skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've already admitted it's not backed 1:1, although they claimed it was always backed before. Others have linked an article with a source.
I think you're missing the point. The client has those options. Whether they choose to use them or not is a different matter. But they are all very effective. Especially the 3 where the "pain" is almost exclusively with the restaurant [%] and staff (no tip, not coming back, bad reviews). It's the last resort measures that are the most effective. They're still perfectly valid measures if they can give you leverage over the other party.

> Chances are most people would stay.

Chances are most people would tip even if their experience wasn't that great (saying this both as client and former waiter in a different life). But tipping is still a perfectly good leverage against bad service. Leverage isn't judged by how many people use it but how effective it is.

Unfortunately for the waiter there's little to no leverage in a conflict with the cook. I worked as one in my teens. We were the last in the food chain: arguing with the customers or cooks was terminal because the boss could not afford to lose either one over an ill-tempered waiter, especially when we were seen as "a dime a dozen".

[%] The measure of leaving when the food is served is not the most effective because in many run of the mill restaurants it just gets recycled in the kitchen. Not much is lost from the restaurant's perspective while the client may have lost more time. In some cases though where the dish can't be recycled it could come out of everyone's paycheck (cooks and waiters alike).
PowerQuery/Get&Transform makes it go an even longer way.
> What you're saying makes no sense.

Can you please review the site guidelines and follow them when posting here? They ask you to edit out swipes like that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You will see "we need nuclear power because it's the greenest/most renewable/etc... energy" type posts dispersed all through social media almost anywhere there's a discussion about climate change, renewable energy, etc...

Even if the original topic was only tangentially related it will get changed. A post with puppy photos can turn into a climate change discussion because "nuclear power is so green".

It's so common now that it's uncanny.
That's why Apple and other companies need to put more than money where their mouth is, and also commit to expanding more resources in those areas and attracting workers to relocate there. It isn't as if there's a dearth of talent where CMU is, and the lower CoL and other expenses are additional benefits for opening up offices there.
> US campaigns doing it is, while still bad, is vastly different.

How so?
The way that section is worded implies they have a right over the network, but not over every individual platform.
I’m not OP and I’m sure that far more intelligent people than me will take a stab at this.

As I understand it, the issue isn’t with a stablecoin. There would be nothing wrong with backing a token to a currency.

Unfortunately, it looks like Tether didn’t tell the truth. They claimed that they would have one US dollar in their bank account per token in circulation. This was a lie and they release an enormous number of unbanked tokens into the market. The class action claims they created 2.8 billion USDT between 2017 and 2018. At the time, the market believed the tokens had implicit value (as one was backed by a dollar) so the theory is that this made buying crypto a more compelling investment.
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I like having some sort of db:seed task during early development that seeds 1MM+ rows in all of your tables to help you experience performance issues as they're created.

It's even more important if your production application has millions of rows. Too easy to create a system that runs perfectly on 10 rows but will crash your production server as soon as you deploy it. Forgetting to create an index on the FKs is a classic one.
A fun and cringeworthy post. Thanks. But why withhold the make and model of alarm clock?

1. Maybe others could chime in or assist.

2. Brands that sell fragile and frustrating garbage like this should be exposed.
Gigantic FPGA in a Game Boy Form Factor, Supercon Badge Is a Hardware Siren Song
Tether's market cap is $4,132,688,008 USD. That means that the folks running tether need to have 4B in reserves. That is... unlikely.
Not sure I see the effective difference between bad faith domestic interference in democratic process and foreign interference in democratic process. Both have the same end result.
Companies are people, legally speaking, but I see your point. See ours: Imagine yourself as a company and the same debt equation applies.

Companies, like you, need tools to produce goods and maintain their operations. You, if you're a programmer, need a computer. You don't have $1000 to buy one, but you have a credit card. You know, you can bill your hours out at say, $100/hr writing code. You need to write code for 10 hours to pay for the machine, but you don't have $1000 to buy the machine.

So you put $1000 on a credit card at 20% interest, buy the computer and then bill 100 hours on it @ $100 / hr = $10,000 in just one month.

You incurred a little bit of debt, bought something worth a lot, but worth a lot more to you because you can leverage that tool to make more money than it cost to buy the tool.

Think of debt as leverage. It's a little bit of money pressing down on a lever to lift more money into your pocket.

If you only use that leverage to buy assets that help you make money (fairly easy) or increase in value at a rate greater than the interest rate (difficult, risky, speculative), then your net worth will continue to grow.

That college degree in a practical field like engineering is an asset because you will leverage it to earn more money over your lifetime than you would without that degree. Compare this to a degree in the proverbial "basket weaving." You, in your lifetime, will never weave $400,000 worth of baskets you'd need to pay for that University of Chicago degree. That degree is a liability that will follow you, perhaps your entire life and might make your life worse than it would be had you never gotten it at all. You'll resent that degree so much you refuse to work because every penny goes to some bank that sold you a worthless piece of paper for $400,000.
> Seems like if Uber is going to use this data for their benefit society should be able to use it to ours as well for planning an infrastructure purposes for example.

I don't necessarily disagree, but "data used for their benefit" covers all data used by all businesses, from your emails stored by your provider (assuming you don't self-host) to trade secrets, etc.

So either we say the government should be able to access all data from everywhere (except the few that individuals store on their own) for planning purposes and such, or we must define why this data is different from other.
> The internet didn't support millions of users after a decade either. Is the internet a scam?

The internet wasn't actively anti-efficient, making itself less efficient the more people wanted to use it haha.

> I'm not sure why you are saying all efforts go into a flawed second layer?

Because Bitcoin is fundamentally incapable of processing more than a laughable number of transactions, barely enough for a small town let alone the world?

> a) Dozens of teams are working on other efforts.

With nothing to show for it that isn't either (a) an objective scam or (b) not true to the fundamentally unachievable objectives underpinning "Bitcoin"

> b) Many do not consider lightning flawed.

Many people are wrong.
United States. It was suggested that the US should sever ties with SA to protest the killing.
> US campaigns doing it is, while still bad, is vastly different. One is an issue of sleazy election campaigns. The other is a matter of foreign interference with a country's fundamental sovereignty.

Foreigners getting paid by US citizens to the US citizens' dirty work is still a matter of foreign interference with a country's fundamental sovereignty.
Really? Doesn't seem like it worked out well for them during the last elections, given that people like Dustin Moskowitz and Larry Page were directly supporting and assisting the DNC campaign (with others assisting the campaign less directly).
Maybe in trading where information is standardized and in digital form. But for the most part actual financial advisory type banking or investments in private/public companies is still reliant on excel until frameworks for labelled financial information becomes more widely used/implemented in both public and private markets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBRL).
The longstanding joke is to substitute 'S' for the '-'.

Around 2000 I briefly worked at a telco equipment manufacturer that shipped for Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. Back then the hierarchy was already as you described.
It could have been a gift.
It's looked like a Madoff-scale Ponzi scam for a long time. Even in 2017, when the world was gaga over cryptocurrencies, people were saying that the Tether stuff is super sketchy.

There was a near-run on Tether this May, though, and ironically that's what pumped Bitcoin from $5300 to $8000. When folks want to dump Tether, they generally cannot dump it directly into dollars. They have to dump to Bitcoin, move it off-exchange, and then sell the dollars on an exchange with fiat currency. That means that every Tether dump creates a run on Bitcoin, which pushes the price higher. If the arbitrage trade is interrupted (as it was in May, when Binance and Bitfinex both shut down withdrawals just as the run was beginning), then the price of Bitcoin remains permanently high, and instead of selling Bitcoin on other exchanges to compensate, people buy them to match the new price, the public forgets about the panic when withdrawals open 2 weeks later, and the price remains permanently high.

I wonder also if at some point Bitfinex can just make up Tether's reserve shortfall out of their profits. (Actually, they claim that they made up the shortfall already with their Tokinex IEO, which was also super sketchy, but even if they hadn't...) Coinbase reportedly made $1B in profit in 2017 and about $400-500M in 2018; Bitfinex is of similar size, so a couple years like that and their profits could probably plug the hole, if they don't get sued/regulated out of existence first.
Open source apLib compressor gets 5-7% extra ratio
If you consider yourself to be a free person, almost everything government wants to know about you falls under the category of unreasonable.

If people are free, government is entitled to knowing very little about them. Their function isn't to keep tabs on us, to keep a database of every single action we take. That is NOT what they are elected to do.

Freedom is a very fragile construct. If we don't hold our government to the bounds they are supposed to occupy what is at risk is, without a doubt, freedom, by a thousand cuts.
Why would you buy this clock or allow it in your home?
The collection in LA does include some car services, although not necessarily ride share yet. The collection protocol is designed for multimodal surveillance beyond scooters.
I'd be fine with a clock that has a wifi chip, provided I didn't need to install a fucking app on my phone to change the goddamned alarm.
The Apple folio keyboard is actually really good. Even compared to my 12" Macbook the 11" iPad Pro is still more portable, plus I use the Apple Pencil a lot.
Is the US worst in terms of foreign policy? Seems like the peoples of the South China sea, Tibet, and Hong Kong might have different opinions on that matter.

Also all the nations in Africa with newly built debt trap infrastructure.

The US has done some truly shit things abroad, but we’ve also been the dominant superpower during a period of unprecedented stability, prosperity, and peace when you look at the numbers.

Sure Iraq was a shit show, and I’m of the opinion that war crimes were committed during enhanced interrogations.

But the entire history of the world before WWII is just one long history of war basically everywhere. Open market slavery.

The US isn’t perfect, but the alternative filled with constant regional conflicts everywhere certainly seems like a worse alternative to me.

Edit: not sure why I waded into this conversation.

Curious though, I’m seeing the 4x prison population for USA per capita number bandied about.

On one level, I see that number slowly improving as we stop arresting people for smoking marijuana.

And on the other, I’m really curious, and have no idea, are China’s Uighur population which are in “reeducation camps” counted in China’s numbers?

Aren’t they harvesting people’s organs in those places?

Rough. America’s always had a lot of outright and systemic racism but my feeling is that it slowly but surely keeps getting better.

I have a feeling Generation Z is going to be pretty open about things whether it’s sexuality, skin color, gender, or whatever.

Ultra PC and call out/cancel culture is another thing with it’s own warts, but yay for a society where an entire generation can push forward this new ideology of being whatever the hell you want to be.

The boomers are dying out, the evangelicals and religious are losing people every day.

I have faith we’ll be fighting for human rights and climate change accords soon.

I really hope at least.

So to conclude, my opinion, we’re no paragon of morals and values, but our history shows a slow but steady stride towards an ideal, one of freedom, and individuality, and opportunity, for all.

We take steps back, we make awful mistakes, but over the long term, we always move forward.

That’s the America I believe in. I hope I’m not wrong.
Seems like they definitely won't need the vaccine.
No chance in the short term, really. There's a lot of old hardware running around on reserve bases, and thats at least! All those turbines run avgas or something like diesel, not much of an aircraft person but I can't say for certain. It would certainly be a great challenge to replace all those turbines, and its not just the fuel.

The synthetics have different properties, and it might be the case that all the rubber dissolves on your Sikorsky, fuel liners disappear out of the exhaust, and hopefully whatever whiz-bang alloys we've been producing hold up. Who's to say, it's probably classified.

Imagine telling your people they're gonna lose the battle tested and well supplied turbines and power plants all over all the forces with something conceptually new. Large naval vessels and submarines can at least run nuclear, but there isn't yet a reactor small enough for a gunboat or a helicopter afiak.

Plus, can you imagine the battlefield hazards that would create? Suddenly, it looks to my eyes like a lot fewer people getting rescued when your reactor takes some HEAT and goes supercritical.

Luckily we can try the batteries or whatever out in out cars and lawnmowers first, as a handy side effect developing the currently-nonexistent alternative infrastructure. It wouldn't really be too unreasonable to consider EV and alternative fuels a national security priority, but good luck with that, I say to myself.
It all depends on the database and the API in use. When handling sqlite with Python I often use Roger Binns' APSW. (https://rogerbinns.github.io/apsw/cursor.html#cursors)

With an in-memory database or running it on an NVMe drive you can get some ridiculous performance out of Sqlite using APSW cursors.
What's wrong with the GPL? Maybe a de facto global GPL is good.
> It also suggests using omit frame pointer which destroys debugability.

Well, yeah it's an article about performance optimisations, and disabling this debug mechanism increases performance (or maybe it does - I haven't measured it myself.)

If you need to debug, don't optimise for performance this aggressively. Seems a reasonable tradeoff?
I want to say it's "Steve Rambam's Law" that any information provided to a private company will eventually be leaked, breached, or sold to data brokers, ultimately becoming public data. If it's not, it certainly sounds like something he would have said in his "Privacy is Dead" talks at the H.O.P.E. conferences.
They do seem to have a decent CS grad school program. They are tied for 30th with 6 other universities in US News.
https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-sch...

But Urbana-Champaign is 5th and should be somewhat less expensive.
It's entirely possible to have a stablecoin and indeed others exist.

The key to a stablecoin however, is trust. Users have to trust that their holdings are actually backed by real fiat currency as that's the promise of the stablecoin.

That trust can typically be bolstered by things like 3rd party audits, which is something Tether promised for many years and did not deliver.

With Tether the problems are that they have avoided scrutiny and audit, made statements on their website that subsequently turned out to be false and have a somewhat murky corporate structure. None of these, should , engender trust.
A few news are hinting at rare earth free batteries. Also I'd bet a grand that the minute EV tech is just good enough the market will flip. It might also trigger some electric fad that will make people root for renewables, storage, even nuclear (granted the passive failure micro reactors can materialize)
> If anybody asks questions (“Where did all those Tethers come from? Prove to me they’re collateralized”), sell some of your inflated Bitcoins for real US Dollars at a profit, stick those dollars in your bank account, and then say "Look! Here they are! Just like we promised."

This makes no sense. The money has to come from somewhere. Sure it can be fake money in Tether $$ but once you cashed out somewhere (in cash or your bank account) then the money should be real.

Tether market cap right now is $4bn. The proclaimed value created/destroyed is $450bn. The market cap of all crypto at the beginning of 2017 is $18.3bn and the market cap right now is $246bn. The difference is massive (around $220bn).

Now let's look at the market depth, because this is something everyone likes to claim: The order books are thin. This is far from being true. Looking at Gdax, the market bids to a 10% discount is around $12m. From my experience, trading crypto markets, it'll take around three times that much dollars to take the price to these levels. Many things kick off: 1. Hidden buy orders and 2. Bots arbing with other exchanges and 3. Fast bid makers who use neither visible or hidden bids.

That's around $35m that you can dump on a single exchange for a 10% discount. That doesn't take into account: 1. You can use multiple exchanges 2. You can use private sales or OTC and 3. If you are selling $100m of crypto (or even stocks), you'll probably do it over the course of a few days unless you think the instant discount is less than the stretched one.

If Tether created a $300bn market from a $4bn of cash, then that's genius, no? But wait, that's not what the author saying. The OP is saying that these $4bn don't even exist. Then Bitfinex/Tether created a $300bn market out of nothing. Uhh, no. I'm having a hard time believing that.

tl;dr: Dude goes on a lengthy non-sense rant and has no real proof backing his facts.
A single anonymous market manipulator caused Bitcoin to top $20000 two years ago
Converging Solutions: Artificial Networks Shed Light on Human Face Recognition
It has been done better in other countries and could be done better in the US if there were political will to do it. There's a whole universe of cryptographically signed certificates that we in the US don't use. The hard part is not signing a cert; it's making sure the certs are given to the correct people and having a procedure for when a cert is lost. Estonia has done this well; Korea has done this poorly. But it's quite doable if you have political will for it.
how Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/WhatsApp/Google/Microsoft/Apple are approaching power levels of the government?

Remember Twitter gloating about its role in the Arab Spring? They’re a psychological weapon that can overturn societies overnight. And they’ll do it just for a few more ad clicks.
Do they realize they're relying on easily spoofed data?
‘Listening’ to engine blades to stop failures, disasters
It's only a solution if it actually solves the issue. You can drop all social media entirely, but other people who do not will still get influenced by it, and then vote. And you then have to deal with what they vote for, because it applies to everybody.

This is what makes political ads so different from the rest of them - they're not ads for products that everybody decides for themselves to buy or not. Everybody's decisions here affect everybody else.
Facebook has no imagination. That's the consistent message.
> Google has largely solved the spam problem for end users.

Google hasn't solved the spam problem for end users at all. Google has solved its liability to spam.
Perhaps--but it's the analogy I came up with while writing this comment. If you can replace it with a better one, go ahead.

Sometimes analogies are not really meant to be perfect, but just simpler methods of communicating information.
Armed Bear Common Lisp: Common Lisp on the JVM
I have heard that the trackpad on the XPS 13 is the pinnacle of Windows (and presumably also Linux) trackpads. Which is to say, in the ballpark of the MacBook ones.

> How tightly does the hardware integrate with the software

Probably not all that well, but probably way better than on a Windows laptop with an aftermarket Linux installation at least.

I really really want MacBooks to remain the go-to dev machine, but over the past few years the company has shown a distinct lack of interest in that market (aside from the Mac Pro announcement, though that's arguably a separate market). We'll see if anything changes with the rumored 16-inch MBP, but it's not surprising to me that companies like Dell are smelling blood in the water.
This is a classic example of whataboutism.

1. Governments using trolls is different than campaigns hiring people to discuss politics. Campaigns get volunteers all the time to affect public discourse by going door to door, sending mailers, and doing all kinds of things.

2. Trolls specifically have an antisocial goal. The trolls employed by Russian military intelligence engaged in a psy-ops campaign against America to raise domestic tensions along racial and social lines. They specifically targeted races and ideologies and used aggressive, violence-promoting tactics. By contrast, Hillary hired Americans to talk about politics online.

3. It's not illegal for campaigns to hire citizens to promote their politics online. It is illegal for foreign governments to engage in military intelligence psy-ops campaigns against our citizens, and for campaigns to coordinate with those campaigns and request them.

I think the worst part about seeing you bring up "Correct the Record" is that they spent $9 million dollars in a $1.6 billion dollar campaign. https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00578997...

The conspiracy theories and propaganda that were created about this program are some of the most ridiculous lies of the 2016 cycle, and I think really go to show how little research people are willing to do before they repeat propaganda. "Correct the Record" exposes a classic propaganda pipeline for the right, because it was a tiny program that did very little, but the right managed to turn it into a massive huge conspiracy where every pro-Hillary comment must be a troll. Which was a response, of course, to the validated and legitimate left criticism that pro-Trump actors were actually foreign psy-op campaigns. There needed to be a "Both-sides-ism" to excuse the fact that a foreign government conducted a military intelligence operation against our elections.

Even today this conspiracy boogeyman gets play all over the internet, a remnant of disinformation used to justify an attack on our elections.