skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Which do I pick?

OpenBSD :)

> Hardware?

Most OpenBSD devs seem to do their development on OpenBSD-running ThinkPads, so I'd say that's a good choice.

I ran OpenBSD 6.something (wanna say 6.1?) on my work laptop (ThinkPad T470) for awhile. Only significant issue was that the keyboard would intermittently wig out when booted via UEFI (affected Linux, too; legacy booting was not affected). I ended up switching to Slackware (needed to be able to run Google Hangouts and Zoom, both of which require Linux), but I'm strongly considering switching back now that vmd is a thing (since it can theoretically satisfy my Linux-requiring needs via exposing an X server to the VM or using VNC or something).
The sole purpose of Tether is to sell your Bitcoin (or whatever cryptocurrency) for "dollars". The quotes are important because these "dollars" are not real dollars that you can actually do anything with; they're just a number. Imagine if you had a million dollars in your bank account but there was literally no way to use those dollars to purchase any real-world goods or services. That's what tethers are. Why would you do this? Maybe you think Bitcoin prices are going to drop and you want to "lock in" your dollar value.

When you want to actually get real dollars, you have to use your tethers to purchase Bitcoin, then transfer the bitcoin to a real exchange that does real KYC (Gemini, Coinbase, etc), then sell on that exchange for real dollars, which can then get transferred to a real bank account.
Attacking FreeBSD with Kernel Modules–The System Call Approach (1999)
This is a good contextualization of the news we read yesterday, especially since it brings out some of the humor in it. (All of which is schadenfreude, but still.)

Can we agree that the most priceless phrase in all this is "a (believed to be) Panamanian entity"? Not a bank, but an entity. A Panamanian one. Which already sounds shady enough, but then we're not even sure that's what it is. It gives me LOLs.
Google Apps (or whatever it's called now after the last dozen name and service changes since "Postini") does offer a whitelist function, but as far as I can tell it's there only to placate users.
Whitelisting domains or individual email addresses globally, or per user seems to have no bearing at all on whether they will show up in your inbox...
Postini used to work flawlessly, it's hard to imagine how they could have screwed it up so badly.
>But it seems unfair to hold Tether up to a higher standard than even our most established banks.

As others have pointed out, this is a standard Tether set for themselves so how is that 'unfair' at all?
I don't think you can have an open, healthy email ecosystem, when the parties involved (the people running and managing email infrstructure) can't communicate with each other and get help.
That's the "Fremium" version. The FreeFile version is here: https://turbotax.intuit.com/taxfreedom/

The "Fremium" version exists to upsell you to death, the FreeFile version can't do that.

You've fallen for their trick.
This is a bit old but AFAIK still in place.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/14602712/ns/business-us_business/t...

"Under the program, the type of violation determines the ticket’s outcome. For example, double-parking in some parts of the city is a violation that can be erased completely for commercial vehicles. Violations for blocking a crosswalk or a bike lane can only be reduced by about 15 percent. Fines for blocking a driveway can be knocked down by 75 percent.
To date, 312 companies are enrolled in the program, including heavyweights like UPS, FedEx, Verizon, Coca-Cola and Time Warner Cable, which are the city’s biggest commercial offenders."
My goals are modest.

I'll be 50 years old next year and I'm losing my strength. I want to get stronger and add some muscle mass. I'm not concerned about weight and I'm not trying to get ripped.

I already have a bunch of equipment in my garage that I can use (pull up bar, lots of kettle bells, rowing machine, a bar and plates, and a set of dumbbells). I want to start with that and then I'm also thinking about signing up for a BJJ class, but first I have to drop something to make space in my schedule.
Any behavior which is not illegal is tacitly acceptable. That's pretty much the basic tenant of a liberal society.
That’s like saying that $5,000 is a big fine. If you make $50,000 a year or less before tax, $5,000 is hefty. If you make $20,000 a year or less before tax, and have no savings, it will probably bankrupt you. iIf you don’t have any significant income, you will probably never pay it off.

But if you make $200,000 a year, it’s depriving you of a new carbon-fibre gravel race bike this season. Annoying, but you can handle it.

“Big” is relative to your financial situation. For Facebook, it’s a parking ticket. For a startup, it would destroy them.
Ask HN: Does anyone who owns a tech biz ever take voice calls?
The reason I ask is twofold. One, I'd like it as I can't seem to get a phone number to call for some scooter company I used in DC recently and two and as a result, I'd like to offer it for my new, yet released, business and wanted to know if any of you do this? Seems the trend is just offer web support.
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I'd also like to know what corporations are run by the 'far left'
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Bank collapses happen during times of deflation. In that environment, printing money like crazy just returns the financial system to normal, low levels of inflation.
Some are. Some fail to even pull of moderately difficult projects. I didn't mean to say that interviewing is literally a coin flip, but I can dig a trench with a pickaxe. Doesn't mean it's a good way to do it.
> This is not just gmail issue. Though with many smaller providers you'll at least get something like "your blocked by XYZ blacklist".

I would much rather get this than silent discard. At least when I've seen things in the logs in the past (yes, I do read my server logs), I have been able to follow up and fix them. I get the sense that Google is even going beyond using 550 and discarding email silently. I just did a grep through my logs to see if this message came up and found it nowhere, yet I have users on my mailing lists claiming they don't get emails and they've checked their spam folders. They're on GMail.
>Legitimate class action notices related to Amazon purchases.

You'd think Google had an incentive to get that delivered.
I hope we're seeing the pendulum swinging a little back. I'm not giving up my e-reader. But, there's a place for paper books and the culture they bring to a neighborhood.
Guess what? You can actually see in an S-1 what it costs.

S&M = $233,191 for 2019

More than half their revenue is spent acquiring new customers...which, with a high likelihood, will net revenue over a N+1 year timeframe. This is an investors wet dream... I pay $1 now and I only need $.15 to operate that $1 every year for the next 7 years...that's a helluva return.

In other words...you can turn off the S&M tap and these companies could be profitable almost overnight.
Imagine if we could backport that understanding to people.
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This is the warning I give people: Do not let your livelihood depend on a free service.
An easy way to see everything you’ve ever bought from Amazon
Hipster Media: Bot responding to 'NYT First Said' with who said it before them
If you already work full time and want to take one off contract without dealing with the evening phone calls it could work.
Reminds me of the bit in Twin Peaks when the cops take in a Parrot that witnessed a crime. Someone murders the Parrot to stop it from talking.
I read stories about adults trying to find their biological parents all the time and think why do they want to do such a thing? What are they hoping to gain -- by becoming close with their biological parents who possibly have knowingly abandoned them, they also risk alienating and hurting their adoptive parents. Sounds pretty selfish to me.
My understanding is that the existence of Tether provides liquidity and confidence in BTC (especially the ability to sell quickly). If Tether takes a big confidence hit that might affect BTC strongly.
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Tether exists because Bitcoin "exchanges" (who are really broker/dealers) are so bad at paying out USD. If I sell stocks via my US broker and tell them to wire transfer the proceeds to my bank, the money shows up the next day. Sometimes the same day. Try to find any crypto "exchange" that does that.
But banks don't claim otherwise. If bitfinex was upfront about only having a fractional reserve the story would be completely different.

If you buy a beefsteak and you later realize that it was chicken would you say "well other shops do sell chicken and people are fine with that so why would I hold this butcher to a different standard?"
With these types of documents, it's obvious they are done after the fact for fluff and to justify design decisions that were made by people different than the ones who wrote the document. At worst, the weirder stuff in the document was commissioned to be an absurdist marketing gimmick when it "leaked" to the press and they wrote stories on it.

It's like the Apple document for their logo redesign that showed that it was really something like 37 distinct circles placed in mathematically-relevant positions.[1] Yeah, no.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/05/17/does-the-apple...
Uber is not making money? How? Why?
> Otherwise we'd be arguing that Damore (or, say, Altheide, if one has ideological preference for one or the other) are also "very intelligent".

That seems pretty likely.
Hardly impartial for a member of the traditional media -- even one who works for the Gray Lady -- to call for upping the fine on the company doing the most to make them irrelevant.
Venezuela has more significant issues than "printing money like crazy"
That's the problem with a platform-as-a-middleman-service that uses a commission business model: they have to aggressively, and I mean aggressively, take measures to ensure neither the providers nor the recipients of the service cut them out of the loop.
Perhaps I’m misinformed. Can you tell me what part is not tied to mmu?
I’m not sure if # of tweets, which isn’t even equivalent to account age, is the appropriate figure here. Followers would be far more meaningful.

I don’t check # of tweets and therefore can’t judge your observation. But lookin at some top tweets and users, their content seems to invariably be more nuanced and civil than replies to them, which are mostly from frothing-at-the-mouth dickheads with no followers.
Sure, and the past has showed us that it’s possible to live peacefully, but it’s difficult to reach peace when billions of dollars and thousands of guns are being handed to the cartels every year. They say everyone has a price, if that’s true then cartels have the money to buy everyone.
A frontal fight has been tested, and yes big bosses have fallen, but the violence only increases when big cartels become small cartels (usually antagonist small cartels).
Could an ideology stop this? Can someone or something make corruption disappear?
America legalizing all drugs is the only solution? Could Mexico legalize transportation without America legalizing consumption?
TurboTax was free for me up until I tried to report $10 in interest paid on student loans, which is a small, barely necessary form.

TT doesn't include this very common form in their free bundle and wanted me to pay $40 to upgrade.

While H&R Block also gets criticized- I have to say that they include this form, and I was able to file completely free for both federal and state, without having to hunt for a link- just started on their normal site. They also allowed automatic import of W2s, easy import of TurboTax previous years, etc.
>It’s an interesting time to observe this market (I guess crypto will be interesting for a while).

If by interesting you mean comedy godl, then sure.
People will read it if you're outrageous, trite, and generally behave poorly....

It's not just dumb tweeting into the void, Twitter basically makes you dumb in order to avoid tweeting into the void.
Besides Toptal (which focuses on the 'elite programming' aspect to the detriment of all else), is there a vetted platform for businesses to look for consulting agencies to do projects for them (anything 10K and up), and for independent consultants/consulting agencies to look for work? There are state run vendor boards like https://eva.virginia.gov; but I haven't seen anything comparable in the private sector.
Using a stablecoin to buy pizza is a theoretical application which has yet to happen to the best of my knowledge. Facebook is rumoured to be working on a stablecoin currency which might bring regular use to consumers, perhaps.
If you are a for-profit company, why would you kill off business lines that are "only" making you $10-$50 million per year?
Their expenses are higher than their revenue.
But I guess the massive, coordinated and extreme FUD from Remain passes without comment..
Here's two answers:

https://twitter.com/neilanalien/status/627873374505562112?la...
In related context about MA judges arbitrarily applying or not applying the law, Judge Shelley Joseph was charged yesterday with improperly ending court proceedings and aiding the escape of a felon.

https://www.wcvb.com/article/massachusetts-judge-trial-court...
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The IRS has Free File Fillable Forms to e-file taxes online directly for free.

https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...
The problem that a banking app solves is that it makes authentication simple; you can log in usually just by typing a PIN code on screen, and then you can do things like check transactions or balances, and even transfer small amounts of money without a hassle.

This may not sound like a huge advantage, but remember that bank website authentication usually requires the use of a security token device. And this device is something you probably don't want to carry around all the time.
I do believe so.
Scapula should be firmly on the bench. They're responsible for transferring the load to the bench.

If they're out of position, you'll get hurt.

With decent form and a reasonable balance of pushing and pulling movements (don't neglect your back!) you'll have healthy shoulders.
What circumstances will they pay you interest? That has never happened to me.

Because this year I got hit by some underpayment penalties (with interest added on top) but at the same time I also got a refund which had no interest applied to it.

That is being self employed and paying estimated taxes every quarter.
> It's interesting that you bring up AOL, because I remember dealing with this kind of crap with them. It was annoying, but didn't feel like it was as big of a deal.

I do too, because there was an actual useful URL that had contact info in the bounces and SMTP errors. IIRC, I actually managed to get a human being on the phone and got this sorted right quick!
Not necessarily - if things need to be done, don't leave people to it just because you're done; try to be helpful (of course don't let others take advantage). The same way - don't stay over time if given thing can be continued next day; work is work, and while it is important, there are more important things
This looks cool, but it seems like a great example of when a gui would be better than a command line.
Circumstantial Ad Hominem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem#Circumstantial

What you say may be true, but it does not establish that the OP’s argument is false.
If there's any financial idea the crypto people just do not get, it's the idea of "backing". A currency is not backed by dollars unless I can convert that currency freely back into dollars. It does not constitute "backing" to have the money nominally somewhere in existence, but not actually available.

Heck, who'd like a few hundred thousand jerfcoins? Come and get 'em! They're backed by dollars, in the sense that I guarantee there exists in the world many hundreds of thousands of dollars. jerfcoins don't give you any claim to those dollars, of course, but they're backed by them just the same!

("But jerf, what are US dollars backed by?" Purchasing from the US government the right to not be arrested and thrown in jail for lack of payment on taxes. Just 11 days ago, many people completed trading in their dollars for the year for that backing, so it's definitely a transaction that can done by real people. It may not be an aesthetically pleasing form of backing, but it seems to be working.)
...good point.
You can change your USDT to real USD at Kraken.
Precision and Recall
Actions speak louder than words. When I see generic PR phrases like "we care deeply", my bullshit detector immediately goes off the wire.
Item by item:

1. This article doesn't say that Twitter (the company) has a liberal bias. It says that Twitter users lean left.

2. The article says absolutely nothing about this, and you haven't provided any evidence. This is pure conjecture.

3. Twitter users aren't forced to follow anyone in particular. There are plenty of timelines filled with conversations that look and sound like right wing "echo chambers", centrist "echo chambers", etc.
Are you sure the price of tether is accurate? Are you really sure?

It appears to be defying gravity while the backer is accused of fraud and doesn't have funds to back it.

These exchanges are unregulated and unaudited, the movements in price are inexplicable, and the simplest explanation is fraud.
What ever cash FB has on hand is what they want to have on hand. They’ve got plenty of ways to raise whatever cash they want or need in no time.
I've actually forwarded a lot of that to the higher ups... There are places that it could be useful, I just feel that most cases it creates more problems than it really solves.
These open source projects are life changing. There is a risk, but because one is building it themselves and when weighed against the risks of less control it feels like a win.
OpenBSD's my default OS for PowerPC Macs.
I feel like this might open up liability, or at least substantial "badwill" if the software messes something up?
> closed-everything 4G (or 3G on some older devices)

Cellular modems with open firmware are prohibited in 140 countries, including US and Europe.
It seems like it it's the same with shared bikes. The only one making money are bikes manufacturer.
is this the same as me randomizing a sentence, such as "satboma.ereegeiafudsuuedlVoiieelelglaesldnu nuorascrluc eip ttelalf rpoima s smudb.loo .r.c ue eu. mtgde mmea i leno undcisuattlicuoM ete Dimr isaaci nriirslraeunbpo abf mavuoD elneaact psg eunn mrlA m taiinccltnd oisnnnniltnt" and then asking you to find the words?
The US isn't in the same league. We have independent and trustworthy federal police (the fbi). They are under attack by the president but they are more trustworthy than I ever realized in general. I don't see political investigations of opponents of the govt, like happens commonly in China. I don't see endemic corruption.
There was a discussion thread on here recently about Google's Hash Table implementation. I wonder how the approaches and design considerations compare to each other.
> With banks, the money doesn't exist.

The money doesn’t, but the other assets on the balance sheet do.
I would have thought they are a dying company just two years ago and today I have a completely opposite outlook of them.

The underdog has to do better to compete.

https://www.adweek.com/creativity/how-avis-brilliantly-pione...
The whole point of tether is that "all of the kyc/aml" is not enforced.
I have worked 75 hour weeks but only like a couple times a year, people who say they work that much are usually filling their time with worthless filler. I bet less that 1% of them actually do it. The rest is meetings, web surfing, wasting time on the phone. However business owners can easily do this when profits are down.
>I can curate a stream of content that is almost always relevant to my interests

How much work did that take you?

I've tried to do what you describe.... but time and again I grow tired scrolling through hordes of "I really followed this person or thing to hear about this content but now they're tweeting about X" and found I constantly had to manage it. It was to the point that I just would rather keep bookmarks as websites are better at staying focused than most twitter accounts.
https://github.com/adobe/svg-native-viewer
Weightlifting, in general, is a pretty safe sport. It has a way lower injury rate per hour spent than soccer or running. The deadlift, specifically, is a very easy lift to learn how to perform. And if you perform it properly and only add 5lbs to your max from workout to workout, you’d have a pretty difficult time injuring yourself.
It's not even free though.
Comprehensive reading: user lost all but an initial payment of $1300 …
This article didn't mention whether or not their servers are attempting delivery using TLS/StartTLS, which is a good thing to check. I think Google penalizes email delivered insecurely.
Google Thanos Easter Egg Wipes Out Half of All Search Engine Results
> Arthur Andersen, for instance, was convicted of a crime and had to surrender its CPA license, putting the company out of business.

It was my understanding that Arthur Andersen went out of business as soon as it was indicted, such that there was no point in actually convicting it. And that that experience mostly defeated the purpose of having that process exist, since it isn't appropriate to kill a company without showing that it did anything wrong.
Interesting. I always thought of dualism as a Cartesian thing.
Residents of the Bronx are still primarily disadvantaged minorities, many reliant on public services. Many NYCHA public housing developments are in the Bronx. The lack of things like bookstores reflects the lack of financial resources of the community.
> Does a chat app need to be fully searchable?

Absolutely, yes. There is a ton of tribal knowledge contained in chat history.
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What is machine learning? Rethink the concept and the eye-catching applications
https://www.google.com/search?q=thanos
Click the Infinity Gauntlet in the knowledge panel.
Only works on Chrome
That's for using the same word for different things. You can start a new company called Apple in other industries, no problem. You can not use the Apple computer company's logo as yours, though.

You can probably use Sauron, but you can not literally put up a picture of the Eye of Sauron as your project logo without making it appear that you are operating specifically as that trademark holder. With that picture, they're not just claiming to be "a" Sauron, they're implicitly claiming to be associated with whoever currently holds the rights to those movies.

(I'm only hedging on the "probably" because of the known litigiousness of the Tolkien estate. Normally it shouldn't be a problem.)
Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe.
Computers don't need standing, they act on their controllers' behalf.
Good to know! I assume they do proper KYC? Do they exchange at 1:1 or do they take a percentage?
Governments have a long history of bailing out banks and other corps without zeroing their shareholders first.