skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Famous last words?
Well, good luck
First, the insurer needs to have a lawful decision on who is guilty - it is not their job to prove anything. And it's still you vs huge corporation.

Looking at what these companies (Tesla for example) do to people criticizing their products - full spectrum, from lie accusations through personal attacks to law threats, i'd say even if you have a recording the situation is still bad.
So, we're going to get a confirmation what you just said - their lawyers will do everything to prove you suck as a driver.
That trade-off is likely intentional -- Microsoft is pushing work onto your computer to save their datacenter bandwidth.
It might not tell us as much about the nature of the universe, but good observations of this and future visitors could tell us a lot about the nature of other solar systems. So far we've generally assumed that solar systems are pretty similar in how they form, without much evidence beyond a few simple models; seeing debris from other solar systems could do a lot to confirm or refute that hypothesis.
5 BILLION dollars worth of bitcoins are sold every day. The trading volume is higher and the orderbooks are deeper than you think...
Came here for that comment!
That's great news, thank you.

I don't think they're ever going to fix the "system tabs" issue, since it's supposedly a "feature", but at least some good news. :)
The consistency of node's standard lib alone is a good reason to use node instead of PHP.
> The next time probably won't come until we send a probe to Proxima Centauri.

Well, I don't know about that. Who's to say how many interstellar objects pass through the solar system every year (earlier I read 1-10 a year, but who knows). Of course this is the first one we've actually detected (Roswell et al. jokes here), but our sensors and technology are only getting better. Even if Breakthrough Starshot[1] can launch in 10 years, and takes 25 years to get to the Alpha Centauri system, and we get usable data back in 4.37 years, that's ~40 years we'd have in which to detect another interstellar object here first.

EDIT: Also see the sibling comment[2] by nkurz[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15746491

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nkurz
It's perfectly reasonable to assume $600 million has flown in via Taiwan. Note that that doesn't mean that local Taiwanese have personally bought $600 million. Tether creates an arbitrage opportunity. If you have a Taiwanese bank account, whenever Tether gets out of sync, to say, 0.99, you can simply arbitrage that away and make a risk-free profit. That is what is happening. The demand isn't coming from Taiwan per se, it's coming from arbitrageurs (who either are Taiwanese, or are using someone who has a Taiwanese bank account).
I've also noticed in private mode I cannot use the omnibar to search using google in Firefox. I have to go to google.com else it hangs forever.
Ah, yes, that's what I would expect as well. (And it'd be nice if there were some more public response to this from whoever is working on it.)
Check out the Gemini PDA on indiegogo. Looks to be the successor of Psion or the droid 4.
Natural systems self renew. Mining coal to mine bitcoin isn't anywhere close.

And the legacy systems from barter to bitcoin are all still around.
> Somehow it has a reputation for pseudoscience

I can only speak from personal experience, but my company tried a big mindfulness push a couple of years ago. Maybe we just had a bad instructor, but everything was just wishy-washy and felt like a giant waste of time, full of tautologies and wrapping perfectly ordinary common sense (you're more relaxed when you allow yourself to relax, WELL DUH!) up in some sort of vague mysticism.

I am perfectly capable of relaxing and unburdening my mind, but it just ain't happening during a normal workday with deadlines and badly defined business processes.

If you just let me be and let me listen to some music without being disturbed, I'll be perfectly calm and relaxed, no mysticism needed.
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But it is the only chance we have ever had to directly view a largeish piece of another solar system, just millions of miles away. The next time probably won't come until we send a probe to Proxima Centauri.

While this is the only one we've seen so far, the current belief is that similar objects might actually quite common. A parallel newspaper article in the Guardian [1] cites a paper out of UCLA [2], and works through the math:

The other group of astronomers, led by David Jewitt,
University of California Los Angeles, estimated how
many other interstellar visitors like it there might
be in our solar system.

Surprisingly, they calculate that another 10,000 could
be closer to the Sun than the eighth planet, Neptune,
which lies 30 times further from the Sun than the Earth.
Yet these are currently undetected.

Each of these interstellar interlopers would be just
passing through. They are travelling too fast to be
captured by the gravity of the Sun. Yet it still takes
them about a decade to cross our solar system and
disappear back into interstellar space.

If this estimate is correct, then roughly 1,000 enter
and another 1,000 leave every year – which means that
roughly three arrive and three leave every day.

So now that we now to look for them, it may be possible that we'll be able to find others, at least before the probe reports back from Proxima Centauri.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2017...

[2] http://www2.ess.ucla.edu/~jewitt/papers/2017/JLR17.pdf
This is your reminder, should you want to go off the deep end into Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativism, that peoples whose languages did not have words to linguistically distinguish certain colors (such as blue and green) nonetheless demonstrably produced works (such as textiles) with patterns which required the ability to visually distinguish those colors, and that the strongest evidence we know of suggests merely that having a word for a color helps you to recognize it more quickly than if you don't have a word for it, rather than toggling whether you are capable of perceiving it.
yes, very useful for an enterprise and completely useless/potentially dangerous for consumers.
We got that already: https://www.instapainting.com/blog/research/2015/09/10/robot...
I hear the main complaint in Node.JS, and even in Go too, is that the error handling is too verbose, eg you can not wipe all fail cases under the rug, they will litter your code and stare annoyingly at you like "hey, you have not handled me". And the code will fail spectacularly, while I guess some developers rather have silent errors with the motto "what I can not see can not hurt me". It gets unbearable for the CRUD app developers when each SQL line needs to have it's own error handling and you have to think about in what order and when to send the SQL queries, where as in traditional "skin your database" programming framework everything is done synchronously. But now we have async/await and you can just await, await, await, and even "forget" about the catch, or that everything is done asynchronously under the hood.
Crime is low. Its possible because year after year the public service unions (police, prison guard, transit, ect) and a variety of other political patronage groups sell their endorsement for higher pay and better contracts. So every year the salaries and benefits continue to rise. This has been going on for decades. These salaries and benefits represent the vast majority of our county/city/village budgets and result in massive property taxes (and other taxes and fees) to support the bloated payroll. Its not sustainable and as a result we have seen infrastructure (like the rails and the roads) and other critical services suffer.
Of course not, they follow the Red Scare trend because if you start with something else, you get pushback, but who would defend the Russians, especially now? Do you want to look like Putin's agent? And then when they'd need to tweak the ranking next time for next political scare of the day, the precedent has been already set, and there's nothing to it, just the usual...
Found to be among the most elongated deep space objects known: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42053634

Can't help but think of the Chindi!
Reading a critical blog post, even nihilistic ones (if they are) is not obligatory. Switch reading matter and stop telling others what not to write.
Ah, the smell of a billion dollar class action lawsuit in the morning!
Because its faster at OO than Perl 5 and has a tonne of other builtins that make it easier to write algorithmically performant code. Not to mention its trivial to write parallel code. I dont think there have been any optimisations in the regex engine in the time you're discussing. The raw IO however has seen huge improvement, especially if you state you arent using unicode and don't want grapheme normalisation. In 2011 just my tests took 35s to execute. Now that's 1s and startup time is 2/3 of that. Something like CSV parsing or even log parsing where you split instead of regex is competitive. Last I checked faster than Ruby but slower than C. But yeah you do still have to work around the slow bits, or be explicit with what you want like ascii IO.
I long for the day I can put my phone into a VR headset and get a virtual desktop environment.
I don't really see a difference between the two.

The first is what everyone can agree on is evil and the later is what we haven't agreed on (or not yet).

To quote from the page on malum in se; "The phrase is used to refer to conduct assessed as sinful or inherently wrong by nature, independent of regulations governing the conduct", which I don't think is a thing tbh.
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I get this works for people on certain types of podcasts, but surely with well-produced podcasts (e.g. Heavyweight, Love & Radio, Reply All, S-Town...) the pauses and pacing is a meaningful artistic choice, one that a 2x speed just rushes through like an impatient child.
Splashtop?

https://gizmodo.com/393861/asus-notebooks-getting-splashtop-...
There are two types of divergences for Tether, and they each mean different things.

1. USDT > USD. This is the benign version. This signifies increased demand for Tether itself. This happens when there are arbitrage opportunities between exchanges that can only be exploited quickly using Tether. This is the variety that is most common, and exactly what Tether was intended to be used for.

2. USDT < USD. This is bad. This means that people are willing to take a small haircut to not be holding Tether. This means that the market views Tether as risky in some way, possibly implying insolvency. This has happened a few times, but is less common.

Understanding this is essential to interpreting Tether, price divergences, and also the nominal divergence between prices on different exchanges.
> "Modern Media is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will"

> Only if you allow it to be, just like with any other compulsive activity, if it starts affecting your life negatively, you should probably make some personal life changes.

I think this belief - "you can't look away" - is so prevalent among journalists because (i) the idea that vast sections of the public pay no attention to them for extended periods of time is anathema and (ii) journalists are more likely to be from the group that "can't look away."
The source code won't give you shit. Even if you have it all, right here, right now:

1. you cannot disable it completely - there's an image of Intel ME, burned into the chipset, which checks for the presence of the ME + AMT in the SPI flash, and it checks for signature. (There's an exception to this, with skylake and above)

2. you cannot run a modified or reverse engineered version of it, unless you have Intel's private key to sign your own binary.

Basically the hardware is tivoized.
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Moto G5, Android 7.0, the long press on home screen -> settings has no other settings but one. But I did locate the settings by going through Google Now's settings. Thanks for pointing this out!
Well actually it has been so for a long time. And this is a good thing. There is only one reason why a country pays money to push news in anothet country. French television has been bannef in many African countries several times for the same reason. And many countries prevent their media from being bought by foreign agents.
> If they can't do that, remove the thing that says

This again, is related to their marketing and not actually to their solvency (red herring).

> Release an official audit (that doesn't say "this is not an audit")

Lack of proof !== proof of insolvency.

And for all the other ones:

They are not entitled to tell you everything. The fact that choose not to is in NO way proof that they are insolvent.

I 100% agree that based on your list one might choose not to trust them. Just don't go screaming "they've basically been running a Ponzi scheme" with the only proof being them not telling you what you want to know about their operations.
http://article78againstnydfs.com/docs/317-cv-01882-BitfinexC...

> I, J.L. van der Velde, hereby declare as follows:

> 1. I am the Chief Executive Officer for iFinex Inc. (“iFinex”), BFXNA Inc. (“BFXNA”), BFXWW Inc. (“BFXWW”), and Tether Limited (“Tether”). I have personal knowledge of the facts set forth below, and if called and sworn as a witness, I could and would testify competently thereto.

> 2. iFinex, through its subsidiaries BFXNA and BFXWW, owns and operates a leading global Virtual Currency platform called Bitfinex.

I don't know what else you need for a smoking gun. Tether and Bitfinex are the same thing.
Nuclear facilities aren't really dependent on market perception to keep their stock prices high - they sell power.

The terrorists won't do a better job of slandering fission than the oil & gas companies have done, and nuclear facilities and fuel storage make horrible terrorist targets. The facilities are explosion hardened by design, and spent fuel is essentially rocks. It would take a lot of work and explosives to make a weak, uninteresting, highly traceable, not too dangerous "dirty bomb". That requires supplies generally unavailable to terrorist cells, much less cells inside a nuclear nation. It also requires hazardous materials training and technical skills generally unavailable to terrorist organizations, much less embedded in a target area.

As has been the case for decades: the largest genuine threat from an action like that would be panic, and overreaction, from a riled up and ignorant population.
> Even on your computer, log out of twitter, facebook and others. Only log in when you want to look into something... use private/incognito mode... use 2FA... it's an extra hurdle so you won't default to "quickly check"

Absolutely. Latest Firefox helps here. There's an option to use private by default for all windows. This means when you close it (another habit to develop perhaps) you don't stay logged in to these social media sites.
You’re talking about two different markets. A Tether-USD is not the same as a USD. If anything, the fact that the irredeemable USDT even has value is a sign of the insanity playing out in the cryptocurrency market. A token worth 1 dollar but not really worth 1 dollar makes no sense at all.
Honestly question, is there any reason why a static website should have SSL? Unless you have encrypted DNS, whoever is stealing the data will know the server you're connecting to, and therefore will have all the exact data anyways. So HTTPS is quite literally a waste, no?

Sorry for the ignorance, it's a legitimate question.
Russia has just confirmed that they too have detected it, previously they denied they have detected anything

> The highest concentration was registered at the station in Argayash, a village in the Chelyabinsk region in the southern Urals, which had "extremely high pollution" of Ru-106, exceeding natural background pollution by 986 times, the service said.

> It did not point to any specific source of the pollution, but the Argayash station is about 30 kilometres from the Mayak nuclear facility, which in 1957 was the site of one of the worst nuclear disasters in history.

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-russia-extremely-high-radioact...
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...with suspiciously issued Tethers, which is kinda the whole point here.
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Both :)
> I've read it a few times now, still can't find where they say they specifically created tether (the system) for this exact purpose. Keep in mind that the issuance of tether is not the creation of the complete tether blockchain/system (they are issuing new tether around the clock).

> Bitfinex was cut off from the US financial system, which makes it impossible for them to clear USD-denominated wires...Their solution: issue a cryptocurrency which is claimed to be 100% backed by USD

Right there. patios11 claims that Bitfinex's "solution" to their wire problems was issuing Tether. That is demonstrably false, because Tether predates Bitfinex's wire issues by more than a year.
> ignore content that you know is junk but that tends to drag you in. I suspect this is slightly different for anyone, mine is: anything cute...

I've actually started deliberately looking at the cute stuff. It's a welcome antidote to the outrage apparent in other threads/sites. I have enough natural spleen already without needing to top it up.
That’s not the issue. The issue is rendering the USDT useless because recipients don’t know if they’ve been paid with “actual” USDT or “fake” USDT.
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You and I are in the same boat, virtual bank and all. I'm actually a little more tethered to the Internet, because I work remotely. But I feel like my vote is meaningless these days. I feel powerless. The only real vote that anyone listens to anymore is a vote with your wallet, and if it comes to that, I'm damn well ready to make that vote. Drastic times call for drastic measures and all that. I know not everyone can do that, but I can and I will. It won't be just Comcast losing my money, but my bank, Netflix, Hulu Amazon, eBay, Newegg... All of it.

I'll tell you one thing, if corporations thought the response to ending net neutrality would be along the lines I propose en masse, they wouldn't even be thinking about it. Problem is, they're 100% right people will just suck it up and go along with it.

Honestly, as more time passes I'm becoming more convinced this whole Internet thing is going a bit too far. When it was new, I saw a bright future for it but this? This is on track to becoming very dystopian in the near future. Actually there's a pretty good argument that we're already in a nightmare scenario.
> which is obliged by law to work in the best interest if its shareholders

That's a myth. There's no such law, at least not in simplistic understanding you are implying. E.g. see https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/why-the-maximizing-s... https://truthonthemarket.com/2010/07/27/the-shareholder-weal... etc.

> They can do whatever they want with their website.

This is completely vacuous statement. Nobody says Google has no legal right to tweak their search algorithms for political reasons. The claim is that this is despicable and unwise thing to do, not that Google shouldn't have control of their own website.
> If you just let me be and let me listen to some music without being disturbed, I'll be perfectly calm and relaxed, no mysticism needed.

Meditation is more than just relaxation. It's about a state of mind. About being in the present moment, letting go, looking inward and reflecting about oneself. I don't think you do any of those things when just relaxing while listening to music.

Also,

> I am perfectly capable of relaxing and unburdening my mind, but it just ain't happening during a normal workday with deadlines and badly defined business processes.

That means you are not perfectly capable of relaxing your mind.
> there is no market for BTC/USDT on Bitfinex as far as I can tell

You have it backwards. There is no BTC/USD market on Bitfinex. Their "BTC/USD" market is a BTC/Tether market. They have simply labeled it wrong to mislead people. USD cannot be deposited or withdrawn from Bitfinex, only Tether, and that makes their "USD" market a Tether market no matter what the ticker says.

It's really a brilliant scam, but it's only a matter of time before Tether is shut down for enabling money laundering, and Bitfinex with it. Banning US citizens may buy them a little time but it won't last forever. Bitfinex will be the next BTC-e, only worse. Not only is their volume higher than BTC-e, they may bring down Bittrex and Poloniex with them.
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User DennisAleynikov in this thread says he has it working with a $20 USB-C to HDMI cable, without even needing to buy the official Samsung DeX connector. Once plugged in, the phone lets you run desktop Android apps straight away.

Check the Samsung DeX page to see how it looks. The use case you've described is already here.
>
- Governments have far more power and resources to skew the narrative.

s/Government have/Google has/g

>
Governments are less accountable than any private individual or organization. Organizations are at least accountable to shareholders, the rule of law, and the government they operate under.

Again s/Governments/Organizations/g

>
- Domestic organizations are at least ostensibly committed to maintaining the system, many foreign governments literally want to tear the system down.

Based upon what? Is that any justification for propaganda? Both Facebook and Google are both domestic entities and look at all of the polarization and discord that they have caused this election cycle.

>
- Governments have a historical track-record of tyranny, and have generally caused more harm than private organizations.

In this era, the source of tyranny is private corporations that grant themselves monopolies with red tape and further regulations that make competition impossible. I guess based upon your arguments, we should grant private corporations a monopoly on speech.
A great book that discusses this and a lot of other cognitive categories is George Lakoff's _Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things_.

Highly recommended for everyone that makes things that use categories, tags, criteria, &c.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women,_Fire,_and_Dangerous_Thi...
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Congrats. Very happy for him/them since Stripe is awesome!
SBI to use blockchain for smart contracts and KYC by next month
The anti-vaccine movement's influence may be waning
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AFAIR due to the weather patterns Belarus got a lot of the fallout and Kiev area was affected much less.
I would use them just to save the whole setup/install thing.

When sql releases were every 2-3 years you would upgrade the hardware at the same time, annually/semi-annually? Less likely.

Being able to change up a version within minutes is a significant improvement over the whole msi install thing even if you did script it.
You are correct, thank you for pointing it out, I'll try to be more conscious about it in the future :)
Where's the proof on your claim?

From the looks of the chart here(if you need more clarity zoom from April to date):
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/#charts

It is you second but is less common, USDT < USD is what is happening more. Sure there are some spikes in the opposite direction.
The server, but not the URL. And they can't _modify_ content.
The way this was written made me think it was a sarcastic rant. But I guess they're serious...
Note Ru-106 has a half-life longer than a year (373 days) so it's not going any where quickly except the ground water.
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