skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let's assume that it's impossible to sell Tethers for dollars.

You can directly do this and the market is pricing it at 5% discount. Anyone can short it or buy tethers at a discount. It's been down to 85c in the past.

https://trade.kraken.com/markets/kraken/usdt/usd/1h
I may not remember correctly but I think blackboards were tuplespaces, which have some differences with plain pubsub, though they can both be used to solve some of the same problems.
I've been using reactstrap and since it relies on a external bootstrap CSS for styling (i.e, manually included `<link type="text/css" ...`) you have plenty of freedom on how to style it.
It's all tied to the nervous system. But given a certain muscle mass, there's a limit to how much weight you can move, even with optimal technique and an optimally trained nervous system. Eventually, you'll need to add more muscle in order to move more weight. Of course, more realistically, beginners will add more muscle over the course of normal training. Intermediate and advanced lifters will need to schedule muscle-building blocks into their training to add muscle.
There's a difference between owning the job in organization and farming it out completely. You don't need to have all competencies inside your org, but you better have some kick-ass people you can trust that can ensure you're not scammed by external consultants - or who know how to talk with contractors so that the project is not catastrophically buggered by nonsensical behaviour and unrealistic expectations of your org
Agree that crypto-burn is a bad idea. But I am curious what that 3-5 billion government windfall will go towards.
But not for free, and not forever. I've got ways I could raise some cash too, but not for free, and not forever. It may seem like it, since the cash I could raise is denominated in thousands and theirs in billions, but it's still true.
What are one-dimensional business people actually good at? Besides just being a piece in the system that soaks up resources?
Yeah, every kid is different, and every parent is different.

Our first actually taught us this lesson. We have friends with really, really easy kids. Our oldest - 4 years old now - is... tough. She has always been very hard headed. She has always stood up for herself and what she wants. She is persistent. My friends joke about how someday she is going to conquer the world.

Our twins are much easier. And much "better" behaved at similar ages. Sometimes you get what you get.
Yeah, I actually think that’s a likely eventual outcome. I would be shocked if they haven’t already had discussions to that effect. It seems like a natural fit to me.
Go to your tax office if post is more expensive than physically going to a tax office.
The price of Bitcoin as denominated in tethers is increasing (supply/demand as people attempting to exfiltrate value to a safer asset) and Bitfinex has quite a lot of Bitcoin, both their own, their reserves, and other people's, so they can hold a peg until they can't, making trading profits all the way, as long as their counterparties and regulators let them.
Wasn't there a website that would send you diffs of a webpage too? I remember using something like this to keep tracks of updates to a blog without RSS...
> How much work did that take you?

In a way, the management of my feed is a never ending game. Typically the problem I see is that people are too reluctant to unfollow/ follow other accounts.
Largely because we decided not to build public works.

When we do get one, the pressure is so high to succeed and to cut costs that people reliably focus on outsourcing responsibility and notional cost-savings, and then when that falls through on recrimination and fixes. We pressure private profit-seeking companies to make "bids" without putting up any kind of collateral, on the chance that if we did it we might waste money employing some extra labor or employ a union.

Something like 50% of the politicians in this country simply doesn't believe we should do anything as a public work. They do not believe in public works. They will actively sabotage public works in the hope that they will go overbudget and prove their philosophy correct. Compromising with these people instead of cleansing their ideology with holy fire nets "public-private partnerships" and "bid processes" and "inquests" and "deadlines" and "being cancelled in disgrace" and thus further anxiety about the next project, but an inability to compensate with higher bids.

Things would be a lot easier if we just wanted to build things, and paid people to build things, even if this meant getting into the business of building things. Instead, we want to be dramatic in our compromises, pretend that waterfall infrastructure planning is viable and can achieve perfect efficiency and predictability, treat limited liability corporations as moral actors which can be held culpable for giving us the lies we asked for, and regularly re-avow our faith in the market.
Weightlifting is easy. It's so easy that all sorts of misguided people can do all manner of stupid things and still make reasonable progress.

* Consistency: 3 to 5 times a week, every week, with periodic deloads (once every month or two, give yourself an easy week where you cut the weight in half or so).

* Intensity: you want to challenge yourself, but not overdo it such that it's hard to recover. Part of learning means you have to push to find your limits, but overall you shouldn't be going nuts until you're more of an advanced lifter.

* Movements: the core of lifting weights consists of the Squat, Deadlift, Benchpress, and Overhead Press. Any reasonable program will make good use of these movements. Add in accessory work as you like: rows, pull/chin-ups, arm work, ab work, etc.

* Diet: Sufficient calories and protein to support muscle growth. ~0.6g/lbs. of body weight is a reasonable protein target. You can count calories, but use the scale as the real test of whether you're hitting your calorie goal. If you want to get bigger, the scale better be moving up.

Want a program? Check out Jim Wendler's 5/3/1
Chrome latest release: What's coming in the Future versions of the browser?
>Also, I think that right now companies like Google and FB should be treated and reasoned about like states. To think that they will not abuse their power in one way or the other - just like countries do - is also "a little" naive.

That companies this big ought to be reasoned about just like Nation States is a very interesting idea.
>It does not seem at all clear to me that any tech company could sustain routine fines of this scale and remain a going concern.

It will be fine if they stop doing the things that cause the fines. A $3-5B fine is nothing compared to the settlements that were extracted from banks, and the tech industry is much more profitable.
Do Uber drivers make enough to cover complete vehicle costs? I remember reading that after total costs of ownership (depreciation, insurance, gas, maintenance, etc) Uber drivers really aren't making much.
America’s 3 wealthiest families have more money than 4M families combined
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This reminds me of a CPU architecture that Bill Wulf did back in the late 80's.

http://digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu/awweb/awarchive?ty...

It had some really interesting ideas for hiding latency.
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Hadn't heard of that, but it appears they used a different sort of process, which will preserve some state, but only to a degree; it's not expected to preserve the organ such that it would be viable when thawed.

> It proved effective at preserving an entire brain to the nanometer level, including the connectome—the web of synapses that connect neurons.

> A connectome map could be the basis for re-creating a particular person’s consciousness, believes Ken Hayworth, a neuroscientist who is president of the Brain Preservation Foundation—the organization that, on March 13, recognized McIntyre and Fahy’s work with the prize for preserving the pig brain.

> There’s no expectation here that the preserved tissue can be actually brought back to life, as is the hope with Alcor-style cryonics. Instead, the idea is to retrieve information that’s present in the brain’s anatomical layout and molecular details.

While some may believe that the connectome alone is sufficient to define memory and consciousness, there are reasons to believe it's more complicated than that, so I have my doubts.
I hate being that guy who asks where you infer it's a "small percentage", but my anecdata are that disrupted sleep is the norm. Yes, it got better after the first 3 months. Then there were multiple - very natural, I hear - sleep regressions: expansive brain growth which led to night talking/nightmares, teething, illnesses, fluctuations in natural body temperature regulation... kids are rapidly evolving creatures, and habits/pattern/training are great to instill, but there are a lot disruptors both natural and environmental.
Ok, then why is loss-making more acceptable (safer for small investors) in a formerly profitable company than it is for a not-yet-profitable company?

And as others have pointed out you are exactly wrong about efforts to make public investment available earlier. Besides founders who would love to have more fundraising options, there is plenty of evidence and outcry that small investors are not getting access to economic growth: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/private...
There are lots of other ways for people with limited money to lose it, and there always will be. Casinos, lottery tickets, credit card debt, frivolous purchases, etc.

I can’t think of any reasonable argument why allowing a free-thinking adult to, say, put a bit of savings into a friend or relative’s new startup is so much worse than the rest of these that it needs to be illegal.
I would rather roll the dice on a one-off suffocation than subject a young mammal to a separate sleeping cage in the darkness of night, personally. What other mammals make their young sleep not in a pile?
https://github.com/transloadit/uppy
Corporations value candidates time because good candidates value their own time?
I don't believe this is unique in China's history. Their economic power was certainly world class in previous times. They were a manufacturing powerhouse and held monopoly over many goods in a global trade network. Not only that, China had more power projection in the past. They had direct influence in current day Afghanistan and Central Asia until they lost at the battle of Talas River. As well as having tributary states in Japan and Korea. Currently, the US and allies surrounds China in such a way that they don't have the same influence.
High-bar back squats are relatively straightforward and safe to bail out of using safety bars:

https://youtu.be/fRIaJv_5CkM

Front squats are also not so bad if you have safety bars to drop the barbell forwards onto.

Starting Strength style low-bar squats are trickier. I've previously found myself having to sort of roll forwards until the safety bars catch the barbell, then crawl out on hands and knees. Slightly scary the first couple of times but still pretty safe.
You're right - I had mis-remembered it. The scene I was thinking of was the one near the end of Wrath of Khan where Spock and Kirk are discussing sacrifice, but that's not where the quote is from.

I'll blame it on the scene in II being so much more memorable. ;)
It's entirely possible to write a system where application code only gets sanitized handles and OS code inside the implementation gets raw memory pointers at least some of the time. All running in one address space doesn't mean all running in one security context, necessarily.

Really, address spaces are just a hardware implementation of a more general concept: Namespace-based security. Application code wouldn't even be able to know the names of privileged objects, and if someone told that code the right names, it wouldn't be able to use them, because resolution of names to things is, itself, privileged.

In a simple example, assuming a Common Lisp-like system: Everything which handles raw pointers is in the SYSTEM package. Application code can't inspect the SYSTEM package, and, even if you told an application that the function SYSTEM:WRITE-DATA-TO-DISK was a thing, it couldn't call that function because the real evaluation code, which can see into the SYSTEM namespace, knows not to let application code call anything in SYSTEM; only the functions in SYSTEM and SYSCALL can do that.
There is literally no way for a mass-market taxi service to make money unless they have a monopoly, or some unexpected disruptive technology comes along that gives one company an unassailable advantage in lowering costs.

The Uber app was the original innovation, but it's not particularly innovative anymore. Besides Lyft, traditional taxi companies have similar apps in some markets.

Skirting regulation and good labor practices were also supposed to help, but that can't last once you become competitive with the establishment.

Self-driving cars were supposed to lower labor costs, but that's not going to be a thing for decades if it ever works. But even if it does, it won't be an exclusive technology. They won't be able to make any more profit from it. If their costs go down, so will everyone else's and they won't be able to undercut the competition without continuing to lose money.
I disagree.

All GUI tools are limited and soon you get out of the comfort zone if you use them for more then 2 things.

That is the main reason I created AU framework[^1] for chocolatey which main choco repo uses to daily watch and update 250+ packages[^2]. Previously they used Ketarin tool which is GUI and was very limited and hard to on-board too. Its basically this, but you program simple PowerShell functions that can check for changes using whatever available in .NET.

The same goes for any declarative tool - you simply need a good programming language all the time.

[^1] https://github.com/majkinetor/au
[^2] https://gist.github.com/choco-bot/a14b1e5bfaf70839b338eb1ab7...
I meant it in the sense that they kept the mess of party's internal politics away from state institutes.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18527344

> With all Jiang Zemin's flaws, his best move was to "politically castrate" the party, and distance intra-party affairs from state governance. This is what made the two decades of progress possible: civil servants without little red books instead of brains.

In early nineties, CPC was a buzzing hornet's nest. It was the wisest decision to not to touch it, and let the party "simmer in its own juice," while creating parallel state institutes with complete outsiders.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17337985

> It was in Jiang's times when things turned "position in the party !== automatic position in the government." Jiang was waaay to afraid of party members. He saw the party as a dual structure:

> 1. An assembly of oafs, and loosers

> 2. Along with a hornet's nest of Maoists, Hua-ists, Deng-ists, and 20 other "ists," all of whom were a threat to his rule.
You would still have null, but only when asked for and checked explicitly.

In Kotlin, for example, you mark something with a question mark to say that it can be null, which forces you to check for null before using it:

val entityOrPossiblyNull: Entity? = Entity.fetch(id)

if (entityOrPossiblyNull == null) {
doSomething()
}
else {
// The compiler knows that the variable is not null in this branch,
// so this assignment is OK.
val entityForSure: Entity = entityOrPossiblyNull

doSomethingWithEntity(entityForSure)
}
Most people are extremely constrained by costs. Take out the VC money and Uber is a taxi company that is easier to use. Difficulty of use is part of the reason people didn’t use taxis all that much. But a huge part of the reason is that taxis are really, really expensive.
The craziest thing to me is a lot of people have been claiming Tether was a fraud for years, but according to this it may not have actually had any issues until ~6 months ago.

So they decided to prop up Bitfinex with Tether funds long after they were first accused of fraud, even having that spotlight already shining on them.

If they wanted credibility they should have completely separated those two businesses, but I suspect Bitfinex makes more money than Tether, and perhaps they wanted the Tether funds as a sort of insurance policy for Bitfinex liquidity.
exchanges would love to be able to do that, but can’t if they get cutoff from the banking system at every turn.
I see the counterargument, but we are still pushing companies onto the public that are losing copious amounts of money. Part of me wonders if we aren't witnessing the irrational exuberance before the (cyclical) fall.
"Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker is an amazing book and talks about this for of stuff and a lot more. Having read it, this is not surprising at all to me. Last year I read ~45 books, this book stood out as one of the best.
Samsung Galaxy Watch Active vs. Gear Sport Compared
I have never used Postmaster-tools. Is there any particular reason why it requires a Google-Account?
I have more experience in reading analogue schematics, and I imagine this is less challenging in purely digital electronics, but to me understanding a schematic is really more about identifying the causal flow of information / signals, by recognising familiar patterns (amplifiers, filters, resonators, etc). This article is more an alphabet chart.
Who will need a "smart-ish phone"?
I've had lawyer friends like this. Doing law research can drain the soul after about 40 hours a week.
i'll save you lots of work... don't treat them like trash..
Mostly walking in to their shops with your feet and handing them your money though.

Beyond your good suggestions of leaving good reviews and telling others, I'd suggest buying gift cards from these shops for people you need presents for, thus forcing them to patronize the shop at least once and upping the chances the store gets another regular.
I'm not sure if you missed my distinction between far-left and moderate-left or if I'm misunderstanding something about your response. I agree that these institutions have long been left-of-center, but they used to be liberal (in the sense that they favored things like free speech and heterodoxy and opposed things like discrimination based on immutable characteristics). I object to the vehemently illiberal wing of the left (and right, but as previously mentioned, apart from the anomaly that is the presidency, the illiberal right is largely marginalized).
Risk of a new civil war? Today 'us and them' differs from 1850s
I sell products online in Canada, and 90% of our credit card fraud comes from Montreal. It's an absolute cesspool of activity like this. It's a huge center of money acitivity in Canada, and they're only getting more aggressive.

We've made several fraud reports with the various agencies and banks, as well as with the Montreal police.

The Montreal police are to blame here - theres absolutely zero willingness to investigate and pursue this.

I'd put money in this being an inside job. One of the contractors working for McDonald's Canada has a backdoor or way of copying card information, and is selling access to multiple people in a network. This isn't one person making these transactions, it's a network of people.
Wendler has dozens of variations of 5/3/1, including for beginners.

https://jimwendler.com/blogs/jimwendler-com/101065094-5-3-1-...

He has more detailed stuff in his more recent books, too.
I would be curious to see this alongside / with some relative derived metric for life expectancy. To my knowledge cancer can definitely be influenced by environmental/lifestyle factors but its incidence would also be increased by the relative age of the people in an area. For example if everyone dies by 50/60 of alcoholism, addiction, diabetes, or work-related injuries the cancer incidence would be lower than expected even though the people there are definitely unhealthier than the general populace

Actually, I see that the stat is age adjusted. So not sure what effect that would have on the comparison that I described
Interesting. Do you have sources for that? Genuinely interested to know.
Learning and exploiting unwritten rules of a game referred to as business.
40 hours is enough for me.
What if tesla just buys an ice company and just adds autopilot. I don’t see a reason for them to bundle battery and self driving... or even just licenses the self driving tech to others...
LOL at communication logs between Merlin and Oz.
That wasn't immediately relevant to me, but is definitely a good read since I imagine I'll be dealing with these problems within a year.

Thanks!
> Peers blow off those companies or knock them down a tier when seeking work.

Unless I am mistaken, this only happens when candidates' experiences are shared, and only impacts business decisions if shared widely.
If you want to move dollars between 2 exchanges in different parts of the world, it’s a pain to do by wire.

Some exchanges only deal in crypto.

It kinda makes sense: you want to sell barfcoin but it’s only traded at an exchange in Elbonia. So deposit your barfcoins to the Elbonian exchange, trade it for a stablecoin, then move your stablecoin to a local exchange and trade for your local currency.
Depends where you are in China.
Hong Kong is 14th on that same list.
One of the things discussed in the book is how inhumane it is having subjects in an experiment deprive themselves of sleep (pull all-nighters); it has lasting effects on the body. As a result it is becoming much less common for experimenters to do this, so I'm a bit surprised at how this study was conducted.
"out of sight out of mind" is reason enough to have one. people may serendipitously walk into a bookstore and change their lives; doesn't work the same when commuting.
Maybe this should finally clue you in that online harassment has always been a pass time for and by women. ED, Kiwifarms, do you really think it's mostly men who spend all that time concerned with social warfare, gossiping and reputational damage?

The default on the internet is male, and the same goes for anons, because we expect women to make themselves noticable. When they don't, we assume they are men. But clearly social media is mainly for and by women. Maybe they ought to own up to that.

I have never seen more drama and abuse as in female dominated groups. Men have an argument, fight, and then go have a beer. Women will waffle and try to appear the reasonable party, but only so they can stick the knife in the back later, and they rarely forgive. This is generally true, but any woman who does not fight this way is a treasure who you can invite into groups of men without changing the dynamic permanently.
> post about how much you suck on HN, and that represents a cost

This may be true. I have only seen candidacy experience complaint posts where the author deliberately neglected to mention the company's name.
Uber drivers use their cars for stuff other than Uber. It's a way to make additional money from something you already have. That would not be the case if Uber had its own fleet.
Protip: All your fingers will wipe the device...

...but your left middle toe will work ok.

/does this ruling say anything about toes?
What does that have to do with Tether? Isn’t that the exchange’s responsibility?
Can't someone create a site, listed, with very good SEO practices and content that links directly to the Free edition?
Could also be unattended arbitrage bots. These are programmed to look at the price on multiple exchanges and if it diverges, buy on the cheap exchange and simultaneously sell on the expensive exchange. Under current market conditions, that means buying (for USD) on Coinbase, Gemini, and other fiat exchanges, and selling (for Tether) on Bitfinex, Binance, and other Tether-based exchanges. When the music stops, they'll be left with zero dollar reserves, zero Bitcoin reserves, and a hoard of worthless Tether.
What do you mean by "In my circle of friends googles search engine is pretty much useless"
Reading works best for me