skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See points above. Banks, being an integral part of the financial system, are only allowed to take on so much risk.
Third party companies have no such restrictions. But they can’t issue loans because they are not a bank.
So what happens is a bank issues a loan according to criteria the bank and the third party agree to. Then the bank sells it the next day to the third party. That way the bank is more insulated from risk because they aren’t holding the loan.
I like your standard, but it is much harder to do; I've been finding it difficult to do even when I am aware that we have diverging epistemic processes... it's hard to tell the difference between thinking someone is misguided/dumb/evil and thinking that they just have a different idea about how to do things in this world.

Pragmatics aside (it's much easier to rhetorically persuade someone if you understand their motives and rationale), there are situations in the world where we have real disagreements about what right action looks like:

I can't support all the various epistemic situations I see in a moral sense even if I can appreciate how it's more effective.

For instance, I can understand arguing that some jackbooted thug shouldn't summarily execute a person and arguing from that thug's position ("don't kill them because you'll have to do paperwork" or some such thing), but intuitively I don't feel like I have an obligation to respect that person's process and thoughts.

In that case, it seems okay to be "manipulative" in the sense of your quote.

But maybe not... Intuitively, I think that there has to be a good reason for this goal, and I feel like it is a goal I work towards (and yeesh, it takes a lot of real work on all parts of my identity and awareness), but I also feel like there are boundaries for that goal.

Is there a larger ethical take away or underwriting rationale in your moral compass for why we should "respect others' episteme"?
Ok let's be clear about that. Now what? There _is_ a household with one parent and 5+ children. Unless you have a time machine you can't undo that. What do you do about that household? Telling the parents that they made bad decisions actually doesn't do much to help the children. How do you help the children?
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> If you mean IOCP API that requires you to hold memory hostage for it, then no, NT sucks at it.

“hold memory hostage” really doesn't help make your point. It's inflammatory wording one step above spelling it Micro$oft and it makes it sound like you don't understand the engineering trade-offs which the Microsoft engineers made. It'd be much better if you explained _why_ you disagree with their choice and especially whether there are differences in the type of work which you've used it for which might explain that opinion.
> if the amount of disposable income is the deciding factor

That's a big if, though. I wouldn't pay $1/year for WhatsApp messaging as a consumer. But I have a lot of disposable income. When you have a free substitute, these signals get mixed up.
At Google, the one time I'm aware of where a Gmail SRE read the mail of a woman he was interested in, he was detected, fired, and publicly called out officially by Google, which almost never happens in this industry and probably had permanent career consequences for him. They also locked things down further after this incident.

I'd be surprised if FastMail has that level of ability and willingness to detect and react to a rogue employee.

If the privacy threat you are concerned about is Google as a company allowing your data to be used in a way you're not happy with, such as profiling you can't sufficiently control, I can't argue with your logic beyond noting that they do offer lots of controls for most of the profiling they do. I similarly can't argue if you want to avoid providers within US jurisdiction.

But if your privacy threat model includes things like "an intelligence agency wants to access your data without a legal right to demand it," "a rogue employee is hoping to access your data without an approved business need," or "foreign state-sponsored actors might want to target you," Google is one of the most private places to put your data to combat those threats.

They have the resources to address those privacy attacks, and they do so. Of course your own operational security is also relevant for each of those privacy attack vectors, regardless of which third-party email provider you use.

(Disclosure: I worked for Google 2011-2015. I never worked on Gmail, and neither work nor speak for them now.)
This is not a surprise, lending on a P2P platform is a "cool" idea but doesn't end up making you much money since you have to keep rates competitive and you always have the risk of someone not paying back.

As a lender on Lending Club, I don't recommend it. The returns are worse than a bad year on the stock market holding ETFs.

I've stopped lending on there and now I'm just waiting to move my money elsewhere.
Interesting info. Do you have some ressources about this effort of standardization?
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One more thing: It's worth a pass over the next-level article [0] summarizing the findings of the RAND corporation study, notably this cherry-pick of my own:

> A near-exclusive focus on TE might be insufficient to dramatically improve student outcomes. Many other factors might need to be addressed, ranging from early childhood education, to students' social and emotional competencies, to the school learning environment, to family support. Dramatic improvement in outcomes, particularly for LIM students, will likely require attention to many of these factors as well.

It vastly oversimplifies things to focus on teacher evaluation (and consequences) as a solution, and further oversimplifies things to blame unions.

[0] https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2242.html
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One problem is that the populations that are underserved by banks are over-exploited by those options made available to them;

"Cant get a loan due to less-than-perfect credit? Then pay 4,000% interest!"

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The finance charge ranges from $15 to $30 to borrow $100. For two-week loans, these finance charges result in interest rates from 390 to 780% APR. Shorter term loans have even higher APRs. Rates are higher in states that do not cap the maximum cost.

https://paydayloaninfo.org/facts
I'm thinking of doing the same, and was wondering about Apple's position on ads, selling metrics, selling tracking data, and all the other craptastic stuff.
From my perspective, any company that goes public will eventually turn to crap (or go through decades-long crap/good cycles). It's not MBAs that drive for growth at all costs - I would argue it's shareholders. Shareholders are greedy and don't care about anything else besides ROI. Even if that means throwing the consumers under the bus in the long run to achieve that.
As much as I don't like Google, lets not forget that corporations aren't subject to human morality, which is the number one problem in our current economic model.
All companies soon or later become "evil" if that translates into more profits. That evil has nothing to do with the biblical evil or a comic book villain concept ("Muhaha, I'll conquer the world!") but rather with total lack of empathy which in a human is usually a sign of serious, more often dangerous, mental issues.
We gave corporations the power of ruining lives; that's the problem, not just Google which is simply a creature adapting to the environment it lives in.
Oh, absolutely. But here's the thing - a lot of content wanes quickly in relevance over time. You may never catch up to youtube in terms of total content (at least... not soon). But you can beat them in features, in look and feel, in the way you treat your content creators and users. And that can add up over time.

As Paul Graham said, "There is always room. In a hundred years the only social networking sites will be the Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, and Del.icio.us? Not likely.”

You don't start out by beating the giant. You pick users away here and there. You find a niche. You find other niches. You keep what you have, take what you can. You don't even have to beat the giant ever. Become the number 2 video sharing site. Hell, become the number 10 video sharing site and I bet you'll have more money than you know what to do with, even if most people have never heard of you.
Ask HN: Is Facebook messenger become unusable for you? Links failing to send?
Messenger has, in the last two months or two, started to block or otherwise fail to deliver about a quarter of the links I try to send. There seems to be no correlation in the type or sources of the links. It doesn't seem to be limited to low traffic/niche domains as I've had plenty of youtube/github links fail to send in addition to news. Even links to BBC/Economist/FT/WaPo/Bloomberg get blocked sometimes and some of those are newspapers of record. It also doesn't appear to be limited to low traffic or controversial content within those domains as I've had links to fairly innocuous stuff on youtube channels like popular cat videos or videos from BBC or CNN get blocked. Same with top posts on reddit or HN which I imagine are shared with considerable volume.

Is anyone else experiencing this or am I in some sick social experiment? I find this kind of silent censorship without any explanation or apparent cause extremely concerning.
Awesome to see companies tackling this emerging energy problem. Really excited to see what comes of this, there is lots that can be done in terms of demand response and creating more efficient grids.
Was it 1 Brazillian Real or 1 USD?

In many countries, WhatsApp is the defacto communication platform for businesses to communicate with customers.
I get the feeling you've had a bad experience with the API and that colours your opinion of the overall design of IOCP. It's really quite well thought out.

Also in my experience it handles slightly more concurrent connections with a fair bit less CPU usage. There are some weird and not very nice parts + limitations to the API that makes it pretty hard to write cross-platform things with it, granted.
Google isn't really in favor of free speech, they fired James Damore for stating quite mild facts that are quite known among clinical psychologists.
> "Placing a thumbs-up icon on a message to show that you liked it felt like something which could catch on"

> a little bit not credible

Especially as, as far as I understand, it was obviously not used "to show that you liked" to somebody else the content of his/hers message?

So yes, it's a bit [citation needed].
Without devolving into a semantic debate, I would argue that people are consistent with their desired outcomes, but decidedly inconsistent with the means of which they achieve their outcomes.

The unstated single standard for the vast majority is "whatever works out best for me."
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Yeah but who do you think is pushing the company to bow to the shareholder pressure?
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As remittances flow to Mexico, a new architectural style blooms
The very notion of independent sovereignty of nations means that you can't and shouldn't expect to normalize behavior between countries.

If doing business in the USA is free & good, many outsider businesses will do business there as well. If doing business in China is not all free & good, outsider business won't do business there. How much that hurts foreign businesses vs hurts China is up for debate. But governments individually rule what goes on in their borders, and use those rules both for internal ideological pursuit as well as to attract or detract external interest, as is their role.

"Fairness" of doing business isn't exactly extreme human rights violations or anything. (Other behaviors are, but not this particular point you're making.)
https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mls/about/

It's progressing rapidly. Cisco, Google, Facebook & others participating.
> My guess is that the federal government wouldn't end up paying substantially more than it does now, although I'd like to see a study/projection on that.

How could the government maintain current welfare payments and also give UBI to everyone at the same time without a massive spending increase?
Are there good apps that support "chat room" style activities? Google Messages falls over when you try to send out mass messages. I'd like to see a sms app that allows one to have mass messaging - it's the only reason I keep WhatsApp around - coordinating with a group of friends.
For the six months ending in June 2018 Tesla's operations burned $528 million of cash. It also spent $1.27 billion on CAPEX. At quarter's end, they have $2.2 billion of cash on hand. That's like 7 months of runway. What's keeping the boat plugged up is debt.

Good news is, there are no obvious bond market bogeymen on the horizon in the very near-term.
Your welcome, but it is oil89's invention of 10 months ago : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15350778 I just love it though.
No, it's pure propaganda. There's never been any evidence at all that Huawei has exported a compromised device. But there's been a powerful propaganda effort: the US government spews baseless accusations about Huawei, the US media reports on this without questioning it in the slightest, and US citizens then believe it whole heartedly.

In the end it doesn't really matter. Huawei delivers tremendous value for the money and so they are growing fast in Europe, Asia and Africa. The free market is stronger than even the most devoted propagandists.
Gerald Blanchard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Blanchard

https://www.wired.com/2010/03/ff_masterthief_blanchard/
The internet as experienced by the average human is a poorer experience because of the advertising and spyware/tracking.

This is almost universally true, even if small areas have been fenced off. The fact that you can limit your use of the internet to HN and a few other sites is in fact a luxury.
This will be Alex and Allyson's legacy after a long life creating psychedelic inspired art. This will be a great place to showcase Alex's iconic and masterful visual art. A temple is the best way to raise funds (which they solicit) to build the location and preserve his art. I plan on visiting after more of his art is moved to the location.

I'm concerned about this forming into a cult. There are definite religion vibes coming from couple when they speak live. Some examples of this is 'secret writing' being described as 'non-literal representations of the sacred'[0], and their large gatherings are at astronomical events.

[0] http://psychedelicsandlanguage.com/allyson-grey-secret-writi...
Is "interesting" your #1 measure for the value of an action? That seems problematic. 9/11 was interesting as hell--we're still talking about it and retelling the stories.
Getting users to pay for a service that was previously provided to them for free is probably the #2 hurdle for all Freemium products.
That sounds like an edge case to me. What proportion of single parent families are formed by death of a married parent vs. other options?
I worked at one such lender. Here’s how they actually work with banks.

Banks, being an integral part of the financial system, are only allowed to take on so much risk. Third party companies have no such restrictions. But they can’t issue loans because they are not a bank. So what happens is a bank issues a loan according to criteria the bank and the third party agree to. Then the bank sells it the next day to the third party. That way the bank is more insulated from risk because they aren’t holding the loan.

Some p2p companies such as lending club actually do the same thing. The bank sells the loan to lending club, and then lending club essentially “sells” to all the individual investors: lending club doesn’t take the hit when people default.

The downside of such a model, besides missing out on upside, is requiring volume. You need lots of it to keep the lights on. So if investors get spooked you are in a world of hurt, which is probably what is happening here.
So cultural artifacts have no place in society then? Because they will only be looked at for 15 seconds?
Notably, two examples on here were very clearly not in the famous persons hand.

Marie Antoinette and Stephen Hawking.
Because of cases like this, it's also the admin's responsibility to have their wireless provider put a security pin and a Do Not Port order on their account. Sometimes reps will ignore this and port people's accounts anyway, but it's still negligent not take this precaution.
People are throwing away books in mass today.

I've been collecting good first edition books for awhile.

I must have 50 first editions, 10% signed.

I've noticed a correlation bwteen tossed books, and that show Horders, and the availability of ebooks.

My favorites are a first edition of Carrie, Telegraph 3 a.m, by Misrach, signed, and no price clipped, and a pritine copy of The Deep, by Benchley. The Deep isn't worth much, but one of my favorite movies.

I do need to sell a lot of my books though.

On CL, I have roughly 100 pretty current books on computing/programming for sale.
The acquisition price is a sunk cost. They still have the asset, and I agree its important for them to not waste it.
I was unclear - I meant as a reader. As a reader, self-published work is, to some episilon (where the writers that fall under that epsilon usually wind up well known exceptions), it's all lousy.
Career pages are the worst.

I was applying for a job at one site... you had to watch several minutes of videos, and answer a questions about the videos before you could submit your application. It was like they put their high level "welcome to the company" videos in front of people applying. Brutal.
There are a couple of comments on the linked thread suggesting that someone may be using it (scam emails containing people's old reddit passwords).
Yeh those small bugs are very frustrating. I wish it was written in Javascript too.

A big issue IMHO is Ocaml. FP heads usually hate JS, and they cannot dogfood Flow.

All the little issues feel like the devs don't use it enough to know the pain.
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Interesting timing for this article and documentary to emerge, while a modern company with so many parallels, Magic Leap, is apparently releasing their device in the coming days. As General Magic was an ambitious and visionary precursor to the iPhone, so it seems Magic Leap may be the ambitious and visionary precursor to a mainstream spatial computing headset of the not-too-distant future.

With recent leaks of the 40 degree FOV and headset footage, it seems that Magic Leap, like General Magic, has not yet been able to deliver the technology necessary for widespread appeal. This time around, at least Magic Leap has raised a war chest so large, perhaps they can move forward with a far improved version 2 and continue operations and development, given only modest sales.

Hopefully Magic Leap can learn a lesson here and avoid becoming a General Magic (although, if it does, it was still a worthwhile effort to push the field forward, as General Magic did).
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