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New comment by evdubs in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

evdubs — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:22:44 +0000

There must be a table with three columns and 4-6 rows.

Tether Signs Big Four Firm to Complete First Full Audit

evdubs — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:05:06 +0000

Article URL: https://tether.io/news/tether-signs-big-four-firm-to-complete-first-full-audit-setting-a-new-quality-standard-for-the-digital-asset-economy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47502805

Points: 2

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New comment by evdubs in "What Claude Code chooses"

evdubs — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:18:11 +0000

You specify which software patents you want it to use?

New comment by evdubs in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

evdubs — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:58:13 +0000

> When I read Rob's work and learn from it, and make it part of my cognitive core, nobody is particularly threatened by it. When a machine does the same it feels very threatening to many people, a kind of theft by an alien creature busily consuming us all and shitting out slop.

It's not about reading. It's about output. When you start producing output in line with Rob's work that is confidently incorrect and sloppy, people will feel just as they do when LLMs produce output that is confidently incorrect and sloppy. No one is threatened if someone trains an LLM and does nothing with it.

New comment by evdubs in "Lotusbail npm package found to be harvesting WhatsApp messages and contacts"

evdubs — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 23:17:30 +0000

Is there no Apache Commons for Javascript? It'd be nice to have a large library from a 'trusted' group.

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

New comment by evdubs in "The programmers who live in Flatland"

evdubs — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:45:30 +0000

I am not so sure how it works, but you can define your own evaluation handler for `eval` which, I assume, can be as restrictive as you need if you're dealing with untrusted data.

New comment by evdubs in "The programmers who live in Flatland"

evdubs — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 20:37:03 +0000

> Show me a convincing example of something that's simple/clear/elegant/superior in Lisp, and how difficult/complicated/ugly/impossible it would be to do the same thing in Java/C++/Ruby/Python.

Serialize and deserialize data. You're currently using something like XML or JSON for a human readable data serialization format in those languages. JSON and XML are not first class components of those languages. S-expressions are a better version of JSON and are first class components of Lisp.

New comment by evdubs in "Racket v9.0"

evdubs — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:44:23 +0000

Java has the VisualVM. https://visualvm.github.io/

I would love a similar tool for Racket.

New comment by evdubs in "Racket v9.0"

evdubs — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:39:45 +0000

I use it for trading options.

https://github.com/evdubs/renegade-way

New comment by evdubs in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

evdubs — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 04:49:06 +0000

Ponzi schemes collapse when the participants ask for their money back (redemptions). Tether handled $17B in redemptions in 2022 when their market cap peaked at $83B.

New comment by evdubs in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

evdubs — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 04:46:09 +0000

The auditor BDO publishes attestations every quarter.

https://tether.to/en/transparency/?tab=reports

New comment by evdubs in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

evdubs — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 04:45:08 +0000

You don't need to trust them, just BDO who attests to Tether's holdings.

New comment by evdubs in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

evdubs — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 04:43:20 +0000

Tether banks with Cantor Fitzgerald. Everyone trading large amounts of US Treasury bills knows who Cantor Fitzgerald is.

New comment by evdubs in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

evdubs — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 04:41:56 +0000

You're not paying attention, or you are wilfully ignoring the evidence.

Tether banks with Cantor Fitzgerald, a primary dealer with the Federal Reserve. From 2023: https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/wall-street-firm-over...

Every quarter, BDO confirms Tether's assets by going to Tether's banking partners directly.

https://tether.to/en/transparency/?tab=reports

New comment by evdubs in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

evdubs — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 04:39:45 +0000

Attestation reports. Every quarter, BDO confirms holdings directly with Tether's banking partners.

https://tether.to/en/transparency/?tab=reports

New comment by evdubs in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

evdubs — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 04:37:49 +0000

It was known in early 2023.

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/wall-street-firm-over...

New comment by evdubs in "MLB approves robot umpires for 2026 as part of challenge system"

evdubs — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 02:49:03 +0000

This obscures the fact that umpires are worse than 93% when the pitch is close to the boundary of being a ball or a strike (shadow zone). Obvious balls and obvious strikes are obvious, but umpire accuracy when it is close is only 81%, and their accuracy was even worse 15 years ago.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/strike-three-lets-check-in-on-um...

New comment by evdubs in "Debian 13, Postgres, and the US/* time zones"

evdubs — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 05:19:14 +0000

You can see the zones that are deprecated at https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/tzdata-legacy/filelist

New comment by evdubs in "Debian 13, Postgres, and the US/* time zones"

evdubs — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 05:06:41 +0000

I also ran into this using:

- Debian 13

- Interactive Brokers' Trader Workstation

- Racket's `gregor` date and time library

IBKR still sends the old, deprecated US/* timezones. As noted in the article, the solution is to `apt install tzdata-legacy`.

New comment by evdubs in "How Python grew from a language to a community"

evdubs — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 07:05:59 +0000

The Lisp grey beards do.