skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahh yes, the infamous Facebook failure. Anyone can write a bad app. That's not necessarily a technology failure. But it's easier to blame the tech than to admit they did something badly.

Everyone wants web apps to help sell hardware, right up until your app store grows into a money maker. Then the incentives are different.

Regardless, today's mobile systems are much better, web browsers are much better. It is much easier to write a web app that is functionally identical to native than it used to be.

Modern reality. Conversation rates for PWAs are higher than mobile apps because there is less friction in the installation process. Load times are often lower, which can be an overall superior experience. If I'm a small shop, trying to get on someone's mobile device, these items matter a lot. Also development costs are much lower when you can share code for your mobile app and your website.

The value add of being in the mobile stores is pretty minimal. Discovery is poor, search is poor, then there is constant churn in policies, submission process, APIs, development environments/languages, fees, etc. In contrast to this, the browsers hold very very high backwards compatibility. Churn will be in the support libraries or framework you adopt and not fundamental to the platform.
> This falls down when people start self promoting their stuff.

Pinterest manages it just fine. And Reddit crossposting hints at the fix: sever content from specific subreddits and instead have content be tagged with relevant subreddits and attributes. Something being paid-content would just be another tag that could be optionally filtered.
The idea of MMT is that money creation is mainly caused by commercial banks willing to lend (due to market considerations), not by central banks issuing reserves.

Even some central banks openly take this point of view, these days:

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
Now scale that up to a number which actually makes any difference and your SUV argument falls appart.

And yes it's totally valid as well to not allow it at all if only a handful of other people can benefit from it.

We are the people and I don't care if a rich person wants to do that. My airspace is more important than that one rich person.
Well I guess you have that option with others that came after it. But to me what stands with Bitcoin is it can't be manipulated by inflation and its ledger cannot be tampered with that makes it technically superior to anything before it.
security by obscurity, that worked.
Part of why I like React (especially with Typescript) is basically that I like JSX/TSX as a templating language. I much prefer working in a full language (with JSX as relatively light syntactic sugar on top) that can leverage existing tooling and typechecking, instead of a de novo template language with its own syntax for control flow constructs jammed in, that doesn't usually have great editor support or typechecking for integrating with the rest of the server-side code.

Of course, using React has all the issues of SPAs, and trying to use something like Next seems somewhat fiddly due to keeping client-side and server-side state in sync and managing hydration. I'm entirely in favor of a framework that allows writing a server-rendered app with a decent templating language (and ideally a good path for writing client-side interactivity if I need it); it looks like Fresh might do that. I'd love to hear about other frameworks (JS/TS or otherwise, though I definitely prefer statically-typed languages) that match up with what I want, though.
Indeed. The same decline in pension funds occurred in the 2007 crash and other crashes. Unfortunately that’s often the reality when people manage other’s people’s money. The gains result in large bonusses for the money managers and the losses result in large losses for the investors. The incentives are wrong.
Some of it may simply be volume. They make 250 of these sets a year, @$500 that's a gross of just $125k. The actual revenue for the factory must be much lower. It's hard to imagine maintaining a reliable supply at a lower cost.
For now you can just host GitHub Actions locally. https://github.com/nektos/act
> What do you think is going to be the overhead of the conversion rate to electricity, electricity transportation ?

Well, for example transformers are ~98% efficient, AC lines lose around 7% per 1000 km. So with three transformers between you and the power plant and a ~300 km distance, you lose around 8% between the power plant and you.

> Because if it is another 50% you lost all interest (but you built a plant and a float of cars and batteries in the meantime).

No, not really. You're still not powering your cars purely from fossil fuels, so even 50% of losses would still be a win when it comes to minimizing fossil fuel emissions caused by road transportation. You'd only have to burn enough fossil fuels to cover whatever the non-fossil-fuel generators wouldn't be able to provide at any given time. But as I pointed out above, you almost certainly won't get 50% of losses.

> Except I live in France and we are starting to have electricity cuts because we can't maintain our nuclear plants properly. So we are in a little bit more trouble than you might think.

Nah, not really. France is in a great position to generate fairly substantial amounts of electricity from renewables with complementing the rest from nuclear power. Not to mention that I'd expect the EPR design to finally be sorted out after the initial units built. It's not like you'll need it tomorrow -- the transition to BEVs will take a considerable time. Even if sales of ICE cars actually stop in 2035, ICE vehicles won't disappear overnight. They'll only be gradually replaced for a decade or so.
They didn’t. Parentheses both group and capture, while square brackets just group without capturing.

https://docs.raku.org/language/regexes#Grouping_and_capturin...
Proof of stake.
Being overcollateralized doesn't save you if the value of the collateral tanks beyond your capacity to rapidly unload.

edit: Tron itself bragged about their overcollateralization. https://medium.com/@usddio/usdd-upgrades-into-the-first-over...

> “Spearheading the Stablecoin 3.0 era, the upgraded, over-collateralized USDD will add more diversified features to underpin its stability,” said H.E. Justin Sun, Founder of TRON. “The $10 billion reserves pledged by the TDR will enable USDD to become the most reliable decentralized stablecoin with the highest collateral ratio in blockchain history. Currently, the 200%+ collateral ratio offers USDD a very strong safety net.”
Where can you redeem tether for $1? If the answer is “nowhere” it’s a depeg by definition.

If you can trivially redeem tether for $1 why is it trading for less than that?

Money market funds are considered to have broken the peg the minute you can’t get a dollar for dollar out of them, why are we redefining the term for crypto?
GeminiUSD is approved by US regulators:

> Gemini and the GUSD benefit from the direct supervision and regulatory oversight of the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). Gemini began issuing Gemini Dollars on September 9, 2018, making the GUSD among the first regulated stablecoins in the world.

https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/gusd-stablecoin-gemini-do...

> Each GUSD corresponds to a U.S. dollar held by Gemini in accounts at U.S. FDIC-insured bank accounts and money market funds holding short-term U.S. treasury bonds and maintained at a custodian. The cash portion of these GUSD reserves may be eligible for FDIC “pass through” insurance for Gemini customers, in the event of the failure of a bank holding the U.S. dollar deposit portion of the GUSD reserves.

https://www.gemini.com/dollar
Population is stabilizing and decreasing in US and many other developed countries. Large populations of older people like Boomers in the US are dying. Whose going to buy all these new, smaller, more expensive homes when there are plenty of existing homes at reduced prices in the market? Long term trends are unfavorable for growth in housing.
That's a very cynical perspective that seems to encourage self isolation and an emotionally barren life. Not sure if that's wise.
Crypto lending firm Celsius pauses withdrawals and transfers
Please don't degrade the quality of hack news in the way you are.
I don't think it's a lie. It's very, very useful. It did not survive as long as it did without providing value. It killed its competition stone dead for a reason.

I just think we underestimate the coupling it introduces. Doesn't mean the solution is to throw it all out. I'm not even sure there is "a solution". Just something to keep in mind.
Regardless of whether this guy is right or wrong, this brings up an interesting angle: we know that we won't be able to (we are not able to) distinguish self-conscious and non-self-conscious entities with a 100% accuracy. Both because the division between the two categories is not a strict one (i.e. there aren't two disjunct sets but a spectrum) and because we can't 100% trust our measurement.

Which means that we should rather talk about two distinct tests/criteria. It's either "we can be (reasonably) sure it's unconscious" or "we can be reasonably sure it's conscious". What I expect to be happening (and what maybe happening here) is that people who argue do so along different criteria. The guy who says it's self aware probably does along the first one (it seems self aware so he can't exclude that it isn't) and google along the second one (it can't prove it is, e.g. because they have a simpler explanation: it could easily just generate whatever it picked up from scifi novels).

BTW, if we talk about the fair handling of a future AI, we might want to think about it's capacity of being able to suffer. It may acquire it sooner than looking generally intelligent.

We can see a similar pattern around animal rights. We're pretty certain that apes can suffer (even from their emotions, I think) and we're pretty certain that that e.g. primitive worms can't. However, it seems that we can't rule out that crustaceans can also suffer, so the legislation is changed wrt how they should be handled/prepared.
BTC price still over 24,000. Far from the bottom.
It's common to hear "handmade is higher quality", but is it always true?
Automation with solid QA can be more reliable than humans, but a fraction of the cost.

Mass production has a bad rap, but it's an art too, and can be done correctly.
"Growth" isn't always helpful.

See: LA
I disagree this is the bottom. It may hover at 20k a bit but I think it's going down to 10k or so.
A VPS is much cheaper and the user is not reqired to trust a VPN-like service not to snoop traffic.

But it still does not solve the problem of adding a lot of latency.
Gemini lies.

https://www.gemini.com/dollar

The page: "Review the Gemini dollar reserve-funds independent accountant audit reports..."

The "audit": "Our examination was conducted in accordance with ATTESTATION standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants."

Attestations are not audits; they are different in very important ways. "I have $1,000 in the bank" is an attestation. "I have $1,000 in the bank, but I owe $2,000 in mortgage payments tomorrow" is an audit.

Tether got caught pulling this trick; they'd get Bitfinex to transfer money into their accounts the day before an attestation, and move it out the day after.

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-...

> However, the very next day, on November 2, 2018, Tether began to transfer funds out of its account, ultimately moving hundreds of millions of dollars from Tether’s bank accounts to Bitfinex’s accounts. And so, as of November 2, 2018 — one day after their latest ‘verification’ — tethers were again no longer backed one-to-one by U.S. dollars in a Tether bank account.
So we're shutting down all ATMs because one guy had a ten-dollar bill stuck in the slot?
No, DAI is fully collateralized. It's not without risks but they're completely auditable, all DAI is fully backed with responsible thresholds for liquidation. DAI bears more resemblance to eurodollars (debt based instruments that trade like cash overseas) than to backed stable coins. Except again DAI is fully transparent, and built on automated, immutable, audited, on-chain parameters:

https://daistats.com/
What’s the situation these days with GUSD? I have single-digit thousands in an interest account (not defi) in that currency and it seems to be holding steady. Any reason I should be concerned, aside from the custodian company going belly up?
First thought is it looks like a gerrymandering puzzle
Unless you want to live life in web3..5..n metaverse, you'll have to interact at some point with the real world, which is governed and regulated.
>USD value by destabilizing poor countries and exploiting them for their crude oil

The US is a net exporter of oil and has been for years now.
Show HN: Visualizing the math that powers 3D character animation
Hi everyone! I'm the author of this project. I wrote it because I think that the math that makes characters move in games and movies is incredibly beautiful, and I wanted to give others a glimpse into it.

It's crazy to think that quaternions, an abstract mathematical tool discovered by William Rowan Hamilton in 1843, would be so perfectly suited to solve hard problems in the world of 3D character animation more than a hundred years later. The story of how he discovered quaternions is also beautiful. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:

"Hamilton was looking for ways of extending complex numbers (which can be viewed as points on a 2-dimensional Argand diagram) to higher spatial dimensions. In working with four dimensions, rather than three, he created quaternion algebra. According to Hamilton, on 16 October he was out walking along the Royal Canal in Dublin with his wife when the solution in the form of the equation

i2 = j2 = k2 = ijk = −1

occurred to him; Hamilton then carved this equation using his penknife into the side of the nearby Broom Bridge (which Hamilton called Brougham Bridge)."

There's a plaque that commemorates that moment on Broom Bridge now.

If you have any questions about this project, I would love to answer them, but I recommend reading the README first, which should explain everything:

https://github.com/diegomacario/Animation-Magic/blob/main/RE...

Thank you!
It amazes me that HN consistently falls for fear mongering and conspiracies when it comes to anything finance related. Quite remarkable for a forum full of tech savvy people. That site OP linked to doesn't even load currently. Apparently their servers got fried. Looks like today, someone's not making bank... man.

Edit: Apparently it can do Chrome but has issues with Firefox.
The USoA by the same metric is also struggling suppressing drug cartels in Mexico, even though they have a war on drugs ongoing and it is a neighbouring country. Let's not get started about the USoAs capabilities of protecting their border.
I love how they call the 180W variant "Low Power"
I understand that sleep is a variable worth studying and improving and that somebody on the edge of the bubble might be pushed over that edge if they also had to simultaneously deal with a lack of good sleep.

But why are so many people getting to that edge? People have been dealing with not enough sleep for a very long time and we didn't see some current day problems in the past. To me, this seems to show that a lack of sleep is probably not anywhere close to the biggest variable when it comes to the major mental health challenges that the current generation faces.

Theory. Sleep might be emphasized here by officialdom because it's one of the few additional variables that's politically correct enough to start to discuss and tackle. They can try and tackle sleep because no school administrator/media entity/politician is going to get cancelled (yet) for trying to ensure that the students get enough sleep.
https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insight...
People want to buy them, but can they afford them?
I have a question on this. If the redemption fee is 0.1%, then that makes a USDT worth $0.999. Why is it assumed that a tether should be worth $1.00 and not $0.999?
I hope this is not a revealing comment on who you are, because I read that as "you should hope to speculate on some asset to make money off of other people simply because they were wrong"

I'd much rather see a stabilized crypto that could act as an amazing tool for people in poor countries to lift themselves out of poverty than I would see it be a vehicle to take me from top 1% wealth in the world to a higher tier of top 1% wealth in the world.
I understand this is for self-identifying women. I've several friends who have had success. I wonder what the conditions might need to be for platonic male friendships to form, it seems to be harder. Judging from my position as a woman who easily makes acquaintances that occasionally become friendships, and my partner who is very amicable to strangers but doesn't care to make new friends.
Correct but it’s even more (1) is more like using the client side code on the server AND the client at the same time, significantly reducing duplication of effort and offering the best of both worlds

So you have one view library (and routing/models etc) and the innovation is that a) it very intelligently only delivers the bare minimum JS of what’s needed to make a fully interactive front end app (which is why you needed React/Vue in the first place due to limitations of
pure server side code) plus b) using the same patterns and awesome libraries everywhere on your site, not just specific interactive components but blog, about pages, admin panels, etc.

So you’re not doing python jinja or Ruby ERB templates/helpers/routes/etc on the server mixed with tons of duplication with React/Vue on the client.
I would say definitely look at the “Gilded Age” of banking in the US. History may not repeat but it sure rhymes.

https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/banking-panics-...
foone has ADHD, and can't complete a blog post because of that. Asking them why they don't just write a blog is like asking a blind person why they don't just read normal text instead of braille, they literally can't.
I met a mechanic working on a jet engine pulled from a fighter in the repair facility of a US aircraft carrier (his biceps were as thick as my legs); I asked him why he was wearing a Marine pattern camouflage uniform. He explained that he was a Marine just on loan to the Navy because they needed an additional jet mechanic on the ship.

He told me that unlike the Navy sailors he had his gear bag with him and was ready to be dropped ashore to engage in hostilities at a moments notice.
I wonder how they manage that? It's straightforward to do if a page fault represents an error that halts the execution of a thread but not if you need to be able to keep going after the OS reads in the data from the hard drive. That is, if you speculatively load values that aren't going to be used in a loop then the fact that you had poisoned values sitting around in some registers doesn't matter. But if that data "should" have been there but wasn't and you store or branch based on it then you've got to roll back to the load, page in the data, then continue from the checkpoint. And if you're able to do all of that why not just go full out of order?
Unless the in laws were serious chess players, I'd be afraid to ask for a chess set as a gift. The chances would be too high that they would get some theme or novelty set that might be great as a decorative object but is not so good for playing, especially if you want to play with other people.

So if you are into say WW2 history, you might end up with something like this [1]. Religious? Maybe you get this [2]. Once mentioned you read an interesting article about Frank Lloyd Wright? They might remember and get you this [3]. Like marijuana? They might think this is the perfect set for you [4].

What I'd want is a set that if I took it to tournament I could choose to use it when I'm playing Black and White would have to accept it. (Note for non-US players. Typical tournaments in the US do not provide equipment. The players are supposed to bring sets and clocks. If both players offer equipment for a game, Black gets to choose which is used unless Black's choice is not considered standard [5] and White's is in which case White's is used).

[1] https://www.chessusa.com/product/2S-009.html

[2] https://www.chessusa.com/product/2Z-W02.html

[3] https://www.chessusa.com/product/2Y-030.html

[4] https://www.chessusa.com/product/2Y-420.html

[5] Standard is pieces of plastic or wood or something with a similar appearance. King height 8.65 to 11.54 cm. The cross or other finial no more than 20% of the King height. King base 40-50% of King height. Other pieces proportionate in height and form. All pieces well balanced for stability and comfortable moving. Staunton design, with minor variations allowed. Color should be the colors of naturally light and dark wood or approximations of those, or simply black and white. Board must be opaque and made from something smooth that allows easy movement of pieces. Colors should offer high contrast between the dark and light squares. Red and black checkerboards are explicitly called out in the rules as nonstandard. Square sides should be approximately 5 to 6.4 cm. Divide the diameter of the King's base by 0.78 to get the ideal square size. The square should not be smaller than that, but it is OK if it is up to 4 mm larger.
Goes to reason that you’d need some hydration on an island.
If someone wrote that in an interview I'd be keen to get them to explain to me exactly how it works... my C++ being a bit rusty (I mean old).
I love these old looking websites.
I think they said the factory makes other kinds of sets too. They said they can make 200-250 of the lesser kings a day but only like 30 of the championship ones.
> due to a stuck transaction causing a backlog

How convenient for a transaction to get stuck on such a bad day for crypto prices.
Yep agree, countryside and private spaces will most likely be where ic cars live.
Also Home Assistant [0] with SlimmeLezer [1, or is this a Dutch thing?] and Shelly Plug S [2]? :)

All that stuff gives one great insights into what a kWh is (how much energy), where you use the most energy etc. I love it.

[0]: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2021/08/04/home-energy-ma...

[1]: https://www.zuidwijk.com/product/slimmelezer/

[2]: https://shelly.cloud/products/shelly-plug-s-smart-home-autom...
You can have a large register file and mask the ones that are not architectural into speculative execution flows.
Was this intended on negating my comment about crude oil being used to establish USDs relative stability? Because I don't think this fact does anything of the sort, although it's still informative and interesting, I'm just not sure I understand the point you might be trying to make in this context.
For a server CPU it's kind of low power.
I’m in the other camp. The sooner we get rid of the assholes revving their engines the better.
yay for listicils! Didn't Hackernews require you to remove that from the title?
The utility of the internet was obvious in its first year.

Bitcoin is in year 14, and emits enough pollution to be a top 20 nation.

How many years will you wait?
I'm sure you'll accept correction between "he" and "she", so what you're actually saying here is that you're opposed to being corrected to "they".
This sounds like yet another company aiming to take advantage of the everything bubble, where in a company can make a claim without any shipping product, without any proven ROI, and still get a multi-billion dollar valuation. The team becomes exceedingly rich, and then they either get bought or go bankrupt (though still individually wealthy). A claim this large needs very substantial proof, and there’s nothing to show that this is more than an overzealous teenager mouthing off about something he/she/ze doesn’t understand.