skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dating styles are very informed by upbringing and culture. For example with my German upbringing but living in the US I am very long term oriented and do not shy away from addressing serious topics early. While this is considered "very intense" in the US, it is very common in many other countries.

If your goal is dating to establish a healthy romantic relationship then number of matches isn't what you want to optimize:

Accept who you are, how you think and feel. No need to hide the real you. No need to please the masses. You can find people who will appreciate you the way you are. And I can't emphasize this enough: *Respect the other person* - everyone is equally looking for (and entitled to find) what is right for them.

With experience it gets easier to quickly identify people who think and feel like you, who share similar values and lifestyle.
Should we be driving at all? After all, every second spent driving a car is equivalent to you killing someone with a low probability.
From personal experience, I can say working in a closed shop UFCW grocery store was better on almost every level than when I worked in a non-union grocery store. I count that as a positive experience but I've also seen unions that are little more than extortion rackets. There's one particular union active in my area that protests any job site where they wanted their members hired exclusively and didn't get their way. The members of the union don't themselves protest, instead they hire minimum wage workers to harass passersby. They line both sides of sidewalks, leaving only a very small path through. Each person on both sides of the sidewalk will push a sheet of paper in the face of anyone trying to get by, being careful to not actually touch the person. The paper is their demand that the job site hire them. These lines can be twenty or thirty people deep, with each participating in the just legal enough harassment. They also issue whistles to these faux protestors to blow throughout the day in order to make life as miserable as possible in the area. They know the limits to what they can legally get away with. Doubt anyone who has had to run that gauntlet more than once came away with a positive view of unions. Not sure what's the solution to this type of behavior and this is an extreme example but in general unions often take the public hostage in their disputes which makes their image with the public negative.
I think this situation is like knowing a car crash is about to happen and then still waiting for it to happen though. Why not email someone to pay their bill?
Good point, for those tethers to have that big an influence on the market, they need to get into the hands of real people buying tether with real money somehow.

According to the article it looks like this

1. Person buys btc with usd on coinbase or equivalent

2. Moves btc to shady exchange with tether promotions

Those promotions need to be _huge_ in for those newly minted tethers to get into the hands of real people trading.

I looked at the site with promotions linked by the article, and the front page features a couple of missions that give 50 USDT total for doing things like "join our telegram group", "set up a notification on our app".
> Police unions may protect bad apples via union.

I think it's pretty clear that at least some police unions work strongly against the interests of society -- but I haven't seen any evidence that they work against the interests of their members.

Sure, if you're an honest cop it probably stings that a murderer can collect his pension like nothing happened; but on the other hand, you know the same protection would be available to you if you were accused.

Or consider that, famously, the NYPD doesn't consider itself beholden to the Mayor. I can't believe that attitude would work without the union. And the unions can also very publicly take political positions that are contrary to their employers' or even the majority of the citizenry -- which looks to me like a serious demonstration of power.

At least in the case of police unions in the US, I can't see how they are a negative example from the point of view of people who might end up as union members.
The bass music underground is alive and well in many parts of the US.

Mainstream it is not, and THANK GOD for that
I wonder if at least some of that might someday be done equally well by a computer which would be available 24/7
I have to compliment you on the design of this challenge. That sounds really hard (but also really fun).

How'd it go?
It definitely is a lot to have and not have given out, but the overall ratio is something like 15 million doses administered out of 40 million distributed.

(It's not clear if is really 40 million, but slow administration is a broad issue. And now there's a question of how much is going to be available each week; if the supply is X/week, it's going to be hard to convince people to build the capability to administer 2x/week)
I agree with the general thrust of this, but it seems misleading to describe an organization belonging to CWA Local 1400 as fake or not really a part of the labor movement. For better or worse, the labor movement believes these kinds of non-majority pressure groups count as real unions.
Sorry, but are teachers employed by the union who then sells the teachers labor to the school? Or do I misunderstand?
I find these stories from the USA about teachers unions fascinating. My prior is strongly pro union, so for a long time I disbelieved them. But I hear them so often from so many sources...

We had problems back in the day here (Aotearoa) as the union movement became the battle ground for the larger social class conflicts, that whilst meat hook reality overseas, made less sense here (here it was racial conflict and colonisation that mattered, another story, another day).

The union movement was smashed in the conflict. Too corrupt and ossified to fight back against a revitalised state in the 1980s and 90s. But the public sector unions survived, and were are strong now. The teachers union here is mighty.

But we see none of the problems (bad teachers defended, stupid rules enforced arbitrarily - well some, there is still bureaucracy). The unions campaign very effectively for their members, some political agents try to stir up concern (American issues leak through here) but mostly no body really cares. When my children were at school I never gave it a thought.

Good luck to the Amazon workers, I hope it goes well.
I have to use Whatsapp to talk to people in a certain group. I use an old Android 6 phone with a prepaid SIM bought just for this single purpose, setup with a burner Google account. I only turn this phone on when I need to catch up or talk to them. It's really REALLY cheap and it works.

You can do the same for Signal.
The median wage in Alabama for all jobs is $16/hour. Paying warehouse workers well above the median wage would have fairly negative economic implications.
The fact that google's union needs to be federally certified and isn't also says something about unions: they are a monopoly in the bad sense. Either the union doesn't need federal certification, or it should automatically be.
>Other people getting their employer to pay them more doesn't harm you.

It does when it drives cost of goods and services up that their employer provides.
Location: Guatemala
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I wish someone was to find a workaround for this, but I imagine that even if one was found, it wouldn't survive beyond one macOS update.
> No language has _great_ error messages.

Elm and Rust have great error messages.
TL;DR: Tenable Research 2020 Threat Landscape Retrospective
It did not "take years".

They haven't seriously considered that for long. I don't think it's even been a year when they announced this switch for the first time.

Please don't spread this kind of false information. Signal gets enough of that already.
How Cancel Culture works:

Day 1) Users are outraged and company says there will be changes! (Twitter bans Trump)

Day 2) Users are angry and company shows changes they will be making (yup Trumps account is gone.)

Day 3) Users move on to something else and company goes back to whatever they want to do (Trump posts video on twitter, but this one is ok, we'll let this one slide.)

Give it a few days and WhatsApp will be back to business as usual.
There's a distinction between collective action and government-sanctioned monopolies on labor. It's one thing for workers to bargain collectively. It's another thing when the government prohibits the company from finding another labor pool, and effectively gives the union a monopoly on labor. The latter is when corruption runs rampant, and unions have no competition.
Whole Foods has never been unionized. I don't know where you got that impression.
The linked page [1] says that Whatsapp does not share contact list with Facebook.
I have a lot of anecdotal evidence which suggests otherwise, where adding new contacts would immediately have them show up in my list of suggested friends on Facebook, even without any mutual friends. My experiences are from >3 years ago, though, after when I stopped using Facebook.

[1] https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/security-and-privacy/answer...
Zuckerberg made incredible effort without announcing.

* He restructured of Facebook stock trough the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative so that he can run for a office and maintain control (also for tax and other reasons).

* He started with "I'm no longer an atheist", now believes religion to be “very important.”

* Hired Obama's campaign manager (David Plouffe)

* Hired former GWB campaign manager and RNC chariman (Ken Mehlman)

* visited 50 states "to meet people".

* hired more even more political strategists who worked for Obama's and Hillary's campaign. He had something like 150 people working just for his PR according to some sources.

No amount of turd polishing with unlimited money and PR talent was able to make people to like him. Trump is horrible but at least he raises emotions in people.
They were supposedly charging that, but the first year was free, and then every time you were close to running out of free time you would get x more free months. I chained those free months for years until it became completely free. So it was actually free to use.
> You can't re-arrange sub-windows with the mouse (drag).

Just a nit-pick:

You can configure that with tmux (and possibly screen, I don't know). It has the downside that the user needs to know to press shift while clicking when they want to route mouse actions to the terminal emulator (e.g. to select text) instead of tmux or the applications running inside of it.
A sticking plaster on a haemorrhaging wound - and I'm hopeful the bleeding will continue.

Matt Stoller from BIG is right, only jail time for executives guilty of breaking the Sherman Act will stop these monopolies now.
In his defence I would say that is pretty close to perfect.

His sources isn't some made up contact from within Apple like all those Youtubers, or leaks from China WeiBo and then turn into some news. His sources are from Supply Chain, and if you look at it from that perspective it has been pretty dead accurate.

For Example, most of his Red ( Wrong ) are either Apple Release Date, or Pricing. Both are those are unpredictable by Supply Chain. Apple could change their pricing strategy at any min. But those Release Date and Pricing were derived from possible Production Schedule and Total BOM cost reduction. Both have been insanely accurate.

There are other derived conclusion. Like Longer battery life, which was derived from having lager Battery capacity and better Display energy efficiency, except Apple implemented other features so battery life stays flat.

Things like iPhone having same water resistance, from his point of view none of the water resistance steps had any make over. So no change in water resistance from 2018 were exactly correct. It is just that Apple felt confidence enough the same process could now be advertise with better water resistance capacity. i.e They were too conservative with the iPhone XS water resistance claim.

Not even sure why Pro Display XDR going Mini-LED in 2019 is suggested as wrong either.

Of course there are things he would be wrong. Especially those small volume products. With iPhone you cant really hide, after all there are hundreds of companies working to make sure a product shipping a 100M unit annual volume. Leaks in supply chain are bound to happen.
There's of remote sign language interpretation and real time captioning services available. In the US, we have publicly funded video relay service (which translates between sign language and English for phone calls) and captioned calling (which provides captions for telephone calls). There are commercial equivalents of these services available for in person interactions and other countries.

Gallaudet, a college for Deaf students, even has videophone booths you can use for video relay service: https://createyourworldbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/d...
The Index controllers can do everything other controllers can do + extra stuff. If you play a game that doesn't have finger tracking, that just means you don't get finger tracking. But the controllers themselves work just fine.

There are some games that might not have a good set of bindings for the index controllers by default (something might be bound to "squeeze the grip" when it should be bound to the trigger, for example), but you just open the settings menu (inside VR), click "custom bindings", and then pick the most upvoted community made set of bindings and it just works. Takes a few seconds.
Good call! I gave them some money too.
> Emphatically yes, particularly at nice well funded schools.

I emigrated up to Canada a while back where teachers are paid very well[1] and the bad teachers get weeded out really quickly since there are plenty of enthusiastic replacements. I am sure that at well funded schools in the US teachers do great - but most US schools are terribly funded[2] so I'm not surprised folks are willing to move across the country if a well reimbursed position opens up.

1. https://www.blogto.com/city/2020/09/average-ontario-teacher-... [TL;DR 108k including benefits] - also they've got great pension options.

2. Taking New York as a random counter example since cost-of-living is probably pretty close to Toronto https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salaries/new-york-state-teacher-sal... [TL;DR 42k probably excluding benefits - which were about 12k for toronto teachers]
Based on purely anecdotal evidence, I agree. I've seen an increased number of supposed "eat the rich" types voicing support for corporate interests, to an almost laughable degree of irony. For instance, Twitter users who have "#eattherich" in their bio saying that social media should be left unregulated because the owners of the platforms should be able to do whatever they want with it.
> The most recent drama was about a researcher having her quitting ultimatum called by a manager.

No, it wasn’t. Even to the extent that might be considered a superficially correct description of part of what happened, its not the center of the “drama”, which is more centrally about the treatment which led up to that.
If their wages rise then others will be force to as well!

I worked answering phones at Verizon in the early 2000s and their pay there due to being union was top pay for customer service. Comcast was paying me $9 to $12.50 for that work while Verizon paid more then double of my highest wage at Comcast. Overall I got fed up with being yelled at on the phone by customers' of monopoly companies and taught myself web development and design. I'm glad I did so, yet am pro-union per my experience at Verizon vs. Comcast.
Tech company unions are going to be the most powerful organizations in the next 10-20 years.
I want to vote on your salary.
What a repulsive thing to say.
The first comment in the pull request is: "The maximum size for OP_RETURN outputs used to be 80 bytes, then got changed to 40 bytes to be on the safe side. We have now been running with 40 bytes for about 9 months, and nothing catastrophic happened to the Blockchain, so I am proposing to increase it back to 80 bytes."

The commit that is referenced by this comment is "script: reduce OP_RETURN standard relay bytes to 40" https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/8175c790eb

There you can see that it was originally 80 bytes.
What are you basing this on?
For years the Nazi went on and on about the Jews being the inferior race, about how it was science based, they indoctrinated the youth.
I don't consider reducers, actions, redux/flux to be React specific, even if they are popular in the React world. I know just as many people who don't use those in the React world. IMO what React did was push forward the single data flow paradigm.

What should a developer do that needs to share state across a Forgo app?

It would be awesome if browsers just had a real template language like JSX, we'd see more "web components" which are just a little bit of JSX/or whatever templates and some DOM APIs. Developers are tired of managing binding and unbinding events. React does that well. I assume Fargo does too.

So putting aside the redux/flux paradigm, what else is the real hurdle being solved?
public utility time!
What narrative?
Maybe I should buy one again. I sold that one (I think I made money on it too...) When I got a smart phone because I could do everything that the PSP could do on a smartphone. But...I do miss having it.
> Jobs also had pancreatic cancer. It's just about the worst cancer you can get. Over 95% mortality rate.

Jobs had GEP-NET cancer, which have 5 years OSR of 70% at stage IV. It's a slow growing cancer, very survivable and even surgically curable in early stage.

The fast, almost always fatal is the pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

Also, the mortality rate of a cancer is a function of many variables (stage at the time of diagnosis, tumor differentiation, tumor location, etc.). A number like 95% doesn't make any sense without a lot of context.
Bruh, I wouldn't even mind these companies datamining me if their ads were even close to being relevant for my needs. It would spare me loads of time I waste online looking for that exact product that fits my needs.

I mean, what's the point of all the data they have from me plus the armies of well paid ML engineers they have on their payroll, when if I order a laptop from Amazon, I'll get bombarded with ads for laptops for the next month. Do advertisers imagine I go through laptops like toilet rolls or something? If this is peak ML, then those who fear an AI uprising can sleep soundly.
>I also prefer the 2015 keyboard, but it's not a dealbreaker.

Well it would be perfect if they could bring that back.
Funny, the only reason this is news is because Clojure and its ecosystem has become completely stagnated, you can only survive through the painful process of doing interop with Java libraries all the time, which defeats the whole purpose of using the language. So of course, any resources pour into that is going to make what's left of the vocal minority scream more.
Fortunately most tech employees, including most Google employees, understand that unions don’t make any sense for them. Warehouse employees are very different, and it might make more sense there.
Support for Excel Pivot Tables Against Data in Snowflake Data Warehouses
> Did this particular study control for that, is what I asked, because this particular study is what's on the front page of HN.

Where it or not it did, your comment certainly didn't add any useful information. Perhaps read the study and declare whether they control for the aspects you are concerned about? Bearing-less skepticism adds no value.

> Also, "countless" studies have shown negative correlations between coffee and human health.

I have never seen a study with negative correlation all-cause-mortality for coffee consumption. I'm sure one could exist, but it's a topic I've looked into a good bit, and I think it's pretty fair to stay the evidence for coffee overwhelms that against.

Funny enough, in your less-than-clever search on google scholar for "coffee disease", *literally* the first hit results reads:

"During follow-up, 102 men were identified as having PD. Age-adjusted incidence of PD declined consistently with increased amounts of coffee intake, from 10.4 per 10,000 person-years in men who drank no coffee to 1.9 per 10,000 person-years in men who drank at least 28 oz/d (P<.001 for trend)..."

Gee, in this study, which you apparently linked to support the idea that there are studies that imply negative health consequences associated with coffee consumption, coffee seems to be associated with a fivefold reduction in risk for Parkinson's Disease!

Did you really assume that any hit with both "coffee" and "disease" in it necessarily must be a study that concluded that coffee caused a disease?
The situation with police union contracts in the US is so bad I think it will lead to courts needing to overturn them as they are not in the public interest.
I might actually get a new MacBook when MagSafe comes back. It’s saved my ass way too many times to live without
On the other hand, it has a very high number of excess deaths compared to Norway, Denmark, Finland, which are perhaps more comparable countries.
Bathroom breaks aren't metered in Amazon warehouses.
>>I'm honestly kind of surprised to see the teacher union hate in this thread.

I mean, have you seen the American Education system? Millions of people thought Betsy Davos was a good idea. MILLIONS. The DOE under her tenure was basically a full on assault against public education in favor of charters/private schools. I've had hours-long, in-person arguments with people who are CONVINCED teachers have the easiest jobs on the planet and we pay them too much.

Not to mention many HN commenters in general tend to strong pro-management stance which pushes them anti-union in general.
> whose business model is to claim expertise over an unfeasibly large domain and to hoover up public sector contracts accordingly.

The levels of incompetence and disorganisation often displayed by these “expert” companies never ceases to amaze me.

It’s matched only by the similarly disorganised and incompetent procurement processes in public sector organisations.

So I guess that’s how this “business model” (as you put it) continues to work... sadly!
A lot of people are migrating to Signal. I'm wondering what Signal's monetization model is, as they certainly won't be able to maintain the level of usage forever as a free app.
Element clients are very close to finishing their SSO implementations which will help immensely with the on boarding process.
Here’s the iOS pull request for example: https://github.com/vector-im/element-ios/pull/3890
The difference is you can make drugs. You can't make internet access.
Their whole pitch is "Tinder, except women get to make the moves". Alas, it seems the most popular play for women is punting the ball back to the men's side of the field.
While technically that sounds like a cool hack, it sounds like a dumb thing to actually allow to happen. "Okay Google" or "Hey Alexa" outside of the frequencies reproducible by human voices should be filtered out completely. At least, from my comfy chair nit picking someone else's work. Of course, by not filtering the acceptable bands allows them to do all of the ad tracking/rights management things they are allowing to occur. The fact that Alexa/Google is able to do these ad tracking/rights management is just another example showing that the mic is listening 100% of the time.
> Hmm, I hate this concept of "bonuses" because in my experience this isn't really how things work.

You're right. They're going to pay themselves the bonus regardless of this debacle.
AppSumo struck a deal with Molo9 - $140 instead of $3600
AppSumo has exclusive rights to sell Molo9:tm: for $149, while on the website it must be sold at $3600