skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibly somewhat. There is typically a differentiation between commercial paper and asset backed commercial paper so who knows. It might depend on the individual lending USDT.

I believe that these exchanges/crypto funds are borrowing USDT with interest payable in USD and principle payable in USDT. This would incentivise borrowers to buy USDT when the peg breaks to the down side thus keeping USDT pegged to the dollar.

I think it would be more accurate to say that USDT is not backed by anything. The loans are backed by commercial paper but if the borrowers are not fulfilling these debts in USD in reality there is no backing.

I presume the incentives that stop the peg breaking to the down side will only hold as long as the exchanges/crypto funds stay liquid. If there is a sustained mass exodus out of USDT I predict things will get ugly.
Twitter thread from Bret Devereaux with some critique of this piece.

https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1528581923446181898...
I am not suggesting that, 2025 was never mentioned. The question posed by the HSBC exec is about whether Miami will still exist 100 years into the future. In the case of unmitigated climate change that seems unlikely.
The existence of GIS ARTA has been public since 2015.
In any of these examples, it effectively creates a closed-loop definition, cutting off all external references or bases, where the definition of the dialectical terms is set by whomever happens to hold the most power and influence in the topic at hand.
> if you have questions, I will answer them

Lol thanks for the offer - I'm a Royal Armoured Corps squadron leader.
Thanks for mentioning music. It baffles me that anyone would be blind to the idea that children could be "behind" when so much of childhood development involves muscle strength and dexterity that must be practiced. This goes for many musical instruments as well as the voice, all athletics, penmanship, verbal articulation, and so much more.
And thankfully that number is far, far below 1%, more like 0.04%. The US has by far the highest number of guns per capita, but no where near the highest number of gun deaths.
> Unfortunately I think it's a little low-level for most implementers, who just want to know which library to use and are scared of things like cofactors and prime-order groups.

Ah, yeah, totally fair. I have other blog posts that tackle high-level things. ;)

> Also: it's 2022 and has an ECC side-channel attack ever been used in the wild?

Do you mean by criminal hacking groups?

If not, the best example I know of is: https://auth0.com/blog/critical-vulnerability-in-json-web-en...

If you do mean by criminals, I'm not in the malware/cybercrime part of the security industry, so I have no idea.
"From its beginnings in 1843, when The Economist newspaper was founded by a Scottish hat manufacturer to further the cause of free trade [...]" [0]

It is liberal in the classical sense and in my opinion this was quite transparent in the writing at least when I was a subscriber throughout the 2000s.

[0] https://www.economistgroup.com/about-us
In 2022, there are mechanics people will want for your game to feel good. This will vary from game to game, but I think most games will want coyote time and jump buffering. https://twitter.com/maddythorson/status/1238338574220546049
> the end result is so bad that native speakers would rather just use the app in correct English than broken native language

Is that actually supported by evidence or did you pull it out from .. somewhere?

This claim probably holds if the user is fluent in English as a second language, but are you sure the billions of people who can't read English would really make that choice?

I think it's the developer's choice whether to only support users that can read English to at least some degree, but claiming that an option for broken i18n is worse than nothing seems to be rather radical to me... (that said, the number of websites that presume my language preferences upon a geoip check is infuriating...)
Self-Net: Lifelong Learning Via Continual Self-Modeling (2018)
There is a healthy dose of pragmatism. Probably, very few people would choose nuclear if there were loads of alternatives, the capital cost and build times are insane and despite improvements, let's not pretend that nuclear fuel is easy to deal with.

But take away gas and coal and you are left with the green alternatives like solar, wind and waves which all have their own challenges the first two have high variability and aren't great for base-load and the third has challenges building equipment that can survive the extremely harsh ocean currents for a period of time that will not leave a trail of rusting relics (afaik).
The German green party demanded a ban on sending weapons to conflict zones just at the end of last year, now they would love to send all our army's equipment to Ukraine immediately.

They fought tooth and nail for the ban of genertical modified food, but now are in favor of a mandatory mRNA vaccination even for young people.

So why shouldn't they make another 180 on their fight against nuclear power, for which they could finally claim victory after the last three nuclear power plants will be switched off by the end of this year.
A tool to search and index Golang projects in Sally vanity config
holes can be all sorts of shapes
UPI's design is very good. It does all of the mentioned points along with ease of use.

1. You can discover the counterparty using their registered mobile phone number tied with their bank account. In B2B and P2P scenarios, the business or the individual already has the counterparty's phone number in most cases. So, this handles like 90% of the cases of simple discoverability. For use cases like sending money to friends/family, this is perfect.

2. The mapping of the virtual address to the bank account is maintained and managed by the banks (as part of the bank's UPI interface mandated by the standard) and shared with the NPCI's UPI backend using tokenization.

3. A user can create multiple virtual private addresses [VPAs] (eg: mybillpay@bigbank, subscriptions@bigbank etc.,). The user can then track their spends/receipts by VPA.

The ease of use is an order of magnitude higher compared to entering bank account information. Settlements are bank-to-bank and instantaneous (~2-3 secs) powered by the NPCI backbone.

India used to have a high use of Cash-on-delivery (COD) for e-commerce. This gave a good electronic equivalent for COD that also helped e-com operators.
Why is this flagged? Do people seriously find this that off topic or offensive?
Yes, that’s true. Even if you don’t enjoy something, seeing your partner aroused by it is arousing by itself. It’s a feedback loop basically.
I agree with the sentiment, but "stock photos" are not a problem.

They add visual interest and allow the reader to quickly see what the article is about. Having a good stock photo with a blog post drastically increases the number of clicks.

Yes they can be used incorrectly, but that's true of anything.
I would pay $100-200 for a smallish device (around raspberry pi sized ideally) that I could plug a USB-C cable into (both sides, maybe this device would need at least on USB-A as well?) and it would spit out all the capabilities PD/Speed/TB?/display/etc.
Off-Topic but Ghost's recruitment process was an instant turn off for me. As much as I love the project and would have liked to work on it, I couldn't commit to spend 5 to 10 hours on a coding task without even talking to a human first [0]. I understand resources might be tight in small companies, but the prospect of having someone tell me "oh sorry, we already filled the role" after 10 hours of code was not something I wanted to get into.

On-Topic: Congrats for the new major release, always exciting to see what the team delivers!

[0] https://careers.ghost.org/product-engineer-node-js/en#block-...
Aptible has always prioritized security, and is a competitive alternative. https://www.aptible.com/heroku-alternative/
No true Scotsman would ever persecute a minority or crack down on dissent!
I believe the author had intended to link to this[0] page instead.

[0]: https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
"Well why does the entire internet say to use dd then?"

Because you usually need root to write to drives, and you can't `sudo` redirect. `sudo dd if=whatever.img of=/dev/whatever` is nicer and easier than `sudo sh -c "cat whatever.img >/dev/whatever"`.
I saw this on my twitter and was kind of surprised that this was patented and had an expensive API to go with it. I don't see why this couldn't be on-device processing. Why utilize a cloud API for an accessibility feature?
Just because they can doesn't mean they should.

Should they mandate that video game platforms be interoperable? What about mandating that every company produces apps that interoperate with windows Mac Linux and mobile.
it's not a total failure if something was learnt in the process. web3 proposes radically restructuring the web and possibly the economy more broadly, it shouldn't surprise us if it isn't done right immediately.
Why oh-my-zsh? Isn't that basically unmaintained?
Agreed, this is a more precise way of stating it, albeit using traits that are more difficult to measure at scale.
The French word "est" (as in "Il est") is not pronounced the same as the French word "est" (as in "va à l'est"). There's definitely several cases of irregularity in French pronunciation ("clef" is another good one--usually you pronounce a final 'f' consonant, but not in that word!), and the consonant cluster "il" is so inconsistently pronounced that you might as well flip a coin to determine if it should be pronounced with an 'l' sound or a 'y' ('j' in IPA) sound.
I still find it hard to comprehend how a one of the tools of a taxi calling app has this much complexity and have thousands of engineers working on it . It surely must solve a difficult technical problem but I suspect the business impact is minimal as these apps were able to become widely successful initially without this level of complexity
looks great!!
No generator provides base load, because load is usage, not power.

Lots of places in the world satisfy base load with dispatchable power.
its the law in the US
Congrats on picking a straw man sport. That said, no reason band couldn't be pushing more concerts than sideline offering at a game.
>Is there a standards body for HOAs? Are they regulated?

Each state generally sets its own standards for HOAs. There are legal frameworks, insurance laws, etc. which are fairly similar across the country.

>If they have equivalent legal status to a government or a police department, are there constitutional rights which they cannot violate?

They do not have equivalent legal status to a government or police department. HOAs are limited in their powers by federal, state, and municipal guidelines. Every state has its own laws in this regard. There are also federal laws prohibiting certain bylaws, e.g. the Fair Housing Act prevent HOAs from enforcing racially discriminatory covenants.

>Can two competing HOAs exist in the same geographic area, and home owners are free to setup additional ones if the incumbents don’t meet their needs?

I don't know exactly what you're referring to, but generally speaking, nobody is forced to buy in an HOA neighborhood unless they want to, there are generally a multitude of HOA-managed (and non-HOA-managed) neighborhoods to choose from within a single town/school district/etc. The only exception might be things like specific lakes/small island communities, where the entire geographic feature is managed under a single association (e.g. for lakes they generally pay for the maintenance of the lake itself, stocking fish, removing trash, etc.)
Magnetosome
All vaccines of all diseases have risk. Catching the diseases themselves have risk. Here in canada, az and j&j were stopped due to side effects. Uptake was excellent, no obvious reports of side effects in bulk and the last wave of covid did not see a big spike in hospitalization. There are newer vaccines that don’t use either off the transmission vectors so they should be examined for world use.
They recently hired the RhassPy (self hosted OSS voice assistant) dev who started working on satellites and fully local as feature
I agree. When I started with nixCraft, the first feedback was that visitors wanted to know the last updated date. Apart from that, having comments, RSS feed and newsletter subscription is essential. Please don't say follow me on Twitter or FB. That is like giving out free advertisements to social media, which hides your content from all followers who choose to follow you because of your blog post. I have over 250k+ followers on both FB and Twitter, but as soon as they see a link to my blog post, promote this post button appears.So please encourage your RSS and email newsletter subscription. Keep independent web alive.
New alphabets are a huge barrier to overcome in learning a language. I studied Japanese at the college level for two years and never could keep the kana straight. (Kanji are a lost cause for me as well). I forget Cyrillic pronunciations all the time and my head gets jammed by things like P meaning R. My lips have to move while reading. But in every Latin-script language I have worked on it has been a non-issue for this native English speaker.

It would take a while to learn to read in rot13. Now, add in that I am learning the language, and learning Spanish in rot13 would be hard for me.
>And the more hatred it gets (edit: proportional to downvotes), the more powerful it will become in the end. And we all know who wins at the end.

And "If you strike me down now, Darth, I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
I suspect you'd get better performance increasing the blocksize, and if necessary trimming the output in a second pass.

Large blocks -> efficient I/O. Within reason.
If we would pour into nuclear research the kind of money we pour into renewables, nuclear power would become safer and cheaper.
I actually found this quite jarring. I'm a decent speed reader (by no means the best, but generally able to consue vast quantities of information quickly), and having these artifical focus points completly threw my rhythm. I can only assume that I've interally developed my own way of skimming that achives the same thing, though not in the same way. So having the first letter bolded actually disrupted whatever my brain was attempting to do.
And to add another anecdote, the overall #1 high school in the US in Virginia (by some rankings at least) doesn't have a football team. Sports like cross country get more attention.
Indeed, most users are better off by launching GNOME Disks, going to the kebab menu, choosing Restore Disk Image & selecting the image and target disk interactively. Or running:

$ gnome-disks --restore-disk-image=/etc/motd

Behind the scenes it calls udisks, which uses polkit to ensure that the user is authorized to write to the target disk.

Overall, the chances of a user typoing and wiping out the wrong disk are greatly reduced. They also get to see progress etc.
and this gets at what's really threatening about web3: it's an inherently libertarian technology and authoritarians on both the left and right of the cultural/political spectrum are terrified by that.
No, it's a well known problem, among both Germans and foreigners. Everyone hates it, but they just sigh and say it won't change. It makes me genuinely angry how hard it is to get out of a restaurant.
> That's a unique unit of measure I've not seen before.

There are some fun Wikipedia entries on the subject:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_meas...
Desire runs the world. The future consists of progress in our ability to realize our desire. I think we can agree on that.

2 ways to realize desire. 1) Impose my desire upon the real world and 2) create a fantasy.

The second is easier.

So the future (for everybody but scientists, mystics and other such weirdos) is a deeper dive into fantasy.

We busily work to that end.
It also seems like 'scope creep', that they'd be better off as more of a single-issue party. My impression is that's how it's viewed by voters (those they have) anyway - I don't think Green party support is a good reflection of 'women out of prison' support.
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No let's not take any large quantaties of anything else from the ocean. Leave it.
Some context: The Green Party had long been diametrically opposed to nuclear, to the extent that they have twice exited a coalition government in protest of granting additional reactor permits. Over the past ten years their position has gradually shifted though, thanks to STEM-oriented Greens in particular, as it has become obvious that AGW is a bigger threat than nuclear. This in spite of several setbacks:

– Obviously, the Fukushima disaster of 2011.

– The fact that the Olkiluoto 3 reactor project [1], a 1600MW PWR unit, was plagued by chronic delays and cost overruns – it is only now being connected to the grid, over ten years behind schedule. OL3's fundamental problem was that the European nuclear industry simply was not up to the task of delivering a first-of-its-kind, ambitious third-gen reactor after a fifteen-year hiatus during which no new nuclear power plants were built in Europe.

– Another planned nuclear plant, Hanhikivi [2], had problems finding a Western reactor supplier; after some arguably rather shady dealings, a contract was made with Rosatom, the state nuclear corporation of Russia. This received some well-earned criticism, but Finnish decisionmakers (perhaps naively) wanted to think there was no political dimension to such an agreement. After February 24, the project is now almost certainly dead in the water, never having left the planning and design phase.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant#...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanhikivi_Nuclear_Power_Plant
If power corrupts, and that seems to be the general case, then absolute power corrupts absolutely. Any broad system is ripe for abuse without checks, checks can only exist with a weak enough system.
If I lived in one of those houses, would I be able to paint it whatever color I wanted (e.g. pink and yellow stripes)? Or is there some sort of coordination to make sure they all look appealing as a set?
But rarely like washing machines. (Which can also be all sorts of shapes anyway.)
I know exactly 0 people doing any kind of crypto work. I do know plenty that are in the ponzi scheme though.
Based on the screenshot it looks ok to me, but my most often used IDE is and has been Xcode for a long time, with usage of JetBrains (in the form of Android Studio) and Visual Studio (the full fat Windows IDE, not the electron thing) trailing behind at a distant second and third.

I just never use half the buttons on the screen by default, partially because I use key shortcuts heavily (JetBrains’ ability to use premade third party keybinds is a godsend for a multi-IDE user — all the usual Xcode shortcuts working is wondrous) or because I ignore the integrated tangentially-related bits like VCS because I prefer to use dedicated apps like Fork[0] for those.

So I think this move is fine. The big caveat I’ll add is that they need to keep a proper menubar on Windows and Linux where the system isn’t forcing the presence of such — menubars act as grand indexes of program functionality and are absolutely essential for something like an IDE. Pruning the menubar in favor of one of those blasted hamburger menus would be a huge mistake.

[0]: https://git-fork.com/
Neat. I thought Ghost was just a JS-based static site generator, but apparently they've built out a whole platform to help independent content creators build & monetize an audience. Great to see!
The case I've seen most frequently is developers falling into a a bit of a trap because code bases from several years ago don't look like they were written yesterday. "Best practices" is often the justification for taking on work that doesn't have a clear benefit.

Some folks _really_ insist on changing everything to be "modern" and follow "best practices" using "up to date tooling" (invariably for a non-consensus-but-very-cool definition of "modern" and "up to date"). Often, it's switching to something that's only been around for 6 months over tooling that's _incredibly_ well supported and has been around for decades. I'm not opposed to using something new, but give me a reason beyond "it's new and everyone uses it now". That's doubly true when the new approach has the old tooling as a dependency and is basically a different interface to the same things (i.e. adding a dependency without taking one way).

There's lots of things that need to be updated to be more modern, sure. But there's also a trap of lots of tempting-but-relatively-low-value "best practice" updates that some folks will insist on spending 100% of their time on.

Another common example is some variant of this situation:

"Yes, X looks like a wart and is for many common use cases. It's there because of functionality Y needed by projects A,B,C. Downstream projects D,E,F,G already have workarounds in place where it matters. If you remove the wart, it breaks key functionality for projects A,B,C and means that D,E,F,G have to change the way they use this. Sure, you could handle this in a different way that could be a bit cleaner, but is it worth changing? Changing it is non-trivial and means a bunch of other people suddenly need to do extra work for no clear benefit. Oh, you really think it is, and want to devote the next 6 months to doing that and only that..."

Sometimes things really need some love and attention to get up to date. However, it's also important to avoid work that's temping to do, but low-impact and high-risk (in terms of unintended consequences).
I'm going to repost a comment of mine from two years ago. This is not an unknown thing to school boards.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23012403

The wife of one of my good friends was on the county school board for 12 years. According to her, it was an unspoken secret was that parental involvement was the biggest predictor of / contributor to student success. The reason it was taboo was because you absolutely cannot expect anything from the parents. It was political suicide.

I would put dollars on the table that such is already happening for every parent that is willing and able to do it, because they were already doing it before too.
How do you change, improve, or extend a standard if no changes may be permitted?

What's keeping other implementations from adding these features?
I switched mine to x0.5 (halved). I wish x0.25 was possible, but that was the lowest option and completely turning it off felt a little janky to me.

(If anyone is looking for the option: it's in the developer settings and there are two entries, one for windows and another for general animations.)
Just checked and this is true for 14 and 16 inch MacBook Pros and Studios. Mini, and Air ship quickly, even with additionally ram or storage.
There is one profitable use of excess energy that can be turned on demand in milliseconds, but, for some reason, it is very unpopular here on HN.
(Note that I'm not parent)

Let's try to read that a bit more positively. Their trajectory was incredible impressive and really a little bit a wtf. They managed to create a product in a category everyone thought to be conquered by Wordpress and the Medium-of-the-time SV project, pivoted that from clearly a blog to something clearly more commercial. All while using a programming environment that was pretty obviously the wrong choice for the project plus starting with a severely feature-limited system. And even asking more for hosting than seemed remotely reasonable (unsure that this was true or just an impression back then, current pricing looks reasonable, but that might be a changed perspective).

Having worked on two blog engines at that time I can completely relate to the jealousness, without having applied :)