skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite that simple. If you're not licensed as a business to trade in a state, and you accept a customer in that state, then you're on the hook (yes, if customer falsifies documents, then that's on them). Tether/Bitfinex didn't always forbid NY customers, and didn't always forbid US customers, and the OAG's allegation is that they continue to knowingly serve NY customers (the US prohibition is a business decision, not a regulator).

KYC/AML says that you must make a good faith effort to verify documentation/ID, etc. The contention is more that they're doing so "under the radar". Just like "friends of Bitfinex" - employees/friends who have agreed to use their personal bank accounts to enable wire transfers on Bitfinex's behalf (I mean, WTF...).
> Yes but the difference between 0 and 1, possibly even 2 beers is going to be below the noise threshold for normal values of "beer"

In terms of feeling? Maybe. In terms of measurable effects on motor skills, probably not. They start much earlier (both in time from drinking and quantity of drinking) than people tend to think, or even recognize at the time if they aren't actually measuring them.
With a front page that has daily "Omg facebook is sharing your data", "you'll never guess what uber did now", "<random shit tech company> S-1", "let's all play armchair detectives and speculate why the 737 crashed", "shitcoin is good/bad for <whatever>", etc posts, I wouldn't exactly put HN that much above crappy content aggregator..
Building a Web Server with Lumo (ClojureScript)
Well as I said above it's not one episode it's a lot of them. But actually I just searched and this is the first time that Uber was mentioned in the show notes:

http://techzinglive.com/page/581/95-tz-discussion-lost-in-la

So looks like 95+
Airbnb is profitable.
“File a false amended return, including a false tax refund claim of over $4 million for the year 1996, and a false amended return, including a false tax refund claim of over US$7.3 million for the year 1997.”

That’s from the Wikipedia page about Wesley Snipes. That’s what it takes to get the IRS to really go after you. Not only do you have to do it intentionally, but when you get caught you need to hold the line and say that you refuse to pay.

If you make a “mistake” and claim more deductions than is reasonable or just outright fail it file once or twice nothing really happens. They just try to correct the “mistake.” They try to settle or put you on a payment plan or maybe try to garnish your wages if you don’t respond.

When the IRS goes after tax fraud they are looking for someone trying to claim a multimillion dollar 2nd home in the Hamptons as a business expense, not someone who says they bought more office supplies than they really did. Or when someone with no kids tries to get multiple child tax credits.

When you get audited (by the IRS or anyone, really), they will ask you for a bunch of documents and then come up with their own calculation based on what they believe you owe. You can pay it and be done with it or dispute it. If you dispute it, then it may become contentious. Only then does it even really become an issue.

At the end of the day the “standard” is whatever a judge decides is reasonable, should it even rise to that level. But it almost never makes it that far because someone settles. Generally speaking, the only people who go to prison over tax fraud are those who CAN pay but refuse to.
The FBI and most US law enforcement is notorious for ridiculous overkill and roughing up subjects of search warrants.
You might need to prune and/or curate your slack channels better.
For major projects/initiatives we use a new ephemeral slack channel for the duration of the project. All chat comms about the project are stored there. The project roadmap is kept in google docs with tickets in jira.

We have 12 teams and 150 people and prob 50+ channels.
At this point we might just as well introduce a hefty "privacy violation tax" (though with an euphemistic name) and treat FAANG as the new tobacco industry. Because these kinds of issues will never go away, they are firmly woven into these corporations' business models. Fines can't change that.
As a parent I must say he's not completely wrong. We have decided to not co-sleep, to not get stuck with this. But quite often my wife would fall asleep without putting the baby back to the crib. At which point the baby would not cry till the morning, unless a dirty nappy started itching.
Not a parent. Have spent a decent amount of time around children. Have stayed up all night watching the door of a hospital room while my sister co-slept with her newborn child, waking her up when the nurses jiggled the doorknob.
That's rediculous. If a market with 0 profit opportunities exists them time is frozen and all future innovation is impossible. It means that every possible inefficiency of every single person working has been removed. Humans are never perfect beings, and usually far from it, so there is always opportunity for more efficiency. Also the goalpoint is constantly moving as more technology is created to replace older ideas.

If we ever reach a so called "optimal market" as you describe it then GDP growth will also stop, as will personal income growth and all manner of things..
How much of that benefit is purely short-term though? In a hypothetical world where Uber and Lyft's current pathway to profitability never pans out, what are the ramifications. The most obvious one is that their fares will increase by 25-50% depending on the market, pricing them well above the legacy taxi services that existed before the arrival of these VC-backed companies. The second most obvious ramification is that many of those legacy taxi services have been run entirely out of business in smaller markets. My home county of 1m+ people is now down to 1 shady taxi service with a handful of ancient, beat up Crown Vics (last produced in 2011) and they only hang on due to the incredibly low standards for taxi regulation in our region. If Uber and Lyft fail or become far less useful due to cost increases, there are significant barriers to entry for a new, clean, and professional taxi service to enter the market as they don't get to play by VC rules and have to start a highly capital intensive (for a small business) operation by conventional rules while only being able to attract a customer base entirely through conventional means of marketing, and all at a very small cost advantage versus the ride sharing giants.
What on earth is a non-photo ID? Like... a credit card?
This was a response to a complaint about not receiving emails from some "people/domains" even when whitelisted, and I highlighted how this can be hard for a service to detect reliably.

So yes, DKIM will help a receiving server know for sure, but a receiving server still needs to accept emails from non-DKIM-enabled servers, and perhaps that's why whitelisting didn't work for the parent.
United Airlines Covers Cameras on Its Seat Back Ent Systems After Outcry
I'll second checking out Basecamp. We use both Slack and Basecamp. ZenDesk for customer issues. Everything tied together, both Slack and Basecamp have decent tools to integrate so you get alerts where you need them. Basecamp has a nice set of tools for projects and planning. I can't say I LOVE it (and I don't hate it), but I do love their support people. You could probably get away with just using Basecamp as well. We did for quite a long time.
The mechanism is supply and demand. People and companies borrow money at the current interest rate (because both they and the banks believe they will be productive enough in future to pay it back) in excess of the current money supply, so the money supply rises to match it. As the money from an individual loan gets repaid, the loan disappears from the banks' balance sheet, and the bank earns only from the interest. Obviously over time, the amount of money being loaned into the system grows with the number of creditworthy people wanting to borrow.

This system obviously isn't perfect in practice, but it's a lot better than the "however much we can get away with" approach to money creation used by Bitfinex and the government of Venezuela because the newly created money goes directly into their own pockets.
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What are your thoughts on Uber Select / Uber Black / Lyft Lux / Lyft Lux Black?
This is a problem with ML approaches, right? Instead of water boiling at "100C" it boils at "99.98C +- 0.04C". Normally this is ok, but sometimes it isn't!
Can't open the pdf. Am I the only one ?
> You don't have to believe the company will make money, you just have to believe you can sell your piece of the company to the next guy for more.

This is why people invest in gold and dogecoins.
Is there a rigorous definition of “machine behavior” as a research field?

I can see how a good-enough marriage of ML/NN to classic symbolic AI could yield a system capable of higher-order, intention-based “behavior” in complex circumstances. But we’re still a long way from achieving that, as far as I know.
Hey, thanks for sharing this!
Queensland's IBM Ban Lives On
Can you tell us, in general terms, some projects that were successful engagement with Accenture?
Potentially because you came off a bit aggressive, and because he already explained[0] that they had an analyst looking into this.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19759411
Particularly extraordinary because if you're a crook and you need an audit you can get one for a price. All the Big Four firms signed off on accounts at (mostly Eastern European) banks which subsequently turned out to be either straight up frauds or so corrupt that it hardly matters. So Tether not only couldn't manage to get a clean audit they couldn't find a way to bribe their way past this obstacle or they weren't willing to splash the money to do so.
hi, i'm melipone (OP). the cvspharmacy link was an obvious joke meant to parody people who plug links after something goes viral. i got it from my friend karl's page (@hammerfist3); it's in his bio, too. also, it's a dead link; how stupid are people lol.
So you think that my post reflects the common HN Meme?

I see the similarity in making a critical comment regarding a presented project but I think it is different. One of the biggest things Dropbox tackled was to make it a plug and play experience (e.g. you do not have to own a server). With WatchMe I have more the impression that you have to learn a new tool (incl. configuration) and have a more or less limited system afterwards (limited to watching urls or psutils).

I don't really see there any advantage over using shell scripts unless you want to limit what the job creator is allowed to do (which might be a valid use-case). Maybe I am missing something, but from my perspective, it looks like learning to use the existing system tools is of higher value than to learn how WatchMe works (even if their documentation looks nice).
> How different is it from programming the GPIO on the Raspberry Pi?

Conceptually they are they same (just flipping GPIO bits), but practically you can do things with one which you can't do with the other.

There is no operating system on an Arduino, like there is on a Pi. This means you can do much more "real-time" things on an Arduino, like bit-bang a serial port. This is hard to do on a platform with an OS, because the OS process scheduler might pull your program off of the CPU for a few milliseconds. If you need to do something to those pins 1,000 times per second or more, you're out of luck.

If you've ever seen a large scrolling LED marquee sign which appeared to have an occasional "stutter" in the scrolling, that's most likely because it was being controlled by an operating system.
Worst coding standard you've ever had to follow?
Sure, just make it illegal to say you're selling AI technology. Problem solved. I'm absolutely fine with the use of the term in the context of regulating its abuse.

Real-world usage would imply people use it in a meaningful way. I have yet to see any evidence of this.
Silicon Valley could be the second richest country in the world
Tools that have worked in the past for me:
- Confluence for long lived documents
- JIRA for time boxed groupings of work.
- Slack for real time comm if anything arises.
- "Culture" and Process Living Document

I ran a team of about 25 in the past and followed the following agile principles to help with alignment:
- retrospectives
- "sprints" (preference on the 3-4 week range)
- Sprint Review

Alignment, while tricky, isn't all that hard so long as processes are evolving from retrospectives and you have a single source of truth for long form documentation.
Unless I'm mistaken (and I've been mistaken a lot today):

Japan 1927
Argentina 2001
Myanmar 2002

Is it frequent? No, but it's not entirely without precedent either.
I certainly am interested in this, but I also would like to note that this is not just a matter of something 'more complex' arising and that I lack the imagination necessary to see how something very very complex can arise. Rather, subjective experience is a phenomenon that, no matter how complex your system is, is qualitatively different.

It's not like this is a trivial problem that philosophers of mind have figured out long ago. As someone else mentioned in this thread, it is a very deep problem. If you want to have your view challenged I encourage you to read any introductory book to philosophy of mind.
I should explain what I've tried.

Nextcloud photos is not a photo application. It's basically a shared gallery with thumbnails. There's no metadata support or editing. No true multiuser access other than granting sharing through Nextcloud like Dropbox. The only good part is you can autoupload from your phone.

I've looked at several webapps, like Piwigo. Most of them feel like a single user application or have limited upload and metadata support.

The closest I have found is Digikam using external SQL, but this requires a local application carefully configured with a DB and a fileshare.
As a sibling comment noted, that is Telsa's plan. I believe GM is wanting to do something similar with Cruise.

However, I feel that both of those companies are still way behind Waymo in terms of R&D. Personally, I think that Waymo is the one to watch. If they get their first, they already have the ride hailing infrastructure/user network in place (Google Maps) and may even license the tech out to auto manufacturers.
What a horrible, misanthropic viewpoint!
it does not appear to have been a power plant, it was likely a coal gasification plant
From a tools/infrastructure support perspective, standardizing on tools and clearly declaring and assigning a single tool for each function. Clearly ask people to pitch in to adhere to this. Set clear standards for yourselves.

From a people perspective, clearly defining goals and constantly asking clarity questions to gauge if there is alignment is the only real way. Also if you notice people are not aligned but they think they are, declare that you're not sure they're aligned. They'll hash it out themselves.

It also helps for people to declare when they're unavailable in something like a slack channel. Finding out someone is not there when you expect the to be is very jarring/frustrating.
I don't think that has anything to do with Google needing special treatment. It shows that the company who made the rules and has every privilege to follow them isn't able to.
> At the end of the day the “standard” is whatever a judge decides is reasonable.

Because fraud is criminal, in practice the standard is whatever a jury would find willful beyond a reasonable doubt (or, perhaps more to the point, whatever the US Attorney can convince you and your attorney that a jury would be unacceptably likely to see that way.)
The fact that there is no better mobile UX than that provided by Google's Android 9 (Pixel phones, not Samsung) suggests that whatever they're doing is working.
The way it’s described, it’s like a gift to the shop rather than to the card recipient.
Researchers attempt to measure how often people oversell themselves in society
What other species nurtures hordes of other brainless species to harvest for the antecedents of artificial pants?
Nigerian authorities arrested 32 alleged Yahoo Boys in a sting operation
I used to strongly agree, until I worked on a successful distributed team.
And yet, consciousness is something that remains, regardless of whether we name it as such, and regardless of the specific cells that make up our brains. So it's as if it is the only thing that is not named 'by us' and yet remains 'something' independent of its makeup.
All of our alerts I believe come directly the specific platforms or one-off integration companies (where we buy ads, so facebook/google ads/few others). SeekWell would work for us if we had a competent product team to build a data warehouse that actually worked. Some of ours operate like:

1. Supermetrics pulls data into a google sheet once an hour

2. Alert logic in the spreadsheet

3. Some slack integration (zapier maybe) sends slack alerts based on cell values

Currently looking at eletype to replace a lot of our custom stuff

https://www.eletype.com/install/
Elizabeth Holmes would like to have a word
> Without upwork, we would not be using contractors in Russia or Argentina.

>> what you are saying is UpWork provides great value for businesses looking to hire inexpensive contractors

Or translators from Russian and Spanish, people can hire overseas for several different reasons.
Using a database as an API: benefits, use-cases and examples with PostgreSQL
Yeah, I was sad about that. The old changedetection.com was vastly superior for my use case and, not to mention, free (or at least much much more generous with its free tier).
I agree with you.

For me, I've been fully remote for many years and was primarily remote for a few years prior to that.

Companies I've been at where there is no flexibility whatsoever typically suffer from poor management or are the type of work place where there are pieces of hardware or other resources one can not really work on remotely.

One of the primary benefits for me when initially working remotely was the time saving that resulted not having to spend 1.5-2.5 hours a day in the car.
I'm not really sure I believe this story. It's not like dumping a ROM from an arcade machine is as simple as dropping a cartridge into a copier. The ROM chips used could be custom. Often, the address lines were scrambled from standard EPROM parts to make copying harder. This would need some analysis with a logic analyzer to sort things out.

It's possible standard EPROMs were used since this was a prototype, but still, this would require all of them to be in sockets that could be easily removed and put them into a EPROM programmer/reader. I guess this is possible to do quickly, but seems a wild for me. You would also probably want a quick reverse engineered schematic.

My guess is backup copies were sanctioned by an owner and then the files "got out".

I was involved in the emulation/ROM scene for a somewhat obscure console a long time ago when I was in high school. Said console did not ever have a commercially available copier. I had built my own custom cart for this console using EPROMs, so I could run anything I wanted on the console. I wrote a program that copied itself to RAM so you could pull out the cartridge from the slot, insert the cart to be copied, then spit the data out over a communications port. I received this stream on a PC's parallel port with a bit-banged software program and got the ROM dump that way. I was pretty stoked that it all worked!

Anyway, I worked with a couple "collectors" who wanted ROMs dumped but not distributed. They mailed me the cartridges, I dumped for them, and gave them their ROM files. I'm sure such situations are much more common in the arcade emulation scene. It's easy to see how ROMs could get distributed in such a situation.
You can argue the degree to which growth is controlled but the alternative to “careful, controlled growth” is uncontrolled growth.
Stellaris applies the same to star systems and their hyperspace interconnections. I miss the other forms of FTL travel possible in that game (warp drives were nice for their simplicity, and wormhole generators were a great challenge), but the hyperlanes do make it feel more like "EU4 in Space™".
How does this address the question of whether printing more currency increases the supply of money?
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Could time be logarithmic? (2016) [pdf]
> stopped responding to press questions about their relationship with Tether as well

Would you expect a bank to answer questions about who it does business with?
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Complex automation won't make fleshbags obsolete
So Huawei stopped selling equipment supplied with Cisco manuals?
found from a comment on the incorrect calculations of speed of the expansion of the universe: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/bhoapu/hubble_finds_...
Me too, since 1997. Same IP for over 12 years.

Thing is, most of my messages get delivered. Then suddenly they don't.

Google "giving a shit" means responding to hostmasters about delivery problems, and they just don't.

Please note this, Gmail PM.
> This is true of banks, too. In fact, if everyone took out all of their money from all of the banks, there isn't enough real money in existence to cover it.

True and not true. There can be enough money, it's just paper. It can be printed. It only makes sense to print enough to cover what's in actual circulation. If not there there would be tons of warehouse & vaults just sitting and holding tons of cash.

On the other hand with Tether, they can't print money. So they could never come up with enough money.
> One of the primary arguments in favour of cryptocurrency is avoiding the fragility of fractional reserve banking.

Only by people that don't understand fractional reserve lending. For example, the exchanges are loaning BTC for the purpose of shorting. This is exactly fractional reserve lending, just like the banks.
I am in the process to detach Google products, somehow gmail is the only product I cannot find a working alternative.
you've never tried bear blood?
Not really developing a distributed dB but using one. Inaccurate and misleading title
What's it a territory of?
I really like this idea. What's the tech stack?
Any other good candidates? This is something I really need to look into soon.
If all goes well humanity will be way more advanced in 10k years, to the point that they will find our warnings laughable.

If we want to put up warnings it should be for whatever remains of a failed society because they are the only ones who would need one.

A series of increasingly more dangerous traps should make sure only advanced people can access it. Death is a language all understand.

It's interesting to ponder pyramids from this point of view. With their preservation of bodies, gifts for the afterlife and traps. Maybe we are their Gods and they want us to revive them.
Requires an implant, but cleverly they are using implants already required to help suppress epileptic seizures. Accurate to about 47% of a 50 word vocabulary, and only that high because they’re decoding signals thrown off by subvocalization.
> Have stayed up all night watching the door of a hospital room while my sister co-slept with her newborn child, waking her up when the nurses jiggled the doorknob.

Why?
Courier services have existed for years for last mile.

I have a friend who was (20 years ago) paid full time by one law office to get papers to/from the court room (he worked for a company that dedicated him to that job). Part of his job was knowing the proper way to walk into a trial in progress.

My dad more than once hired a taxi to take a package to the airport. I suspect post 9-11 this isn't legally allowed, but back then if you needed to get a bug fix to a customer your fastest option was put it on a tape, put the tape in a suitcase, buy a plane ticket for "Mr Package", and then check the suitcase in the name of Mr Package.