skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the underlying point of the article is that Tether's price movement is not possibly natural. It should often trade at a premium or discount. The fact that it trades so tightly with the USD is likely a huge sign of foul play. The obvious answer is that Bitfinex AKA Tether is using wash trading and other tactics to keep Tether trading at $1.00.

There is just not enough liquidity on Tether for it to follow the USD so closely. It has been very difficult to sell Tether for USD to Bitfinex AKA Tether over the past year. For awhile, any normal user had no option to withdraw USD from the platform at all. Their banks were completely shut off from the system.

You can argue there were people who were on the inside with Tether / Bitfinex and were able to sell Tether to them. I think there may have been some individuals / organizations that had the ability to send and receive fiat to Bitfinex, but I highly doubt they do enough volume to fully stabilize Tether 1:1 to the USD.

Look at Bitcoin over the past 1-2 years. It is completely common for it to trade at a 3-5% spread between USD exchanges. Don't get me started on exchanges in other fiat currencies. The spreads have been known to reach 10%+. These spreads can also be arbitraged by anybody, but they still appear. So I strongly doubt that Tether is a special case.

If Tether was trading on a real market, it would certainly not follow the price of USD 1:1.
I'm referring to fat binaries like the one Golang would compile too. Apologies if I have some terms mixed up here!

Golang produces one single binary you can deploy to your target environment and doesn't really require anything else installed.

From what I've read, Crystal generates a binary but you also need to ensure Crystal is installed on your target environment.
It is mainly a wrapper around this chrome headless command : (maybe you only need that)

`#{chrome_alias} --headless --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf="#{pdf_path}" "#{html_url}"`
> > and take moonshots to enter new markets big enough to make a dent

If you're talking about FAANG, which I assume you are, that's possibly true. But they aren't the only "big companies". There are tons of big cos which do not do any R&D (Cisco, Oracle and the like) and instead acquire startups to grow. And here's the kicker, they don't care for employee development; so choose wisely.
Very true, but also similar to not having a good system of backups, which is hardly uncommon for many users (present company excluded I'm sure).
I went home during lunch and am working from home this afternoon after the office went down, but it's not only Comcast having issues.

Level3: http://downdetector.com/status/level3/map/

Verizon: http://downdetector.com/status/verizon/map/

Spectrum: http://downdetector.com/status/spectrum/map/

ATT: http://downdetector.com/status/att/map/

My tinfoil hat says this is a state sponsored cyberattack, but this will probably come down to a scrub fat-fingering a config somewhere.
You're forgetting that all of these exchanges have percentage-wise fees. "Wash trading" burns money in large amounts, if you do it for any substantial amount of volume, unless you are colluding with the exchange and they let you trade for free. But if you're positing that, then you have to posit that all three exchanges are allowing this. Which raises the question that this article doesn't bother to address: for what purpose? Why would you wash trade tether? Nobody cares about the kraken tether market. Creating fake volume there accomplishes what, exactly?
Experiencing it here. Seems like a DNS routing issue, as some website work while others don't.

Mobile hotspot is working just fine for all websites.
This.

So many folks (myself included) rely on our phones for GPS & navigation, and having the UX for that be monopolized by one player is leaving a huge use case for your phone in the hands of your biggest competitor.

I think Apple has the opportunity to make a very unique & compelling experience, with their deep integration with the OS that they don't offer to outside developers. Though we'll see if they can actually execute.
And it all comes back to HTML as dropbox uses pdf.js to show that PDF.
Not sure why you're being down voted here. This is a valid guess and disagreeing with it shouldn't mean auto-downvote
Thank you for posting that! That is a great overview and exactly what I was looking for.
How come people don't understand what quotations are for?
Easy to prove termination and analyse recursion in general via structural induction.
>Bing Maps used to provide very high-resolution 45 degree shot photographed from airplanes, but this is no longer available.

Bing still has this feature, though they've updated it (made it less discoverable, I feel) and removed older photos. If you go to https://www.bing.com/maps and point at the "Road" menu on the upper right, you will see "We have updated Bird's Eye. Learn more", which gives you the following information:

>Bird's Eye has changed

> New and crisp Bird's Eye imagery is available in many metropolitan areas. There are two ways of viewing the new Bird's Eye.

>1. In cards

>2. Right-click on the map

>Note: Bird's Eye may not be available in your area as outdated imagery is no longer available.

If I go to central San Francisco or Seattle, I can right-click the map as indicated and select "View bird's eye", and the picture will show up.
Massive Comcast Outage Hits the US
I support this and would actively use Apple Maps because competition is healthy and I don't want to be dependent on Google all the time.
... and thus was born iterative development.
Fun fact we took over the lease at 425 right after y'all. That picture on the blog with the couches does not do justice to how packed the office was when we did our site tours!
That's a kind of meaningless assertion though, since Tesla is significantly younger than Ford and others
That is not new. And it's still not enough, because it's not impossible to reconstruct someone's route if they drive in areas where they are the only ones (or among the few) to send segment data.

That's why you need to do more work, as in two of Google's patents:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US8972187B1
https://patents.google.com/patent/US9794373B1
Also: Add attic insulation, which is surprisingly uncommon in older Bay Area houses! Adding insulation is particularly cheap compared to the actual cost of the house, and is something one doesn’t necessarily need to hire a contractor for.
Ah, that's clever. It's hard to come up with a bunch of bulk data that needs to be transferred 'sometime in the next day or two'. Phone updates might be one but they are sporadic, and backups could be another. Also you'd need a supply of near-term bulk transfers in both directions. Interesting idea for sure.
Went there last year during a trip to Olympic National Park. Definitely a uniquely beautiful area. Strange to see such massive mountains so close to the ocean
Introducing Auto Breakfast from GitLab (sort Of)
> No one would separate a child from their parent in any world.

This was regularly done in the USSR for idealogical reasons.

> but then you realize that they broke the law.

I'm not familiar with the show, but the law isn't the ultimate arbiter of what you should do all the time. I think this should be obvious from history.
> and having the UX for that be monopolized by one player is leaving a huge use case for your phone in the hands of your biggest competitor.

This makes me wonder: where is "Apple search"?
How has Customerly grown from 0 to 2373 users without any investment?
"Based on the present findings, we cannot recommend continuous intranasal oxytocin treatment alone at the current dose and duration for treatment of the core social symptoms of high-functioning ASD in adult men, although this large-scale trial suggests oxytocin’s possibility to treat ASD repetitive behavior."
AR applications are changing the ways we think about unlawful entry
I would also like to know the answer to this. Popular culture has seemingly latched onto the phrase "quantum computer" and decided it's the next logical step for computing in general, without ever really defining what it is or thinking about it too clearly.
Howdy Scott,

Is anyone in your field working on the implications of computational complexity for normative ethics? Hume's guillotine relies on the impossibility of any evidence for or against moral facts, but one could stipulate to that while using e.g. Kolmogorov complexity to select moral facts with the highest prior probability to a naive computational oracle.

Not saying it's how I'd necessarily choose my ethics, but if AGI employs algorithmic inference (e.g., approximating Solomonoff induction) for conventional epistemology, the potential may exist for it to extend those algorithms to normative judgments, for better or worse.
I think you've nailed this on the head. I can't help but feel the whole "random huge messiness" of maps data must drive Apple to distraction, they're dealing with something that they can't control when their entire ethos is about fine tuning products to the nth degree...

I really don't think Apple is either capable or comfortable with dealing with the kind of messiness maps data represents vs google, who is essentially an expert on wrangling such data.
never seen this.
Which platform ?
Only a few more keystrokes is:

:sh ENTER

or for more control over which shell, or to run a shell with any arguments, or even to run any command w/ or w/o args:

:!bash

:!bash -o vi

:!bash some_script.sh

:!some_command some args

and after any of those, just press Ctrl-D or type exit ENTER to return to the vim session.

Very fast and easy to do. I use it all the time.
Social Media May Fade Memories
Maps are one of many examples where users are needlessly required to adopt a particular UI to access particular data.

I’m tired of having to accept Google’s clunky apps and stupid UI changes just because their data is better. I want somebody to be able to buy Google’s data (say) and decouple it. And that’s not a new problem (I don’t want to have to use Microsoft Word either).
> In France, it's standard for windows to have white exterior shutters that both repel sunlight and prevent it from entering a home through the window.

Italy too, although in most newer places, they have the roll-down ones -they're fantastic! On the other hand, the idea of mosquito netting hasn't caught on, which is bizarre.

https://blog.therealitaly.com/2007/08/09/window-technology/
Everyone likes butter, Galactus included.
No, I don't think that QCs will help much for simulating chaotic systems, except insofar as those systems are also quantum-mechanical. For (e.g.) predicting the weather, there may be small quantum speedups that you can get here and there, from Grover's algorithm and faster gradient computation and so forth, but at a fundamental level, as far as anyone knows, you still need to just iterate the partial differential equation from one time step to the next, same as a classical computer does.

Stepping back, note that "quantum" and "nonlinear" are two completely different concepts -- in fact, at the level of amplitudes (i.e., the Schrodinger equation), quantum mechanics is the one example we have in physics of a perfectly LINEAR theory! Alan Sokal had a lot of fun with that point in his "Social Text" parody article: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2...

On the other hand, this is perfectly compatible with quantum systems having chaotic phenomena at the level of observables (like the positions and momenta of particles), and in fact there's a whole field called "quantum chaos" that studies such situations.
They're local, the logging logic is completely under my control, I'm fine with piping it to wherever as long as it does what I want.

For example the simplest JSON message would be:

{"timestamp":"2018-06- 29T17:25:47.857Z",
"module":"main",
"msg":"[\"trying to reconnect\"]",
"level":5}

while the human-readable representation for the same message is:

global 17:06:067 trying to reconnect

So I'll have one main log file that gets everything in JSON, but that's only useful for post-hoc analysis. I can control what makes it to stdout at runtime but that's just a single view. So right now I've hard-coded the logging to spit out human-readable messages to different files based on the module and level properties. I open the files in auto-revert-tail-mode (emacs).

Not sure what you mean do I need tail? If you mean the tail program then yea that's what I effectively do at the moment. If you mean always seeing the latest logs as they come in - yes.

So the ideal software would just read that one file (or db) that has everything in JSON (or machine readable format) and let you have different "views" over the same data. Packaged in a nice (web?) GUI.

It shouldn't be too hard to implement but I'm hoping there's something out there already.
Ask HN: What to do if I can't finish university?
I am currently trying to finish the second year of my university program for Computer Science despite actually it being my third year as I couldn't pass any subjects last year for various reasons.

One of these reasons is that I simply cannot get my brain to work in an exam setting and have it memorize a bunch of things to then try and remember it on the exam. As well as all the material in my university (in Netherlands) being presented in a horrible manner where is is nearly always best to actually learn it yourself online which is what I did.

It also doesn't help that I have 0 friends inside the university nor in the city I live in.

This constant depression and feeling like I am in in Groundhog Day movie where I repeat the same subjects again and again is making me ever more depressed. It also doesn't help that I cannot find a job of any kind despite actually knowing how to build things.

Trying to solve my own frustrations in life and education I actually started a project to try and solve this as I realized that most learning already happens online, it's just most don't know what they can learn about even and how everything connects. Google just provides a very powerful empty query box and you need to have a question first.

The project is a website and can be found here: https://learn-anything.xyz

I even launched it some time ago on HN and got some positive comments.

All that is to say that is it normal to always feel this depressed about education? Am I a weak person who can't handle the stress of it all so I just give up and try and find the 'easy' way out?

What can I do at this point? I really really hate university and I cannot wait to actually work on something I love and get paid to do it but it seems that to do that you need to get that CS degree paper. And the project I started is open source and has just enough money to stay afloat through donations.

I have no idea what to do at this point.
Been ongoing for us for almost an hour - was surprised to see it not posted here. We cannot reach any of our US-East AWS resources at the moment. Getting about a 50% success rate on other sites - Facebook (& Co.) pages load but no media displays.
http://programaudioseries.com/feed.xml - here's the RSS feed for your enjoyment ;)
I think this is a critical area where Google has been making some headway.

They are more and more moving to a map of points of interests (instead of a map of roads) and this tailors my use cases so much better.
No, because Troy Hunt and HIBP will not allow you to search the contents of the breaches. He is explicitly against this philosophy.
Bitcoin Declines Below $5,800 as Downward Trend Continues
http://programaudioseries.com/feed.xml - just added the RSS feed, so I hope you give the series a chance! :)
Quick renaming of variables:
what to type"explanation

gd" go to definition of variable
:%s/" beginning of a replace...
Ctrl-r /" inserts the last word searched into the command, so what "gd" found
/newname/gc" finish the replace command, g=global replace, c=confirm each replace

Save a character going to a line:
instead of using :42<enter> to go to line 42, can use 42G

Auto-indent: =

Go to last file: Ctrl-^

Abbreviations:
put this in your ~/.vimrc

iab cmain int main() {
\<CR> return 0;
\<CR>}

Insert the contents of a file:
:r <filename>

I like to have a ~/gitmessage.txt which has a template I like, then when I do git commit all I have to do is:

:r ~/gitmessage.txt

Vim + Ctags:

Ctags link usages and definitions so you can navigate through code like in an IDE without the bloat of an IDE. Works best with C, but works pretty well with any language with C-like syntax (and more).

Goto tag (definition) of what's under cursor: Ctrl-]

Go back: Ctrl-t

Open tag in a preview: Ctrl-w

:tag <tag> " go to tag, like:

:tag someFunction
:tag SOME_CONSTANT
Presumably OP is satire, since parents are being separated from children by the current US administration.
http://programaudioseries.com/feed.xml - voila, the RSS feed, in time before 5 ;)
I'm so excited! Every time I read an article about longevity, its like Christmas morning.

Everlasting youth is going to be humanity's greatest accomplishment, and its biggest weakness.
C's get degrees. Suffer through it and get the degree - you'll be happy you did it.
It's called Siri and Spotlight :)

For example, see Safari Suggestions - https://imgur.com/a/uyd20c6
We just added one: http://programaudioseries.com/feed.xml

Let me know what you think of The Program! ;)
Delta is the derivative of the price of an option with respect to the price of the underlying. Delta hedging is offsetting your option/derivative delta with some other source of delta, typically the underlying.
>It’s doing this by using first-party data gathered by iPhones with a privacy-first methodology

what ? Do they ask user to opt-in into this ? Because otherwise that sounds impossible to achieve (I am not against anonymous data collection but most people coalesce this with losing privacy)
I so loved that essay. I think it was in Stalking the Nightmare? My favorite was the story with the girl going nuts because he was standing on her mother's white carpet.

"Grail" is probably my favorite story from that collection.

Note to self: time to re-read!
ICE Whistleblower interview with CBS interrupted by government agents
So biologists say there is a limit. But if you only look at the statistics from extreme examples of people over 105, mortality looks flat for a few years, so statisticians say we can live forever.

Is it just me, or is this just bad logic?
As a follow-up, what is your position on intuitionist/constructivist logic?
You have to pay extra for fastlane access if you want to go from Comcast -> AWS.
I also put salt on the ice. It’s very cold after a short period of time.
"Grease" was chosen by the science writers, astronomers call this stuff PAHs just like a chemist would. It condenses into "dust grains", so no, it's not only a gas. These reason you can't see much in the plane of our galaxy is that these dust grains block visible light.
You simply can't something 'physics' if its not testable. :)
Coworker in Colorado can connect to slack but certain websites fail. Weird.
Added an RSS feed so hopefully that is going to make it a bit easier: http://programaudioseries.com/feed.xml

Let me know what you think if you listen to it! :)
I often wonder why nobody paints their roof white. I see all this black asphalt soaking up heat on roofs in the south and think that everyone must be crazy.
Thanks Ajit!
I sincerely hope this is a technical malfunction and not a co-ordinated to attempt to take down Comcast's infrastructure by malicious actors, domestic or foreign.

Non-localized outages (especially a coast-to-coast one) are signs of deep faults with the network architecture -- not surprising given the way Comcast is run.[0]

[0] https://www.pcmag.com/news/350979/comcast-is-americas-most-h...
How is that in any way a response that shouldn't engender more frustration and anger that you're suggesting it be a viable course of action?

Be angry. You should be. Get your friends angry. Don't let people shut off and tune out. That's a large part of how we got to this point, to my eyes. When we truly give up, well, then you'll get to see what "too much" really feels like.

As long as I live I will not give up my agency to fight for what I believe in, no matter how hopeless the cause is. That's an integral part of my philosophy in what it is to be human; and preserving any optimism in a future of my country's governance is a hill I'm more than willing to die on.
Who said anything about physics? I was thinking about axioms/logic systems and finitism.
I feel like a state sponsored attack would coincide with some major event in the US. Is anyone aware of anything going on right now that fits that description?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17411594
Good to know its just not me. I finally had to call it quits and head to Starbucks with the laptop. My home office is in a no-cell signal black hole so when this outage hit, my cell phone goes out too until I drive up the street at least a few houses.
> Except prior US policy for illegal border crossing due to disparate laws and judicial rulings.

FTFY
Most stuff has worked today. GitHub hasn't. IPv6 has been hit-or-miss as well.
Given that theory, we never see people over about 120 because...?
Seems to be related to a third-party fiber cut. All the other ISPs are hit too.
This quote from Atticus Finch has made the rounds recently, so I'm feeling very trite in reposting it, but:

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Also, avoiding social media helps. If you want to hear someone's opinion (whether you agree or disagree), talk to them in person. Play WoW as a release, but don't give up on your convictions, whatever they may be.
I know that other commenters are being flippant, but could this legitimately be them testing their throttling ability for specific types of traffic?
You ever suck dick for marijuana?
Seems to be caused by third party fiber cut
Posted ~30 minutes ago, here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17426058
I don't doubt that these people make lots of money, but sites like starterstory are promoting their site/brand through these posts on HN.
Kind of shocked on raising the funds, I guess you have had good adoption on the platform?

Maybe I am missing the point of what is being solved? Access to business credit is a really straightforward process, you can incorporate and with ZERO assets or revenue have a 5k credit card issued on the spot.

In terms of managing credit cards within a company and the other features you're listing out they looked already solved by a company called Emburse, https://www.emburse.com.

I guess this is a run for the market before Emburse takes it over?
That's a normal day in SoCal...

one of those things I can't help but chuckle at. 73 F (23 C) is like my ideal temperature!
Confirming from S.Florida. I can get to some/most of my AWS workspaces and GCE instances, but not to wikipedia.org... unless I turn on my VPN in which cases they block some traffic or make me go through JS verification, but then at least wikipedia works. :-(
Hi Scott, I got interested in Quantum Computing, and fundamental mathematics a week ago. Ever since, I'm reading your book `Quantum Computing since Democritus`. I discovered your blog (oh and it's such a joy to read!). Today I run into your podcasts and AMA. This is going to get overwhelming very soon, I feel.

Couple things: your book is an amazing repertoire of abstractions, theorems, phenomenon and whatnots. Does it get overwhelming sometimes walking down the street like normal people, with that deep an understanding of these domains?

I personally think that your book is a nice place to start with, in the domain(s) of fundamental mathematics.
The text gives a nice idea of the depth I'll encounter in these fields (I think). Keepin' it real helps me, an engineering grad, to not pass it up as ravings of men with too much time on their hands. Do you think your book should be read in this context? What else would you recommend, if any?