skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>per the PATRIOT Act

You're mistaken.
That's the "Bank Secrecy Act" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act

FTL:
"Specifically, the act requires financial institutions to keep records of cash purchases of negotiable instruments, and file reports of cash purchases of these negotiable instruments of more than $10,000 (daily aggregate amount), and to report suspicious activity that might signify money laundering, tax evasion, or other criminal activities."
For the record, "Bank of English" is a corpus of English texts [0]. I'm sure you wrote "Bank of England" and then were autoincorrected.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_English
The article says that Kraken is the only exchange offering a USD/USDT trade.

The article also shows wallets with the top USDT balances, and a Kraken wallet is 13th on the list, with about $16m of USDT, while the top 3 wallets have ~$1.1b between them on other exchanges.

Either Kraken is a small player, or nobody on Kraken holds USDT for long because that's where people go to immediately change it for USD.
It doesn't help that Tether requested an audit but ended up severing ties with that audit firm [0]. It's likely Tether wanted a quick audit but the audit firm didn't want to sign their name to it so quickly without doing a deeper dive into the accounts.

They've also just printed $600m in tether a few hours ago. Hopefully that's backed by actual $600m in new customer deposits.

Edit: Market cap of Tether jumped $600m in the past 24h [1], but the Tether were granted over a period of 7 days. Looks like CMC doesn't update the market cap every day.

[0]: https://www.coindesk.com/tether-confirms-relationship-audito...

[1]: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/#charts
Also that "brainwaves" have meaning beyond the behavior, brain region, and context in which they're being examined.
hi svig: What you did with TED talks is cool. I'd like to know how you did this? Please share technical details. Thanks in advance.
No they're not.
Study: Increases in Depressive Symptoms, Suicide-Related Outcomes, and Suicide Rates Among U.S. Adolescents After 2010 and Links to Increased New Media Screen Time

Citation: Jean M. Twenge, Thomas E. Joiner, Megan L. Rogers, Gabrielle N. Martin. Clinical Psychological Science Vol 6, Issue 1, pp. 3 - 17. November 14, 2017.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702617723376

DOI: 10.1177/2167702617723376

Abstract: In two nationally representative surveys of U.S. adolescents in grades 8 through 12 (N = 506,820) and national statistics on suicide deaths for those ages 13 to 18, adolescents’ depressive symptoms, suicide-related outcomes, and suicide rates increased between 2010 and 2015, especially among females. Adolescents who spent more time on new media (including social media and electronic devices such as smartphones) were more likely to report mental health issues, and adolescents who spent more time on nonscreen activities (in-person social interaction, sports/exercise, homework, print media, and attending religious services) were less likely. Since 2010, iGen adolescents have spent more time on new media screen activities and less time on nonscreen activities, which may account for the increases in depression and suicide. In contrast, cyclical economic factors such as unemployment and the Dow Jones Index were not linked to depressive symptoms or suicide rates when matched by year.
They did a study using Facebook. But I'm more curious about Instagram. "Look at all these rich beautiful people with millions of followers sailing around the world on their yachts." Ten minutes on Instagram is enough to fill any sane person with existential dread and bring about severe depression.
Intel is a multinational corporation.
> Having the option to live in an echo chamber also means we have the option to pick the wise and rational sources from which to listen to. Whereas before when TV and the local community supposedly was the source of diversity of thought, did you also have to put up with a lot of irrational bullshit that is inherent in socially propagated truth.

I definitely have to deal with more socially propagated bullshit now than at any time in my history. Perhaps ironically, much more of it seems to be coming out of academia and journalism than ever before. For example, I can't think of a time when fields as patently ludicrous as "critical theory" have been taken as seriously as now. I can only speculate as to the cause.
My understanding is that tether exists so you can sell your alt-coin position to something resembling USD in volatility, vs selling them for btc.

You can use USDT to buy ETH or BTC, and thats enables liquidity to USD fairly easily.

I'm not defending Tether, I'm just pointing this out because your comment makes it sound to me like a trap that nobody has gotten any value out of.
Actually a thing...

Auditory Beat Stimulation and its Effects on Cognition and Mood States

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4428073/
the relevant agency would learn the same way the relevant chinese agency learned that information... right?
Where would the money come from? Who would invest in such an enterprise vs directly in treasury bills?
Has #MeToo gone too far?
I hate slides like this too. As I said in my previous comment, the movement is jarring and distracting. It breaks my concentration and focus. The worst offenders often leave me feeling almost dizzy. In my personal opinion, Prezi and the like has set presentations back quite a bit in terms of readability and comprehension. In a presentation, its even worse, because the slides often distract me enough that I miss some of what the speaker is saying too. Maybe my attenion span isn’t that good, but I’m sure I’m not the only one.
A multinational American company
I didn't say otherwise. Plausible hypotheses are a dime a dozen.
Approximately 80 percent of the global opioid supply is consumed in the United States, which represents only 5 percent of the global population

"There was about 300 million pain prescriptions written in 2015,"

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/27/americans-consume-almost-all...
Sugary Shakes in the Hospital Aren’t Good Medicine
Code Reviews – Why, what and how
Thanks for saving me a click, the title is clearly clickbait.
The Language of Salmon-Skin Coats (2016)
More Secrets of the Associahedra
Wow, that is a monumental effort. We can't even get a critical software patch in less than three months. I would be very curious to see what their new infrastructure defense plan looks like now compared to the old
They also routinely steal blueprints to US technology as well as the rest of the world. They make billions in IP theft annually. I'm not saying they can't innovate (being one of the first advanced civilizations), but they're currently so behind in many areas that corporate espionage + cheap knockoff is super profitable. Why spend billions in R&D?
The attackers can still poison new wallets that appear on the chain - either you effectively shut down new wallet creation, or let the attackers possibly spend their coins.
I have no clue, you'd have to ask people who sell below par.

If they are selling because they can't access the normal withdrawal mechanism (e.g. US customers or people in a rush relative to processing delays) then it is the former. If they are speculatively shorting it is more likely the latter.

It could be both: people who can't do normal withdrawal and think there is at least 2% chance of fraud.
My apologies. I meant just the military members, not the country itself.
Surely the issue is not that Strava decided to release sensitive information, or the military decided to release sensitive information, but that neither actor realized that they were in aggregate revealing sensitive information ahead of time.

If one guy runs around a base using Strava, that's not an issue. If a few hundred do, then it lights up on the map. But realizing that is a potential issue ahead of time and then proactively addressing it is the challenge.
So, the people employed by the NSA who hacks other nations' computers and networks... are they cyber-criminals too?

I suppose in the eyes of these governments, they are.

I wonder if Intel just did it over the unsecured line, knowing that the NSA/FBI wiretaps that one...
I havent had an issue with it. Other people have.
I concede the point, nuclear strikes on the US and Japan are reasonable responses.
I think a surgeon knows what major surgery is.
I'm thinking the only reason this is difficult is because we don't have prime-based formulas for all the interesting reals we care about enough to name. That makes this a lifelong quest to solve but probably other things need to be tackled first in order to make way for it. Thoughts?
My wife moved away from Long Island because it’s definitely true there. All her friends that stayed are either just now getting married and buying a house and have finance or other professional jobs (at 31-32), or live with their parents.

I feel like a broken record but in a place like Kansas City (where I live) you can easily get a mortgage on a house if you make $40,000 a year.
I don't understand this bit:

> "These ships were the 18-wheelers of their day. They were designed to haul a huge amount of cargo in relatively shallow water,"

Yet this ship supposedly came from Africa. It's not shallow coming from Africa.
Mathematics and puzzles/games. Take sudoku for example. It helps you to practice deductive reasoning. But the important step (I think) is when you start trying to solve harder problems and turn to math to formalize the collection of techniques you have accumulate during practice, resulting in concepts like 'pre-emptive sets'. When you transition from a collection of techniques to a theoretical foundation, you know have a much deeper understanding of the problem and how to reason about it.

You could call it 'deep learning'.

But you shouldn't ;)
Great info, thanks for sharing. This is the bill mentioned:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
This is one of the biggest numbers you can find in a physics paper
I've got a plausible (to me) hypothesis of my own - namely, that the "kids these days are getting worse and worse" is something people have been thoughtlessly regurgitating for as long as we have historical written records, and that new customs or technologies are easiest to blame. Today it's Facebook, previously it was TV, earlier still it was walkmans and metal bands. Hell, if I'm to believe random quotes from the Internet, even earlier it was paper/pens and... books. "Facebook is bad for the kids" seems to be the cheapest thing you can write these days while being sure you'll have an audience that agrees with you.
It's notable that Colin Percival pioneered memory-hard key derivations functions with Scrypt for tarsnap. Scrypt became the proof-of-work function for asic-resistant cryptocurrencies suchs as Litecoin and influenced Ethereum's ethHash. (Besides many other applications).

In this post Colin casually speaks out against proof-of-work, without taking any credit for his significant indirect influence on it.
"Much less from Iran" misunderstands the problem with opening an account from the US. Swiss banks don't want to subject themselves to the long reach of the United States government's aggressive criminal justice system. That's the reason they won't open a bank account for a US system anymore. See, e.g. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/tax-evasion_us-programme-nets--...

The reason it was impossible, until recently, for an Iranian to open a bank account in Switzerland was not because of the Iranian governments, it was because the Swiss bank was afraid of running afoul of the US sanctions regime. Because those sanction have been lifted (at least for now) an Iranian can open a bank account in Europe, albeit they'll still have to go through a fairly extensive KYC process.
I still use maxed out spec HP EliteBook 8560W workstation notebook from 2012 for most of my work, love the keyboard and solid magnesium case. Runs Xubuntu and 2 VMs fine. I also use Ubuntu on clients' Dell Latitude from time to time, they have very good battery life. For mobility I would try Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga - got older Yoga 13 and it was very comfortable, haven't tried Ubuntu there though.
This would be the equivalent of a month to month lease, and many landlords will be open to that, although for a slightly higher price as they have to account for a potentially higher turnover. Additionally, many lease contracts have early termination clauses that leave a door way open to early termination by agreement of both parties, thus as long as the tenant and landlord are willing to work out something, what you suggest above is clearly attainable, and much preferred over an eviction - it just requires a conversation between the two parties. Now if either of the parties is unreasonable of course or unwilling to even entertain a conversation, no sort of contract will help.
This is not always true, sadly. Google devices sold through Verizon do have locked bootloaders.
> So Intel knowingly ships faulty chips which smells of fraud and reveals a weakness in all of USA computers to another country which is known to employ cybercriminals

It also reveals weakness in Chinese, Russian and even Venezuelan Intel-based PCs and while you may not agree that customers in these countries deserve to get notified on par with top tier U.S. customers, (questionable stance), Intel clearly does, since at this point, it is a multinational corporation with large customer base outside the U.S.
Sure, I could write my own. But, for god's sake, why? My time is too precious to spend on all things that I could do on my own.
True

That's why you take something after the doctor know how to stop the pain in the less dangerous way for your health

If you just stop the pain before knowing what it is telling you, you'll never know what the pain is telling you
Intel wanted to protect their customers before the US attacked them.
> become England's largest company, worth more than their GDP:

In case people don't realize, GDP is the total amount a country produces per year, not the total value of the country. There's nothing impossible about a country's largest company being worth more than it's GDP.
I know we are talking about an uptick. He this been observed outside the us?
I found you can short Tether on Kraken. So, I am (or trying to...it's currently trading at .97 on Kraken, and my sell order is for .99, so if it proves to be solvent in a month or two, I'll be out a few bucks plus margin interest). I have vague concerns that this is like betting against the house since presumably Kraken and other exchanges that accept USDT will be hit hard by the failure of Tether, so they have a strong vested interest in seeing it survive, even if it's shady as hell.
I agree. This tradition of writing short overly-clever code in C needs to die off. Screens can display more than 80x24 characters these days; we should use them.
Hugo Boss,
Kodak,
Volkswagen,
Siemens,
Ford,
IBM,
IG Farben/Bayer

All of these are still around and were much more involved than Ingvar Kamprad was at the time.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?
> they haven't taken any steps to convince people that's actually true

The best way of convincing people of that is to provide a facility that allows people to trade the one currency for the other at par.
At first I remembered this and wondered if it was related:

"The rules for using Objective-C between fork() and exec() have changed in macOS 10.13. Incorrect code that happened to work most of the time in the past may now fail. Some workarounds are available."

http://sealiesoftware.com/blog/archive/2017/6/5/Objective-C_...

But seems like no, actually, at least not obviously.
There's a nameclash here: internet of the 90s which the OP pines for, and the current internet which is weaponized and truly has all the problems the OP calls exaggerations.

It's fine to pine for the 90s internet when nobody knew about your subculture much less tried to monetize it through advertising. But to actually get the spirit of obscure 90s internet on the current weaponized internet is a hard problem. The danger is that you implement some kind of nostalgic 90s interface and simply hope that nobody on the internet hates your subculture sufficiently to destroy it. After all, that's exactly what you did in the 90s and it seemed to work.

The problem is that now a) a plethora of attackers know exactly how brittle and easily gamed these services are, and b) all your users know it, too. And that includes knowledge about how certain types of speech can attract the ire of people with bot armies, exploits, etc. So your userbase either self-censors in order to keep under the increasingly automated radar, or it doesn't and raises the likelihood of attacks.

And that's assuming nobody ddos'd you to oblivion in the first place.

Anyhow, I think it's correct to characterize online communities as dangerous and unhealthy places, because at present their brittle designs make them hazardous to use. Until programmers actually solve some of the deep problems of designing a social networking for use over a weaponized internet (in the same way that git has largely solved that problem wrt source code management), I don't see any reason to change that characterization.

People with nowhere else to turn and no money to physically move to a safer location will certainly still use these messaging services. But the best of a series of bad options is still a bad option.
With the majority of sales outside the U.S. Are you arguing for Intel to employ some sort of "American exceptionalism" type policy when notifying customers of weaknesses? Apart from being a discriminatory position in itself, it is also not a very sound business decision.

Also, with all we know about the NSA, I'll be very surprised if the U.S. government didn't already knew and if they did, didn't try to take advantage of it.
XGBoost learns the Canadian Flag
HN users are overwhelmingly not in the Bay Area. Perhaps 10% are. It's been a while since I looked at the numbers.
Only the oldest of teens would worry about those things. I agree they're all bad but I'm not convinced they'd have much of an impact on under 17 year olds.

I'm extremely hacked off that the high school I'm sending my kids to requires students to have an ipad. It's expensive for me, of no benefit to the student, and makes it difficult for students and parents to figure out what homework is due becuase it's scattered around various websites depending on the teacher's whim. It also means he has a screen to fight with us over that he would not have had otherwise. Then the younger kids get annoyed he has one and they don't. There is no upside.

I asked my oldest son why he doesn't invite his friends around more often and he said 'I can talk to them online'.
Yes this is right, but it is more than that. For example, you can use control of the currency to control the split between labor and capital, or save institutions such as the large banks in a GFC situation (look at the difference in how the owners of the banks faired in 2008 verses 1933).
Ah, whatdya know, I said the same thing a while ago - we don't actually know the effects of long term exposure to so much radiation.

But I think it's mostly the Internet - too much information, endless info streams, endless mindless entertainment, endless feeds of successful people (so it seems that everyone is successful, or making 50K/year, or pretty, except you and your family/friends/hometown).
Is that local data safe from 3rd-party javascript?
Prop 65 (1986), in case you are curious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_65_(198...
I apologize for how this blew up, I did not anticipate that. I was trying to channel the guidelines similar to "it never does any good, and it makes boring reading", hoping HN could focus on the substance of the article, rather than the politics of whether or not it's okay to use "he" as a generic gender term.

It does get extremely boring to read on every article written by or about a woman someone correcting every comment that uses "he" as a generic antecedent, but in the future I will just ignore it instead of inciting a potential flamewar.
Or she did it because she's into astrology
> In the old Falcon 4, there was a large manual that one required just to operate the radar screens. and folks would learn them .

I still have it around... in the preface, one of the lead game designers (IIRC) tells the story of how he went up a twin-seat F-16 with a pilot who was consulting for the game, who in mid-air proceed to let the guy fly the bird... and actually, he did pretty well!
But it can mean they abandoned whatever pretense they were maintinaing that USDTs could trade at par, even in a wink-wink nudge-nudge sense. That’s what “Tether breaking” implies. (As opposed to “Tether losing value.”)

It’s the difference between a money market mutual fund officially “breaking the buck” vs shareholders marking them as being worth less than a dollar.
Yes, let's compare a natural system using low energy and fuelled by food with a hungry silicon system fuelled by electricity. It's going to be a great comparison. Only problem is that biological brains don't just compute, they also construct themselves, unlike the silicon chips. But we can ignore that as an insignificant detail. Let's also ignore that the brain has no clock or clearly separated layers. Doesn't matter that brain can't do backprop and we have no idea how it works, either. We can just compare neuronal speeds as if it's apples to apples. /s
I don't think many teens (13-18) are doing much deep thinking about those things. I was a teenager about a bit more about than a decade before this time period, so maybe things were just so great then I didn't consider these things. But it seems like a stretch to me that a middle school or high school student is depressed because they are worried about retirement. Things like that were far too abstract to be contributing factors to my mental state at that age.
Sounds to me like the sign was put there by someone making fun of the signs they had to put elsewhere in the hotel
Another scifi author with a "secret life" used the pseudonym Cordwainer Smith. He was actually Paul Linebarger, a military expert in psychological warfare, close confidant of Chiang Kai-shek, CIA agent, and advisor to JFK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwainer_Smith
If you come up with a nice high res screen grab for your print, could you please share it here? Might want to use it for a wallpaper background.
Ikea has changed the way we think about furniture
Dismissing it based on nothing more than a feeling, and no data, is just as irrational as homeopaths.
I've heard it somewhere...

Now imagine your pain as a white ball of healing light

That's right, your pain

The pain itself is a white ball of healing light
If everyone agrees these are basically useless as-implemented, I wonder what we could do to change the process so that useless laws actually get removed, instead of hanging around forever.

An expiration-type system just seems like an invitation to play stupid political bargaining games instead of letting reasonable stuff continue unargued, a la the spending bills in the US Congress.
It's fine, but Apple's software quality is going down while Window's stock seems to be rising. The landscape might be different in 10 years if Apple doesn't start taking things seriously.
I'm not sure how many 13-17 year old teenagers were or are concerned with their ability to purchase a home.
This is a great advice, thank you! This is more and less how I have been approaching this industry so far.
I was speaking about the concept. So essentially using ServiceWorkers, Web App Manifest etc. to produce something that resembles native apps.

Why would it not make sense? I was just thinking about giving macOS the same functionality as iOS (so "installing" web-pages), having them in the dock and giving them a different UI. I have some electron apps installed on my mac that don't need much more functionality and could just be converted to a PWA if supported on macOS.