skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would be interesting to watch the circulating supply - and whether they managed to shrink the market cap.

Currently at 69,613,437,846 USDT.https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/

It would be very suspicious if this number doesn't go down on their next update.
I would think Norway did better than Sweden. Very slightly higher on the left, way lower on the right. And culturally, I thought the nordics were more “reserved” than other westerners, which is a form of self-isolation?
If I had USDT, I would simply switch it to USDC for the moment.
Have a Star in Mind?
>that can discern human-appreciable "quality",

humans can't discern human-appreciable "quality" with any sort of reliability - evidence: every media corporation and critic that has ever existed.
If you happen to come up with a better analogy, I'm sure the GNU Net development team will appreciate your input: gnunet-developers@gnu.org

GNU Project is community-driven, after all.
Eye witnesses for crime detection and conviction become more important if the authenticity of video or audio evidence is under doubt due to deep fakes.
>What makes you think the Aptera is a death trap? It's made out of carbon fibre.

Said carbon fibre is not going to save you from a 80,000lb overloaded dump truck.
> The problem with podman at the moment (IMO) is version drift. RHEL/Fedora and friends get the latest and greatest (4), Debian/Ubuntu are stuck on 3.x.

Podman has no control on this. Each Linux distribution deals with packaging in its own way. If this packaging is not to your taste, podman can easily be installed from alternatives sources: unofficial deb packages, or plain binaries.

BTW, podman v4 is in debian/experimental. I don't know why it didn't land into unstable yet.

> This isn't a problem with Docker, which has tight control over what is deployed.

AFAIK, Docker (now Moby) has no control over what is packaged in Debian/Ubuntu (unless the Debian maintainer works for Moby?). If you install Docker from the official Debian repositories, the "docker" package is an alias for "docker.io", which is a version 20.10.19 in debian/unstable. The latest 20.10.21 is not yet packaged by Debian.
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Psychology is kind of a mess.

I rather quote from the jargon file (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/weaknesses.html):

"Many hackers have noticed that mainstream culture has shown a tendency to pathologize and medicalize normal variations in personality, especially those variations that make life more complicated for authority figures and conformists. Thus, hackers aware of the issue tend to be among those questioning whether ADD and AS actually exist; and if so whether they are really ‘diseases’ rather than extremes of a normal genetic variation like having freckles or being able to taste DPT. In either case, they have a sneaking tendency to wonder if these syndromes are over-diagnosed and over-treated. After all, people in authority will always be inconvenienced by schoolchildren or workers or citizens who are prickly, intelligent individualists — thus, any social system that depends on authority relationships will tend to helpfully ostracize and therapize and drug such ‘abnormal’ people until they are properly docile and stupid and ‘well-socialized’.

So hackers tend to believe they have good reason for skepticism about clinical explanations of the hacker personality."
This sounds like reinventing DNSSEC TLSA records, which browser vendors refuse to support.
> When the SIM PUK was reset successfully, a .dismiss() function was called by the PUK resetting component on the “security screen stack”, causing the device to dismiss the current one and show the security screen that was “under” it in the stack

Oh, the exceptional safety of object oriented programming!
No, I believe that it's 90. At least, that's what the class action lawsuit argued.
> I smell a fair hint of victim blaming here.

Why is that a bad thing? You should absolutely blame and hold the victim responsible and accountable for their part.
No it is not. If USDT has survived till now it is unlikely to fall.
jstarfish did not say that missionary work would benefit the target audience of the missionary, and you did nothing to disabuse what he did say.
Money market funds sometimes are priced above or below $1 due to market conditions. It’s rare but does happen.
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” - Thomas Watson

I bet if we use our imaginations, we’ll think of a lot of places were using voice to code could come in handy.

Personally, I’ve been waiting for it for a few decades.

The creator of TCL has RSI and has been using voice since the late 1990’s

https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/wrist.php

Thought we were really close 10 years ago when Tavis Rudd developed a system:

https://youtu.be/8SkdfdXWYaI

GitHub seems to be more high-level. It figures out the syntax and what you actually want to write.

This would help if you barely knew the language.

Time to learn Rust or Scala with a little help from machine learning.
Good reason to not disclose to Google.

Instead, you should sell the exploit on the exploit dealers sites. This is easily worth $300-500k

But not now. And you have the 'privilege' of being dicked around with people googling you.
Google Germany does not pay new grads 130k. Not even close.
If many people think and do that, it will do a bank run on USDT.

How would you feel on USDC with what you just saw on USDT
I believe the all time low of tether is 0.92$. So it has recovered from worse.
Your purpuse is what you are doing right now. Can't escape it.
ELI5, how? Isn't USDT supposed to be a 1:1 with USD?

Update: I get it thanks, so 1 USDT == 1 USD, but the USDT token in itself could be bought/sold at any price. I mean that's pretty obvious but I never thought of USDT as a separate instrument, I thought it was a literal "map of USD into the crypto world" (which it is, kind of, but not really, dang).

So, USDT is pretty much a future backed by USD, right?
If it goes down - the whole crypto movement and future optimism will be dead.
>I hope that as more and more things become automated and fewer people need to work, that we restructure society so they don't have to do bullshit jobs or work if they don't want to.

so at the point where machines can be clever for us, cleverness will no longer be of value. I guess then it will definitely be how hot someone is.
This decision matters because the NYT influences other journalists to a large degree.

The person who took that autocratic decision was AG Sulzberger, the 37-year old publisher and chairman of the NYT. Surely a man wielding so much power and influence would have earned the post through merit and hard work, right? In reality it’s a hereditary post of the Sulzberger family.

It’s shocking that a man who is a product of nepotism has so little written about him. Where’s the investigative reporting into this momentous decision 5 years ago? Where’s the criticism for biasing reporters in this manner? There’s nothing because the family is that powerful.
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How did this all happen at once?
Cool, i'm going to buy some cheap Tether before it goes back to being a dollar
Agreed. We need to draw a line between complex or technological fraud and "people giving away their money of their own free will then complaining".
GitHub Actions Importer
> OP struggles with XPaths in complex DOMs.

A lot of the selenium code I have run up on people try and get the exact element they want on the first try and repeat the process several times instead of doing something like searching for a div, form, or some parent element that has all their elements then all they need is to search relative xpaths from that element.
USDT:USD at 0.98 happened twice in last 4 years and both times was successfully defended (research methodology: googled "usdt to usd" and clicked 5Y range in the chart)

If this drops below 0.95, it's popcorn time.
It’s Luna all over again. Time to start the short positions
How much longer its gonna take?!
I disagree with this. There isn't a consumer-level alternative to the security provided by a pixel if you want to use a cell phone right now. I guess you can argue that the iphone is better, but without a specific threat model to discuss, it's like arguing mountain dew is not healthy so you should drink dr. pepper.
You can't control the secondary market. I can sell my Tethers for whatever value I want. If I think that, for some reason, their value is zero, I can try to sell at a discount before others realize this.
Thanks for finding the exception you need to prove your point, that must've taken a while. The argument that famous artists made a limited amount of art because there's only so much they could make in a lifetime is moot because of this one quintessential example of 1980's "video art" (those really go off the shelves at Sotheby's).
Cite some of those counter examples. Not being snarky. It would be nice to see what those counterexamples are. Good to see a topic from opposite perspectives.
"Always-available access to audio" is a fancy way of saying I can listen to Whatsapp messages or watch YouTube videos anytime I want without bother anyone. Not to mention listen to music or audiobooks.

Not sure what sounds quaint about that, it sound to me like how most people I know use their phones. And while I have a lot of people I know in tech, it's by no means everyone I know.
Why pay to clean up the mess you made when you can just profit from it?
Tether is a fiat currency supported by the crypto oligarchs. It doesn't have to be backed. It just has to avoid taxes, avoid governments, and avoid sequestration.

You can't take a tether and redeem it for a dollar, so it doesn't really even have a price. Tether is just a placeholder for a dollar in the crypto-world.

Furthermore, Bitcoins aren't really priced in United States Dollars anymore, they are priced in Tether Dollars. The price reported on CNBC is tether dollars.

It's so synthetic, even that chart doesn't really matter. So, where can we find real dollars being exchanged for Bitcoin? We can find that in the GBTC trust. I would argue the actual price of a Tether is equal to the GBTC discount, which currently sits at 37%. So, a tether dollar is actually about 0.62 dollars.
Testing, scraping, and automating are not really the same tasks.
Incidentally, I said to myself I would buy a Pixel 5 if it had Soli as well because it would show that Google was becoming serious about supporting features for more than 1 generation.

Predictably, I never bought a Pixel 5 or 6 or 7.
> now that it's a tiny bit more difficult for the big tech companies to suck up all the oxygen in the room.

It's now well established that Software is Eating the World. This downturn is just Software taking a small break between meals.
Stablecoins are the product of centralized human-managed financial engineering, they are not exactly what crypto proponents had in mind. They are convenient for some purposes, but everyone keeps in mind that they are not "real" crypto.
Everything survives until it falls. It only needs to fall once.
> which should be backed

I think the major issue is that there seems to be a lot of evidence that it isn't.
> You’re telling me that android keeps keys in memory for its entire uptime?

Yes. I've known that for quite some time, and yet I keep forgetting considering how stupid this feels [1] . Google provides "lockdown" button which is supposedly more secure (I think it's recommended for journalists?)... Well it doesn't evict keys either. Only eviction is to reboot.

[1] It feels stupid because there had been a LOT of work to move from FDE to FBE and to allow two states of data encryption and telling apps to support both of them. Doing all this work just to be able to store incoming SMS and to display wallpaper on first lockscreen...?
We installed hundreds of RPi for energy monitoring in a huge project, and after 3 years of operation, we only had like 3 or 4 SD corruption errors which only killed the GUI, but the rest of the system kept chugging as usual (I wonder if there's a common bug in the OS, since the corruption errors killed only the GUI).

I kept hearing that argument about the RPi, but in our experience, it's just not the case.

We shipped a second batch with additional improvements a year ago (external SSD, external battery for UPS, and external WiFi or 3G/4G dongle), and we have been error free.
Yes, it is, which in practical terms means that the company behind Tether should own real-world assets that cover all the outstanding USDT.

The fact that people are willing to trade their USDT coins for less than 1 USD means that they do not believe those "real-world assets" exist in sufficient quantity. In other words, they are afraid that Bitfinex (USDT issuer) is scamming them and prefer to convert to American dollar, even at slight loss.
XMPP :'(
If its not a "Bank error in your favor - collect $200" error that favors Google.
I am no expert, but AFAIK they are very suitable for optimization problems and simulation. They were originally conceived to solve quantum mechanics problems that are intractable to classical computers because classic computing models scale exponentially with the number of particles in the system.
What do Windows/Mac/Linux do?
The Japanese have a term for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_syndrome
There IS a relation between the physical aspects of our body and our mental game. They cannot be fully separated. Our brain itself is a physical asset. To sit in a chair and use a keyboard requires a level of physicality.

But with programming the age of being set out to pasture is much higher compared to sports or physical jobs. I've witnessed first hand guys in their 70's crank out productivity and creative ideas. One of the UNIX guys recently cranked out some new software in his 80's.
Well they started doing that.

Then Schroeder blocked it on behalf of Gazprom (where he is now a board member) followed by the right wing gaining power.

And Nuclear isn't low carbon for much longer (or if you expand it) because all the good Uranium mines are running dry, and mining 70,000 tonnes of ore for 1t of fuel is pretty carbon intensive.
Long stick, big dick!

But also, plenty of means, good genes. You are right, it’s real deep in there.

It’s frustrating when you catch it in your own thought processes! I honestly recall when dating seeing a physically attractive potential partner and thinking “they seem nice”…
> In a 'free market of ideas' people do their best to choose the best morals

The problem is not this, the problem is morals and free market look like they shouldn't be in the same place.

For example, Facebook controls majority of the social media traffic. People use them for reasons other than morality but Facebook itself is a deeply immoral company. So, free market is supporting an immoral idea because of amoral reasons and this is happening subconsciously.
Truly mesmerizing to watch. One can really see the hold points algos have given and changes in trading patterns, frequency as points are passed.
It has depegged before, like when LUNA crashed. During times of high uncertainty, it’s definitely worth 1-2% to get your money out. It remains to be seen if this current run will significantly impact Tether.
Agreed. The fixed logic, at least judging by the commit message, still feels very shaky on correctness grounds ("if we are dismissing something that doesn't seem to be right, ignore it").

Since they're rewriting code and changing method signatures anyway, I would prefer they got rid of the notion of "currently visible screen" and made sure that all dismiss() calls have a unique pointer or token pointing to what exactly is being dismissed. If this was my codebase, their approach would give me all sorts of bad vibes about additional problems lurking deeper.

The whole process and the nature of the fix doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in the security of Pixel/Android in general.
People are selling on exchanges, so the price goes down. That's unrelated to what it's backed by.

You can officially redeem USDT 1:1 for USD. If you believe that it's fully backed and that the company honors all redemptions, you would buy a lot of USDT below $1 now, redeem it, and make a good profit via arbitrage. These buys will drive the price up again so that it goes back to $1.

Thus, the price reflects the trust in USDT backing.
What is up with the Pixel specific bugs lately? One would think Google did more QA on their own products than on stock Android but the opposite seems to be the case.
My next party trick
Lots of marginal value content, like the thousands of copycats from the imposter syndrome that are already out there. The same for stock photos, pictures, etc.

Deepfake and catfish on dating networks will be the norm, perhaps the same for many “data output” professions.

Higher life meaning crisis and depression, since most of industrialized and office jobs will be more and more automated, and in spite of not completely removing humans, their input will feel less important, error prone, more prescindible exchangeable and less empathetic towards colleagues.

Loss of meaning as society, since productivity will be the main variable to optimize, as some key business areas will smash much easier than ever their competitors by using “augmented workforce”. I don’t think leas humans will be needed, just some specialized teams will outperform the rest, increasing outsourcing areas to third companies who deal with such problems.

Devaluation of truly creative content since “locally new” is already good enough for most of ends.

Reinforcement or social biases according to current trends like image AIs only generating beautiful model alike human beings, and the only “deviations” are socially accepted stereotypes like some attributes from popular actors. That might have a direct impact on consumer’s psychology, depression, anorexia, etc.

Perhaps (I wish not), pop culture will be frozen on the largest dataset trends, and only, very really an actual creative person will handcraft something new, just to be copied by all the style imitation networks.

Human expertise in some key areas might be easier to access, to learn and transport, since a general knowledge in the area and guiding/fine tuning an AI system will make cheaper the formation and resolution of previously solved problems.

The raise of truly new wicked and complex problems. Non linear unpredictable problems will raise more than ever before since we will focus less and less on the linear ones.

Political speech might be guided in real-time based on spectators feelings, creating weaker democratic (partitocratic) systems and reinforcing the autocratic model which is currently having success in Asia.
For my anxiety/depression SSRIs helped. I am much better without any side effects.
"A representative for Tether told CoinDesk in an email that issuer Tether Global is unexposed to both Alameda and FTX."

Well, except in the broader sense of crypto contagion. Tether is certainly exposed to BTC and ETH, both of which are plummeting this week.
I think the point was that the chart is going to keep updating until eventually what happens today (and is discussed in the comments) will not be visible from the link.

But I don't think deleting the post is necessary. When a more permanent source becomes available, @dang can switch the link and in the meantime we can keep discussing the chart.
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention archtitecture, which seems to be at peak levels of "blanding", at least in Europe. New urban developments effectively erase local idiosyncrasies to the point that they're indistinguishable from one another regardless of whether you're in Germany, Britain, Denmark or Spain.

Buildings are permanent in ways apps and restaurant interiors aren't, and I think we're losing something we may not miss until it's gone.
Yeah, it's a non-story, it's almost never exactly 1:1 in secondary markets.
You picked the day after the elections. Of course it’s political. The difference is that modern Reddit looks like that every day of the year, and old Reddit did not.
Basically what I wanted to write was a recursive broken link checker
This is "thanksgiving turkey logic". That the turkey has been fed every day of its life until now is not proof that it will still be fed the day after thanksgiving. Similarly, currencies survives every crisis except their last one.
That's not so accurate. The real pegging is by exchanges which deposit real dollars back into your bank account. You know the real mayhem starts when the exchanges start stopping withdrawals.
If Tether has real liquid reserves and can meet redemption requests, then the peg will return to ~$1. If Tether does not have sufficient reserves and stops honoring redemptions, then the peg will collapse.

Unpopular opinion: This could be investor panic and a temporary liquidity squeeze.

In May Tether weathered a significant liquidity crunch and recovered.
The actual screen dimensions make a huge difference to whether or not a given DPI value is low or high end. My current monitor is 157 DPI and I can assure you it is not an extremely low end monitor at all. Unless your frame of reference is anything below $5k is low end or something.
No, I think 3rd person is much bigger.
You technically can trade your USDT for 1 dollar to the issuer (I don't know how, but it is probably harder than just going to market and selling)

But this is people buying and selling their USDT, in a market, they can try to sell for a any price and if there is a lot of people trying to sell and not so much trying to buy, it naturally goes down in price

This variation though, while large, isn't that uncommon AFAIK
There's a major difference between confiscating something that they first have to get their hands on (physically or digitally) and confiscating something like your bank account which doesn't require more than a phone call.

See for example the Canadian government freezing bank accounts[0] of anyone trying to contribute to the vaccine mandate protests.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60383385
Bitfinex is maintaining the peg, nothing exciting is happening here https://trading.bitfinex.com/t/UST:USD?type=exchange

These headlines come out every couple of months, nothing ever happens. In fact, odds are that Tether makes a bunch of money every time this happens.