skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the 'banks' in that count serve as the local monopoly, or as part of a duopoly, or triopoly in their region and are protected by and regulated primarily by state laws as well. Many state banking regulations are significantly more lax than federal banking regulation.

The handful of banks in the U.S. that serve multiple states and fall under federal banking regulation seem even more consolidated than the baby formula industry on a variety of metrics.

Certainly more consolidated per dollar of cash flow. Probably more consolidated per dollar of net profits.
etc.

Which would be the expected outcome of the theory if the baby formula industry in the U.S. were less regulated than federal banks but more regulated than state banks.
That makes no sense. Exchange is a zero sum game. Anyone selling USDT on Bitfinex (the exchange) for USD is just swapping assets with someone else doing the opposite. The exchange itself wouldn't accumulate Tether as a result of this trade action... unless they're playing market maker on their own exchange?

It only makes sense if Tether (the organisation) is itself buying back USDT on Bitfinex to support the price (in which case the Tether would be withdrawing back to their Treasury)

Of course I realise that Bitfinex and Tether are entwined, and it proves nothing about their asset store.
Well, it seems like narcissism is a better predictor of success than IQ based on said anecdotal observations.

Perhaps that is what psychometrics should truly be trying to quantify and people should truly strive for if they want to "succeed," but let's be honest. What is the point in knowing one's IQ score if you can't proclaim to others about how much smarter you are than them?
Similar to this article: The first few episodes of the Cracked podcast are pretty interesting.
This, so much this. It's such a dark pattern. Why don't they at least set the timer to 1 minute (or so) instead of 2 seconds (or so) to at least give the victim ^H ^H ^H ^H sitor a chance to read the start of the freaking article?
To get 1M TPS, you will need to recieve 1M PPS (assuming each button reset is a single packet, which it's probably not if you're doing HTTP) and that is really hard (tm): https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-receive-a-million-packets...
I definitely think this is a huge factor for me. I have access to really amazing food and it's difficult to choose not to partake.
Shouldn't be seamless, on the contrary. Full of seams. Go back to pencil and paper, better. That was a better system on all counts.

Like actually getting my private health information published in the local newspaper--in particular regarding my psychiatrization and torture--is much, much better than creepy standardized test cheaters knowing all my secrets and nobody else knowing anything. That's what I'm doing these days.

In fact I would say the system works far too well, it's very easy for doctors to gossip in their seamless channels and far too hard to stop my psych record--like it was a prison record or a warrant or some actual judgment by a worthy authority--getting around behind my back. I still can't see it myself. I'm expected to believe I have a doctor who advises people paying for my treatment and I've never met this asshole. Hundreds, even thousands of pages and I can't see any of it, it's like a Kick Me on my back, but a biography, a Kick Me epic. Jorge Barros Beck has a few hundred pages, Ximena Rojas Núnez has some, Stanford CAPS has some, that asshole I told you about, then "Clínica" Rayencura produced a couple hundred (they have a former trained journalist called Gonzalo, former junkie too, working to fill out accusative, slanderous dossiers on people, he doesn't say shit he just writes shit, only shit, lots of shit).

Can't wait for that leak!
> you just scan the barcode and it tots up the calories.

A good tule of thumb is to minimize the number of things you eat with barcodes.
Hello Letlang My programming language targeting Rust
Ralph Waldo Emerson called New York City "a sucked orange" (He did not like NY). Once I’ve visited it, I also did not like it. I don’t get the appeal
Yes, it is a work in progress, but there are some positive results.

My point is that hiding this fact is not telling the whole story.
Another one I'm really annoyed that we didn send to the ESC final, from 2010:

https://youtu.be/qB3koZTz8Pw?t=71 (Timoteij - Kom)
The tricky bit is the interplay between security and criticality of need.

If I'm dying of an unknown condition in the ER, I really want minimal fences between my doctor and my data. So a careful balance has to be struck because sometimes patient need is served by breaking privacy. Bulletproof technical solutions could impede patient care.
Yet another Iverson Ghost!

https://dev.to/bakerjd99/numpy-another-iverson-ghost-9mc
Darwin is incredibly poorly optimized for server workloads, and it would require a lot of developer resources in the wrong part of Apple. OS dev is all on the 'product' side, under Craig, the part that ships hardware -- Services, under Eddie, are where the server workloads are needed and the two orgs' reporting chains meet at Tim. This is also why Swift on Linux is kind of a (well-intentioned) afterthought that no one is really using on the server side even at Apple, since devtools is also under product.

Server workloads are almost universally run on RHEL of some variety, presumably because (as sibling post mentions) of long term support contracts.
Age and cognitive issues may hinder you from effectively doing "a good job" of that.
Fun fact: water doesn't actually do the cutting, the water is just a medium for carrying an abrasive dust (ruby/sapphire/diamond) that abrades the steel.
6 foot ish - 185 cm
Apple gave up on the serious server market ages ago, especially the enterprise market. What else other than Linux are they gonna use? Windows?

Maybe BSD would fit better with their lineage, but Linux has far better enterprise vendor support.
N-acetyl-cysteine.
Having been to and through those regions I agree, I would not want to vacation or visit there without good reason. However, the show(s) made it seem like a fairly quiet and comfortable region (barring the cartels and drug addictions). Other than certain desert scenes, they really didn't do the environment justice; I rarely felt like long-sleeved Oxford shirt-wearing Walter or suit-wearing Jimmy/Saul were sweating constantly, which contradicted my own experiences, and I've been there in all months of the year. It does get chilly, as any desert/scrub land region does, but it felt a little off. I have the same issue with all the Dune adaptations, they just never really get across the temperature and/or humidity of the place unless it's relevant to a plot point.
Use sharrows. Changing the meaning of stripes for one special type of road is a terrible idea.

There also really needs to be more aggressive standards for participation in transportation planning. I see way too many “ideas guys” playing engineer. I’m looking at you, landscape architects!
They acknowledge the GPL conflict in the license file (https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-ios/blob/master/License.md):

> … we have committed not to pursue any license violation that results solely from the conflict between the GNU GPLv3 and the Apple App Store terms of service, including the FOSS-specific policies as outlined in sections 3.3.22, 5.1, and 9.1
It seems to load for me but I never get to see anything in the canvas. Safari on iPhone.
> I tell everyone to never take benzos for any reasons.

You tell people having a panic attack not to take a sublingual benzodiazepine?
See my comment below, on the challenges of pull based collection on Monarch. There were many. I can answer questions, if that's helpful.
Oh, I've thought about this a lot too. I know there are cultural and psychological components, and that is my main point. Everyone's experience and expectation are different.
The point is Python's exception mechanism is a particularly heavyweight way to do loop control. This benchmark is heavily dominated by that overhead in a way other interpreted languages aren't.
this is incredible, I'm so glad to hear it
Only when the government specifies how things must be done.

You break it you bought it.
Why the hell does everyone bring up calories for fat loss? I lost 45 pounds by not counting my calories at all (only in the beginning, when I didn't know any better). You lose fat by reducing insulin resistance, not by food intake. I didn't even exercise, I basically sat all day and those pounds flew off. I did intermittent fasting, learned to cook, and slowly started replacing my diet with healthier foods. I'll be honest, I lost a good portion by going keto and avoiding the majority of carbs but I quit because there's no way I could keep a diet like that long-term. Now I eat complex carbs and indulge in junk food once in awhile, with my diet being mostly whole foods. I keep a steady 150ish at 5'8.

The more important factor is ALWAYS the psychological factor, which NEVER gets brought up in weight loss advice. If someone is obese or nearing obesity, they have a food addiction. They keep eating because they're filling a void in themselves. I'll be honest, I had to deal with it and if you're overweight and trying to lose weight you'll have to deal with it too. When I was overweight, I was also depressed and in an abusive environment so I ate the pain away. It's related to emotional nourishment, which unfortunately not many people get enough of these days and it fuels food addiction. It fuels any addiction, really. Most likely there's no one around the obese person who understands them and has any type of real, deep connection with them as a person so they eat to keep that void away. At least that's what it was for me, maybe it's different for someone else. That's the real reason someone can't lose weight, there's an underlying psychological problem fueling it. No mentally healthy person is overweight. No amount of "calorie counting" will solve the empty void someone who's obese is trying to fill.
buspirone works great, when it works.. which is for what ? 20% of the population?
There may be thousands of banks, but all but a few manage their funds at one of the big few, essentially acting as resellers of the big banks' services. For example, I my bank is "Ally Bank", but if I ask them for instructions on how to receive a wire transfer, they instruct me to direct it to "JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.", the largest bank in the U.S. I previously used the brand "Simple Bank", which provided accounts via "The Bancorp Bank", the 5th largest.

It's a similar case to cell phone providers: although there are hundreds in the U.S., all but four do not operate their own network, but rather resell the network of one of the big four.

It's an interesting question, though, how much this consolidation is due to regulation versus being a result of a natural monopoly, i.e. high barrier to entry for the type of business.
I would rather keep blocking ads and pay content publishers than pay money to the ad middleman.
It's hard to give advice as you haven't given a sense of what your career and academic history looks like. Some questions:

- Are you self taught?

- Do you have a bachelor's degree? One in CS?

- What does your work history look like; have you been full-time employed at any point since entering the work force or has it always been part time contract work?

- Most importantly, why have you only done contract work -- is there something that has prevented you over the course of the last decade from applying to and succeeding in full-time work?

- Do you simply not want it, have you tried it and it hasn't worked out, perhaps a combination of the two?

Based on that you can determine what your next paths forward are.

One approach is applicable if the will to work in a professional capacity is there, as well as the capability, and that all that's missing is that, for lack of a better term, you've been on "sabbatical." If that's the case, doing work on Toptal/Gun.IO/Facet (probably would recommend any of those over Upwork although it is an option of last resort). You should be able to get a decent stream of contract work that way, sharpen your skills and then eventually move to a FT position from there. The most important thing is to get into a rhythm where you are doing work on a regular basis that is useful to your employer so that you have something of value for when you decide to move.

Another approach is taking a reset because you can't do the former. Ways to do a reset include either a bootcamp or an MS program (assuming you have a bachelor's; if not, the bachelor's is an option), as both will likely have placement programs after you complete the program. They will also give you a foundation of some kind to think about problem solving in a structured environment with instructors, all of which increases the possibility you'll have a shot at finding gainful employment.
My favorite Eurovision performance is the great Belgian entry from 1980, Telex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6USa0zUMmqI

For the context, this is their actual music from 1979: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=___U9R8C2rU

(The disclaimer is that I haven't actually ever watched Eurovision except by accident.)
I haven’t used it but it appears to serve everything over the same port. You could block it with a reverse proxy but not with a firewall or layer 4 proxy.
why would they create their own version of spring boot? so they have more code to maintain and it takes longer for new devs to get ramped up?
You read that right or we're both reading it wrong. I'm guessing the cucumber was an early prototype of the gelled water shaped charges, or he has a very...energetic...hatred of salads.
Also, I gave this talk a couple of years ago, though I'm not sure how deeply I talked about collection models.

https://youtu.be/2mw12B7W7RI
> Over a thousand job applications and zero offers

That doesn't tell us very much. How many interviews did you get from those applications? Are you drawing interest but not converting? Or is there zero interest?

> my former colleagues do not reply to my inquiries about jobs anymore

Because you've asked them too many times already?

Do you have any insight into why none of your your temp stints have turned into permanent roles?

You mentioned you live in a MCOL area but where, exactly? Have you tried changing your location on LinkedIn to a hot tech area, such as the Bay Area, Seattle, or NYC? A lot of interviews are all online now. And even if not, you can pay out of pocket to fly in.
I personally feel that tuples are an antipattern. It’s relatively simple to just define a record with the properties you need and gives meaningful context information because the record and it’s properties are named.
This has already happened. It is not a coincidence that we went from $-40 oil to $130 oil in the span of two years.

I posit the Saudis and Russians deliberately maintained elevated production levels into the COVID shutdowns in an attempt to handicap US energy production. Bankruptcies in the US ensued. Wells were shut. Supply went offline. Now we're begging them to turn the wells back on, and they're not interested.

Evidence to ponder for the unbelievers.

[0]: In March 2020, Saudis and Russians can't come to an agreement about cutting output into a global shutdown (this was clearly a show)

https://www.csis.org/analysis/oil-price-war

[1]: Trump pushes Saudis to cut production into negative oil, US bankruptcies ensue

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil-trump-saudi-sp...

[2]: Biden tells Saudis to boost production amid $100 oil

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-officials-ask-saudi-boost...

[3]: At all time high prices, OPEC is still behind its production targets.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/opec-oil-output-marc...

The beauty of this strategy is that is creates the continued fear that at some point the Saudis will turn on the tap and oil can go sub $60 again (see futures prices at the long end of the curve), so the US is still wary of investing in oil and gas to deal with the shortage.

Everyone seems to forget the Saudis created an oil crisis in the 70s for political gain once. How we are not talking about this today more actively is beyond me.
Completely unexpected.
If you can never change who you are I'd never have gotten married or had kids. I'd still be at the same dead-end job because of my fear of change. I don't have great advice for you because I don't work at one of the big tech companies. I really hope HN doesn't represent the majority of our industry and people who want to better themselves because if it does maybe I should look at leaving software development.
> I think they only work if you got anxiety or something

Probably something to that. I didn't feel much at the prescribed dose. Being curious and foolish, I took 3x. Did feel that. Socially effusive. Good sleep. There was a physical aspect. A warm glow, muscles that felt relaxed rather than stiff. Like waking up in warm sun after a particularly good night's sleep.

People without anxiety, who aren't literally and metaphorically tense, probably get far less of that. But that's what it does for a really anxious person like me, especially with a bit too much. So of course I did it again the next day.

You quickly come to long for, or believe that you're just better off, in that state all the time. But there is tolerance. It stops working like that at the same dose after a few days in my experience. So, take more. I was in big trouble within a month. That's the psychological addiction in my experience, the strong desire or preference for being in that state, emotionally.

I couldn't stop. No physical consequences but intolerable withdrawal mostly of rebound anxiety and insomnia. I eventually got off them with a very long taper. ~5 months with the dose adjusted weekly. No significant physical withdrawal. At the right dose of a long-lasting benzodiazepine, I felt like before I had started taking them, more or less. I did have to learn to deal with the psychological need to be more disinhibited than normal. If I could do that, and not escalate doses, getting off would be possible. It was, and I haven't taken any since the last dose of the taper. I think about that state and sometimes I do long for aspects of it, but they're not really cravings anymore. Only get those for nicotine.
Love this book - I recommend it to all kinds of people. It really isn't about "Big C" Consciousness, but more about how our brain is doing all kinds of stuff without us knowing about it. Really fascinating experiments described and an examination of the implications. I walked away from it having a profound appreciation for how my brain is constantly chewing on things without my awareness.
That is a wonderful sentiment. I might even have been true still when Lincoln said that. I've studied enough history to be sure that I can't tell.

But it is certainly not true now.

The government of the present day is primarily an antagonist of the people, extracting the maximum of wealth and power that it can without enduring a revolt.
This is the exact use case that the web browser's history solves really well.

Also: https://hn.algolia.com/
Pretty sure it has nothing to do with Starlink.
Any obvious downsides to this approach?
A few things that aren't clear from your post.

- Do you have a degree? If so, which subject

- You claimed you sent in over a thousand job applications and zero offers. What kind of jobs are you applying for? How far along in the process do you get?

I think your problem can be broken down into two parts: getting an interview and performing well in the interview. The first part is trickier IMO because its kind of a black box, although I managed to get contacted by big tech without a CS degree. The second part doesn't take years, it takes months of just cramming leetcode interviews. It's no secret what they look for and ask. They want you to do well and give you all the tools to do well. It's just putting in the effort by grinding leetcode an hour or two a day for a month or two.
I haven't seen people who claim to get anxious in job interviews mention these sort of things, but I can believe them :).

I do also think that for most roles an interview situation is extremely different to what your job is going to be like.
Tell me how I know you got this idea from the internet or hearsay without experiencing it yourself, then tell me how no really you went to this one place and experienced it yourself and refuse to provide any proof other than your absolutely true and universally applicable anecdote. Go on.
>sleep-inducing dosage

I don't know why benzos are used for sleep anymore. It's generally a higher dose than what's needed to manage anxiety, so there's increased risk of dependency and you build up tolerance quickly.

In contrast, something like a low dose of Seroquel is at least as effective, has a much lower addictions & abuse profile, and tolerance doesn't build up very quickly at all.

On top of which there should very rarely be any need for regular sleep aids. Chronic idiopathic insomnia is relatively rare, and any other forms should have treatment protocols that don't involve heavy duty maintenance meds.
What would happen if you just started with a slug?
Sounds like labor being switched, i.e. from hourly worker to one-person service firm that still does the same job except as contractor. China is not like the US or EU in that you get social benefits like retirement and unemployment from the geo-locale you were born in not the place where you live and work.

Thus, the have workers in factories that cannot get social benefits in that locale as they were not born there. It makes the non-locales more pliable as a far as moving them to non-employee I would think ass they may be more hungry to make up the difference in social benefits they miss out on.
Because not everyone is. The protocol has only ever gone into debt once. To get rid of that debt were about 90 auctions to burn about 4.5 million DAI. The market cap at the time for MKR was over $200 million. Even if it did crash the price of MKR that doesn't affect the stability of DAI because DAI would be fully collateralized my the vaults.
Reading Ignition! convinced me that there's more than raw intelligence to experimenting with energetic chemistry. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0813595835/
Crushing and distributing the required amount of rock seems challenging. Unless crushed rock is really produced enough by mining and is somehow really cheap to move (eg trains are coming back empty anyway)? It probably also adds another trip around the field for the combines?

Still, if it's this easy we really need to be doing this.
Advanced and permanent search filters would be nice to have. No longer seeing results from geeksbygeeks, medium or stackoverflow clones when searching for documentation would be great
long term constant exposure to opioids will literally begin cause the pain they purport to solve. If you give a perfectly healthy person with no pain at all opioids for long enough they will be indistinguishable from a person who has an actual chronic pain issue.

people should only ever take opioids VERY TEMPORARILY to get through surgeries or other such things. Opioids are not for long term pain management.

Same thing with benzos and anxiety.
Banks are probably the worst example you could have given.

There were ~12,500 banks in the US as recently as 1990 (when the population was much smaller than it is today!)

Since the regulations that were passed following the great financial crisis, almost zero new banks have been founded.

https://ilsr.org/number-of-new-banks-created-by-year-1993-to...
Yeah, while there's no "safe" level of lead ingestion, not only do we not use leaded gas in cars, commercial aviation (with very few exceptions) does not use it either, and the private/general aviation piston-engine planes are emitting it several thousand feet in the air, not at street level around houses and people. We should get rid of lead in aviation fuel, but it's not a substantial source of environmental lead these days.