skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lawsuit I cited suggests that two exchanges were actually complicit in the scam - and Poloniex is one of them.

Also, since Tether has its bank accounts in Deltec bank in Bahamas, the inflow of $15B to such a small country would be visible in country's foreign currency balance sheets. The official report from Bahamas government shows that this balance is currently around $60B and has actually decreased during 2020. So this $15B worth of newly issued Tethers are not actually backed by USD (those money never reached Tether bank account), they were printed out of thin air.
You can't "copy" data in QM: operations can neither destroy nor create information.
I thought GPL 3 was not compatible with GPL 2.
A bit silly but does anyone know what editor app is shown in this gif[0]?

[0] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robotsquidward/gifs/master...
It's not lack of trust. It's actually a grant of trust - trust that in 6 to 12 months you'll actually start making company more money than you cost them. The larger and older a project, the more time you need to spend learning its specifics before you can contribute something with positive ROI. It's just a fact of life.
SAP user here... not that I liked it :)
10 Principles of system design: Take Warehouse/Workshop Model as an example

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow...
My first thought was that this could have been avoided if a VPN was used. Why bother with such a weakly enforceable policy?
IMHO a very good summary of the trade offs, with concrete examples
According to the FAQ, yes: https://unclack.app/faq/#/
Top Considerations When Evaluating an Ingress Controllers for Kubernetes
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I am not anti-american or anything like that.I even acknowledge american dominance in Tech and better conditions for skilled workers (read much higher salaries).

That said as a european I have to consider my interests and interests of my business.
Lost in your metaphor as you might be, I like the idea of humans as moving towards entropy and leaving behind order..!
I think this is exactly right. Low tax jurisdictions are also often desperate to attract business. Mobile people are willing to pay high tax only when they get something else like stability and high quality of life
This is genius but I usually mute myself before and after speaking. Great idea though for us mechanical switch folks.
I do agree. More importantly, it has an architecture to scale (despite of being just python).

I created complex load tests and custom workflows to analyse resulting data thanks to its complete scriptability. Really a nice tool.
A solution like rtx voice seems a better way to go tbh. For those who don't know, it's an nvidia thing that uses a GPU accelerated (ofc, it's nvidia) neural network to denoise voice calls, from all kinds of noise, not just typing. It's really pretty impressive, here's a demo: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uWUHkCgslNE

I wish it wasn't proprietary though (and worse, hardware specific). And windows only of course.
https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-...
I'll also plug an invention of my own: error diffusion with a random parameter in the diffusion matrix, keeping the sum of weights constant (and equal to 4/5, so boosting contrast slightly).

I came up with this for a Code Golf challenge a few years ago, personally I think it looks really good. I haven't seen it elsewhere.

Disclaimer: yes I like to write ugly Fortran code for fun (and profit).

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/26569
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I can't propose one, I think whoever could would have some sort of Renaissance discovery in their head. I say this because I feel the way we approach certain disciplines like psychology (in an increasingly scientific and statistical way) is the wrong take, although it has worked well for most things in the past. Although we can make good experiments, we are missing the intuitive part of it. There are some truths about the way minds work that you can understand, but you can't really write down or quantify, and science can do no help there.

For physics though, we have it down right. Do the experiment, did it work?.. it's already the correct method. No need to improve there.
> Ironically, Git is a decentralized version control system.

GitHub is simultaneously not the be-all-and-end-all of Git[1] and more than Git[2].

If they have good backups of everything (if not they should consider this a beating with the ol' clue stick (I'm assuming everything on github can be backed up away from it?)) this should only be a bump in the road, though a considerably inconvenient bump as there is nothing they can just restore to and move on using without a pile of changes and/or admin work.

[1] pick a new location for the "source of truth" repo for your team, push everything to that, and you're golden again

[2] all the bits wrapped around it are available elsewhere, but not necessarily in a convenient ready-made integrated manner[3]

[3] there is GitLab of course, not a direct 1-1 feature mapping in either direction but close enough for many, I'm told performance is more of an issue but you can always self-host if controlling that is worth the extra admin to you
Hey, if you want to say the Chinese government are corrupt, genocidal assholes, I'm with you.

What they want to cover up is any hint of fault. They want everyone to stay in line and question nothing, regardless of anything else.

I just don't think there's any real evidence of this being a man made pandemic either.
>YouTube resembles cable television more and more every day.

That's just the algorithm. There's still some amazing content on Youtube, but the algorithm will always try to offer you junk food. There are various ways to avoid this, but it becomes a problem for ditching Youtube. The positives are too enticing, and don't yet, at least for me, outweigh the negatives.

I generally hate suggesting a browser plugin to solve a problem with a service, but give this a try: https://github.com/SeinopSys/YTMySubs

You can no longer visit the home screen. Any attempt always redirects you to the subscription view. And from there, it simply becomes a matter of only subscribing to worthwhile channels. I've found it improves my Youtube addiction quite a bit.
You’re not wrong. There’s clearly a balance to be made, but financial institutions are good choke point for detecting and preventing a great number of different crimes. After all few engage in criminal behaviour just for fun, without the profit motive most serious crimes just wouldn’t be worth it.

I don’t advocate for wholesale financial surveillance, and I certainly think the rules advocated by FinCEN here are both naive and an overreach.

But I do think banks should have an obligation to detect, prevent and report financial crime, if only to make sure banks don’t become complicit. Providing financial services to criminals is incredibly lucrative, far more than providing services to ordinary consumers.
The Red Pill of N26 (FinTech Bank) Security (2016)
Reminds me of when 3 big players decided to produce a unified Unix. Day came for announcements - each advertised their own proprietary extensions, making them just '3 new versions of Unix'. Of course they did - that's how business works. For-profit entities are not going to function as standards bodies. They cannot. Anyway, probably unrelated but another anecdote about 'big companies can't get along'
since the user agent is supposed to be locked (soon if not already) for newer agents, and Google is probably most responsible for this feature, you would think they did not detect new devices by user header changes?
I think the design is great, just too small.

Try viewing the demo (https://read.cv/andy) on desktop at 125% zoom. Pretty much perfect.
“ none of it is GitHub/Microsoft's fault.”

Not really:

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/...

pretty clearly states they don’t even need to ban that specific person let alone thr entire company.
I'm a fool if I think people spending money is all it takes to sustain an economy? Okay.
Here's a small demo I made for the new year, comparing speeches from different heads of State : https://cutt.ly/happy_new_year_from_spoke

Western leaders all seem to adopt the same compassionate tone, and wish to shine hope on the new year (with the exception of Trump).

On the other hand, Xi Jinping is just....self-congratulating.
You’re acting as if every single blue collar worker lives alone. Don’t they have families they see every day? Also, living in a city and seeing hundreds of people every day is recent. I doubt there’s any natural drive for having such big social circles as we do now.
This is great thanks for sharing!
The accuracy cost is trivial as well, it's a trade-off. I'm pretty sure the implementers were fully aware that regex can't properly handle every case and decided not to care.
European tech recruiter here (again).

If I want to discriminate against you, I will anyway do so latest during the onsite.

I often have to skim through 200 CVs in a day and do >10 calls. I find it very convenient to have a face attached to the CV, because it helps me remember the person.

People hire people and people have faces.

I understand why people feel it is a burden to make and put a photo on the CV but I see so much updside also for candidates that I always recommend to add a photo. Here in Europe it's not forbidden but actually common. If you don't do it, you're the weirdo and your profile might get forgotten/ignored. Why risk this? I made a video to explain this once and not have to tell this to people again and again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELX85HAhHew
I only see a white page (probably due to usage of an ad blocker, ublock origin).
Protonmail seems to work pretty good for me, although I still have a gmail address as well.
That is the Covid strategy. If they weren't heavy handed they wouldn't have these opinions and push for an inquiry.
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Yup: Make the site worse, fill it with fluff that Google wants, hide the actual useful thing you are doing.
Tiny-redis: encrypted rails plugin with auth/credential encryption
A whole 7 miles away? Wow It's almost as far as i go to my office every day. Or to some shops in the town centre. Or various other "everyday activities".
Nothing? Really? Nothing? Nothing in the entire existence of the universe ever beats a free service? OK then...
Play with AI-generated cats inside of Twitter
I'm not convinced it's right. Einstein was wrong on some aspects of it too, i.e. local hidden variables.
Being a Software Engineer without a Degree
gov.uk is a fantastic resource, the team behind it, GDS, should be proud of what they’ve accomplished with it
When you say "you're paying for XXX" you mean cloud prices (in terms of $ to complete a similar job)?

I was referring to running it on your own metal, but your argument might hold there.

Obviously from a cloud provider I'd just take a massive pile of RAM rather than NVMe drives.
What’s so terrible now? Just trying to understand. Reminds me the hysteria after Trump was elected. Sure, some people have legit mental issues. But the majority is just consumed by the meme.
ML beyond Curve Fitting: An Intro to Causal Inference and do-Calculus (2018)
It's all about going to production without engineering time and automation data prep and marshalling, and governance. This is low-value "hurry up and wait" work that isn't data-scientists-doing-data-science.
On the whole, the UK Gov is actually quite good at digital services. Much better than any of my experiences with services offered by the US, Canada or France.
I wondered the same. It looks a bit like Typora, but I think it's something else...
Just sharing on behalf of a friend, but will forward this on to him, thank you!
While this is good advice of course, it is not clear to me if the problem is just the source code.

The twitter message says "We are completely blocked from deploying!."

Maybe they already have the source code elsewhere but use GitHub actions?
It is not very clear. The idea is that I move the mouse over the image on the top left, and I get a different image for each point?
They won't. That's exactly why this kind of stuff are outsourced.
US Apex Laboratory Suffers Ransomware Attack and Leak of Patient Data
Since such oracles will probably be used for insurance contracts, that risk can be priced in.
So from the graph aprox. 250 pages per second.

Not a bad number, I wonder how it compares with a HN hug of death. Sure, caching helps but it's not the whole story (LB, configuring the cache, benchmarking, etc)

Also what dashboard is that?
I have lived in five countries now, but not one (local or state) government had an online presence that was nearly as good as the gov.uk infrastructure.

Their websites might not look the part, but they excel (again, in my experience) in their practicality, accessibility and ease of use. And that is exactly what you would expect from a government website.
Krisp uses ML to remove background noises like dog barking, crispy chips and such.

Comes with a subscription model for unlimited use though.

https://krisp.ai/
> Why bother with such a weakly enforceable policy?

To show they've done what they can to enforce the embargo, in the hope that the policy is enough to satisfy the authorities wrt doing enough.

They can't tell is a user is circumventing the policy via a VPN, but such a user is actively circumventing the enforcement of the policy so can't try pass the buck with a "well they let us, so we just assumed it was OK" based excuse.
> If I want to discriminate against you, I will anyway do so latest during the onsite.

It is different. Many people want to maintain their image out of the public internet. I would never use a service that forces me to show my face to the public (not that there's anything wrong with my face, I just want it that way).
I use Mute Me[1] for this with the shortcut in the Touch Bar to mute and unmute quickly. I'm not sure if Unclack offers a Touch Bar shortcut (or keyboard shortcute) because reaching out to the Menu bar all the time is annoying

[1] https://github.com/pixel-point/mute-me
> it's not perfect, but I really honestly don't think I could match their uptime by self-hosting

This is such a common misconception. The services I self-host was configured by me, if anything goes down (which they very rarely do), I know the exact cause and have it fixed in minutes. When some company's cloud service goes down I'm completely at their mercy. I also spend very little time on maintaining these services, just security updates, which are mostly automated.

Bottom line, maintaining and self-hosting services that has 1 or a few users is much less complex than services with millions of users. Hence, my uptime is better than Google's, Amazon's, and Azure's, etc.
Argumentation Ethics
Groundhog: Addressing the Threat That R Poses to Reproducible Research
> In fact, GenodeOS, seL4 and NVidia Autonomous Vehicle project are all using Ada/SPARK to some extent,

As far as I am aware, seL4 does not use Ada/SPARK, but C (with some assembler snippets), and Isabelle/HOL (for the proofs). This is also what is written in https://wwwnipkow.in.tum.de/teaching/proof21/SS18/files/14-f...
This has 5 backend pipelines, which I would say is getting there speed-wise. I think AMD Zen has 10 execution pipelines to play with, although the exact structure is usually not commented upon so I don't know how long they are.

It's 32 bit so it's not desktop-class necessarily but this should blow a microcontroller out of the sky, for scale.
That’s three states out of 50 and Hawaii is the only one with any sort of enforcement. I travelled to NM (also subject to a 14 day quarantine). Zero enforcement, totally voluntary and business travel exempted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZoKM7zOUnU
>Until then, no one is going to flock to Hetzner over AWS.

You don't need the market to flock to Hetzner or OVH to use it yourself and avoid US sanctions.
> perhaps proof-of-stake will one day work

It already works.
https://why.cardano.org/en/introduction/proof-of-stake/
This seems like a fantastic use case for the ML hardware included on new-generation Macintoshes.
> In fact memristance is just the voltage divided by the current

In fact, voltage divided by current is resistance, BY DEFINITION.

Hey, you can also take a bunch of resistors, wire them in a loop and proclaim you have successfully emulated inductor with just resistors. That is what you get if you decide to set aside rules.

Important part of the description of what is memristor is its dependence on past charge flown through it, you can't decide to ignore parts of definition whenever it suits your argument.
NYSE Scraps Plan to Delist China Telcos in ‘Bizarre’ U-Turn
Isn't this just what dexwiz was saying, restated?
Cool idea! How do you plan to measure if people actually reach goals?
While the US sure is dominant, there are dozens of software companies larger than those in that list, e.g. Zoho has about $5B revenue, Baidu $11B, Tencent $23B, Accenture $41B, ...

The list employs some particular filters (e.g. SaaS seems to be excluded) and heavily emphasizes market cap over revenue.
Maybe that what it feels like for a well compensated tech worker.

The baseline assumption of the argument is that you are entitled to some minion fetching your stuff at a price low enough that not even the meager protections afforded a Walmart employee apply. Instead you have contractors working for a platform that steals tips. Gross.

Sorry my comment was awkward to read.
one important point is that ground observations include mars moving backward fairly often. it took a while to formulate a movement form that satisfied that constraint better than epicycles
The “A”S Have It
This is a good comment. As someone with liberal tendencies it bugs me to see it conflates with leftist politics
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Trump's overhaul of Section 230 stalls
You're comparing state sanctioned killing and torturing with sanctioning people trading with each other.

The first one is a violent crime against individuals, the second one is basically a tax.

I'm against both but they carry a different weight.
Those two rights deal with determining citizenship at birth.

The common sense idea deals with the probability of someone (already born) being of a certain citizenship given their parents' location.

Different ideas.

> The legal concept which serves as a basis to determine someone's allegiance by their ancestry is called "ius sanguinis"

Not allegiance, citizenship. Different, but similar concept again.
> future-proof email solution for both personal and business usage

Apple iCloud for personal use.
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> On the other hand, sometimes people get the idea that Haskell can encode everything in types. It can't. They get stuck and get into messes. Nonetheless the ability to encode some things into types makes Haskell by far the most practical language I've used.

It's not even that, I'll assume that the majority of Haskell novices are aware that there are humble limits to the expressiveness of most (including Haskell's) type systems.

The real problem IMHO is the dichotomy that this approach entails. You have to decide which language to use to model a concept (type language or run time language), and if the idea of what you want to do changes a little, chances are you can't continue on your current path.

In other words, I think the type system approach prevents a lot of the fluidity that I want from a programming language as a tool to get things done.
Google Speech-to-Text API Can Help Attackers Easily Bypass Google ReCAPTCHA
This is part of why I try to stay away from apps; once you become reliant, you're stuck. It's best if there's a desktop client, (and particularly one that is not bad for privacy, but usually these things work better on a desktop) since it will not keep you tied to a device or ecosystem.
Given that it took a year for the virus to have any effect in Spain, then all of a sudden it was very intense, wouldn't it be more likely that the test was botched?

There are a lot of false positives with PCR (0.8 - 4% according to this article https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...), so that makes a lot more sense than the virus being more or less dormant for a year then going wild.
Anecdotally, HN is probably ~1/100th of this. The "hug of death" is much more about bad servers and very low usage limits for things like shared hosting plans than it is about the volume of traffic.
If you want physically accurate averaging (resize, blur etc), then RGB is fine, as long as you use linear values (or do long-winded transformed math). AFAIU it is by definition 100% physically accurate. As was said, sRGB uses gamma values, where typical math creates ill effects, as in many if not most typical programs.

If you want to do perceptually uniform averaging of colors, color mixing / generating / artistic effects, that's something else entirely.
Ask HN: Why is my page invisible on Google, yet automated ripoffs are?
I have an article that was quite popular a few months ago (e.g. was on HN). If you search for the exact title of the article today, it's invisible in Google. That wouldn't particularly bother me, but there are low-quality ripoff pages that seem to have just auto-translated the text into a different (worse) version of English, and these show up. Is there any explanation of this?
Between this and ish Android without third party app stores/apps is now worse than iOS.
I had people complain they couldn't hear me well when I used their (deprecated) iOS app. I kept having to turn off the ML noise-cancelling.
The latter.

And what is this "irony" of which you speak?
A customer of mine use GitHub, Travis and Slack.

If GitHub is offline we can still setup a git server somewhere. I could offer my own for a quick startup. Mailing patches to each other, Linux kernel style, is not a viable backup plan. The cultural gap is too wide.

If Travis is down we can run tests locally.

We build the deployment artifact on one of our servers. If that one is down probably our production server is down too.

If Slack is down, ah, I was on vacation yesterday. I guess the fastest backup for us would be WhatsApp Web.