skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sad reality appears to be that Tether was fully backed dollar-for-dollar by USD in a reputable bank, but that the associated cryptoexchange owned and operated by the same people got robbed by a government entity and left them insolvent.

I blame the Tether guys for not declaring the exchange bankrupt at that point and keeping the Tethers entirely walled off.

Tether will have, in part, been brought down by a government agency (assuming that the whole Crypto Capital thing isn’t entirely a scam/front/honeypot).

If customers lose funds in this, it traces back to whoever has the Crypto Capital money.

It’s not at all surprising that the government would ultimately be responsible for bringing down Tether, since it’s clearly illegal to operate per AML/KYC/FinCen regulations.

In the end the entity that confiscated the billion dollars could offer restitution in exchange for an IRS audit. I would guess many would gracefully decline.
Sorting is such a foundational problem in computer science that pretty much every job will end up relying on the runtime of sorting algorithms. Not every job requires being able to write a bulletproof dual-partition QuickSort, of course, but knowing complexity bounds is important, even if you’re just calling your standard library’s implementation: it places fundamental bounds on what things you can improve.
If you created a business that simply bought $1M worth of Stocks (e.x. ETFs) and bonds, the first quarter when you made the initial investment you'd show a "loss" of $1m.

No, that's not how accounting works. If you buy $1M in stocks, then you move the amount from one asset account (cash) to another asset account. You have $1M in assets both before and after, with no losses.
That’s true, but I don’t think we're anywhere near there yet. Especially when it comes to the mainstream — most people outside of tech don’t have any idea this is a problem.

(FWIW, I don’t seem to have this problem in a significant way, but that might be because I have DMARC set up.)
My highly cynical take as someone researching in ML is that all these interdisciplinary AI studies, AI policy, etc are mostly grifters trying to get in on the gold-rush.

What has AI policy produced so far, really? Algorithm analysis and safety research is done on the algorithmic side, not on the policy side. Every time I have read an AI policy paper, it has been listings of desirable properties with absolutely no input on how to make any real steps towards them. In the meantime, realities of algorithm driven mass surveillance and censorship is moving ahead at a rapid pace.

Possible conclusion 1: We just need way more AI policy research.

Possible conclusion 2: AI policy is done by the wrong people and deep algorithmic understanding is a pre-requisite.

Possible conclusion 3: Current AI policy is just used as a fig-leaf by tech companies who hire a few policy essay-writers without substance. The lack of progress in that area is a feature, not bug.

Not mutually exclusive, not exhaustive. Feel free to point to valuable policy research.
If you have a newer version of android (oreo I think? Not sure, I have a pixel), you can enable "lockdown"
Lockdown brings up a menu when you press and hold the power button to disable the fingerprint reader for the next unlock.
It's not on by default, you have to turn it on in the settings.
Contexts in React are like raw pointers in C++. There are reasons to use them, but every time you do, it should raise eyebrows, because they are finicky, complicated to reason about, and thus full of pitfalls.
If you're going to do it, then please take an evening off to cook good food for yourself during the week and get at least 7 hours of sleep a night.
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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".
Machine learning and NLP basics for economics majors – 1
LSB radix sort can be slow, but MSB radix sort is the fastest sorting algorithm for an array of machine words.
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that type of work is < 0.1% for most of the use cases we're talking about here. Generally it's just a huge corp abusing their employees.
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Not only that, but there's no Uber analogue to Amazon Web Services, which makes the analogy specious.
Let’s remember that a job is an arrangement where you are paid for work on an ongoing basis. If you choose to work for a startup, you assume the risk that this work opportunity will go away. But if that happens, the salary you already earned isn’t lost. You are not getting screwed on the trade where you give x hours and receive y dollars.

Working for a biotech startup instead of a big company, you accept this risk for the chance of a payoff in an acquisition.

Now, if your startup isn’t making payroll, GTFO.
I wouldn't read a ton into this. He also has a patent on a room-temperature superconductor.

In one of his autobiographies, Richard Feynman talks about ending up with some bizarre patents on nuclear-powered aircraft. In brief, the patent office at Los Alamos went around and solicited patent ideas, though he tells it better here: https://youtu.be/rc9gwPB78lk
Wyoming and Idaho should have the same problem but appear pretty blue.
> I've not seen any evidence of MITM attacks by ISPs since snowden.

[1] There is evidence GCHQ are doing attacks on HTTPS via UK ISPs pre-snowden, post-snowden what does it matter? There is no evidence they have stopped. [2] The Investigatory Powers Act legalizes the governments use of this technology. If you are going to argue that they no longer have this capability or Snowden made it all up Im gonna need some sources.

> Unless the UK government has cracked all the ciphers used by HTTPS + VPNs and have backdoored every CA

You don't need to hack all the things you just need to hack like 95% of the things and [1] is evidence GCHQ have that. I mean I guess you can say "yea but im in that 5% the system works!" while GCHQ work to close the gap.

I mean just read some of the stuff GCHQ do:

https://theintercept.com/2015/09/25/gchq-radio-porn-spies-tr...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encry...
[2] https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/human-rights/privacy/s...
I just spent 10 minutes looking for it and couldnt find it.
Thats an excellent question. The real answer lies in 2 things: (a) Fiat money, and thus (b) Artificially low interest rates.

As long as the money printers, keep printing, and also keep interest rates at 0%, then all sorts of market distortions will continually be produced as the dream of some return is better than the promise of none.
You somehow failed to provide a use case for a government-backed "stablecoin".
I didn't say uncontrolled growth was better, I said a vacant building tax would slow or restrict new development.

Of course there is waste, this is part of the cycle of boom and bust. The people that mistime the market will overbuild and lose their investment.

When the frenzy passes, house may stay empty, but the market will adjust. Fewer new houses will be build and people who stayed out of the market will have a chance to buy at cheaper prices.
At Out Of Office we use slack for day to day communication and always require video chat for team meetings unless you're on the go or not able to use video.

For longer term alignment we always post "decisions" that are made during these meetings in a slack channel so that others can keep up to date if they weren't in the meeting. We can also go back in time to see the context of why a decision was made.
Does that make it better? Does it fix this kind of issue and how?
I'd assume because you have the --no-install-recommends flag on your apt-get call. Maybe something you're doing requires the recommended (but not dependent) packages. I haven't done it yet, but that's my assumption at first glance, so take it with a grain of salt.
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3. Someone's KPIs are linked to the number of patents submitted, and they're willing to take a flier on some very speculative ideas.
Starting out all you need to do is go to the gym and figure out what exercises/activities make you feel good enough that going to the gym becomes a habit. The main battle for most people is just showing up, figure out how to win that one first. For me it was totally vanity, I did it for maybe 3-4 weeks and came home one day after lifting and was like "whoa I have muscles" when I looked in the mirror. Super cheesy and vain, but the endorphin spike from that kept me going 3-5X a week, and I still am 14 years later.

Secondly its a lifelong expedition, there are a million programs of exercise/diet/sleep/supplements online. Your body is unique so the only way to know is to try them out. Be ready to make progress, regress, get frustrated, get injured, feel really strong, and feel really weak.
basecamp?
Which is good, but you have to unlock it first to get that screen to come up.
It would be nice if holding the power button down, or like others have said, using certain fingers, would put it in lockdown mode.
I'm not saying Google's support is stellar but there's a lot of misinformation going around. It's become a meme to say you can't reach a human at Google, they will shutdown new apps after an year, etc.

Have you had direct experience with Google support? My experience has been pretty regular but maybe I'm an outlier.
> - Email coming from Google itself.

If email coming from google itself got special treatment there would be masses with pitchforks complaining about that.

You've made a lot of good points, but I don't think that's one of them.
> However, I literally can't convince a single person beyond my sister to open up a high interest savings account. People just don't want to be bothered.

High-interest savings account are crappy as investments, and I'd you have to go to a different institution (or use a CD, or both) lack the frictionless (and instant) connection to primary checking that is generally the reason to use a savings account vs. a decent investment vehicle.
Here is a link to the referenced article: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/is-america-headed-f...
When Rust switched to the system allocator by default, that slimmed down the minimum size quite a bit. In addition to that, where size matters, there are some articles about how to slim it down even more, here's an example: https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust
In most industries, after such a financial performance you exit quite rapidly in a different direction.
They normally do not act like this; they only go bezerk if they suspect you are paying someone outside the platform.
It should be noted that that are not registered with the State of New York, and have already been subject to investigation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken_(company)#New_York_Atto...
While I have no problem with the linked article I think the headline is a bit unfair. How often is BS-ey pseudoscience like this really used and cited by UX designers in the field? It would seem to be mainly an issue among the most bloated, coddled, and self-important UX teams.

And was the BS paper in question really used to design the Android UI rather than justify the design decisions? (The article's author basically makes this same point.)
Authors who write for the Economist are anonymous, so there’s little incentive for making a bold call because there’s no payoff for being right.
I've been evaluating most of these frameworks, and as far as I know Base UI is the smallest and lightest out of all these: https://bundlephobia.com/result?p=baseui@6.15.1
I'm sure a big amount of this is data costs, especially as they store more analytics, natural language processing, and ML training on the data.
Spot on, there's no "find good company" algorithm because the type of company I might like working for could be totally different to the type of company you or anyone else wants to work for.

It comes down to knowing yourself and what you're worth, and going into interviews with an eye to interviewing them too.

You get to a point where you don't mind anymore if you don't get that call back, because that's a mutual bullet dodged. You probably do have to have built up an industry reputation first, so there is that initiation to go through, after which people should be telling you why you have to work for them and not the other way around.

I have anecdotes of working for CEOs, unlisted, who were absolute sociopaths, which I think is a great demonstration that there's no single rule or method other than investing more time in understanding ourselves first, so we're appropriately armed when deciding whether or not we want to work for a company.

Turning down an offer or saying no to an interview is often the best thing for both parties, which is an odd concept when everyone is supposed to be grateful and enthusiastic to be employed.
Do you have any experience with Sauron vs Yew? I'm quite interested in Yew due to the benchmark and that their code examples look similar to me. Yew also says Elm inspired.

Since I don't know anything about Elm, I'm curious to see what about Sauron makes it more Elm-y than Yew.
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I would love an all you can ride monthly subscription. I know Uber/Lyft have done limited trials but nothing truly an unlimited subscription.
Probability of 1 town of 10^5 people having 4 people disease with 1 in 10^-6: (10^5 choose 4)x(10^-6)^4x(1-10^-6)^9996 ~= 3.77x10^-6

Assuming independence between diseases and towns (not a terrible assumption but definitely not true) we have:

2000x200x3.77x10^-6 ~= 1.5

Which agrees with your simulation [1].

[1] My slow brain and calculator took 2 minutes to calculate this ;)

EDIT: Changed asterisks to x to avoid formatting.

EDIT 2: Here are the numbers for all the cases you have:

0: 361934.8

1: 36913.8

2: 1809.5

3: 60.3

4: 1.5
I want to talk to someone who has invested in Lyft (or plans to do so for Uber) through the public markets and is in it for a long-term buy and hold. Like someone who really thinks the share price represents the net present value of all future cash streams for Lyft/Uber.

I think I'd have a hard time finding someone like this. 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.
It may not use the Android userspace, but it relies heavily on the 'android' kernel and subsystems. From a security and device maintainability standpoint, those are far more interesting/concerning.
One thing we do is keep a slack channel for announcements only. We require everyone to acknowledge they’ve read and understood said announcements by adding an emoji response. Then you can follow up with anyone who fails to respond. (And discuss in 1-1s with anyone who makes a habit of failing to respond.)
What happens if you just add $10 to your AGI and omit the interest payments?

My thinking is the IRS will send you a "corrected" return and a $0 bill for the difference. Since that's what they do if you fill out incorrect information anyway.
Effective policymaking takes into account both the precise technical terminology and the real-world usage of a concept. Otherwise, it wouldn't be able to tackle any issue for which popular usage doesn't take into account technical nuance, leaving those fields in a lawless limbo.
In Finland, speeding tickets are pegged to income. A Nokia director was fined over 100,000 euro for speeding.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1759791.stm
Do you have a source? I’d like to explore WC, but from what I have gathered WC evangelist are dying out to React ecosystem.
In Australia, like in Europe and most countries, when you log in to do your taxes, your forms are pre-filled with everything the government already has on record for you.

You can add to it or modify it as you see fit, but the vast majority of people just accept the default values and they're done.

Most people spend more time finding their login info than verifying their taxes.

With the amount people complain about the US system, it doesn't sound like they are doing the same thing.
Instead of being a defeatist, why not just invest in a REIT on Etrade and join the party?
These two cases are very different.

In one case the police have a suspect in custody and strong evidence that they were engaged in illegal arms dealing, and are looking for specific additional evidence.

In the other, the police are basically going on a hunch, with suspects not in custody, and seeking to search the phones of a broad group of people for a broad array of evidence that they don't have good reason to believe exists.

It's not as simple as "Can search phone? YES or NO" if the cops were asking to search filing cabinets, the rulings would be the same.
Betteridge's law of headlines:

"Any headline that ends
in a question mark can be
answered by the word no."[a]

This opinion piece makes a compelling case that profitability will be hard to come by for Uber, Lyft, and their various smaller competitors.

[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
That's when Uber Black is an option. Which is around what traditional taxis used to cost.
Fair points. I don't have much to add to your comment, so I'll just say that I was nodding along with every paragraph. Thanks for clarifying what you meant to emphasize, I think I understand now!
Before even looking at the details ... why would I use this? Uber is not a company that is known for great websites. They get (I'm guessing) 99%+ of their usage through native apps. So why would I believe they're particularly good at building for the web?
Is there any case where they've been criminal?
Kraken has no volume. If a player were to sell 50 mill it wouldn't find a buyer.

There are billions of tethers in circulation.
> I think a distributed team,where individual members of the team are geographically distributed, is designed to fail. Sure you could accomplish some goals but the inertia is working against you. Such teams will be always outperformed by co-located teams.

Provide examples/data for this or I cant take this comment seriously.

As someone who has worked on successful fully remote teams for 6.5 years I couldnt disagree more. My current team is mostly remote and moves Billions of dollars, delivers features at a rapid pace.
It comes down to select the right team members, having centralized places of communication and empowering each member with the autonomy and ability to contribute no matter where they sit.

The "butt in seats mentality" is very outdated imo.
How many hours are wasted commuting?
In a perfect market the profit opportunity asymptotically approaches 0.

But a perfect market is a mathematical model, not something that you would see in real life. As you note some entrant is not going to jump into a market and undercut the competition by 1 cent (from 2 cents) and immediately capture all of the market share.

But this does illustrate the dangers of making a more efficient marketplace if your goal is to make profit.
> if Google were to try to put something nefarious in it, anyone who'd checked out the Android source would be able to see that nefarious thing and remove it

Ah, the favorite "a million eyes fallacy".

The truth is: there are very few (if any) people capable to do a full audit on the Android source code to see if something nefarious is happening. The source code for Android is over 20 GB. Good luck that "anyone" who can check it out an be able to see ... well ... anything.
I'm going to really stretch credulity for a moment for my own amusement. In the wake of losing the 2016 election, it appears the Clinton campaign may have picked some poorly constructed Russian ads as a scapegoat. This rather arbitrary and somewhat random decision by some campaign worker may ultimately topple a multi billion dollar tech giant. And I wonder if the campaign worker who made the original suggestion to blame Russian ads at an otherwise standard/boring messaging meeting connects the two things.
> Will someone else look at those similar algorithms and "see very different algorithms"?

I would think so.

> Do regex libraries for different languages in-fact always implement the same algorithms?

I don't know. But I do know that when something is presented as an answer, it's good to know what the question is.

> suggests you are looking for something that tells us about "the relative speed" of those languages?

I can think of a couple of ways the two can compare. One is the relative speeds (and other metrics) of programs of a similar nature, written simple idiomatic code. This gives a general "feel" for what kind of workloads different languages may be suitable for. Another is comparing the performance of the compiler/interpreter on some microbenchmark of the same algorithms, preferably written by people who coordinate, and preferably without mixing too many variables (e.g. measuring parallel scheduling separately and regex separately). Either one of these is of some interest.

The benchmark game does neither. If there is some idea behind the site's comparisons, it's certainly keeping it a mystery.
Thank you, but I and pretty much everybody at the company has given up months ago. We've tried everything we could (well, I guess we should've tried to go viral on HN or twitter...) and it got ignored again and again.

It has become a bit of a rite of passage when somebody new arrives, they see the error ticket for the first time and are eager to dig into it and solve a long standing problem. It's like a trust fall, only the lesson is not to trust, and you learn that lesson by falling.
If you downvote, please reply and explain your position. I simply asked if this Gmail PM is going to fix the problem with Gmail in the comments about that problem. So who is upset with my comment and WHY.
This is really just about the dynamics of mobile hailing and logistics.

Of course it's cheaper than actually calling a Taxi dispatcher, verbally providing a pickup location, and paying cash.

But how much cheaper?

Uber, Lyft, Grab and others are in the business of figuring out those margins... and riders will pay rate increases as supply and demand equalizes.
>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.

:) I urge you to read through this quote and then ask yourself who is making more assumptions and who are partaking in wishful thinking. I have already stated that I really don't have a problem with us being matter 'only' and yet you find this statement somehow so incredible that you have to claim that this 'deeply matters' to me, despite what I actually claim is the reason for my belief.

To me, the extraordinary claim is that matter arranged in a certain way can give rise to subjective experience. That is what requires extraordinary evidence, in the same way I would need evidence if you said that by putting sticks together to form a pentagram you were able to summon a demon.

Your teapot around neptune is neither here nor there as an argument, but since I have encountered it before I am guessing it's taken from some kind of 'sceptic's manual for discussion'. It has little relevance here, however, as I am not claiming something completely taken out of the blue, but rather something that is based on direct experience with the world, i. e. my own subjective experience.
I think the OP is considering social goods, not personal profit. Society benefits greatly from having low rents.