skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same thing happened to me with Simple (the banking startup). After they got acquired by BBVA they moved their customer's checking accounts from The Bancorp to BBVA. As part of that process they re-verified their customers and closed accounts of non-citizen customers (they also closed accounts of permanent residents physically residing in the United States).

That migration pretty much happened in the worst way possible: While customers had several months to migrate once the migration started you only had something like 30 days to verify your documents and open the new account. Also once the migration was started there was no way to cancel or pause it. I'd at least have expected them to notify non-citizen customers in advance so that they have plenty of time to open another account. Instead, I didn't get any information about this issue until after I started the migration, and once I started it they told me that it's not possible to prevent/delay the closure of my account anymore.

Fun fact: According to Reddit/Twitter non-citizens who used a driver's license for KYC weren't affected (because Simple newer checked for their citizenship status). But if you used a Greencard for KYC they noticed that you aren't a citizen and closed your account. (So there's probably a large number of customers left whose accounts will be randomly closed at some future point.)

As a consequence (for non-citizens) I suggest using a bank or credit union which has a known track record of handling non-citizen accounts (especially with the current BofA news). The United Nations Credit Union (https://www.unfcu.org/) looks like a good choice, as they target UN workers and it appears that a large number of customers aren't US citizens (and don't even live in the United States). And don't forget to keep one or two backup checking accounts in case your main account gets closed down.
> Where was mind when the universe was born? And what sustained the universe for the billions of years before we came to be?

The past was created when people started probing it, in the same sense that the present is.
Ask HN: Any Success Using NfX “Signal” or “VC Match”?
Hi HN! I recently came across what seems like a pair of really cool tools for founders created by NfX. Wondering if anyone here has had success getting intros or funding through them.
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/signal-2-0-2
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/vc-match
Re: With state formation, new regulations required that the names of the individuals who generated or received registered merchandise were entered on the tablets. The personal names were transcribed by the mean of logograms...pictures of words with a sound close to that desired (for example in English the name Neil could be written with a sign showing bent knees 'kneel').

Seems like a chicken-or-egg conundrum here. How can you create a regulation for something that nobody knows how to do? (No jokes about a dysfunctional Congress, please.) Somebody must have realized the logogram technique BEFORE suggesting or making an edict.
Have you seen the Burst Compiler in Unity3d?
Japan does not have the capability to compete with Chinese naval power. Why do you think it’s unlikely that the US will go down? What time frame are you attributing this unlikelihood to take place in? I’m assuming you mean in the next few decades and not meaning a much larger time frame.

I have no expertise but it appears from my perspective that the US is in a state of imperial decline. I think this will accelerate in the coming decades. For me the canary in the coal mine event was Gulf War 1 when the US went around asking other countries to help pay for our war. Mercenary nation. There are lots of other signs of imperial decline as I see things but that event was very telling.
> 1. Its geography means it's impervious to conventional invasions.

You'd have to be insane to invade China, though. "Never get involved in a land war in Asia". Especially never get involved in a land war in Asia against someone with an army the size of China's.

> 2. Its embracing culture will attract more immigrants.

This advantage the current administration seems to be working as hard as possible to destroy. As far as I know, though, this is still an advantage for the US compared to China.

> 2. Its [China's] economy is still underdeveloped, therefore economic growth is a lot easier.

It's not nearly as underdeveloped as it used to be. Further growth will be significantly harder than past growth was. Can China keep it going? I don't know.
Agree, for everything that doesn't go automatically or would be to much effort to automate a single source of truth must be maintained.
Print the randomly generated password on a sticker on the router. Problem solved.
Fascinating:

"We observed that for precision grasps, such as the Tip Pinch grasp, Dactyl uses the thumb and little finger. Humans tend to use the thumb and either the index or middle finger instead. However, the robot hand’s little finger is more flexible due to an extra degree of freedom, which may explain why Dactyl prefers it. This means that Dactyl can rediscover grasps found in humans, but adapt them to better fit the limitations and abilities of its own body."

The learning of "emergent" behavior, specifically when it creates improvements to natural human motion is one of the main reasons why this type of work is so important. Similar to the way that we imitate design from nature (e.g. wings, suction cups), we can now accelerate development by observing how the bots perform the task in a variety of environments
Like the debate of creation vs evolution, or vi vs emacs, or which color to pain the bike shed, these problems are unfortunately too complicated for a human to ever pretend solving
Come join my team and I’ll be happy to spill all the beans!
Since the tabs are semantic and not visual, you could easily have the first tab rendered as zero-width.
I'd say you are infinitely more qualified than me. Network hard, in person, apply to a lot of places.

I'd actually be curious to hear if you succeed because if you don't, then I'm certain is horribly wrong and biased with current hiring practices
Oh please. I challenge you to find any inhabited land on this planet that wasn't forcibly taken from someone at some point in the past. At best, you might find some remote islands where the current inhabitants are descended from the original settlers, but even there if you could magically look back in time you might find that one clan stole the land from some other clan after wiping them out in a war.

>don't for a moment think those rules are any more legitimate just because you say so.

The only thing that makes the rules legitimate is the ability to back up those rules with force.
Benefits of Using Event Management Software [Infographic]
Everyone uses systemd... I hope people are smart enough to not fall for it and not use all the scope-creeped features of it but if you add all the little things up, it turns out that we are getting more and more stuck with linux.
> The author of the tweet probably encountered the symbol before in the context of Judaism and thought through his prior domain knowledge that it signified a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menorah_(Temple) which is a Jewish candelabra holding 7 candles.

That is an absolutely massive stretch. Come on.

We may all use the word "perverse" incorrectly, but it's a word we all hear. Not everyone hears/sees the ((())) denotation for Jewish people - in fact, it's almost exclusively used in alt-right circles. So if you're aware of it at all it is highly suggestive of the kind of company you keep.
Venture Capitalist Demographics: Where Did You Go To School?
Announcing TypeScript 3.0
>Inflexibility.

I think the iron answer from a judge is less flexible than the possibility to start a democratic petition against a scandalous oversight in the formalized law...

I was trying not to bring up mitigating circumstances, since many people don't see a good reason for their existence (I do!), but mitigating circumstances is actually one of the reasons I want formalization! The way society treats the law is highly oversimplified with one-liners like "the law is the law" and "innocent until proven guilty" and "every convicted person is guaranteed a just trial because the prosecution needs to prove their case"

But if mitigating circumstances should be brought into consideration, then in theory you can't convict a person with a certain level of punishment until you have also proven that there were no mitigating circumstances, and I am not aware of any binding rule to try and locate or identify the mitigating circumstances.

I.e. allow me to call a perpetrator "less guilty" if there are mitigating circumstances; if the prosecution wins a case in the current world without mitigating circumstances ever being brought up by the defense (because they might not be aware), we currently accept the "proof" by the prosecution, even though the punishment may be unjustly harder.

I.e. the idea that the burden of proof in the current system lies totally with the prosecution is false, because the prosecution is not trying to diminish the sentence of the defense.

By formalizing we would start a discussion on how exactly to formalize mitigating circumstances.

I might choose to commit a crime against the (much older) perpetrators of my youth trauma, and while in practice I might get mitigating circumstances, I currently have no such guarantee...
I take "free" to mean that no one else decides what I should do.
The real problem here are people with bad attitude and poor communication skills. Bullying other people is a punishable offense in real life, and I don't see why code reviews should be any different. Have some basic rules regarding communication. Issue a public warning for first-time offenders. Give them the boot if they do it again. There, problem solved.
Looks like the chats are from 2015-17 before Ecuador got pissed and cut him off
It doesn't, but 'white' isn't a race - a pale person from Britain is very different from a pale person from Spain or a pale person from Bulgaria. Black americans are considered a race because they have shared experiences in the US, and until recently couldn't be traced to a single country of origin.

"He's a rat, but he's British and engaged with the ((( ))) issue."

"He's a rat, but he's Spanish and engaged with the ((( )))
issue."

"He's a rat, but he's Bulgarian and engaged with the ((( ))) issue."

"He's a rat, but he's a black American and engaged with the ((( ))) issue."

None strikes me as particularly racist, just that someone is disliked, and is now engaged with an issue to do with their origin.
Well, if you're thinking sentient, AI beings, then no-- they are still a long way off. Unless we can give any meaning behind why a robot should do something, for example, have and use this kind of dexterity, it's all mechanical tricks. Cool tricks, nonetheless.
> Monads in Haskell are used as a mechanism for scheduling evaluation, thus turning a language with a hard-to-predict evaluation strategy into a language with predictable, sequential, interactions. This makes it possible to add interactive computations such as state and input-output to the language, noting that benign (non-interactive) computations are already a part of the language, transparent to the type system.

That's a very operational/imperative perspective, and to my mind is putting the cart before the horse. To me the whole value of monads is that they let you talk about things like state and input-output in a declarative way, using plain old functions and values, rather than having to use these awkward/confusing concepts of "evaluation" and "scheduling".
KYC requirements give the government much more power over the individual, because they totally eliminate individual privacy against government monitoring.

I believe this idea that a privacy-free society can work in the long run is delusional and is only going to create social dysfunction on a very large scale.
Not a librarian, but I like finding things

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12002419
It's fine to be ignorant of the ((())) denotation used by the alt-right to describe Jewish people - it's not something everyone is going to have seen. But your reaction shouldn't be to dismiss it just because you've never heard of it yourself.
AI technology could help protect water supplies
I noticed recently that the Android UI was updated and a lot of my frustrations have gone away. Primarily around updating my current progress and adding to different shelves seems wot work much better.
Is there a public tracker for this?
there's a lot of awesome styling themes you could do for 80s and 90s:

80s - hair metal, synthwave/synthpop (think hotline miami, vice city, etc), retro games pre/post crash. all in the 8 bit c64/atari color palette.

90s - grunge and the internet revolution. i think we still need some distance from the 90s to really define the nostalgic points, but a lot of the last few years is undoubtedly swallowed in the new millenia hype.
Is the text in the pictures German? Or do they localize the pictures?

Either way, one thing about astronomy I find really fascinating is how people are able to figure out so much from so little data[0]. The amount of head scratching and the number of sleepless nights spent trying to make sense of what little data is available must be almost as mind-bending as the stellar bodies astronomers study.

[0] "little" compared to what we could gather if we could just hop aboard the good old Enterprise and jet over to a couple of nearby stars, or at least take a quick field trip to Neptune...
AT&T and a few others currently deal with this problem by having a random password assigned for the admin user printed on a sticker on the side of their Modem/Router combo boxes. It seems to work pretty well.
do you have any strong opinions re: differences between chalice / zappa?

I was looking at these two recently and ended up going with chalice as the docs seemed a bit simpler and more readily accessible.
The easy growth is gone, though, now that the labor market in China is tightening up. A lot of countries have made it to the middle stage of development and then petered out on growth; that list includes Thailand, Malaysia, Turkey, etc, all of which rank higher either on GDP per capita or GNI per capita.

China is interesting in that its society is rapidly aging before it becomes a high income country, which is enough of a rough transition for high income countries.
The one factor that distinguishes a typical HPC installation from what we would typically call a 'cloud' system is the throughpout. HPC installations are designed to provide maximum throughput and this requires very specialized hardware and networking infrastructure (InfiniBand). Cloud installations in contrast make use of widely available commodity hardware (e.g. Raspberry Pis). Unless the tasks you want to do will require an enormous amount of throughput for inter-node messaging within your cluster, then I'd suggest orienting your plans towards the 'cloud' model aka using commodity hardware and taking advantage of an open source cloud platform like OpenStack.
... we can't take their tax dollars if we don't have their bank accounts tallied locally. it's as simple as that.
In many ways, yes. I think Americans tend to underestimate how incredibly damaging US foreign policy has been to massive chunks of the world. The same cannot be said of China. To grossly overgeneralize: China sucks for Chinese people. America sucks for non-Americans¹, and that's only become worse in the recent past. It's something I welcome, with some reluctance.

¹ I mean this in global terms. Not referring to immigrants.
Unless code review is a rubber-stamping process (in which case why bother? just party on production...), you're inviting criticism and improvement, so freaking out about receiving some and getting defensive or calling people toxic is... less than productive.

One prolly shouldn't be a jackass as a reviewer, but if comments or questions on what you're doing get your back up, one should perhaps grow a thicker skin as a reviewee.
DecaNLP, GluonNLP, Al+ Stack, Pythia, Data for Good,
> This just confirms

Is the leaked material real? Until that's asserted I don't believe it confirms anything.
It's no secret that there are plenty of persons interested in undermining wikileaks who are very capable of fabricating smear campaigns.
Thanks.

I already have an AHK script that launches windows and moves them to exact positions. That's only half the problem.

The problem is when recording a screencast things aren't static. I would like be able to move things around on a whim.

I only hacked around with AHK for a little bit but I don't see anything in those GUI docs that show how to set a size constraint and snap windows to a specific zone of a monitor and still respect Winwdows' maximize and splitting. Where do you see that?
One reason I left my previous role was because the code reviews were miserable and the team refused to automate any style matters which would have externalized and automated away many issues completely.

The team claimed they were highly collaborative, but in reality, it was two heads down guys who didn't want to be bothered and would just offer niggle after niggle that had little bearing on overall quality, making the code more maintainable or ship-able. I realized they acted this way mainly because of personality deficits and likely office politics and as a cynical lever of control. There was a third developer who was genuinely decent and considerate and who had good insights to share and who was genuinely collaborative. Lastly, there was a newbie whose reviews were valuable for him to do but added no real value for me.

I have worked in large and small organizations, been on projects that generated billions in revenue, and never went through what I went through there. I realized I wasn't doing my best work anymore just because I loathed the process and it wasn't going to change. Being an asshole, gas lighting, and making up policies on the fly does not help the bottom line of a company, it just pisses people off for no good reason. But hey, they are free to write the code exactly how they want and I got a $10K raise. A gift for all of us!
"Monads are just monoids in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"
Why is it unrelated? Britain has exploited some nations in not so distant past. That’s where the wealth of the Imperium came from...
Ironically, New Zealand, a former colony, has an active rocket launch facility.
As a customer, how would I know that the data you provide is not fake?
Rentals for all of these use cases have already been around since before Grover.
Yes, however a large chunk of that is created by the flaps. If you have shape memory flaps, you can reduce noise by up to 40% on takeoff and landing. I know one company has already proven this technology on some Gulfstreams for qualification.
I have been with Wamu/Chase for a lot of years but want to switch now that they are implementing more fees. What are you switching to? The local credit unions seem pretty good but I know there are other options as well including fintech.
>8-10 cups of coffee a day

Is this... Safe? I mean, if I told me dentist this she would slap me, let alone my cardiologist.
Oops I seem to have strayed off the narrative - can always tell when the West Coast comes online, regular as clockwork
> The author of the tweet probably encountered the symbol before in the context of Judaism and thought through his prior domain knowledge that it signified a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menorah_(Temple) which is a Jewish candelabra holding 7 candles.

So, you are saying that instead of saying he was a rat that was of particular concern because he was both Jewish and involved in anti-anti-Semitism action, the pair of closely-timed tweets from the WL account were intended to say he was a rat that was of concern because he was Jewish and involved in...some kind of “Menorah issue”?

Even accepting (for the sake of argument) that that explanation is somehow plausible, how does it make the message any less anti-Semitic?
I'm not really gathering what this is supposed to be about.

Is it TV (like NBC, BBC) or Twitch?

Is the author trying to say, "Why are 1000 people watch someone basically doing nothing when she's supposed to be playing video games"?

If so then you just need to find a better streamer of which there are certainly thousands
>since the implementation details of any given monad have very little to do with monads

Well, yes, that's the point. You don't need to understand anything about monads to understand how the implementation of >>= for IO forces the correct order of side effects.
> Oh good. A write up that’s aware of how unapproachable nomads seem.

Normally I don't comment on typos (there are more important things in life!), but this one made me chuckle :)
Clojure was my first lisp; I use it every day at work, especially on JavaScript. ;) The (semi-)joke is that the reason Clojure targets the JVM and JS runtimes is so we can get paid to write it.

However, I have started playing with Lisp (SBCL) a bit in my off time and am finding it interesting. I have a desire to write some CLI applications and think Lisp might be a better fit than Clojure. I was drawn to it for a lot of the reasons you note:

1. Native compilation

2. Reader macros

3. C FFI

4. Debugger

But it's also a bit like learning how to write with my left hand; my brain has been warped by Clojure to eschew place-oriented development and reduce mutability to a pinpoint. Lisp is completely, unabashedly mutable (which gives a lot of room for improved performance vs. immutable) and I'm struggling with it.
Re #1 it isn't about conventional invasion at all
Re #2 it currently is not embracing immigration
Re#3 it is currently alienating its European patners
from one caffieneist to another, you may want to cut your consumption in half. at minimum, it saves on bean costs.
I am homeless and due to the patriot act. I am unable to
open a bank* account as the bank without a utility bill is unable to determine that I am not a terrorist. Their words. *I mean credit union.
Ally is what I'm using. 1.75% saving account. 0.1% interest on checking account. No minimum balance. They pay all withdrawal fees. They don't have physical locations but I never used them anyway. Phone service is pretty good.

I have started getting in the mindset that I'll just open accounts wherever makes sense for different services. With internet banking there's no need to get everything from one provider, opening new accounts is easy and there is no need to stick with banks that behave like this.

Even if it's too much hassle to close the bad account right away it's pretty easy to take the first step and drain it to the minimum required balance.
So you want each of the maintainers of every text editor, text processing tool (e.g. diff, grep, sed, awk, git, etc.), IDE, and web app (gitlab, github, etc) to implement this standard? You’re going to be waiting a long time...
Some obvious examples:

You may want to rent a drone for a holiday.

You may want to rent an Apple watch to find out if its something for you.

You may want to rent a projector for the world cup to watch games with your friends.

You may want to rent a Nintendo Switch just to play Mario Odyssey for a month.