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Can anyone explain how 538 got the last election so wrong?

Its quite obvious in hindsight their model is flawed, but Im not understanding how is it flawed.
I like Pharo but Morphic seems to be much more front and center in Squeak. And becuase I'm focusing on are new UI paradigms the Morphic interaction is really what I'm concerned with.
Super-cheap compared to Gillette's recent target consumer feel-bad ad.
This is the part that's going to bite them when antitrust comes around.

They are largely unaccountable and there's no real way to get a hold of a human being unless you shame them on social media and it gets enough traction.
Not having mouse support is just the tip of what's wrong with the iPad Pro as a work device. The file management system is extremely primitive compared to Android, never mind a desktop OS. A quote from an article [0] about using the Ipad Pro as a daily driver:

> Accepting this new reality – that an iPad can't manage local files and folders like a Mac – took time and dedication. If you don't adapt – if you think you can force iOS to be more like the Mac's Finder – you're going to have a bad experience in your transition to iOS.

I think people's expectations of a 'professional' device include not having to adapt their workflow to suit the device's inherent half-baked approach.

I do see people using iPad Pros for work. The head of my division is one of them. Unsurprisingly, he uses it to respond to emails and swipe through slide decks people send him. So basically, exactly like an iPad or even a $300 Android tablet. I'd wager there are 10x more users like him using iPad Pros than there are people using the Apple Pencil to do SVG or print design in Procreate or Affinity Publisher, apps that are actually tailor made for the ipad Pro.

[0]: https://www.macstories.net/stories/one-year-of-ipad-pro/2/
I use email hosting from my domain name provider (email in my profile). I regularly find out that personal emails from me end up in people's spam folders on gmail. As far as I can guess from digging into email headers, gmail is upset because my domain name provider's email server doesn't use whatever the latest mail-server signing mechanism gmail expects is. There's absolutely nothing I can do about that, and no obvious way I can get gmail to stop treating my mail as questionable and throwing it in people's spam folders. And it's not at all obvious how to debug this.

I get why gmail isn't transparent about all their spam-filtering mechanisms. But when personal email to gmail users is being regularly classified as spam, that produces a serious usability problem for non-gmail users.
> But if Tether is buying up the supply, what are the sellers of Tether receiving in return? If they're getting dollars, then doesn't that refute the skeptics' claims?

No, since Tether and Bitfinex are the same company. While it's the opposite direction of the recent NY AG issue, if Bitfinex company or client account funds were raided to buy Tether for price support purposes, that doesn't require Tether to be backed by any dedicated reserves.

After taking $700m out of whatever funds were backing Tether to paper over the loss of Bitfinex funds, raiding Bitfinex funds to prop up Tether wouldn't be out of character, though obviously that kind of back and forth shell game would be unsustainable in the long term.
Apple Watch does the same thing, but you can choose from 3rd party apps as well.
It would cause a lot of serious muscle injuries, that's for sure.
I imagine there's some use of tools like Hootsuite (allows you to schedule tweets) in there as well.

I remember Guy Kawasaki doing a post years ago that was effectively an FAQ on his use of twitter. People would moan at him for posting the same tweet multiple times over the course of a day, which turned out to be on a schedule, but he actually had a fairly good reason. Tweets last forever (ish - unless deleted or twitter goes under) but are also kind of ephemeral in the sense that they just flit by in your stream, so you miss a lot if you only check in every so often. He wanted to increase the chances that people would see his updates, and deal with the fact that his followers were spread across timezones.
There was one near co-op city, but it closed a few years ago.

There are also several specialty book stores, e.g. the NY Botanical Garden has a really good one, there is a Jewish bookstore in Riverdale, etc.

Because The Bronx was largely designed for residential housing, it's very easy to just hop on the subway or in a car and get to a bookstore in a few minutes. It's actually much easier to get from The Bronx into Manhattan or into Westchester, Fairfield County, New Jersey, etc. than it is to get to other parts of The Bronx. So other than that some people seem to be morally offended by the fact that there isn't a general purpose bookstore in the borough, there isn't really any especially good reason to have one.
Out of the two groups both trying to redeem their money Tether would at least be able to pay the overwhelming majority.

The banks even with Federal government assistance and emergency measures would struggle to pay a third. It would simply make laws to prevent withdrawals as has happened the world over.
Typically in the free tiers there is a caveat in the service agreement that it is not meant for production services and your resources can be shut down at any time. It's important to read the fine print.
No, please not. Crypto burn only makes crypto coins owner richer. That is the opposite of what taxes, even as fines, are for.
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> But it seems unfair to hold Tether up to a higher standard than even our most established banks.

I'm not sure it is. Tether states on their homepage:

> Every tether is always 100% backed by our reserves

So in this case, they're being held to a standard they have set for themselves.
And if the FDIC didn't have enough money, the government would start printing it like crazy and the US would start looking more like Venezuela in a very short period of time.
I imagine quite a few of those are either A) A place to get coffee and hang out B) Not making much money, but kept open by people who just want to own a bookstore.

A) is the model a lot of Barnes and Nobles are going with these days; they're attached to some sort of cafe and people leisurely walk around with their coffee and read whatever. This model doesn't make much money when people won't buy terribly overpriced coffee.

B) is all over Denver, with owners living in the buildings they run their bookstore out of. I have no way to confirm, but I can't imagine they're making much money.
The real problem isn't null itself, it's that in most languages that have it, null inhabits all types (or at least all reference types).

Different languages solve this problem in different ways. Many languages get rid of null entirely, and use option types in its place. Other languages, like Kotlin, fix it in the type system, by differentiating between e.g. String and nullable String (spelled String? in Kotlin) .
Contemplate computing devices as direct extensions of one's mind. There's a long held philosophical right to not incriminate oneself that even extends to spouses.

The justification for this paradigm is so that technology augments human intelligence (functioning as agents for each of us individually), as opposed to islands of human intelligence being left at the mercy of technology.

Imagine if that devices you interacted with for a significant part of the day were all bona fide agents of the state, and you could never actually trust them with your raw thoughts. I know with the deluge of proprietary apps and pervasive surveillance it can still effectively feel that way for the technologically illiterate, but that's a temporary condition and far from calcifying it as uniform policy.

And sure, the same argument could be applied to paper records (bookkeeping) or other close personal possessions, yet hasn't been. But what's forcing the issue now is the sheer level of advancement of computational intelligence.
OpenBSD is particularly aggressive about breaking backward-compatibility, yes. For example: the switch to a 64-bit time_t on 32-bit systems to stay ahead of the Year 2038 problem.
I simply do not believe that but everyone is certainly entitled to their opinion.
The difference is it is quite likely that the parking ticket cost is higher than the profit, even revenue you made while parked there. So there is a real incentive to at least try and avoid them.

Consider the case if a parking ticket was 5c - why would (absent other disincentives) delivery drivers ever obey parking signage?
I think the assumption was however the US ranked worldwide other nations had to have at least that level.

Historically that's why unions were created to offer a level of protection.
> considered tampering with evidence

You have to weigh the consequences. Let's say your phone has incontrovertible proof that you murdered someone, and you live in a state with the death penalty. The few years of prison you get for tampering with evidence is better than being executed, right? So it's still good to know.
A bit off topic, but Kraken has a history of really bad technical problems with their platform. Culmination as far as I'm concerned, was when it went dead for days after a botched upgrade. So, given that you're criticizing a product for unreliability, there's some irony in that you finish by directing people to Kraken.
Ubuntu has been getting this right for a while now. You can install it by basically booting the install media and clicking "next" a bunch of times, then it gives you an interface with icons for Firefox and LibreOffice that someone who has never used it before could easily figure out.

You could use it for ten years without having to know that the terminal is even there, but it is, along with /etc and OpenSSH and everything else Unix-like systems have had for decades.

Because you don't need brutish uniformity. Some people like to download things with Firefox and some people like to download things with curl and there is no reason they can't both exist on the same system.
ECoG has much higher temporal and spatial resolution than EEG. Conversion from EEG to ECoG is not likely, the opposite can be done, but not very useful though.
GitHub security: you thought your company was safe on GitHub?
I asked questions. I never thought about supplying citations when asking questions. I get the feeling you read lots of judgement into my question. My intention was to create a discussion around the question.

Anyway, I guess there is little value in discussing further. Thank you for explaining your reaction. Definitely food for thought
Summary of Tether's risk, in the author's own comedic gold:

Saying “our stablecoin is backed one-for-one by U.S. dollars in a bank” is not quite the same as saying “our stablecoin is backed by an equal notional amount of three-year dollar-denominated loans to our affiliated crypto exchange, much of whose cash is currently frozen.”
Not a fan of facebook but $5B is a big fine, NYTimes hosting multiple OP EDs claiming its not is disingenuous shilling more about them seeing FB as a competitor for advertising dollars and news.
Some alledge it's because Huawei hacked into or shamelessly stole IP from North American firms like Cisco and Nortel. In fact, Nortel execs may have covered up such attacks and it's likely the company died from it partially because they couldn't compete with cheaper clones: https://www.afr.com/technology/web/security/how-chinese-hack...
Thanks for this comment. I tend to flag "every divisive article" myself, and maybe I'll resist that a bit more now.

Essentially what I use HN for is the comment discussion. So for me, the main thing to look at is whether an article will generate a good discussion. Saying "I don't actually care if the article is good" is not exactly true, but it's also not that far off: a well-written article that generates a bad discussion is still a bad thing IMO.

Whereas someone who uses HN as just a news aggregator may have the opposite thought -- the comments don't matter, all that matters is the article quality.
Because commercial use requiring brain surgery is most likely not going to work
For some reason I'm fascinated by underground stuff. I have to say though some of this article is certainly in Pseud's Corner territory, e.g.

'Experimental climate-change reportage such as Elizabeth Rush’s Rising; major environmental histories such as Floating Coast, Bathsheba Demuth’s study of the Bering Strait; Lauret Savoy’s brilliant account in Trace of deep time, race and the American landscape; and innovative print essays such as Emily Raboteau’s recent Climate Signs – all are recognising the poly-temporal weaves of culpability, vulnerability, elementality and urgency that characterise the present situation.'

That aside, it's certainly possible to fall into a rabbit-hole (sorry) on this topic! The Great County Adit is quite an amazing and mostly unknown part of mining history, and the story of how in 1880 the construction of the Severn Tunnel was saved by a pioneering diver using one of the first rebreathers is staggering - and I've just read that in another fearless adventure the same diver, a chap called Alexander Lambert, recovered tens of thousands worth of gold coins from a sunken galleon in the Canary Islands, blasting his way through the ship with explosives and diving deeper than any man have gone before! Someone should make a film about his life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_County_Adit

http://archive.divernet.com/other-diving-topics/p299302-the-...

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Alexander_Lambert
How would this fix delivery for gmail? Gmail will be the same monolith it is today.
This visualizes how too much¹ ketamine feels².

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¹ Any is too much

² https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=k%20hole
The general concept of a blackboard is basically describing pubsub systems like Kafka - you throw a bunch of data into a queue, and anything that’s interested can grab that information, and potentially then publish further information built on top of it.
Didn’t mean callbacks, meant shape of the code with indents could get large and difficult to grep. JSX style macro over the top might help .
I wholeheartedly agree that the Surface (4 Pro for me) is an absolute garbage, but not for the lack of trying. It’s a good product in concept but requires a level of polish and software/hardware integration that - IMHO - only Apple has.
The problem with Uber is not that they are lacking a moat, it’s that they have not demonstrated what the market size for ride-sharing is when consumers have to eventually pay the true cost. Given how incredibly expensive ride-sharing is when heavily subsidized, you’re have to be insane to think that the market won’t shrink when prices are 30-50% higher.

And if your answer to that problem is self driving cars, well then I’ll happily point you to the auto-rental market as roughly what kind of a business you’re investing in.
I think CreditKarma is attempting to do this.

There's been other efforts in the past/currently.

Some examples:

Open Tax Solver: http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/

1040 Spreadsheet: https://sites.google.com/site/excel1040/home/instructions
I apologise for using the term AI and sounding ridiculous. Sorry to you and everyone else who had to read that you are right.

"Tesla has the best chip in the world for the one neural network they want to run" is what I wanted to convey but don't actually have the technical background to do it.

"Frankly you're trying to have a technical discussion about a bullshit term"

You are right. I apologise for diluting the discussion and will go back to reading hacker news not creating it.

I love this site and don't want to dilute it.
>> but we certainly care a lot about fixing issues like this when we hear about them

It's sheer chance that you happened upon this HN post. Google needs to have an open, healthy customer service infrastructure in place to hear about, track, resolve, and follow up on reported issues. This is antithetical to "The Google Way". That is how you get posts like this.
How India-Pakistan tensions have disrupted air travel
I'll just chip in with everyone else who is also self-hosting:

I'm in a similar boat; been running email servers since before GMail existed. My personal one I've been running out of a home server closet since 2001. I've also done everything I can to guarantee I'm not running an open relay and not sending email unsolicited. Have been mostly lucky so far, but occasionally I will have people on mailing lists I manage (people I have met IRL and put them on the list to organize group meetings IRL) not get email. Used to be other stupid mail providers (AOL comes to mind), but these days it appears to be Google, sometimes.

I've had this domain nearly twenty years and run email on it for that same amount of time. I'm not going to "just switch", especially to a privacy invading ad-spewing "alternative" that doesn't give me as much control. Fix your damn servers, Google.
I invite everyone to create a female persona on twitter and interact with your usual communities for a month.

You will likely get the same “with all due respect...” responses as usual, but a surprising number of them will manage to meander their way, within just 280 chars, to “...and therefore you need a good rape.”
I'm surprised that many huge React libraries don't expose its core Context for user to consume.

Context is the most important concept in React.

Actually, a library just need users to provide the right types of Context to be flexible.

I'm tired of the "lock in" API, in which, it doesn't allow me to just get my context data into its arguments API.

In this sense, you can consider Context as the local version of Redux.
Yes, the IRS will pay you interest under certain circumstances. Two examples are when they are late processing a refund or when a prior return is amended. I got a 1099-INT from the IRS in 2018. The interest rate is not 5%, however. Also, 5% is not currently the risk free rate of return.

Also, it sounds like you're referring to the penalty for underpayment, which I believe is currently 3.6% of the total underpayment for the year [0]. This only kicks in under certain circumstances.

[0]: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f2210.pdf
Exact same issue happened to me as well. It was a Chinese iOS developer. Did an OK job, was planning to give him good reviews anyways, until he gave the condition to leave a 5-star review or no code. Got in touch with his team leader and matter was resolved quickly. Ended up leaving a negative review.

Generally, had very positive experiences with Upwork and other platforms including Freelancer.com which I no longer use anymore.
Fair enough. We'll just print our way out of the problem.

Except, that has obvious problems too.

Consider the "Fractional" in Fractional Reserve Banking. If a bank only needs to have 10% of deposits on reserve (and I believe it's quite a bit lower than that in most countries), and there was a run on a bank, governments would need to print 9x more money than the bank has on deposit.

What does that do to the value of money? Depends on the size of the bank.

But what if it happened to ALL the banks? What if we collectively lost confidence in our banks, and demanded our deposits back?

If our solution is to print our way out of it, then congratulations you've dropped the value of all currency by 90%. It now takes $100 to buy what used to only cost $10.

Look, I'm not arguing whether this is good or bad. There's a lot of benefits to fiat currencies and fractional reserve banking.

But let's not pretend the risk doesn't exist, either.
Sigh. I really wish people would just accept the fact that JavaScript is a dynamically typed language and stop making things unnecessarily difficult.
It's as if legal parking costs $20, the parking ticket is $5. However you may not even get the parking ticket, so obviously you would never pay for parking.
Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence. I claim that the processes of “thinking“ and “being conscious“ can be simulated on the reasonably powerful computer. Your claim that there’s something “more” were supported by you claiming “you seeing no way” for “more” not existing.

Now if you would claim there’s a teapot orbiting Neptune I would also not be able to disprove your claim. But based on what I know about the world, I wouldn’t expect a teapot being there. So from my perspective if you claim that it’s there, you must be in the “Subjective validation” state: “validating words, initials, statements, or signs as accurate because one is able to find them personally meaningful and significant.”

So my guess is that it deeply matters to you to believe that you are fundamentally different from all other animals. Which is a wishful thinking.

Specifically, humans as spices indeed developed the capability to talk about things, for which a kind of symbolic manipulation and processing is needed. Once the capability exists, inventing the names for the abstract concepts is also just a simple process. The names like “soul” etc.
I mean, Coldcut, DJ Shadow and the like were making sample-fests in the early 90s. The word is, Shadow's sampler of choise MPC60 can hold only something like 12 or 16 samples at a time, so the magic was him making ‘Endtroducing’ out of that.
Why Tesla's Robotaxi Plan Could Be a Win for Nvidia
I've seen the trend with some news outlets to report "what people are saying" and by that, reference a bunch of tweets about the topic. Which is lazy reporting.

But confirmed by this report, Twitter isn't the general public. Twitter is incredibly progressive and hotly political.

If Twitter would have been the one voting, Hillary would have been voted into office. But they weren't, and there was a whole segment of the country ignored, that probably isn't on Twitter. And it's no wonder that half the tech sphere was "stunned" was Trump was able to wiggle his way into office.
> But it seems unfair to hold Tether up to a higher standard than even our most established banks.

You mean standards held on banks that are insured/backstopped by the government, have mass-adoption amongst the vast majority of the population, are regulated, and have disclosure requirements through securities regulators?
Seriously, this guy knows what he is talking about. Building that network is hard and not fun, and if you are introverted, it's really tough. So do it online in IRC, Slack, or on open source projects or forums!

90% of a freelancer's job is finding their clients. The 10% that's the work is actually easy since you usually know what you're doing, and everything that is required. Finding clients is scary and difficult and uncomfortable. But it's 90% of the job, dammit!

If you don't like that, likely you should find other ways of working.
Didn't you have to release the milestone in order for the developer to be paid?

Doesn't the rating part come after the contract is closed?
There’s some work being done around renderless ui components but I’ve yet to see a complete framework.
Thank you. I shoulda just said "Venezuela", because it's the perfect modern example.
Many Middle-Income Seniors Will Lack Resources for Housing and Health Care
Washing inside-out is better (as in "extends the useful lifespan") for shirts with printing or embroidery on them.
You should really get that checked out if you haven’t already. A TIA can be a precursor to a full on stroke or otherwise have lasting consequences. An MRI can confirm all is good in your brain.
One thing that has been confusing me about the recent news: $850M is more than "crook" levels of money: It is well into the realm of state-actor or kingpin levels. When that kind of money goes missing, I would expect whole armies of unsavory characters get dispatched for
asset recovery. Coincidentally, everyone in those armies is named either Guido or Rocko.

So the idea that Poland or Portugal or any other state-actor beginning with the letter "P" might have seized the funds at least provides us with a rationale for how the money remains unrecovered.