skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were also unable to receive deposits, and issued Tethers anyways. Ones they claimed on their website for years were backed 1:1 with dollars in a bank account they controlled. This is the substantiated fraud outlined in the settlement.

The fraud was they said, on their website, for years, that they had 1 USD in their bank accounts as liquid currency for every USDT outstanding. They unequivocally did not - at numerous times.

> “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." - Letita James, NYAG.

Their new wording about 'reserves' was not in place at the time. They changed the wording in March of 2019. The wording at the time was:

> "Every tether is always backed 1-to-1, by traditional currency held in our reserves. So 1 USDT is always equivalent to 1 USD."

This was also the wording at the time Bitfinex grabbed $800M out of their bank account and left them an IOU.

That was a lie, and it's not my claim, it's Letitia James'

Finally re: commercial paper, I haven't seen a shred of evidence they own a single scrap of it. In fact the FT seems to be unable to find anyone else who has seen evidence of it either, despite their being ostensibly the 6th or 7th largest holder of commercial paper in the world sandwiched up between Vanguard and JP Morgan. Could they be? I guess. On a scale of 1 to 10 how likely do I think that is? About a zero.
Currently, i am using it mainly as a tablet/web-browsing device when i am not near my desktop computer. My primary SIM is in an older Android phone. It would need some more work to get Pinephone ready to replace all important tasks i use the Android phone for.
Hehe ok, that sounds damning.

> All ten of your last ten comments are you attempting to teach strangers, without having been asked, despite not being an expert, based in your beliefs, without evidence.

So I looked.. ready to face an unpleasant truth about myself. I was pleasantly surprised that "All ten" is nothing like true.

1. > Yup, better would be "pronounce a surname from a non-English speaking culture in a way that sounds reasonably correct."

Here I was agreeing with the parent.

2. > > "A" as in the "au" in "caught"

> Not an expert, but I can't offhand think of a language where this is even approximately how a is pronounced—which ones are you thinking of?

Parent and others evidently agreed as they soon changed the line to "A" as in "ah" (like "ah, I see"). Someone replied to my comment with a helpful link, my next comment was to quote from their link what I'd learnt from it, in the hope others could learn that too.

Hmm I notice most of these threads now have your comments added, the kind of comment which more nearly fits your description of mine, I have to say.

The next two comments are in this thread, me objecting to "All words are a lie".

4. My next comment was in response to an AskHN, Why is Martin Gardner no longer popular

> Well, first I'd want to confirm or not the assumption in the question: Isn't he? Popular compared with when? etc.

I see you have replied to that one too now, in part :

"HN has too many people who attempt to look wise by doubting things without cause, when the actual wise thing is not to discuss your doubts, but to address them

Unfortunately, the normal behavior is invisible, so people randomly admonishing one another gains the false appearance of being regular...

> Popular compared with when?

The past.

The sentence makes this clear and unambiguous, as does our lack of time travel. "

Ok.. that's getting creepy and silly. Please stop commenting on my comments. Your initial damning criticism of me seems to apply much more nearly to you, as is extremely common when advice or insults are given on this planet. Bye. I will report you immediately if you continue doing this. It's nowhere near OK. Stay away from me.

(I looked at 5 further recent comments of mine, none of them at all fit your description. There's a few like "That's a fascinating book, and led to a fascinating wikipedia rabbit hole, thank you!" I'm puzzled how you came up with your "All ten", I think you didn't even look. Very strange.)
The x86 instruction set is insanely complicated due to decades of history, but that’s exactly what drew me in, personally. Over a few years of diving more and more into the architecture, I’ve become somewhat fascinated by it. Despite all history, there’s still some interesting patterns that can be uncovered in the bit representations.

A nice exercise that’s helped me a lot is to write a very simple program in assembly, look at the output, and see how it all pieces together. Even random instructions that make no sense other than to see how it’s turned into machine code.
The Boston police were started to defend the rights of property owners, not citizens.

In the South, post-Civil War, police used gold star badges because they were adapted from the gold star badges used by slave patrols.

You should learn more about the history of policing in America: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-america...
Nobody is legally mining on AWS - the margins would put you behind everyone with dedicated hardware, not to mention the lack of ASICs.

That said, if that happened, think about what would happen next: there’d be a mass exodus of customers and breach of contract lawsuits, governments would bring charges under anti-hacking laws, and the rest of the community would agree to rewrite history back to the point before that happened. He’d lose orders of magnitude more money than he could possibly gain, especially given Bitcoin’s limited liquidity.

That last part is key: we have no reason to think Bezos is a crook, or willing to break his customer’s trust, but say he has been completely compromised by Dr. Evil. This still makes no sense because nobody _wants_ a bunch of random hashes — they want to buy things. Even if he could commit the theft of the century, there wouldn’t be any place to spend it with enough volume to make it worth as much as Bezos makes every second.
>> baseline fitness bar to not be flunked out on medical.

Medical and fitness are different things. Lots of people can pass the fitness tests but still flunk out for medical reasons. Diabetics. People who get cancer. Failing eyesight. Sever allergies. It is very possible to ace the fitness tests while still failing the medical.
> By contrast, applying names to periods of time is far less useful and far less portable across cultures. The 1800s looked very different in different parts of the world, but it was the same 100 year span everywhere. And we only do this for a handful of historical periods anyway (mostly seem to be named after British monarchs – Victorian, Georgian, Edwardian, etc). Applying those period names to places outside the British Empire is a bit like applying Japanese era names to European history.

Sure, but a lot more of the world was part of the British Empire during those periods than has ever been part of the Japanese (and there's a lot of second-order uses for cultural/artistic trends that originated in the British world of those times but are found elsewhere, e.g., “Victorian architecture”.)
This is like the UFO observation: camera sensors have improved, but UFO videos stay the same (low details and ambiguous).
Dude you brought him up. If you really care about the happiness and privacy of the Rich family, you shouldn't have done that.

At the following page, my comment above is listed. Every other comment is from an Assange critic, beating this dead horse:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...
> that is something you still cannot do

Factually wrong. You can run apps on iOS without jailbreaking that weren’t approved by Apple, or even ones banned by Apple. This has been true for years. Yes, the required resigning of the app every seven days is a major hindrance, but it is still something you very much CAN do.
It’s still a political decision though. The Romans would elect new consuls each year so instead of numbering their years, they just designated them by whoever were the two consuls that year. Later scholars numbered the years since the supposed founding of Rome. The French Revolutionaries created a calendar where Year 1 was the founding of the First Republic, but it didn’t catch on.
Boy do I have news for you:
https://www.mubadala.com/en/what-we-do/semiconductors/global....
It's absolutely the most likely scenario. I'm making a point.
> For example, if you buy a car there are safety features you cannot turn off without major modifications.

To use a direct analogy with Apple's restrictions on users, you're free to modify and flash your car's ECU firmware. In fact, it's quite common.
As someone else is saying, its obviously a joke. Even a halfway intelligent person would be able to create an alibi that they didnt do it.
TIL: ¤ is the "generic currency sign" Vote with your ¤CURRENCY!

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_sign_(typography)
AWS does not rent out bitcoin mining rigs and really has no incentive to. To mine at a profit requires expensive, extremely specialized single-purpose hardware that can only be used for bitcoin mining and can't be re-used for anything else.
Your contiguous US-states map (and it seems many of your other maps, though not e.g. the North America map or the world map) uses a Mercator map projection: https://ramblemaps.com/continental-us-map

This is a reasonable choice for sailing charts (makes rhumb lines straight) and a reasonable choice for a zoomable web map of the world built around raster tiles (avoids the need for client-side reprojection), but is an uncommon – and in my opinion generally poor – choice for maps of the contiguous US states. What made you settle on that one? Or was it just the existing projection of the data, and you decided not to reproject it?

I think many of your maps would work a bit better (suffer substantially less distortion) if they used a region-specific projection. I have a long-term interest in map projections and would be happy to chat about possibilities if you have questions.
My next door neighbor sold right after I moved in.

Listed for $475k, Zestimate at $515k, sold for $555k. Markets crazy right now.
I like TD Ameritrade (now owned by Schwab, but still has their own web site) for its generally good execution (as far as I can tell), but mostly because it still has the best mobile (iPad) app that I use for the majority of my stock and options trading. Note that there are two apps: TD Ameritrade and thinkorswim (aka TOS). TOS is the one you want, and their desktop TOS app is also really good, but I actually find the iPad app to be more than sufficient for most of my trading.

They continue to work and improve it (which I'm relieved about, because Schwab's mobile app is awful, Webull is worse, and I don't know how anyone uses RobinHood for options trading, it's so hard to do cancel/replace orders with them, which I do constantly).
The climate doesn't care about per capita, but people do. And solving climate change involves a global effort, but if you insist on shoving most of the burden to the global south who never had a chance at a first world lifestyle, they'll just tell you to screw yourself. You want to insist on bringing your accumulated centuries of carbon emissions onto the lifeboat, while telling everyone else to impose quotas on their luggage, then they'll be happy to drag you to the bottom together.
ah, in this case that works. although it doesn't if you have additional arguments to b,c,d and e. I guess I should have crafted my example better.
Yeah this. I've seen plenty of good jokes on here get upvoted. OPs was unoriginal and lacked any creativity.
Oh, that’s quite the Bart chart.
7 is half node, 4 full node, 3 half, 20A full node again. Moore's law is doubling of transistors density every 2 years. So the roadmap is indeed conservative, just following the Moore's law.
Yes, police should not be the welfare patrol. However they are, because they are out and about and often would be the nearest public authority to respond to such a need, and governments don't want to fund the social programs that they legislate. It's the same reason teachers are imposed upon to be defacto child-welfare social workers.

Police should enforce the law/investigate crimes.

Teachers should teach.

If we're going to have social welfare programs, we need to provide personnel to do that work, not pile it upon other professions as an unwanted secondary responsibility.
So we can waste it on watching porn, pumping water to golf courses, running the light in your fridge, charging your fitbit, or whatever else you choose to do with it. You can extend that argument to anything that uses power which you don't approve of. Your problem isn't with crypto, it's with the power grid.

Here's a brilliant idea: what if you did the leg work to lobby your politicians to push for a power grid that did what you wanted without having to limit innovation...instead of complaining online?
It certainly seems difficult to prove either side here :). I think I just trigger when someone says something so definitive like "you can't become a grandmaster if you start as an adult".

I'm one who has excelled in a handful of hobbies to pretty high levels while holding down a day job. Started golf at 23 and 4 years later I'm a low-single digit handicap. Started skiing around the same time and I'm working up do doing backflips off jumps, while already being able to do several tricks off jumps, slide rails, and drop moderate sized cliffs.

I'm not trying to brag, and I'm not saying that those are even extraordinary or comparable to anything professional. But I've had people legit tell me that the only chance I have of being a scratch golfer or do a backflip on skis was if I started as a kid. Which is obviously ridiculous to me, and I'll prove them wrong in the next few years.

MY POINT: Take a bunch of adults like me and give them the resources to practice golf or skiing all day every day? You'll eventually get someone who can go pro (which I'm saying is the equivalent of being a grandmaster for this conversation). At what rate would they go pro compared to kids? Who can say. I'd wager it's a lot closer than people in this thread are thinking.
This is hilarious! Got a good laugh from this. It also illustrates how easy it is to impersonate other people in Git. I’m surprised this isn’t discussed more.

To be honest, when you really think about it, any commit that is not GPG signed is unverifiable. It could be anybody. I wish signing commits was more widespread.
(I'm just talking out of my ass but) I'd imagine the screenshots can be compressed pretty efficiently, as the content of any photographic detail like images/picture don't need to be preserved with outstanding quality..
You may want to update your logo:

The importance of Ansible trademarks

The Ansible trademark and the “A” logo in a shaded circle are our most valuable assets. The value of these trademarks encompass the Ansible Brand. Effective trademark use is more than just a name, it defines the level of quality the customer will receive and it ties a product or service to a corporate image. A trademark may serve as the basis for many of our everyday decisions and choices. The Ansible Brand is about how we treat customers and each other. In order to continue to build a stronger more valuable Brand we must use it in a clear and consistent manner.

The mark consists of the letter “A” in a shaded circle. As of 5/11/15, this was a pending trademark (registration in process).

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/style_guid...
Is the implication here that Apple doesn't value memory-safety? Why would you say that?

Presumably because they also said

> iOS is hundreds of millions of lines of C and C++

and Apple did write a whole new operating system that way not so long ago despite the well-known safety issues of doing so. If any company in the world has the resources to incrementally rewrite an entire operating system with huge numbers of active users today so that the attack surface becomes progressively smaller, it's Apple.
> That we here in the US tend to think of cars as an expression of our identities is a deep-rooted issue.

I actually don't mean it this way. The people that I'm thinking of aren't in a social class/subculture that takes pride in cars per se. Especially as my generation has urbanized so heavily, if anything having a car is coded lower-class. As an example, imagine a New Yorker/San Franciscan sniffing about how they've never owned a car and "barely even know how to drive". They're definitely not saying so in embarrassment (this caricature may or may not be closer to me than I'd like to admit...)

What I'm talking about is a broader inability to separate being stuck in a collective action problem from taking responsibility for the whole problem. Most people just don't have the moral reasoning ability to understand that "a car-oriented system is harmful" is different from "_you_ are harming people by participating in/being stuck in a car-oriented system".
Does it really make sense? NFTs have not been proven to be anything except hype (really well selling hype for a while, but nothing but hype nonetheless).
I'm a native English-speaker, and the use of the term similarly annoys me, though only just a little. Why not be clearer an simply say "19th century" (early/mid/late)?

Reminds me of the story of the British headline "Fog in channel -- continent cut off".
The messages people want to hear, are typically the most mimetic. It is funny though.
It's an existential question. Right now the US economy is entirely dependent upon Taiwanese semiconductor fabrication. This isn't a glaring problem yet, because China is also dependent upon the same supply chain, giving rise to a mutual incentive not to rock the boat too hard. However, China has dedicated substantial resources to building its own fab infrastructure since well before the pandemic [0], with the goal of establishing a parallel ecosystem that circumvents the US-controlled supply chain [1]. If the US does not follow suit, its dependence upon Taiwan becomes a massive liability.

How much did we spend on the Iraq War, despite our own country being a major producer of oil and gas? Our economic incentive to entangle ourselves in Taiwan is even greater, but the stakes of military confrontation with China would be more dangerous. How much would you pay to avert such a conflict -- or worse, to avert the consequences of acquiescing to China's expansionism? Ironically, dependency on Taiwanese semiconductor fabrication reduces our ability to defend the island. Until the time that a fab interruption there would not halt our economy, Taiwan remains a US pressure point and China will continue to press it.

I think $200 billion is a cheap price tag for a path forward that involves neither warfare nor perpetual paranoia about every perturbation in the South China Sea. Taiwan established itself as a semiconductor powerhouse largely because its government backed TSMC. South Korea's government bends over backwards for Samsung, which makes up about a fifth of their GDP. The way forward for the US may be similar in mentality: throw the government behind the industry. US fabs need resilient and high-quality infrastructure for power, water, and logistics. We can use the collimated power and authority of the government to yield a vastly more effective long-term solution than piecemeal tax credits on lithography scanners.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/04/china-ramps-up-own-semicondu...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU2rNB34yY4
1) I'm curious - since what you're primarily selling here is 'trust' and a great deal of trust at that (e.g. care of age-ing parents). How do you plan to create that? Especially for first time users?
2) It seems like a big part of your offering is the end-fulfiller-agent - i.e. the actual agent fulfilling the task. How do you plan to select/oversee agents? (Especially when operating in new locations like India). Can you inspire trust that an agent sent to help an aging parent will not later use information gathered to rob said parent?
3) Do you plan to target governmental/bureaucratic activities - like submitting a form to a bank or picking up and mailing some document. If so how can you inspire the same trust one would have with a family member?
I’ve been wanting this for myself for so long; very happy it was built! Would love a one time payment option though.
For a moment I thought the claim was Calment was a chimera as well as a long-lived person.

A chimera is essentially a single organism that's made up of cells from two or more "individuals"—that is, it contains two sets of DNA, with the code to make two separate organisms.

One way that chimeras can happen naturally in humans is that a fetus can absorb its twin. This can occur with fraternal twins, if one embryo dies very early in pregnancy, and some of its cells are "absorbed" by the other twin. The remaining fetus will have two sets of cells, its own original set, plus the one from its twin.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/3-human-chimeras-...

Unfortunately the claim is more like identity theft. Much less interesting biologically.

This article outlines four types of known human chimeras:

https://www.healthline.com/health/chimerism
"But David Kanter, an analyst with Real World Technologies, said Intel is being more cautious than in the past. The years of delays resulted in part from the "hubris" of tackling multiple technical problems in a single generation of technology."

That's some serious spin there. The chatter has been that Intel has had poor focus, poor working conditions, poor investments, poor communication within the company and a plethora of hubris. They need a culture overhaul and that seems to be what's happening. The jury is out to where they take this. I would bet on their competitors at this point.
I think this is what parent is referring to. A short guide from a power user on coping with those flaws would be invaluable for occasional users.
Medicare and Medicaid are not exclusive. They call it "dual eligible".

(PDF WARNING) https://www.cms.gov/Medicare-Medicaid-Coordination/Medicare-...

This lists 20% of Medicare and 15% of Medicaid enrolled are dual eligible. So that's somewhere between 10.2 and 12.2 million lower, using your numbers.

(And yes, those numbers are obviously off somewhere, since the two should match. But it's good enough and I'm not sure it's even possible to track down the actual numbers used in the given link.)
What about pre-.NET VB?
Thanks for the write-up. One issue, though:

>You might have also noticed the “Encrypt local backup” checkbox. MVT only operates on decrypted backups, so there’s no point in encrypting your backup here and immediately decrypting it to scan it - just create an unencrypted backup and delete it after you’re done.

You should still do an encrypted backup even if you're going to immediately decrypt it for MVT. An encrypted backup contains more complete data; it's closer to a filesystem dump. The MVT docs actually explicitly recommend this, too:

>If you want to have a more accurate detection, ensure that the encrypted backup option is activated and choose a secure password for the backup.
Fourplexes allowed on every S.F. single-family lot?
gghuygjjg
Also the world is not a zero sum game. I win when we both win. In a competitive environment it isn't necessary for someone to win and someone to lose. If someone else wins and I "lose" then I get enjoyment from the other person's win.

> Do you feel jealous when you see other people getting successful

Comparison to others doesn't help how we feel. The only person we can compare ourselves to is ourself. If I ask myself, "Am I better today than yesterday?", if the answer is yes then I say great and let the thought go. If the answer is no, then I have an opportunity tomorrow to do what I can and do better.
So gonna use this to game my gihub account honestly. At least it can make saying "I'm a team player" much easier.