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> much, much lower fees for international remittance

This is patently false. My bank, Fidelity, lets me send domestic wires (which are virtually instantaneous) for free. (Fedwires actually cost most customers virtually nothing.) International wires aren't that much more expensive, with the majority of the cost for small transactions being antifraud. In that respect, every cryptocurrency is orders of magnitude more expensive than the status quo.
I still don't get the pre-occupation with thinness. Lightness I get, but thinness doesn't equal that. Seems absurd.
They also make SDI video cards for studio video applications. I worked on a DVR-like device which used their 8-port SDI card for I/O. They have an interesting graph-based API. The cards work well enough I guess.
Now I know why those Vietnamese Banh Mi Paté is so tasty. I find fat give great flavors to most food I've cooked. Tried 1% fat lean ground beef for burger once... it was such a big mistake on my part.
I don't understand cryptocurrency markets at all, but, could there be something where the only people participating in the USDT market are those who are at least somewhat confident that USDT is what it claims to be and therefore are pricing it at $1?

What do you get out of participating in the market if you expect Tether to be fraudulent? You'd personally price it at zero, then, right? Can you profitably short it, or does everything just break down if you're right?

That is, if you hold USDT and want to sell it for cheap, who is going to buy it for cheap-but-nonzero?
That's sort of an extension of the "if you've nothing to hide then you've nothing to fear" type argument.

One can counter with "what if you're a journalist who published leaks of damaging government information and you're trying to protect a source" or various other scenarios where keeping your identity anonymous is legitimate and legal.
He sounds like a ‘product’ guy.
I tried facebook.com, the result is really interesting.
Before login, there is NO cookie set in my browser.
Privilege has nothing to do with it. It's a simple matter of market segment definition. It's rather silly to pretend that something like a base model A4 is a luxury vehicle when it contains barely any luxury features beyond the logo on the grill. By comparison a top trim Honda Accord lists for $35K but no one considers that a luxury car.

Personally I drive a cheap car. Average new car prices have gotten crazy high relative to median incomes, enabled by low interest long term financing. A lot of buyers are ending up overextended.
What about DeepMind's SPIRAL? They didn't just prototype it in software but ran it on an actual robot arm, IIRC.
That would require all developers to become lawyers so they can make sure everything they are being asked to do is legal.
There's no performance impact. Styles are precompiled locally before deployment.
Facebook have broken a huge list of laws. But recently from my reading I think the current issue is a breach of contract. They signed a legal contract with the FTC and then broke it, hence the fine.

There doesn't seem to be any debate that Facebook broke the law - just debate about what the punishments should be.
I really liked the photography.

Having said that, Are the yakuza 'Great Men'?
Some people think they are here already. Terrence Mckenna proposed that spores are one such possible Von Neumann vessel. Spores are very resilient and could possibly travel the universe. Time is irrelevant to a fungi. I haven't finished reading his thoughts, but I think he's onto something to be honest. You can read more about this in the "Archaic Revival" Really great text for changing your existential perspective. Very intelligent man.
Simplify Kubernetes RBAC in Amazon EKS with Open Source Pulumi Packages
The new warnings the GDPR came with are much better. Now you can actually say no.
I un-downvoted the comment but millions do appreciate that at least somebody is trying to do the right thing.
We don't all need to be lawyers to understand the basics of our laws. Knowledge of the existence of the law is assumed for all citizens. Ignorance of the law has never been a valid excuse when the law is broken.

(Yes, the US does have some new problems with private laws being passed, where the public is not allowed to know the law itself - and this opens up huge scary things. But that is not what is being discussed here and I don't believe is relevant.)
> People who short Tesla stock have become an industry. Tesla is a volatile stock and they've made seriously good money on the dips. So they have a vested interest in amplifying all bad news about Tesla.

Sounds like Ken Lay at Enron. He continued to blame shorts and the media even after bankruptcy and criminal conviction.

Enron wanted to convince people they were a low-risk cleaner-energy (natural gas) company. In reality, they were a high-risk trading venture, whose losses in non-trading business were covered up by trading gains. When they stopped making money on trading, everything fell apart in a matter of weeks.

> He drove the entire 3.9 mile stretch with one finger on the steering wheel to prove a point.

That's a very short distance. It is odd that Tesla doesn't report testing miles to California's DMV like every other self-driving venture. Waymo is at about 1 driver takeover per 10,000 miles. Tesla is nowhere near that, probably more like 1 takeover every 5 miles.

Odder still is Elon declining to release data backing up his statement that driving with AP on is twice as safe as driving with it off [1]. In his words,

> "I think reporting the details just gives those who are opposed to Tesla that might data mine the situation and try to turn a positive into a negative, ... so we're going to keep reporting the numbers at a broad brushstroke level"

In other words, he won't release data backing up his statement about AP being twice as safe because he thinks some people will use that data to show his statement is wrong.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqvatzjHGyk&t=47m17s
Ask HN: When is the best time to share an Open Source project?
I have always felt like I release my projects too early. They are either not in a great state, or I haven't yet event evaluated how serious I am about the project which means it normally dies after I release it.

I am trying to get better at this and only share more quality projects, but I was just wondering what all of your takes on this is.

Do you think there is an appropriate time to share your OSS project?
I mean, we have plenty of people take ~this offer every year. The term is more like 3 months, and we call them "interns".

For people who already have full-time jobs it seems like a much worse deal, though. I certainly wouldn't take it, at least - it makes very little sense to give up the certainty of my current job in exchange for being maybe unemployed in a month.
I do think about this from time to time, and while I don’t think today I’d make a good solo founder for a “hyper growth” company, I could probably solo found a small business decently well.

So, as an example, people become consultants, which is in essence a “small business”, and they don’t necessarily need a co founder to be successful. They may have trusted people they turn to for assistance, but generally speaking it’s a solo endeavor.

A few months ago I spun up a “side project” that is a free mentoring service for managers (link is in my profile if that’s helpful for you!). It takes up about five hours a week, I do light promotion for it on social media and HN, but my total time commitment is fairly capped. I’m not constantly iterating on potential product angles, or spinning up different business units. It’s just me, being a good neighbor to fellow managers.

Conversely, my “day job” is really complicated. It’s services and software, in a field I’m not professionally trained in (organizational development). We do B2B deals, sign multi year agreements, have to do cold outreach, spend months trying to win deals, and we’re constantly experimenting with ways to unlock revenue. If I had to own all of that, plus own the product, I’d be overwhelmed and ineffective.

So, I take the product. He (my business partner) takes everything else. It allows us to carve out day to day responsibility and move forward effectively. If I had to hire for his role, I’d be searching for a unicorn. If he had to hire for my role, he’d have gotten really half assed results.

For even more complex startups, I can understand why there are three or more founders. Everyone should bring something special to the table, and own a huge component of work that is critical to long term success. So, that could be a marketing wizard, an engineer, and a business developer for some cool consumer product.

Hope that helps!
‘milk the cow’
I'm going to admit I wasn't even aware of the current design, probably because other apps function well for my phone, and I've been using the basic HTML alternative on my desktop for many years.

Neither of those examples actually look useful, the fix is definitely more easy on the eyes though. The empty space between the rows of email messages seems unnecessarily big. I get this was done for design's sake, and yes it looks 'pretty' and 'light' in the flat minimalistic way, and otherwise you'd have this dense chunk of the screen. I still think having twice (or comparing to mine, even three times more) the emails displayed on a per row basis makes scanning for things easier at a glance.

That fix actually resembles something I do to websites, ad-blocking away all the unnecessary elements, siderails, wrappers, navbars, footers, etc. It's very cathartic spending a few seconds resculpting a website to reveal only the relevant content. And the end result always convinces me that less is more when it comes to web design, that regular text and simple formatting should be prioritized higher.
Or rather attempt to ascertain the validity of and motivations behind them.
side note: we could solve the problem of spam overnight by including blockchain micropayments with email. Email is not delivered without a $0.10 - $1.00 micropayment. By default, the payment is refunded within 2 days after it's read (perhaps send it encrypted, reading it requires submitting a time-delayed micropayment).

If you report the email as spam, however, the refund is cancelled and you keep the micropayment. New emails may not be allowed to participate, or may be forced to reduce their payments to exceedingly small (sub-cent) amounts to prevent fraud. but once an established reputation was built, most senders should be comfortable sending you $0.25 or higher payments. Semi-famous/"popular" people could ratchet up their fee to several dollars or higher. A movie star or other celeb could ratchet their fee to $25 or higher and have a no-refunds policy and donate the money to charity.

People who commonly exchange email could whitelist each other. Wouldn't this be a good use of blockchain technology ?
Wow, nice article. My first real job out of university was to help improve Matrox’s lagging-behind OpenGL driver for the G200 through G450. Most of this driver’s development was done in the Boca Raton FL office (across from the old IBM building). Great team, great memories. This is where I cut my teeth on performance programming topics like hand coded assembly, page faults, cache hits and misses, etc. Lots of Quake ‘beta testing’ done after hours :) What really sank their 3D ship was it took too long to get Parhelia out, which the article touches on. I didn’t get any whif of them not being serious about 3D and wanting to give up—the damn chip just took too long and NVIDIA got there first.

We actually barely got the G450 OpenGL driver competitive with the competing GeForce (or was it the TNT2?), at least on the major games, but it was also too late.
Not an advocate for this tech, but the obvious answer is a hash so that someone could verify the data was added to the chain
I only have one food allergy that I'm aware of - soy protein. AFAIK, it was caused by my mom following a fad in the 70s and giving me soy milk or soy-based formula. I was sick all the time until my dad got fed up and gave me cows milk. It's too bad, I like tofu.
You really think execs will see consequences (besides fines)?
There is, at runtime browser needs to do extra matching.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13829959/nested-selector...

It's about Less but the same rule applies to CSS and Sass.
>The entire "world police" concept is ridiculous and used to mask the true colonialist ambitions the US operates under.

Can you provide proof or is this just something you want to be true?

If the United States has used the military to colonize, we should get a refund. The US military didn't deliver Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan.

Also, if the US uses its military to colonize, why does the military do so many humanitarian missions? Sending food to starving people seems like a bad way to colonize, you'd expect the military to at least bomb people.
https://us.etrade.com/what-we-offer/our-accounts/traditional...

It's not technically a 401k, but has the same tax advantages. Just be aware that there are limits to your total tax advantaged contributions, so if you're maxing out your work 401k, you'll only be able to add funds via roll over.
> If we can get these super thin laptop designs why can't we create new form factors? It's purely because people are afraid right now to create new product segments or try new things.

It could also be diminishing returns as technologies mature. Most smartphones have converged on the black slab. That may because physics and relatively inelastic customer needs define the form factor. Said another way, is a breakthrough new form worth ever larger amounts of nonrenewable resources? At what point does it stop? Do we mine the Earth into a wasteland for a single, levitating, all-knowing monolith?
What's wrong with introspection about what you're doing on an ethical level? There's no legal standard involved so you don't have to be a lawyer, just a bit more thoughtful.
Discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3563016

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5632934
The US gov has had large deficit spending equivalent to 3-4% of GDP per year for the last 20 years, and yet GDP per capita has only increased 1% per year. That's pretty darn bad. That's like driving your car petal to the meddle and only managing 21mph.

Check this out, 5th chart down on all the coutnries and their debts: https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/42/the-private-debt-cr...

It might not be so bad if it was just the US. But, most of all the major countries in the world all have a similar problem with deficits: France, England, Japan, and even China. All of their debts (public + private) are about 200% of GDP and over. But, what's most striking is the difference between 1980 and today. That massive increase shows that the level of spending we're accustomed to is not sustainable.
I agree that percent of revenue is a much better metric to base these kinds of fines off of, but not without reservations -- a small company with high sales revenue but razor thin margin could get killed by a % revenue fine; this seems unfair to the little guy.

On the other hand, if the fine is % income or anything but % gross receipts, then of course the system will be gamed endlessly by accountants and lawyers to show the smallest possible net number. The end result might be worse than a fixed fine. So % of revenue it is.
Windows 10 Mobile should have been a significant upgrade from WP8, and could have been if it were a polished release. However, Edge was much less usable than mobile IE (even though Edge rendered nicely). The OS was much less responsive than 8. Lots of the strings (especially in the store) were appropriate for a computer and not a phone (ex: you must have 45 MB of space on your hard drive to install this app kind of thing). And the thing where silverlight apps sometimes couldn't start was a great testament to screwing over developers by throwing out the whole sdk once a year.

On the plus side, W10M did fix notification center which was terribly broken in 8, and I think there was maybe one other thing they fixed?
The thing I like most about my MacBook Pro is that it's made out of aluminum. As long as its not absurdly heavy, I don't really care how thick or heavy it is.
I'm really confused, some websites set Cookie before I click the "Accept", other set Cookie after I click the "Accept".

Some sites provide me a very very detailed cookie usage checkbox, others not.

So, what is RIGHT of GDPR compliance ????
1% fluctuation is normal. Tethering is stabilized through arbitrage.
What does writing the algorithms have to do anything? Did you write the programming languages you use in your projects? Did you write the code behind your OS?

What about all those silly carpenters that don't forge their own hammers? How dare they! What fakes! Or doctors that don't create their own medicine?! The horror!
gotta love this guy: “I’m not the world’s best designer by any means” ... where’s that place the current gmail team then?
iTrack and Protrack navigation apps can be exploited to kill automobile engine
sorry my response was in frustration with rounds and rounds of interviews, screens, leetcode, interviewwhaterver.

But this is actually a good idea. Not sure why a service like this doesn't exist.
Smart NFL teams trade down at the draft. Most teams aren’t smart
Maybe I'm an outlier, but I actually really like the feel of the new mbp keyboard, and going back to the old keyboard feels like i just stepped back in time and my ipod has a wheel on it again... This opinion subject to change if keys stop working.

I would, however, give up some thinness for better battery life, that's for sure...
I had a matrox card on my 486 dx4 120. This would have been around 95-97. I remember matrox being the best for 2d acceleration. Back then the voodoo cards were brand new and rare.
Five years ago I was stopped and ID’ed by a police officer walking through downtown SF when Obama was at an event 4 blocks away.
mentioned before but i looked this up. at least for the time being, qualified dividends are taxed as long term capital gains.

if your AGI is under $39k (or $78k married couple?), there's 0% tax on long term capital gains (gains from equities sales or qualified dividends). At least at a federal level, there likely wouldn't be any tax due on that $24k pull.
“Will this scale?”

https://thecooperreview.com/10-tricks-appear-smart-meetings/
* An anonymized reputation system is the equivalent of a transaction ledger. It needs no external source, as long as the involved actors agree to enter into evaluation of each other.

* Digital assets ownership ultimately only require external sources of truth for storage of whatever digital asset they intend to provide. I concur that this would be impossibly expensive to provide via an existing blockchain implementations, without an external point of truth, but still a technically possible feat.

* An entire company on the blockchain? Sure, it's not reasonable at the moment. It was just an attempt to paint a bigger picture. The fact that it's 'not yet reasonable' is why many people are starting to try. By the time it's 'reasonable', someone will have done it.
> That these are "incredibly difficult, challenging, interesting, and impactful problem to work on and requires a lot of new technology" -- well, good for them. So was developing V-2 rockets. At least that got us into space.

I think entertainment has immense value.

I love sharing dumb memes and pictures with my friends on Twitter. I like to laugh at cute puppy videos on Instagram. I like seeing vacation photos from my family on Facebook.

I also love watching SpaceX launches, reading about NASA's latest projects, and learning about the latest advances in AI.

I'm certainly in no position to boldly proclaim that rocket launches are absolutely more important than the movies that my friends and I enjoy watching. Fundamentally if the world was _only_ dedicated to building rockets and going to Mars, that'd be quite a boring society in my opinion. Luckily there's more than enough of us to go around to work on different problems that interest us.

We take something like email for granted, but I think that's at least as impactful/important of an invention as rockets - if not more.
Hmm... it's worded confusingly; at the bottom it says "Maybe scale it down a bit once you hit 40MB of loaded script per page."
A balloon at 50,000 feet rapidly descending doesn't fit the bill at all?
> defy the known laws of physics

my guess is some kind of ion thruster like they have for spacecraft, but somehow powerful enough to work on earth.
Added my experience as a base level comment. Cheers!
Recommended Reading: `The Art of Unix Programming' & `the Unix-Haters Handbook'
Is "wires" the technical term, as I can't find this at my bank.
Most times I look at old code i wrote!
Example of what? You’re quite clearly thinking about a mine-able crypto currency, of which blockchain tends to be an underlying data structure.

You want a blockchain without mining? You could set one up in a couple of minutes.

https://aws.amazon.com/blockchain/

Do you want a real world example? It seems to be getting some use in supply chain management.

https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/industries/supply-chain

A blockchain is just a type of data structure. Cryptocurrencies use blockchains, but mining, trustless distributed consensus, fault tolerance, and all these other things are features of cryptocurrency implementations, not essential elements of blockchains.
I heartily recommend the movie Pale Flower (1964)

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-pale-flower-1...

> “Pale Flower" is one of the most haunting noirs I've seen, and something more; in 1964 it was an important work in an emerging Japanese New Wave of independent filmmakers, an exercise in existential cool.
What is /dev/sda in Linux?
The law isn't just ethics. Companies have whole legal teams because laws are so complex. Should a developer be responsible because the cookie banner they implemented wasn't compliant with the laws of 100 countries even though the legal team already told them it was ok?
By the end of 1976, virtually all communists were purged from power in the PRC. Mao Zedong had said Deng Xiaoping wanted to take the capitalist road, and when he took power, that's what he did.
It had to start somewhere didn't it?
I would worry a great deal more about the fact that advanced Naval units can't identify (let alone deal with) some classes of aircraft than I would worry about aliens.