skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure it'll get me flagged as a naysayer, but this raises more questions than it answers (https://www.coindesk.com/tether-bank-deltec-stablecoin-reser...):

> "Every tether is backed by a reserve and their reserve is more than what is in circulation," said Gregory Pepin, Deltec Bank's deputy CEO.

What business does the bank have in auditing Tethers? Why would they care? They're just holding funds.

> “We can see it firsthand, so I can confirm that.”

That to me more reads like Deltec is heavily involved in the actual day-to-day operations at Bitfinex/Tether. Which wouldn't be surprising - after all, remember when Bitfinex and Tether were claimed to be entirely separate and independent entities.

It's a little bit of a stretch to say that Bitfinex has been able to get Deltec on board with keeping this all going by providing a "partnership" above and beyond the usual "banking relationship", but that's very much the vibe I get from all this, and as I said, to me, it just increases the sketchiness of everything.

Oh, and WTF, I watched the video of the interview with the "Deputy CEO" of Deltec Bank, self-described as a "50-year-old bank [whose] customers range from asset managers to high-net-worth individuals"

It's a damn "kid" who looks to be 30 at most, sitting in his gamer seat with red slashes in the black, wearing a Razer gaming headset.

He has almost no photos on the internet, his LinkedIn profile is full of multiple spelling errors ("Independance Weath Management"), who claims to be a Professor of Finance at a University in Lebanon (a year after graduating from a Lausanne University) while working for numerous Swiss funds, oh and in Jacksonville, Florida, simultaneously.

How the hell are people taking this seriously?!?

EDIT: He's 33.

So he apparently graduated with a Masters in Science from HEC Lausanne when he was FIFTEEN. I'm sorry, I'm crying now with laughter.

Sources:

- https://wallmine.com/nasdaq/tenx/officer/2087842/gregory-pep...

- https://www.linkedin.com/public-profile/in/gregory-pepin-0a8...
If you eat an apple for example yes, it contains fructose. Eating or drinking something with corn syrop is like eating LOTS of apples. Which you normally wouldn't do. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/is-fruit-good-or-bad-fo...
Internal combustion engines emit the majority of their energy as heat. A typical gasoline engine is 20% efficient at turning gasoline into rotational power. (and that's under ideal usage, usually they're designed to be most efficient at operating speed, not at idle) Anything you have connected to the crankshaft after that is additional inefficiency on top of that.
Like bhupy pointed out above, is the misinformation present directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action?

If a speech against the draft incites some subset of those who were present to insurrection, with the intent to detain and possibly murder elected officials, then it may not be protected as free speech.
'One of the creators of the Firefox internet browser, Blake Ross, realised his experience of visual imagery was vastly different from most people when he read about a man who lost his ability to imagine after surgery. In a Facebook post, Ross said:

What do you mean ‘lost’ his ability? […] Shouldn’t we be amazed he ever had that ability?

We’ve heard from many people who have experienced a similar epiphany to Ross. They too were astonished to discover that their complete lack of ability to picture visual imagery was different from the norm.'

https://theconversation.com/blind-in-the-mind-why-some-peopl...
Ask HN: How to link to a site without generating views/making them money
A while ago I came across a site that you could use to link to a page without generating that page views. I realise that I could use the archive.org for this, but a there was a dedicated service and I can’t find.
>I do sometimes also get paranoid and think, man there is just someone who doesn't like me and automatically downvote when they run across my name!

It certainly can feel like that sometimes. I rarely enjoy posting here anymore as a result. The fact a single downvote can inhibit your comment's visibility and negatively bias its progression is silly.

The unsettling part is it feels like there's very little stopping individuals and organizations from weaponizing that dynamic. Anything from targeted sustained psychological distress to censorship is possible with the current scheme.
HugoGiraudel/a11y-dialog: A lightweight and flexible accessible modal dialog
Seconded! Something about perusing the blank pages in all their shapes and sizes feels like strolling through a world of raw potential.
I think we're violently agreeing then, as I said "the job might not get done as well, or done in a different way than we'd do it, but it'll still get done"
Overall this is good advice for anyone, so I think it's the best first step for anyone who's inactive or overweight. I'm not a doctor but I suspect this is how a doctor would approach it too.

I know it's anecdotal, but of my friends with fertility issues (3 couples who mentioned it to me), none are remotely overweight, they're regularly active, and they eat well. I'm sure inactivity and obesity are a major issue in regards to fertility, but I'm not personally seeing that.
And the Bahamas does annual reports on the total amount of reserves its banks hold, and the government numbers aren't close to what Tether claims to deposit in Deltec, even if Deltec were the only bank in the Bahamas.
Beef consumption is also a huge driver of water usage. Water used directly or indirectly to raise cattle accounts for 55% of the water used in the Colorado River basin[1]. Beef and dairy production consumes something like 25% of the water in California.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/02/agricult...
> Is there any way to say "no, a really want a __dict__ class here, please"?

Write it in a module you aren't compiling, and import it, since this supports compiled modules using noncompiled ones.
Confused? No. She passed herself off as that, acted, and looked the part completely. Size D. Extreme precocious puberty. You would've been fooled too, so please don't judge with perfect knowledge and 20/20 hindsight from afar if you weren't there.
I have multiple sites like Github, Dropbox etc where I have multiple accounts I'd like to access separately. Typically private account vs work account, but also other scenarios.

Containers makes this a breeze.

In addition, at least Firefox only has a single private session. So if I open a site in one private window and another in a different one, they're in the same session, sharing cookies etc. Not so with different containers.
Not really, at scale.

SSO is a must in any big organisation, there are tens or hundred of applications.

People are incredibly and consistently bad with security.
You really need a way to be able to cancel all accesses in one swoop for any individual.
> To see this isn't true let's imagine they give away billion points to each player at once. How will their profits from that game change? I expect a big drop.

I wonder about that. The motive in the in-game economy is to have, and spend, more than other players, right? Handing out in-game money to all participants might disrupt things in that everyone can now buy the fancy in-game items, but the competitive/relative component presumably remains. If you want even more in-game items than other players, the dynamic is still there: you still need to pay up.
This is interesting, from what I have seen the solutions are trying to solve symptoms but not the fundamental root problem.

What is the entire interview process to solve, the problem is trust. Can we trust this person to know what they claim they know, can we trust this person to be a good member of the team etc.

The reason we do code interviews, whiteboard exercises, culture fit assesstments is to make sure we want trust that hire.

Every company tries and checks for different things, the question that I been asking is there a model for someone to provide 'trust by proxy'
For me, those cases of running out of time or inspiration before I get to the end of the task are incredibly common (basically a daily occurence). I understand it might be rare for you, but for me (and I would think others) it's the default state of programming.

When I'm really getting going I flow through a ton of work and only stop when I hit a time limit, so I expect to finish in the middle of a task whenever I start coding.
A half cup of Dole canned pineapple is 15g of sugar. Eating a half cup of fresh pineapple is 8g of sugar. Pineapple is higher in sugar that many fruits. A cup of raspberries is 3g of Fructose.

This is a little mixing of apples and oranges but the high fructose we tend to eat are much higher than primates that eat fruit.
I think what you're doing is fine especially if you're just coding for yourself. I'm perfectly happy with slightly more expressive commit messages like "LoadData appears to be working; still hacking away at TransmorgifyData", followed eventually by "stabilized TransmorgifyData".

I think it's when you start syncing with other people over multiple days that people start insisting that a commit should (compile), be atomic, tested, etc. What they're really looking for at that point is that incoming changes be easy to understand and modular and possibly easy to omit if some code change is causing them trouble for a moment.
The comment you’re replying to is not implying that profits should be exempt from taxes, or have them lowered.

It’s the mechanisms around capital gains tax (which is a particular kind of tax) compared to the requirements around profit made from appreciation of, say, fiat currencies. In fact, it’s completely different from income tax that you’re talking about.

It’s not so much about having to pay taxes but on what amounts and overhead in how reporting is made.

The hampering of growth (in terms of e.g. retail payments) and adoption is not due to the monetary cost of taxation, but on the mechanisms of them. Hell, you could keep or even increase the tax rate, but make it liable even just by holding cryptocurrency and having it appreciate (as opposed to “at liquidation”) and it would have the complete opposite effect.

Now if only more governments would accept taxes paid in bitcoin (:
How is this any different than encoding "2/15" in the NFT? Furthermore, even in the physical world, what's preventing someone from making two "2/15" signatures? At least with blockchain/NFT you can be sure only one "2/15" exists.
Yes and no...their currency is in their playground. They can manipulate it however they want (though I wonder if that's even legal/would bring on another class action). They can't manipulate the dollar to reduce the impact, though.
When I was a new developer and first learned Git, I felt compelled to use Git the "right" way. That is... small commits with clean messages, things described in this and other posts.

But, as I spent more time programming, I developed different Git habits for different situations:

- Solo explorative work: working on a feature, many small commit messages create nothing but noise. Trying to come up with wording for these commit messages is mostly a drain on my mental energy: there is an infinitesimal chance I'll need these commits later. In such cases, I prefer to maintain large "checkpoint" work-in-progress commits that are the result of near-continuous `git commit --amend`s so that I can use `git status` to see what's changed since my last checkpoint, and easily revert to the last checkpoint. If this fails me, I can almost just as easily refer to the reflog to find some changes. The reflog, in my opinion, is an extremely under-utilized tool. `git diff HEAD@{2}..HEAD@{0}` allows me to see what's happened in the the last two times that I updated my checkpoint. Since this is active work I'm doing right now, I have a good sense of what happened and when, all without tiresomely writing commit messages that will be a bunch of gibberish in two days. When I'm satisfied with with the work on a checkpoint commit, I reset the branch to the previous real commit, and then incrementally create real, meaningful commits from the accumulated work, that have some chance to be useful to me in the future.

- Working on patches and bug fixes for live systems or production libraries: small, atomic commits that include tests for the patch are the only way to go. I believe the "correct Git" approach that is widely espouses is targeted to this use case, but not explorative feature work. Or maybe that's just me.

Wondering if anyone else codes like this.
Why don't the news outlet simply build their own search engines and social medias? If they don't like the existing ones they are free to compete.

Google sure didn't get a "tax on Yahoo" law, Facebook didn't get legislators to force MySpace to share their revenue with them.
> why include ublock origin specifically

A lot of the other ad blocking extensions are malicious and collude with the advertising industry through some kind of whitelist program. Their license might also not be permissive enough to allow this.

> Why not include NoScript + Containers by default?

NoScript requires lots of manual intervention, uBlock Origin with the default lists is still seamless and rarely causes breakage thus very little need for manual intervention.

I am not convinced that Containers does anything at all. Browser fingerprinting & IP address tracking defeats it very easily.

> And some UserAgent Switch capability

This is absolutely needed and I'm baffled this isn't offered natively, though this would be less for privacy and more as a developer tool.

> And more fine grained cookie storage options (currently available via add-ons), et cetera?

I find the whole craze around cookies overblown. Your IP address is a relatively persistent cookie you can't clear. The only way is to prevent requests made to the malicious actors to begin with, with some kind of blacklist like what uBlock Origin provides.

> how to discriminate what to include, what not

I'd argue that if your mission is to make the web better and protect people's privacy then including a proper ad blocker is a no brainer.

> does it do any good

That is up to discussion with the add-on author (the author of UBO has repeatedly declined donations and seems to be doing his efforts out of passion and/or hatred for ads, so he should be onboard), but otherwise, the secret sauce isn't really the blocker per-se but the blocklists such as EasyList/Fanboy's lists, and Mozilla has enough resources to reimplement a compatible client from scratch if needed.

> how to deal with edge cases

Contribute back to the lists to fix any edge-cases by adjusting an over-reaching blocking rule, and offer an easy way for users to temporarily disable the blocking on a per-site basis.
Similar for us - trouble conceiving and a miscarriage. Months spent improving sperm. All conventional checks on mother came back as fine - "keep trying!" they kept telling us, while writing "unexplained infertility" on our medical records.

Still nothing happening. IVF was on the horizon, but a private consultant identified some trouble with "natural killer" cells in mother. No other issues with mother (no cancer like parent post)

Prednisolone (IIRC) and some lipid infusions and baby was conceived and delivered naturally. Drugs cost maybe £80 a month (although all the diagnostic checks and stuff was much more - start to finish (including like 12 ultrasound checks and multiple sessions with the consultants) we spent perhaps about £8-10K) - conceived on second month of trying, after years of nothing apart from a miscarriage and intense sadness.

Happy customer - no other relation: http://crpclinic.co.uk
It sounds like the old "nobody uses Firefox because nobody tests on Firefox because nobody uses Firefox" vicious cycle, unfortunately.
>I don't really care what inflammatory things people post in their free time. But make no mistake that there will be double standards in how these rules will be applied.

This seems like a red herring though? These letters are talking about the statements that news sources make as official outlets, to which you're comparing statements an individual makes (presumably) on her own time. I don't deny that there's a potential for double standards here, but I think you would have to show that misinformation in the Washington Post is comparable to misinformation on OANN or Newsmax to show that one is being applied in this instance.
As a matter of fact,

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jofi.12903
Perhaps you're looking for something like submodules?

Just create a Git submodule, and then push from within the submodule, like so: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5814351.
>Image galleries.

seems to work fine with RES
Interesting, I know other animal that purrs while planning your assassination in slow-mo.

After seeing hedgehogs whistling like a blackbird I expect anything.
> just for the sake of it or with some alternate motive

What other possibilities are there?
What I love about HN, is that its geek news. Is it possible to keep the Political BS off of here? Seriously, we get enough in the normal outlets, this is one of the places that I, for one, don't want to see it. If I want to hear about the BS from either side, I will turn on the TV.
Not a huge loss, if you depend on federated logins its just a matter of time until Google or Facebook's algorithms decide to ban your account without explanation or recourse and then how do your users access your site? All you'll be able to do is try to shame the companies on social media and hope enough people are outraged that the company takes notice.
You did not even read the Article:

“The Rohingya people are facing an existential threat. For decades, the Myanmar authorities have tried to wipe us out by confining us to ghettos, forcing us to flee our home country and killing us. The global community must act now to end this genocide and bring those responsible to justice,” said Tun Khin, President of BROUK.

Shame on you!
I've noticed that there is a common belief amongst Democrats and Progressives that people are duped into holding conservative viewpoints because of Fox News. Whenever I have asked people on the left why they think Republicans and Conservatives believe what they believe, the conversation always includes references to Fox News and the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine. So in that sense I can understand why so many Democrats want Fox News dismantled.
> Google et al. has a revolving door of applicants, so they can make them suffer. Also, if you show that you can study 3 months for an interview to balance a red black tree, you likely will do whatever the firm tells you to do. You likely will be a good worker!

Ehh, that's not what I've seen. Most engineers at Google I've met and interacted with, even worked with in the past who are now at Google - are absolutely, undisputedly and unarguably exceptional. Google is not your 1980's regimented company where the boss tells whatever and the employees just follow. I've seen that type of company culture more in Europe (esp Germany) and Japan than anywhere else. Google empowers their employees and the culture is right up there with creative and unconventional thinking. It's not as cool as it used to be but still good.

Starting your own firm sometimes is a less creative endeavor. You're massively limited first and foremost with talent pool, experts and funding. At Google, you have one of the most rich environments for creativity - you've got funding, you have PMs, you have exceptional engineers all in great morale, all the resources to make you successful while getting paid well.
The smallest businesses are getting extra PPP help
page 13

> and brain and heart throb with sympathetic zeal when fingers begin their saltatory movements

Rings true to this day with the joy of using my mechanical keyboard. Nothing like tactile and sensory feedback.
> IMHO it makes little sense to compile complete Python programs

Which is why this compiles specified modules, which can freely call noncompiled modules, not “complete Python programs”.
This is going to open up a whole can of worms now and not limited to New York. They basically admitted Tether is unbacked and is fraudulent.

“Bitfinex and Tether recklessly and unlawfully covered-up massive financial losses to keep their scheme going and protect their bottom lines,” said Attorney General James. “Tether’s claims that its virtual currency was fully backed by U.S. dollars at all times was a lie. These companies obscured the true risk investors faced and were operated by unlicensed and unregulated individuals and entities dealing in the darkest corners of the financial system.

This will almost certainly involve the DOJ & SEC but because wire fraud and money laundering is present, it will involve other federal agencies as well on top of the lawsuits that will be happening in multiple states.
Thanks!

I like the idea of example buttons, particularly for the cash flow planner. And also maybe a default set of assets and cashflows that would work as a starting point for a common investing case.
For anyone who lives by bullet-point lists and goes way too many layers indented, Workflowy is the solution. You can click in and out of any layer of your lists and go as deep as fits your needs. 10/10, one of my favorite tools for brainstorming, organization, amorphous note storage.
The two key changes are 1) They are now calculating the loan amount off of Sch C gross revenue rather than profit. 2) For businesses with fewer than 20 employees, there's a two week period starting tomorrow where their loan apps are prioritized.
I learned how to compile to WebAssembly by getting nice and intimate with the WebAssembly spec, learning the ins and outs, then writing a basic emitter for the bytecode, then writing a code generator for basic operations like arithmetic, then extending it to locals, then first class functions, etc. So kind of backwards.

I did start with a parser and typechecker, but if anything that made it too difficult. I had all of these extremely high level concepts that I struggled to map to WebAssembly (pattern matching, closures, etc.) and discouraged me in the process. If I had started with WebAssembly and moved to my high level language, I'd probably have restricted myself to a much more practical set of language features. On the flip side, my language would probably be influenced by how easy it is to code generate to WASM, which isn't necessarily what I want.
What is dynamist?
Are you sure you aren't suffering from aphantasia and extrapolating that to other people?
Code review should throw his work back at him and tell him to name his variables properly
The problem with community colleges is that you completely miss out on any meaningful networking. As long as all the best students see it as beneath them, you'll have a hard time meeting people in a community college who can actually help your career
Lustig argues that the fiber in fruit is the reason fruit does not cause issues in primates where we strip the fiber by straining or most commonly using hfcs as a sweetener. It’s a good-to-great video and worth the watch though I do not have the background to critique it.
Harvard could easily fund all of their education expenses from their endowment, with zero incoming tuition dollars.
Ask HN: One-person iOS B2B apps that are profitable?
Hi HN!

Do you know any profitable B2B apps on iOS created by one person?
Their mobile site is now a deluge of prompts trying to get you to download their app. They've broken the ability to easily view comment threads. It is seriously such trash.

I find myself accidentally tapping something that either opens something new or closes what I was looking at. The back button behavior is bad with the post pop overs. The home page doesn't even preserve scroll position when going back from a post (Safari iOS)!

It is not a website I visit regularly anymore. Someone should do a github1s equivalent for reddit, even if it is read only.