skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
understanding stablecoins is really simple.

"how do i convert crypto assets into USD without triggering a taxable event?"

the answer was create a stablecoin where you for sure have $1 for each coin so you can always exchange your crypto for dollars.

the problem is all these shady crypto finance people are busy making money off of stablecoins and hoping nobody catches them without enough cash on hand since they invested the USD into assets instead of just holding cash, or when the value went up they minted more stablecoin to sell off and now that the price of the stablecoin is down they don't have the ability to cover their liabilities.

The basic idea to protect against taxes, the extended idea is to enrich every grifter around.
Too late to add this to my original post, but a video popped up where an AAPRCO member and car owner allowed a Youtuber to travel on his private car while it and several other cars were being positioned from Chicago to West Virginia for a charter trip. Includes the stunning Cedar Rapids observation car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSkysFOkupI
one easily overlooked use of hton ntoh is portable binary persistent data. you want to read and write binary files in different cpu architecture hosts? mount a pluggable "disk" from different devices? use hton and ntoh to write/read binary data...
And there goes 16k.

We're seeing the dominoes fall before our eyes.

crazy
I would think if your "other knowledge", what you know aside from programming, is important there's "fellow" kinds of positions. Somebody has to grok the technical underpinnings in a niche market - how to do finite-element analysis, fluid dynamics, chemical modeling, stereotactic image processing, ... None of these are what you read about on HN, really, but they exist and the companies in these segments make their bucks. Small, flat companies don't have hierarchies to promote. Small private companies don't have a stock market to satisfy, merely customers.
just also be aware Perun isn't an expert and doesn't appear to have any qualifications. He's just parsing public information like everyone else. Trust as much as you'd trust any other random youtuber.
I think the train that this is transitory has left the station. Demand is still high and inflation rates are not going down despite shipping costs plummeting in recent months.

Obviously the Fed can go overboard. But the economy is no longer based on fundamentals and an inflationary spiral would be a major problem. I can't blame the fed for taking the action they are.
Elon Musk: Twitter usage is at an all-time high
When chemical weapons were used the US came very close to invading.
There's also Rancher Desktop in the same space, which includes k3s as a local K8s solution.

For personal use I found it great and lighter than Docker Desktop. At work, unfortunately all options but Docker Desktop have issues with either 1) Our Cisco AnyConnect VPN, or 2) Our authenticated http proxy. Couldn't find anything else providing a container runtime + a local k8s on MacOS that works in this environment. So we just got Docker Desktop licenses.
I might really encourage you to read some Peter Zeihan.

The Chinese economy has aged drastically the last decade, is coasting on fumes by manipulating its own currency, and is entirely dependent on whims of the global market for important commodity prices.

To the extent that they pose any sort of economic threat to the US, it's because we let them by ensuring safe shipping lanes to the middle east for oil and letting them trade in dollars.
An exchange explodes almost every year. I doubt anything substantial has changed. In fact, binance looks better than ever.
My solution to this was to try and solve real people’s problems with tech. Being able to sit down with the person using your thing gives a tangible feedback cycle to your work.

Instead of “I pushed this update and maybe this metric changed 8%? Or maybe something else did it?”

You get towards “Sue saved 2 hours of her normal workday today and got to go home to her family on time”

You’re still using those skills you’ve built, but in a very different way. One that I find creates a lot more dopamine.
I would say bitcoin crashing 12.5% today is one effect.
Floating Gate Transistor Accurate Digital in‐Memory Computing for DNNs
That's right, it had been so long that I had forgotten. Thanks for reminding me.

Edit: Taking a further look into the history, it looks like the project has been under a lot of turmoil WRT shutting down and being revived. Explains why I have avoided it for so long.
A self-fulfilling prophecy if I ever saw one
Well no because they no longer work for FB. But they still have all their vested stock.
Mute most things.
Set some things to high priority.
There is a 5-10 billion dollar hole in their balance sheet. 5-10 billion has vanished so yes that is the actual money at stake.
Does this mean Facebook wouldn’t be allowed to list in this index if it tried today?
Quest CEO refused to spy on Americans. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/10/qwest-ceo-nsa-punished...
>But by the Reagan era, the party was over. People had all the stuff they needed. They’d replace it from time to time.

Capitalism doesn't work if everyone has everything they need. Perfect markets reduce profit margins as close to zero as possible. People will then stop investing because they can just sit on cash instead and do nothing.

If you base your economy on constant profits and endless growth then you will have to reset it with a war every now and then.
None of which is lost on Russian leadership. Which is why they are the tail wagging the dog of their nominal allies, China and Iran.

Neither of these countries was really prepared for a showdown with the West, and all assumed the plan was to wait out the expected financial collapse of US dollar, using BRI and similar platforms and new organizations. This is still on-going, but RF has basically demonstrated that it sits along the BRI's end points in Europe (meaning it can trivially disrupt it), and has left 2 difficult choices for its allies, specially for China: to break from RF (which guarantees China will remain 2nd tier in global pecking order behind the "Anglo-Saxons" [1]), or, let its future be partly determined by the decisions of Putin's Russia. This is how Russia is addressing it's potential collapse [3]: if it happens, it will take down regional rivals [2] down with it. India may turn out to win big by default ..

[1]: basically, Russia's line to them is: if we go down, then you are completely defenseless against the West.

[2]: Russia's historic relations with Turkiye, Iran, and China were generally adversarial.

[3]: meaning the recent decisions of RF were imo forced escalations (under pretext of Ukraine) that address not only their western front but also their eastern front insecurities. If there had been no war but rather a period culminating in a victorious China (via economic means) then Russia would be completely at the mercy of China, and reduced to energy provider for the end points of BRI: China and EU.
Thanks for the response and for having a doc ready. Code search definitely seems to be on the rise as a needed tool
Is it? I'd love to see a breakdown of what classes of information can be gleaned from profile data, and how much of an impact each one has in isolation in terms of optimization.

Naively, I would have assumed that branch information would be most valuable, in terms of being able to guide execution toward the hot path and maximize locality for the memory accesses occurring on the common branches. And that info is not something that would be assisted by more expressive types, I don't think.
The Future of Cryptocurrency
Not just an exchange, all of bitcoin.
There are a lot of public articles stating that PageRank is no longer in top signals any of the mainstream search engines for more than a decade now. The patent already expired years ago and no one cared. It's surprising CEO of a search engine company just woke up to this. The future of search is AI model-as-index infrastructure.
Another crypto crash? I'm surprised anyone would have serious money still in crypto after the last megacrash, which came after the previous crypto crash.
Now we're talkin'
I use pleroma, written in Elixir and hosting everything properly inside pg, for a personal instance and it just works. No magic knobs to turn, no significant delays.
If this comment was meant to imitate a high school debate club team member rhetorically feigning a lack of understanding of the point their opponent was making, it's really masterful. Bravo.
Personally I was more impressed by the director being a dolphin, altho they coud've found better photo of him, he looks a bit fat.

But to be fair It's not that bad when you realize using flaps and gear is time correlated - you slow down, enable flaps, get near the airport, then put the gear down.

There is no "I want to put the gear down in situation when enabling flaps would fuck stuff up too much"
> The Cambridge Analytica thing probably didn't have a meaningful impact on the elections.

That's a pretty big claim to make without evidence. At the very least I think we can agree that political parties wouldn't be investing so much money into social media campaigns (analytics, marketing, etc.) if they didn't think it was impactful.
You might end up with the nightmare config they highlighted if the person writing the config has no semblance of DRY, but it's unlikely someone versed in CD systems isn't going to use techniques afforded to them for reducing boilerplate.
The age of orcs has begun
It is pretty fast for me in central Europe. Maybe it's latency?
I know the xkcd, I just don't understand your point.
Elon Musk’s Mass Twitter Layoffs Spur Legal Headaches
I never mentioned France nor the US in my comment. Clearly this sort of thing is a trend and will be tried everywhere. That is what I was talking about.
These various developmental anomalies of don't map to some sort of sex continuum though - they are all discrete conditions caused by specific disorders, and from a biomedical point of view are still analysed within the framework of male and female sex development.

There's certainly ongoing debate amongst medical professionals on how best to categorise intersex conditions. I don't think models like the 'gender unicorn' really help with this though, it's not sufficiently technical, and seems more geared towards people who don't wish to conform to cultural stereotypes of gender, but would like some way of describing it.
Again, the speculative value of cryptocurrencies is largely built on the belief that the dApps built on top of the network will have enough usage and revenues to justify the current valuations.

If you look at the revenues generated by OpenSea or Uniswap or Compound, it's not exactly an outlandish idea.
My personal story with Svelte:

I was able to write an internal website, very input form heavy, in about 4 days, having never used Svelte before. I estimate the same work would have taken me a minimum of 2-3 weeks using React + Redux. FWIW I've written tens of thousands of lines of React.

Svelte's state management is so simple to use, if you are writing some sort of CRUD app, use Svelte, not React.
My only problem with the new code search is I've noticed some examples where exact string searches fail to locate some matches. I was looking for callers of a function and assumed no results meant no callers. But a simple 'search all' in VS Code found results missing from GitHub code search.
They hired 42,000 during COVID. Lots of companies did the same, Twitter added 3500, the largest since they started.
How to Afford Anything (2015)
Over simplified, otherwise it's too complex for this explanation, if you're trading please don't use my explanation -

Buying either cash-secured Puts or Calls are not subject to margin-calls like shorts/long shares are.

So if the price goes up too high before it comes crashing down, your broker might force you to liquidate your position, leaving you with max loses, and no profit from the following crash.

Because puts or calls do not rely on margin and you get to choose if you execute them, so they are more resistant to massive spikes in either direction.

tldr - Purchased options are not subject to margin calls like shorts

edit: removed mentions of selling options and IV - they're too complex for this quick explanation
Agreed, Ecto is the perfect balance of helpful and explicit. It allows people to avoid the performance footguns of typical ORMs, while still providing a friendly way to do that relation mapping, pluggable way to do validation, etc. and there are just things you can do with joins + select that an ORM can’t do, but Ecto can.

The magical parts of Elixir/Phoenix, would be the naming conventions of Controller/View/Template (which I think can be overridden), and `use` which brings a lot of useful functions but it isn’t obvious to a new user how to source docs for that.
> I suppose you can debate whether that’s punishment enough or not when you’ve got another $38b left or whatever.

But that's not taking responsibility.

As an analogy, if you crash into another car with your car, you can't just say "It's my fault, I take the blame" and then walk away without paying for the repairs. Accepting blame is a nice first step, but taking responsibility means restoring the victim to how they were before the action happened.
What backs this?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

Might of USA and all that? Yes I’ve heard all that before. Rome, France, England…

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

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

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

History is more on the side of it happening than not.

“The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust.” -Satoshi Nakamoto
Congrats on the launch Luke =)
I agree than covering parking lots with solar panels is a good idea (except in places with lots of snow).

But I don't think America will ever transition away from the car - America is too big, and too diverse to make that possible.

Some larger cities may eventually have low rates of car ownership, but it will never be the majority of the country.

For example where I live there is an express bus to the airport - it take an hour. Or you can drive and get there in 20 minutes. The bus is cheaper (due to gas cost), and rather convenient you don't have to deal with your car at the airport.

But an hour vs 20 minutes? Ouch. (Oh, and that hour is if you drive to one of the pickup spots of the bus - if you need a bus to get to the bus then it could be an hour and a half vs 20 minutes.)

This is not something that's solvable as far as I know.
True story - a bike shop I worked for actually ran all of our POS software off of G3's for years. We had them stuffed under the counter with those G3 monitors, keyboards and mice.

The look on people's faces when they came in and realized none of our stuff ran on Microsoft gave our shops street cred in the cyclists and mountain biking communities.
The answer to your question is in your post
Do you typically invest all of your wealth in one thing? Because for most of us I imagine that is not the case.
It's an interesting question, but you might also want to ask which markets people are based in. While the overall economy, interest rates and other factors do correlate to some extent, of course, some other important fundamentals (and price movements) can vary significantly even within the same country.
My personal belief is that binance agreed with no intention to carry out the deal. CZ tapdanced on FTX's grave on twitter with critical comments yesterday. It is now unlikely that anyone else will want to step up to look at the deal.
I've always wondered why Google doesn't have some way to provide an explicit signal from the users like favorite/bookmark or explicitly like/dislike a search result.

It's often pretty fustrating to try and find something you know you've seen before but don't remember quite the name of or exact keywords.
DeskStar? I also lost everything to one of those drives.

Fortunately I had (some) backups
Ask HN: Can directed energy weapons be rendered impotent using mirrors?
The U.K. has just successfully demonstrated its DragonFire laser weapon. 50kW of power, with the option to scale up in future.

I’m curious. Could I defend myself from such a weapon by dressing in mirrors? Or, more realistically, wrapping a reflective surface around my military drone?
Had a friend who’s parents are hoarders.
My wife’s parents are hoarders.
Both “clean” in such that nothing rotting.

Wife and my daughters all have strong tendencies toward it.

After years of struggle I got immediate family hooked on KonMari method for what to keep.

It’s been amazing for them as now that everything they own has a specific place, they don’t want to screw it by having something without an assigned spot.

My budget has improved dramatically from reduced spending.

Wife’s parents bought a much larger house and a huge workshop space bigger then the house. Initially everything fit.

Bet my wife by end of a year it would all be filled floor to ceiling.

I won the bet :(
> Rates going up in the future is irrelevant if you have a fixed rate mortgage, so I don't know what point you're trying to make there.

OK: assume you locked in a 30-year loan 2 years ago, because it didn't even occur to you to get a 15, or you couldn't afford it.

Now, you're set in your place for another 10 years. You didn't expect that kind of stability, but time just flies.

So in 12 years, you'll still need 18 years to finish paying it off. There's no point in refinancing, since rates are higher now.

Had you gotten the 15-year, you'd be within 3 years of zero mortgage payments. If you're in high tech, quite likely you'll be earning much more after 12 years, and that monthly payment will be no problem.

You're right, the "quite likely" does do a lot of work here. You're taking a risk. No argument there.

> if you have a cash flow problem in 5 years and default

That isn't a problem in practice. Most banks don't want to foreclose and they'll restructure your loan, as long as you're not a deadbeat. And in 5 years, you'll have paid down the principal, at least a little. More than you would have with a 30.
Well, you don't need to care about safety nearly as much.
You might throw a years profit at it to restore confidence in the system and buy up market share. But making losers whole to the tune of 5/6/7/10 years of profits would be a massive red flag ...
I’m divorced with a kid in the US, everything was totally fine, no one scammed me, the courts were very friendly. I imagine this depends on where you live
I have no doubt there was skill involved. And of course you should invest if the casino is giving away money for free. I have no doubt it was great for you, so kudos (no sarcasm; I wish I was you). But the whole point is: is it right to call it a “market” or an “economy” or an “ecosystem” or whatever when it’s really just a get-out-while-you-can game? How many of those who are privy to all those technical terms you mentioned are actually going to be able to cash out a significant amount of money? I t’s just kinda depressing for me to think that there are so many people overanalyzing a fantasy football world league of fantasy coins.
Well then I will just never upload my code if you want to use it without permission. Git is distributed thankfully and does not require a centralized service.
I wonder if someone has trained an Austrian Economics bot, the whole thing is based on first principles which one would think an AI could ingest.

Then set it loose trolling the internet…
I appreciate the source code release, but there needs to be a software license in the repo to allow users to discern whether the code is free and open source, or just source-available. Without a license, the code is only source-available because no exemptions to automatic copyright protections have been granted.

Also, the graphic in the announcement uses the Open Source Initiative's trademarked logo, which is reserved for software released under OSI-approved licenses:

> The OSI logo is a trademark of Open Source Initiative. In order to protect and grow the OSI brand, we have a distinguishable logo that can be used to mark software licensed under an OSI Approved License. When displaying the OSI logo, please follow our standard Trademark Guidelines.

https://opensource.org/logo-usage-guidelines#The_OSI_Logo:_U...
The silly thing is that FTX was a money printing machine. There was no reason to start gambling with user funds, aside from greed, hubris, and stupidity.

Similarly, Sam's fund Alameda was delta-neutral until some time in 2021, which is something that also could have profitably continued in perpetuity, but they got greedy and started making directional bets with leverage.
Was it Dorothy Parker who, when asked for advice for writers, said, "Marry money."
It's not infinite (what a low effort reply that was), there's a rate of return.

You don't need to be rich - you borrow money to fund your project, and pay it back out of the returns.
I have searched the webs but have not found this issue you described. Can you point me to info on kernel lore or another place where this is documented?
What a completely disconnected-from-reality article.

There are so many ways to use Google to obtain the information you're looking for, and so many people do it literally on a minute-to-minute basis that it's flat absurd to call that ineffective.

It's trivially easy to learn something by typing a question into Google; maybe when writing an article try gut checking it against obvious observed reality first.

I simply cannot fathom a noble reason why the author would decide to publish this.

Edit: Oh wait I found it; the author is Vladimir Prelovac, CEO, Kagi Inc. What does Kagi Inc. do? I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader, but I bet you guess it in one try...
That was Bitfinex as far as I remember, exchange based in Hong Kong. They are the guys behind Tether which also many people think is not backed up by real assets.
Yeah I love when I click a thing then a different think appears under it 0.5ms before click registers.

> Why is this still a thing?

HTML/CSS/JS stack makes that the default and coding your way out of that is hard
> However the first version of Mac OS X that shipped without Rosetta 1 support was 10.7 Lion

Yes, but I was pointing out when the last version of OS X that did support Rosetta shipped.

I have no concrete evidence that Apple dropped Rosetta because IBM wanted to alter the terms of the deal after they bought Transitive, but I've always found that timing interesting.

In comparison, the emulator used during the 68k to PPC transition was never removed from Classic MacOS, so the change stood out.
Oh I see. I think you'd get a lot of interest for an Android version. There are a LOT of Android phones out there in the world. :)
Apologies, my comments are from the time when the Elizabeth line was at the rail station at Paddington. And probably still hold for the few departures that do go from there. I'm not referring to the departure boards on the proper Elizabeth line now -- those of course show the destination.

My comment about the TfL journey planner is still the case though.
Oh thanks, good point. Bringing up the people killed by the ideology puts Capitalism on even shakier footing. In one country, India, capitalism killed more than the overinflated imperialist "estimates" for all soviet bloc countries over its entire lifetime. If we're including dead people in our hypotheticals, then there's the near-entire population of the Americas and Australia before colonialism, and a good chunk of Africa, Asia and elsewhere.
This will also improve the github.com code search, right? I always found it frustrating that I couldn't really search for exact strings, even using quotes. I hope this fixes that too.
The thing people leave out about the industrial revolution is that lifespans fell while working hours rose during it.