skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Withdrawals" could also mean "swaps", e.g.,

From the article:

"Like other stablecoins, its value depends on a simple notion: Investors expect that Tether the company will swap $1 for one tether, or one tether for $1. Central to that is the assertion that Tether has enough reserves to redeem all the roughly 68 billion tethers in existence."

Or "withdrawal" could mean "exchanage", e.g.,

"3. Putting your savings in Tether

Tether is usually worth $1, and you can earn far more interest lending it than you would with the best high-yield savings accounts. Based on that, doesn't it make sense to put your savings in Tether instead of the bank?

Not quite. While they may seem safe, Tether and other stablecoins are a much riskier place for your money than a bank account.

Tether makes no legal guarantee that 1 Tether can be exchanged for $1. Most banks offer FDIC insurance that protects up to $250,000 per account in the event of a bank failure. Tether isn't FDIC-insured, so if the company behind it fails, you'd have no protection.

There have also been controversies with Tether and its reserves in the past. Tether Limited used to claim that every Tether was backed by a U.S. dollar, but that turned out to be false. In a recent reserves breakdown, Tether Limited revealed that 2.9% of Tether was backed by cash.

https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/cryptocurrency/articles/the-...

Also "withdrawals" could mean withdrawals by the Tether company from their own bank accounts to cover redemption requests from Tether customers.

"As long as people believe that Tether is fully backed, or that Tether and Bitfinex probes won't impact the price of bitcoin, the game can continue. But if too many people start dumping bitcoin in a panic and rushing toward the fiat exits, the truth - that there isn't enough cash left in the system to support a tsunami of withdrawals - will be revealed, and that would be especially bad news for Tether execs."

https://amycastor.com/2021/07/26/the-dojs-criminal-probe-int...
Delay until when?
Pretty cool. I think I broke it with Enya's Pax Deorum, though... can't get it to work at all now ("Hmm, something went wrong.")
Interesting. It seems kind of exotic choice to me.
The only times I click on them are by accident. Sometimes they get through my multi layered ad defense.
Think the glider game may simply have been an iOS implementation of a classic Mac game “Glider”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_(video_game)
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I was in Google Ads 2008-10, and people from outside the company always said, "Oh, I never click on ads!"

To which I responded, "Well, someone does, or we wouldn't have all this free food."

There's a simple test of your hypothesis, which they can do easily inside Google but it's harder to do from outside: has CTR gone down over the years?
"The Twits" was a favorite of my younger kids. I recently read "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe" to them, and they loved it. Of course we had to make Turkish Delight after learning about it in the book. Other winners include: Redwall series, The Wingfeather Saga, Artemis Foul series, The Phantom Toll Booth. But 4 is a bit young for those.
> Outside of keeping connected with people (Signal, Whatsapp, etc), there really is no reason to use the internet except to gain knowledge (isn't that why the internet was invented in the first place? web 1.0).

Except online banking, using mandatory national digital id services, paying for stuff, applying for a job and you know a million other thinga that are completely digital.

> I don't mean time travel, I mean books. In particular, books that are pre-2010s, the earlier the better in most subjects.

Ok now I'm pretty sure this entire rant is generated by an AI using a weird prompt because there is no way that ChatGPT would output such a poorly constructed argumentet.
Because it costs them nothing to "create" 1M USDT and exchange it for nothing. So, they create 1M USDT out of thin air, and "sell" it to some crypto exchange that wants to claim it can redeem 1M$, in exchange for some other crypto or IOUs or whatever. The exchange is happy because it can now sell 1M more USDT. Tether is happy because they got something that is nominally worth 1M$ at no cost to them.

Of course, someone somewhere in the future will be left holding the bag. But if they can keep it going, and if they do manage to sell some USDT for real money (which they certainly did), then they can still make a load of profit.
I've been wanting a music suggestion service in this category for years. I haven't been able to try it out yet (hugged?), but I don't really care how bad or good it is as long it gets better and sparks more people to do stuff like this.
We have central hot water, and in winter hot water is incredibly hot, because the thermo-power station runs high.
Nifty trivia, and not exactly shocking to me, but not really pertinent to the metaphor.

The way I usually phrase it is "Wherever you see firefighters, you see burning buildings. So get rid of the fire department and problem solved."

Nope, that's not how that works.
IIRC those credit default swaps actually almost became worthless overnight due to an important bank almost failing.
Iran's history is quite an interesting one if you're not familiar with it. In the 1950s Iran was a relatively secular democracy. They had a mixed relationship with the West, but it was workable. When they discovered that the West was not fairly paying oil royalties as agreed upon, they moved to nationalize their oil.

This was unacceptable to the West, so we covertly overthrew their democracy and installed an unpopular autocratic monarch in 1953. This Monarch would then rule for the next 26 years until in 1979 they would have their own "real" revolution. It was largely led by Islamic extremists, and they replaced our puppet monarchy with an Islamic theocracy. And this theocracy not only has a pretty negative view of the West, but for some reason always thinks we're trying to engage in covert actions to try to overthrow them! Go figure.

1953 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat

1979 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution
It's clearly not a Chinese spy balloon.

China has spy sattelites that can do what this balloon supposedly can, and that's why the US isn't shooting it down. What a load of crap. 1) the US would shoot it down anyway 2) why would China send a balloon when they have sattelites?

The conclusion drawn must be that it's either not Chinese, or not a spy balloon, or most probably not either.
>to the point he called SEALs, Delta, etc “door kickers”

US Army Special Forces have completely different mission sets from SEALs/Delta etc, in which the latter does mostly kill/capture. SF does a lot more integration with host nation forces, training and so on. Not the same organizational goals, which is intentional.
I've said this before, but public education seems to be in a death spiral of:

1. Reduce teacher autonomy

2. A lot of the better teachers dislike this, so move on

3. Decide that the teachers remaining aren't competent enough, so reduce their autonomy

4. GOTO 2

Not being able to decide how much, and what homework to assign is beyond absurd for someone who is so least ostensibly a teacher. If you are dictating what they are doing to that detail, stop requiring a college degree and call them day-care providers.
Eh, I might complain about the hardware sometimes but it's not like I can get a Linux laptop that's anywhere near as good in terms of build quality... Well. Unless I just install Linux on my MacBook of course...
It's clear now that S&P 500 is propped by tether!
Are people getting used to native advertising though? It seems prolific to me but I still just hear people brag about how advertising doesn't affect them because they don't click on things. People are used to basic advertising (billboards, commercials, and web page images) but I don't think people are used to other types of advertising. I also don't think people understand how all the basic advertising works. For example, many car commercials aren't always trying to get you to buy a car but rather build brand prestige. These types of ads have existed for quite a long time but I don't think people acclimated to them because they still misunderstand how ads work (or rather the diversity in purposes of ads).
I am tech savvy and run ad blockers on all my devices. However I consume Instagram through an app, and can’t be arsed setting up an ad blocker that would deal with that. I have bought a whole bunch of stuff through Instagram ads. I see too many ads on Instagram, but not enough to make me stop using it, and the ads are apparently relevant enough.

I assume this is a large reason why websites are so keen for you to use their apps.
So slush?
Here's a video from 2003 where BMW stuck a hydrogen tank and a gasoline tank in a fire and compared the results [1]. Not exactly what you were asking for - but demonstrates hydrogen being released at high pressure and ignited.

The caption from BMW is:

> Fire behaviour test, comparing a petrol tank and a tank filled with liquefied hydrogen. The heat from outside causes a rise of pressure inside the hydrogen tank. The hydrogen gasifies and emerges through a safety valve into the air, where it burns off. From the fuel tank liquid petrol emerges and causes a surface fire. Statements by Dr. Joachim Wolf, Linde AG "What that means for the car manufacturer – or for cars in general – when we transfer this hypothetical situation into reality: an accident happens, petrol runs out, and a car drives into the flames. It’s not very nice when a car is on fire and people have to be rescued. That’s the case with petrol. With hydrogen, if the fuel escapes then it disperses upwards. That probably offers much better options for rescuing people who may be trapped in the vehicles.""Hydrogen is no more dangerous than petrol: I think this test shows that. We see a clear blue flame that doesn’t produce as much heat as burning petrol. Hydrogen is not more dangerous, but it’s also no less dangerous than petrol. It simply poses different potential hazards."

I more or less agree with the statement that Hydrogen is not necessarily any more dangerous than the cars we are already driving around, but poses a different a different set of potential hazards. That being said - I don't think I would like to be an early adopter of hydrogen cars.

[1] https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/embed/Ufc3E4x91b
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> Guys, seriously, who didn't already know this?

Fresh, starry-eyed people enter the workforce every day. As long as new humans keep being born, there is no point at which anyone is ever finished teaching the same lessons over and over again.
Can you explain a bit more? Why would this cause china not to support Russia? Why is counting nuke sites useful? Who’s allowed to request?
Even in a case where they for some reason might want to oversubscribe or at least keep the number of servers smaller the scheduling decision they want seems to be different.

It's the difference between "fit this into the smallest number of nodes so that we can shut down some nodes [possibly rented by the hour] if possible" vs "these nodes are sitting there whether or not they're doing anything, so spread the nodes across them".

In the long run there may come a time where packing tighter matters, e.g. if they become big enough to run their own data centres, where shutting down servers dynamically to save power might become worth it, but typical colo contracts for smaller number of racks rarely makes it worth your while to turn servers off.
> probably to just count silos like we’ve been doing back and forth since the 70s

Pretty sure they've got satellites that can do that.
It is because Alice knows the code, so she does not have to spend time figuring it out. It is because Alice knows what was important requirement and what was emergent property, so she knows what she can sacrifice.

It is because Alice knows how to log in, where to click to get to the right place and what to fill into fields to enable the button.
As a guy who likes precision in language, it seems to me that the last option seems perfectly acceptable because resources aren’t always human, correct? Maybe it means additional officers, hardware, or cloud?
What is it? I can't seem to find it in the paper.
Care to link the course you took? The OSI model was always a bit abstract to me since college.
I’m not sure what you mean by “there’s no way to distinguish a pointer from an array”. Arrays and pointers in C and C++ are distinct types, although arrays will decay to a pointer in an expression context (and there is the whole problem with arrays as function parameters being rewritten to pointers which adds to the confusion).

C with VLAs can actually express the length of a pointed to array, with the following example:

#include <stdio.h>
// See the linux kernel for a version that verifies
// `x` is actually an array.
#define arrlen(x) (sizeof(x)/sizeof(x[0]))
void foo(const int x, int(*y)[x]){
printf("%zu\n", arrlen(*y));
}

int main(){
int a[3];
foo(arrlen(a), &a);
return 0;
}

If you compile and run the above code, you will see that it correctly prints the length of the array - 3. Unfortunately, the syntax is awkward and most C/C++ programmers would be stumped by the actual syntax for a pointer to an array. There is also no help that the correct length is passed.
No kidding; in one of the most sought after jobs at one of the most recognized companies and get laid off after 16 years?
The blogging on this like it’s new is crazy. I’m mean the automated email is bad, but hey, that’s the automated brave new world our profession has built.
I run an ad blocker centrally on my router (pfSense with pfblockerng on an APU2.D4), which has an automatically updated list of all known ad servers worldwide, directing traffic for those into a DNS sink. No device configuration needed. Cannot be detected by websites.
Same goes for many guild protected professions.
Does the medical profession need all the Latin based terminology?
Let's run this through Hanlon's razor...no one is suggesting that we "create more evil". They're simply suggesting that this technology is not inherently evil.

Whether it is evil or not, we can debate, but let's start by assuming good faith by all debate participants.
Apple Music subscription is $12/month and it allows full downloads of songs.
So the answer to GP's point "Also, people leave all the time so you have to be ok with an Alice leaving (or die). You cannot depend on people being around for ever to ensure continuity." would be that if the trend was for people to be rewarded for sticking around longer, even if alice quit there would on average still be a Bob or an Eve with the same level of experience in the team who could hanlde this?
That’s market share for mobile, not desktops
Guy has the vision of a vegetable. I look forward to using vibrant products from new entrants.
The offending interaction occurred after the interview at burning man. He did not sexually proposition anyone in the interview. Furthermore the allegations were made two years after the supposed incidents occurred, the more distant an event is in our memory the more I'm inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to the possibility of people's accounts drifting from the truth.

The issue is whether Simpson was denied before or after burning man. If it was before, which is apparently what Devaul was insisting, it really was inappropriate to take any action in my opinion. If you match on tinder with someone you once interviewed, after the hire/no hurry decision is made, then your company shouldn't be treating this relationship any different from a total stranger. Or are we supposed to keep spreadsheets of every person we ever interviewed? Because that's not in my sexual harassment training, I dunno about yours.

Think about how you would defend yourself if someone accused you of making a sexual advance in an interview after you rejected them for a job? If testimony alone is enough to get you fired, then that's a significant source of pressure to give female candidates positive outcomes even if their performance isn't up to par.
Against risk-based authentication (or, why I wouldn't trust Google Cloud)
Very cool, well done ! Are model code & weights open source?
I've been so much happier with YouTube when I removed the Android app and replaced it with an icon on my home screen that goes to https://m.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions in Firefox (with uBlock Origin). Works perfectly.
> He's an outlier in the industry.

...even more than that. He's an outlier in the industry and has chosen an industry with access to pyramid scheme money.

Neither the investment bubble surrounding FAANG, nor the job market bubble surrounding the talent pool that FAANG recruits from (namely SE talent that happens to be localized in the Bay Area) were sustainable.

Now that the market seems to finally be correcting away from that unsustainable local equilibrium, he's hopping right into the next one by becoming an open source crypto bro.

> "proves the thesis that it’s possible to be a professional maintainer earning rates competitive with the adjacent market for senior software engineers."

"Prove" is a strong word but "possible" weakens the statement.

"It's possible to earn 95th-percentile compensation." True, by definition, for 5% of all people. Nothing to see here. "There's more than one way of getting there." True. "Honest pay for honest work will get you there." Probably not. "Just seek out the bubbles and jump right in is a reproducible way of getting there." Probably not, you'd have to get the timing right, and that's mostly luck.
Is it weird for me (a Chinese) to reply this?

I don't really think the three-buses-wide balloon is a good idea for spying since everybody (including the radar) can see it coming, but I imagine this will be quite effective for search and rescue support, battlefield surveillance and all the other short-term missions that could put such disposable flying electronics better good use.

If I remembered it correctly, China Mobile has tested a drone-based base station which can provide cell service over a short period of time, and they were using the system during a earthquake rescue with some success. Maybe using balloon is an better idea.

PS. Funny thing. I was planing to build and release a water probe since I live very close to the Yangtze river. Thought I can probably measure the water speed with the probe by letting it send back it's GPS position, plus some pretty pictures via cell/SMS. I haven't started the project though, due to many hurdles. One of them is to figure out what trouble I can get myself into after the probe encountered something it shouldn't have (because I have no control over it after release). I don't really want to have a chat with CIA, or even worse, the water police (yup, and they got jet boats).
Foone hasn't had a particularly good history of not being insulted for their posting style (particularly Twitter/Fediverse threads) on Hacker News
That just means only for those examples it was fixed.

Logically the mathematics behind it says that it can happen. You present evidence which is refutable by new evidence. Logic if correct, cannot be refuted.
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They could easily ban any BTC traded by a DEX that offers BTC/XMR exchanges, and any BTC that comes from a pool that also contains money that participated in this etc.

If the US government wants to ban an XMR, it can ban XMR.
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Wouldn’t you have to re-encrypt if the envelope key changes?

Specifically I would think the decrypted data key is derived from the encryption key.
Maybe. Or maybe there's an uncanny valley effect where overly personal ads seem intrusive, and something that plainly describes the product will appeal more. Even if there is an improvement, is it a big enough improvement to be worth paying for?
Couldn't JavaScript on the page notice that ads aren't loading?
That's a good example of using generics-based sorting! I think it would be more beneficial to work on compiler optimizations, which could optimize the standard interface-based sort.Slice and sort.Sort to the same level. This shouldn't be too hard to do for the most widespread case when the compiler knows the actual type hidden behind the sort.Interface, so it could inline methods of this interface.

This optimization then could speed up other similar interface-based algorithms.
This is incorrect, but most C and C++ programmers would be stumped by `int(*y)[3]` (which is how you spell a pointer to an array of length 3).
Hi! The website looks awesome!
I have a problem with searching though. I can see the recommended songs below the search bar, but as I type to search something, it is just loading infinitely. I checked the network tab in DevTools and there is no requests made when typing or after typing and pressing enter.

I used Chrome. Cheers!

Edit: also, clicking away from the text input field shouldn't clear the value, in my opinion. The element which displays the results can still be hidden though. It would also be nice to control the volume of the played song.
> I think we are probably at the point where you could do a Great Books curriculum in Computer Science. Would be interesting to put together that list: 10-20 foundational primary texts in Algorithms, Programming/Software Engineering, Logic, AI, and Computer Architecture.

Carnegie Mellon University has put together a list of "Seminal Papers in Software Engineering": http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/isr2015/CMU-ISR-1...
Fun interview but barely any meat for those in the field. Just very general questions and answers, saying that the road is murky, but nothing about e.g. if Transformers / attention are the way to go forward, multi-modal models, reinforcement learning + self-supervised learning.
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There are many structurally valid 26 byte productions; the diagram on page 2 shows the layout and page 5 has pseudocode for generating them.

(There may be even longer valid productions; my analysis was pretty naive. But 26 is already substantially longer than the limit!)
Oh good idea I used FF too.
how did you created project diagram in your repository? mermaid or something else?
The Pentagon doesn't wand competition over here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare
They didn’t? Metas revenue was down year over year for the latest quarter, whereas googles grew. Net income for the same quarter was down 55% for meta, as compared to down 34% for google (the headline of the featured article you are commenting on).
My car has them, but it is a hybrid with planetary gear, so would not make sense for it.
The OP only said that it's probably due to $1500 phones. Nothing about iOS vs Android. The comment under that made that argument. Samsung phones are also at that wild pricing and Samsung is also seeing a drop in sales. They're all in the same boat.
It's very questionable if this helps at all. The energy needed to desalinate water is tiny compared to the energy needed for hydrogen production via electrolysis. You're saving small amounts of energy in exchange for a more complex process.

Here's a more detailed explanation:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/paul-martin-195763b_new-elect...

Here's the crucial sentence: "Desalination of seawater by reverse osmosis takes only about 0.035 kWh/kg of H2 produced, i.e. a trivial fraction of the energy (50-65 kWh/kg) required to produce a kg of hydrogen by electrolysis"
If you could release it close to methane concentrations. Otherwise it's going to react with anything close to it. Soil, lungs, vegetation, etc.
Or, one of the recent layoff announcements recently (forget which), that said it was "reducing X number of roles."

No, you are firing people, not "reducing roles."