skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all banks in China works very differently from those in US. It's very hard for individuals and small companies to get loans from banks.

Secondly, there are tons of companies working on peer-to-peer lending in US as well. Lending Club and Prosper has been around for a while. Newer ones like Upstart and Lendup are also in the same category. Their claims essentially that they have more data and better models to make better decisions than what traditional banks can do
The “crown jewels” stolen are actually jewelry, not simple jewels. They include two crowns and a royal orb; they are intricately worked and include soft metals (and, of course, settings with stones). Rough handling can damage the decorative the working, break the metal parts, knock jewels out if their settings, etc.

Damaging the jewels proper is not the main concern.
I really enjoy hearing what really happened behind closed doors of what is, to me, one of the most interesting times in computer history.

What a gift to be a part of it! Keep these coming Chris!
That US excetioptonalism should be put into bed, better for good. With all that happens in US, why would any American companies would assume they still have a moral high ground to demand things?
To add to the summary: From the article, I would say that the essential quality is one of hypocrisy. Manipulative interventions are not authentic, in the sense that the manipulator does not believe what they are trying to get the victim to believe.
I find it really interesting that this has been published along with all the news/media about how hot it is in Europe/Asia and in the end of the hottest month of the year for the United States.
You can feed a family with vegetables and eggs on less than two acres (some claim 1/4 acre) if you know how.
IIRC, I had read that Disqus uses Django, and that they were one of the biggest Django sites on the net, but that was a while earlier. Not sure about now.

Update: Just saw that HN user txcwpalpha said the same about Disqus in sibling comment.
You say SF + Remote here, but listings say:

* Open to relocation, but no full remote

So can you clarify?
You can proxy your google search via startpage.com.
In the US, you can just put the package in an Amazon Locker with the return label printed on it. You don't have to pay for shipping.

I don't know if Amazon Lockers exist in Germany, but I'm sure they would reimburse your for the shipping cost if you ask.
Things don't work like that at all in China. Even the basic "financial credit score" is in a very immature state at the moment
While I strongly disagree with you, your comment is fading and I upvoted it.

I lived a couple of miles from Monticello for about five years, and have read pretty much everything I could get my hands on about Jefferson. My opinion is that he's absolutely a man worthy of respect, remembrance, and study.

He was not perfect; no one is. He was in many ways a man of his times, and you have to consider those times when considering his views.

For instance, on the topic of slavery: Yes, he fathered children with Sally Hemings. Yes, those children were enslaved from birth and considered chattel. Yes, he maintained a public position of ambiguity on the topic of emancipation and a negative private opinion of the same.

Some context around those facts:

Sally Hemings was almost certainly Martha Jefferson's half-sister, and was of 3/4ths European ancestry. Her children were 7/8ths European, and all but one ultimately chose to move and pass as free whites.

While Jefferson's relationship with Sally was certainly a scandal at the time and abhorrent to us today, it was not uncommon in his era. It did not begin until several years after his wife's death, when he took Sally with him to France - where slavery was illegal - where they conceived the first of their five probable children. According to Sally's daughter, Madison Hemings, Jefferson promised to free their children when they came of age.

Again, it was a bit more complicated than that in practice, because it was illegal for a black person to live in Virginia more than one year after being freed. Sally was "given her time" upon Jefferson's death, which effectively meant that she was able to live as a free person and was protected from being captured and re-enslaved. One of their children "escaped" when she was about to come of age - Jefferson gave her $50, sent her to Philadelphia, and never pursued her. Again, this protected her somewhat from being captured and re-enslaved, as Jefferson continued to own her under the law. The others were freed at the end of his life.

Jefferson likely saw his children's "apprenticeships" as a means of caring for them and providing for their futures without recognizing them as his own.

As for his stance on emancipation, Jefferson believed that slavery was immoral, but that immediate manumission was impractical and would lead to serious social and political consequences, both for those who would have been freed and for the nation itself. His solution to this was to propose a "gradual emancipation" where enslaved people born after a certain date would be free and sent to an African colony. James Monroe, who was a close friend of Jefferson's throughout his life and lived nearby, served as President of the American Colonization Society, which in turn established Liberia. Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, is named for James Monroe due to his role in its establishment.

So, in summary - Jefferson's views, while abhorrent to modern sensibilities, were actually quite progressive given the society in which he lived. He seems to have done his best to protect his "shadow family" with Hemings, and to set them up for success in the future.
Or, just make it easy for the contractor to manage their own affairs.

It's not like the heavy burden has to be carried by the company or the worker, we can eliminate the heavy burden itself.
"Analysts at China International Capital Corp. estimated on July 13 that no more than 200 firms, or about 10 percent of existing platforms, will still be around in three years."

Even for a large nation like China, 2,000 P2P platforms sounds like orders of magnitude more than what is actually needed.
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I'm still undecided on using the CLI exclusively. Although I always use the command line for anything complex, I do feel like my editor of choice (VSCode) provides a fair amount of value with its simple file staging GUI. It also does a good job of showing diffs between versions in-editor.
The common thread in California's wildfires: heat like the state has never seen
WhatsApp and especially LINE were heavily used in China until they were blocked. After that, local company Tencent's WeChat became dominant.
How are you getting lots of new graduates to look at these jobs?

My company is _very_ good at getting new graduates off to a really good start to their career, so I've seen all the various sites and services for finding new graduates. (Our pitch: https://www.haplo-services.com/jobs/new-graduates )

The problem with these kinds of job sites is getting enough new graduates to look at them for it to actually have an effect, and most new graduates think they need to talk to a recruitment company or just apply to the big names. :-(
I've started using youtube-dl to download videos and watch them locally. It isn't perfect but at least I don't have to see what terrible videos Google thinks I want to watch (or which terrible videos are "trending") or accidentally read a comment.
Hypothesis: this is the result of a long period of labor surplus. If, as seems to be the case in some places like Austin, TX where I live, we are now moving into an era of labor scarcity, there will come unexpected problems. Like, if you find that sometimes important functions don't get done on time because there were not enough people to do it because someone quit unexpectedly, but it's not technically your employee so you don't have much leverage in figuring out what the problem is to make sure you don't get caught short-staffed again.

The reason to have an employee is to make sure they are available when you need them. If there are always a surplus of people willing to be there, then outsourcing is a way to reduce your costs. But, if that changes, then the downside of "it's not your problem" becomes more apparent; it still is a problem that impacts you, it's just not _your_ problem, so you can't do much about it.

Only some parts of the U.S./world are in a labor shortage situation right now, of course. But until recently, just about nowhere was, and had not been in a long time, so I wonder if this is going to be a painful lesson for some companies.
How to convert a non-math-lover (Dandelin spheres) [3Blue1Brown]
Tried to get my Whatsapp group to switch to LINE when I visited Japan this summer, because I liked the interface and all the stickers, but unfortunately it didn't stick :(
The CHM event on Friday is also sold out.
Several British banks use Chip+PIN cards to provide a token — not necessarily for login, but for authorizing a transaction.

Like this: https://c7.alamy.com/comp/CYGATP/online-banking-security-chi...
I watched the livestream they did on twitch demoing some of their libraries and it looked terrible.

The AR mapping looked like what snapchat had a year ago.
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Here's an earlier thread about the movie https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16897690 and an article apparently inspired by the release of the movie https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16897690
I like idea of revenue sharing but FB is not going to do so.
Does anyone know how this will affect the development of 5g?
It'd still be iconic and garner tourism, but in an economic sense, it'd be a shadow of its 20th century self. Nearby cities like Oakland would be even worse off as a result. Housing would be much cheaper, but the city wouldn't be as bustling or generating that much wealth.

Again, I'm not defending tech companies, but San Francisco seems to lack a ton of foresight into the potential side effects of its decisions; its actions seem mostly reactive rather than proactive.
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I think I just agreed with that?

What I am saying is that it is all-too-convenient to say "oh, we'll eliminate that heavy burden we are now placing on you" and then, once it is so placed, proceed to do exactly nothing about it because, hey--the owners are happy, and who cares what anyone else thinks once they're happy? (This is one of many reasons why the Ubers of the world are so nasty; they shirk their responsibilities and leave their de-facto employees holding the bag.)

To do justice, one must eliminate that heavy burden, and only the ownership class has sufficient political pull to ever really do anything about it--so they need to continue feeling the pain of it until they do.
Here's the Clemson paper the article references:

http://pwarren.people.clemson.edu/Linvill_Warren_TrollFactor...

Pay attention to this line from the abstract:

> We identified five handle categories: right troll, left troll, news feed, hashtag gamer, and fearmonger

Now try something interesting for yourself: get on Twitter, then look for any legitimate political news article from a mainstream publication or politician, and look at the responses. Look how quickly you will find what matches those "handle categories" identified in that paper. Look for the absurd statements. Look for the ready-made memes. Look for the ridiculous and incendiary hashtags. Look at the accounts engaging in it all, many of which mold to a generic formula and post 24/7/365 as if its automated or a full time job. Sometimes you can even do a reverse image search on the profiles to find they're stock photos or were pulled from some random biography page on the web and never matching up to the name used in the profile.

It makes you wonder just how much social media activity is an organized campaign of nonsense or agitprop.
Please don't be personally rude on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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>When I was an employer as a small business, my heart would skip a beat every time I received a letter from the many local, state or federal agencies that would chime in on some requirement as an employer. For someone that wants to do it right, it's very hard to know exactly what "right" is without paying an arm and leg for professional services.

Hmm. Wondering what country you are in. I'm in the USA and for "reasons.." I ended up performing all the admin tasks relating to employees (payroll, witholding, IRA, unemployment, insurance) over the past 6 months. I had to learn everything from scratch. Yes it was quite a bit of work, but I don't have the same experience you report at all. I haven't received any letters other than helpful reminders of things I need to file. Yes we have an accounting firm who have over the years educated us on what we need to do, forms to file, and so on. But nothing much changes year-to-year so once you're running the cognitive load is not too bad. None of it scares me at all. Certainly nothing in comparison to running the actual business, where you have customers who don't pay you; risk of being sued; requirement to use Node.JS -- you know -- real scary stuff ;)
There's a pretty clear definition:

"information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view."

Leaving aside the issue of bias, I think we can agree that if a particular piece of information, designed to mislead the public, is widely disseminated, that is propaganda. Widely disseminating facts, or privately disseminating misleading information is not propaganda.
I hope. Some valuable historical artifacts have been sadly melted, like the original Jules Rimet trophy.
I will use Google services while blocking ads. That way I am actually costing them money.
It should be obvious why Google's US employees dislike Trump more than China. China is just something far far away they can choose to ignore or punch depending on circumstances, but they are living the reality shaped by Trump. It might seem ironic, but pretty real TBH.
I am really looking forward to prepaid providers offering this. Recently when I was in Canada for a few days, and was stuck on a slow international data plan through TMobile, I would have paid $10 or $20 for an eSIM if it was as easy as downloading an app.
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/rant Interesting story, however the format is horrible. It's my first time coming across posts like this and it was a struggle to read till the end (much like Twitter threads are a mess). The whole story will make for a great blog post.
>in general Google protects user data

How is storing and cataloging reams of private data 'protecting' it? If your significant other was constantly noting every friend you talked to, every purchase you made, videotaping your every move, would you call that protecting them?

To protect a user's data, it shouldn't even be collected in the first place. I think a better choice of words is that Google does a better job at monopolizing user data.
Sure, that's fair, I was simply pointing out that the web is a much more complicated mixture of its standards documents than just surface level, to the point where originally intended to be unrelated standards do bleed together. April Fools Joke or not, "HTCPCP" or not, 418 is an interesting part of HTTP's legacy now.
Whatsapp is massive outside the US and China, the rest of the world communicates with it. No other competitor comes nearly close.
> The fact that so many software developers "don't like math" is ironic, because they're perfectly happy to manipulate symbols such as "x", "file", or "user_id" that stand in for other things every day.

`user_id` says what it is; something like `β` does not. It's more like reading minified JavaScript than literate programming. Math notation is frequently horribly overloaded and needlessly terse.
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That could be a double edged sword for employers, though.

If regular employees start becoming contractors on a large scale then I'd like (and expect) to see some kind of unions or employment agencies springing up to handle the paperwork for the (former) employees and use collective bargaining to get better wages, group insurance, etc.
Of course the ISA matters in the extrem but once some commen patterns are covered the changes are only lead to tiny further improvments.

RISC-V failure to include these feature was very diliberate because only feature that everybody needs are in the base ISA.

The feature you ask for will be in the 'B' extention that will be standardised soon and will probebly become part of many standard profiles.
No, they aren't. A free market capitalism will always work for the greater good of humanity, except when it gets distorted by (inhuman) outside forces, like for example the state.