skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look I am very ignorant about all this stuff but ... is there any downside to shorting a stablecoin? Please be gentle with me:

Like if you short it and the price doesn't move (by design) are you out any money?

The price won't go up (by design) because nobody's going to spend too much money from their reserves to support a price over US$1.

But it's possible for the reserves to run dry in which case the price goes down and you win.
Thanks for the review.
Oh indeed. The language and the normal coding style evolved significantly, the base class library evolved and the whole base promise of the language switched from supporting UI apps and Windows services to be a top contender for any program type you currently can imagine.

Learn .NET Core (nowadays called just .NET). It is a fresh breeze to your memory. So easy, so rewarding compared to the complexity of Java or Node dependency trees.
> "Once you're a parent you can never not be a parent again" without clearly elucidating the logic behind it?

It's a simple sentence. Your comments feel tiresome and pushy.

Once you're a parent you can never not be a parent again because that kid is simultaneously a part of you, potential manifestation of all your dreams and hopes that you can't or won't accomplish, they're your friend, companion, confidant. They're here to stay. You understand them and they understand you like no one else does. You're same blood. It's powerful, deeply ingrained set of thoughts and feelings that you can get a hint of sometimes but can never experience fully until you make your own kid.

All previous statements have varying degrees of truth for most people, hence the fear of having family and children, esp. coming from non ideal backgrounds.
It's also a preferred hardware inspection as its dead easy to rip the header than to seek mid-message to do message entropy/fingerprinting.
It's somewhat Europe's fault when it's obvious what will be done with the money.
You end up paying the transaction fees, which are insane. On top of the interest.
No, but you answer with specific analysis rather than generalizing clickbait.
I actually wish every teaching book was written like this. I learn much faster like this than mostly every other way.
Fmovies.to is an excellent example. Any others you know of?
It means selling the asset, full stop.
Someone, SOMEone, someone should make the radio? Radio, RADIO, RadioLab how to.
> Even Ukraine itself is not shutting down the Russian gas pipeline on its territory "to save Ukrainian lives".

Because that would anger their western benefactors.
No, I don't have specific references - you got me! :-)

I live not far from "NZ's largest grid-connected solar power plant" (2.1 MW nameplate: feeble), and also not far from one of the larger wind farms. The solar plant is on valuable dairy land, that's true. I wish Todd would publish some figures for it, although it hasn't been operating for long.*

When I wrote "higher-value", I had just been thinking about NZ's trade problem: it exports dried milk, red meat and a few other low-value-add bio-materials in order to buy everything else. Land is valuable to the country as a whole for its export revenue.

I had also been re-reading Vaclav Smil's Energy in Nature and Society, in which he says the areal (per square meter) power intensity of PV production is approximately the same as the areal power consumption of cities, so we need the same order of magnitude of land that cities take up if we use PV primarily. And it can't be too erosion-prone.

That (value/national interest) is also an issue (and this is specifically what I had been thinking about) for carbon farming conversions of hill country sheep and beef stations into Radiata monoculture plantations. Privately profitable, but probably against the national interest, and due to policy.

> Private markets can’t make long term investments if the cost of utility scale infrastructure is dropping too fast.

Design, legal, permitting, interconnect, civil, structural and electrical balance of system, and present value of O&M collectively dominate now,* and they are not subject to the same rate of cost decline as panels and inverters (and batteries), so overall, the cost isn't dropping super fast any more. (The PV version of Amdahl's law, perhaps.)

* Total installed capacity of wind power seems to be at least two, possibly three orders or magnitude higher than that of PV solar in NZ. Maybe this is due to the "social licence to operate" / nimby factor, but maybe not. It does suggest that rooftop solar is a tiny niche in the ecosystem, so maybe the market structure isn't all that bad?

* In NZ finance costs a lot too, because policy privileges residential real estate investment so greatly.
It's kind of a Ponzi scheme, but not really since it's not (usually) orchestrated by one malicious entity. Instead, it's a collaborative community effort with the community doing marketing and driving the price. In other words, the dirty work if customer acquisition and advertising is outsourced. It's not so different from crazy startup valuations that are often a result of market forces and competition, with the hope of exiting through acquisition to generate returns before anyone notices not much of value actually exists.

It's a fun game to play, just like casinos are fun. In 99.9% of cases nothing of value is behind these protocols.
NeuralMorse: Reinventing Morse Code With Neural Networks
It is important to note that if you depend on WhatsApp then there is no straightforward, dependable means of transferring WhatsApp from Android to iOS (the other direction does have an accepted solution). You will have to pay for a third party application of questionable trustworthiness.
It requires taking out loans from Anchor Protocol (on the chain) and using the UST to LUNA seignorage mechanism (also on the chain)
Yeah a critical word got deleted when I wrote that. There's a lot of potential consequences of repeal for medical privacy and autonomy that it seems people are starting to think through.
Yeah they tried for like 2-3 releases but I think they are not happy with adding it. Language design is brutal: you make a mistake which you can never revert. And this group is mature enough to realize it.
The funding rate could get expensive
It is really funny to see comments like GP while netflix hosts Chappelle, tells its workers to leave if they don't want to work on projects they disagree with [1], and gets praised for it by the likes of republicans like Musk [2] who claim to be about free speech and what have you until they turn techno-fascist [3].

[1] https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/2022/05/15/netf...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-praises-netflix-te...

[3] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1525549535786717184
For a train that crosses country borders it can be an issue, if someone hops off the train before arriving to the final station (and having their visa and luggage checked there). Apparently that is not a problem in the US or EU.
https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/faq.html

> How do you pronounce your last name?

> Ka-NOOTH.
Music, sex, drugs.

Music, hikes, painting.
> Nuclear in Germany was always pretty minor.

This is simply not true.
According to
https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/29295/umfrage... nuclear's share in Hermany's total power generation was 30,6% in 2000, staying around 30% until 2009.
You make good points. Some of these "illegal" states may be legal from some other perspective, or yet-unforeseen use cases.
"These API routes, like any API that pulls data from a database, are necessary to the day-to-day functioning of Stack Overflow. To protect routes like these from DDoS, here’s what you can do:

- Insist that every API call be authenticated. This will help identify malicious users. If having only authenticated API calls is not possible, set stricter limits for anonymous / unauthenticated traffic.

- Minimize the amount of data a single API call can return. When we build our front page question list, we don’t retrieve all of the data for every question. We paginate, lazy load only the data in the viewport, and request only the data that will be visible (that is, we don’t request the text for every answer until loading the question page itself).

- Rate-limit all API calls. This goes hand-in-hand with minimizing data per call; to get large amounts of data, the attacker will need to call the API multiple times. Nobody needs to call your API a hundred times per second.
Filter malicious traffic before it hits your application. HAProxy load balancers sit between all requests and our servers to balance the amount of traffic across our servers. But that doesn’t mean all traffic has to go to one of those servers.

- Implement thorough and easily queryable logs so malicious requests can be easily identified and blocked."

When using HAProxy you can also try to leverage TLS/JA3 fingerprints (https://haproxy.com/blog/announcing-haproxy-2-5/)
While it can still be spoofed using several packages , e.g. https://github.com/Danny-Dasilva/CycleTLS it can still provide a meaningful/easy-to-manipulate signal.

Moreover, most bots conducting L7 DDoS don't use real/headless browsers in order to be able to scale their attack, so it's highly likely they'll have a discriminating/inconsistent TLS fingerprint.

This can also be done directly in Fastly using e.g. https://developer.fastly.com/reference/vcl/variables/client-...

Another approach to proactively flag malicious IPs is to scrape free proxies. Indeed, most DDoS leverage lot of cheap/know bad IPs. It's frequent to see these free proxies in these attacks.
How about all the communities that use mobile credit over SMS for finance?
I thought that was Home Basic. Only the better specced PCs came with Home Premium (and you paid for it - it is included in the price, you could have the same PC without an OS cheaper).
In other words, if everyone did the radical thing and asserted that they cannot be threatened until they do something they don't want to do, democracy is the only thing that could possibly work.

Anything that's not democracy ultimately rests on threatening people into compliance. Often implicitly ("be a team player and take this third overtime in the month because I'm under pressure from upper management"), sometimes explicitly ("I call the shots on hiring and firing, so you want to stay on good footing with me").
Scuba equipment is most often used in saltwater and is subjected to increased pressure while underwater. The conditions scuba equipment is subjected to vs what waterproof cell phones are rated for are very different.
For me quite mundane:
1) Enjoy a cup a good green tea in rest time and with a good view: the flavorful aroma, the light sweet aftertaste is a bliss!
2) Code something I enjoy: sometimes is it a problem came up from somewhere, sometimes is it a challenge, other times something beautiful to watch and enjoy.
3) Watch the children playing and laughing.

When I have good access to nature, I'd like a walk or a stroll, too but where I'm from, it's quite faraway and unfortunately not in a pristine shape.
> It blows my mind that the people profiting from this are publicly describing the scheme like this, and nobody seems to care.

This is the same guy the media and lots of HN were parroting his 'Bitcoin has no future' artile recently, when it should have been caveated as 'No future as a pump and dump' token for DeFi scams. Which is true, their is really no way to do that in the BTC ecosystem, and for good reason. Wrapping and all that was the closest thing, and to be honest it was short-lived.

Sam is a clear example of what happened from 2014 onward, billionaires made from the least interesting aspects of this ecosystem, which incidentally is also why most of VC has poured into this space.

Honestly, their is no value in ~95% of alts, they are the 'pink sheets' of the crypto currency space.
For me, music is only helpful if I'm in the flow. If I'm trying to figure something out (i.e. in the creative part of work) it only distracts, but for the parts that are more mechanical, music is a great catalyst.
How do you get ever thinner phones without the tooling designed to dismantle it?

It's no different in other industries. Small and compact requires special tools. You (and I) being willing to compromise on size to have better ability to repair the device doesn't represent the market at all.

These complex engineered systems are going to continue to trend towards costly tools for repair.

In a similar way, ICs are also impossible to repair compared to decades ago when you could lift out a faulty memory chip and replace it.

It's far more important for companies like apple to accept 3rd party replacements and provide access to parts than worry about the speciality tools required unless they're there to be difficult. It certainly doesn't appear to be the case here.

A repair shop would buy these tools, because otherwise they risk damaging the ($1k) phone trying to save a few bucks.

Phones are going to be too complex for reliable home repair. I also don't repair my compressor in the AC, nor do I repair the wingdings in my vacuum cleaner. I just replace the part.

I think the compromise here is fine, they're not plastic welded, they're sealed with adhesive.
> The article acknowledges this somewhat, but it’s an example of another confidence fallacy: The idea that nobody knows what they’re talking about.

It was the opposite for me realization for . When I was young I was assuming if somebody was saying something, they were likely knowing what they were talking about.

After a bit of a ride in life, I know now that people that does do exist, but they are a rare bread, and usually about some very specific topic.

Competent people are the exception, not the rule, degraded mode is the default for humanity, and we are pretty good at going with it. At the beginning I though: what they are doing must be complicated, since it takes so much time and effort, or since there is so much debate about it. One day, you have to do it yourself, or you are behind the curtain, and you realize in 2 years anybody seriously working at it would be better that those life timers.

But still, because of the social pressure, playing pretend is the status quo for most.

Not just about jobs, not just about science, but about pretty basic things in life as well.

In fact, we are constructing a lot of our society around myths that are emerging because of this collecting behavior. It's quite fascinating to watch unfold, but it's such a waste of potential.
Fragmentation of must-watch content across many streaming services will drive a lot of people back to torrenting.

Netflix was beloved because it was convenient, meaning everything you wanted was in one place. Now the things you want are spread out across many services.

By comparison a good tracker that has everything you want is more convenient vs searching a half dozen services.
What is the advantage of SolveSpace over FreeCAD for 3D parts? I tried it once before and it seems substantially less feature-complete than FreeCAD.

And FreeCAD already has constraint solving in sketches. The tweet you've linked is about constraint solving in a non-default workbench (LinkStage3) that allows you to define constraints between separate parts when bringing them into a single assembly.
You can actually interact with some crypto projects over SMS, and at the moment there are countries where the majority of txs are SMS mobile credit swaps. The issue is these don’t offer things like account histories, you can’t access financial products like loans (i.e micro loans) and remittance payments are hard to do from abroad in this way.

But actually smart phones and internet access is surprisingly high in sub Saharan africa where they primarily still use SMS trading.

And yes, crypto is starting to catch on out there as an alternative.
In China nuclear's progress is in fact quite slow: 2 to 6 new reactors/year. Nuclear now produces 6% of the electricity, and the plan is to reach 7.7% by 2035 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China#1964%E2...

Electricity generation by renewables: 27.3% in 2020, growing at an astounding pace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China
>poaching series with an existing fan base

That only really works if you respect the original source material, which seems to be a problem for the "creatives".
The argument here is that a country that keeps talking about green energy, ecology and renewables for decades is now using much less ecological methods of power generation than nuclear, and they keep badmouthing nuclear too.
Could you list a few of these promising ideas that were killed by this process? I’m admittedly not following closely, but most of what I’ve glanced at seemed like “would only get funded as a by-product of defi/crypto craze”.
There’s no pressure whatsoever if you get a good one, e.g. Alaskan Bear. Why not try it out once before jumping to conclusions. It’s super cheap.
When I was on one of my ketamine trips I realized music is one of the purest forms of communication as the vibrations reach beyond our physical manifestation.
To add to that, Rosatom was even set to build a new nuclear power plant in Finland [0]. Supposedly, because the french built one is taking too long to be build.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanhikivi_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
While the analogy is correct, a key difference is that startups are illiquid by definition. Founders can't just cash out and are thus incentivized by build something of value. With protocols, there is no incentive to build something of value. Instead, the incentive is to building something that looks valuable on the surface to generate liquidity and cash out at the best point.
That's very poignant, thanks for sharing! I also feel that, in many cases, music helps catalyze my emotions. Positive or negative.
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> no one in this thread is promising utopia. i am merely pushing back against assertions of bitcoin being "most equitable".

Fairly launched proof of work systems are a great deal more equitable than PoS premined ICO coins. This is just a fact.

> a publicly accessible ico is just as equitable as someone mining btc with their cpu on low difficulty.

No, absolutely not. Obviously someone has to get the ICO money. How on earth is that “just as equitable” as anyone in the world being able to use any old Windows computer to mine coins on demand. With proof of work, money isn’t being transferred from end users to developers, or their many Swiss foundations.
Yep, Berlin’s snowless and gloomy winters are messing me up really badly.
Like DateTime. We are stuck with it.
Subjective theory of value + Speculation + Unregulated markets = Ponzi schemes
Indebted, indeed... If you really think Kazakhstan can disobey to Russia then let's agree on not living on the same planet.
Does anyone know how to go to a specific implementation of a message for an object?

For example can I take "#(1 2 3) min." and go directly to the definition of min? It seems I can only look at _all_ implementations, not just the implementation for that object
here an idea:

take a screenshot of the website and send it back as a compressed base64 text or what ever will produce smallest result

then decode that image from the text on your phone
Why is it safer? Isn't USDC issued by some entity, which promises to convert USDC back into USD?
It is absolutely incredible that YouTube/Google still operates in Russia.
I think .net 3.1-6 has settled enough now that the confusion is more or less gone.
Apple would like you to have them / their contractors repair your device, or better yet buy a new one.

Everything about this program signals that Apple is grudgingly doing this. It's designed to scare people away from doing the repairs themselves.
Indeed, "vehicle-to-grid" has a huge potential: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-grid
I used to subscribe to Sky Sports. It had everything I was really interested as well as lots that I never watched.
Then the market fragmented and rights to certain sports were distributed among three broadcasters. Suddenly I could no longer watch many of the games I was interested in, I'd have needed three subscriptions instead of one. The fact that Sky didn't reduce their price didn't help. I ended up dropping Sky and taking out a subscription with an overseas service that had all the games and I could watch via a vpn. Then they tightened that up and the vpn method no longer worked.
Now I just pirate the games I want to see.
It feels like the same thing is happening to Netflix with Disney, Hulu, Amazon etc.
Didn’t work with me, but then again, I listen to way too much fusion.
People want good stories told to a satisfying conclusion. Both cancellation and dragging on with no end in mind fail at this simple unsurprising wish.

S2 of Russian Doll also fails because S1 felt like a mini-series that nailed it's landing. It was one of the few series Netflix had with some artistic integrity and they bust it open again for a "not as good" attempt to milk it.
Oh sorry, I did forget two important caveats: the king moves normally and you can only move normally onto the back rank.
this doesn't make much sense. It would mean people near the equator sleep worse or that someone used to the North moving to California will experience worse sleep. Sounds like p-hacking random study.
All blockchains require social coordination. How do you think Bitcoin operates? A protocol is developed and some facet of society decides to build a client to support that. Somebody adds a new BIP and the network of users may decide to coordinate in order to upgraded the protocol (soft or hard fork).
As long as we're talking about bodily autonomy, biometric surveillance and hypocrisy I'd like to quote Robert Scaer.

"Fetuses confronted with an amniocentesis needle invading the uterus exhibit defensive motor behavior. Intrauterine needling of the fetus causes full blown stress-related increase in plasma cortisol and B-endorphin levels, with modulation, of the stress response slower than the adult. Fetuses can also learn to adapt their behavior to control the environment. When presented with a sequence of different voices through headphones, an infant will learn to access his mother's voice through regulating the frequency of sucking on a nipple. The evidence for learning by the unborn fetus in utero, by the premature infant in the pediatric intensive care unit, and by the normal full-term newborn is overwhelming. They learn through implicit conditional memory.

The assumption that infants in all stages of development do not experience pain, do not register arousal with threat, and do not process a response to traumatic stress is clearly outdated and invalid."

Even a cursory familiarity with the positions of those in opposition to abortion would yield the delightful semantic response of "not your body" when presented with the equally semantic argument of "my body my choice".
Regulations aren't some random worthless bullshit imposed by bureaucrats. They are the consequence of nuclear accidents. Dreaming of a world without regulations in the nuclear sector is just as stupid as a world without regulations in the airline industry. It just won't happen and pretending that there some kind of environmentalist plot behind the regulations won't make these regulations less necessary.

There is no way you can recover the investment costs of a modern nuclear plan in two years. It takes a very long time to recover the money (decades), and this is the main reason why investors are just not interested in nuclear plants. They have to lend money long term, and in that time lots of things can happen - from renewable technology being discovered, to changes in prices of nuclear fuel and geopolitics. You essentially can't predict the profit of a nuclear plant in the far future, and that means you can't predict how fast the investment is going to get repaid. It's just not an attractive investment, which is why some modern nuclear plants can't go ahead without some kind of government support.