skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now, how would freelancer.com know that the people are communicating outside of the platform? I guess if you exchange contact info over their channels... Is that banned?

What if you send encrypted messages via GPG? Or is that forbidden too? Just sending a public key for GPG, will reveal an e-mail address.

How do you exchange passwords and other sensitive access info without encryption?
Normally, the crib is attached next to the bed - with an open side facing the bed so that nursing is more convenient. They still sleep on the firm surface needed in a crib (to prevent suffocation, as you noted). That's still a lot closer and more comforting [for them] than having it be in a different room.
Imagine creating this beast of a "framework" and not even using TypeScript or Flow. What are you thinking?

Edit: It does use Flow.
If you make HN less usable, people will certainly spend less time on it.

That argues for an option, similar to the noprocrast options, not a site-wide change.
Skeptics generally claim it's not backed 1:1, not that they have zero dollars left. They can afford to buy up the demand until at some point they can't.
But you agree people still want to invest in them right? I think ICO proved that there is a market for known fraud/pump and dumps, you may think you can get in and out and make a buck because a bunch of morons don’t see the fraud.
Yes, that's why it's being pursued.
The pull yourself up by your bootstraps stuff isn't the issue here, it's risk management.

Accreditation is not in place to define who is informed and smart enough to make the investments, it is defining who can afford to take the loss, and who at least has the resources to do it properly.
How many people don't experience problems sending to gmail? Do you think blog posts criticizing and praising gmail deliverability are in equal proportion to users' experiences?
Some gems from their Legal pages:

> Tether Tokens are 100% backed by by Tether’s Reserves.

But...

> “Reserves” means traditional currency and cash equivalents and, from time to time, may include other assets and receivables from loans made by Tether to third parties, which may include affiliated entities;

and...

> Tether reserves the right to delay the redemption or withdrawal of Tether Tokens if such delay is necessitated by the illiquidity or unavailability or loss of any Reserves held by Tether to back the Tether Tokens, and Tether reserves the right to redeem Tether Tokens by in-kind redemptions of securities and other assets held in the Reserves.

So even if they agree to redeem your Tether Tokens (which they do not promise to do), you might get some other kind of "security" rather than actual cash. If that happened to be another crypto token, for example, and if you then have trouble exchanging that token for cash (or its value is busy crashing)... well, too bad.
I wonder if the correct solution is "send an informative pseudobounced-as-spam message to sender AND put it in the spam folder", for borderline spam (which passes the other checks). Downside is it provides a deliverability oracle for spammers, but since gmail accounts are free, that's not too hard to establish anyway.
My favorite "bank" to "borrow money" from is the IRS/Treasury. Low interest, incredibly favorable re-payment plans, and never have to talk to a single person!
Properties of a Cryptocurrency
> Well, resumable exceptions are not so great...

I thought they are?

> We really don't want them in Java (remember that Java is a language originally designed by Lispers).

Who of the Oak team were Lispers? Not even Gosling has ever seen or used a competent Lisp implementation - he wrote a 'Mock' Lisp without lists ;-) for an Emacs written in C on Unix. One of his many projects. Stallman later implemented a slightly better Lisp using Goslings C code as a start.

> I've used Racket (and PLT Scheme before it) quite a bit (I was a Schemer when Java barely even existed), and Guile

None of them have especially interesting runtimes. Racket now gets a new runtime based on Chez Scheme from Cisco. Chez Scheme is actually great. You should have studied that. Well, source code is now available from Cisco. It has a nice AOT native compiler.

> I started using Scheme in the mid-nineties. Unfortunately, I haven't seen many Scheme and Common Lisp users anywhere

You were too late. SUN had its own Lisp offerings in the 80s. Like DEC/DIGITAL, IBM, Apple, HP, Apollo, Texas Instruments, Xerox, ...
I think the thing is that if it's really the same review then the poster is effectively claiming that Freelancer.com closed his account and stole from him twice.

Why?

Well, he said so two years ago, after working with them for 5.

Then what? He opened a new account or got his old one resurrected? We have no idea.

What we do know is that now, 2 years later, he's posting the same story on Trustpilot but now claiming 7 years of working for them.

I'm not saying my interpretation is right but you have to admit that this does seem a bit fishy.
I was really hoping for something about him not being a canary since he didn't "sing".
Tesla is burning cash at an alarming rate. The question is if there exists a medium-term future at all for this company.

Musk himself said last year that Tesla at one point was single-digit weeks from bankruptcy.
Well, there's a wide variety of drawing/painting software. Anything that has layers and transparency and allows freeform, Bézier curve, and straight-line drawing should be plenty. And that's most of them. Personally, I like Krita.
Your colonialism is showing.

There are two assumptions here that I’d like to point out: that the US labor laws are the best worldwide, and that there is an inherent problem in other countries that would be solved if they just adhered to the US laws.

US historically had, and still has a large number of cases (either legal or just public discourse) of employers treating their employees unjustly, unfairly or with malice, despite all of the legal protection that US provides. There are always edge cases and loopholes. That said, I do believe that to an extent, the precedent based legal system of US trumps European style jurisprudence systems.

Secondly, there is no evidence that by and large the workers are treated better in the US, or that other counties are clearly inferior. International employee engagement is pretty close to the world average in most modern countries.
New York AG: Tether lost $800m and then funded it from their crypto exchange.

Bitfinex: Poland seized half a billion, Portugal nearly all the rest.

Is it really beyond Bloomberg to actually go and ask the Polish or Portuguese government this rather than play he said, she said?

There's so many Dunning-Kruger comments/opinion pieces on the matter and years of HN threads about tether that it's all a bit tiring.

Bitfinex doesn't serve US customers, people have been calling it's imminent implosion from day one, there's now All-American stable-coin alternatives that surely want their business, ulterior motives could be anywhere.

For anyone with yet another confident assertion of it's demise, please jump in and short it against USD right here: https://trade.kraken.com/markets/kraken/usdt/usd/1h

Put your money where your mouth is :)
No, I'm not interested in HN being less usable and less convenient. I value being able to quickly get interesting news and discussion on HN, and making that less optimized would not be welcome.
HPV is elective, because activities that cause it are elective. Cancer-causing strains are transmitted largely by risky behavior, which is a choice. That is why I called it elective. Being in a room with someone with measles can cause you to get it; being in a room with someone with cancer-causing HPV cannot. It requires a conscious choice.

Edit: down-voters care to explain why I'm wrong?
It is different though. The FDIC would force the bank into receivership and return the insured money to account holders. That doesn’t exist for tether.
I don't like Facebook and I don't like their privacy practices. However, $5B is approximately 20% of their cash on hand so I think that we aren't talking about "parking ticket" level fines.

For real changes in behavior though, it'd probably take something radical like fining their board directly instead of punishing the shareholders.
Slack has a huge opportunity in front of them (become the messaging platform for every business that exists). They’re investing a lot of money to acquire all of that business (salespeople, travel, etc.). That is literally one of the main purposes of capital and access to capital is why you would take a company public.

And, specifically re: Slack. Unlike, say, Uber or Lyft, Slack has customers who have demonstrated that they are willing to pay what the service actually costs. The ride-sharing companies have not. The entire investment thesis for them is that they will somehow be able to increase prices at some point in the future, but they don’t actually have any indication that this is true. And I agree that they are most likely a bad investment. Slack, on the other hand, has a huge and rapidly growing book of extremely sticky business. To turn on profitability, they turn off their expenditure on sales people. They’re very different models.
Nevermind comfort, bag fees, hidden fees, different amenities, etc. None of that is covered in most travel sites, just the fare. If there were a fare site that also had a comfort gauge for price it would spur competition. Moreso for something with a "Truecost" calculator that took into account bags, overhead space, seat pitch, food, terminal niceties, etc. This would be the ultimate air travel site.
Matt Levine is a national treasure
Yes but if everyone tries to take their all their money out of a single regular bank, the FDIC will cover it.
The one time when this happened to me (they thought I was ineligible for a refundable tax credit; I mailed them both a check for the amount they thought I owed and proof that I was indeed eligible for the tax credit) the IRS did actually compute and add interest to the refund check!

Sure, the gov't cashed the check and held on to the money for like two months, but the interest at the end was a pleasant surprise.
Xiaomi already has exactly this in their phones - a second set of fingerprint+passcode which unlock a separate environment.

But, they also ship their phones with system-level adware and spyware
If this is your personal take, then who is that "we" you keep saying?
While it's expected a technology company dealing with communication would be the target of external threat actors, I think there's value in Slack being very clear that eliminating the risks from a strongly motivated actor is not completely possible. As commonsense as that would seem, most of the public do not have a strong grasp on these more advanced cyber actors. What's nice in being proactive is that it opens up a proper conversation prior to a breach (yes, I know they were breached before) and could get us closer to coming up with a better solution for dealing with these attacks.
And a good network helps you find the "good customers".

Picking good customers / learning how to and etc is such an important thing... for everyone. Individuals and businesses alike, regardless if you're a freelancer or not.
Mindfulness isn't something to be skeptical, it is great. But mostly it is a trend and over saturated market.
Thank you for registering to post about the rules we're all familiar with. I don't actually believe, in this instance, the comments about the voting/comments make for boring reading. The moderation seems to working as intended here.
How many ways are there to sort GUIDs? How much time do you have?
>What future growth would there be for buyers if the company went public already at its peak?

I never said anything about peak. I said profit. Certainly a company making profit may want to go public to finance growth to make more profit (ie peak).

IPOs/stock companies were not created for companies that were unprofitable.
Because the question was "Why not buy an iphone?"

I think price is a pretty freaking good justification. I don't need to pay a 500 dollar mark-up to move out of "mid-range" when it does EVERYTHING I need my phone to do just fine.
Can you use this outside of React? I'm interested in the styles, but I'm not using React.
Unfortunately the accordion component is not smooth at all. Otherwise, a valiant effort.
I really love the idea of a Linux phone but my big concern is that of stability. I spent many years running Android/F-Droid trying to find a balance between usability/stability and privacy and ultimately just ended up on iOS. I depend on my phone for critical things: GPS, photo taking/backup, etc. so the margin for experimentation (and error) is pretty thin.
>I don’t see anyone clamoring to allow these small investor be allowed to get in on unicorns pre IPO

Really? This sentiment is blanketed all over HN and other investment forums. One of the major macro changes to the investment landscape is rapidly growing companies staying private longer such that the gains benefit a much smaller pool of investors.
The fine could be 100% of cash on hand and they would still have too strong an incentive to not change.
There's another bigger weakness for authoritarian governments: it limits innovation. I'm not saying that innovation is impossible in an authoritarian environment. I'm just saying it's much harder to achieve in one. Limits over which ideas everyone is able to share has a cost. Worrying about whether an idea will get you fined, jailed, or worse drains your creativity. The better the government is able to implement censorship, the worse the situation gets.
That doesn't make it hard..
That is known as Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy. Jerry also recommends transparency and subsidiarity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle

Subsidiarity: The principle that government power ought to reside at the lowest feasible level (i.e. at the local or regional level, instead of the national or supranational level, unless the latter presents clear advantages.
In politics, what you "advocate for" can (sadly) be less relevant than how you define yourself, and what you present yourself as. And there absolutely are people and social movements on the U.S. left who are explicitly self-defining as "socialist". This used to be beyond the pale, and I can very much find it understandable that some people are genuinely scared at seeing it happen, at least as much as I am by the seemingly-meteoric rise of the authoritarian, sexist-chauvinist, anti-Semitic etc. "alt-right" in the other side of the political spectrum.
I agree. The corruption in china is more explicit. While the corruption in the US goes through more official channels. It's harder to perceive in the united states. I would argue the net effect is similar though: The more money you have the more influence you have.
Wouldn't this just be the gov giving free money to the banks so they can pay?
This is a strength of a so-called “fiat” currency, which is that if we suddenly need more of it, we can just create it.

Banks are stable in 2019 because national governments back their stability.
Simplify Gmail
Oh cool, I did not read it since I thought you gave a summary of it in the comment I was replying to. Now I will :)
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Carbanak, malware that stole $1B, source code has been available for two years
Ditto, the only thing I don't have is fiber. Still think Google has the best engineering. They made some major privacy announcements at Next.
Swagger/OpenAPI goes a fair way towards solving this problem by recommending semver, but it's far from widely adopted...
It does use Flow.
They pay for insurance in case this happens.
The article seems well-researched and informative. It made me think about the balance between economic growth's positive and negative outcomes. If it takes a modicum of editorial trickery to get more eyes on such a piece, I think we're fine.
Heh, I wasn't even thinking of that one as the relevant reference, though it's valid. I was thinking of "Concurrent Programming in Java" as it comes from the horse's mouth, but that one is also close to 400 pages.

I don't even try to think about concurrent designs too much at work and sometimes feel guilty about it. Occasionally I'll use or suggest someone use a CompleteableFuture, but there is so much code and irrelevant detail compared to Clojure's "wrap body in (future), done". On the other hand some more junior devs have expressed lack of interest in studying concurrency at all since "we don't really work on concurrent or distributed systems", at which point I have to point out that as a company we serve a giant web application with API entry points from multiple bits of hardware with clients all over making concurrent requests... The road is long.
Transfering money to unspendable address. For example, $11M in 1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr are unspendable.

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1CounterpartyXXXXXXXX...
Whenever they want to actually damage a company they just don't fine them. They pass a new bill, create new regulations, or take action against individuals in the company in order to "send a message" without hurting the business as a whole, to avoid scaring off other companies. which is exactly what a serious fine would do, as it should, and as everyone (but the investors) want.
> The FDIC would force the bank into receivership and return the insured money to account holders.

Fair point. If a run-on-the-bank only occured at a single bank, that would work. And that's probably a more fair comparison to my example of everyone taking out their money at all the banks.

But for clarity, my statement was that the money to cover everyone's deposits at all the banks simply doesn't exist. The FDIC can only cover so much insured money before they just plain run out.
I don't think it works like that in a traffic stop without a warrant
Welcome to Shanghai, the capital of the future - where we give you free lung cancer. There I fix it for you
No.. this only happens if the bank is bust.
Is there a legal way to create a union to represent people from different countries,that work as free lancers? I can see this attempts getting stuck in the laws that probably were not designed for such a scenario.

Some competition would help but the big ones buy the small competitors.
I would disagree. It is community building in a different construct. There is no /r/X or group structure built in. I am only Twitter because I design board games. I only interact with board game community accounts and posts. The community is diverse, varied and thriving. If I was trying to get 100K followers to argue about politics maybe I'd have a bad time. I'm just trying to say that there is a lot of community building but it is self-directed not controlled by the platform.
I've been searching for a basic React UI component system for awhile now. There are a lot of systems available, but each one has significant drawbacks to the point I end up just rolling my own.

I think an ideal system would have a core set of "unstyled" components with the necessary functionality baked in. That way the overall aesthetic is up to you, but a lot of the painstaking UI work (e.g. showing, hiding, and highlighting elements in a dropdown menu or making sure a layout element breaks properly on mobile) is already done.

From there you could build UI "kits" that use the core functionality but each have a distinctive look and feel.
I've had gmail send the following to the spam folder:

- Legitimate class action notices related to Amazon purchases.

- Email coming from addresses to which I had already sent email. (!)

- Email from my landlord.

- Email coming from Google itself.

Based on the contents of my spam folder, which I have to check fairly often because of the extreme overaggressiveness, I would be vastly better off if nothing ever got filtered at all. [1]

>> There are going to be false positives, we will make mistakes, but we certainly care a lot about fixing issues like this when we hear about them.

This doesn't sound honest, or at least not complete. People have been complaining about this for years. I have personally been complaining about this for years. The loss of obviously legitimate email is completely outrageous.

It doesn't look intentional (look at that fourth category!), but it certainly doesn't look like anyone is trying to address the problem.

[1] Yes, if spam filtering was disabled, more spam might get sent.
For a more modern take, Henry Rollins:

https://www.oldtimestrongman.com/articles/the-iron-by-henry-...
Oh, that makes sense. I wouldn’t believe that either.

The computer was the central point though, I thought. All of that seemed very believable.
I'm surprised to see no mention of Sacks' mental state at the time. The gloss seems a little too upbeat.

He was clearly unhappy in his late 20s and early 30s. Despondent at Oxford, he spent a summer in Israel working on a Kibbutz. After finishing his medical degree, he travelled across Canada and tried to joint the Canadian Air Force as a pilot. When he began working in San Francisco, he was drawn to obsessive weightlifting. He also began to regularly consume copious amounts of hallucinogenic drugs, and briefly joined Hell's Angels.

Sacks says that things only fell into place when he began writing.
It seems you're more interested in pedantry than a conversation.
Not everyone chooses to live in the Bronx - some are born there and aren't able to leave due to economic factors.
Python and Webassembly Plus Science Equals Pyodide
The problem is that it's the point behind the construct called "stablecoin". It's called stable because in theory one coin should be worth one dollar and all(most?) companies behind such coins claim that all issued coins are backed by real dollars.
Man's $1M Life Savings Stolen as Cell Number Is Hijacked
It's when you send cryptocurrency to an address nobody has the keys to, or that is the cryptographic equivalent of a black hole (provably inaccessible).

The problem GP is addressing is that the regulators aren't really incentivized to make the bad behavior stop because they are collecting revenue by letting it continue.
No. The money would come from the federal deposit insurance program, which is funded by the banks, not the government. The money would also be recovered over time, when the bank’s loans become due and other assets are liquidated.
> Next are the issues highlighted. The document is apparently large so we have no idea of the context or what else was said. While on the surface it sounds screwy (and probably is) the outtake is clearly presented in a way to show the most interesting angle to grab attention.

The original briefing is only 27 pages long -- including a lot of whitespace -- and the bits excerpted in the article are representative. It's full of bizarre, grandiose comparisons to popular icons of art history like the Mona Lisa, the Parthenon, and the golden ratio, or to emoji, or to pop science concepts like "gravitational pull" and "energy fields". About a third of the entire document is pages with ellipses and lines drawn over historical Pepsi logos, ostensibly an analysis of the "perimeter oscillations" of those logos. (The term "perimeter oscillations" is unique to this document, not a real design term.) The overall impression the document gives is that the authors must have been high as a kite while writing it.

There is exactly one sensible page in the entire document, which appears near the end. It's a proposal for a color scheme to be used for different Pepsi products.
I don't think Twitter provides a welcoming experience for anybody. "Threats, abuse, and general unpleasantness" could be the site's slogan.
What is the risk exactly?

Say a business signs a 2 year lease. They go out of business after 1 year.

They got ~1 year of lease payments compared to ... nothing.

That still seems like something.
> With Tether, it is at least plausible that the money still exists and is simply frozen due to some terrible business decisions. With banks, the money doesn't exist.

You're missing a small detail: the money backing the Tether, if it exists, is held in a bank account.