skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget the hostile attempts at monopolizing information access in India and 3rd world countries with INTERNET.org that was so nefarious I was very scared, fortunately india thwarted facebook, inc's malicious plan and rejected it... but internet.org still went on to poison other 3rd world countries like the philippines and indonesia, before their nescient tech industry even had a chance to stop it.

In addition, the nefarious bribery of brazilian telcoms to allow whatsapp to have unlimited and free network bandwidth, so as to out-muscle any competitors.

Indeed, fb did push out PR messages like privacy is dead, although I'd love to cite some source on that... all I want to say is, Privacy isn't dead facebook, you're dead!
Installation of cameras at face level is nothing new. Equipment like self checkout kiosks and ATMs have had (usually discrete) cameras in the user's eyeline for decades. Higher theft targets like banks and convenience stores install (often hidden, sometimes not) cameras at eye level at the entrance and exit doors. Hidden in the height stick is common in banks, grocery stores tend to just install normal domes at head height. This is all in response to the simple fact that wearing a baseball cap is enough to prevent ceiling-mounted cameras getting your face, and your face is exactly what the police want to be able to see after a theft.

I don't intend to defend the use of facial recognition in these applications, just saying that cameras for face capture date back to the early days of continuous video surveillance in the '80s, and although I haven't seen it myself I assume there were some users that installed hold-up cameras at eye level in the '60s - certainly the importance of getting a clear view of the face was discussed in articles about hold up cameras, but in that time it was less common for people to wear hats indoors (and bank security would typically require people to remove them).
If I recall, one Tether executive was holding a good portion of the “reserves” in his personal bank account.

How it is that Tether trades on par with trustworthy alternatives like USDC, Paxos and Gemini, I have no idea.
Same issue as other commenters, I have no idea what it actually does despite being an experienced Go developer.

The HN demo is extremely complex for a demo, this woukd benefit from a simple documented example.
Lack of a conscience leaves you suffering less depression and anxiety ... it also lets you feel more comfortable eating the flesh of another being.

Perhaps this is less a case of causality, and more a case of correlation ... specifically with where you are on the sliding scale towards full sociopathy.

p.s. I say this as someone who eats meat and knows it is objectively immoral.
Argg! I also have a thing I forgot to cancel last month! Did you get your Prime one done? I'm doing mine right now.

Edit: done! Thanks.
$41m is a quarter of Tether's present claimed excess reserves ($160m), so it's a bit more than a slap on the wrist.

Of course, this assumes Tether aren't lying about that too.
> For example, the convergence dock will not display on a monitor.

I recently watched a presentation [0] that focused on the pinephone state-of-affairs, and it did not leave me with the impression the dock couldn't display on a monitor.

Are you sure you're not just experiencing some pathological incompatibility problem? Or am I going senile and need to re-watch the video?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuEL_GJ1Y2s
I agree that single sign on takes advantage of people not understanding what they give up when they choose FB/Google for SSO. What government policy could fix that? The fallback seems to be that people just re-use their email address in all their accounts.
> gyms

From my understanding, the profitability of gyms is actually dependent upon some sizable percentage of people paying for a membership and not using it. If that cohort didn't exist, membership fees would have to be much higher.

Software subscriptions are different though, as the variable costs are negligible: the cost associated with providing service to each new user is next to nothing.

Personally, I'd be way more likely to sign up for a paid subscription if I knew they would automatically stop charging me if/when I stop using the service.
> Tether is a scam, but no worse than the US dollar and normal banking fractional reserves...

So tether insures up to $100,000 for every depositor?
The railroads weren't total monopolies, they were just local monopolies. If you didn't like them you could just move somewhere else, to another place with a local monopoly. Which is not the same as competition.
Is the optimal outcome 50/50 representation in every walk of life? Or do certain career preferences naturally skew? How can we tell?
There is absolutely other ways to get between those people in all those cases. That's exactly why it doesn't hold.
Yeah but uhhh, yeah men are like privileged and stuff... uh... The patriarchy is bad.
When something becomes routine for a developer, where they can predictably finish a work item without designing anything new, that task is immediately flagged in managers' minds as one that should be done by a more-junior/contractor/3rd-party/off-the-shelf solution. Almost by definition, then, good developers are relegated to only doing tasks that they are doing for the first time. The implications of this natural law are evident in the quality of the output, the predictability of the schedule, and career burn-out of people who are asked to be creative 100% of the time.
All of this was flagged. Unbelievable. Welp chalk this site up as another disgusting hive of censorship.
If MSFT could get better engineers for cheaper - they would. They're a business... Not a charity to engineers.
Eliminate lobbying for one. Loopholes aren't accidental, and it's pretty clear that policy that affects the money tends to be influenced by it.

A group of advising software people isn't gonna do anything when FAANG is spending millions on lobbying the policy that ultimately governs them.
I’m a big fan of kapp[1] for this sort of thing, it’s basically the same as kubectl apply, but with an app name and state tracking .

kapp deploy -a my-app -f ./examples/simple-app-example/config-1.yml

It was created by folks at my employer but I use it because I just like it’s simplicity.

[1] https://carvel.dev/kapp/
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Or are women not pursuing those fields because of the _impression_ that they are hostile.
> Antitrust is much broader than "monopolies".

I'm with you here.

> Saying "monopoly" is just shorthand for market power, it's not a binary definition.

No, the word "monopoly" has an actual definition.
Mostly it is you just need to dig in and make false starts until you figure it out.
Also fractional reserve lending is both how new money is created and how it's backed. When you borrow money from the bank, they create a positive balance in your account and a negative balance in theirs. As you repay the loan, the new money disappears. The money in circulation is backed by the demand created for that dollar at issuance (in that the loan must be repaid).
It's so awesome even the testimonials have radical names:

Chad F

Sam L

Max D
TED talks are overrated for information/education. I wasted 18 minutes, and it has given me nothing. One could maybe discusss differences in protocol implementations, regarding error correction, latency, overhead on networks of a given topology. This was nothing like that.
I generally do not trust the front page logos, there is a difference between, Amazon using it for their e-commerce needs and using it for a feedback form collection service. Some small team might be using it, which may not be as significant.
Last I tried Sail JS along with Meteor( i admit 3 years ago), it was slow and buggy.
I love the “search optimized view” framing. That is indeed the case for us. It’s hard to store objects inside postgres with loose schema (eg not all attributes for the document are always present).

I keep dreaming that AWS will someday release the unholy child of dynamodb and solr! Maintenance of ES can wear you down.
Also, what subpopulations in 5 years will be advised not to take the vaccine (such as those with certain chronic illnesses, pregnancy etc), or do so with specific safety protocols, as is the case for other vaccines given the long term understanding we have gleaned.
> Is the most remarkable thing about a really cool CBT tool for ADHD really that they have a standard trial flow?

I don't know - the problem is that, as an adhd person, once I learn about their bad trial flow, I'm not continuing to learn anything else about it.

That's their problem, not mine.
The price rise was a Tether-fueled pump. Someone poured $1b of stablecoins into a single purchase to pump the price.
> there was never more than $61.5 million backing Tether, even as more 442 million coins were circulating at one point.

Ah, pulling the classic "fractional reserve" I see.
I think that the downvotes are because it's pretty disingenuous to remove criminals and poor people from US statistics, before comparing with other nations.

Like, I imagine that my country would the greenest & cleanest in the world, if we would get to disregard all factory and car emissions, from our stats.

And I'd be rightly downvoted for making that claim.
Twitter, at least, is utterly worthless and entirely voluntary. Nobody uses the platform to announce or coordinate family events or to reach out to loved ones when they need help. I have a mostly inactive facebook account in case family messages me on there and I need to help out - I don't have a twitter account because I don't find brigading to be a worthwhile activity. I'd say with a moderate level of confidence that nothing that's announced on twitter has ever been vital to know - if Whirlpool is forced to recall a certain dishwasher brand they'll send out emails and potentially physical letters - no government agent is going to watch them tweet and say "Yup - you just informed the public in a responsible manner".
That sounds somewhat unusual, but side effects are a very individual thing. It might be you can't get a low enougb dose for your child. I'm a full, rather large adult, and I only need abouy 5-10mg of ritalin, and going above that is unpleasant. I'm sure I'd have been quite sick if I was taking that dose (5mg seems to be close to the minimum they'll do) at 7.

A lot of doctors start patients at crazy high doses (over 10mg) and a lot of patients do indeed benefit from 50+mg.

If medication isn't tolerated, starting therapy early seems like a great idea.
> Equalization is complicated, but there is no cheque written from Alberta to Quebec. Instead, the federal government pays Quebec its share of it from its own funds, mostly from federal income and sales taxes. The calculation of it is based on potential tax revenue.

Tell me if I'm wrong but someone from Quebec told me that equalization always has to be profitable for Quebec. Else, nationalists will bring up that they are footing the bill for the whole country and want out.

> The Alberta government has been able to direct this rage to the federal government and Quebec though when the people really should be looking to their own provincial government instead.

The same guy told me you could win elections really easily by bashing Quebec (which sounds absurd, here you'll get no reaction bashing NY for gubernatorial race) and that Newfoundland apparently almost went bankrupt twice with such governments (they were doing hydro I think?).
Pretty cool in fact all the methods they demo there show good approximation of difficult distributions (if that looks easy, take a look at scikit learn’s manifold doc page). The shoe that hasn’t dropped in the article is behavior in high dimensions. For instance, I seem to recall that backwards integration of high dimensional DEs is unstable (not to mention memory issues).
>ctrl+f battery
> 3000mAh

sigh
It is very overbearing to have this on what is essentially a cloud storage service. Especially when they also make it a lot more difficult for third-party cloud storage services to function effectively (being able to run in the background automatically when charging, etc).

Now, if they wanted to implement this solely for "shared albums", that's a different conversation.
They still have to pay the fine in dollars, though. If you fine Tether a trillion dollars, they'll need to find people willing to pay them one trillion dollars in exchange for newly-minted (and obviously unbacked) Tether.

If you fined Tether one quadrillion dollars, they could mint a quadrillion Tether but they definitely won't have a quadrillion dollars to hand over.

Also, if you can't pay a fine without dipping into your depositors' money you are insolvent by any reasonable definition.
People on reddit and twitter are like, "great, now that Tether FUD is over, leave it behind and go for $100k!" - of course it is over. U in FUD stands for Uncertainty, and now it is Certain that Tether is a fraud.

The only thing I can't understand is why the price still pumps.
But this argument still seems to rely on "monopoly position on search", when there are in fact a number of search engines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Webb

Hmm, this controversy doesn't seem present at all in his wikipedia page. I wonder if there's a secret "Wikipedia Edit War" going on for control of this page
You could already use RECORD to return multiple values from a proc, so this really is only useful for oracle compatibility.
All true and accurate, and pertinent so long as you care 100% about whether you're infected or not, and 0% about whether your infection is of the kind that requires an ICU bed or not.

Feh.
Healthcare and education may be problems in America, but we are better off than we were before the government programs provided emergencies rooms and a literate population.
This is personal but my first impression with that font was not pleasant.

I'd go for something like this font-wise: https://www.gitbook.com/about
^this^
The great thing about this is that I don’t have to read (skip) a fucking preamble before each recipe about why this dish reminds the author of that time they spent a summer backpacking through Europe with their boyfriend. Keep it up.
> What are the problems then?

As stated in the review, and presumably in the book: that "the very bigness of present-day companies — especially those in the tech sector — does not just harm consumers, but that it also threatens innovation and undermines the power of government."

The problem that trust-busting is meant to solve is the bigness, and its impact on the government, innovation, and consumer markets.
> Like a painting, in a plane like this, everything "just is". Immutable. Confusing to me. I'll admit, I'll never understand the full meaning of something that exists outside time.

Correct, that's my initial comment said things are this way because it "has to be".

Our minds can not grasp the concept of what being "outside time" even means.

Again it fundamentally boils down to "why something rather than nothing". Clearly, it is because it "has to be". Because we have something, and that by definition can't come from nothing.

Pondering about these thoughts of the whole concept of "has to be" admittedly has kept me up some nights.
It certainly depends on what feature or what app you would like to work on. Mobian and Manjaro are both on GitLab, and the public is able to create an account. Issues there may be marked Help Wanted or similar.

In regard to motivation to continue programming, that can be the most difficult. Overall if you are proud of your work and find it useful yourself, you will probably continue the habit of contributing and supporting your code.
It is not hard to find lots of front-line doctors who have success with sugar pills (see: homeopathy). This means absolutely nothing.

People always seem to have trouble with statistics when stuff is not digital-like clear cut. In many areas (e.g. anything involving social studies), your noise levels are huge. The fact that you hear "some success stories" usually means that there is absolutely nothing, rather than indicative of something. When there is interest (and thus publication bias), the noise level actually increases.

For something in medicine to be actually plausibly effective, what you need to hear is more like "few failure stories". "Some success stories" doesn't even start to cut it. Our current research/publish system just cannot be used to identify treatments that have low effectiveness (which may actually be a good thing). We went over this topic not long ago in HN.
> New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, with a combined population of 1.8 million people have 24 seats in the Senate, while Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and BC, defined as "The West" and with a population of 11 million receive 24 seats as well.

Isn't it a fixed number of senators per state/provinces? Wyoming has the same number of senate seats as California for instance.
While I don't really follow any food social media, I've certainly sent pictures of strange food I've bought or made to my wife or parents. Food is literally one of the most universal things on earth, so it can be interesting if I go to a country and try a dish I've never had before, and to send pictures in the process.

I never really understood shitting on people posting food pics. How exactly is it hurting anyone?
The website actually asks for SSN to identify teachers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28866805

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28867562
Regarding 2, if crytocurrencies fire up all cylinders and get not only many traditional market makers, hedge funds, but also FOF involvement and with-hold tens of millions people's savings. They can potentially get buyout like traditional banks do.
I am actively disappointed that this organization chose to use such a weak survey to prove their point. It feels pretty darn accurate as a Canadian on the ground so paying out for a phone survey could have dodged all this doubt.
realized it's been that way forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYMXyzOaaU8
This is actually very high internationally, I wonder why? USA doesn't have particularly high ratio of women in undergrad (they are more than men there as well, but women outnumber men in undergrad in basically every country), so it isn't that they have more women as a base, they just get more women into grad programs. Could international students be the cause?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-nations-fare-...
The way I read it, they (unfavorably) compared American elections to Australian ones. Hence "here in Australia" followed by "in your last presidential election".

Anyway, I believe Australia has a prime minister rather than a president, so I don't think they can be talking about Australian elections.
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but it's a cat and mouse game to effectively disable your hardware because you can't use any of the software you want to use with it?

i feel like simply not playing is the real way to win this game. otherwise facebook still profits
The actual split is 54% to 46%, which is something that I would not qualified as significant.

It is a difference, but hardly shows that men are disengaged masses.
I feel the same way, and to me it's all about the authenticity. The context of social media takes away from the authenticity of the post. Someone may genuinely just want to share some dish that they just created, but in the context of social media, you can never be sure if they're posting it because of that, or posting it for the easy likes or easy engagement. Social media has commodified human interaction.

I forget where I read it, but it's similar to the idea that if someone you love makes a meal for you, at the end of it, you don't ask "how much do I owe you?" and break out your wallet. It's distasteful. Likewise, you don't do someone for a loved one or friend and afterwards say, "well that will be $X".

Posting on social media has a reward of sharing and liking, and as a result, to me, it turns human interaction into an exchange. (And I will admit that there is an element to that already, in terms of owing people favors etc., but the "bookkeeping" that we do is generally in our heads and is hard to quantify, which makes it a bit fuzzier and less commodified.)
I also made an open-source cloud, but really the whole point with AWS is the hardware!
go smaller, if u use some open source software check it's repositories and community forums and find something that people don't like to do

documentation is definitely a candidate
also automated tests
> They most certainly are monopolies and we can see it in their behavior.

This is not true for all the reasons I already pointed out in my comment.

You can't just wish this away. You need some other theory of the case. I agree with you that all those things are bad, but those bad things just don't flow from monopoly, they flow from some other problem.
I made a mistake, I should have said Millions of dollars an hour. Thanks for the correction
Yeah, it's in the NYAG settlement I linked as [3]. At one point, all their money was in Stuart Hoegner's personal Bank of Montreal account (#17 in [3]).

Hoegner (their GC) was the director of compliance at Excapsa, the parent company of the wildly non-compliant Ultimate Bet. That online poker site had a back door where some of their friends could see other poker players cards [1]

[1] https://bennettftomlin.com/2021/03/27/before-bitfinex-and-te...
The US navy does test its weapons in live fire demonstrations for both offensive and defensive systems, and includes drones and other asymetric deliveries. You can find some cool videos on YouTube.

Source: built one such system for US Navy.
As someone who develops software products for the financial services sector, I can assure you that the thing most stakeholders are looking for right now is simplification of operations, not sharding operations out to even more vendors (OSS or otherwise).

Every single one of our customers is looking for a path back to something that looks like the mainframe in terms of vertical integration of the business stack. Most got taken for a really bad ride by legions of consultants over the last ~2 decades and now have to visit 5-10 different system interfaces to take care of a single customer - A horrible combination of green screen, web sites and random pieces of paper that have to be scanned in just right. The list of procedures for some types of activities is bigger than the stack of disclosures the end customer receives.

Many of our clients are stuck in some contorted stance with half their stack in AS400-land and the other half scattered to the various "cloud" services which are mostly just random websites/services with shitty SOAP APIs (or no APIs at all).

The only financial services companies that are seeing positive uplift from these sorts of initiatives are those with enough resources to try this path, fail at it, and then decide they wanted to build 100% of their own stack in-house anyways.
Is there any evidence for this pith?
Harvard should do the right thing, and begin declining donations, or better yet, have a small list of "Harvard approved" deserving schools to give the money to instead. There is no way this school needs to continue reeling in 100M-500M size donations.
the $850M number you're talking about is the amount that Bitfenix gave Tether through Crypto Capital to cover for losses and/or missing money. the $18.5M was the fine they paid the NYAG for covering up that transaction.
All I wanted was a Pepsi!
https://30x500.com/academy/

It's online course that teaches (or at least tries to teach) how to come up with ideas for products by getting better at spotting problems.
Did you develop one? Remember the post you replied to was developers developers developers.
The canonical method would be to call the `totalSupply()` method on Tether's ERC20 contract.
I agree. Just pointing out an alternative viewpoint, but I kept thinking while reading the biography that his path to the top was risky and stressful.