skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But they are not backed by real USD, and Tether themselves have admitted as much: their FAQ now states simply that it's backed up by "Tether's reserves", which apparently consist of other cryptocurrencies.
> If you enjoy mumbling some words to a cashier

Well my sister used to work as a cashier at a local hardware store when she was a teenager before they got obliterated by Lowes and Home Depot and pretty much everybody would go there to buy their sundry needs for various projects. Turns out that you strike up a conversation with someone who lives in your neighborhood, you find out about their projects, then their family, then their lives. It's you know, community, not mumbling words at some faceless person that is a poor cog for megacorp whose only plan is to literally extract more money from the community than they inject.
They were offered exit packages, iirc.
Finally a podcast about Asian-American identity in tech
> This is a political problem that can only be solved politically (by voting) not by some tech companies doing small scale boycott

Yet, big companies have had boycotts internally and that lead to the company changing its course. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/01/google-will-not-renew-a-cont... And, yeah, sometimes the efforts only work for a short period but they still had an effect.

Voting is nice but - most often - you don't get a real choice with voting. You choose one corrupt politician for another because more money == more speech. The uninformed masses who are more concerned with their own daily lives (divorce, family deaths, their children, etc.) are what are making large decisions for the rest of the informed. The cycle perpetuates.
And indeed, JS Flow detects such async issues pretty well
Thats a great story! thanks for sharing
It's no longer a nightmare - I simply don't fill in that shit since this year. Close the tab, move on.
I wish, but that is not the world we live in. Child separation is probably illegal under the universal deceleration of human rights (which the USA has ratified).

Article 16 (3):

> The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

When a government sanctioned agency engages in something that is probably illegal (and definitely immoral) and you still think they are worthy of your business, you are complicit in their actions.
The unfairness of the system you describe, also happens to other men who don't get promoted or don't have time for side projects, or comment on HN, and aren't in the same clique, etc. Maybe we should target the core problem, instead of making it about gender.
Last I checked there's no actual evidence anybody has ever managed to redeem USDT for cash.
Incorrect. If a company buys my services, they are free to do with that service what they please. We don't shut down hammer companies because some dude whacked another with one.

You think you are on the moral high ground here, which is why you are taking such a strong stand.

Also, I think you were looking for "complicit", not complacent. You are also wrong there as well. We are voters, that is how we approve or disapprove of government actions. Not everyone has a high paying job and can afford the luxury of ignoring new clients or stopping business because of some holier-than-thou nonsense. People have bills to pay.
How simply can a car seat/cushion be produced? – Laser Cutting Demonstration
Car seats are essential for passengers among all other Automotive Interior Upholstery. The seat cover, made of PU Leather, is suitable for laser processing. No need to store all kinds of dies in your manufactory and workshop.
Furthermore, thermal technology for car seats is a quite common application now. The traditional process to manufacture automotive heated seat is to die cut the cushions first and then stitch the conductive wire on the cushion. Such a method results in poor cutting effect leaves material scraps everywhere and is time-consuming. While laser cutting machine, on the other hand, simplifies the whole manufacturing steps, improves the production efficiency, and saves production materials and time for manufacturers.

I forgot to turn on the exhaust fan...

Related Seat Applications:
Infant Car Seat, Booster Seat, Seat Heater, Car Seat Warmers, Seat Cushion, Seat Cover, Car Filter, Climate Control Seat, Seat comfort, Armrest, Thermoelectrically Heat Car Seat, etc.
None of these examples you brought up are political in nature. Not one.

Some idiot chooses to try to make it political in nature and a bunch of other equally uninformed idiots believes the original idiot or takes up the cause.

Example 1: SaaS company is breaking no American laws and ICE isn't either. The fact you even think its morally correct to deny them service screams how ideologically possessed you are. Here's a hot fuckin' take for you... don't illegally come to America.

Example 2: I don't know enough about intellectual property and open source contributions to have an opinion.

Example 3: Maybe you're not doing politics, maybe you're just not a shitbag.

Example 4: Maybe you don't give a shit and just want to be left alone.

Example 5: You're just a controlling asshole, not politically against Palestine.

I would say, "I hope you get the point", but you won't... because its clear just from these examples alone you're so politically motivated that you can't see the world from any other vantage point.
If you're curious, I once gave an in-depth talk about S3 internals in 2009, back when I was at AWS [0].

[0]: https://vimeo.com/7330740
Don't forget state+city sales tax. In San Francisco that adds 8.5%.
Curious question, is it just I2S that is used for this purpose? I'd assume you could use any serial protocol for bit banging purposes right?
BigFix definitely seems malware-like.
I guess I misunderstood what you meant when you wrote these then:

"I still could not figure out what happened to the "gone" cofounder? Dead?" ... "They dont want to write at the beginning of what going on..."
I'd play that game.
Since I'm from Chile, and I originally made it for myself, I included a Dollar to Chilean Peso (local currency) conversion. I thought I would be useful to have an option for converting to local currencies to appreciate better the differences among countries. Still a work in progress by the way.
BINGO. Came here to write something like this — frankly surprised (and pleased) to find your comment. Thank you!

A PM’s job numero uno is to MAKE THE BUSINESS SUCCESSFUL, ideally by maximizing the intersection between customer/user needs (solving a problem), business goals, and their team’s/company’s capabilities. Sometimes, though, these three facets are at odds and one needs to prioritize one over the others.

The best PMs bring experience, empathy, and data to bear to figure out which one to optimize for, when.
I found your comment very funny. These things are created by GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) which work with a generator and a discriminator, which is an AI to detect fakes. So it is actually made with an AI that detects fakes.

If you zoom deeply in on the backgrounds, you may see some crosses in the background which are defects that GANs can sometimes have.
Robots Invade the Construction Site
Yes, the analog equivalent is the Casio MQ-24.
One way to become rich is to be very careful money. Thus you tend to find the rich right in poor areas doing things that the poor do, and wearing clothing the poor do. Those million dollar homes often are inhabited by people who earn a lot of money, but spend every cent and have nothing in the bank and a lot of debt.
I don't recall ever seeing a preview for a single movie that lasted for 15 or more than 30 minutes. However, I've seen single commercials on YouTube that last 15 minutes, and some longer than 30 minutes.
That massive blind spot may be preferable to the problems their actions cause.
That's like supporting a protection racket... Wow.
I bought one of these based on that article way back in 2011!

It's still going strong!
Discussion with Adam Engst, publisher of TidBITS, at https://talk.tidbits.com/t/hiding-apple-s-big-sur-upgrade-ba...
My understanding is that tether is printed (by Tether the company) and used to buy btc at just a couple exchanges (one is bitfinex, I forget the others) who are in on it.

This initial purchase drives btc-usdt up, arbitrage bots then buy btc-usd so that it matches btc-usdt. The media and people notice the price increase and jump into btc-usd because it's going up, narratives are created to justify why the price went up (paypal, fidelity, rich investor), btc-usd further increases, and now Tether (the company) sells its btc for dollars, so that they make a profit, and also to cover whomever else wants to redeem tether for usd, thus maintaining the illusion that tether is fully backed by dollars. Tether then decides to start the cycle again after a certain amount of time.

So, if the above is true then yes this is a scam and there's gonna be a lot of bagholders if/when tether is kaput (they are under investigation by NY AG).

Note, that since March 2020 Tether has printed $13 billion in tether. Is this really a result of organic growth/demand? (https://imgur.com/i78BTXg)

Most of the tether is in storage at the exchanges: https://i.imgur.com/eIKDzJl.png

So it looks to me that they know it's worthless.
I'm constantly surprised at how rare clandestine pharmaceuticals are.

Insulin for example is just worked up GMO yeast metabolites. That's not a particularly new or complex idea.
That is correct, we got a valid looking DMCA that was later disputed by the channel owner. It was unblocked. Then today, he deleted the channel and I haven't heard from him otherwise, so I'm not sure what's up.
Please link your sources, their reserves as I understand may in some part consist of unspecified collateral, even if they are crypto which I seriously doubt due to its volatility the fact remains that Tether is trusted enough to be supported by the majority of major exchanges. The imminent demise of tether has been predicted for many years now. You can short tether at Kraken or choose to use one of the many other USD stable coins.
This person means everything is a fucking ideological purity test, according to his or her own politics.

And you aren't good enough (and never will be).

This kind of ignorant, childlike approach to politics is why the Democrats are going to lose so hard in 2022... and God forbid the Republicans stumble onto their version of Barack Obama... 2024 will be a nightmare.

When I eat at Chick-fil-A, I'm not making a statement that I want gay people to be eradicated, I just like goddamned pressure fried chicken sandwiches. When I buy something from a company that produces their goods in China, I'm not saying I want Uyghurs to be slaughtered en masse.

In fact, in every single one of these instances, I'm not actively giving a shit - or making a statement - about either of those things... I'm doing it because I haven't eaten since 6 a.m., or because I need a USB-C cable, not because I hate gay people and Chinese Muslims.
You moved the benchmark from "child trafficking" to "child separation."

Many would argue, correctly or not, that the policies of not having children housed with whatever adult they cross the border with is in service of avoiding child trafficking.
Not doing a thing is sometimes a political statement. Colin Kaepernick would certainly agree with that. Honestly if most businesses in the downtown building I worked at put up “all lives matter” flags and my business did not move from that building, I’d stop going to the office. For me the business deciding to stay in a building downtown with a bunch of bigots would be a political statement I could not accept.
Netflix content contracts are typically fixed-fee ones (source: https://ir.netflix.net/ir-overview/top-investor-questions/de... section "How do you account for streaming content licensing?").

The providers of course generally want more money the more popular a title is (though Netflix does not usually disclose viewership numbers so they may have to rely on Nielsen etc.).
So many designers just rip off the design team at Stripe, even the author of this article frequently raves about Stripe.
Ding ding ding,
we have a winner!

The culture war is just a distraction, a divide-and-conquer strategy by the wealthy elites (who are isolated enough in their personal lives to be able to avoid all this noise) playing the masses to hate each other instead of hating and attacking the elites.

The best strategy is not to play, blend in and try to reach elite level yourself.
Do you have evidence that suggests that the FEC was deceived about the source of their financial data?
“Existential threat” means a threat that threatens the existence of something (civilization, humanity, etc). It doesn’t just mean “really bad.” If you have a different meaning, you’re using the term wrong.

And there is nothing “bad faith” about the argument. An “existential threat” warrants a different response than lesser threats. So establishing whether or not climate change is really an “existential threat” is really important to the debate.

Climate change isn’t “existential” even for Bangladesh. A third of the Netherlands is already under sea level. Technology compensates. Experts project that climate change could render 17% of Bangladesh under sea level in 40 years. 90% of Rotterdam is under sea level. The city was originally built using technology substantially more primitive than what Bangladesh might have in 40 years (when it is projected to be a middle-income country with a $3 trillion economy).
They way they describe their store it seems like their inferences aren’t actually personalized except in aggregate.

Is there a 3rd source of user-specific features that are only sometimes used because DD knows what places I order from often and suggests them but can’t seem to remember that I always order roti and not naan when making suggestions. Is it a performance thing where user-specific lookups are costly?
> Girls and boys mathematical abilities are equivalent.

I have to laugh my ass off. In reality, boys get 800 on the math SAT at over twice the rate that girls do. That article addressing this by stating "the SAT is hardly a random sample of all students" is complete nonsense.

The idea that smart males and females are produced at the same rate is ludicrous on its face, because female brains are made with the information from two X chromosomes and males with just the one.
It's not just that [over-]optimized systems "can be" fragile; they are by definition. Efficiency is at one pole, resilience is at the other.
Not sure why. Just google this string without the quotation marks. Should be the first result: "10.1186 1743-422X-2-69e"
> From the outside looking in, American politics has long since ceased being about policy and ideas...

This was long the norm in Europe and North America. Western Europe seems to have less of it at the moment, and perhaps for the last 25 years; the US had a ~30 year stretch from the mid 50s. The current situation is quite bad, but has of course been worse.
I'm sorry, I'm genuinely confused here. Harvey Weinstein is a convicted rapist that has been sentenced to 23 years in prison. As far as I understand it, that's not a political talking point on account of it being a quickly-verifiable fact. Is the distinction between "alleged" and "convicted" a political one?

Again, not trying to start an argument or troll, but how would someone talk about this topic in a way that's "apolitical"?
> By paying taxes you’re technically facilitating their efforts, so approximately everyone is complicit

You're only complicit if you pay taxes.

Refuse to pay or reduce your income below the taxable threshold and you will no longer be complicit.
Something like the Iraq War is a much more complicated and nuanced issue in which people can reasonably disagree. Many people aren't going to be willing to debate or compromise on issues like civil rights. You are either on their side or not.
The others laugh, but this is great (my house isn't big enough to bother though).

Another baby game changer along these lines - buy a 20 pack of small microfiber cloths and hide them in all your coin and inside jacket pockets. Never be without a glasses wipe when you need one. I even give them away to people who forgot theirs, since frequently I'll have two on my person.
The ironic thing about the dirt cheap OEM parts from europe ruining local business is, its happening in europe as well.

If a local shop orders parts from lets say shimano it must be bought from the official shimano importer. All while the online shops import it themselves and undercut the prices by a lot.

I once wanted to buy a new bearing for the crankset and my bike was already disassembled. So i went to the local shop to avoid waiting for shipment (was before next/same day delivery was a thing in germany). The price there was about 50 or 60€ while the online price was something in the 20th. I talked to the owner what the reason for that big of a difference and he showed me his official B2B catalogue. It was basically the price he asked for. So he wouldn't even make money out of it if I would have bought it there. He recommended to just buy it online which I then did.
Interestingly enough, Sidney Gottlieb was my great uncle's college roommate at the University of Wisconsin, and they later reconnected after the war and became lifelong best friends. Apparently they both went there after colleges on the east coast started putting quotas on Jews. There is an interesting article about their relationship here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/20...

Unfortunately I didn't find out until after my great uncle had died, would have been super interesting to ask him about.
By why is our data valued or priced at the individual level rather than the profit it generates the company in aggregate?
a friend of my parents in Bombay changed his kid's school because not only did the teacher set homework and tests from the guidebooks, but would not accept any other answer than what the book supplied. original work was marked wrong.
Ah. Thanks. I didn't see it prior to the change and was puzzled by the comment.
This feels like someone moved them as a gag.
If you don't want to see ads, why don't you pay for youtube premium? How else do you expect Youtube to a sustain itself if you wont' block the ads or pay for the premium ad-free subscription?
That’s fascinating. How is it that we seem to have lost that capability to do things in software over so few decades?
A number of exchanges like bitfinex are in on the scam and are just holding the tether in cold storage: https://i.imgur.com/eIKDzJl.png

The exchanges will make money if btc goes up and more people buy it through them. By accepting tether for bitcoin they help pump up the price. Holding useless tether is fine as long as more retail comes in to them for bitcoin with USD.
It's not really important to withdraw USDT directly into my bank account. I can simply move USDT to Binance, convert it to USDC, and then withdraw USDC using my Coinbase account.

USDC and USDT trade at basically 1:1, as you can see here: https://www.binance.com/en/trade/USDC_USDT

FUD around Tether (like this article) is noise.
Most proposed anti-climate-change policies also threaten “life as we know it”. That’s literally the reason why e.g. the French were massively protesting gas tax hikes.
OK you piqued my curiosity. How?
So developers who are on-call are paid 5-10x as much as JPL/NASA engineers?
It's minimalistic, I went to check Rclone but couldn’t find schedules backups or a GUI so I can already see how this app could be appealing to some.
If you have something like a Deflate stream, there is a chance that the flipped bit will affect a symbol but change it into a symbol with the same length. Could do anything from changing a single byte in the output, to changing bytes in a bounded range, to corrupting the entire rest of the stream, or making it fail to decompress (not every deflate stream is valid, far from it).
When AI Sees a Man, It Thinks 'Official.' A Woman? 'Smile'
There is a good question as to wether it makes sense for companies to take stances on unrelated political issues where I think you can make a strong case about staying out of it.

But it doesn’t answer the question of what to do when a company’s actions in the natural course of business will end up taking a stance even if that stance is the status quo.
Print tether for bitcoin, so the btc-usdT price goes up. Arbitrage bots buy btc in dollars so that btc-usd reaches parity with btc-usdt. The media and people notice that btc has gone up, euphoria is borne, they jump in, further driving the price up, narratives like paypal are used to explain the pump.

The people that printed tether now sell their btc for a profit and can now cover their tether obligations to keep the illusion going that tether is 1:1 backed with usd. They can now repeat the tether printing cycle.
- Oleg can read C++ compiler error messages.

Oh, come on. You were doing so great until this point.
Congress just approved an IoT security law and it doesn't suck
The question isn't if you can actually cause Google or another big tech company to refuse to provide services, the question is if you can actually change the results with it.

Project Maven continues, now run by Palantir. Google's refusal to continue the project did nothing but slow down the project by a few months.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-14/palantir-...

In fact, considering the goals of Project Maven (roughly making sure you're blowing up what and who you intend and avoiding collateral damage), if you consider Google a leader in AI, you could make the perverse argument that you're actually killing people by reducing the effectiveness and delaying the timeline of the program. I'm not saying I've researched this enough to say that this is a correct or even plausible argument, merely that it is possible.
When IBM lost control of the PC market when Compaq and other clones started coming out and their proprietary PS/2 PCs were rejected by the market, the power to define what a PC was fell into the hands of Microsoft, who still holds it today through their Windows hardware certification program. It is Microsoft who is keeping PC hardware open, albeit probably more because of fear of more anti-trust scrutiny than any altruistic motives.
It's more like you are expected not to care how much the full total is. If you are frugal enough to care, its pretty easy to estimate for your own local area since you do it constantly.
Police in Mississippi to Pilot a Program to Live-Stream Amazon Ring Cameras
Ah yes, Tether is bad because it’s printed money used to push up asset prices. Good thing none of the world’s currencies are printed money.
There are definitely some oddities in HCL. Regarding the dynamic blocks, it gets weirder. If you have a dynamic block inside of a resource that is using for_each, you can still reference the 'each' value alongside the value that the 'dynamic' block is looking at.

resource "example_resource" {
for_each = example_map

dynamic "foo" {
for_each = bar
content {
example_setting = each.value.setting
new_baz = foo.baz
}
}

}

The original for_each is referencing its object as 'each', while the for_each inside the dynamic is referencing the iteration as 'foo'. Why not just name the for_each inside the dynamic block as something else?

With that said, I absolutely love Terraform, and it is IMO the most powerful tool I've had the pleasure to work with. I also am a fan of DSLs if they are thoughtfully done. I think with some improvements, like some of the ones the author suggests, HCL could be a great language to work with.
So you wanna live in the world where only Russians and Saudis do extrajudicial killings?
The Soviet Korean Who Ended the Forgotten War
1. Nobody is shutting down companies that are doing politics they don’t agree with.

2. Selling hammers to the general public is not the same as catering a service to a single client that engages in human rights abuse.

3. Working for a company is not the same as controlling a company that engages in bad politics.