skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are not helping your case. It's been a while already where they stopped claiming to have USD to back the USDT and are claiming to have "diverse investments".

Why on earth would you believe them now? You probably believed them the first time too :) Do you have the audit? Either way the Tether T&C's don't actually give anyone holding Tether right to withdraw anything from Tether. Ever. Not assets, not dollars, nothing. There's nothing stopping them from running with all of those assets, they may or may not have, legally.

Ask their CEO or CFO! If you can find them that is, they've been missing for about a year now, nobody's heard from them.

> Just in last two weeks the price of BTC basically doubled. ETH as well. Printing _now_ kind of correlates with the price hike. Yes, if we assume that they are completely naked, then all of this printing is fraudulent (whether at 14 or 24B). However, if they do have reserves, this printing does make sense in the overall market.

It actually always did. [1]

> Anyway, still curious how the 9 trillion printed by the Fed and the 10 million going to "Pakistani NGOs" does not bring you the same outrage as a bunch of people putting their own time, money and effort in crypto projects. Has any bitcoiner hurt you?

Money printing is irrelevant. Totally and utterly irrelevant so long as inflation remains on track for 2%. The whole reason for printing was to offset a reduction in velocity of money. You're pointing at a system working, that you don't understand, and screaming fraud. You're basically a financial anti-vaxxer. Everything you need to learn about finance, about economics, is available to you at your local college. The course is called "ECON-101."

Put all the time and effort and money into crypto you want, I know plenty of beanie baby collectors who do the same!

> Has any bitcoiner hurt you?

Of course not, I made a ton of money on crypto on the run up and sold in January 2018 lol.

If you saw someone's house on fire, would you say to yourself, huh, that's weird, and walk away? Or would you maybe tell people that they're about to get seriously hurt.

[1] https://twitter.com/JacobOracle/status/1346133083645476869/p...
Removing the cameras may be a good idea, but note that their extensive fleet of camera-equipped vehicles is an important part of their potentially VERY lucrative self driving software development.

EDIT: I highly recommend watching head of AI at Tesla Andrej Karpathy's talk on their self driving architecture. "The Fleet" as a source of data is a vital functional part of their self driving software development. They may be able to calculate that including cameras and a computer on a car that will ship in high volumes would increase sales of their self driving option across all Tesla vehicles (including that low cost model) enough to justify the inclusion of those parts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx7BXih7zx8
Clearly your idea is revolutionary and something twitter could not have possibly considered before.

Twitter should take the bold innovative, leadership showing, step of "getting rid of character limits" even though it goes against the core product design of twitter i.e. forcing smaller packets of thought per post.
This post is exactly why Tesla doesn't need to spend money on marketing.
To be clear, I am using the example of the current vaccines to prove the point that N=200 allows statistical inferences to be drawn.
It’s not fully decentralized, but I’d love to see Signal take on some Twitter and Facebook use cases.
> Our current technology allowing any kind of garbage to be amplified to the masses is making things worse, not better.

And now our current technology owners have decided to only let one flavor of garbage be amplified to the masses.
She has given a pile to HBCUs. The Washington Post listed 2020 gifts to colleges and universities in the area last week, and she gave tens of millions to each of Morgan State, Bowie State, and University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Maryland. I believe she gave a bunch to Howard, and I did read that she gave a lot to Hampton University.
Show HN: Aqua – Invest in Private Equity for a Lower Minimum Investment
Hey HN,

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I am a former Summer Analyst at The Blackstone Group. During my time there, I witnessed first-hand that access to private equity investments is only available to Ultra High Net Worth (UHNW) individuals ($30MM+ in assets).

The lack of access to these investments to almost everyone presents a clear opportunity to create a marketplace similar to Cadre or EquityZen to democratize access to private equity investments.

Would love to take questions and feedback on the idea!
A local multiplayer arcade game (great timing with the pandemic, I know).
I think the current number and quality of local multiplayer PC games could be better. There are certainly some great games out there, but I believe there's a lot of room to explore new concepts as well. I also wanted to figure out just how much work it is to ship even a simple polished game.
It's a pretty simple concept but I think has some potential (I've had fun testing it with friends at least). The version up works, but a new version with some fixes and features is in the works.
If you are interested, can grab a friend or seven, and have some gamepads, give it a shot!
https://noncestudios.itch.io/ballgame
I'm also looking for playtesting input, so if you have any comments I would love feedback! (On Itch.io or at this username on Reddit)
It’s the same reason Cobrai Kai failed until Netflix bought it. Roku has the solution to the distribution problem. Quibi didn’t.
I guess we know where some of the George Floyd brick pallets came from now
> "quietly"

Is a link to the blog of said co-founder, where she discusses her philanthropy.

Her Wikipedia page describes her as "an American novelist and philanthropist" and the largest section of that page is entitled "Philanthropy".

I don't mean to criticize Mackenzie for this, just the unnecessary (and inaccurate) editorializing of the HN post title.
Yes. She didn't get the money only for being "the wife" as many people think.

She worked at Amazon and she is one of the people that made the company succeed.
Only going from what I've observed on the continent, (especially in the EAC), but I think it's a bit deeper than that right now.

Today, right across Africa, governments are studying the possibilities of restricting foreign internet services. Both as a way of controlling the information their populations get to view, but also as a means of addressing high youth unemployment among educated workers by giving their domestic internet firms the room to take root. This is actually an interesting sideshow in the more global tendency towards balkanization. But take my word for it, young startup type guys from Entebbe-Kampala, (and, with AfCFTA, even places like Dar and Nairobi), will be very active trying to press their advantage.

The political side of this shutdown is predictable, but the interesting action is the long game. I think these kinds of shutdowns are dry runs for the sort of internet world African leaders are quietly pressing for in their future.
I don't think I agree. Me tweeting "it's bad to say 'hang mike pence'" is still letting the concept of Mike Pence being hanged propagate. I mean, we're talking about it right now on Hacker News, even!

Toxic ideas are like a virus, and even well-meaning opposition can serve as a host, allowing them to spread rapidly rather than die out.
Some people clearly do want it. It happened. If trump didn’t want it he could have stopped it with the platform he has / had.
If your goal is to unify emojis (or reduce variation in emoji), and you create an entirely new set of open source emojis different to other sets of more widely used open source emojis, you have increased variation rather than reduced it.

The xkcd works because unless everyone is willing to adopt the new standard, then you further fragment the market. There is zero evidence that the dominant players want to converge here (except maybe if everyone adopts their design!).
Pump and Dumps in the Bitcoin Era
I'm in a cold area and experienced this recently. My hair started to harden and freeze. I started just putting the heat knob just the tiniest bit.

But I guess it depends on your knobs shower knobs.
... per day?
Made in China. Looks a lot like the XPeng P7 and the BYD Han. Those are a little higher in price, but Tesla always low-balls their pre-launch prices.

Tesla may end up killing the US auto industry by importing Chinese cars with the Tesla nameplate.
That could be analysed. What’s the average length of clip of Trump/WH talking on the various news networks and total per hour on the subject. It’s measuring the quantitative part.
It seems that for European production of Model Y, they will start delivering these (produced at Gigafactory Berlin) earlier than the expected Q3 2021.
Cameras are pretty cheap, the custom board is probably decently expensive, but if FSD is a 10-15k upgrade then it doesn't take much to sell that portion of the hardware at a loss to make it back in software options.
Author created static website where he manually links to each page and he claims this is 'next-gen' of blogging. You know what's next gen of blogging? Substack. You know why? It's because for most people rss is "hard" to use (mostly because they aren't familiar with it, thanks Google!), meanwhile everyone is familiar with email clients.

Author says:
> Managing this blog is a little more involved than dynamically generating everything.

and

> Simplicity is key.

If he will blog for long enough that simplicity might become a technical debt. Right know this 'next-gen' blog doesn't even have an rss feed.
Hey, Mrs Scott! Whatcha goin to do? Whatcha goin to do to make our dreams come true?!
I've got someone, who when I sent her links to The Guardian or other MSM sites, said "They're paid off by Rockerfellers and Rotschilds to report made up stories". Snopes? She sent me a link to a blog that mentioned some Snopes scandal, as if saying Snoopes can't be trusted 100% (and yeah sadly there was a scandal involving the founders of Snopes).

Of course she has her cheap-o fake-news Wordpress sites as her "sources" about her "knowledge", and she's convinced they're telling the truth. I end up seeing the equivalance, why do I believe the network of MSM sites are telling the truth when she can believe the same thing of the network of fake-news sites? One thing is, MSM sites fact-check each other, but a lot of things she thinks are fake news aren't being "fact-checked" by MSM...

A funny thing though, she's a "Bill Gates wants to kill Africans through vaccinations", and she said "Search for this theory, but don't use Google, they're paid off by big pharma, use Duck Duck Go.". Then I had to tell her, "You do know Duck Duck Go uses results from Bing... which is owned by Microsoft?" (I think she knows the BG/Microsoft connection).
Venezuela's verification systems are interesting, giving me some hope that the counting or voting processes could be improved.

> Dictators [...] can stay in power without lying about the vote count by, say, deciding what makes it on the ballot in the first place.

Reminds me of the situation in Hong Kong. Concerning the Chief Executive elections since 2017, there was a reform proposal in 2015 [1] to:

1. allow universal suffrage in Hong Kong, but

2. Beijing effectively could screen candidates.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-32397179

Strongly opposed as “fake democracy”, the proposal eventually did not go through (due to a very silly technical error from pro-Beijing side).

The rest is history.

After lots of subsequent development, just this week there was a mass arrest of pro-democracy lawmakers and activists [2], for otherwise the pro-democracy camp may have enough say in the election of the next Chief Executive, after the landslide victory in the district council election of 2019.

[2]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55555299
David Recordon Named White House Director of Technology
And what "flavor" of garbage is "hang Mike Pence" exactly?
Per organization
Ah, I never thought to force RCT in the search to find evidence. Thanks for that.
The giving itself was quiet, probably out of a desire to avoid being mobbed with funding requests. Then it was publicized after the fact.
You should check the corresponding CPUID bit, but in general, Ice Lake and newer.
It's not peculiar at all. Different people have been asking them to do that for a long time, pointing out that social media platforms were being misused to spread propaganda, but their requests were refused.

Then there's a historically unprecedented incident stemming from Trump's dispute of the lection results, organized by him on social media, and initiated by his speech on Wednesday morning. I see nothing peculiar about multiple companies independently arriving at similar conclusions and following Twitter's lead.
I called the cops, but it was night and there was no way.
To me it looks like the issue is lack of "perceived respect" (more complex than that, but I use a simple word to describe whole thing) from the "other side". Now, one side would need to somehow get the other side convinced that yes, we respect you as human beings even if we disagree on some things. And that respect does not just mean nice words, but also actual policies which make people (not their opinions) thrive. Bad news is that it is not an easy task - for either side.

Due to the election results, it is now Democrats' turn to see how they can start to heal the nation. It is imperative that they see that the reason for Trump's success is not racism or misogyny of Trump's supporters. The real reason is that there are lots of people who think that their life is not good. And that needs to be fixed. Bad news again is that it is not easy. Even worse is that if you fail, escalation continues and at some point you are looking at breaking the country or even civil war.
> Romero told the Journal “If a protest group insists, ‘No, we want to be able to carry loaded firearms,’ well, we don’t have to represent them. They can find someone else,” he added.

> The ACLU still officially condemns the hate speech of white supremacists, Romero told the LA Times, but “at the same time, we believe that even odious hate speech, with which we vehemently disagree, garners the protection of the 1st Amendment when expressed non-violently.”

> “We’ve had people with odious views, all manner of bigots. But not people who want to carry weapons and are intent on committing violence,” [ACLU spokeswoman Stacy Sullivan] said.

That decision wasn't about their speech, per se, but about the violence of their actions. To be specific: the first amendment protects the right to peaceably assemble and that's where the ACLU has drawn the line.
Is this the MacOS equivalent of KDE's activities? https://blog.hanschen.org/2011/02/04/activities-a-change-in-...
David Sinclair, one of the researchers in the longevity field, takes cold baths and goes to hot sauna. His theory is that this kind of stress on tissues kicks the self-repair mechanisms into action.

https://notunhealthy.com/david-sinclair-the-researcher-who-w...
tuple_impls! {}
tuple_impls! { A }
tuple_impls! { A B }
tuple_impls! { A B C }
// .. more macro invocations follow
// we support method arities up to 16
tuple_impls! { A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P }

Rust really needs the equivalent of C++ variadic templates. Is there any work ongoing on it?
https://buildbackbetter.gov/press-releases/president-elect-j...
Having an opinion you strongly believe in is not enough to make it true or right.

The republicans have espoused a dangerous ideology that not just allows but welcomes factual untruths and a worrying disconnect from rational thought.

There is a need for political parties of various philosophical bents to push and pull in different directions based on reasoned and informed decisions.

Once you give up that core grounding you basically invite fanatism and I don’t see what possible positive outcome we can expect from this.
> foreign values

Not even foreign values. Only subset of foreign values which are only shared by the Silicon Valley. Beyond that, half the US people disagree with Google/Apple/Twitter/Facebook’s non-neutral stance on politics, who weighed their full weight in censoring 50% of the political spectrum.

I will not call it the pied piper because Uganda weighs nothing, but the GAFA’s politics are now visible as directly harmful in USA, with calls to leftist violence given full platform since 4 years while censoring the 50% rest of the political spectrum, and any country who lets them operate their ideological platform is doomed to live through the Congress event again.

Good one, Uganda.
The BLM protests were based on objective lies. Have you watched the whole bodycam video of George Floyd's death? Or is that main stream media told you it's true that the police knee on his neck because he is black?

https://youtu.be/lJlQvOgEx58

Can you finish watching it and tell me which part of it is racist? It's unfortunately now people pick the lies they want to believe and claim it's the truth.
I disagree.

I live in Pittsburgh, and we recently had the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting.

There were also people being threatened along the route of a Black Lives Matter protest, who just happened to be there and did not join in enthusiastically enough, in the eyes of the marching protesters. No one was injured, but from the videos it seemed very close to getting out of hand. (Marchers coming off the street to verbally accost people sitting outside at a restaurant, grabbing drinks off their tables. Marching into a McDonalds and verbally harassing the manager...about something.)

And of course police going off on protesters, looking for excuses to escalate the use of force.

And with police reluctant to engage in communities where they are...unpopular...(with reason), murder rates are at their highest rates in years in many cities.

And now the unprecedented attack on the capitol.

I feel like I will get responses saying I am understating or overstating the violence from "one side" or the other. But my point is no one can deny the amount of violence is rapidly increasing, and no one really knows if it will get a lot worse before it gets better.

I wouldn't recommend anyone coming to the US right now, without a good reason.
This headline appears to have been written by whoever posted it to HN.
I would personally prefer this too, but there's a lot of people who don't, for good reasons and for bad ones.

I strongly prefer the UI on "Hacker News" to what you get on Twitter or new Reddit, but it's also pretty clear to me most other people don't. I think they ought to, but they don't.
C means casualties or crash or something else?
Or perhaps they were chanting “Boo-urns”
Hongguang Mini EV https://www.sgmw.com.cn/E50.html (partially owned by GM[0])

On video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6GjphV4DCU

$4500 USD, 120kms/74miles range

This is the future imo, not Tesla

0, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAIC-GM-Wuling
That sounds awful. I think I'll give it a try.
Have you talked to these people? My mother in law calls all media “fake news”. She’s gets all her information from YouTube. She’ll sit for hours watching the shows each day. There is no convincing her. Literally believes the other should be shot. Not amount of evidence will change her mind. She’s catholic even the pope couldn’t change her beliefs.
Cofounder????
I don't think turning a microblogging platform into a more generic one is any sort of innovation
I'm porting LLVM/Clang to the 6502. Notoriously difficult project, attempted dozens of times by as many folks.

https://github.com/mysterymath/clang6502

My take generates pretty darn good assembly for the cases it handles, but it's absurdly incomplete. Still, a huge amount of risk factors have already been addressed, and there's only a few big known unknowns left.

Example input:

void print_int(char x) {
if (x < 10) {
x += '0';
asm volatile ("JSR\t$FFD2" : "+a"(x));
return;
}
print_int(x / 10);
print_int(x % 10);
}

Example output:

.code
.global print__int ; -- Begin function print_int
print__int: ; @print_int
; %bb.0: ; %entry
CMP #10
BMI LBB0__2
; %bb.1: ; %if.end.preheader
LDX #10
PHA ; 1-byte Folded Spill
JSR ____udivqi3
JSR print__int
PLA ; 1-byte Folded Reload
LDX #10
JSR ____umodqi3
LBB0__2: ; %if.then
CLC
ADC #48
;APP
JSR $FFD2
;NO_APP
RTS
; -- End function
.global ____udivqi3
.global ____umodqi3
I like declarative approaches, but there's such a long tail of weird things to support. I'm skeptical something declarative can do the job on its own.

Maybe some time after modules become available and then a known quantity.
Much better than giving it to the various governments, kudos to her for giving it away.
> especially cross-platform package detection

I disagree here. CMake has working FindXyz modules for most major libraries. To write one of those modules is an exercise in soul-destroying tedium, but there's a pretty impressive body of existing modules out there, many of them officially bundled with CMake.

When used correctly, both CMake and Autotools are capable of robust package-detection.

Regarding point 1: CMake works pretty well on Unix, but it's a pity there's a runtime dependency on the CMake package. Autotools is much better in that particular regard: just about any Unix system can run a configure script, as it's just a plain old shell script.

CMake certainly falls short on the final 2 points, as I rambled about at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24203172

It's too late for me to edit my earlier comment, but here's another alternative to CMake for the list: Bazel.
I think your comment is being misunderstood. I interpreted it to mean that most people don't naturally have the capacity to kill others who they identify as equals, and that's why many extremist groups take steps to other their targets.

I get the sense that people are reading it to mean that the rioters at the capital hadn't been radicalized like this. Or that dehumanizing people in that way is somehow okay. Perhaps you can clarify.

I tend to believe that, thankfully, most people don't have the capacity for extreme violence at a moment's notice. It takes intense conditioning. The US military started to emphasize this [1](paywalled) after it was discovered that even during combat, while people were shooting at them, most soldiers didn't try to kill their enemy or even fire their weapon [2].

So it seems like the highest priority is to re-humanize the "normies" and "communist antifa spies" or whatever nonsense phrase these extremists are using. I have *absolutely* no idea how to do that, but it must be done.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/killing-does-not-com...

[2] https://www.historynet.com/men-against-fire-how-many-soldier...
If you make more, it would be even more hilarious if they were pull-up handles on your chair like for an ejection seat.
No, it continues to happen in dev env.
That's awesome. I am currently an ignorant teenager and I started messing around with C around this time last year. If I had to describe this current age I'd say it's driven by endless curiosity; I can't wait to start studying later this year. I don't think there has been one day in 2020 on which I haven't tinkered/hacked around. The latest thing I did was looking at the AArch64 reference manual and studying the structure of ELF binaries and then disassembling them manually.
Twitter was a mistake.
Think about it.
It just pushed people to reduce the depth of the expression of their thoughts to the size of of a slogan.
What could possibly go wrong?
I will tell you what:
It incentivize laziness.
It makes people less patient.
It reduces our ability to argue, make a point.
It reduces the quality of the conversations in general.
You can't really clarify what you want to say in such a limited number of characters.
Is that what you really want?