skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Could a sudden pump of BTC while USDT/USD is unpegging be the signature of the downfall itself?

Likely, but that is not bullish BTC. People who hold USDT at a given moment do so because they don't want to hold crypto. So you would likely see BTCUSDT panic bid (until the Tether exchanges presumably stop withdrawals) and relentless selling of BTCUSD. For those who managed to get out, they will have round tripped their USDT to USD, but BTCUSD will be a bloodbath.
And I completely understand that. But Brave is still guilty of not mentioning on their product page that for all the privacy things they do, Brave Rewards isn't private, and also has a conflict of interest incentivizing them to not tell people about it.
Books need no covers, because if a reader cannot comprehend a book title from the book content, then (s)he must go back to the school. /s
Could it be that traditional gender roles are socially adaptive and comfortable for the majority of men - and for that matter, also for many women who don't necessarily identify with modern social movements? There seems to be an undercurrent of de-humanization in wanting to uncritically jettison such a key part of the lived experience, and one that's even so deeply linked to our very biological makeup as living beings. If so, it makes sense that we'd be seeing some pushback.
I wonder if they could be recycled? Not joking. Those hip replacement parts are incredibly expensive; I'm sure there are folks who are in need and could use a cheaper option.
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I was really excited thinking this was going to be about humanure.
I found The UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (5th Edition), chapters about networking and DNS very instructive, and they list a ton of additional references if you want to dig deeper.
Same thing happened somewhere I worked, except all mail was being sent to the company HQ. It was loaded on lorries but someone at the sorting centre had the foresight to phone up and ask "is this correct"?
This can work for me but it tends to reset after sleeping. Taking it further, it also tends to just make me sick of that game which just means it's time to find another. And a theme park MMO like FFXIV will always have something else to do, so I'll just start on a weird new obsession like collecting all of something.

I think there's a lot to what the others are saying that it's an easy way to find "fulfillment" when it's otherwise lacking or feels too hard to reach. Which of course can make it a self-perpetuating spiral as it blocks achievement in other areas of life.
the timing and size of everyone's connection to everything is "not very much"?
Not with Brave, it is not. All of your tokens go into Uphold, and you must go through full KYC (providing your Driver's License and SSN), before you can move them to any other wallet. And no, the tokens your browser says you have, they aren't actually yours or transferrable until your KYC Verification is complete. The amount of tokens in your account before you complete Uphold verification is more of an IOU BAT until you create an account and get the actual BAT.

This is what is also egregious. Yes, BAT is decentralized when you move it around in wallets, but as far as the browser is concerned, all BAT you earn from receiving ads is actually quite centralized.
It’s pretty cool how Hasura uses/abuses Postgres JSON support to be able to run many queries in the same “command”
"But they don't publish the m2 money market stock charts anymore. Wonder why?"

Because they moved savings deposits into M1. So the old M1 and M2 charts are retired and replaced with M1SL and M2SL.
Okay imagine you are a small startup backed with VC money. The same situation can still arise.
Why do scarecrows still exist in fields with no birds?

Why are there no scarecrows in fields full of birds, where they would be needed the most?
If you trust the people behind Opera, sure?
I am currently using brave on android because it is the last latest stable browser that provides stacked Tab layout like this.

https://github.com/michael-rapp/ChromeLikeTabSwitcher

Latest chrome and it's derivatives(except brave) have removed this in favour of grid layout which i dislike(they also brought in tab groups which i despise entirely)

I know that brave has shady stuff like blockchain and ads, but they can be turned off. On desktop, i use firefox and i want to use firefox on android too but i find android firefox(fenix) janky.

Please suggest me good browser and also a suggestion to chrome developers:

Please don't remove things that we like. atleast provide option to enable it
There's another phenomenon with Jimmy Dore: many on the right see him as on their side, even when he's not, because he criticizes establishment Democrats.
TLSv1.2 traffic contains the hostname of the site you're connecting to, and the list of ciphers. This can be fingerprinted to identify your browser, and the server-side software. [1]

TLSv1.3 on the other hand sometimes encrypts the hostname (eSNI) and most of the TLS handshake, so there's much less data to fingerprint. It's not as widely supported, but support is growing...

[1] https://engineering.salesforce.com/tls-fingerprinting-with-j...

//Edited to clarify that eSNI isn't default behaviour of 1.3
With the amount of VPNs popping out it seems that there is more than almost none worrying.
Edge has the best security of any browser on Windows

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Indeed that's the question to... it's a huge variance depending on who it's to, the terms of the loans and the interest rates received.

No Basel II capital adequacy requirements here :)
Where can you short Tether anyway? Kraken?
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I feel like nuclear power is the only tech that people perceive to be static in development. Isn’t it like saying we should have stopped using computers in the 40s because they were big, expensive, slow, and we’re only frequently used to kill people?
It is also not acceptable for Steve Jobs but they can get away with it.
Nobody should stick to any dogma past the honeymoon period. The point of a dogma is to get you into the behavior space that you will learn how to do something well. It's like using a recipe in a cookbook. Once I had enough practice making scrambled eggs, I didn't need a recipe anymore.

I learned TDD ~20 years ago from Beck's "TDD by Example" book. For me it's far more than "just another tool". I'll certainly do exploratory work with throwaway code. And in the early stages of something, I might be a bit slack. But the lesson over and over for me is that if I don't get to significant test coverage soon, I end up wasting a lot of time on bugs. And TDD is the easiest way to get to test coverage. Test-first ends up feeling like a set of small successes with the red-great-refactor loop. With test-after, going back and adding tests feels more like drudgery, and I'm less likely to have written the code in a testable way.

So TDD is not dogma for me, just the inevitable place I end up if I want to maximize the amount of time getting things done while working on a non-trivial codebase.
>So you would likely see BTCUSDT panic bid (until the Tether exchanges presumably stop withdrawals) and relentless selling of BTCUSD. For those who managed to get out, they will have round tripped their USDT to USD, but BTCUSD will be a bloodbath.

But if they're buying BTC only to convert it back to USD again (at a non USDT exchange), wouldn't the net effect on BTC be zero?
If you believe taxation is theft, and that governments are illegitimate, I just don't understand how you can go from that belief to "but if I do this one weird trick the people who threaten to use armed force to collect my taxes won't find some way to compel me".
Exactly. Neolithic people had pretty bad food security. To intentionally reduce overall efficiency of the system would be folly and everyone would know it.

After the third time you dump a rhino into the tribe's food processing pipeline and waste half of it before it can be eaten there will be a new directive or there will be a new chief.
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TFA isn't though, for example.
Have you considered that maybe TDD is just a really good fit for your brain?

I've worked at a TDD-focused company and it always felt like I was coding through molasses. Some of us weren't as strict about TDD and I didn't notice a difference in our code quality.
It’s not like VPNs don’t have the exact same problem, though…
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Good luck with that. It has a Wikipedia entry:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Davis_pepper_spray_incide...
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I don't always find it odd, but when I do I find it odd that we worry so much about applications when the entire cell telephony networking layer is completely and unpatchably hacked.
It's Brave's fault if they only give you access to your BAT coins after signing up with Uphold. There should be no reason they hide access to your coins until you use a third party service to dox yourself.

Brave may not be implementing the dox'ing, but they appear to be requiring you to use someone else's implementation which is absolutely their fault.
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Yep it definitely seems probable that there's risky behaviour at the least.
Although Dave Clark comes across as an unrequited villain in most Amazon reporting, he’s just a loyal shadow of Bezos’ dictum that Amazon employees at all levels are to unquestioningly serve his machine without thought of compensation. The image of a man who owns mansions in Seattle, DC, New York, and LA (amongst others) pontificating to his S-Team that paying employees more makes them /less/ motivated is one that sticks with me.
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That said, I totally agree that Martin is a salesman. I knew him in the early days of the Agile movement and he did a lot of good then. But he's become consistently more strident, more dogmatic, more unpleasant. It's sad to see, really.
They are recycled in some places. Such as sub-saharan Africa
Brave is a scam, but recommending palemoon or icecat a is (for different reasons) also a bad idea.
lol spend more taxes on missiles, pleb.
I am Neither psychologist or neuroscientist, but a humble man, so take this with a grain of salt:

I think sometimes women do things to be different or to protect themselves. Like straight girls in high school claiming they are bisexual when they are not. It makes them different, but it also might serve as a defense mechanism for some people and situations.
> It could also be an issue if a large number of people try to redeem a large amount of Tether for USD.

Not possible. Tether's terms of service explicitly state they have no obligation to redeem.

Tethers only hold value so long as other people believe they do...which is the definition of a fiat currency.
By and large, it has not been the women who have been intolerant of homosexual men

I've known several straight women who absolutely refuse to date bisexual men, or any man that has shown any bisexual tendencies.

I don't know any guys who would refuse to date a woman just because she's had sex with a woman at some point in the past.
I take the opposite view. Code developed with TDD tends to be overly complicated and inefficient, and the test suites themselves are often bizarre labyrinthian hellscapes of mocks, facades, and workarounds. "They just did it wrong, then," you say? That statement ceases to be meaningful when it can applied routinely: it's the norm, and if it's the norm, it's not something "they just did it wrong" applies to.
>I am convinced Comcast is doing shady shit with my modem when I change the DNS settings to use non-Comcast servers

Well that's vague. What are the symptoms? How would comcast even know that you changed DNS settings? It's possible to infer that from DNS queries to their servers dropping off and traffic to 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.4.4 increasing, but I doubt comcast is competent enough to build that sort of detection system.
Hot take here. Amazon is the harbinger of a permanent, systemic and pervasive bifurcation between what we now call the PMC and basically everyone else as enabled by technology.
uBlock Origin with Firefox seems to work really well for blocking video ads. For me it doesn't just block YouTube ads, it manages to block adverts from a couple other streaming sites I use too.
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Brave, Inc has no requirement to be located in the US that does require these laws, hardly the fault of the government they are choosing to be incorporated under that Brave chooses that particular geographical position, especially since the US probably has some of the worst examples in recent history for disregarding the privacy of citizens and non-citizens alike.
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I currently have Firefox, Edge, and Chrome open. I also have Opera and Vivaldi installed (and I think I might have Maxthon too). I use them for different purposes. Firefox for personal stuff, Chrome on my second monitor for social networks and twitch, Edge for my main work. Vivaldi for my part time job. I say the more browsers the better and I am definitely rooting for Firefox to help chip away at chromium's dominance.

I don't have Brave installed because I am not overly concerned with privacy and the other browsers seem fast enough. I have ublock origin, noscript, and privacy badger installed on Firefox. That is good enough for me. I also think BAT is not really worthwhile.
How are IPs "not much"? I get that you mean that they don't see the requests and responses themselves, but you can easily infer interests, life events, other particularities from the request targets and the timings alone.
Is this not almost how logic programming (prolog, etc.) works? You tell the language some things which are true, and then it'll be able to infer answers to "questions" you ask:

https://wiki.c2.com/?LogicProgramming
Can you elaborate on what they are doing?
That's not really what he said. He discussed pros and cons.
In 2001 or so I considered entering into an encrypted email correspondence with my brother, for fun. I quickly gave up on the idea because I realized that I didn’t trust that my computer or my brother’s computer didn’t already have spyware of some kind, I didn’t trust the integrity of any encryption/decryption tools that existed, didn’t trust myself not to lose the passwords or leave them lying around, and didn’t trust that some day I wouldn’t just stupidly leave my laptop somewhere with the password entered. Etc., etc. It was obvious that actually having even one meaningfully secret conversation would actually require involved and somewhat ridiculous lifestyle changes.

Having thought this through long ago, I have never understood why people behave as though a chat client or browser that they download from the open internet would be meaningfully secure.
And yet it’s market success, supports the notion it’s had remarkable HR success by hiring the right people to develop new products and services.
I think this might be a misreading of 2007/8.

Bad mortgage backed securities were the root risk.

The unregulated leverage piled on top of those MBSs (credit default swaps) ballooned the consequences of that risk.

But what really caused the global meltdown was (1) pervasiveness of exposure & (2) consequently, institutional uncertainty and withdrawal of liquidity.

When the MBSs failed, the CDSs multiplied the dollar impact. Which would have been that, except that these assets underpined large portions of institution's balance sheets. And critically, unknown large portions.

The "music stopping" was the breaking of institutional trust in the solvency of their counterparties, and hence evaporation of liquidity.

The sheer opaqueness of the crypto exchanges might actually be an advantage here, as unlike traditional exchanges and the banking system, they're not used to keeping an eye on their counterparties' balances.
As someone who has worked at a big four accounting firm hearing the clip of Tether’s CEO insisting no one would audit them was infuriating. I don’t know a single public accounting firm that wouldn’t be jumping at the opportunity to do that audit and use it to show how tech-savvy they are in an effort to drum up consulting business.

Unless, of course, while negotiating every potential engagement Tether insisted on exceedingly unreasonable audit restrictions. (That’s assuming Tether has actually tried to engage an independent auditor, and I’m not really convinced they have.) Insane restrictions on the scope of the audit and/or the scope of auditor access is the one and only reason they’d be “unable” to find an accounting firm willing and able to conduct the audit. But lack of skill? Knowledge? Willingness to engage with potentially shady clients? Those are not really things that hinder an accounting firm’s ability to engage a client.
Disclosing the name of a public figure is not doxxing.
My poor 2015 MacBook Air with FireFox went full 100% CPU on this page, I think it's the gifs.

I think Factorio itself actually runs better on this laptop than that Factorio blog post does.
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HR exists to protect the company from liability and to enforce policy. Since the high attrition rate and generally miserable nature of the job are apparently intentional, that means it's a feature, not a bug. There's no HR failure here, because this is the kind of relationship management wants with (at least part of) the humans it employs.

Amazon's the poster child at the moment, but I think this is just how Americans have decided to do capitalism. At some level, we're collectively ok with employees only power in the working relationship being to find another job. Maybe there'll be congressional hearings if the story catches on, but then nothing will change.
> They do not need to have 100% USD at Tether. Exchanges buy UDST from Tether, that means that there is an exchange.

How are these two things related at all? If an exchange buys Tether with USD, then they will have 1:1 USD backing.
I understand Eich has been controversial and Brave gets a lot of flak in return, regardless of issues like the ones raised in the article. Yet, I remain a fan of Brave because of Brave Rewards. I love being rewarded based on my usage, even if the amount is worthless and the ads are random crypto shit. The idea of a company actually spreading revenue based on my attention back to me makes me happy and I wouldn't mind if more ad-based services do this.
To add to this, Brave appears to force you to use Uphold in order to "verify" your wallet. So this is absolutely Brave hiding your coins from you until you dox yourself with a third-party.

It's entirely possible to trade bat for many other coins on exchanges without KYC, but Brave forces you to be unable to do that (regardless of your local laws it seems?)

This is something Brave could easily fix by just exposing an API to allow you to do what you want with your BAT instead of forcing you to use a third party KYC service.
We did the same thing after that incident. It’s worked beautifully.
We typically write _sample_ tests in boolean logic, which isn't quite expressive enough for this.

But if you look at logic programming with more expressive systems you can have something like what you propose. We describe what we expect to have and the system deduces a result. Not quite what you want but its closer.

Now there is also an ubiquitous logic system that many use: static typing. In a sense you are describing the general properties of something and the compiler infers optimizations based on your assertions. The concrete program is not a line by line translation from your code to machine code, but perhaps looked at in its entirety.

I agree that there is a lot of merit in pushing these things further and further. Right now we're kind of in a stage of patching things together. But I hope and assume that programming becomes more holistic in the future. Ironically we have to look at the past first, there was a lot of momentum in this direction up until the 80's roughly.
Indeed it is not. Unless of course you find a way to map the timing and size of a pageload to its potentially sensitive content, in which case do tell.
They do, but at least in theory, their business model is built on not selling the information.
That’s honestly what I thought it was at first!
Bipedal movement is highly efficient. Over a multi-day period humans on foot are close to the fastest land animal when we want to be (dogs are slightly better/worse depending on the breed).
> between what we now call the PMC and basically everyone else

Private Military Contractor?
We have been running small nuclear reactors for decades now on USN carriers and submarines with an incredible safety record.
the biggest deal is hardcoded whitelist imho. rest of the article is just raw emotions
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I feel like it has to do with the games themselves. And it's not just the sketchy dark patterns, it's the whole way that games are designed, bigger and more immersive. The social and competitive aspects are huge as well. I completely swore off gaming for awhile due to how addictive it was for me. Then when Nintendo came out with their tiny little NES anthology device, I thought I'd try again.

Retrogaming is awesome.

You go from pushing power to playing the game in 5 seconds. No intro level or cutscenes giving you a feeling of sunk cost.

They are designed for you to walk away from. When you die, game over, no reason to continue immediately.

They often have a shocking amount of depth. Looking at this games now as an adult vs when I was a child makes me appreciate so many more details and layers of complexity.

Its a shame we generally refer to this as retro gaming, because what it really is is a collection of design sensibilities that deserve to make a comeback. There are still some indie developers working like this. Braid comes to mind as a game that feels like this.

Point being, I don't think that gaming has to be as damaging as it is now, and I think its deeper than just all the engagement and microtransaction crap, its into the core of how games are designed.
The difference is that with Brave you are rewarded for your attention to these ads. That idea has some merit I think, regardless of how it's implemented in Brave.
They're not equivalent, but there is no equivalent movement among males of any significance that I'm aware of.

edit: I just realized between those comments I said the modern men' rights movement is both equivalent and not equivalent to modern feminism. What I mean is, they're equivalent in the way apples and oranges are both equivalent as fruits. They fill the same roles but are otherwise entirely different.

And it's ironic, because the mens' rights movement coined the term "toxic masculinity," and it has its roots in traditional masculine/chivalrous ideals and teachings, but now modern MRAs consider it to be nothing but a slur. It's like masculine culture becomes more defensive the further feminism encroaches into its traditional domain.
No. Not even a little bit.
Defeatism is so exhausting. Every one already knows that every thing sucks. Trying is better than not trying. Unless you have some better ideas. Please tell.
I think there’s an unwillingness on the part of feminists to acknowledge that women as a group play a huge role in defining masculinity, even though they critique men’s role in defining femininity.

I’m not saying it’s entirely on women but it shouldn’t be controversial to say that women have a role to play, including as expressed by who they choose to be with romantically.
Not much to add to this, except that I also got this email sent to an address which I have only given out to Hulu.