skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels like people don't understand Tether. Tether was originally created to be an intermediary between exchanges and anyone that wanted to move large amounts of USD without paying price spreads to buy / sell on either end.

Tethers are essentially IOUs pegged to USD. While the Tether organization may have originally waited for the Tether purchaser to transfer the money into their accounts before issuing the Tether, by 2018 at the latest, this has to have changed when Tether was forced to cease dealing with US citizens. If not from the start, their model of trust must have allowed their large clients (the exchanges, etc.) to hold onto the USD and instead issue "Commerical Paper" to back the Tethers issued.

Tether obviously isn't going to reveal the exact arrangements here, and from the outset, their claims of having bank accounts with billions of dollars was suspect... but this revelation has been nothing new, and if anything, things look positive now. Tether doesn't appear to just be printing Tether with absolutely no backing.
This is what-about-ism. There are valid reasons for strong encryption, e.g. protecting the very data that has been compromised here.
Clearly you aren't affected, else you'd refrain from such blunt capitalist saying.
> The university system has evolved from teaching people how to be adults

The university system was never about that, even as a first order approximation.
Calling the US a true democracy would have been a stretch at any point in it's history but in the age of lobbyists, two party entrenchment, and arbitrary term limits, it's more accurate to call the US a capitalist plutocracy. You get to vote somebody into office, though unless if it's an member of one of two parties, it's functionally meaningless.

Also, once that person gets voted into office, they immediately have to deal with both lobbyists and members of the deep state that are already in those lobbyists pockets. If you try and go against the will of the state or corporate America (not the people, mind you), the CIA and corporate media will relentlessly smear you and try to demolish your likelihood of re-election. You can also have members of the house of representatives with abysmal approval ratings actively impede legislation with overwhelming public support. Assuming you can somehow overcome these odds, you then have to contend with the fact that you have at most 8 years to achieve what you need to accomplish before likely having the next one in charge try their best to dismantle your accomplishments.

Note: some might find it odd that I consider term limits evidence of the superficial nature of US democracy. It's important to realise the motivation behind the introduction of term limits in the first place was following FDR's 3 re-elections, Republicans were worried that if they did not introduce term limits, they would never get a chance at getting elected again. This is because FDR's policies had overwhelming support of the people - democrats and republicans alike. Of course, what really happened was that future Democrat and Republican presidents lacked the backbone to resist kowtowing to lobbying and corruption but the damage has been done. Anybody seeking to remove term limits would be (and not without some justification) accused of trying to turn themselves a dictator.
A bit more detail in The Irish Independent. References the Conti ransomware.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/serious-and-sophisticate...
It's only naive because you chose the naive interpretation, based on sentiment and you not understanding the massive difference between laws and a company's rules. Until you understand what they are, and who decides if rules are against the law or not, mentioning "profit", "scale", "market position", and "different rules apply" doesn't get you closer to the point.

I'll take it down a couple of notches to make it easier: HN could serve every user under the Sun and still be entitled to have a (perfectly legal) rule that says "Don't solicit upvotes". No amount of "oh but at their scale" will change that.

Apple, Google, Facebook, etc. or any company actually do not write laws (they lobby and bribe for them but that's a different can of worms). They just write their own rules for their own products and services. Those rules have to be within the law and even if common sense and current evidence may say they break the law, it's up to a judge in an antitrust lawsuit to decide.
I wouldn't blame infectious disease experts too much. This is essentially multi-disciplinary research. You need to be BOTH a physics expert in fluid dynamics and a virologist with a deep understanding of how virus infect the respiratory tract to crack this. Not surprised it took a pandemic to correct the error. The combination of skills would not have been put together in other circumstances.
On a similar note, my company switched to Google Chat which has threaded rooms (not commenting on the implementation here). A lot of new users, probably a majority even, always post messages in the latest thread, instead of creating a new one. They just find the only text field there is and type there.
There was information that it was aerosolized from the early days (March)

We were lied to because america did not stockpile enough masks for first responders
I use it in Typescript often. Very useful.

type Verb = 'GET' | 'POST' | 'PUT' | 'DELETE';

export type TerminusType = 'ICAO' | 'IATA' | 'LOCODE' | 'ADDRESS' | 'LATLNG';

It's much better than just assuming it's a string and hoping you don't make a typo.

If the value is supplied from user input then it ensures that you write checks or switch cases.
It is not a whataboutism; it's a reductio ad absurdum.
This is the Ben Franklin / John Adams debate when they shared a small room together overnight with one window.

“When Adams explained that he didn’t want to catch an illness from the cold night air, Franklin countered that the air in their room was even worse.”

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/54169/time-ben-franklin-...
Its not business, its ransom, and its a whole different level of ransom. Going after the extremely vulnerable, litterally putting at risk lives. Theres no 'okay' ransom, this is just another all time low.
Can you point me toward some of that research?
Ever-relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2030/
What does this have to do with forcing you to do anything?
Counterpoint: many atrocities have been made acceptable to the general population, in the name of "public health" (or at least, the greater public good).

For me, "the greater good" does not over-ride personal critical analysis.
It works great. And what I really like: when you have already bought the pro version and go to the buying dialog again, they tell you that paying them once is enough and to maybe donate to the SyncThing project itself.
There is an interesting boron fuel combination that would be useful for an air turborocket. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_turborocket for what that is.)

The combination is diborane (B2H6) and hydrazine (N2H4). These react to form boron nitride (BN) and hydrogen. This reaction is exothermic and by itself would give an Isp of maybe 250 s, IIRC. The gas is hydrogen rich, and would be great for feeding into the air turborocket, or into a scramjet, for combustion with air.
A cyclic tree is a cyclic directed graph.
Nope, because they will both end up at the same temperature, namely, the average temperature halfway between the two previous temperatures.

In a countercurrent heat exchanger, the hot air will get colder and colder until it is at the same temperature as the cold air, and the cold air will get hotter and hotter until it is the same temperature as the hot air.

This is because the hot air is not warming up the same air molecules that it relies on to cool down, and the cold air is not cooling down the same air molecules that it relies on to warm up. Each current of air gives up a part of their heat/coldness, becomes colder/hotter, and then moves towards a section of pipe that's even colder/hotter than the previous section of pipe.

A picture is worth a thousand words, although it takes some staring and studying before the concept finally clicks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countercurrent_exchange#/media...
You still eat fresh fruits and vegetables, touch the surfaces on your way to work etc. There’re countless pathogens everywhere. So I guess we would be fine?

You’re right that our immune system didn’t evolve to be in a sterile environment. But we also weren’t meant to be that close to that many humans.
(Usually) - Those cloud providers know what they're doing though and de-couple things as much as possible, reducing and entire system compromise. It's their bread and butter, I would much prefer them managing the systems than the HSE.
Yep, still have to use the web UI. Just switched to syncthing from dropbox a month ago, been awesome so far!
Give me some credit, I just said put some maximum on pain, not remove it. Yes it'd be nice to recover from damage better but that doesn't help when you are being predated on, like when there is a torturer to make sure you don't recover or when a parasite like the Ichneumon wasp has its whole lifecycle dependent on eating a paralyzed creature alive from the inside out. If you want a discussion please be charitable, it's no fun if you seem to assume I didn't think at all.
That’s only if you neglect the fact that reproduction is a continuance of life. Literally a part of each living being renews itself to continue living by reproducing either asexually or sexually. Not reproducing is equivalent to murdering your germ line and extinguishing all of the potential invested in you by your ancestors reaching back millions of years or further if you look beyond your own species.

Death is death whether caused by direct action or neglect.
That's just obtuse. It’s clearly not selling user data at all. When I buy FB ads I cannot not get any user data. I can pick they type of user I want to see my advert, but I cannot know who they are.

If you have a FB account you can try this and see for yourself right now for a few bucks.

But maybe I'm wrong. Can tell me how they do sell user data?
This showed up on HN a few months ago with good discussion on that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26224709
I had this same issue, ended up uninstalling it all because I couldn't figure how to address it.
Was it a disinformation campaign from China funneled through Hong Kong or was it actually a breakout. We didnt know if the martial law was out of caution, China only reported 80k infections.

Lots of assumptions went wrong on this one
Now, who’s gonna pay for that?
They’re no different than the homeless guys who take free newspapers and try to badger you into buying them.
I don't understand what "opinionated" stands for in the context of a software/framework/technology.
apparently the traceability of digital currencies is proving effective in tracking down criminals that might otherwise operate in just cash.
I just put "renew driving licence" into DuckDuckGo from the UK and there are two ads before the official Government website. [0]

There's also a hilarious eBay ad on the side offering driving licence renewals!

The first [1] does say several times that it's not the official site, but they are charging a £57.60 fee for submitting something that can be done on the Government's website for free.

The second [2] is also quite clear that it's unofficial, but the price isn't visible, as trying to use the call to action button results in an error message.

Putting in "renew driving licence official" results in similar ads being shown first.

While it seems these sites aren't doing anything illegal, both they and the search engines are profiting from people that don't know better.

[0] - https://imgur.com/a/bIlcBvG
[1] - https://drivinglicenceshelp.co.uk/apply?msclkid=ec0c69ce50b7...
[2] - https://drivinglicencerenewalsonline.co.uk/
$5M is less than coffee money for a nation state
Also, some people don't realize that medium size providers like Scaleway and Hetzner support Packer/Terraform e.g:

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/scaleway/scaleway/la...
A lot of these articles don't actually mention specifically how the systems were compromised.

Was it a malicious email attachment that propagated through unsecured networks or outdated OS versions? And what data was encrypted? Are we talking regular excel files or actual databases?

It would be interesting to have some more detail or case studies so others could know how to fortify infection points and limit the blast radius of their own systems.
I mean, this was exactly what Tether was made for. Moving large amounts of USD frictionlessly between exchanges without causing taxable events or losing money to spreads.

The top purchasers of USDT would be exchanges and "whales" (ranging from the extremely large crypto traders to the odd investment firms / hedge funds).

It wouldn't be surprising at all if the entities purchasing USDT are ultimately holding onto their USD but using the Tether issued to them and paying what essentially becomes just a transaction fee. As long as everyone can prove to Tether that they are good for what they purchase, the IOU trading scheme doesn't necessarily have to end in bloodshed / collapse either.
That is true, but that would be the definition of +. The OP is referring to the application of that operator to its arguments, which (depending on semantics) could also be a set of sets, or it could be a rewriting (ie, time based) process.
It’s not an exact description of a GAN, but then I never said it was either.
I love the increase in these kind of attacks, eventually there will be enough pressure for liability legislation for companies to take security seriously.
Not to be confused with centralization of health services.
Bruh.

> anti-modi and anti-hindu and pro communist or Islamic

You can be anti modi without being Anti Hindu. Lot of educated people are pretty rational. Opposing Hindu votebank politics is not anti Hindu. (Of course there are a bunch of liberal arts graduates posing as liberals but being actually anti Hindu, but no way they constitute the majority of "English educated elite".)

your comment sounds like a collection of all insults that extreme right wingers throw around a lot.

Sounds like you grew up in an upper caste household with all those conspiracy theories of India being suppressed from being a superpower by outside powers and colonial tendencies. I know this happens because I grew up in similar environment. :(
Rust Weird Expressions
Indeed they don't. And yet they're still not laws which is great for us because those rules or practices can be found illegal.

As I tried to explain above, HN is free to have a rule which says "Don't solicit upvotes" but they can't have a rule "Don't talk to women". The simple answer is because no matter what that rule says, tit's not a law, it's just a rule which can be applied only until a judge decides it's against the law.
Funny trivia, "azar" means "bad luck" in Portuguese.

Also, gambling is generally referred to as "jogos de azar" ("games of bad luck" - at least in Brazil), which fits neatly into the Chatroulette reference.
Absolutely correct. Arguing that "rocket science is a solved problem" just because we have the rocket equation and the rest is just engineering is basically saying that condensed matter physics is just engineering because we already have a deep understanding of the behaviour of elementary particles in isolation.

Reductionism is a useful conceptual tool but it's important to realise that's what it is, not some sort of ultimate arbiter of truth. You need to consider a system in it's whole as well as in it's parts if you want to truly grok it.
Don't forget the Tuskagee Study: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
There seems to be plenty of R&D around these days for developing rare earth free motors which are better than the standard induction motor (which, per se, isn't bad, but if you can do better, why not).

Here's an EU project that designed and compared induction, synchronous reluctance, and synchronous reluctance with ferrite magnets in the rotor: http://www.refreedrive.eu
Can you explain again why it'd have more private manifests? I'm not that familiar with Nix, but don't you use scripts, configs and environments all the same?
That is pretty clever.
Don't attribute to bugs what can be attributed to features.
Unfortunately the article doesn’t say anything about the qualifications of those detained. If these were “unskilled workers” looking to work in the UK then they have no right of entry. If they were “skilled workers” with a job interview lined up and confirmed in writing, then the border force violated the law and the ones detained can sue for compensation.
Even if it were true that you can’t instantiate a non-terminating computation in a timeless universe, doesn’t that just make timeless physics less than Turing-equivalent? It doesn’t say anything about math.
The website says:

Cannot read property 'match' of undefined

TypeError: Cannot read property 'match' of undefined
at /var/app/current/routes/avs.js:44:29
at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/var/app/current/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)
at next (/var/app/current/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:137:13)
at Route.dispatch (/var/app/current/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:112:3)
at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/var/app/current/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)
at /var/app/current/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:281:22
at param (/var/app/current/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:354:14)
at param (/var/app/current/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:365:14)
at param (/var/app/current/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:365:14)
at Function.process_params (/var/app/current/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:410:3)
Mattermost doesn't seem to be improving at all for years.

I just don't get how it's difficult to reply or quote someone's message when it's such a basic chat feature.

Instead they invent weird code like "shrug" thinking it's funny during business chat.

Also I often get logged out of mobile app and notifications stop reaching which makes it very unreliable as a business tool.

They need to fix where it matters.
Or a lot less money :)
Formally Verified Speculation and Deoptimization in a JIT Compiler (POPL 2021)
Show HN: Image encrypting decrypting tool (Python)
Simple Image crypting decrypting tool (Python).
Good thing crypto has done it's cycles before without Musk. The market doesn't need anyone to grow.
I've read the article, I do just want to clarify the statement "making social distancing alone ineffective."

It's still true that if you are covid suceptible, and if a covid-shedding person is walking around, you should try to be as far as possible from the covid. But, a brief close pass e.g. on the sidewalk, isn't as risky as sharing a 20'x10' office for hours, even if you stay >6ft the entire time.
I still don't see how Kotlin is involved. People drafting JEPs are well aware of how modern languages, including the ones running on the JVM, have evolved in the past decades. Kotlin is pretty late to the party and hasn't really brought anything new to the JVM (by choice), except for coroutines maybe.

Edit: see pron's comment below.
social, educational, economic
I second this. kaggle competions seciton alone is worth the mine
Stack Overflow Talent discontinued in 2022
One of the Stack Overflow sales people just told me Stack Overflow decided to discontinue their Stack Overflow Talent platform (stackoverflow.com/talent) in a year and are not accepting new subscriptions, which is really sad in my opinion.

ps since I now have to look for another option: Does anyone know good alternatives for hiring developers?
>> Our Swiss virus guy too told this 'lie' in the beginning

>> I still don't understand why sooooo many countries can't be more honest about these things

Interesting definition of honest. The fact is, all these large organisations believe in the "noble lie" which undermines their credibility.
Github pages can host a static website for free
https://pages.github.com/
Edit: probably not those clojure files if they run server side
that's malware, not new.

the ransom part, at the scale possible with cryptocurrency, is new.

those who sound "silly" are the ones elaborately pretending that this formerly obscure class of electronic extortion didn't suddenly explode into an epidemic with the concomitant rise of cryptocurrency.
VPNs are pretty mainstream these days. If you talk to anyone working on anti-abuse you'd find the answer to most "Why don't you just.." ideas is because it'd impact many orders of magnitude more legitimate users than victims.
Wild boar surround woman in Rome and steal food shopping
More details of my use case:

The programs were ETLs that are generating big REPLACE INTO statements.

Different databases and drivers do prepared statements in different ways. Postgres, for example, can receive the statement and the parameters and do the interpolation in the server. The params still need to be serial used by the client and the template isn’t reused, so it’s no big perf win.

MySQL, on the other hand, needs the driver to do the interpolation. The server only knows how to execute sql strings.

It turns out it is far better to prepare the sql in pure python where pypy knows all about types etc than to have the c MySQL driver do it.

Exactly the same thing plays out in java. The MySQL java drivers are staggeringly inefficient at large prepared statements, and in my profiling massive amounts of time is spent in java functions in the MySQL driver that are trying to work out where the next question-mark is. Sadly the drivers are the poo they are. Iirc the mariadb java drivers are rather more optimized.
What I find especially exciting here is the fact that the Geeeks were okay with the idea that Ahilles, Ajax and other guys from Trojan war stories were actually 4m high. You could never imagine that reading The Iliad.
anyone have experiences w ~modern Nvidia eGPUs for os x CUDA dev? (arm / pre-arm?) Currently traveling w 2 systems just because of this , which is nuts..
A 60-second meditation tool to help you clear your mind
It's more like a bank without deposit insurance.
I've tried pitching similar roles in Government on the DoD side of the house for knowledge workers like Software Dev and Data Scientists.

It's hard to get traction though when the folks making the decisions feel threatened that a 25 year old is going to be making the same as them and be the same "rank".

I think part of the solution needs to be creating it on a separate scale than GS, similar to an SL or ST position, but geared specifically towards knowledge workers. That's a solution that would probably require congressional involvement though...
Sure, but the goal of new languages like Rust or Zig isn't to only add safety.
I turn on my company VPN and the next minute my network connections come from their HQ halfway across the world.
From their blog:

> After 8 years of work, 28,000 commits, 7,400 pull requests, 4,100 closed issues – Scala 3 is finally out. Since the first commit on December 6th 2012...

I mean it is lot of work for sure. But is it such a fast pace?
How a TV Works in Slow Motion (2018)
Sounds really close to a bank, without being one.