skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did this thread get to be 46 comments long without a single mention of or link to @Bitfinexed?!

@Bitfinexed is the anonymous Twitter account that has been publicly sounding the alarm about Tether for almost a year now. They got the receipts, they bring the fire:

https://twitter.com/bitfinexed

And longer articles at:

https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/

And as payment for his/her troubles as the Harry Markopolos of the crypto-world, he/she has been threatened with lawsuits.

If you, like me, perversely enjoy reading about or watching true financial crime stories ("The Smartest Guys in the Room", "When Genius Failed", Casey Serin's various blog exploits, "The Wizard of Lies", etc.), then @Bitfinexed's work is incredibly satisfying to read.

For example, in just the past few days, you can get the excitement of reading his/her public Twitter conversations with some of the big primary players in this Ponzi scheme, where those fraudsters brazenly deny any influence or financial benefits from this scheme, even in the face of immense evidence or screenshots.

I expect to see some of those tweets included in financial crime indictments in the near future.
Can you actually "withdraw" Tether as dollars at these exchanges? Or can you just pass the buck by trading Tether for other cryptocurrencies?
LEGO mindstorms is a product that you assemble and program.

Minecraft is designed to fill your time. Though there is thinking involved, it’s a time sink.
This is a good article. Many times "techies" fail to appreciate distribution. I did when younger but as I got older and saw it play out and now appreciate it. A better mouse trap without distribution will fail against a mediocre mouse trap with great distribution.
I would call that "noise" rather than chaos.
This makes my blood boil. Safari is literally the IE of mobile. I don't get why Apple is making it so hard to deliver PWAs nicely?! I mean, they can fight it, but they'll at best delay the inevitable... Perhaps that's their game: delay until they have in place a system as lucrative as the app store but for PWAs.
If you’re selling me something, and you call it a “kind-of-thing” I want it to be an actual thing first and a “smart kind of thing” second.

Pebble was kind of not a thing. A little too smart for its own good.
The proposition "listening to music affects your mood" is very different from the proposition "listening to a certain frequency of tone causes your brain to produce waves at a corresponding frequency."
How do you prevent yourself from thinking "how amazing their world is", or "how amazing my world could be but isn't"? Most people can change their thinking about this manually to some extent, but I can definitely see how it could be a big problem for a significant subset.
I can only find references on google to cucumber having silica on a bunch of health food/fad blogs. Presumably the gourmet brands are adding extra to capitalize on this.

If they wanted sediment, it would be cheaper to just add some of the actual fruit sediment they already have from earlier in the juicing process, rather than purchasing another ingredient.
C std says int has to be at least 16 bits. http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/types
But where's your control? Everyone is exposed to EM radiation
You should default to having no strong opinion at all.
For arbitrary programs, the only way to determine performance is to measure measure measure. Anything else requires having a perfect model of the running system and the hardware and environment. Which is best replicated by measuring the actual performance.

Certain libraries , such as any doing fusion based optimization, do generally benefit from O2. But at the end of the day measure measure measure.

I’m not familiar with Ofast. I’ll look it up. Looked it up, nope ghc doesn’t have anything like that, and there’s a few parts I hope to help mature in ghc before it’s safe/sane to even consider the analogue of fast math flags and standards breaking optimization. Especially since changing the meaning of programs via optimization flags would be pretty dangerous for a language like Haskell.

There’s def room for other compilation/semantic models to do aggressive optimization in different ways. But not for Haskell today :)
All it takes is an ordinary statute law which then goes to the ballot for confirmation.
I got chatting to the camera person before my talk at a JavaScript event once, just about AV stuff. I assumed he was a programmer who also shot events, but when I started talking tech he mentioned he wasn't a programmer, and was down from LA and normally shoots adult on some well known sites.
React Popup Component – Simple and useful popup component
It's a limitation of the ac/dc transformer in the car. The batteries actually take dc to charge. Another way that Tesla innovated was having much bigger transformers in their cars.

Charging capacity is in kw. batteries are hours of that (kwh). A regular us outlet has 1.44 kw charging capacity (120v * 12 amps). A high power car like a tesla has 85kwh or 100kwh of capacity, so 100kwh/1.44 = 69 hours, so it's not practical to drive 250 miles in a day and charge again; for that you need higher power chargers. A leaf is only 3.3 kwh (unless they increased it in the new models), tesla model s were 11 kwh or 22 kwh.

Details
The on board transformer has a limited capacity to charge the battery. If you only charge 120v you only need 1.44kw charger. But you'll never be able to charge faster.
220v 12 amps is 2.64 kw. Original tesla model s had either 11 kwh or double chargers, 22 kw. The model x split the difference with 11 or 17kw.

40 amp power is commonly available, 40 amp * 220 v = 8.8 kw, 71 amp * 220 = 15.6kw, 100 amps * 220 = 22kwh, the max that tesla has onboard.

Did you know, a tesla supercharger is just a bank of regular car transformers that are combined to make the high power 140 kw charging power of top end superchargers (used to be around 90kw, they have kept increasing the top end, but the same plug).

This page gives a nice breakdown of different models and shows the anemic charging limits of most non-teslas. https://www.clippercreek.com/three-things-determine-ev-charg...
It's not just material posessions that are flaunted on Instagram. Experiences, lifestyles, relationships, and accomplishments - most things that people want - are bubbled to the top.
Yup. And the unwind is going to affect and contaminate even "innocent" crypto markets and trading platforms.
This makes no sense to me - are you saying that where you are from people go to work based on sunlight levels?
Donald Trump Fires After Jay-Z Criticizes the President During an Interview
Is there a compelling reason for codeine to be OTC in the first place? It's an addictive opiate.
Did they sell the Armoury?
Turmeric added to coffee adds twenty years to your lifespan.

Are you completely ambivalent to such a ridiculous claim? No, you should disbelieve it unless you get a sufficient amount of evidence.
> I just pick the first thing it’ll let me check in for, not the movie or time I want, and it always works.

This... is a great idea...
> people are complaining that they don't see the daylight in the winter as it's dark outside both when leaving home for work and coming back

As DTS is in effect in summer (colloquially known as "summer time" in some countries), it has no effect on this "phenomenon".
Various possible con founders were discussed at length in the article. The obvious one, depression leading to social
Media use:

“Two followed people over time, with both studies finding that spending more time on social media led to unhappiness, while unhappiness did not lead to more social media use. A third randomly assigned participants to give up Facebook for a week versus continuing their usual use. Those who avoided Facebook reported feeling less depressed at the end of the week.”
Portugal, UK, Ireland have been in UTC for ages.
TBH, because of the amount of effort that Ikea furniture assembly and shopping takes, I'd rather just buy it used & 'pre assembled'.

Ikea being a maze is really annoying when you just want to buy a few cups. Going to target or similar is about the same kind of furniture, for the same price, with a much faster experience.
But then there's the cancer-warning-sign-manufacturing lobby...
We already thought of this in Arizona.

https://youtu.be/k4EUTMPuvHo
You could actually do even better and just make all of the EU one timezone - since it doesn't have much to do with high noon anyway.
How Math Can Help Unravel the Weird Interactions of Microbes
I was referring to Apple devices running OSX. Guess I should have made that a bit more clear.
Yes, it has been known for quite awhile that mitogenesis (cell division) "causes" cancer:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC54830/

Literally anything that leads to the need for cells to divide is a cause of cancer (eg smoking -> replace lung cells more often; UV light -> replace skin cells more often; obesity -> more cells overall needing replacement, etc).

It makes zero sense to frame the issue in terms of X causes vs doesn't cause cancer. Instead it is a matter of how much.
> we should easily see it.

Note, I'm not saying there is an effect, but it's not quite so easy to say we should have found it if it exists. First, there is a delay between radiation exposure and cancer risk (up to ten years).

Second, if all population centers experience the same increase in radiation exposure, then it is very difficult to use radiation as an independent variable to measure its impact on cancer.

For instance, it took decades before anyone was able to show that nuclear testing caused an increase in deaths, and that was only possible because the distribution of radioactive isotopes was not uniformly spread across the US -- some states (especially in the midwest) received far more radiation than others (e.g. Western California or Louisiana).

In contrast, if electromagnetic radiation from cell towers is relatively uniformly spread for the same population density (e.g. New York is comparable to Los Angeles, and rural Washington is comparable to rural Missouri), then it will be rather difficult to separate cancer risk from electromagnetic radiation from other risks.
A Custom GPU Native Neural Network Framework for Security
Paywall-free archived copy:

https://archive.is/stHQc
Thank god for our daily "social media" is evil propaganda. I hope one day someone looks into who is pushing this and why. It would be very interesting. At this point, all the outrage and propaganda really comes off as manufactured and fake.

Maybe it's a generational thing. When I was a child, it was south park, simpsons and gangsta rap that was ruining kids mental health. And video games were responsible for school shootings and all of life's ills.

For my parents generation, it was TV, rock and roll and marijuana.

Something always has to be wrong in order for the media to sell advertising to us I guess.

If anything is leading to our collective mental health deterioration, it's the constant media barrage on tv, newspapers and social media telling us that we are depressed. But fear is what sells.
Why you are downvoted for supplying a non-paywalled link idk but thanks it worked for me to read the article!
I'm thinking of Unicode as a character set, and that text exists on an abstraction level above characters.
Too quick to blame, "the screen". Is it really just the existence of social media that caused this, or is it maybe a change of culture that emerged with the spread of the Internet and social media?

For example, today a child from a religious community might encounter atheism at 12 or 13 whereas previously they would encounter it when they went off to college. Maybe that child happens to be suffering from depression and their faith would have provided them with the hope that they needed to persevere, but having discovered atheism at such a tender age, they are left hopeless and desolate. Not mature enough to deal with their problems on their own and with no reason to believe that things will get any better.

I am not saying that the rise of atheism is a factor. It is just one example I came up with, on the spot, to explain how the change of culture due to the Internet might be the actual cause powering this trend, rather than the usage of the social media itself.
> an order (with due legal process) by USA government to not disclose that vulnerability to any Chinese companies would be possible and binding

In that case, sure, but I was talking about a voluntary disclosure, which is the case here.
Voter rolls and (registered) party membership literally are published (some states charge for it) so in your example the actual vote is really the only thing on the line.
Those games are all classics, but they would all be considered small indie games by todays standards. I guess the answer is check out popular (or especially not so popular!) indie titles if you're nostalgic for those days rather than be enraged by heavily marketed AAA titles.
Can't really tell if this part was sarcasm, especially the children's cough sirup that makes sleepy. Is this a thing!?
Some discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16250519
A good chunk of that wooden kitchen stuff that ikea sells is actually a thin layer of wood with an MDF core inside. For example: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70335212/
How do you do that? I get bombarded with recruiters who don’t read my profile.

“I’m moving to Berlin because of Brexit and looking for iOS roles” -> “Would you like this job in London as a python developer?”

(Given I’m now back in the UK helping family look after a parent with Alzheimer’s while she can still recognise me, I should probably update my profile...)
>"Look at all these rich beautiful people with millions of followers sailing around the world on their yachts."

How is this any different than society at large? How is this any different from TV and newspapers?

> Ten minutes on Instagram is enough to fill any sane person with existential dread and bring about severe depression.

Ten minutes on HN is enough considering all the fear mongering being pushed here.

And most people who use instagram are not severely depressed. Go figure. Wonder why that is"?
it's attention-seekers scaring crotchety, envious, gullible, olds just like it always, always, has been.
Maybe they can't, because their jobs require that they come in at 8 and leave by 5. Maybe they have kids that have to be brought to school at 8.
You could say "just go to work an hour later in the winter", but that amounts to DST, without the perk of knowing that everybody around you is living on the same rhythm.

I have no opinion about DST btw.
And Finland is in UTC+2. The thing regulated is probably when DST starts and stops, not the timezones.
I'm so with you on this. A bit of a shame it's just you and me.
It's been years.
> Link ? I'm interested.

The examples I'm thinking of are all closed source, but here's a trivial implementation on the simpler end of the scale in my favorite style/variation of the idea:

#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>

namespace xyz { constexpr bool logFails = true; }

#define XYZ_CHECK_MSG(cond, msg, expr) if (!(cond)) { \
if (::xyz::logFails) { ::std::cerr << msg << ::std::endl; } \
expr; \
} else ((void)0) /* ; */

#define XYZ_CHECK(cond, expr) XYZ_CHECK_MSG(cond, "XYZ_CHECK(" #cond ", ...) failed", expr);

void increment (long * i) {
XYZ_CHECK(i, return); // nonfatal
++*i;
}

int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
XYZ_CHECK_MSG(argc > 1, "Usage: " << argv[0] << " [number] [number]", std::exit(1)); // super fatal

for (int iArg = 1; iArg < argc; ++iArg) {
const char * const arg = argv[argc];
char * argEnd = nullptr;
long n = std::strtol(argv[iArg], &argEnd, 10);
// doesn't even end the function - "continue" could be replaced with "n=0" as well!
XYZ_CHECK_MSG(arg != argEnd && *argEnd == '\0', "Argument " << iArg << " was not a number", continue);
increment(&n);
std::cout << n << "\n";
}
}

Technically, if you don't want an error handling case, you don't have to provide one, but that's a bit explicit - you won't forget to at least think about it unless you really work at establishing such a bad habit:

XYZ_CHECK_MSG(condition, "Something bad happened, but let's just continue on our way.", );

More complicated versions of this might define additional macro params to:

1) Define a name and default severity - such that you can squelch false positives that snuck into the build before you can create and deploy a new one, or enable slower debug checks that might be skipped by default.

2) Configure where the logs go or what categories the messages will be filtered into.

3) Tag JIRA tasks or bug numbers to automatically reopen, or specific authors to alert.

Although these can also be handled in a more orthogonal manner.
Or you could spend a few seconds reading the article, and find out that they addressed this obvious criticism.
Tuesday, this was the theme at my toastmaster's debate club[1] - I got stuck arguing that social media doesn't make you depressed.

And... my problem with my argument wasn't that it was untrue, but that it was kinda mean. I don't feel jealous of the lives of almost anyone I went to high school with; quite the opposite. A lot of them post "racist memes with spelling mistakes" - which is sad on many levels; If nothing else, it is a certain indicator that they are not living their best lives... but I have a hard time imagining a world where I could be jealous of someone like that.

For that matter, most of the positive social media content I see is baby pictures. I'm one of those people who is glad other people have children; I admire parents, yes, but I certainly wouldn't want to be one myself.

I suppose I just don't get it. Do other people carefully curate their social media lists so that they are only following the super-rich, super-successful and super-articulate? because my experience with social media is that I see people closer to 'average' when I log in to facebook, whereas in real life, I live in a world where most people I spend time interacting with are smarter and wealthier and more successful than I am on several other axes.

[1]The silicon valley "Agile Articulators" toastmasters debate club - we meet at the Hacker Dojo in Santa Clara. https://www.meetup.com/Agile-Articulators-Toastmasters-Club
In 1517174122 daylight saving time is so obsolete...
Skepticism due to insufficient evidence and lack of obvious plausibility isn't usually considered a strong opinion.
This series of flaws surprised me, I now really see why you want to run government computing on their own cloud. I naively trusted that vm separation would be enough and you couldn't leak things that way. I know there have already been flaws exposed where the memory wasn't scrubbed between sessions but I thought that was all fixed :-)

And the same idea applies to businesses that are suspicious of cloud computing security issues. Of course, these are probably obvious to everyone here and it's why these flaws are a big deal, cause a lot of cpus have been sold for cloud/vm installations, now what.
> Have you ever met a teenager?

Yes. And we've all been teenagers.

>Almost literally zero percent of them think (or need to think) about this stuff, with the possible exception of some of the very oldest teenagers (ie, people in their first or second year of college who are starting to think about the details of the start of their careers).

What? EVERY teenager thinks about it. Not only that, their parents financial situations and the prospects of the future most definitely influences their outlook.

What teenager doesn't talk about or think of their future? The entirety of high school is pretty much about preparing for college, finding a job, etc.
Well, as I see that is just an API for retrieving mostly historical data, I've built a complete service that notify you when a condition is meet, for example, `1 LTC >= 0.02 BTC`.

honestly, I started building this service for 2 principal reasons:

1. None of the free apps that I found meet my requirements and I decided to build something that I can grow it to my needs and let the community grow it as well.

2. I'm mostly a back-end guy, it is quite difficult to explain what you can do because most of our work is usually private, now I have something in my portfolio that I can show while looking for clients or jobs.

Just to give an example, I wanted to be notified when an exchange supports a new currency and that's one of the alerts that I added, now I can receive an email instead of be checking the exchange sites or social networks, as this works with the APIs, I could even get notified faster than when they announce it.
No, it is never fair to react to a peer reviewed scientific study with off hand skepticism.
What have you moved to if no longer using Ansible?
U.S. soldiers are revealing sensitive and dangerous information by jogging
Screen time is a symptom, not a cause. One of the vital drives of adolescents are to gain independence from their parents and figure out their own place in life. To do this, teens need to interact with peers, hang out, make mistakes, and generally be sociable.

Our society, largely, does not allow this. Instead, safety fears, need for cars, etc, keep teens at home. So what else is a teen to do to interact socially with their peers? Online is the least-bad remaining outlet for this desire - if they can't hang out in a parking lot or whatever, at least they can take selfies on instagram or whatever.
> They set back browser technology many years.
> They write majorily closed source software.
> using dark patterns

Sounds like you have some personal bones to pick with companies YOU dislike, and yet the average consumer/company does not say "I hate Microsoft Windows" when they buy a Windows desktop (or 1000) (like they might when the purchase Comcast, which is closer to a real monopoly). Even if it seems to you like there is a predominantly negative sentiment around Microsoft, realize that HN and techie circles are little bubbles that do not well describe the market as a whole.

Every malevolent monopoly needs to be sustained by government force, especially the worst monopolies of all -- governments. The funny part about the Microsoft example is that their biggest clients are governments, especially the US government.

> In fact, I challenge you to name one monopoly that isn't malevolent.

Read this entire thread -- there are plenty of examples. Google and Amazon are modern examples with great products. I actually like Windows 10 a lot as well, even though I had to make some tweaks and Microsoft isn't really a monopoly anymore.

> Bonus points if it's government ran (oh no!) and not intentionally underfunded by Republicans.

Careful not to let your personal ideology prevent you from learning new things (applies to everyone). But I'll give you some examples: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac :)