skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The thing is it's not really speculation.

What's not really speculation? The new goal post you moved to, or the point I was originally contesting, before you retreated to an unrelated argument for which you could dump piles of (also unrelated) evidence?

You were claiming[1] that Tether isn't honoring redemptions, based on the fact that no one's screaming "Hey, look at me, I just got some USD back for my tethers, 1:1" -- even though people could also point to tether's failure to redeem, and even profit from advance knowledge of the imminent crypto collapse it would trigger.

Now, with no acknowledgement of what just happened, you're moving to this argument:

>>I don't personally think that it's impossible to redeem, I think they're almost guaranteed not to be good for all outstanding Tethers.

It looks like you have no aversion to making a baseless claim, and then firehosing evidence of a different one when called on it. I don't think that makes for a productive exchange of ideas.

I mean, if you really believed that Tether was honoring at least some redemptions[2], why would you casually make the argument that, gosh, we don't have reports of successful redemptions, they must not be doing any at all?

>I'm not sure BFX actually arbs the peg,

Yep, another point I never made.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34635720

[2] >> I think they keep some small pool of liquidity to satisfy certain key partners,
Rivian to lay off 6% of its workforce as EV price war concerns grow
Ask HN: What would you consider a good “desktop power user” distro?
Which Linux distro(s) would you recommend to this kind of user? Details below:

# General Preferences:

- Mainly an experienced expert in desktop computer applications: From LO Calc to Double Commander to VLC and GIMP, and including at least one IDE or editor like VS Code or Geany

- Expects a distro that has reasonable documentation

- No preference as to window manager or desktop environment

# Desktop Tooling:

- Doesn't need a lot of hand holding at the desktop level, and can usually figure out desktop tasks intuitively

- Appreciates some distro maintainer affordances: Quick configuration tools, wizards for common tasks, etc.

- Has some basic understanding of the command line, but expects GUI tools for a lot of power user activities

- Expects advanced access options for desktop user tools and interfaces

# Programming and Scripting:

- Wants the ability to run some basic servers, along with general programming & scripting

- Would prefer some Autohotkey-type GUI scripting or general scripting access & community

# Games, Media, & Cloud

- Expects some access to all of the most common gaming systems & media codec support. Steam, etc.

- Expects generally-good cloud integration with client tools

# Peripherals

- Expects above-average support for common peripherals and hopes for above-average peripheral support & configuration

# Linux Admin & Sysadmin:

- Does not want to maintain core linux system / is not a sysadmin, but runs a clean, well-maintained system generally speaking.

- Does not typically need to manage more than their own user account

...That's all that's coming to mind. :-) Reasons / details on recommendations appreciated.
You should at least read the link and the history of how the legislation came to be before judging.
How would you even "run the numbers"? How about try the idea and see if it works? All it would take is one hit game for devs to see the potential of web gaming (and they already see it. Why do you think flash games were so popular?) If Fortnite could run in the browser it probably would have instantly become the biggest game in the world.
I have no idea what metric the AI is using for 'similarity' but this just sounds like random results to me. None of the vocals, style, genre, and so on are in any way similar. When you look at recommendation engines on Spotify and YouTube music they do a much better job at this than this engine. I think maybe if you had access to data that users enjoy you could cross reference them to find patterns and use that to order your results.
This is indeed big news, and an important proof of principle. I suspect in the long term these cell therapies may have their most fruitful applications in non-malignant disease.
Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses
I swear I had to wait nearly 5 minutes every morning before _warm_ water starts coming out, and our tankless heater was a wall away from shower.
There are some older showers in Ireland, so I guess in the UK too, where you basically use hot/cold water taps and pull a lever which redirects the mixed tap output to a shower rather than the bath. Mostly replaced by electric showers these days though.
Building an All-in-One Desktop Out of Framework Parts
Two Stage Light Gas Guns shoot projectiles at 27,500 feet per second
Calling in a fake police report resulting in a "SWATting" can easily result in prison time. Why should this be different?
Not a big deal and the rules, such as they are, aren't super explicit.
Anyone here remember the The MacNeil/Lehrer Report (1975–1983)? There should be an archive of their broadcasts online so people could see what quality reporting looked like.
That is a link we make at Let Grow, too. Let Grow is the nonprofit that grew out of Free-Range Kids (which I wrote). We are trying to make childhood independence easy, normal and legal again, so kids can grow up with some adventures, problem-solving, street smarts and confidence. LetGrow.org
I wouldn't hold my breath. They've been around in various forms since 2005 and have a track record of cool prototypes and no market impact. The EV world is way beyond this sort of gee whiz gadgetry.
Flowcharting Templates (Physical)
Whoa! Went to the site, and out of curiosity open their "USP Product Selector" page. When I saw that it's just a Google Form (no instant feedback), and it starts at page 1 of 75, I bailed.
they also used it to imitate Dagoth Ur from Morrowind but I guess that didn't fit the goal of upsetting vice readers
That was a copyright case though. The legal basis for lawsuits over misappropriation of artistic likeness are in privacy and right of publicity laws, and these vary a lot from one jurisdiction to the next.
Undefined Behavior, and the Sledgehammer Principle
A bunch while learning that were small enough that they didn't make it to Github, but here's the interesting ones. They both also include messing around with WASM:

- Image manipulations, https://github.com/cliftbar/PaintByNumbers, https://pixel.cliftbar.site/ (ignore the comments thing, that's another side project, it's currently broken until I'm back from travel. Also the stereogram web image handling is bugged out.)

- Hurricane model generation, https://github.com/cliftbar/godin, https://www.odinseye.cloud/
> On the eighth day, Jack fished it all out of the muddy water at the bottom of the pit. One of his sergeants found another crucial piece.

> “Lieutenant, we found the arm/safe switch,” he told Jack.

> “Great,” Jack said.

> “Not great,” the sergeant replied. “It’s on arm.”

> There’s far from a consensus on how close those bombs were to going off. Jack himself couldn’t say. But had one of them exploded, the other one would have as well (The military refers to this as a “sympathetic detonation”). Each bomb was 250 times more powerful than the ones that decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and an explosion that large would have permanently altered the geography of this state. Even thought it would have been at least 50 miles from the Pamlico Sound, Jack says the blast would have been powerful enough to create a new “Bay of North Carolina.” There would have been a 17-mile-wide “kill zone” around the blast site. Heavy fallout would have spread as far north as New York.

This is one of those moments that could have been a turning point in history. Consider the implications of these bombs exploding. Tens of thousands of Americans dead at the hands of their own military. Imagine how it would change the JFK presidency; he would have been in office for a total of three days at this point. Imagine the effect on the state of North Carolina; Raleigh is just 40 miles from blast site, and millions would be evacuated. Imagine how it would change the Cold War. Imagine how it would change the perception of nuclear technology not just among the American public, but among the British (who have had the bomb for eight years) and French (who have had the bomb for one). It would be one of the top ten defining moments of the 20th century, and would have changed the world as much as 9/11 changed ours.
There's sometimes more to the story.

Another lesson from my career: No place is perfect. Don't make simplistic judgements.
You're supposed to descale them every year anyway
Shooting down an unmanned aircraft in skies where the FAA has jurisdiction (just about all in the US) is a felony equal to shooting a manned aircraft, even hobby drones. You might not want to alert them.
In light of the reemergence of past radiation accidents, the Therac-25 events stand out because they are the result of an unforeseen consequence of increased competence of its operators.
Well, for one, trying to reduce carbon output diverts attention other environmental concerns - like waste management, resource depletion, particulate pollution, recycling, etc. (When is the last time you heard about environmentalists trying to solve those issues?) Second, it gives blanket permission to regulate virtually every aspect of your life. Across the board. Whether it is needed or not. It is also highly presumptions to think that we can effectively control it to the degree it will actually make a significant difference without crashing the economy. And by crashing the economy, I don't just mean the rich sacrificing some of their salary. I mean, people starving or freezing to death.
It’s better to be truthful rather than uncritically reposting corporate press releases.
ActionQuake2 was a hugely popular mod for Quake 2 and for a while it coexisted with Counterstrike. The gameplay was way faster compared to CounterStrike with itsclassic Quake2 movement.

In the end Valve supported CounterStrike whilst ID software did not support mods at all for their platform which in turn sealed the fate for Actionquake2. There was attempts to port it to Quake3, but the gameplay never compared.

Some of the same people were behind Actionquake2 and Counterstrike and there's an argument to be made that AQ2 was the proto CS game.
Meh, you can store that on a single d3en.2xlarge for $780.
Pop in a specific Hot Chip song and it'll work better I reckon
Tested with my own music production and the first similar result was quite impressive!

https://maroofy.com/songs/1452423952
Except there is because you need initial capital to start a business, and when capital is handed out by rich VCs who want a stake in a business then good luck getting that capital for a cooperative. A different model could be that the central bank acts as the investor, and businesses are required to run using a cooperative model.

Again, the point here is to have fair wealth distribution as opposed to having wealth accumulation. Given that the initial wealth is largely a factor of luck, the current model hardly seems fair or moral.
Woman receives the first-ever successful transplant of a living, 3D-printed ear
I think it also has something to do with the corpus – most JS/TS/React code is utter garbage. The model learned to code from inexperienced coders. I see different results in Scala, Dart, Rust, etc.
There is also opennox [1]

[1]: https://github.com/noxworld-dev/opennox
In my personal case, I need to be able to run couchdb. No arm arch package out of the box that I've been able to find. Last time I tried it on arm I gave up after several hours of chasing dependencies while trying to compile from source. Waste of time... Just works on x86. 2 minutes, done. Then I found proxmox, building portalable containers and VMs, and I'm just that much deeper in x86 land. Arm cloud support, while improving, is no where near x86 availability.

Benchmarks are fine and good, but immaterial. I don't really care about 50% more or less speed. It's a server. If I do my job right +/- a few 10s of ms for response time is immaterial. The speed delta between the EMMC and SATA M.2 may well make up for raw processor speed in my use cases which tend to use the I/O.

Your particular board is very niche. I mean, yeah, you have nice ethernet. But that's it. I need my M.2 slots. I need more ram. I could get an x86 board with everything for more $$$, nvme, 2.5-10GBE. It's a compromise.

The J4105 is like 1/3rd the price of the rk3588/rk3588s.

I could go on. To each his own. I'm glad you like your board :) Enjoy it.
That in itself, is but an opinion. You didn't hide it was an opinion, but that is in the end, all it is.

I on the other hand, have another opinion. It is often important to have people who have contextual knowledge stand up and say "that input claiming to be fact is in fact (hah) rubbish" and the politicisation here, is because a very specific arc of engagement is CONSCIOUSLY intruding "fake news" as a tactical approach to dealing with it's concerns.

That it overwhelmingly becomes labelled as a left-right or big-oil/green split, or Russia/Everyone-else or Trump/Biden.. is also something to reflect on.

Exxon (as an example) had material facts to hand, in the 1970s regarding the future impact of CO2 and they made a decision (however informally or not) to surpress those facts, and participate in greenwashing messages, despite the consequences. Now, we could dive into a debate of the form "thats a lie! thats fake news" or not. I don't much care.

In context, I think it informs the quality of the question "is fact checking important" and "is it political" and "is it just about rubbishing dissent"

I think it is important.

I think it is very political.

I do not think it is just about rubbishing dissent.
I've been enjoying my digitally controlled shower temperature for years now. Japan figured this out a long time ago. I know the the temperature I like for a given season, and have up/down buttons to adjust it if needed.
> They're simply not incentivized to do that. If they did their USDT would actually become worthless. If they said nothing and simply exchanged it to the next fool, they get their money.

If they knew that Tether wasn't honoring redemptions, they could take out a large amount of Tether-denominated loans backed by their own collateral. Then they could go public with their information and profit.
> Also, your implied statement of "women, on average, have no traits that are unhelpful to the flourishing of human civilization"

Please point to where I said this.
You don't say: a painting using cubism style is a "Picasso"

The author that popularized it doesn't get attribution de-facto for every paintings that uses cubism

Slightly rotating your missile propulsion system with an auto-targeting system doesn't make it "Itano"

You don't say "Mr Smith's way of braking" because you saw him drift

There is something about the weeb culture that's very corrosive about culture in general

That's very concerning for this generation of technicians

https://llvm.moe/
Are you saying you will have two internet providers at once to ensure you are never without a connection?
Doesn’t the fact that they offer a phone for the poors indicate there is no bubble fiefdom?

At least not along rich/poor lines.
Sorry maybe I was just a little confused, I'm trying to do a few things at a time. Let me try and clarify. I'm approaching this from a good faith position.

> You were claiming[1] that Tether isn't honoring redemptions, based on the fact that no one's screaming "Hey, look at me, I just got some USD back for my tethers, 1:1" -- even though people could also point to tether's failure to redeem, and even profit from advance knowledge of the imminent crypto collapse it would trigger

I was trying to say they claim to (or have in the recent past claimed to) allow redemptions, but in reality, they don't honor all redemptions. They don't, because their terms of service say so. They don't honor redemptions to NY residents, any US persons, to anyone requesting less than $100K, etc. This is all on their tether.to/legal site. They've updated this wording many times.

I don't think in [1] I said they don't honor any redemptions.

Yes, nobody's screaming about it. I think once you exclude the above group (who sell at exchanges), then the remaining are either going to be taken care of out of a small pool of liquidity, or know not to ask for cash.

There's a ton we don't know. We don't know if Tethers are actually being issued in exchange for deposits. They could be issued to institutional players on faith, in which case a 'redemption' wouldn't be a cash withdrawal but instead they tear up the promisory note and return the USDT to the treasury. That seems within their capability.

I further maintain no big players but Trabucco and SBF have said 'they were good for our redemption requests' so I have no reason to believe they are, given their legal issues, questionable track record, and the suspicious folks in charge.

> I think they're almost guaranteed not to be good for all outstanding Tethers.

There's nothing baseless about this, they have a history as detailed by the CFTC and NYAG settlements. I have no reason to trust they're suddenly good for it. So I have no reason to believe they'd be good for all redemptions in the future.

I hope that clarifies my position.
Just tried it - I Walk Up by Luke Christopher and Memories is not too bad! Admittedly - encountered quite a few problems as part of this though - with a few random pop songs in the list.
well, you almost got it. you forgot the part where the fly past for a distance so that when they start to lower altitude, it brings them back to the start. what you describe doesn't really make a box
The article makes clear that Tether is actually more like a Special Drawing Right (SDR) on overcollateralized derivatives of the crypto ecosystem. Which is to say that Tether is more like a derivative of rainbows and unicorns-- actually it's basically the IMF of rainbows and unicorns.

Is Tether the equivalent of USD? No. It is not USD.

Why is Tether valued at 1 USD per coin? I'm not sure. But it almost certainly will not be if the value of crypto broadly falls enough to compromise Tether's collateral. The value of that "paper" is a nonlinear function. The "collapse" would happen so very slowly... and then all at once. Good luck.
but you're not insolvent until you somehow manage to lose the asset (bad investments?) or grow the liability (offering high interest rates?), right?
>because happiness won't come if games/shows/media/any product or service/ will be sh*t.

We all enjoy that stuff, however, if you derive your happiness from the media you consume, you need to re-evaluate your life.
In what world would this not be news?
I like Budgie Ubuntu. Combines the best of Mac, Linux and windows UX imo.
Online dating already is a huge waste of time. You are much better off going out in the real world and meeting people.
A tool to replace :emoji-slugs: within text files with the corresponding emoji
Rationale: to read some ReadMes from GitHub in a plain text editor more comfortly.
The usage is simple: emojifilt < ./in.md > ./out.md .
How are you so sure that thought itself is not a statistical model? I mean that's the whole philosophical question raised by how good ChatGPT actually is.
I don't think anyone here is making the argument that kids being in public is without risk. Besides, kids die when driven to school as well.
The tether agreement says they don't have to redeem your tether and if you're a US person you're totally ineligible in any case.

It's not a pyramid because it was always made explicitly clear it was exchangeable for nothing, like if I sold you pieces of paper with my signature on it.
> Even some of the Founding Fathers appeared obese or overweight

That's a tiny privileged group of people living in an era where you flaunted your status and wealth by being chubby. You are talking about the 1% of the 1%. They are not representative of the population as a whole. The average height of an american revolutionary soldier was 5'3". A more representative sample of the population as a whole. And they certainly weren't obese. You can go to museums and see the guns they carried and the clothes (tiny) they wore.

I don't think there was an obesity issue before industrialization, especially industrial farming which led to abundance of food.
I don’t actually know how it works for paying yourself. But if you were paying someone else, in 2024 they would get 10k carried over from 2023 and $5k from 2024. You only get 10% the first year. I am not an accountant and this is not tax advice :-)
I've been working on that since last year, and notably on GPT-3 and other models on textbooks specifically with a publisher since September - here's how we convinced people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V3VkNj2bag

The problem is the tech can be wrong and that destroys retention. You need to a) verify statements b) consider citing statements c) Identify out-of-domain or "base GPT model response" answer.

All I can say is it has been incredibly hard so far, but we've made noticeable progress recently, and hit recall of 98% for psychology. Having been in OPs shoes, I wouldn't underestimate how temporary traction or a UI doesn't make up for bad retention for these products... it's the core engineering and NLP focus that matters (that's our bet anyway!)
They have changed it up a bit, there is a new checkmark that means "company official page", another one for "notable person" for politicians and journalists, and the blue checkmark which now just means paid for twitter.
So, where is truth social in the scale of fact? Facebook had one stage, then another. Twitter has gone through at least 3 if not more revolutions on this.

I think the research has merit. I think it would need to be continuous, and re-examined.

For history, some people in the UK may recall a "glasgow media group" who did fact checking in the 1970s before the internet at scale was a thing (the internet existed but was functionally still 10,000 people worldwide, not 99% of the developed world).

It was (in my personal opinion) overtly of a left-view interpretation of history and social contexts. Unfortunately, that was siezed upon by the Tory party, and media companies to "rubbish" their work. The underlying work politics aside was fascinating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Media_Group
Yeah it didn't make a lot of sense in most of continental United States and maybe that's why most of Loon's initial deployment testing was in Africa with sparser terrestrial network. Starlink definitely changed the rules and made LEO based systems a viable alternative for sure.
A visit to TikTok's transparency center
Astrée Static Analyzer for C and C++
Do I need a coffee or is this just stilted:

> In the alphabet recited by nineteenth-century schoolchildren, it followed Z. 'And per se and', they would say, 'and per se and'. A logogram masquerading as a letter, a letter that is also a word—like a and I and even o, but no—a letter that is only a word, the plainest word of all. A word we could do without, to be honest, if we had to. We don’t have to, and thank the language gods for that.

A logogram is only a word or phrase. How could we do without 'and'? How is 'and' the plainest word of all? This is like a bad impression of Douglas Adams or something.