skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not gp, but it seems clear to me that that low interest rates are bad for new home buyers, and only good for people holding mortgages as they drop.

That might be what you and gp both mean.
I think the issue at play with UST is that they juiced the returns with their own money to attract holders hoping that due to market cap alone their stable coin would eventually gain adoption on the exchanges and be embraced by traders.

The reality is that these juiced returns were not sustainable and in the end made it even harder for them to defend the peg of their poorly designed pegging mechanism.

You can't compare the returns in the crypto space to the banking sector. At the moment leverage on an exchange (Binance) costs 7.3% PA at the moment. The exchange also takes a fixed percentage of your trade as a fee. This is why locking up stable coins on Binance nets you more interest than the average savings account. A bank can't or won't lend you money against crypto.

Another scenario is someone who holds say Bitcoin. They have a decent income and want to buy a new car. If they think Bitcoin will appreciate in value instead of selling Bitcoin to buy a new car (which will trigger a capital gains taxable event) they can just borrow against their Bitcoin. The cash or stablecoin for the loan has to come from somewhere. Like I said above banks won't accept Bitcoin for a secured loan.
Who killed my pod – Whodunit?
on a tangent, our family got the original 2G in 2008. then another 3GS on 2010 i think. later, i got a 3GS of my own in 2014~.

i still cannot get over the fact that i "miss" the typing on that form factor. i simply cannot explain it. the keyboard on that thing right till 3GS was a beauty and i have written many thousands of words worth of tomes and blogs and reports over the years.

since then i moved over to android because idevices got expensive and i still dont feel comfortable typing on a phone even today. my laptop has helped but i could type "with confidence" on that phone but now, my moto G30 current phone just doesn't cut it
> There is no reasonable argument to make for a Chromium only web from anyone without vested interests.

It could be just apathy towards choice. I've observed this behavior among GNOME advocates as well. Some of them would rather see GNOME as the only de facto choice for a desktop environment on Linux and considering how it's installed by default on most major distributions, those words and their effect aren't far fetched.
Yep, XMLHttpRequest was literally the only thing to come out of years of Microsoft tenure. Fun fact: it was added so that they could make the Outlook web interface.

Edit: well, that and ActiveX, but that's not a good thing...
All this talk about Mozilla's political views, what about the political views of the Google leadership? Why do they get a free pass? I think blaming the politics is a just-so story. I saw everyone adopt Chrome over the years since it came out, and it had nothing to do with the leadership of the Mozilla foundation, or Google for that matter.

What happened is much simpler: Chrome worked better than Firefox, most of the tech people switched to recommending Chrome, and it was bundled with a lot of software and advertised on the Google homepage. And nobody ever switched back, and they started justifying why in various ways.
I worked several weeks with OBS. I also evaluated a lot of different software. E.g. Powerpoint offers also live video, but it allows only to show your webcam in one corner next to your presentation without any customization. A lot of other software on the market wants you to upload your video to some cloud first, before you can do anything.

I'm sorry to say that, but Apple Keynote hit the sweet spot between customizability, usability and price ( it's free on Apple ) for my purposes. If that sounds like flame bait for you, then be it. Others might be thankful for a different point of view.
I think you should at least include a Youtube video, so anyone who doesn’t have an Android device (and don’t want to download a whole app to see a tech demo) can look at it.
> 29 by my count.

There's 5 "A" roads. Not sure how you got to 29 but my guess is there's going to be a lot of single-track lanes in that number. Hard to imagine huge trucks of counterfeit goods running up and down the B6318.

> No roads at all connect England with France, but Brexit still caused a lot of disruption.

The UK government said all these problems were caused by the intransigence of the EU so that need not be a problem this time.
> Also why do people invent a new word 'transpile'

Not this ignorant myth again - it isn’t a new word, been in use since mid 60s. A transpiler is a form of compiler from high-level language to high-level language. A compiler didn't even originally translate, but just link.

The same way ‘navy’ is a kind of blue but we can say navy and add a little more specific information. Nobody rails against navy saying ‘but it’s just a shade of blue!’
That summarises my understanding.
But this article has nothing to do with the USA. We’re here discussing Qatar, and invoking America adds nothing to the conversation. This is the problem with whataboutism: it is the attempt to shut down the discussion of a grievance, by pointing out a grievance done elsewhere.
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Too bad it's only OpenGL ES 2, I need 3.

Do they have a roadmap for upgrades?
You don't understand 'readability' the same as the language creators.
More text to read doesn't necessarily make a file or function less readable. Quite the opposite usually.
Indirectly they did. Let's consider this hypothetical case: Russia as fully established democracy with all individual freemdoms anyone can think of. Then Russia invades Ukraine, e.g. to fight corruption there, or for the rights of minorities.
In that case, would Ukrain fight back the same they do in reality? Large part of their motivation is not to end up in the non-free Russian system. But what if the agressor does not intend to remove freedom? Without significant resistance, the west would not have had time to react to support. Media would not help people to form an oppinion that support is needed. It would be over quickly, soon forgotten like Crimea, and Russia not kicked out if swift.

Therefore, Russia got kicked out of swift due to lack of democracy, human rights etc. Of corse they needed to start a war, too, but neither war nor lack of freedoms alone would not have been sufficient.
> Helping people get a good night's sleep -- without drugs -- would likely help, if only to stave it off in those at risk.

Or reverse causation.
To put it in Igor's words, it is like "somebody baked a cake following a recipe, but without ever having tasted or seen a real cake".

The crypto design is brittle, but the practical attacks are somewhat limited. The reason why it's so disparaged by cryptographers it because it ignores several decades of cryptographic advances -- the whole saga of attacks on SSL / TLS<=1.2 taught us that key separation and clear protocol composition boundaries are important, but Telegram fails disastrously at these.
Security proofs should be made before a protocol is used, not as an afterthought.

The real reason why I would not recommend Telegram is that chats (by default) and group chats (by necessity) are not encrypted. Telegram's servers will be eventually breached by someone. A malicious actor will be hired as a software engineer, or as an intern. When this happens, all you ever wrote in Telegram will be a plaintext at their disposal -- unacceptable in 2022, and post-Snowden.
And for all your bro-dieters out there eating a "paleo" diet, realize that our Paleolithic friends ate mostly plants. The Hadza tribe is one of our last living examples and their gut biome is amazing.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/08/24/5456315...

https://www.wired.com/2014/04/hadza-hunter-gatherer-gut-micr...
Let's get a couple things straight.

I don't see anyone arguing that transsexual women should be allowed to compete with women, so I am not sure who are you directing your comment at.

Next, I would say it's undisputed that even if someone has gone through body development as male, after prolonged period of lacking testosterone, their advantages diminish and they are not really competitive with males (it seems like you might be disputing this, but not in so many words).

If we agree on the above, the question is simple: do we want to include them in sporting competitions, and if so, how would we do that?

I think we all agree on including them, and for the same reasons we've got a gender split in sports at all (to allow women to win and thus encourage them to play sports), an obvious way is to introduce another (or few) categories. It's easy to say what shouldn't happen (they should not compete against women), but the question is what should happen without outright banning some athletes or putting them in a losing proposition against men.

Btw, your premise about Special Olympics is also untrue. If you get brain impaired at a later date (or become a paraplegic), you will be admitted to competition. I am sure there are strict rules to reduce cheating.

Again, the goal should at all times be to support anyone and everyone to compete in sports, while maintaining fairness to all participants. That's sometimes not clear cut or simple, or maybe not economical, but those should be the goals we strive for.
Even your boss wants to quit
Early 2021 numbers suggest 6500 had died by then.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/r...
wow, sorta unbelievable replies here. You realize this will effectively make the act of loitering for sex acts legal?

And this is happening while our cities are being ravaged by a major drug epidemic.

This will most likely breed more sex workers which no one needs at a time when most stores have help wanted signs.
Sex workers themselves are often victims of violent crime so perhaps more sex workers on the streets means more violent crimes committed against them?

Really we need solutions that allow sex workers to get off the streets more. Currently it's illegal for them to organise and operate in ways that would really make them safe.
Tracking Ethereum blockchain attackers: Measuring sandwich attacks
Every interaction with everyone has the potential for death. Police officers are not any more dangerous than many other things that are not widely reviled.
State Machines in Ruby: An Introduction
All that you say may be true, but if that stops the vast majority of tech community from using FF and installing it for their user support base, then we must be prepared for a Blink/Webkit only future, and maybe even Blink only in the worst case.

What will the tech community do if Google starts promoting a certain political direction, if they haven't already? Will they stop seeking employment at Google, or stop using/developing for Chromium in protest?

Sometimes the larger goals should outweigh the immediate disappointments.
'Generated'? What's the process for that?

I thought it was 'via diet', it's just that sunlight is necessary for the extraction/absorption?

Sort of like carbohydrate in a plant is 'generated via sun light' (photosynthesis) - but other inputs, carbon dioxide & water, are necessary too.
>My somewhat concern is that the wikipedia project has kind of put a flag in the ground to say that providing free access to wikipedia is no longer part of their mission if it's automated/bulk access.

I think this is more about paying for an SLA and support agreement which is less tenable as an open free-for-all
For what it's worth, there's Gemini. You can't really call it rich document though, as styling is left to the user consuming the content.
One night stands get a spotlight here but the crux of the issue is not the acts themselves; every society has its cultural norms and taboos. The main thing is how the society treats its rule-breakers, outliers, deviants, the people who don't fit. In the UK you're free to both practice and condemn premarital sex. In Quatar, the act could be punished by up to 100 lashes.
It’s not heavy, the iPhone 13 pro is heavy!
State of Open Source Security 2022
> It is a symptom of a body of web standards that has grown wild to the point of being all but unimplementable.

A body of web standards that they lobbied for and to be in the form that they are...
Do you need to take illegally acquired controlled substances when you have sex?
I think it's bizarre to conflate Apple's refusal to allow other webkits on iOS with the fact that Safari remains a viable alternative engine. They're far from heroes here. I think it's great they maintain a Chrome alternative kit that mostly works but let's not pretend they're saints or kid ourselves about the reasons for it. The only reason they disallow Chromium and Mozilla is they want their users locked into their environment and they want to leverage that substantial locked-in user base to dictate terms. It's only being one of the richest companies in history that gives them a seat at the table. If they're afraid of having to open the platform, that's because they're not keeping up.

It's not that they're one judgment away from that day. They know that. It's just that they want to get as much mileage as they can before they too abandon Safari and first allow, then switch to Chromium. That will happen in the next 5 years.

What might come of it all would be a reset where new branches form and new innovators get to introduce new proposals. Standards aren't a bad thing if they're open. If Safari dies then Google will be next in the line of fire for antitrust action anyway... things will fragment again. I'm personally pissed at the number of great technologies left as litter along the road, not least AS3, just to get to this shitty middle ground / cold browser war between two companies I hope die and one that won't help itself. Let the standards win and let's have a standard platform to innovate on top of.
I dunno if I'm a "speed" reader, or just a fast glosser.

Also, I am not quite sure if I really understood the text... or used my knowledge of the views of the "tech" community, and just "guessed" which of the three mcq options paul graham probably meant?

It could be I just bullshitted my way into correct answers...Honestly, after a night's sleep, I don't recall much of what was said in those articles, so how much did I actually retain?

That said, I do find it painful to watch any content on less than 2x speed, but that maybe because I'm probably on the spectrum.... Things get complicated.
You keep talking about the US, but as a former resident of Canada I know that’s the country’s favorite measuring stick. “We’re not as bad as the US so stop complaining” is the favorite ring of politicians.

Doesn’t do much for the people disabled from pain on a 3 year wait list for a hip transplant or my buddy’s cousin’s kid who doesn’t get access to the standard of care of CF.

It’s not solved in the least, every country struggles, so using the word “solved” is, as I said, naive.
On the contrary, sex workers would be a lot safer if they were able to turn to the police without fear of arrest. Decriminalizing their work makes them safer.
$0.02 per watt??? don't you confuse with the cost of kilowatt-hour of power? Cheapest installed solar is >$1 per watt, most of the time about $1.5-$2 per watt. Cheapest Chinese panels themselves are about $0.25 per watt and they make a tiny part of the overall setup costs.
Sailsconf 2022 kicks off today with Mike McNeil's Keynote
I was going to write the same. Around.co seems to have been able to monetize well and secure funding.

Well done OP, I wish you lots of success. I know from experience that as a solo dev this flat.social is an amazing outcome.
No, you keep paying the same or more.
> a system forcing all migrants to be sponsored and subsequently tied to an employer

So, like an H1B?
I mean just look at this thread; most people are already unloading their frustration on Qatar and the UAE. I don't agree with a lot of stuff that they do, I should say. But it's FIFA that let them do this. If fans are gonna let them do that then host countries are free to do what they want. Corruption is the problem
What's up with this? The title is editorialized as advertisement against a competing product and the content of the link is essentially advertisement too.

It was posted by the VP of Business Development of Tabnine. Is this really organically ending up on the front page or are some bot/vote rings in control?

@dang shouldn't the title at least be changed to "Announcing our Next-generation AI models"?
I agree but somehow doubt that "we wont arrest you" will translate into "we will listen to you when you get robbed at gun point."
The STL was mostly standardised in C++98, 1998. There were additions in C++03 and C++11, but nothing like removing this type of overload.

Long running systems were still using pre-standardisation libraries for string up to 2012 however, so you may well have come across such projects.
> moving as much of the standards implementation as possible into JS modules

Heh. Now you have two problems. One of them is JS, which was a mistake in the first place and now we can't get rid of it for similar reasons.
Money helps with reducing misery. But it helps little to improve happiness. When you can afford warm, dry and comfy shoes, that will take you out of damp misery. But comfy feet won't make you happy day in, day out.

People have subjective views of how they define progress too. For me, splitting the pie equally sounds like retrograde soviet nostalgia. I don't believe equally sharing the pie makes the world any better. Productive people (actually productive) should get bigger piece of the pie than slackers. On top of that, functioning market is important to find ideas that work. Otherwise it's straight to failure of central planning.
Well, which is actually faster? Also, try benchmarking while there is a lot of context switching goes on in background (I vaguely recall a story about how some non-optimal looking code actually fared better when the processor constantly kept flushing its caches/buffers but can't remember the exact details).
Even if Google was an absolute saint without a trillion-dollar ad business, there's still a problem of "bug-compatibility".

Without a second browser engine to test pages in, it's really hard to know what is a bug and what is intentional. Devs don't know all the specs by heart. They write whatever happens to work for them, but sometimes they accidentally depend on obscure edge cases in the implementation that were never meant to exist.

In the long term it's paralysing for the engine maintainers, because any change in implementation could be changing some subtle behavior that breaks some pages. W3C requires two independent implementations, so that they'll share intentional behaviors, but hopefully their bugs will differ.

The single-engine Web will be as fun to maintain as Windows: Windows 11 Explorer has a shiny new context menu with an option to reopen it as an older, uglier context menu, because Microsoft couldn't touch a line of code of the old context menu without breaking apps.
Comparing it with MS-IE is unfair. It was not Mozilla or Firefox, but Chrome and Android broke the hegemony of IE in many countries. Where I lived, bank or government sites were IE-Windows only until Chrome appeared. In countries like Korea it was a total shit show. I understand it is a shame that only 3 engines left and but please it is not even close to what MS did.
What a stupendously stupid idea. Street-prostitution (street-walking) is the most dangerous form of prostitution by far.

If you want to decriminalise sex work, then decriminalise sex work. In Australia (at least in Victoria) brothels are legal but street-walking certainly isn't. It is a magnet for all sorts of crime and just unsightly to have on the streets.
Reducing Android Build Times on Azure by 80% Using a Virtual Machine Scale Set
This strives to standardize the runtimes and standard library surface but not the runtime orchestration, networking or other aspects.
The results of Convex functions are cached, which means they only need to be recomputed when the data they rely on changes.

This is by no means a panacea, but it does result in different performance characteristics than one might expect.
If people would rather work street corners than Safeway, maybe we need to fix retail wages?
Great post, congrats!
Remember that story about how trains are constantly getting robbed in LA and the train tracks are littered with discarded packages?

It seems like the cops shouldn’t even have time to go around harassing prostitutes.

I mean, sure, don’t harass prostitutes. Ok. But how about enforcing some of the other laws?
But the websites aren't. If chrome is the only browser websites will target chrome. Do if you fork it and remove features that you find harmful you now have a useless lump of software.
I’m a little surprised why Chinese firms aren’t coming in and competing? Maybe they think web is not important for their future anymore?