skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a bit of both, really (and the snaking path was only present in early versions of the missile).

Sorry to mislead!
The way I see friendly c could have been more likely to be a perf win than loss; it's more replacement for -O0 (etc) and allow at least some optimizations on otherwise hopeless codebases.
Nothing in this article is new or interesting.

Tether got fined a tiny amount, much less than any tier 1 bank pays in a year. And one of their investors was once in a movie. Who gives a shit?

Meanwhile they have a brilliant business model for the current market: take dollar deposits, invest them and keep the interest, then return them with no interest or adjustment for inflation. Who wouldn't like a 4% profit on $86bn?

Good for them.
This was my first thought as well. I'm kind of surprised the media is making such a big deal out of this. I would assume, considering how cheap it is to make a stratospheric balloon, it is either fairly common and the US has an equivalent program or its completely inferior to satellites.

The technology is pretty mature, Google ran a whole fleet of them with Project Loon back in 2011. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loon_LLC
How about a 13 kWh 2.5 GPM tankless heater - https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rheem-Performance-13-kW-Self-Mod...

For 2.5 GPM (typical shower) it can do 35°F heating. If you have a low flow shower head (1.75 GPM), you can do about a 55 °F heating.

You could also do a water heater booster - https://www.rheem.com/innovations/innovation_residential/wat...

Another approach is to go to the other end where you've got the tank running higher than is safe to safely touch (e.g. scalding) put put thermostatic valves on all sinks and showers. This way you can run the water heater at 140° then then use more cold water to reduce it to the proper temperature which is a slightly easier problem than running your water heater at 120° and then cooling it down to 105° which gets to "mostly hot water with cold water for pressure". Running a tank at 140° also inhibits bacterial growth (e.g. legionella)

Not enough for a shower, but for a sink you could look at an under sink water heater ( https://www.homedepot.com/p/Bosch-2-5-Gal-Electric-Point-of-... ) - but you're looking at 6.8 GPH recovery time rather than a 2.5 GPM flow rate. The main advantage there is that you don't have move the hot water from the water heater in the basement all the way to a sink (lots of hot water in the pipe that then gets wasted) and thus less water use to get hot water to the sink and less hot water use overall.

An under the sink tankless looks like https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rheem-Performance-6-kW-1-0-GPM-P... with 0.5 GPM for a 65°F raise (you wouldn't even need to run hot water to that sink - this is what I do for my upstairs bathroom since the water heater is so far away that you need to run the water for a very long time to get the sink up to 'wash with hot water' levels).
> like 8 MiG's

"four Soviet MiGs" (from the linked headline)

> back in the 40's

"On a cold November day in 1952" (linked article, paragraph 2)

> a guy

"Royce Williams" (linked article, literally the first two words), Navy Cross recipient and former US Navy pilot, not 'some guy'.

What kind of hasty carelessness causes you to share a link to a story, embellish it with details, but just screw up on key facts? Including, I might add, the rather significant difference in implication between a US pilot shooting down MiGs in the 1940s, when the Soviet Union was either an ally or a peacetime enemy, vs. the 1950s, when the Korean War happened.
Thanks for the tip.

I thought I recognized your handle! You wrote the "A Primer on Bézier Curves" article. Thanks for providing that amazing resource, it's been invaluable during my learning process.
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> Game developers would be fine to target a single distro like Ubuntu 22.04.

Valve has its own container-only Linux distribution, the "Steam Runtime" (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime ); especially for games distributed on Steam, it probably makes more sense to target that distribution instead of Ubuntu.
What's your point? When I managed IT I would have considered those 'cloud apps' as opposed to onsite/self hosted, and paying for them would have come out of my OpEx not CapEx budgets. Are they not Cloud?
It's not possible to give it a slow enough leak that it comes down gently? A sufficiently large balloon is basically a parachute even if it's not inflated, right? It would be great to catch it and see what's inside...
This Steven Pinker stuff is absolute hogwash. There are more people living in extreme poverty today than existed 250 years ago. So what that as a percentage and when you are very careful with the definitions that they are a smaller proportion.

And what, I can get an extra 5 years in a nursing home where there's a decent chance I'll suffer physical and psychological abuse but will be forcefully kept alive in a stupor on a cocktail of drugs.

It's just unabashed justification for the interests of the top couple percent. They do in fact have it better right now by far than any other cohort in history.
There's got to be a name for this phenomenon where people focus in on a pattern that may be consistent between events but is actually an incredibly common set of factors that it's totally nom-predictive.
> up to this point anyone has been able to redeem 1 USDT for 1 USD through Bitfinex

What do you mean "up to this point anyone"?

For several years Bitfinex (who also assured everyone that they had NOTHING to do with Tether) or Tether would only let you redeem if you were a "whale" with over $30K in holdings, were a non US-national, were subject to a six month waiting period. Random people absolutely could not redeem say 10 USDT.

Also during that period people would post bounties, some of which were a couple of thousand dollars, for -anyone- to demonstrate that they'd been able to redeem, and none of those bounties were ever claimed.

Things might be different now, but let's not try to claim that it's all been all good so far.
Get this and install by the heater: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B08R1HKZ78/ or this: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B09V7MDZHF under the sink.

There's a remote available also. By sure and carefully read the details - there is an "E" model, be sure and understand the difference and pick the right kind for your setup.
It's probably an opinion because it's not provably true. There is no mainstream Nazi party today so I don't understand how your example is meaningful or relevant.

Anyways, if you're in the U.S., I assume you're referring to the Democrat party as the party of demonization? They are the party whose members are most likely to be involved in demonization of other groups. Here's some examples:

Christian hate: https://www.dailywire.com/news/our-messaging-does-not-align-...

Hate for Jews: https://www.dailywire.com/news/ilhan-omar-on-her-history-of-...

Conservative hate: https://www.dailywire.com/news/miami-based-restaurant-asks-f...

Hate for blacks with unapproved opinions: https://www.dailywire.com/news/sincerely-sorry-texas-democra...

Hate for white men: https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-top-health-insurance-p...

Hate for anyone who believes in objective biological reality: https://www.dailywire.com/news/j-k-rowling-on-why-she-chose-...

The democrat party, including the sitting president of the U.S., loves calling their opponents fascists, : https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-anchor-blasts-biden-over-...

They also love calling people bigots: https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-call-their-fellow-employ...
Why is "money flowing towards an asset = price goes up" surprising to you?

The only part of this equations that's new is that blockchains are public and therefore you can see it happen.

Would it be wild to you to see "money moves from private bank account to goldman sachs account = shares go up"?
The Great Resignation Was Caused by the Covid-19 Housing Boom
Have you tried deadbeef? It's similar to fb2k, including supporting a lot of the custom printf syntax for displaying and sorting that fb2k has.
Gun pod on a U2.
I don't know how ambitious goals to set for myself. Should I aim for harder and harder work environments and roles until I fail and get burnt out, or stay put at the safe comfort zone.
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That's an extremely complicated question for me. I'll talk about each of the classes and offer what thoughts I can:

Math -- without math class at St. Johns I don't think I'd have ever thought I could be a programmer, much less that I could learn it on my own from books and online self-study. I still don't know much about math-as-math, but having a class dedicated to studying proofs and formal logic in various forms and communicating that to a group has been extremely valuable to me in my professional life. So I'm somewhat of a patriot for the math program.

That said, I think the poster in this thread who argues it's "a bad way to learn math" is correct. The St. John's program was founded in 1937, and, let's face it, the world of math and science is different now. If you sat me down next to a math major and made both us do a math test, they'd massacre me.

I'm more critical of the lab program. It felt like a complicated review of high school physics, chemistry, and biology and it was the area where the "amateur" nature of the teaching often hurt, rather than enhanced, the lesson. My thoughts about "the world's moved on since 1937" are even more acute related to lab. I don't feel I was very literate in science after I graduated beyond being able to talk about the Maxwell equations or relativity with some confidence.

Language class is a mixed bag. It's meant to support seminar by giving you access to Greek (and in junior and senior year, French) so that you can dig into some of the original sources. I enjoyed and was good at it -- but it's two years of college French that may make you able to read French literature but unable to order a meal in Paris.

When it comes to the seminar class, I enthusiastically endorse the St. John's method. I don't think there is a better way to read philosophy, history, literature, politics, etc.

Unrelated to the subjects themselves: at the very least, you're spending four years with roughly the same class of <100 people, reading the same texts, doing the same intellectual work, exposing your thoughts in class, living in the same area, eating in the same dining hall. That kind of -- let's call it intimacy -- means you're going to make some pretty deep friendships and rivalries and learn some social skills about getting on in group settings.

Would I recommend it? It's not for everyone. For people who don't need their hand held and who like the idea of reading and talking about a bunch of important books that discuss a lot of important questions in life, I think it's very right. For people who want to prepare for a specific technical career, or who are very shy, or who are not intellectuals by nature, I don't think it's right at all.
Thanks, but it's not paywalled.
Tether supports redemptions of USDT to USD: https://tether.to/es/redeem-tethers-to-your-bank-account/
It’s used as a symbol in programming, I have a hard time imagining a symbol that could replace “the”. That’s not to say there isn’t one that would be suitable, I just lack the creativity or imagination to think of one.
i'd thought the standard way would be to borrow heavily and invest in other financial assets. Then the interest payment would be paid out pre-tax, thus reducing your tax liabilities down to a manageable level.

The financial assets will return money in the future, but much more slowly, and get preferential tax treatment compared to direct income (such as long term capital gains tax discounts).

When you have $7mil in cash (and expectation of more in the future), there would be options not available to lower net worth people i suppose?
Perhaps write letters to members of European Parliament explaining our concerns, then ask all our friends to do the same?

To make it a low-cost effort, we could (a) prepare a list of relevant politicians (b) create a template of the letter. Then our non-technical friends need only sign and mail this. And if we put this all up as a one-pager on GitHub pages, it's suitable for sharing on social networks too ;)
Would you figure that if the population increases by 10x that the number of people living in extreme poverty increases by 10x? That's what I would assume if the world was not getting any better or worse.
The original title of the paper is "Direct seawater electrolysis by adjusting the local reaction environment of a catalyst" (DOI 10.1038/s41560-023-01195-x).

Unfortunately the title is too long for HN so I had to remove two articles ("the", "a") while trying to keep the title comprehensible. Please let me know if there is a better way to do this.
The article doesn't actually say anything bad about tether.

The worse parts are that they were once fined. But it's a tiny amount and most banks get fined regularly by all sorts of regulators.

Other than that, is it meant to collapse because one of the founders once played hockey in a movie as a kid? Or because another one is asian?

Go back and read it. It's not factually wrong, it just couches facts negatively ( eg Jean-Louis van der Velde is also known as Jan Ludovicus van der Velde, but who cares? So he anglosized his name? Teddy Roosevelt was actually called Theodore you know, Ted Cruz is actually Rafael Edward Cruz)

None of this would put me off investing in any given company outside for crypto. Would you refuse to buy shares in a company with a CEO who was asian or a CFO who used an anglosized name? I assume not.
In the very first paragraph of the linked article, there is this clause which may provide some clarity:

> I’m making an amount of money equivalent to my Google total compensation package

He goes on to write,

> My Google compensation was dominated by stock grants, so it varied wildly. What I’m earning now per year is: slightly less than my first year at Google (which included a significant signing bonus), drastically less than I earned in 2021 (when the signing stock grant overlapped with three stock refreshes, and $GOOG was at record highs), and more than I would have made in 2022 had I stayed (even accounting for all benefits on one side and the salary of my assistant on the other side).
Randomly ordering the files, without adding random content, would do the trick.
I live in Buffalo and I’ve never even heard of Buffalo Bert (I live 5 minutes from him apparently). Great job!
Ask your CPA. Not a CPA and this isn't tax advice, but based on what I understand about the change you'll probably not be impacted if you're contracting for clients and not creating the software for yourself. Your clients will be impacted by the amortization issue when it comes to deducting your consulting fees. I asked your question in reverse ("How would this change impact hiring contract developers?") and was told that was probably how it would work. But again, I am not a CPA and this isn't tax advice, so you should really ask a CPA. A CPA might not even be totally sure about how it works yet, as there seems to be a lot of confusion about the rule change.

Your client agreements may also have an impact on the answer (for example, does the client own the IP or do they license it from you?). So you really need to talk to a CPA!

Tax concerns aside, downstream effects may be an issue for you: If my understanding is correct, clients will no longer be able to immediately expense your fees, and will be required to amortize them over five years. I would expect that this will therefore likely result in less demand for software contracting services in the overall economy as businesses become aware of the change and reevaluate their build vs. buy decisions.
Some ideas, brainstorming here...

Tracking: satellites are incredibly easy to track once you know their orbital parameters. A balloon, far less so. You need a lot of active tracking.

Altitude: a balloon is much closer to the ground than a satellite. That allows a much smaller camera to take the same picture. It also could give you access to radio signals that might not be as easily monitored from space.

Harder to spot: being closer to the ground, it will be beyond the horizon until it's much closer.

And of course it's far, far cheaper. The Chinese space program is doing well, but it's still very expensive to build and launch satellites.

There are of course numerous downsides.
There's no correlation between being bad at business and doing bad things morally
This is expected. Tether is pegged to $1, BTC is not. In short, higher crypto prices means more tether.

Perpetual futures contracts are also a big part of the market. They are the most common derivatives on crypto assets. It isn't always BTC, but BTC is the biggest asset in the space.

Derivatives in general need to be denominated in something. Tether is the most accessible on exchanges outside the US (e.g. Binance). These contracts settle in the Tether stablecoin, not the contract's underlying. As all crypto asset prices go up, those contracts need to be settled in more Tether.

When one party shorts a derivative, a counter-party needs to long the same derivative. Same thing happens with non-crypto derivatives. In the end, they cancel each other out, but the total amount of Tether would increase as the asset value increases. That money could come from other assets or USD.

On the exchange-side something like this might happen...

party 1 sends USD to Exchange > longs BTC contract > USD collateralizes contract

party 2 sends ETH to Exchange > shorts BTC contarct > ETH collateralizes contract

If ETH drops in value as it relates to USD or party 2's contract expires out of the money, the exchange would likely give party 1 the value of the contract in tether.

Similar misunderstandings happen in the stock market. People will point to the notional value (amount in $) of margin debt, but ignore the total value of the market. Of course, higher debt would be needed to collateralize a more expensive asset (e.g. SPX).

Also, when sending non-USD currencies to an exchange, I would guess the exchange is likely to convert them to Tether, or at least gives the option. I wouldn't want to have YEN in my account as the value sinks when I have a Tether backed contracts. That may be another source of new Tether.
I agree. I think a good chunk of the obesity epidemic can be explained by obesity being underdiagnosed in the past. Doctors simply were not tracking it and BMI standards did not exist like today. Second candidate, increased food palatability and calories density.

Even some of the Founding Fathers appeared obese or overweight, and this long predates the invention of processed foods https://greyenlightenment.com/2022/12/26/why-people-are-gett...

It's evident obesity existed well before it became recognized as a major public health problem.

As Mr. Yglesias notes, rising obesity rates correlate with increased national wealth. Wealthier countries tend to have bigger, heavier people due to better nutrition, cheaper food, increased food production, etc. This is a welcome development, up to a point. We've crossed that point, obviously. It's time to find solutions. Having half the country obese is a travesty.
USAF circling with several aircraft: https://twitter.com/UpwardNewsHQ/status/1621290179519545346
Because the US government doesn't want the US economy to go up in flames, and thus stepped in to make sure the bank's debtors are made (somewhat) whole. Who would be the "lender of last resort" in crypto?
There's already a whole world of terrestrial microbes that we expect or even know for certain to exist but can't culture, let alone stain, which means we can't really study them.

I'm going to bookmark this for the case someone asks: what piece of information that seems basic did you ignore until very recently?

A question that often arises is: if current life evolved from chemistry that's simpler than DNA, why has that one disappeared? Maybe it hasn't.
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That's great news. Thanks for pointing that out.
I wonder how this compares to the OS built-in NTFS compression?

Windows shell has "Compress contents to save disk space" checkbox in folder properties. Usually, that compressed flag is inherited by new files created in a folder with that checkbox. OP can probably set the flag on Default\IndexedDB or Default\Service Worker folder and see whether this changes the results of that IO benchmark.
Except stocks don't claim to be pegged to, or backed by, anything. If Tether isn't backed 1-to-1 then it looks more like a bank, and may be subject to a lot more regulation.
The default keyboard layout is a big reason why I keep using macs tbh. I’ve used windows all my life and used a bunch of linux distros but the only os where my fingers are comfortable is on a mac. Swedish ISO btw.
>According to a Pentagon source, the balloon offers "limited additive value" over satellites.

Uh... no?

Mainly because satellites are known -- black sites like Area 51 reguarly put away the "good stuff" when they known a spy satellite is overhead. That's not possible for random Chinese balloons we only find out about when some commercial pilot phones them in.
I‘m sorry, can you show an example of where this helps in the usage of Heron‘s Method?
My comment is about the building blocks.

We seem to find amino acids everywhere. It seems like once conditions exist that they can form, they DO form.

We don't have any equivalent building block which is anywhere nearly so ubiquitous.

In addition, these building blocks are reversible within 3kcal/mol. Life requires reversibility.
http://wavefunction.fieldofscience.com/2008/10/unbearable-he...

We have no other building blocks with this kind of versatility. None.

So, life may not be based on DNA/RNA, but it's almost certain to be based around amino acids.
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Good info at least to know that becoming a sustainable open-source maintainer requires "even accounting for the salary of my assistant" kind of money
If user(programmer)-behavior is the main problem, and there is claim to a safe C++ subset, then wouldn't it make sense to implement an UNSAFE compiler attribute macro, to enable the unsafe features, while turning them off in default compilation mode for new versions of C++?
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But I'm repeating what the actual purveyors of the data said about their own data? They analyzed their data and came to the conclusion you seem to have an issue with- that whites account for 59.1% of violent crimes.

In any case, the picture the data suggests is incomplete (because it is missing a crucial data point: social class), therefore the picture you're suggesting is also incomplete.
From the day of release, you get about seven years before you stop being able to upgrade to the latest iOS version. Say you pay £800 for the phone and keep it for the full seven years, that works out at about 32p a day. For something that is increasingly integral to modern day life, that's a pretty good deal. That's also not accounting for the fact that you could sell it on for between £50 - £100 or keep it as a fully functioning device for a few more years, both of which make it even more economical. Add on the fact that you generally get tighter security and higher quality applications because there's more money floating about in the ecosystem which attracts more devs then, if you can afford it, it's a no brainer in my opinion.
Seawater electrolysis by adjusting the local reaction environment of a catalyst
C can be memory-safe
I just listened to the Software Daily podcast on Permit.io and it seemed interesting. I had to implement authorization for a complex enterprise app a decade ago and I wound up coming up with a fairly sophisticated ABAC solution before I even heard the term ABAC. But it does have some limitations and it was a bit difficult to configure. It's that time of year again and I need to add authorization into another enterprise product. I'll definitely give this a whirl before I try rolling my own again.