skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, I agree that lots of people are holding Tether, mostly exchanges, market makers, and liquidity pools if I had to guess, but unclear. If that Tether was proved worthless, anyone who used Tether to buy crypto still gets to keep their crypto. It is ONLY people holding Tether that are hurt, but the negative news could have waterfall impact on ecosystem.

As for the triviality of auditing, I don't think it's that simple, but point taken.
I can see you have a very broad definition of "democratically elected foreign leaders". Yes, the people who got backing from the CIA weren't white knights in armors. Nor were their enemies. Rarely a black-and-white issue. For example neither the CIA-supported Taliban nor the Russian invaders of Afghanistan were democratically elected by either Russians or Afghans.

Picking the "business interests" as the only motive for these action is an extremely narrow and simplistic explanation at best. And in my opinion also wrong, given historical facts. You could even argue the US went to war against Nazi Germany because Hitler would have seized all their foreign investments in Europe... Which is true but hardly the complete picture.
Furnaces have an emergency override, you should learn how it works and how to use it.
> Hmmm for someone reading hacker news, participating in this thread and claiming that they hold crypto this shouldlnt be hard to understand by doing 10 minutes of research

I would strongly advise against anyone trying to learn and devise a shorting strategy in 10 minutes

> Instead you decided to use that time for commenting and complaining

... ditto?
I do! I remember reading about it on memepool which I miss terribly. But People Chow as an idea kinda happened with Soylent - especially since it was marketed to software engineers who couldn’t be bothered to eat actual food, food.
What percentage of lead paint critics have actually tried licking lead paint? My kids love it, so it can't be that bad
Ask HN: Is Aspiration Bank Hacked?
Hello,

I am a customer of Aspiration Bank. I and many others have been locked out of our accounts for 14+ days. No access to money or transaction history. I recently was alarmed that this may be widespread when I checked the twitter-mentions of @Aspiration. I have contacted some of the people in the mentions and have found that they have lost money. I, myself don't have too much money in the bank to be worried. I am more disturbed by the lack of disclosure. I was hoping you could read the mentions and maybe discern what is going on.

Here are some urls of the mentions I was alarmed by:

https://twitter.com/jeffmcc1/status/1404831556292820998

https://twitter.com/G0thHenryRollns/status/1403260671589072897

https://twitter.com/marga7287/status/1400840480963760136

https://twitter.com/xoSimplyDreamer/status/1404977479220092929

https://twitter.com/Alibear0521/status/1404977472576409605

I am also concerned that within the mentions there are some groups pointing customers in dangerous directions to hackers with access to accounts, in order to get money out of accounts. I feel that many could be desperate and will use these tactics, that will do further damage to themselves.

Here are some of the mentions trying to redirect customers:

https://twitter.com/NamyBlade/status/1404882752848240644

https://twitter.com/bluefuryart/status/1400579881784709132

Here are some people who have damaged by this hack:
@Heryourmiii

@gtpoet

@G0thHenryRollns

@_longliveaj

@qb_tb1989

@HeyItsTodd

@KamilSoroczyns1

@UnHappyChapp

@Alibear0521

@hildoeg

@jeffmcc1

@HeyoItsDHo

@MerchandiserAc1

@lukecom00578740

@Dstone626Jeremy

@sandy_aay

@ArtemisXMusic

@Cat_dragon_13

@switch_blade420

@NattyCatPins

@kamterbeek

@closingracer

Thank you for you time,
Eon

Any suggestions on how to get this information out there?
These algorithms are pretty weak but can still be used for securing the communications with current phones.
The copy isn't you, it is like you. If you disappeared and let it take over your life, no one would notice, but it would start diverging from you quickly because your life has changed very drastically.
Perhaps it's time to bring back the golden age of piracy! "We didn't sink them, those evil pirates did!"
Determinism has some thorny philosophical issues. Couldn’t we just as easily say that right wing voters that don’t want to provide better social services are that way because of their upbringing and societal conditions? Soon we have nothing left to talk about because everything is inevitable.
I think you are naive about history.

I'm an economist. If I threw away the half of the data that didn't support my findings, and got caught, I'd lose my job and never publish again. I'm pretty sure the same is true in other social sciences, such as psychology. This is true irrespective of the well-documented problems that the article describes, which certainly also apply in economics and elsewhere, to varying degrees.

By contrast, when historians are caught cutting sentences in half to prove their point, they don't lose their jobs. They don't even lose their Pulitzers: https://davidhughjones.blogspot.com/2020/07/can-we-trust-his...
I'm not saying "move his birthday and change the history books". Frankly, I think it would be more respectful to move it somewhere else. Since everyone already calls it "MLK Day", there's no reason we can't use it to commemorate one of his achievements other than exiting a birth canal.
How to better structure your Xcode projects
Here is a recent video on Nushell 0.32 features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqYxhJKblvY
"I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling." --Malcolm Gladwell

The author of this article is operating on the wrong premise- in his own words Gladwell considers himself more a storyteller than an arbiter of truth.
I didn't watch the whole thing, but I was hoping to at least see a gyroscope used for aiming with the actual gun, but it looks like he aims using the buttons. Weird.
Of course. And that's one reason why the average person observing tether seems scammy doesn't immediately try to short it.
>> And I'm sure ships will be upgraded with defenses (if they haven't already).

They already have CIWS (and a bunch of other stuff) to shoot down incoming supersonic and maneuvering anti-ship missiles. Any drone slower or less difficult to hit than those missiles stands little chance. Drones can extend the eye and ears of a ship but they are not going to be killing ships themselves anytime soon.
> The picture at the top is an IR plume from a jet

The article doesn't say that. How can you be so sure from a still image?
No you cannot have both. Once a ballot is sent out via the mail, there is no physical control over it. It is therefore impossible to ensure the ballot is secret, which makes it impossible to know whether the voter is being bribed/coerced.
In 1999, they at least thought they needed a model (as opposed to policy conclusions), i.e. they were at least actually attempting science.
I don't know what this article is supposed to be or why I should care about some random guy's random polemic about some random paper.
Maybe a bank run on Tether for some other reason than the SEC? It would require a lot of people to lose trust in Tether at the same time, which surprisingly still doesn't look likely. But it might happen.
Yes I'm just playing devil's advocate. My initial response is that they should be banned but like most things someone will continue creating them. Do we really think China cares whether there's a ban?

Typically the only thing that stops WMD type weapons (not sure if slaughterbots fall into this category) is the enemy having them as well. Assured mutual destruction seems to be the only viable option.
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Not really, because I only really use @apply for conditional classes and Tailwinds still provides you with a standardization for your CSS code that you don't have otherwise.
I didn't think it through that far, but yes I would be willing to make that tradeoff. Toilet seats are important, and if something whacky happens and global trade is interupted for an extended time, we should have at least one toilet seat maker.

That said, I would also tax all imports to the point that the only imports worth buying are ones that are of a significantly higher quality than their domestic counterpart.

I would also ban trade with any countries that have awful labor and environmental practices. This one would be the most difficult, because how do you define awful? And how long do you keep the ban after they fix things? If you go back far enough the whole world gets banned.
antirez (creator of redis) has some good thoughts on this topic, that people here might find valuable: http://antirez.com/news/124
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The article has a negative tone, but the real story is an optimistic one! Apple investing in this space is very exciting. I'm still a happy FitBit user, but love what Apple has been doing.

In the future everyone will have many real time sensors on/in their body, an AI health assistant "doctor in their pocket", their medical records will stay with them (not be scattered across different providers), and they will have an organized and strongly typed copy of all our medical knowledge.
Binance isn't even allowed in the US. What would a SEC lawsuit even mean?
I would much rather live in a world where I can choose for myself whether or not using crypto like Tether or Binance Coin is too risky. It has been said that crypto is essentially regulatory arbitrage. It's like a UFO landing on Wall Street, yes it's obviously finance but it is different enough that the government doesn't know how to deal with it. This has clearly led to new financial and cryptoeconomic innovations, as well as clear scams and crashes.

Nonetheless I would rather make the decision for myself. Financial regulations are already looser for the rich in the United States than the poor. There are many more shackles on what you can do with your money as a retail trader than a institutional trader. At least one benefit that crypto has over traditional finance is that all participants have the same opportunities. For the most part it is open source code for nodes that anyone can run themselves.

Finally I'd like to add that the nature of crypto means that when the United States removes its regulatory ambiguity, or if USG decides to crackdown on the whole endeavor, there will most likely still be some country like El Salvador where it is still legal and accepted. So to me it seems that the future of crypto is still bright despite what may be seen as increasing regulatory pressure from the elephant in the room.
Oh yeah. That can be a pain. Usually someone just invites or links me to the group chat. I rarely try to find a group chat using the search but I know that it's not the best.
nu is still in its infancy, and currently lacks critical features of other shells, which is why I haven’t switched completely.

As for the future, perhaps a bit brazen, but I’m confident that other shells will introduce the core feature of nu in the near future to stay competitive. I can see fish having a “||” operator and rewrites of a few gnu functions to achieve what nu does natively.
Q&A-Style Stack Overflow
Problem there is fun dev teams can still have terrible HR filters. That's the sort of thing I'd jokingly say in the interview, but come up with a more normalized title for the resume.
Malcom Gladwell writes clearly and persuasively. I don't believe he uses his rhetoric to deceive, I don't think it's full on sophistry. That said, he clearly won't let the facts get in the way of a good story. As much as I want truth, evidence and proof to have one true meaning, the words really mean different things to different people. Heck, they mean different things to the same person in different contexts.

Malcom Gladwell (in my humble opinion) is very good at making political arguments, not scientist arguments. They sound true. They engage in intellectual and emotional ways.

I have, with multiple Gladwell books, been led down the garden path. But golly it's a pretty and enjoyable walk. And eventually that walk leads me to other interesting stuff, like _thinking fast and slow_.

I guess, it's useful to me to read stories dressed up as science (kinda). Otherwise, how could I tell if the science I'm reading is just a story?
Because he once used flew a plane in Flight Simulator 2020 and knows the equipment and IR signatures of various aircrafts better than the pilots who reported this.
> Here the main goal is to get rid of it fast, which more often than not leads to accepting all cookies the site offers.

My fast route out is to close the tab. Same for auto-playing audio, distracting animations/video, and other irritations.

So far I don't think I've missed out on anything of significance that way. There are some sites that are useful enough for me to have spent time clicking tens of things, beyond that it turns out that I can live quite happily without the others.
I started using SponsorBlock (https://sponsor.ajay.app/) a bit ago. I was skeptical that the crowdsourcing wouldn't reach enough but I find it works for most videos.

It essentially tags parts of videos and it's pretty customizable - it only highlight a certain type, have it skip automatically, etc.

I already pay for YouTube Premium and am not a fan of ads.
I don't disagree with you, but frankly would be a bit frustrating to limit one's studies of human behavior to just history without trying to understand the dynamics of current societies, trying to understand how they respond to change and so on. Both fields have a completely different set of instruments and very limited overlap.
This reminds me of the story in Freakanomics about the street level drug dealers making basically minimum wage, with the majority of the money going to high level traffickers who are typically firewalled through layers of middlemen.
All religions are mad except the one I like - a tale as old as time.
I don't get these sorts of efforts.

'Let's make something complex appear intuitive by adding more complexity'.

I really respect the work that has gone into this project, but no thanks.
I'm the co-founder of Budibase, an open-source low code platform, and 70% of our signups (30,000) are from IT. Low code abstracts a lot of the coding effort, but it's still inherently complex to build applications.

Repo for ref: https://github.com/Budibase/budibase

Coding is only one part of the puzzle. For us, it's more about speeding up the dev process for IT profs and removing the repetitive, grunt work.

Low code, against what some people may think, does have its place - CRUD apps, customer portals, internal tools. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Low code platform creators are doing the industry damage by promising their tools can provide the world and more. This is not the way to earn trust or respect, and thankfully Budibase does not follow this path.

Fun comic strip that is sort of relevant:
https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensi...
There is a cottage industry of what you may call,if you feel uncharitable, bullshit peddlers:

Simon Sinek

Cal Newport

Charles Duhigg

Mark Manson

Ryan Hollyday

Malcolm Gladwell

The list is endless to be honest, they are each different on their own way but they have the following common points:

- They are on this for the money, so expect them to be always pushing their books, products, next book, next tour, next program.Hustling, hustling,hustling.

- Their grandiose pronouncements with little or not serious backing.

- Their unwarranted sense of speaking from a position of authority

- The over-simplication and stupid generalization of what it is messy, complex and very much unique.
You want non-citizens to be given the same or more benefits than actual citizens? Exactly why would that be a long term benefit for a country?
how much of a missile's weight is payload, and how much is "missile"? I don't know enough about either to be able to say for certainty, but it's probable that the ratio of payload:delivery is different for drones, and possibly better.

also, drones can do stupid things like fly underneath tanks, or land on them and then place a charge right up against the armour (or a vision slit, etc). Or even place a charge, back off, detonate it, then place a second charge on the same spot and detonate that. And of course a swarm can see multiple drones attack exactly the same spot on a tank's armour.

also, they don't need to destroy the tank. They just need to mess with it enough that it needs repair.
Logistics in the country recovered fairly quickly from the various national disasters, so that's at least one less problem.
You could be swallowing a credit card’s weight in plastic every week
Cached: https://archive.is/RFh8C
This is an interesting point from SEC's perspective... how can they manage that? Would the solution be to simply ban it's use in the United States (both Tether and Bitfinex)?
This is probably the worst take conceivable, to the extent that it looks like an intentional effort at disseminating disinformation.

> Assange was pretty clearly outed as having been working for or at least with Russian disinformation agents.

This is 100% false, and you should be liable for defamation.

Your personal (absurdly malformed) opinions about personality shouldn't play a role in whether someone is subject to persecution and imprisonment.
He started out as a hacker, but turned into something else, not sure what.

This situation reminds me of that Petyr Baelish scene from GoT, when he proclaimed that knowledge is power only to find out that power is power.

In any case it was proven time and time again that spotlight is deadly for individuals like him, but instead he sought out more of it, one way or another.
The simulation includes this assumption:

> Technology persists in a given settlement for 100 million years before dying out

Seems wildly speculative to me. Our own civilization has only been around for a tiny fraction of that time and future prospects are already looking pretty uncertain. And if we lived in a galaxy where civilizations had this kind of longevity, one would think we'd see some evidence of potential signals out there.

My own pessimistic take on the Fermi Paradox is that life and intelligence may not be very unique but there is no reason for them to be long-lived either. Most civilizations are probably just a "flash in the pan", existing too briefly and separated by too great a distance to ever come into contact with another one (or even learn of another's existence).
This was happening even with Software Developers and System Engineers back in ~2005.

They go around nickel and diming everything with their employees, topgrading everyone on 360 performance reviews and then have offsites where they tightly clutch their pearls over how they just can't understand why retaining talent is so hard. Unless you're lucky enough to get hired into a group which is highly thought of, it can be a really bad place to work, even if you're getting paid a lot.

Someone really needs to buy each of the Amazon executive team one of those "the only consistent feature of all your dissatisfying relationships is you" coffee mugs.
> x = 0 doesn't work

Maybe it's just me, but I love how the assignment syntax can be used just for a single command: 'MANPAGER=cat man' is a lot nicer than '(MANPAGER = cat; man)'.

> and x=$y is a security flaw

When is variable assignment a security flaw?
Emails specificially? I'm not sure if that has ever been confirmed, but this is directly from Assange[1]:

>“We do have some information about the Republican campaign,” he said Friday, according to The Washington Post.

>“I mean, it’s from a point of view of an investigative journalist organization like WikiLeaks, the problem with the Trump campaign is it’s actually hard for us to publish much more controversial material than what comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth every second day," Assange said.

If Wikileak's primary goal is transparency, why not release these docs too?

[1] - https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/2934...
Retreating fighters are still combatants. Surrendering fighters would be a different matter.
Good point, then you are the bad actor!
“It's a gigantic social phenomenon. People find ways of getting money by impeding society. Once they can impede society, they can be paid to leave people alone.”

— Richard Stallman, 1986 https://www.gnu.org/gnu/byte-interview

“But we’ve proved it again and again,
that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld,
you never get rid of the Dane.”

— Rudyard Kipling, 1911, Dane-geld
If you consider him to be a journalist, I don't think working "with" Russian disinformation agents is necessarily illegal.
Ugh, that never even crossed my mind. I'll be on the lookout for it.
It is typical human self-centeredness to assume we are the only sentient beings with the ability to move ourselves around a plane or beyond.

It is also mathematically silly to assume that of all possible beings over current universe timeline that we are the most technically advanced. We have only existed for a minuscule sliver of that timespan.

That’s not to say that we are statistically likely to have been visited, however. But it is possible.
Bonferroni effects have, at least in the popular consciousnes, become much more front and center. I wonder how many people on the stre can define p-hacking. Most educated people know about the reproducibility crisis, and I would wager that around half of them understand the cause. That seems like it might create a better environment.
The amount of money a bank (or loosely equivalent crypto entity) can make holding deposits and making loans out of them is far lower than the amount it can make by printing new fiat (or crypto tokens) out of thin air and loaning them out (/selling them.)

Usually, this works fine, they make a lot of money, and everyone's happy. When there's some unexpected macroeconomic issue, which empirically happens with some regularity, they have massive problems as loans default en masse (or everyone tries to redeem their token for USD at once.)