skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The US was working on regulation to limit fraud in payday lending while still trying to keep the aspect of trying to even out inconsistent income. That was in 2016, and I think the new administration killed that.

I think it was very successful if you consider it a delaying tactic to preserve payday loans with a voter base who mostly sees giving extremely high interest loans to people attempting "to stave off literal starvation" as exploitative on its face.

People who are literally starving should be turning to a safety net. If they are an investment opportunity, your society is broken.
Why is this an either or? Just have 4 27" monitors and one 43" 4k with good specs!
I used to work at EY in banking & capital markets audit - before I went into engineering - and everyone learns that if there is one thing, ONE THING!!! that the auditor should always do, it is to send bank confirmation letters. You get a list of all the banks where accounts are held and send them a letter asking for confirmation of the balance. This proves existence of the balances and helps with completeness as sometimes they send back balances you didn’t know about from the accounts!
If the letters don’t come back, you chase them because, in my experience, the partner would not sign off unless all cash was accounted for. There was always a significant risk associated with cash so providing a clear audit opinion in the absence of cash confirms is not a very smart move. Other procedures include checking reconciliations and “cut off” to make sure cash swept from one account to another is counted and / or not double counted. We would also get literally all the bank statements too and some poor graduate would have to “substantively audit” them. So yes... We used to do a lot of work in this area.

What happened with Wirecard? Who knows?! Seems like the team didn’t do their job properly because in my experience, it’s fairly easy to spot missing cash. And 1.9 billion of it...! The article states that EY didn’t “verify cash balances”... I’m not sure what that means - “verify” is a dirty word in audit because it’s not specific enough. I find it hard to believe they didn’t send bank confirms but if they didn’t then that’s an unforgivable mistake.

It’s also worth noting that auditors are not responsible for detecting fraud but clearly if something odd is going on and they find it, then it will be raised. In my experience most wrong things that we asked our clients to adjust were due to incompetence or over valuing illiquid securities.
After over-regulation of PCR tests leading to the flawed CDC test being the only one available during a critical part of the pandemic, the agency decided to swing way way way too hard the other way so they couldn't be accused of holding up tests from reaching the market. This whole fiasco has revealed the importance of modernizing the FDA (they still need documents to be sent by CDs in the mail![1]). And, of proactively creating pandemic response protocols. They're a healthcare agency! This is their job! The failure of the federal government has been so profound. At least it'll make a good case study for what not to do...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/04/03/cor...
It is debatable if it is a crime (at least in the US - there were cases that said that upskirt photos, even of children, are protected by the 1st amendment) but even if it is then it is an instance of a victimless one.
It comes with the qualifier.

> for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person

So making a poll in your company to identify how many are in a trade union is not illegal by that article while building a database that contains the fact that John Doe is in a trade union would violate that law.
That was one of my first thoughts too when making this. I'll have a go and see if I can hack something together :)
If the model produces good observable results in practice it works. For security it‘s different: It may seem to work, yet be completely insecure (security being the goal).
former republican congressman what a coincidence
If someone can suggest a more narrowly scoped title, preferably using representative language from the article, we can change it.

I thought of something like "Facebook blocks site with user-generated content" but I'm not sure it isn't misleading.
The whole problem is with Mac adding arbitrary contents to folders which may be used by other operating systems!

Like the MS of the past, Apple does not care about compatibility unless they forced to.
Also, don't blindly accept it when people tell you that you _can_ do something but "you're just overthinking things".

They might not know that you are confused about something and need clarity to succeed.

Only you can read your own mind. Telling others can you see can make it more legible.
If you use Twitter, you should use tweetdeck[1], not Twitter as your UX. I create lists grouped into categories like "Pandemic", "Tech", etc. Lists can be public or private. Assign accounts to lists. Add columns to your Tweetdeck and introduce additional mute words for each column.

This gives you AFAIK a chronological feed without a bunch of random things injected into your main feed. I find this a very satisfying way of using Twitter.

[1] https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/
I've worked at a company where every single meeting I had with a certain set of engineers started and rapidly devolved into a political narrative of how bad certain groups where.

I smiled and ignored them. I subconsciously made sure to avoid their input on important things.

The narrative was in-your-face progressive activist SJW to the max. Many people I privately spoke with in the company were sick of this idiocy, but couldn't see themselves speaking up, as they needed the job. They couldn't risk being fired by the company.

Imagine if you had to live that life.

Companies should not have political opinions or leanings.
I don't think you should have been downvoted so much. It's smart to recognize an internal-to-self conflict and ask questions. I don't think 'Someone smarter than me should tell me what to think.' is a good endpoint though. Expert opinions are very important to the decision making process, but, I would suggest to never give blanket access to another over your own thoughts. It sucks to be wrong sometimes, but, just keep thinking and trying, and I think the journey will be beneficial.

( Sorry for how weird that all sounds, I wanted to respond, but I'm not sure how to best phrase my thoughts here )
Likewise! (hence the username)
Agreed. I'm not sure about Kiva (or micro-finance more generally) anymore as the best use for spare cash.

I was just commenting on the original assertion that "the only microfinance organizations available would only take donations not investments"

EDIT to add: Though, Kiva can't be considered an investment, either - best case (!) you get the original amount back. While the field partners take considerable interest from the loan recipient. So...
> The end result is, from the point of view of the individual writing this, is that implementors have special powers over individuals moving forward. This may or may not be a bad deal. Historically, humans have victimized other humans at astounding rates, including incentiving others to do the same, sucessfully.

Giving some group "special powers over individuals" "may or may not be a bad deal"?

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men,
neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great
difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed;
and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is,
no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind
the necessity of auxiliary precautions.

-James Madison, Federalist No. 51
https://www.csus.edu/indiv/f/friedman/fa2019/govt1/schedule/...
OP is the one who likened cancel culture to lynching, not the person you are responding to.
It's very unlikely to actually be COVID-19, but the sample was actually from March of 2019. Others have covered many of the ways it could be wrong, but things like this are important to point out when found if no clear (rather than suspected, unconfirmed) source of error can be identified because it provides indications for follow-up, and even things that are 99.9% likely to be error will indicate a surprising new piece of information 0.1% of the time, and if you ignore it, the world will miss those.

OTOH, things this improbable to be correct get presented inaccurately and as far more likely to be correct (or as perceived by the scientific community as such) than they are, which helps foster “science fatigue” in the public.
Not exactly:

> Approximately one month after the spill, the Puerco River had regained normal levels of salinity, acidity, and radioactivity at low flow levels, with contaminants being detectable only after heavy rains.

Natural uranium is mildly radioactive, but it was a uranium mine. The radioactivity was there before they started. They managed to move it around some. The damage was at least as much attributable to the chemical contaminants which would be present in any similar mining incident regardless of what they were mining.

Saying that it was worse than Three Mile Island is a low bar. Three Mile Island wasn't exactly Chernobyl.
It's pretty disgusting to compare actual murderous lynching to someone getting wrongfully terminated from their job. This style of comment reminds me of people who protest against wearing face masks using 'I can't breathe' rhetoric.
So I guess I can use SQLite connectors or GUI to play with it? I was just looking for this.

Not a dev so I'm a bit dumb with this stuff, but I was definitely looking for pivoting stuff and such, which requires a lot of extra steps with sqlite.
A fish doesn't understand the water it swims in. Have you truly thought about what the "some issues" of money in todays society truly are. What are the true costs? What did we, as a society, lose?

Here's an example. Just a few hundred years ago, many (most?) transactions were not via money, but via person to person interactions. These interactions were the binding connection points in the society. The people you would interact with , depend apon, and be depended apon, etc. These have been ripped away and we've been given a very poor substitute.

It's a drug. A quick fix and a substitute for true wealth. Need a shirt, go buy a shirt with no idea how, where, when, or why it was made and no connection to the ecological damage that it most probably contributed. Acquiring a shirt, back in the day, could involve many local interactions and could help further strengthen your local economy and society.
https://twitter.com/JamesADamore/status/1034623633174478849?...
> Outing and destroying people who are not racist makes examples of them. Examples that are to be hoped to make people too afraid to speak out against the agenda.

There will always be such examples. Eradicating them entirely is a statistical impossibility. No social movement is perfect. No matter how much effort you put into perfecting it, the opposition will find fault with it.
Hillel Wayne: Are we *really* engineers?
The HP Omen 15 has a solid 300-nit 97% sRGB screen, 70Wh battery, and dual channel 16GB. There's also the HP ENVY x360 with available 400-nit/1000-nit screens paired with 16GB and an 8 core Ryzen 7 4700U. Both a bit pricey but I'm glad they exist.

I agree the vast majority of AMD laptops have unacceptable compromises baked in. I can't help but believe this will change now that the APUs are arguably on par for games and massively more efficient for other tasks.
> Then, how is it right for a professor to tweet that "white lives don't matter"?

This sort of stuff used to be called "flame bait" back in the day. Don't take the bait. It's just not worth caring about, no matter if it's a professor doing it or a basement dweller.
> (C)(2)(d) The User may not use the Licensed Font Software to disparage or suggest any affiliation with or endorsement by Goldman Sachs.

> (E)(2) Further, Goldman Sachs may terminate this License, without notice to the User, for any reason or no reason at all and at any time, completely at Goldman Sachs’s sole discretion.
I'm not even sure I see the economic viability of payday loans/microfinance even in the best case. Certainly not if you are running a private business based on that. If unreliable income caused you to need a loan in the first place, I'm not sure how a usually high interest loan helps in the long run. So maybe they are not intentionally scams but the outcomes are very much the same
I had no idea B&W LCD monitors even existed, looks like they are primarily marketed for medical imaging purposes, curious what advantage they have over displaying grey-scale images on a good color monitor. I'm guessing by the sub-pixels it is made from mostly the same panel as a color model.
From two years ago:

"O Lord, this zealotry to punish the heretics could easily escape from the control of God's chosen and not only destabilize society but also cause us to perform un-Christlike deeds that the Church shall repent of for all eternity!"

"Let's inquisit that heresy when we get to it."

SOME TIME LATER

"Truly, monsigneur, this escalation of the Crusade to extirpate the Lutherans could spiral out of our grasp and trigger a continental conflagration that would disturb the harmony of the Catholic Church and cause us to finalize the fracture in Christendom in its entirety!"

"Let us rupture that schism when we come to it."

SOME TIME LATER

"O Puritan Lawyers! I cannot abide this constant seeking of devilry amongst the burghers; for though thy use the Devil chained and cowed, if the Devil escapeth thine chains placyd upon hym, might he wreck also thine own soul's of pleasant Albion forevermore?"

"Let us burn that witch when we come to it."

SOME TIME LATER

"Je dis, this never-ending mission to purify France of the Anciens Regime could easily escape the control of the Bourgeosie and not only destabilize society but also cause us to perform inhumane deeds against the Third Estate that we will regret in the Eye of Providence for all recorded history!"

"Let's get a-head of that when the time arrives."

SOME TIME LATER

"I say, these attempts to civilize the Savages of the outer colonies could easily escape the oversight of the Provincial Governments and not only jeopardize our economic interests, but enable the performance by Europeans of barbarisms that would surely be worse than the practices of the Savages in the first place!"

"Let us lift the White Man's burden when we reach it."

SOME TIME LATER

"I don't know Comrade, this ten-year-old five-year plan to purify Russia of the Bourgeosie could easily escape control of the Central Committee and not only jeopardize the Revolution, but also cause us to engage in the same Tsarist evils of terror that the Revolution was launched to eliminate!"

"Let's rehabilitate that kulak when we get to it."

SOME TIME LATER

> We run the risk that the act of deplatforming can become as extreme as the hate speech it seeks to banish.

Let us cross that bridge when we get to it.
The lump of labour fallacy is a result of human nature and how we organize work. Because each person can only work at a single job the loss of the job is devastating.

If you were to model a country as a single person but with the productivity of 1000000 people working 20000 different jobs then that person would complain about spending way too much time on a handful of jobs. e.g. "Too much time is spent on farming! I don't have enough time to work on my boat!" Decreasing the time spent on farming will free up time and that time can be spent on building a boat. It's clear that increasing productivity will always benefit the entire society.

The real problem is that inequality keeps growing. Especially since modern productivity improvements are often not tied to the experience or skill of the worker but rather they are dependent on investments in tools and machinery. Those tools are not owned by the worker, they are owned by the company. However, competition eventually reaches a point where the industry loses its profit margins and most of the revenue is passed onto workers or at least the workers that built the machinery and tools. But the reality remains that first mover companies make a killing with automation and acquire lots of capital.

Another factor is full employment. As we get closer to full employment the consumer inflation index will rise and capital will lose its value compared to income.

There are mechanisms that slowly erode the negative effects of inequality but right now things are happening so quickly they have trouble catching up.
I am reminded of a quote from The Innovator's Solution about how to build a spinoff in a disruptive industry:

Dumb money is impatient for growth and patient for profit. Smart money is impatient for profit and patient for growth.

That book has a lot to say about the dynamics of why this is so. But the lesson is worth thinking about. If you want sustainable returns, focus on being profitable and let growth take care of itself.

However Venture Capital has a fundamental problem that leads to their being "dumb". It is in the interests of the people running the fund to get as much money in the fund as possible (so that they can get the management fees). But then they need to invest too much money in startups. Which forces those startups to search for big enough business opportunities to justify the investment. And if along the way they happen to find a smaller opportunity, they can't pursue it. Therefore they have to look for growth, growth, growth.
When I was doing material science (long time ago), as I recall we'd obviously use Kelvin for calculations where you needed to use an absolute temperature scale. But if we were just stating an annealing temperature or something like that, we'd use Celsius.
It's not new.

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

- Cardinal Richelieu
Does something like this exist that integrates with Google calendar? To keep track of monthly or life goals?
My understanding is that it is now legal for OEMs to implement Thunderbolt on AMD laptops, though it may cost more since it's not baked into the CPU. Of course, no OEMs have taken the opportunity to do so yet.
I feel like the media is doing a disservice to the protests in the way they show their support.

I feel like they both focused on the violent riots and ignored/diminished them. This way they gave the impression of a strong bias with not enough coverage of the distinction between the huge number of peaceful protests and the riots.

In my opinion had they been more focused on how the riots where taking advantage of the protests (also focusing on how this should not diminish the importance of either) the media could have shown a less biased wider support for the just cause of the protests.

To me it looks like they have been quite opportunistic while pretending not to be so.
I use https://getintra.org on Android and point it to a recursive DoH resolver running on Cloudflare Workers (free tier has been more than enough for 3 devices worth of queries).

Quick tutorial from StackPath (much of it applies to Cloudflare Workers, too): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19514791
I think we need more levels of Wikipedia. Simple.wikipedia is quite useful for simple explanations, but often it's not really what you're looking for. I know a large number of science-related articles in various disciplines are overly technical--maybe we need a new technical.wikipedia for more technical versions of articles with formulas and equations instead of descriptions. Or maybe use namespaces instead would work better, though then you'd have to decide how to match with the talk: namespace.
I don't know, arbitrarily making it more difficult for a certain group of people to compete against others based on their race smells kind of like racism to me. Is that even debatable? Where are the pitchforks? I don't think that's politics. It's racism/discrimination right in front of us. Do Asian lives matter?
It's not a tricky question. Human life > profits. Period.

By specifically mentioning the value of indigenous lives, it makes me wonder if you value human life differently based on ethnicity.

You are glad that an atrocity committed against human beings is relatively unknown? I just cannot understand that. Is it because you value promoting nuclear power over indigenous human lives?

I almost didn't bother replying to your comment. But indifference to the suffering of "the others" needs to be challenged.

Go spend time with literally any indigenous peoples. Learn about their culture and challenges. Meet individual indigenous people, look them in the eyes, then tell me their lives have no value.

Would it be acceptable to say this about any other ethnicity? For example, would it be OK to end a sentence "...ask yourself some tricky questions about how much you value Jewish lives" ? What about Muslim lives? No, of course it wouldn't. "Obviously labour camps of Uyghur Muslims are not ideal, but you gotta ask yourself tricky questions about how much you value Uyghur lives over profit." That is an absurd statement and so is yours.
That there was 'punishment' for expressing an opinion that is not aligned with a particular world view, by donating money to support something that was in the majority world view less than a decade before ... should be terrifying. To everyone.

That someone supports the concept of "punishment" for expressing a view different from what you (and some collection of people) arbitrarily believe should be a widely held view ... is ... unconscionable. And quite frightening.

There's literally a science fiction short story about this. And it doesn't end well. I have to look up the title, haven't read it in 35 years or so.
The Leningrad plant looks suspicious given the pattern in southern Finland.

And in that I case we'll never find out.
Is the HP Omen 15 with 70 Wh available in your country yet?
Can't confirm because what we had instead was a task to implement a custom protocol over an RS-485 linear bus.

The device in question was only available on appointment, so we only had a few shots at this.

Eventually we went with adding a checksum and resending the whole "packet" (one byte) when it didn't match, because we couldn't get the damn thing to send stuff correctly 100% of the time.
Apart from its strange provenance, I thought it is a beautiful typeface. Something ugly gave birth to something beautiful.
Just to clarify: Canada could hardly be less homogenous and it works here. We call it a “cultural mosaic.” We even have a whole French province that demands special rules. We make it work... mostly alright. Our indigenous people’s are coming out of a few centuries of rough treatment though and there is a large and public reconciliation effort being made by the government and by many institutions. Hopefully the future will be better in that area
This article is a very clever example of political manoeuvring by the Atlantic: it starts with a reasonable claim ("don't fire people who aren't actually racist") and redirects blame onto anti-racists and away from the social and political instruments that make workers disposable (at-will employment, entrenched underpayment, broken safety nets).

Cafferty's firing was wrong because his employer shouldn't have the right to fire him like that. But this is a harder position to defend when you're running conservative interference in an ostensibly liberal publication.
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Ka0stsTO0