skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Circle holds one dollar for every dollar minted, we do not run a fractional reserve. The CENTRE Consortium holds minters (of which Circle is one) to strict auditing requirements. While this information is regularly published, you can see all minting and burning operations (as well as all transfers and other token operations) in realtime on the Ethereum blockchain. See etherscan: https://etherscan.io/address/0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb... There are always as many USDCs in circulation as there are fiat dollars backing them up in traditional bank accounts. The only way minters produce more in a 1 to 1 manner is if someone wires traditional dollars in. Likewise, Circle will burn USDCs in a 1 to 1 manner as requests for traditional fiat dollar withdrawals are processed.
> that's how the Paris accord worked

No, it isn't. The Paris accord was a non-binding document that tried to put in place a framework for coming up with solutions.
Here’s my crazy idea: nuclear powered high pressure differential centrifugation.

Under centrifugal force fluids separate into bands based on mass. The same principle as oil and water separating under gravity. Use giant centrifuges to spin compressed air until it separates into bands, then extract the bands corresponding to greenhouse gasses.

I don’t know the energy requirements for this or if there is a better way of doing it. But if you’re looking for blue sky thinking, that’s what I’ve got.
I'm pretty sure a company like Coinbase which is worth $1.6 Billion did their due diligence on the legalities.
> Why the hell would I buy Bitcoin to buy stuff on Amazon through a proxy site

Because they give discounts up to 15%.

I'm sorry it doesn't fit your narrative but there are reasons to prefer cryptocurrencies.
Your argument is essentially: It is ok that my house is burning down today because my house has a heater that gets lit every winter.

You see, there is a difference in magnitude and velocity of the warming over the last century that differentiates the current warming to past warming cycles.
That's a wikipedia link, not evidence.
Even Mastodon instances can get in on the banning.
By these rules, you just committed an attack and violated the rights of others by saying "88". If you were banned to prevent this attack, nothing of value would be lost.

Oh, "but I wasn't SAYING it" you say? Who judges whether hate speech is excused by context? Facebook interns? AI algorithms? Sorry, the algorithm has pronounced you guilty, you are now banned.

That is the world you would create.
Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover: The NIST Cybersecurity Framework
Earth-Sol L1 is probably a bad place for a solar shade. That's where a solar shade of any given size is the most efficient, but the cost of getting it there is much more than the cost of having more, less efficient ones.

A better choice is something akin to a semi-sun-synchronous Molniya-style-orbit. That is, orbit that is somewhat highly elliptical (so a satellite on it spends most of it's time near apogee, and zips through the perigee relatively quickly), and which precesses so that the apogee is always between the earth and the sun.

A satellite on such an orbit can easily spend >70% of it's time between the earth and the sun, and you could send many satellites there for a similar cost to putting just one to Earth-Sun L1.
i last used cloudformation over a year ago and it was a pretty shitty experience overall. bread and butter resources like vpcs would fail to provision in time which would cause a cascading failure and result in the entire stack failing and rolling back. also cleaning up stacks that failed to roll back was a bit of a pain when there were intermingled dependencies - the dashboard was about as unhelpful as possible in determining what order to delete things so i could carry on doing what i was actually trying to do.

i chalk that up to aws resources being backed by an eventually consistent db and the fact that aws has never built dashboards that are better than "acceptable".

it's possible that i'm missing something here but i've found terraform to be orders of magnitude better on both fronts. it takes a much more defensive stance on resource provisioning with retry logic and picking up on a previous `terraform apply` which timed out instead of rolling back the entire thing. and for whatever reason, terraform is usually way faster than cloudformation for provisioning the same resources.
More importantly, while the grandparent poster is right about carbon taxes (and I support them), they require coordinated political action that is not happening right now in the United States. Again: let me reiterate that I agree they should happen, but the current dominant political party does not support them.

So the YC question is: What can be done outside of American politics?
They've done a lot of work on making it more annoying recently. The "continue" button that actually means "don't continue but instead go and install the app" is inspired-evil.

The flashing app icons, seemingly on every interaction, .. I mean for real.
Those cards are issued by banks as well.
What about "How to Sell by Tyler Bosmeny"[0]. It's from YC online Startup school.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZi4kTJG-LE
but quantum state is all that can ever be measured about the system so seems a redundant word
I was hoping one of the kits would offer USB port replacement. USB ports are what always seem to wear out on my phones.
Thanks for raising this — what part of the intro was inaccurate? This was the source we used for the Kepler info: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27838992?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co...
http://nikital.github.io/pid/ is really neat.

I do wish it either had an option for a saturated integral, or had an option for "wind" blowing in a particular direction as any significant change to the setpoint will make large integrals useless and small values have little use absent a force for them to counteract.
I'm reminded of two things. First, Knuth's article "On the Complexity of Songs", which features K. C. and the Sunshine band's "That's the way..." (Knuth, btw, is a Christian). Second, many years ago, a music minister and I were goofing around with worship songs set to disco music. I did, "That's the way, uh huh, huh huh, I praise Him, uh huh, uh huh..." This was, partly, to express my discontent with I-focused worship and banal lyrics. He responded with an amazing, impromptu version of the Bee Gee's "Staying Alive" with the lyrics "He is alive! He is alive!".
Chrome and the other browsers should be slapped actually. Of all the popups the one that annoys me the most is the chrome (I'm assuming other browsers do it too) thing that tells you to run things in the background or web workers or notifications or whatever it's doing.

That should never have been architected that way. It annoys me the most because its the freaking browser that is being an annoying little shit. My browser shouldn't be part of the problem it should be the solution.
Shareholder ‘ants’ taking on South Korea’s scandal-hit chaebol
I usually just go by babuloseo everywhere. I have a reddit account you can message me and github also, I recently started using keybase and it seems to be pretty cool.
https://keybase.io/babuloseo
How do dogs process words? Brain study investigates
I seems to me that - besides the specific fraud scheme in the article - there is something else to be worried about.

From the article:

>The revelation of this scheme shows just how deeply fraud is embedded in the digital advertising ecosystem, the vast sums being stolen from brands, and the overall failure of the industry to stop it.

And, more relevant:

>Pixalate’s latest analysis of in-app fraud found that 23% of all ad impressions in mobile apps are in some way fraudulent.

Now, if the numbers are correct and 23% of ad impressions is fraudulent, it should mean that either:

1) the firms/brands/whatever that are paying for these ads cannot measure with a sufficient degree of accuracy the results of these ads

2) they perfectly know that more than 1/5 of their ads expense is having "null" results but overall they are ok to spend the 100% price for less than 80% "real" impressions

If the first hypothesis is true there is some incompetence around, if the second, it's business as usual.

I believe more likely the #2 to be true, and since the companies/brands/etc. insist on it, this 20-25% "surcharge" is a "standard" of sorts.

So,hypothetically , if these frauds would be completely eradicated and the companies would continue to invest the same amount of money in ads, we are doomed to see 20-25% more ads than we do now.
Example: company signs a contract with no personal guarantee but with a commitment to make 12 monthly payments. The LLC later lacks the funds (contract was signed in good faith). No personal liability.

I use to make good money going after contractors who thought their LLCs would protect them when they vanished with client money. Veil-piercing is actually quite simple for one-man LLCs. As a practical matter, the burden is really on the one-man LLC to prove that the veil should not be pierced, since it's usually pro forma for the plaintiff to show some evidence that the proper formalities and separations were not maintained. (For example, paying for a personal expense like lunch with LLC funds, even once, is enough to shift the burden to the LLC to show that the veil should not be pierced. Not having proper receipts for gas. Attempting to claim a business deduction for part of your garage if you're not charging the LLC market-rate rent. It's a really long list of don'ts. )
Introducing Continuous Organizations
There are also manufacturers using the existence of such garbage as a scapegoat.

For instance, the fitbit ionic battery plague is caused by shorted MLCCs -- but they still try to blame it on 3rd party chargers every time they get an RMA.
No, I’m saying that different peoples needs are different. I’d rather have the phone 1mm thinner than repairable. You may be different. Companies should compete for our custom.
What is best in life? To crush your comedy, to see played out before you, and to hear the felicitations of your patrons.
"Bloomberg’s report describes an attack that is not possible at the companies listed in the article."
What do you do with the CO2 once you've isolated it?
Absolutely universal, every last one feels this way, it is in no way a warning sign that your business is built on sand if you get that sensation.

Wait, are we talking about Meredith Perry or Theranos? If so, obviously they should have gotten the warning signs earlier when it didn't feel like they knew what they were doing.
How Your Brain Learns While You're Asleep
Trump Administration Ending Obama Era H4EAD Visa Rule
Ben Shapiro has said, quite proudly, that Middle Eastern people inherently prefer living in open sewers and therefore violently destroying their means to have a functioning society is perfectly rational. This is unambiguously advocacy for violence.

Since you predictably brought up loosely organized anti-fascist groups taking direct action to de-platform explicitly white supremacist demonstrations, I'll point out that their actions are in defense of minorities from fascist groups who go well out of their way to make the elimination of people of color a topic of popular debate. Advocating for the elimination of a plurality of people is explicitly violence.

If this isn't a rational response to specific points you've made, you've already made up your mind about _first principles_. First principles are not up for debate.
Is it a brand name as well? Because there are several cases like that.

It is quite a feat to make a household name, nevertheless.
Anyone notice how every single model has long hair. It looks like cool tech, but I can pretty much guarantee the large branches will look really really terrible on short haired/no hair folks...

Maybe in a few years the tech will have gotten small enough to have normal looking branches
Having chronic health issues, I certainly can understand this. However the problem is not unique to software developers. I'd even say developers are in a better position than most other professions because it is an low exertion high income office job and they can do things like remote work.
At the timescale and costs needed to combat climate change, trees will be prohibitively expensive(land, fresh water) and slow. If reducing global carbon with plants was easy, governments wouldn't probably be complaining about protocols, solutions for almost 3 decades starting with Kyoto discussions. Can we stop mentioning planting trees as ultimate solution everytime carbon capture research comes up?
If tech companies just accepted the first amendment as it is they would have much less problems and will have to police much less than what they do today. The government doesn't request from them anything more than the law of the specific land.

The problem is that those tech companies run by people who lean left ideologically and as such they got butthurt from the recent political wins of the right all over the world. So they want to censor based on their ideology, not based on what the law allow or not allow. I don't see the government coming to arrest Alex Jones, it is tech companies that banned him, not even because of hate speech, just because they don't like his brand of humour.

It won't help them because right wing people hold this ideology not because of some Alex Jones rant, this is just a classist assumption, they support it from various real reasons and no censorship is going to change it.
In Texas, Techies Are Trying to Turn the Red State Blue
Outside of my area of expertise, so honestly I've got very little to contribute beyond a glib shitpost and some elaboration.

I'm fully prepared to admit my ignorance here, but in the case of a masters surely the value comes from demonstrating your thought process is sound through review? Without those checks and measures is it not just mental masturbation?
Apple does disable 3rd party chargers that haven't been certified, at least for high-power charging.
About six years ago quite a lot of cars had the wide 30 pin iPod charging/playing cables built-in.
>I'm fascinated with why people don't acknowledge power structures as having any influence in how one part of society views another; that there is currently no hierarchy in society.

I didn't say anything of the sort. What I meant to communicate to you was that I don't see any evidence that the SPECIFIC (and arbitrary) power structures you choose to use, have any actual explanatory power. Typically, ideologues of your persuasion will attempt to explain any disparity in society like this. Those claims are almost always unfalsifiable and can be twisted and contoured to fit any data point.

Do you understand my point? There are many power structures and many hierarchies in our society. If you were to explain the particular status of a specific individual here are some characteristics:

- race

- ethnicity

- gender

- sexual orientation

- height

- IQ

- Extrovertness vs introvertness

- Disability Physical

- Disability Mental

- two-parent vs single-parent household

- household income

- geographic location of upbringing

- geographic location of present residency

- education level

- sense of humour

- religion

- political alignment

- marital status

- number of dependents

- hair color

- attractiveness level

- language

- athleticism

- etc. etc.

Ideologues of your persusain tend to argue, with ZERO evidence, that immutable genetic characteristics dominate all others, even though most evidence suggests the opposite. So it isn't about denying the idea that power structures and hierarchies exists, but rather denying the idea that the SPECIFIC power structures and SPECIFIC hierarchies you choose have any value for explanation.
What impact would sun-shades have on agriculture?
First thought: "frictionless authentication" sounds scary. It usually translates to "less secure authentication."

Second thought: "Why would the banks agree so easily to take on the liability for 3D secure V2?

> 3D Secure v2 will allow businesses and their payment provider to securely send over 100 data elements on each transaction to the cardholder’s bank. This includes payment-specific data like the shipping address, as well as contextual data, such as the customer’s device ID or previous transaction history.

Third thought: "Ah, there it is. So it's another data grabbing strategy disguised as an upgrade in security."

Fourth thought: "Will we be able to disable this so-called security feature?"
I'm encouraged by the full-scope approach this report takes, though I get very worried about technological fundamentalism, the idea that we might possibly engineer our way out of the worst effects of climate change. Don't get me wrong, we might, but do we really want the reality it gives us on the other side?

Charles Eisenstein, a prescient thinker on this topic (and others), has advocated for our reconnection and renewed stewardship to/of the earth. That might sound a bit new-agey to some, but after reading his recent book, he made some compelling points:

- mainstream environmentalism has taken a reductionist approach by almost solely dedicating itself to emissions reduction (it has also made the movement vulnerable to climate-change deniers, who are (at least partially) correct in that emissions cannot account for ALL of our environmental issues... e.g. bees dying off has likely nothing to do with carbon emissions, yet the culprit is often vaguely referred to by many activists as "climate change" which has become synonymous with "carbon emissions")

- while reducing our emissions is unquestionably critical, we need to widen our focus to include the following, which are equally if not more important: restoring water cycles, considerate reforestation/halting deforestation, ending pesticide use (which is likely a primary driver of insect die-off, causing catastrophic disruptions in global food chains and biodiversity, both of which are critical to nature's ability to heal itself), and last but not least:

- regenerative, no-till agriculture (versus till-intensive, soil-eroding industrialized agriculture) is an effective tool for restoring these systems, and it also acts a stunningly powerful carbon-sink (by some estimates, if my memory serves me correctly, we could reduce current emissions enormously by converting only 10% of our global industrialized, mono-crop farmland to regenerative, no-till farmland, which IMO is a small endeavor when compared to the tech-intensive and potentially world-altering prospects of massive carbon-sucking machines or injecting aerosols into the atmosphere to induce artificial cooling)

For anyone interested, his recent book is "Climate: A new story." It was the most meditative and thought-provoking collection of ideas that I've read on the state of the environment and climate. It's also incredibly hopeful without being blindly optimistic. In fact, it's rooted in a deep sense of awareness, not just of the many existential ecological crises we face, but of the new mindset we must adopt if we are to truly heal our planet.
That cable supplied voltage on the ground line. Quite some WTF factor on that, but also difficult to protect against.
lol, so this article is based on a throwaway line in a YouTube video that can be interpreted in a multitude of ways.... yeah, great reporting
15% sounds about right to offset the fraud risk, volatility risk, exchange fees, network fees, network congestion, transfer delays, fork risk, catastrophic bugs, and theft risk :)

We all have narratives, buddy. Mine just doesn't hinge on gambling and crypto-anarchic utopia.
Speech that outrages, offends or angers another person or group is actually the most humanizing concept available. Anger, being offended, being rude are human traits. No they are not very positive human qualities, but that doesn't make them "de-humanizing". De-humanizing is a completely different concept that can happen in a variety of situations, but one is where one group dominates society and prevents individuals from having (wrong or not) concepts that are contrarian or against their agenda. For example, falsely claiming offensive speech is de-humanizing and rejecting the ability for others to have "offensive" models of the world is in fact, a projection of de-humanizing wrongly re-wrapped as "de-humanizing" itself.
There are other concepts in de-humanizing, that are beyond the scope of this. But cenosring speech or rejecting models (positive or negative) in the name of de-humanizing is actually a de-humanizing itself. Being angry is a right as a human. Imagine if we passed legislation making it against the law to be angry. That would be so outrageous and against every thing that is human we know.
Given the update, isn't it pretty clear that this article is nothing but FUD?

The general standard, Qi, only supports charging at 5W. Pixels support this standard perfectly.

Google also made an adapted standard that charges at 10W. Chargers need to pass certain tests to prove they can implement this charging standard correctly. Once certified, then they can charge Pixels faster using this standard. There is plenty of evidence quoted by others of how shoddily implemented aftermarket chargers can damage phones.

I'm not an expert in wireless charging technologies so please correct me if I got something wrong.
Put it through a process to solidify it. You may be able to extract other useful gasses from the air to help with this. If the end result were stable, either put it in landfill or use it as fuel, so it becomes an energy reservoir. Then it’s closed loop, the energy is generated by nuclear and expressed via the expenditure of the manufactured fuel and subsequent recapture.
There's actually many ways to use the chair. You can use it like a normal chair (back against the back rest), lean on the back rest with the front of your chest (if you need support while leaning), use it like a saddle chair by sitting on the end of it, etc. This website has some pictures: https://www.capisco.ca
The issue is that the wealthy and also foreign adversaries are exploiting the algorithms to amplify speech that serves their interests. That typically does not serve the interests of average people.

The issue is how to avoid exploitation and manipulation.

When the KKK marched several decades ago, it got coverage in newspapers and media proportional to its influence in society. Today, the wealthy and foreign opponents can weaponize hate speech like this to fan flames of division for their own purposes. That is the problem.
Indeed, wasn't there recently a bridge collapse in Italy due to neglect?
Here, for example, you overstated the responsibilities/duties of the title company.

A title company's promise to insure real property titles/deeds comes with many (sometimes pages) of exceptions or disclaimers that depend on the state of the title history. Stuff they don't understand (confused records, muddled divorce/death histories, old easements, etc.) they will disclaim from the coverage.

Title companies provide a several page title commitment that describes the state of the world as they see it and given that state-of-the-world they craft and issue a policy. They don't guarantee against things not included in the title commitment they disclaim them away.

In most cases, especially in developed urban areas, the default works. But if there are edge conditions, the title policy often doesn't fix them because the policy disclaims around them.

But if you read and understand the title commitment and trace the title history yourself (or hire lawyer to do so), you can challenge the title company to remove unwanted disclaimers or add additional protections before you close. Also, you can identify potential chain of title issues and have the seller fix them before closing.

edit: s/misstated/overstated/
No Cable Spaghetti in the Brain
Are the Pixels actually that popular? I feel like another company (Samsung, LG) could corner the market on the "pure android" phone and have a better product. I'm surprised Google feels so confident with it's mediocre and overpriced phones.