skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tether (and the others) don't have to make redemptions. People attempting to repeated find there are sudden issues with the network, or the oddly need to re-verify themselves (and fail) repeatedly, or some other random issue occurs. Binance is doing this heavily right now (and recommending people use P2P, which also fails).
Apple’s huge cash reserves are by far the least interesting advantage it can bring to bear in this area. There are two and a half more interesting advantages: their superstar translation layer developer team[1], their superstar silicon team[2], and the ability for these teams to work together[2.5].

1: Rosetta 2 was low-key a modern miracle: Apple made an x86-to-ARM translation layer that Just Works for 99% of software.

2: Apple Silicon was another modern miracle, although much more high-key: Apple stepped into chip design for laptops/desktops and produced a thoroughly competitive set of chips (that are even industry-leaders in some, though not all, important metrics).

2.5: One of the reasons Rosetta 2 worked so well was that M-chips were designed with built-in tricks to support it (https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/1331736203402547201).

Using these advantages to support gaming is the way to go, not trying to pay game developers to use Metal.
Take your Rosetta dev team and task them with making a DirectX-to-Metal translation layer (you even have a ready-made name for it: the Ezana Stone is another trilingual stone like the Rosetta Stone, this time written in Classical Ethiopic, Sabaic, and Ancient Greek).
Take your Apple Silicon team and task them with making a gaming-focused chip (this might be as simple as making an M-chip that has more like a 3:1ish ratio of GPU to CPU cores rather than the current 1:1ish ratio).
Have these two teams work together to put features on the gaming chip that support the translation layer (explicit hardware support for a few of the trickiest DirectX calls or something).
Maybe you can even punt all that fancy neural-network-based DLSS upscaling to the Neural Engine, who knows?

The M1 Ultra was essentially two M1 Maxes taped together and much was made of it being “beating” Nvidia’s 3090 (only if you starve the 3090 of power). But tape two M1 Ultras together, and it looks like you probably beat a 3090 in a fair fight too.

If Apple wanted to go that way, they could ship a hypothetical system that packs two GPU-core-heavy M3 Ultras taped together, executes a translation layer that runs DirectX/Vulkan alongside OpenGL/Metal, and shoves the pixels onto studio-grade 4K/5K/6K Retina displays. That would be the most powerful gaming PC in absolute as well as relative terms. Apple would go from “by far the worst gaming platform” to “by far the best gaming platform” overnight. I doubt Apple has any interest in this direction, but if they did, they could do so much better than throwing cash at game developers.
As long as the websites are up, publish "quotes" that appear to represent alleged "gains" and the amount of withdrawals remains reasonably low. Like any Ponzi scheme.

NB. "Withdrawals" here means what the article calls "redemptions". It means recovering the fiat currency that one surrendered in order to participate in the Ponzi scheme.

Bitcoin could have "collapsed" weeks, months or years ago, but how would anyone know. A Ponzi scheme can be undetectable until the victims try to withdraw their funds.

As long as websites publish a purported "quote" then people reading may continue to believe it. People can argue about the "value" of BTC until they are blue in the face (watch for the replies to this comment) but until they actually withdraw the funds they committed in real money to participate, let alone any purported gains, it is all speculation. There are no guarantees because crypto is unregulated.1

These crypto entities are not required by law to disclose anything. How does anyone verify if what they disclose is actually true. If someone believes BTC is truly worth what is published on CoinMarketCap, then they should try cashing out and prove it.2 The ones who cash out early will get their money, but if enough people try to cash out in a short period, then the Ponzi scheme will be exposed. The schemers cannot cover the withdrawals. Most BTC owners will lose their real money.

But then, who wants money when one has BTC. If one believes in crypto then perhaps one believes money (fiat currency) is ultimately useless.

Tether had to be sued by the NY Attorney General for it to release basic information. Ths sad reality is that the only effective means to getting information about what crypto schemers are doing has been to bring civil or criminal proceedings against them.

1. With respect to the US, crypto is unlike shares of stock, the issuance and trading of which must comply with securities laws. Tether is not registered with the SEC.

2. "Cash out" here means convert to real money (fiat currency). The article refers to this as "redemptions".
>>> There was a small netcafe nearby when I was young that had a good quality T1 connection and hosted their own CS servers

PC Bang in Columbia MD circa 2006! $3/hr. Spanking fresh GeForce 7900s.

Starcraft was really why every one showed up though ;)
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The system for finding a needle in a sprinkling of hay is the same as finding a needle in a mountain-sized haystack but I would sure as hell prefer to be given the former task over the latter.
Eh, give it 200 years, people will say stuff will have been weird back now.
An interesting test would be a taking someone who looks extremely similar to Brad Pitt, but can’t act, and buying the rights to their likeness, and pasting it over an actor.
It's not weird when it reflects the reality of the situation. It's the same reason we say voting third party is throwing your vote away. It's important to have more voices heard but in our first past the post system, voting for a candidate who can't get anywhere close to a third of the votes simply doesn't matter.

I haven't read the bill but if certain states are committing themselves to popular distribution of their electoral votes while the red states stick to all or nothing, the reality is that 40% of CA's electoral votes go red and blue candidates don't have a chance at winning.
The "Blurred Lines" judgment is a good example of "Be an excessive jackass and the system will smack you down regardless of facts."

Had they been even slightly reasonable, it never would have gone that far.
If that was the only option and you couldn’t get a brand new iPhone for $600, sure.

They’re a high end brand, so down turns are difficult. They’ll be fine though, the impact us usually not all that bad though. People tend to just buy one rung down the product line than they otherwise would, or a year later rather than not at all.

I have to say I’m impressed with iPad prices though, $329 for a full size model is a steal.
I encourage you to talk to some people in extremely undeveloped countries about the problems with detaining people for decades.

I would especially recommend talking to people in the most remote areas of the underdeveloped countries. They literally are unable to keep people in prison.

Over the past few decades, most areas have been solving these issues, but there are still a few areas where there is no alternative.
If we take a look at people who grew up with smartphones, most of them prefer smartphone to computer. Though they still use computers, but more like a work device.

I believe full text search stay there, but ChatGPT like technologies will augment it.
> Unlike GitHub’s unreliable automatically generated files, a fixed file can be hashed or cryptographically signed by the project (with SSH signatures, Signify, PGP, etc.), and later verified without having to extract the files first

Or how about this: Microsoft could provide that as a feature in their "official release" page for projects, which is exactly what we all thought that page was for in the first place.

Seriously: if archive links are unreliable they're basically useless anyway. Who wants tarballs in the modern world except for package management or build automation?
Verify operations when space becomes a denied environment due to debris field...

(edit to add: i.e. field test planned comms and sensors platforms for use in future conflict scenarios)
It’s not unreasonable. The problem is that blank media imposes a lower bound on the discount that can be offered for these rental schemes (to say nothing of the e-waste) to make economic sense to the seller.

Most consumers aren’t going to rent a movie they can only watch a few for a 10% discount off the price of unlimited views.

For example, Apple typically prices movie “purchases” around 4x of a 24 hr rental (75% off), and that has essentially zero marginal cost of production. With physical media there would be no profit.
I’m guessing they mean “man in the middle as a service,” referring to the fact that Cloudflare (by design) is a trusted party in your TLS traffic if you use them.
Top Russian Official Thanks Pirates for Enabling Access to ‘Enemy’ Content
Way way back I had Chinese acquaintances who were using it to get their money out of China and to Canada. No longer in communication with those people and I know China has since come down hard on it but is that still part of it's use?
Frenet frames are simply any orthonormal frame. A rotation-minimizing frame is a frame that has minimal twist from some previous frame.
Because no one cares about random wild speculation and rumors spread across the Internet for almost a decade. What people care about is whether they can take 1 USDT and exchange it for 1 USD, plain and simple.

Currently Bitfinex will exchange 1 USDT for 1 USD and they hold a substantial about of USDT, they also buy up USDT when it falls below 1 USD. I'm sure Bitfinex is happy to see reports about Tether's demise spread, because it's free money for them.

If at some point it's not possible to redeem 1 USDT for 1 USD, then Tether will collapse like the other stable coins and that's really all there is to it.
I'm mildly surprised that I was able to "generate a list of atrocities" (inflammatory wording chosen on purpose) for both Donald Trump and Barack Obama.

For both it gave me the following spiel:

>As an AI language model, I do not have personal opinions or biases. However, here are some actions and policies of former President $NAME that have been criticized and considered by some as unethical or detrimental:

...but then gave me a list (10 items for Trump, 8 for Obama).
So half of one party is enough? Wonderful that the press gives that one party so much power to decide about the country's direction. I wonder if the press gives that party a lot more attention and importance, and why that's so?
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If ChatGPT saved you 4 hours a day, you could be less stressed and have more time to do other stuff like exercise
We raised out kids on mostly Dr Seuss. In particular I remember Go Dogs Go and Green Eggs and ham being their favorites... or was it my favorite?

The part they liked the most was my being next to them reading the books, each day. I would just ask them to choose a book, and off we went.

Funny thing is one day my son started to read the book himself without opening the book. I was shocked he had pretty much memorized the first half. Turns out that is normal and a good thing.

As they got older, before getting a device, they would always bring a book into the car when we drove anywhere.
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I'm thinking about AI that doesn't automatically anti conservative.
> Those algos just have to keep up with chatGPT the same way they've already been keeping up with spam, the 95% of the web that is a dumpster fire, etc.

That "just" is an arms race so fantastically difficult that the current leading business doing it has a market cap of $1.4 trillion.

Those algos are, to date, some of the world's most sophisticated uses of AI.

This is like observing that the howitzer was just invented and saying, "Don't worry, we've got chainmail armor."
You are overcomplicating this whole thing.

Just buy a thermostatic shower valve and have exact temperature control. They use a wax thermostat to precisely control the temperature.

Do not get the more common, and less expensive, temperature-pressure valve.

You can tell the difference because the bad kind has a single dial for both on-off and temperature control. It has no volume control.

The better one has one dial for temperature, and a second dial to turn the water on and control flow.

Mine is marked in degrees, and you just dial in the exact temperature you want, and leave it alone, and it will adjust as hotter water comes in.
Redframes: General Purpose Data Manipulation Library
Everyone commenting in this thread that R&D can be written off is working with outdated information and is not up to date with the current state of play.

I had the exact same conversation with my CPA last month. They told me the same things that you were told by your CPA: R&D expenses, including software development, must always be amortized over 5 years starting in FY22. The R&D tax credit has nothing to do with it. There is no option to deduct these expenses. Amortization also now applies to failed or abandoned R&D projects, which is a major change that seems likely to be devastating to innovation.

In my opinion this rule is a disaster. Call your congressperson and your senators: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
I hope I can get my hands on one of these cars one day
"... I spend most of my time on maintenance, and I offer retainers to companies that benefit from my work and from access to my planning and my expertise. I now have six amazing clients, and I’m making an amount of money equivalent to my Google total compensation package"

Well done and keep it up! I highly recommend that you find say two other individuals like yourself and form a triumvirate. An individual can have trouble taking time off, dealing with life's inevitable adversity etc.

That can work well for a fledgling org because two can out vote the one who gets it "wrong". This model does require a certain amount of trust and the ability to accept being wrong.

Then you take on staff ...
I loved the seriousness of this manifesto. A most-pressing issue indeed. The search for the better shower handle will be squabbled just like the quest for a better mousetrap.

My two cents—a cam in the shower handle could follow that curve.
"ended up using both for different use cases"

Back when I started programming Android, people were telling me that Android is not eating Blackberry's lunch. Back when we were selling a certain app in my first job, the client told us they had Palm Pilots that do the same thing. Microsoft was giving us mobile devs a free Lumia to learn to program Windows OS. Game devs were saying touchscreens had inferior controls and wouldn't catch up to Symbian games.

Now none of those are part of the "both".

I would say Google is like Symbian. They defined the term. But they're making poor product decisions lately. We've seen constant complaints on them for years. They're not the iPhone, they're not innovating. Google is a 20 year old technology that everyone still uses because there's no other option.

ChatGPT is more like the iPhone. It's doing things in a strange new way that's not what we expect. It's inferior in many way. It's dumbed down for the common person.

The Android analogy is not out yet, but it's probably a smaller player similar to Midjourney who will be acquired by a much bigger player later.
Moi aussi.

Just another 'Fad of the Week', by the sound of it. Over the last few decades we've had hundreds of these.
A woman walking alone at night who encounters a stranger does not care what generative process led to a group disparity, she cares whether she is likely to be in danger. It is politically palatable in polite society for her to be afraid of an unknown man on the basis of his sex. But it is not acceptable for her to even consider that a statistical disparity may exist on the basis of race, or take precautions on that basis, unless it is in the context of condemning society as solely responsible for creating that disparity.

A statement of empirical observation cannot be "ill-formed" unless you have appointed yourself ultimate arbiter over why a person might care.
Probably some sensors to see what we’re doing with our nuke bases in Montana.
it seems that they didn't migrate the video. https://players.brightcove.net/5387496921001/default_default... is unavailable, but the old wordpress images are still online and available: https://www.msgnetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/chamb...
You're question is the correct one to ask. You are bring down voted because people want to pretend one possible crypto scam discredits all crypto and can't comprehend that crypto is more complex than that.
Right, it's about foundational concepts and frameworks. Sure you can jump to Rawls (not that the folks who've been arrested so far back that a skim of a few pages of Plato would be enlightening are likely to have done that, either) but you'll miss a bunch and won't wrestle with him as well, if you do. You can always read him, and de Beauvoir, and et c., et c., later—and you'll be so much better equipped to read them if you've got a half-decent foundation in the basics, in the very language and idiom, of intellectual Western (at least) writing—of how to read, how to really read—first.

There's nothing stopping you from digging deep into modern social justice or anti-colonialism or whatever after you graduate—and I'd wager St. John's grads are more likely to do exactly that, and to do so more profitably, than most. Anyway, it's not as if either of those began in the 20th century....
> They could have as well never received any USD / fiat

What do you mean by that? What do they do with the tether they issue then?
Tether?... withdrawals?

Not sure what you mean here. Do you mean conversion?

With BTC, 99% of users could withdraw their BTC from the exchange and it would have relatively little effect on price (although there might be volatility). Trading for USD would impact the price, and I'm suspecting that's what you mean by "withdrawal".

But trading anything into anything else devalues it relative to the other thing. You could say the same thing about a stock. If everyone holding Alphabet decided to try to sell it tomorrow, the price would crater, because that's how markets work. This not the same thing as a Ponzi scheme.
A lot of good things happened (could add womens suffrage too) but there was also supreme court endorsement of eugenics (Buck v Bell 1927).

Then Woodrow Wilson’s Espionage Act during WW1. In Schenck v US and Debs v US, the supreme court upheld convictions (first for the crime of distributing literature arguing the draft was illegal, and second just for hinting that the US shouldnt have joined the war).
I try and convince people I talk to regularly to use anything other than SMS. Whatsapp, Signal, even encrypted FB Messenger.
Let’s Encrypt, like other major CAs, participates in Certificate Transparency for this reason. “Central point of vulnerability” means very little without actual evidence of compromise, which CT would give us. And we haven’t seen any such evidence.
High altitude is a point I hope is made loudly. Otherwise.. I imagine a lot of Americans' will be looking to the sky and may take a shot at something.
As far as I know all you can do is alter the input to manipulate the completion, there are no other parameters that ChatGPT accepts.
If you've been subject to reinforcement learning, you have bias.
Advice for Marketing to Developers
Ignore the clickbait title of the post itself, as I did when sharing here. This is a master class on how to market to developers. Could take the HN stuff out and it would still be brilliant.
Rule 1 of investing: Never bet more than you're willing to lose.

Rule 2 (which answers your question): the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent
And the reality is that I game entirely on Linux with a mix of Linux-native and Proton games. The Linux-native games work perfectly and the Proton games all have bugs.
Tell HN: Beware of this newsletter you can't unsubscribe from
So there is this newsletter called "The Futurist" - www.getthefuturist.com

I have clicked the unsubscribe link at least 20 times, they keep sending me multiple newsletters every day.

I have emailed their customer service multiple times, they never got back to me.

I have opened a complaint wih ACMA: https://www.acma.gov.au/spam-and-telemarketing - hopefully it will have the desired effect.

I am an EU Citizen and I considered also sending a GDPR request, but due to the fact that I no longer reside in the EU, I think the EU privacy laws don't apply to me.

Anyway, my advice is: avoid subscribing to Te Futurist if you don't like spam!
I would happily trade many of the increases in standard of living to regain our freedom. It's not enough to have a good standard of living, if you must live in constant oppressive fear of the abject tyranny imposed upon us. And make no mistake, that's where we are in this country. It might be subjectively considered better than most others, but that's just a way of saying our shit stinks less.
It was a thing. It never bothered me. I moved to iPhone after I got tired of fighting Android over privacy. Apple isn't great but they're mostly in the hardware business and not software/ad business (for now) so they aren't quite as invasive.
Show HN: Who is hiring? data since first Covid infection
Curious if we could predict a recession, and without ChatGPT’s assistance, I compiled total comments from HN's who is hiring? threads since November 2019. According to Wikipedia, Chinese gov’t records suggest the first COVID infection occurred then.

Numbers are total comments and estimate is >90% of comments are job posts. Summary: February 2023 comments are less than half of the peak in 2021 when several months had >1000 comments.

2023: 2/23 = 465, 1/23 = 533

2022: 12/22 = 576, 11/22 = 635, 10/22 = 560, 9/22 = 618, 8/22 = 761, 7/22 = 617, 6/22 = 852, 5/22 = 844, 4/22 = 798, 3/22 = 869, 2/22 = 883, 1/22 = 766

2021: 12/21 = 832, 11/21 = 1019, 10/21 = 852, 9/21 = 968, 8/21 = 907, 7/21 = 987, 6/21 = 1041, 5/21 = 925, 4/21 = 970, 3/21 = 964, 2/21 = 1052, 1/21 = 848

2020: 12/20 = 767, 11/20 = 808, 10/20 = 811, 9/20 = 698, 8/20 = 828, 7/20 = 681, 6/20 = 659, 5/20 = 686, 4/20 = 601, 3/23/20 = 786, 3/20 = 776, 2/20 = 677, 1/20 = 697

2019: 12/19 = 673, 11/19 = 742

OpenAI employees, watch for this flood of ChatGPT prompts:
how to gamble on stocks with HN hiring data?
> "is this site garbage"

Why not? If it has headers that say it was made with FrontPage 2003 and has five thousand AdSense boxes, uses old world fonts like Arial instead of HelveticaNeue Light, uses 16-bit VGA colors like #0000ff, or has bgsound and blink tags, it should perhaps be downranked.
Just bought a Grohe thermostatic shower control and it’s one of the best things I’ve ever bought. Saves water and keeps the temperature comfortable. Highly recommend a thermostatic control.
I'm a leftist and fail to see the problem with this. Context matters. If a slave kills their master, would you say that crime is immoral? Generally punching up is considered less hateful or immoral, and I don't see why that is bad.
I was under the impression that teeth should only be professionally cleaned every 6 months
That says nothing. I could show you a chart of Tether's volume vs. S&P500 and you'll see a similar pattern. Big deal.
It seems like the obvious solution would be to replace words that refer to specific races, nationalities, genders, religions, etc. with symbols that only indicate the category so if someone ranks "the Danes are rude" as hateful that is translated to "the [nationality] are rude" and is applied equally to a comment that says "the Swedes are rude". That way they can continue using the same system while eliminating the most obvious sources of discrimination.
That's the bug.
Dashlane source code publicly available