skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When they failed to provide an audit and establish a relationship with a reliable bank, this statement became pointless.

This was the only public "proof" Tether provided:
https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1250/1*CMifyYT4dLVdDDPRS...

It was signed with a scribble, without even a name underneath, and provides no details. The bank is based in the Bahamas and stopped responding to press questions about their relationship with Tether as well.

Whether it's crypto or a traditional bank, what matter's most is that it's set up in a legitimate way with transparent layers of responsibility and trust. A good example is how TrueUSD "stablecoin" provide's monthly statements with a reputable western auditor who is backing each report's findings.

Tether should have been doing this since day 1. At a minimum.
My employer is one of those enterprises; we host our own Exchange server on our own hardware on our own IP address.

I suspect that is not super relevant to this conversation, because there are a lot of signals that Google can use to see that we’re a big fish, and therefore automatically tread more lightly on the SMTP bouncing. We’re running Exchange, for one thing, which is not cheap or easy to use. We’re in the IP address of a big enterprise ISP. We have other enterprise services running on adjacent IPs, like OWA and websites.

Small personal email servers have none of those sort of “ambient” signals; they’re probably running open source email server software on a single IP coming from a consumer ISP or general data center IP space.

So the question might be why Google seems to react more to those ambient signals than other email providers. Because we have no issue at all getting personal emails into a Gmail inbox.
In fact, no, this FTC settlement is in line with the settlements the banks got for their 2007 abuses. As I recall, some banks paid higher, by single digit billions, and some lower.
> Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
As someone who stopped doing React development before Context became a "thing", is it possible to ELI5 in a couple sentences why it is such an important concept?
People are willing to pay to get driven around for relatively short distances on-demand so I'm not sure why that's an inherently unprofitable business. I assume many taxi companies and black car companies make money.

What's probably true is that they probably have to raise prices and deal with decreased volumes in at least many markets to do so--and probably grow more organically. And it won't be the kind of profitability that's expected from VC-funded companies.
Diving into that article, it looks like the Scottish move which correlates best with the reduction (and has the best evidence elsewhere) was a proactive gang intervention-and-redirection program. Basically, <0.5% of the population is usually doing >50% of the murders, so work with them to prevent murders instead of trying to blanket the city with cops.

In Glasgow, that targeted about 3,000 people, and reached enough that even non-participants were affected by reduced revenge violence. In London, that would be about 40,000 people....

The program has been tried in bigger cities, but none larger than half London, and it looks like the effect broadly weakens as population grows. (Among other things, people who refuse to participate are only helped if enough people are reached to intervene in reciprocal violence.) That doesn't mean the intervention wouldn't help, but between costs and very weak starting trust, its hard to imagine the Met actually doing it.
It actually works really well in IntelliJ Community Edition. There is a template for creating a new Kotlin/Native project, the auto-completion works and there is even unit testing support! Things have come a long way since the early days of compiling your own cinterop stubs and figuring out APIs from the generated wrappers. :)

If you want a debugger you need CLion, though. And the compiler is really, really slow – but they seem to be working on benchmarking things recently, so presumably it will be improved.
Why couldn't the same logic work in the post-self-driving future?

If I own a self-driving car that sits in my garage from 8 PM to 8 AM, why not just put it on the Uber network and have it make money while I sleep?

As long as people still own cars, why does Uber ever need to own their own fleet? If anything without the actual pain-in-the-ass of actually having to be a driver, I'd think a lot more people would crowdsource their idle vehicles.
The drivers may not make enough money:

https://www.ridester.com/how-much-do-uber-drivers-make/#2

As a general rule, drivers should devote 20% of their earnings to insurance, maintenance, gas, and repairs. When this is accounted for, the average Uber driver earnings are barely above the poverty line.
> Those options are slow, risky (clients can change the key), incompatible (maybe we can try again after proxy iterators work), and ugly, respectively. After careful deliberation, we chose ugly, using const_cast to make the key mutable just prior to its destruction during rehash.

You can't win them all, I guess…

Also, TIL that invalidating iterators does not actually invalidate references to keys and values:

> The standard guarantees reference stability: References and pointers to the keys and values in the hash table must remain valid until the corresponding key is removed.
Did a vigilante ROM leaker go too far to “preserve” a lost Atari ROM?
This was the situation for bicycle parking in Japan.

~$5 a day to park my bike legally.

~$25 ticket if my bike got confiscated for being parked illegally.

It got confiscated twice in 3 years.
Needless to say, basically everyone parked illegally.
the article is an opinion, an ad hominem may be appropriate to highlight the bias of said opinion
I don't think it's possible to understand from this point in time. I suspect it will be enormous - think advent of the automobile or airplane.

One of my bets is that it will result in people moving away from the city - one of the major drawbacks of rural life is driving distance.
Getting started now will make it easier though. I just bought a domain, and started emailing from it and using it for new accounts. I still use both emails, but I always reply from the new one. It's a slow transition, but quite a smooth one (I have email clients that can show an unified inbox).

I still have quite a few a accounts under Gmail, but I'll probably do a full change this year.

Having control of my email is very important for me. Google could close my account for any number of reasons (billing dispute, hacked account, etc), and I would lose my actual address since the domain isn't mine
Popular darknet marketplace WallStreetMarket exit scams for $14m+
I have mixed feelings... I think Azure in general, and o365 specifically are pretty nice. I do think Azure is a bit overpriced, but they do offer a lot of discounts in a lot of ways, which offsets it for some. They've been a bit better than most at adapting to changes in tech, and if you put Windows aside for a moment, are overall moving in a very nice direction.

Windows' changes have been pretty bad in terms of invasiveness since Windows 8/10. I just really don't like several bits of it. I think LSW is pretty nice, but iirc SystemD support is probably over a year off still, and docker/podman still a ways off. Windows vs Linux containers and Docker has seriously muddied the waters so to speak.

MS, like most corporations isn't a single entity... there's various child entities with some areas of cooperation between them. I'm glad that Windows no longer steers the ship and appreciate a lot of the efforts I've seen. Open tooling and platforms in particular. I love VS Code, the Azure Data Studio (or whatever it's called) is nice and progressing for cross-platform. I do think its' weird that Teams is the odd man out as an electron app from MS without a proper Linux release. Moving Edge to blink/chromium is a good move overall.

I'm anywhere from luke warm to positive on MS in general. That said, it isn't generally my first choice for a lot of things (outside o365). I'm often frustrated with working in Windows at work after about 6 years working outside windows. I use bash (from git) with windows, and there's quirks, but less than with LSW.

I really want them to succeed as I think with the current leadership and direction a better MS means better options and tools for all. I wish they'd redouble their efforts on linux support for everything around Office and Teams though. I'd also like to be able to build/deploy a damned SQL project without windows too.

In 2 years, by my own estimation, it will be a very different world running Windows as a developer and at that point it may become my favorite environment for building Linux apps of all things. MS/Windows progresses while Mac stagnates and alienates its creative/development/pro users more and more.
The paper[1] has a nice explanation of both Morton filters and the prior Cuckoo filters. I've read a bit about cuckoo hashing, and this seems like a natural extension of the idea.

[1]: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol11/p1041-breslow.pdf
Hasn't this been open-sourced since at least last March?

https://github.com/facebook/folly/commit/93d49bcf9a44d6b2d9c...
UBiome Offices Searched by FBI
I think it’s reasonable to feel surprise at learning that this is allowed to happen. Why the surprise-at-surprise style reaction? It makes people feel a bit mocked.
You know what's really funny? That even with that overly agressive spam filter, once in a while (once a quarter maybe), it somehow manages to miss obvious BuY@@NiGERiAn@@Vi@gRa-Cia1is type of emails... which, by the way, my morally outdated spamassasin marks as spam.
As a software engineer at a large company, you will be a cog in a machine.

You will probably be one of dozens working on a given project. You may have specific duties ("Implement these features as they are designed") or you may have a broad mandate ("Make this thing better, figure out how.") but you will rarely have a feature or a product you can point to and say "this is my work, I made it". You will have contributed in a small (but sometimes critical) way to a big product used by millions or billions of people. You will be able to tell people, "I work at this place on that product" and most of the time they will know what you are talking about. Every big company has office politics; office politics are like the sports and games inside Final Fantasy games. In some companies they are just a fun diversion that you can get some neat loot out of, in other companies they are critical to the game and you can't win without playing them. You will be paid very well for this, and have exquisite benefits. Your eye doctor will comment on the comprehensiveness of your vision plan.

As a software engineer at a small, new startup, you will be responsible for everything, soup to nuts.

Depending on how early you start, you will be in complete control of the technical details of the entire software stack you work on, OS, language, source control, frameworks, everything. You might be told what to build by the founder/CTO/CEO, there might be a PM who designs the product for you to implement, or you might be responsible for designing the product given broad strokes and feedback. You will almost certainly be responsible for all of the development, testing and production support of the software you work on. If you do not test the code thoroughly, no one will. If you do not make a backup plan to backup company-critical data somewhere, it won't be backed up. If a server goes down at 3am, it will be you that gets called to fix it as quickly as possible. If you do your job poorly, you and everyone you know will be out of a job. When you tell people what you work on and where, they will pretend to understand or be interested, but you will be able to tell they don't really care. You could be paid anywhere between nothing and a good wage, and will probably have some sort of benefits. You will be given a random amount of stock or stock options, which will probably be worth nothing but could hypothetically be worth billions.
On the Dunning-Kruger Effect, and on Fakers
All it takes to generate $10 in interest is $1000 in a 1% savings account or $500 in a 2% CD. Anyone with even this small a savings will be issued a 1090-INT, no?
And this was my reply to that post, which I feel bears repeating: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17032446

- A quick reference for the important points in Pragmatic Programmer :https://blog.codinghorror.com/a-pragmatic-quick-reference/

- Code Complete: http://codecourse.sourceforge.net/materials/Code-Complete-A-...
Or by robo-call as in The New Deal's "Exciting New Direction" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0pmNDIXymc&t=2m37
Meh. A plain square grid has a speed range of 1.414 to 1 (because of the diagonal approximation error); a plain hexagonal grid has a speed range of 1.155 to 1 (because of the “drunken hexagon walk” at 30° angles); and a square grid with the complicated diagonal adjustment for people who can multiply by 1.414 in their heads still has a speed range of 1.082 to 1 (because of the analogous “drunken octagon walk” at 22.5° angles). Not much of an improvement for forcing people to do mental floating-point arithmetic.

Furthermore, hex grids have a neat property that square grids lack: every path is also a wall that blocks other paths from crossing it from one side to the other, and vice versa. This is the property that makes Hex (the board game) work.
For those also having difficulty loading:

http://web.archive.org/web/20190426160002/https://crimereads...
Do traders track RAM firms using electron-primary-app-firms? Or use one to hedge against the other ;). Perhaps add Intel too in the mix somewhere!
It's not an unfair point, given how big MVP culture is here.

Unfortunately, "sending encrypted nightly diffs to an email address" comes off very much the same way as the infamous dropbox comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Having a search feature, and doing useful backups isn't over engineering, they're features that users are opt-ing in to paying for, to the tune of $400 million/yr.
Can we stop posting fb links to Hn? Hasn’t the company done enough fucked up stuff?
Coinbase took IIRC 2 days via ACH when I sold some BTC in Dec 2017. Might have been next-day. My broker is the same - it's usually 2 days.
It could, but if they started with a low weight (50% of their bodyweight) and learned proper technique, it would work out.
This should solve a major bottleneck for anyone doing network related applications. For now, you have to use an unstable API or a one that is deprecated.
> ...while my podunk place in "flyover country" has now 13x the number of available outlets for something like this?

There are many reasons why bookstores might choose not to set-up in the Bronx or now even in Manhattan.

Whatever the reasons, real bookstores everywhere are rapidly becoming nostalgic throwbacks to a different era.

They're not a "basic amenity" anymore. This will soon catch up with your (as you describe it) "podunk place in flyover country" just as surely as your town has left behind acid-wash jeans and mullets in the year 2013.
The same thing that largely keeps them from operating dealers (yes, now there are laws and contracts, but it was the manufacturers who wanted dealers in the first place) and rental car companies. Although there are legal impediments, companies often want to focus on a specific part of the value chain rather than having to own the whole thing.
That's a very fair point! I hadn't considered this at all, I mostly write in English, and subconsciously assumed this would be true of most Vim users.
Godwin's law strikes again. Static typing is great, don't get me wrong, but it's not always the right solution. There are cases where runtime flexibility can be useful.
But what set of circumstances would lead to this specific sequence of events? "Every bank customer wants to withdraw all of their money into cash on the same day." ???

I don't mean this as snark but that's a hypothetical that seems far less plausible than a lot of other world-ending scenarios, so I'm curious why you so much stock in its risk profile.
Someone getting a loan and falsifying all the documents is the one facing prosecution, not the bank. All seems to be a bit upside down here, given the prevalence of mortgage fraud and who ends up in court.

As for remote employees living in NY I guess that probably does constitute operating there, then again I'm no lawyer with a knack for arguing semantics. Does this count for someone living in an Brooklyn airbnb for a month and working from their laptop?
I have a morning meeting in teams that I often wind up calling into on my phone + bluetooth in my car... it often borks out and won't stay connected without force stopping the app. That's about my biggest complaint with teams... I also think the desktop version should use the material/android interface for starting a new thread... it's to easy to think you are replying but actually starting a new thread. Looking/finding old messages is pretty nasty/hard too...
> Residents of the Bronx are still primarily disadvantaged minorities, many reliant on public services.

This is probably true by total population, but not by block. That is, on most blocks most people are middle class. That's why there is no shortage of wine and tapas bars or whatever.

I think the real reason is that most independent bookstores are subsidized by the surrounding community in order to raise real estate values or add character to the town. In places like NYC these types of businesses often get subsidized by real estate developers who want to raise the rates in their surrounding apartment buildings, but most areas of The Bronx don't have dense enough cores for developers to make money on real estate speculation.

Mott Haven and Port Morris are some of the only areas where this actually works, so that's probably why the bookstore is going there rather than where the owner grew up or wherever.
The wave of IPOs this month is incredible.

It could either drive the bull market for another 18 months, or create the appearance of a panic by private investors looking to finally pull the chute before they hit the ground.
How is the cost in terms of binary size nowadays? Last time I checked using Futures meant adding roughly 5MB to the binary. To me at least that is unacceptable, so I just rolled my own stuff on top of rayon's thread pools.
I mean that artists are unironically using bing as a better alternative for image searches, academics have gone back to tracking citations + libgen/scihub to find information and programmers are using duck duck go to debug their code.

This is a huge problem since these people used to be the core of googles search user base.
We weren't talking about surprise - we were talking about shame. Just because something is legal doesn't mean it doesn't deserve shame. You come off as being oddly defensive towards Intuit.
Yes. I remember scoffing when my grandmother, who raised 11 children, tried to warn me that I wouldn't have as much control as I envisioned early on. Most of us seriously overestimate the amount of influence that parents have.

By the time you get to 3, it's pretty evident that each child comes pre-built with their own unique tour-de-force of personality, and parents are just as beholden to it as anyone else.
Here's the problem with inline filtering of SMTP transactions.

1) The RFCs mandate a server to accept multiple recipients--100 minimum per RFC 5321 (inherited from RFC 2821 and RFC 821).

2) A server can only accept or reject a message for all recipients.

Theoretically a global rule shared across all recipients could be implemented in a way that rejects at the transaction level. But because you also have to implementing lazy, per-user filtering (or more importantly, per-user whitelisting), in practice the architectural and engineering focus is on filtering after accepting the message and closing the transaction.

Without the ability to provide immediate and accurate failure responses upstream, filtering issues are left to metastasize and fester. (Because of spamming and spoofing mitigations bounces are next to worthless in terms of proper integration into the end-to-end software stack.)

One of two things needs to happen with SMTP.

1) RFCs drop the requirement for multiple recipients per transaction.

2) An extension mechanism is added that permits per-recipient transaction responses.

I think the only practical option is #1. Both cases require some amount of infrastructure patching, but for #1 it's extremely minimal and in most cases none at all. #2 is infeasible, at least without #1 preceding it (i.e. once you can no longer rely on batch sending as part of the basic SMTP command set, you'll have to support the extension.)

Once that's accomplished vendors who don't implement inline filtering can be rightly criticized and shamed. As inline rejections become more prevalent, mail being effectively black-holed will become a thing of the past and we'll finally begin to see proper back-pressure (literal and figurative) return to the e-mail network. There'll be more pressure on large vendors like GMail to improve their systems and policies once the fog of complexity and plausible deniability lifts.
Have you guys considered an automatic system with collateral. I'll gladly sign a contract stating that I will be under X% bounce rate for the next month and put some collateral (depending on the email volume requested). At the end of the month you get your collateral back.

It's a purely economic and automated solution that should work well enough for small operators (collateral for a small email volume should be small since spammers really need high volume)
Right, but with an AI driver all of those earnings that put a human slightly above the poverty line go into Uber's pocket.
+1 to CA FTB. My federal tax return was 30 Pages long. I decided to use TurboTax small business to keep it in check - I had a promotion that gave it to me for free ($119 value) but it was extra for state efile ($59.) I went to the franchise tax board website and filed state for free using my federal 1040 in about 10 minutes.
The shady private equity firm run by Kerry and Biden’s kids
Phil Knight (Nike) paid $35 for their first logo. Also he had just randomly found the designer (a student at the time) while walking through an art department hallway.
What could they possibly be spending so much money on?
> It takes a very long term view to appreciate the steadiness of progress in democracies.

That's ironic given China's vaunted ability to think very long-term (100-year strategy).
Facebook earned $2.43 billion during the first quarter of 2019.

You say "If you make $50,000 a year or less before tax, $5,000 is hefty". Well in this case it's like a $25,000 fine.
Is this still a "parking ticket"?
The best way to think about Uber is a reverse loan on your car. If you need money in a pinch that's a way you get it but it's not a way to actually make any sort of decent living.
Seriously genious!