of joy that my weekend is set!
To be clear, this is not a "backdoor" in the traditional sense. Nobody can log into your router without your consent.

This is a way for the router administrator (you) to manually give the police access to a copy of traffic in response to a warrant. The assumption here is that this router is being run at an ISP, and you're a netadmin responsible for handling legal compliance requests.
Why hasn't anyone pegged a stable coin to $0.99 before?

The $0.99 Only Store could do stable coin. You could even redeem your coins for items in the store!
In the software world, RH is not just old, it's practically antique. Their kernel age can really hold you back. Compare it to the way SLES releases their minor versions.
I've done alot of work with RH, but I do not recommend it or enjoy it.
The constitution doesn’t grant rights to the people but sets down the restrictions on what the federal government can and can not do.

Anything and everything not specifically outlined in it is either retained by the people or governed by the states.

If the Supreme Court says the federal government doesn’t have jurisdiction they are simply returning the responsibility to the states or default legal status. They literally can’t strip away a right by returning it to the people.
One should mention the most comprehensive web-site that includes all the info you will ever need about Vangelis and his work - Elsewhere - http://elsew.com/
I applaude the web-site authors and maintainers for their work over the years.
Ubond: Dynamic speed internet bonding based on MLVPN
Main additions:

-Dynamic Weighing

-Dynamic reordering buffer

-True seamless failover

-Flow-based prioritization for thin streams
> holding it a fraction of a cent under isn't hard for a moment each day

It shouldn't be. Not for a dollar-pegged asset. Fractions of a cent on billions of dollars, dollars easily lent and borrowed every day, every minute, is millions of dollars a year for an arbitrageur [1].

Hundreds of billions of dollars are deployed into funds exploiting smaller differentials on rates and futures curves.

> what patio11 has said would happen for what 4 years now?

Four years isn't long. At the first sign of tight markets, the damn thing fell apart to the tune of 5%.

> that's a no-brainer choice for someone so convinced that Tether is done for?

People are shorting Tether [2].

The problem is counterparty risk. When Tether busts, you want someone on the other side who isn't all in on crypto. That's not easy.

[1] Coinmarketcap shows $0.9989 for 1 Tether, an 11 bp spread. Call money is 2.75% [1], or around 75 bps per day; too expensive. But the repo rate is 80 bps [2]; less than a basis point a day. Borrow a billion against collateral, buy one billion Tether, redeem it for one dollar each and pay back the loan. You'll make, round trip, a $1mm profit [c]. In one day. Unless we're arguing there would be $1mm transaction costs for this trade, one must ask why nobody is doing it.

[a] https://www.bankrate.com/rates/interest-rates/call-money/

[b] https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/reference-rates/tgcr

[c] [$1bn - $1bn * 0.9989] - [$1bn * (0.8% / 365)]

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/short-sellers-bet-tether-crypto...
Nietzsche wrote most of his books in isolated obscurity and had to personally pay to get some of them published.
Re-zoning for cryptocurrency facility in Kneehill County approved
The consequences are false positives and negatives in cancer detection are well known (easily googled), and are actually extremely important when looking at cancer treatment in large populations. You nailed the most important ones.
>Is it possible that it doesn’t serve YTs interests to have a recommendation engine that works best for the end user?

100% absolutely it is similar to Goog's search

>I honestly think they just experiment with it a lot. The variety of videos that are recommended for me don’t seem to follow a pattern.

Possibly, but I'd posit that it's not a good system if the experiment is causing a lack of consistency. I'm sure there's a lot of people that would opt-in for a exeperimental reco system if just asked.

> Maybe they know my brain better than I do.

Now you're just being silly.
It matters for the question of whether Nim manages to do the same things as Rust with better syntax.