skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Credit reporting agencies and financial institutions commit fraud all the time. They call it identity theft so that you think it is your fault instead of their fault. No one would care about a bank giving a loan to a person that was impersonating them except for the fact that the bank (credit card, mattress store, car dealership, etc) commits fraud and reports to the credit agency that you have defaulted on your loan when you have not.

That's literally what not fraud is.

>In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right

If some guy walks into a bank and claim they're you and they believe it, the banks aren't gaining anything. If anything, they lost money. Wrongly reporting the default to the CRAs also doesn't benefit them either; it's not like they compensate the banks based on how many default reports they send in. Finally, it's missing the "intentional" part. Lax security practices are negligence at best.
The problem here isn't TikTok being banned. I couldn't care less about TikTok. The problem here is singling out an individual entity for punishment outside an established framework of laws just because we don't like it. You can be tough on China without becoming China.

Nobody is suggesting that China's trade policy go unchallenged. What I do want is a policy including evidence, recourse, and the possibility of compliance. I have seen no explanation whatsoever of why TikTok is so urgently terrible that we can't deal with whatever it is that the company is doing using rules --- and this strange silence is coming from people ordinarily keen on that old "government of laws, not men" principle. Everything is weird these days.
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I'm sorry but re-purposing existing drugs does not sound promising at all.

Having computers that can fold the proteins and understand how molecules bind sounds like a much better shot. Figuring out how to do this with quantum computers to really really speed it up would be wonderful.
Right, but Go itself, which builds on those ideas was built within Google. I have no objection to attributing ideas, but you seem to want to attribute some general “quality of engineering” attributes to “not Google”.

The people doing things you like are just as much Googlers as all the people doing things you don’t like, and they all have an influence on the company and vice versa. In many cases, it’s even the same people.

So the distinctions you are trying to draw are silly. Just let the criticisms stand on their own.
Big discussion 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23989527
The basic implementation of GJK is inherently branchy - see [0] as an example. Extracting the contact points is similarly branchy, I'm not sure offhand how that would translate into gpgpu friendly code.

I'm also not sure it's worth it. If you have a small number of bodies, it doesn't make sense to attempt the collision detection on the GPU, the benefit of the GPU is really that it scales. If you _do_ have a large number of bodies, youre likely going to be using lots of your GPU for rendering anyway....

There's also the gameplay side of it - moving the bulk of the physics engine to the GPU will make things like contact filtering, scene querying difficult to do. Gameplay code is usually very straightforward, and adding in complex or async callbacks likely would be met with resistance..

[0] http://vec3.ca/gjk/implementation/
This isn’t about Chinese control, considering the President dismissed allowing Microsoft to buy the app.

Microsoft is a US company.
What I found interesting also, is that the receivers that the volunteers of the website use are quite cheap and available on Amazon. e.g. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QX6BGLT

You would expect these sorts of communications to be heavily encrypted, but they're still running mostly on legacy 1950s technology.
Yes I do. Significantly more so than the weeks/years since. There was weeks and weeks of heavy volume, as it declined to $3000. If you bought over $10k, you've had money tied up doing nothing for 2.5 years in nonsense. Prices don't go parabolic like that unless dumb money gets involved, and subsequently wiped out.

https://www.tradingview.com/x/73konLcD/
Lets not try to solve the problem for everyone. It’s obviously an opt in. If they really wanted it to work they could design card that also plugs into usb-c or micro-usb port to work as hardware token.

Also iPhones can now read NFC card. My partner already used her passport to get onto SmartId system in Lithuania.

In-app tokens rely on your phone - loose it and you are really screwed. Wanna let your accountant to use account while you on vacation - you can’t. Plus setup (or suspicious logins) normally depends on a SMS 2FA.
I highly suggest following /r/wallstreetbets for any length of time. If you see a "great deal" put in a reddit remindme and go back and figure out your "gains". You'll quickly realize stock picking with all the "better information" we have today means every other single investor has the same info. It's a madhouse of everyone seeing the same things and rushing for it, but you're doing it with Robinhood with delays and the big players have hardline terminals a dozen feet from the stock exchange.
I doubt that is the case.

Look up how Japanese companies are treated in late 80s and 90s.

When one felt under threat, all rules will be forgone.
See also the page linked from the HN article “How we’ve upped our audio game, and improved our video calls” at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24021471
Pancreatic cancer is a really, really hard cancer to treat due to the way it tends to wall itself off from the rest of the body. It is near impossible to get any drug to the cancer.
But did they find out if she was a witch?
The payout is the risk you transferred to the insurance company. You’re not “supposed” to get all your premiums back because then why would anyone start an insurance company? Its not a bank account, its more like a lottery ticket. The insurer assumes risk of covering an accident in exchange for the guaranteed income of your monthly premiums. In return you exchange a fixed regular payment for protection against an unlikely event. In order for this arrangment to work, the insurer must make a profit.

You might understand this but many people today do not, which is why they expect medical insurance to cover 100% probability events like an annual checkup with the primary care physician.
The NY Times is an "old" media company. Facebook is a "new" media company. They are both chasing the same customers (advertisers) with the aim of lightening their customers pockets in return for putting their customers' brands in front of their audiences' eyeballs.

Every old media company story about new media companies is potentially rife with conflicts of interest. Keep this in mind at all times.
That's probably... fine?

these vaccines are developed in a process far more open than any typical pharmaceutical research. The risks at issue here are unlikely to be of the bad-faith variety that can be discouraged with liability.

Instead, these will be genuine known and unknown unknowns. There will be a lot of scrutiny, which will allow governments and the public at large to make these decisions under uncertainty with the benefit of the best possible information at the time.

With the company not enjoying a significant informational advantage, the moral and practical case for liability just doesn't make any sense.

That is a standard approach for the otherwise intractable collision of a legal system that apportions the damages of anything that goes wrong on the party mostly responsible for it, and the medical reality of almost all interventions coming with some potential for grievous harm: by default, your surgeon would always be "responsible", in sense of civil law, not morality or criminal law. Because the general principle allocates responsibility with those making decisions.

"Informed consent" is about getting you into a position to make decisions, and thereby share in the responsibility.
The goal of independence is typically to execute on a vision.

According to some comments in this thread, the alternative is the slow destruction of the neutral Arm ecosystem. While some new baseline could be established in a few years, many Arm customers could face a material disruption in their supply chain.

With the US Fed supporting public markets, including corporate bond purchases of companies that include automakers with a supply chain dependent on Arm, there is no shortage of entities who have a vested interest in Arm's success.

If existing Arm management can't write a compelling S1 in the era of IoT, satellites, robots, edge compute, power-efficient clouds, self-driving cars and Arm-powered Apple computers, watches, and glasses, there will be no shortage of applicants.
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24011939
goproxy and gosumdb are two separate services, you can get the TOFU benefits without goproxy, and a checksum database would be possible to query without even revealing what import path you are talking about (just like browser safe browsing).
Yeah, I'm going to call BS.

Thailand has executed 3 people since 2004[1]. One was a robbery gone bad. The two in 2009 were drug traffickers with $1M in meth from arrests in 2001[2]. I couldn't find a source, but their names look Thai.

Apparently a bunch are waiting to be executed, though.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Thailand

2: http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Bangkok,-drug-traffickers-exe...
thanks for the link, i will need to give this a thorough read. I understand why most investing advice is conservative and I do plan on having most of my money in those strategies, but I've always thought there must also exist some relatively simple but informed methods for those with higher risk appetites
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Executive orders aren't magic, there's some law they will reference as giving the president the power to issue such an order.
Oh! I didn’t mean for my comment to come across as a disagreement of any kind.

I was just making a side comment. I thought it was funny and that your analogy was even more true because we don’t talk so much about Hemingway’s frequent articles in a newspaper but we study at length and hold in high regard his long form works.
How about your return on happiness. Why not consider where you would want to spend your retirement and invest in making that place a reality. Forget ROI... think happiness.
>Renting an apartment is credit, I am not sure why you view it has something other than credit?

>The owner of the property is loaning (credit) the use of their property to you for X amount of time in exchange for N amount of dollars, payable over monthly installments

Not really. In most places you have to pay first and last month's rent, which means you're paying for the service before it's rendered. Therefore they're not extending credit, as you have already paid for the service in advance.
Indian Billionaires Bet Big on Head Start in Coronavirus Vaccine Race
I agree, but it can be simplified. Python 3 nowadays comes with all the needed tools built-in, so there is no need to install virtualenv:

cd your/project/location
python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install anything_you_like

Also, on Windows, use the Python launcher[1] (that comes with the standard install of Python for Windows) to avoid having to mess with PATH settings as you would have had to historically. Instead of calling "python" or "python3" and hoping for the right version, just call "py" and tell it which version you want:

py -3.6-32 -m venv env

That gets you a venv with 32-bit Python 3.6, for example. Use "py -0" to list available versions.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html#python-launcher...
Is it not just survivorship bias? Nobel Prizes are often awarded decades after the fact, and (except in a couple edge cases) are never awarded posthumously. Being long lived makes you more likely to receive the prize in your lifetime, not necessarily the other way around.
I use Flow on the iPad by Moleskine Studios, it's priced on a subscription (reasonably priced, albeit a little annoying) but a wonderful drawing app. I use an Apple Pencil with it.

I like the ability to easily export documents and send them to my students, as well as the freedom you get with a digital whiteboard––you can drag and manipulate individual pieces of your sketch as if they were magnets on the board in a traditional setting.

The Pencil definitely does not feel like using a regular pen, but it's rather similar to writing on a whiteboard and is rather comfortable to use (you get palm-blocking and everything). If you use the first-party Notes app, you also get automatic handwriting recognition and indexing in iPadOS 14.

Assuming they're currently accepting returns given the pandemic, Apple has a relatively reasonable return policy – 14 days for a full refund provided you repackage everything, so if you find you don't like it you can just return it.
Yes, when it's nothing more than a bunch of shills potentially convincing the naive into buying into their pyramid scheme.
The Beale Treasure Ciphers
TikTok is not a threat to youtube. Instagram maybe. Everyone has a place.

Short videos on youtube are not rewarding and accounts are centered usually around one topic.

On tiktok you follow a person who posts videos.. which are like moving instagram pictures .

Instagram has been pushing videos but people are sharing more live stream longer content.

The next big site will be pornhub meets tiktok. 90 seconds or less x-rated content that is connected to patreon and your tiktok profile
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> […] and that people regularly buying into indices at any price is skewing the market.

And at what price should people be investing in the market? Sitting on the side in cash, waiting for the dips and crashes to occur, will give you mediocre results:

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/even-god-couldnt-beat-dollar-co...

Further, trying to miss the worst days on market down turns often means missing the days with the best returns:

* https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2019/02/08/miss-the-worst-...

For most people, most of the time, the best thing they can do is just chug along putting a little bit of money away every month. Put in what you can, but a good goal (if you can afford it) is to put away at least 5% of your income (and maybe up to 10%).

> The same goes for buying the SPY and forgetting about it.

You're not wrong, but: what's the alternative? Unless you can show something that's demonstratively better than a low-fee S&P 500 or Russell 3000 index fund (perhaps tempered with some bonds for risk/volatility management), bemoaning the situation is not very productive.
I guess my point is, we don’t saturate the economies, we just move on. There’s enough work on all levels to saturate the US and Chinese economies before moving on to Vietnam.

Fair is a complicated thing to figure out. We are traversing the tree in level order. That’s why vast sectors of each economy (nodes) get left behind.

I don’t think Vietnam should have to wait until we traverse the entirety of US and Chinese economy, there has to be a hybrid (holistic) approach to this.

These are the tough questions I guess. The global economy is stuck in a awful Leetcode question, and there’s no way out.
I have a ton of road bikes and a high-end smart trainer but I'm under no illusion that for someone not looking to ride outside ever, a purpose-made exercise bike is a vastly superior option. Even the smart trainer companies have figured this out and are making fully integrated exercise bikes.

One obvious reason is that no one cares what the exercise bike weighs and it will never be exposed to dirt or rain. That allows you to make a drivetrain that can trivially last past the useful life of the equipment without any maintenance ever. Meanwhile on the road bike you strapped to the trainer you have a chain, cassette and chainrings for no good reason - all of it ends up feeding into a variable resistance unit anyway!

Similarly putting a road bike you have used extensively on the trainer back on the street generally means doing a complete overhaul - you sweat salt water all over it and don't want your alloy handlebars to break in half because it corroded underneath the bar tape.

Ceterum censeo: we should focus on fixing the reasons that many people, particularly women, feel unsafe riding a real bike outside that they would rather stare at this screen going nowhere inside. Most of them without the mandatory two box fans blasting a hurricane their way, it makes me die inside just seeing that.
This argument would only be valid if there was a causal relationship between the “protected characteristic” and the increased risk. If the relationship was not causal, then the insurer would be mispricing the risk and thereby leaving profit on the table.
You can shorten that to:

virtualenv env
Maybe they don't want to think about retirement now. They just want to invest the money and forget about the issue, and do now whatever they make them happy, which is not planning for retirement.
The environment does appear in the process table: see `ps e` on Debian at https://manpages.debian.org/buster/procps/ps.1.en.html or ps -e on BSD at https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ps&apropos=0&sekti... or pargs -e on Solaris at https://www.unix.com/man-page/opensolaris/1/pargs
With the stay home orders I would expect numbers to be up.
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You are overlooking the role of intelligence in the success rates of anything you try to do yourself. Fixing your car, running a business, investing and researching your own disease are all tasks that some people are far more likely to succeed at than others.
This seems inline with at least US practices. Most (many?) vaccines are covered by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, which shields the manufacturer from liability for covered injuries.
The Wikipedia page is quite informative, particularly the section on their authenticity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beale_ciphers
The solution would be to pass a law akin to the GDPR then. There is no need to go through executive action.

The U.S. is not supposed to be authoritarian like China is.
Cancer is the most difficult health problem humans face. It will still be there long after we conquer neurodegeneration, atherosclerosis and diabetes. It is a major failure mode of all multicellular life. Dinosaurs got cancer. Every animal from mice to elephants gets cancer. It is startlingly common in humans. The cellular pathways altered in cancer existed before animals existed. It is an inescapable hangover from our evolutionary origins as unicellular organisms.

The only way to beat cancer is to upgrade the human organism to design out anachronistic evolutionary trade offs and prevent cancer development. The way we treat cancer now - the slash, burn, poison, hunt paradigm - is inhumane, expensive, and of limited effectiveness.
If the president is taking this actions in retaliation for the expression of free speech on the platform (TikTok audience skews young, which is a very anti-trump demographic) that may violate the First Amendment if proven.

Viewpoint discrimination is against the first amendment. We know Trump wasn’t offended by the idea that foreign countries might be trying to help him get elected, and has repeatedly called it a “Russia hoax”, but now that a social media app has anti-Trump users it’s suddenly a national security threat without any evidence provided?
Can't this be solved by randomly giving out the wrong prediction, and seeing how it turns out? eg. for 1% of applicants, pretend to give them 800+ credit score, then check the outcome compared to the "expected" score.
You added more to your post after I responded, so here is my new response to the new content.

> So does setting tariffs, yet that's widely accepted (as a government power) by both parties.

Not always, and not by me.

What the parties accept is irrelevant. We (almost) all believe that one or both of them is fully evil. Almost nobody on the right or left thinks "their" party represents their views (except a vocal minority of Republicans).

> This is probably why you're being downvoted.

I expected to be downvoted heavily when I posted. That doesn't mean I'm wrong. Sometimes I'm willing to take the hit.

> When you say "x violates your rights", most people take that as to mean it violates your legal rights

I don't think that's true. Obviously, we have basically no legal rights anymore in America. The ones we do have are tiny procedural things, like Miranda rights. When it comes to legality, it's just a matter of asking if rule X will be enforced in way Y at this particular time, which will certainly not hold at a different time. The Federal government is free to regulate basically anything in basically any way it pleases.

I mean, can you name anything that actually, solidly, is a legal right, for Americans? Maybe free speech, but that is under heavy assault. I can't think of much else.
It’s supposed to be. I think we’ve seen recently that laws only matter if they’re enforced. They can’t just exist.
Congress should pass laws in retaliation then, not the President.
I think the original title, “Stepping away from open source,” works better here.
I like the strategy and employ it on a portion of my 401k. I think you need to do it in a tax-advantaged account, otherwise rebalancing + short term gains will eat away your profits.

Also, that strategy fails in a rising interest rates environment like in the 50s and 60s (not sure of exact years). Fed has indicated keeping rates low for the next two years, but if they start hiking rates after, I think the strategy would underperform.
Not that it’s relevant in this particular case, but I don’t take anything that’s only approved in the US, because the FDA really doesn’t care, and especially doesn’t care right now.

Most drug companies actually view the US as the beta test country in a lot of ways.

If something makes it to Australia (who are very strict on pharmaceuticals) then it’s usually pretty safe.
How old are you? How much experience with medical doctors have you had or the people you love had?

I've had nothing but bad experience. Complete crap on every count.
One thing that could end this is someone hacking into the databases and changing scores. Say for all the US senators and a few CEO's and celebrities. It would basically prove that the scores are no longer trustworthy. Not that they are anyway, but if they start affecting "important" lives things might change.

I've been wondering if all this data is being used for stock market manipulation or timing the market. What exactly are those quant's using for inputs?
I don't think that my claims are misleading.
My objection to Secure Boot is right in the name. What's it designed to be secure from? From me, the user.