skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent an afternoon looking into this a few weeks ago (I ran a mass opt-out campaign for Equifax a few years ago[1] and wanted to do it again for Chase) and I came to the exact same conclusion you did. I want to appreciate what’s going on here but at the same time it seems irresponsible to give people the impression that they have opted out when they haven’t.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15207151
Good list but not sure about Tresorit - it's closed source as far as I know so nobody knows what it really does.
Do you have a link? This is exactly what I want.
Don't use SMS based 2FA.

NIST recommends against it because it's so easy to hijack.
> The first one asks for you email, only after the second do you actually get the letter.

They're pretty clearly trying to collect email addresses through this campaign. I'm okay with that. My email address isn't exactly private, and this site is going to pay to mail physical letters for me.

> Also the form letter, prepopulated with the Chase customer service P.O. box address, is another scam pitfall. Anyone using this kind of form letter should always check the address with the financial institution before sending any forms, especially that include PII/financial information.

Is the address fradulent? If so, please tell us. If not, I don’t see the concern.
Yeah, once every 100 years...
It's been tough to find a bike from them.

I've been a happy customer for years (first in DC and now SF), but ever since they removed their electric bikes, their docks have been empty so often that I can't count on using them any more.
You left something out of your calculation:

When industrial production comes back to the US, the price of consumer goods will rise. Consumers will not be able to afford as much at those higher prices, so some American businesses will lose customers. People will be laid off in other sectors of the economy because of the reduced demand.

Overall, your plan would just shift jobs from other sectors of the economy into manufacturing. The average American would be able to afford less, not more. In other words, Americans would likely be poorer as a result of this policy.

There isn't some magic rule that restricting imports leads to greater prosperity. There are costs to restricting imports, and in general, those costs outweigh the benefits (especially for developed countries).
They kind of are though.
“Spinal”
>If you actually care about privacy and claim to not be using or selling our information for anything, why don't you make it easier to avoid giving information entirely?

Hmm, I don't see it that way. It seems like people are learning about the chase issue for the first time through this website. Ideally you'd have another website/article informing you about the issue, and then a link to this website for sending the letter. And so it would be weird to go to a website designed to send a letter, and be told that you can also not send the letter through the website...
I tried paper straws a couple of times at A&W and it wasn't that bad. Granted, it was a cold drink, which could perhaps be problematic with hot drinks, but beside a texture difference, I found the paper straw to be an acceptable replacement.
I suddenly really want panels instead of windows and menus on the left side instead of menus on top.
Memory utilization used to be much worse ;) They improved it.
I know everyones talking about how sketchy the online forms are. But my question is what sketchy practices is Chase involved in that they need this to be part of their agreement. Secondly and its been noted here before why are such clauses even legal? I really hope we can take the concept to court and murder it completely.
You've hit upon the most absurd part of these complaints. There are so many people here complaining about AMP, and not one of them in the years of AMP threads on HN have ever offered an alternative design for instant loading web pages.
The increased risk is passenger's opening the door right as you bike past or jumping out at a stop light or something. with cabs you know the risk so raise your awareness but with ridesharing could be anycar as you normally can't tell from the rear whose ridesharing.
sci-hub.tw does
I did contact chase on twitter about this and was told they would not close my account
>Can it receive calls and read e-mails?

Barely.

But there's more to it than that. I can't use the browser to look work-related things up because the blackberry browser hasn't been updated in years. I end up using my own device which defeats the purpose.
I'm deeply concerned about the impact that this will have on the music documentary. Without a fat idiot pulling a fader at a mixing desk in a poorly lit room so we can just hear the drum beat alone while describing an utterly standard 4/4 time, poorly played derivative drumming as "groundbreaking" I fear for the genre. We've already lost atmospheric cigarette smoke haze, what next?
That seems to work too..

a = Foo(Foo(Foo(None)))
b = Bar(Bar(Bar(None)))
c = Hep(Hep(Hep(None)))

a.child.junk = 1
# error: Item "Foo" of "Optional[Foo]" has no attribute "junk"
# error: Item "None" of "Optional[Foo]" has no attribute "junk"

b.child.junk = 'a'
# error: Item "Bar" of "Optional[Bar]" has no attribute "junk"
# error: Item "None" of "Optional[Bar]" has no attribute "junk"

c.child.junk = 1.1
# error: Item "Hep" of "Optional[Hep]" has no attribute "junk"
# error: Item "None" of "Optional[Hep]" has no attribute "junk"

a.child = 1
# error: Incompatible types in assignment (expression has type "int", variable has type "Optional[Foo]")

b.child = 1
# error: Incompatible types in assignment (expression has type "int", variable has type "Optional[Bar]")

c.child = 1
# error: Property "child" defined in "Hep" is read-only
# error: Incompatible types in assignment (expression has type "int", variable has type "Optional[Hep]")

I'm using mypy 0.701 with Python 3.7.3.
Radvocate here:
We do have a vested interest. Over time, we want to be the place you come when you have a dispute against a big company because we'll fight hard for you.

We're excited to partner on this project partly because it is very "on brand" for us from that perspective — we can help people, get our name out there, and shine light on an issue that matters to us. We're a business, but we're also all in this business (instead of some other business) because we want to make the system fairer for consumers.

ETA: Also, to correct one misapprehension: we are not in the class action business. We actually help consumers pursue individual arbitrations. We think more people should know that even if their contract doesn't let them sue, they actually do have a way to assert their power through arbitration. If anything, we'll have more customers for our current business if no one opts out of their Chase clause.
We don’t have any plans for formal decentralised governance at this time; it’s hard enough making rapid progress with an open standard with ~12 people helping steer it without opening it up to the whole world to bikeshed.

Instead, we clearly define the terms under which new folks can join and leave the spec core team, code core team and Guardians in https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/matthew/msc177... and more formally in https://matrix.org/media/2019-06-10%20-%20Matrix.org%20Found....

So this defines how the wider community can get involved at the top level; and in turn, anyone is welcome and encouraged to submit patches (for implementation) and proposals (for spec) - thus providing a relatively decentralised end result. Our emphasis is more on open governance than decentralised governance for the sake of it.

That said, if Aragon or some similar project came along and convinced us of a better governance model, we’d of course consider it :)
The flat-Earther 9/11-truther astrologer probably really is primarily motivated by "intellectual curiosity", he probably just has poor priors. Which is to say, he's seeing that world as he's seeing it, it's just that something in his lower intellectual foundation is rotten.

The interesting question is whether that specific bit of rotten reasoning is still accessible to alteration after one has passed through that specific phase of neuroplasticity.
While I disagree on that point, what about the fact that the terms require you to mail it yourself.

Edit: Also, I'm not sure what "wet signature" means. The claim was not quite that the signature has to be in ink. The debate is over whether you (not someone else) are performing the signing, and whether you (not someone else) are mailing (not emailing etc.) it on paper (not e.g. a flash drive) or not. Which, to me, means you could sign on your computer/tablet/etc., then print that as your signature with a printer and then mail the form, with no ink involved anywhere in the process. That seems like a pretty reasonable interpretation of "personally signing" the letter and "mailing" it, so Chase would have a hard time arguing you didn't do that. But to type your name on a random website for someone else to print and mail the contract on your behalf? You neither personally signed that letter (whether on the computer or on the paper) nor did you mail it... all you did was casually tell some random guy on the internet to impersonate you to your financial institution.
and Ford owns Spin.
There are lots of UI interactions in AR/VR based on gaze. It’s a top-tier paradigm in Hololens, for example. Personally I find it annoying; I want to concentrate on the content not some button or action zone. Part of the problem is that our eyes don’t work the way we like to imagine, they skip around and look at lots of different things and our brains then synthesise a gestalt view. There is a tendency for our eyes to be pointing more at the things that interest us but not _specifically_, eg at the keyboard, not at a key.

I think it is possible to use gaze as a secondary input in a UI and would love to hear examples of where it has been done because I haven’t seen any yet.
How is this different from the (relatively common afaik) passkey idiom https://arne-mertz.de/2016/10/passkey-idiom/ ?
Notes on U.S. Healthcare
They offer a template as well
AltDrag[0] provides this feature, among a few other useful tweaks (resize with win + right mouse button anywhere in the window).

[0]: https://stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/
Can hard drives store long term like LTO tapes?
It makes complete sense now, appreciate the explanation.
> iMessage requires a dedicated Mac, for example

You had me really excited until this part. I'm moving away from a Macbook soon and my most missed feature will be desktop texting.
It's an empty struct so the compiler will elide any storage either way, but agreed having it be the first arg is a bit odd. Perhaps it's for regularity in the cases where you want to make variadic functions 'badged' in this way.
We need to talk about crying at work
"Pick up that cable, will you"

"Feel anything?"

"No?"

"Ok, then the other one is the live high tension one..."
Did you try randomizing the 'name' and 'ids' of the inputs? (including the invisible one)
We use our intuitive physics to make sense of imaginary worlds
https://militarymoneymanual.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/C...
Perhaps Elon's Starlink will save you at some point. (being serious here, the network should be able to support much better than cable.
I'll second the claim that this feels cult like. I'll even cede it is probably effective. Still feels cult like.

Saying this comes from the same kind as AdSense and Facebook ads actually makes it feel worse. :(
There is a book from the mid 1960s (I think the last revision, a few older ones) that is still basically current (hehe) by Westinghouse called "Electrical Transmission and Distribution Reference Book"

If you liked this you will like it:
https://www.amazon.com/Electrical-Transmission-Distribution-...
Also, there is only one manufacturer of LTO tape drives. IBM. The other companies ship OEM versions of the IBM drive.
Depends. The traditional techniques that automatically establish humanity without determining identity are more and more vulnerable to AI, so the only way to keep CAPTCHAs effective is to integrate identity. From that perspective, ReCAPTCHA isn’t collecting more than “needed”. On the other hand, the cutting-edge cryptographic technique used by Privacy Pass does supposedly preserve anonymity by making it impossible for CloudFlare to link “who solved the CAPTCHA” to “who wants to access X site”, but it still involves information being collected in some form.
All cash, no stock/bonuses (even though I am way overdue for a "bonus"...)
The nice thing about the contract is they are obligated to provide the service.
Thanks for pointing that out -- I had no idea and it's really surprising to me. Why did they license the Ford brand? Is the Ford name really that attractive to the Bay Area bikesharing market? Would've expected it would hurt more than help, if anything. Is it just: all brand recognition is good brand recognition?
If you are aware of security holes in the DAG resolution algorithm please let us know asap at security@matrix.org as per https://matrix.org/security-disclosure-policy/.

As far as we know, we have addressed all known issues in the original algorithm - which is why we have declared ourselves out of beta. Matrix 1.0 has an entirely new state resolution alg, as well as many other security fixes.

Performancewise there are still issues, but we know what needs to be done to fix them, and this will be landing shortly now 1.0 is out.
The buyer pays everyone - no one else brings any money to the transaction.
It's behind a paywall but the use of the "commercial" in the title seems weird (the abstract mentions "commercial iterative" technique fwiw). It seems like any kind of algorithm can be commercial and making this part of the comparison is odd. You could have an open source iterative technique or a commercial neural network approach.

It's somewhat ironic also they make their code available on github but not the actual article.
In a very small nutshell: to get continuous power but still use AC it helps if you offset the AC on several conductors. The lowest number of conductors with which this works well is three, and 360 degrees rotation offset in three equal bits is 120 degrees, hence three phase power, where each 'phase' is offset by 120 degrees from the other two. The current and voltage between the conductors are said to be 'out of phase' by 120 degrees.
Even if people around here think humanity isn't really prepared for a Mars mission yet, what's clear to me is there are nations on this planet that will take far more risks that, say, NASA was prepared to take back in the days of our first space program. I'm not passing judgement, just saying I think it's clear, even if NASA had the funds to go to Mars, we wouldn't be the first to Mars. Maybe not even second or third. And in this politically charged world we seem live in currently, there are likely interesting times ahead.
Voilà turns Jupyter notebooks to standalone web applications
>I don’t see the concern.

really? No concern downloading a form letter from some web site and mailing PII/account information to the address they provided?
Call me paranoid, but that kind of behavior is just waiting to run into a scam.

My point was not about the address, it was about general wariness of scams. No different than always calling your financial institution using a valid/known number, rather than a number provided to you by a voicemail/email/letter.
Post Alert – Notifies your Slack team when your content is shared on Reddit
An 'Anomaly' the Size of Hawaii Is Buried Beneath the Moon's Biggest Crater
Bravo. In my view, this connection and upside was made appropriately-clear in the "Who are you and why did you build this?" section, and the context from the logo attached to the site.

Very clever marketing, good on you for managing this, and I hope you see a great return for your efforts.
They can take advantage of eyewear's rediculous margins and just start selling Apple branded frames with built-in AirPods.
The Economics of Migration
Bikes and scooters will take many rides from ride sharing services. If Lyft wants to be a single source for all transit, they have to participate in micro-mobility.
Is the form letter generated on the client-side?
https://matrix.org/docs/spec/#matrix-versions. Matrix 1.0 is the blanket term for the set of various specific API releases we just cut: CS API 0.5 etc. We could have bumped them all to 1.0 for the sake of it (and perhaps we should have), but it felt cleaner to let each API version evolve independently, and instead say “hey, as of this set of versions, we consider the protocol stable”.
There are some pretty explicit instructions as to what should happen to my digital stuff after I pass away, no need for any of my offspring to go digging around in there. If there is anything that I think they need to know I'll be sure to give it to them firsthand.
https://github.com/hmshan/MAP-NN and the actual DNN looks like a somewhat shallow residual network.
I think Ford paid to have it put there (as advertising). In NYC it is Citi Bike share as advertising for CitiBank.
An additional point on the logistics:

I don't have direct access to the fulfillment of this particular initiative, but in general we can take advantage of the efficiency of sending multiple legal notices in the same packet. So the cost per individual letter can be much less than one would assume.
Africa's Lost Kingdoms
Thanks, that's very encouraging to hear and exactly what I would hope for.

That also sounds like it would solve my biggest issue with running my own server; if my home internet drops or I spill coffee on it I can't talk to anybody until I get it fixed. Having an alternative way of accessing my account would solve that entire worry.
s/you/Chase/;s/your/Chase's/
I updated README.
How about it now?
Noops Challenge
Dilemmas of an Allergic Life
> No, not "because Micro$oft sucks!"

Yeah really, because that. They have the resources to do it well. They have the ability to say "no, didn't work, this sucks, it's not being released today (or ever)." They chose not to do do these things. They suck. It's that simple.

I can do a one man effort and screw it up. They're meant to get results worthy of a company with a market cap of more money than god. If they can't AND they release a festering pile of garbage. "Microsoft Sucks!" Is a perfectly reasonable response. You don't praise Ford because they are capable of releasing may cars that don't explode.
Nonsense, their FAQ says:

"We’re a group of like-minded companies who like building things that help people. "

They're just doing this out of the goodness of their hearts!!!
All the table elements just have special values for the CSS "display" property. You can apply these to divs or any elements and get table layout.
Can’t suppress enemies in a democratic society without violating the very rights enumerated and protected by said society. The populace itself must inoculate itself against such malicious actors with activism, intelligent discourse, critical thinking, and political engagement.
It's really not that hard to have at least some minimal level of responsive design such that pages are readable on mobile devices.

At least reader mode works
Uber says its flying taxi service will be cheaper than owning a car
Shopping in Brusa – Gertrude Bell (1892)
They claim to have not stopped in KC, but in my area, the city has lengthened right-of-way permits out to 2025. Those were typically only issued for 1 year.

http://overlandpark.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Viewer/index.html?a...
The best guard against unintended uses that hamstring the maintenance of the library is the good old opaque handle:

typedef struct foo_struct *foo;

foo foo_make();
void foo_destroy(foo);
void foo_frobnicate(foo, int how);

The client executables have no idea how big a foo object is, or what alignment requirements are, let alone what its members might be. The client executables don't control the allocation, construction, clean-up, freeing, or anything else.

The programmers who use this cannot just edit a header file to gain access to something; the don't have a header file which tells them anything. They could reverse engineer the data structure, but to thwart that, you could scramble the order of the structure members with each new release of the component, so their hack wouldn't be backward or forward compatible.
Wow that sucks. Strength to you.
Show HN: Experimenting gamification through frustrating quiz
Bauhaus: A Failed Utopia?
Not if there is a critical mass of people opting out.
Climate change drives wide rapid thermokarst development in Canadian Arctic
A good resource for anyone who wants study Emacs further or try out things, I found this very helpful for me: https://emacs.zeef.com
Thanks – I'm glad you have a long-standing comment history so this doesn't look like I made you up ;-)
And you can add yourself a public interface even if all you have is a compiled library, and header files.

Flipping a "private:" to "public:" has no effect on the binary compatibility.
You need to consider the two possible evils.

If I don't use this website, there is a 100% chance I will "agree" to binding arbitration. I know myself. There is absolutely no way I am going to print, fill out, and mail in a paper form.

Is this website a perfect solution? No, but I don't see a better option under the circumstances, and from what I can tell, the people running it are doing the right things within the confines of what is necessary for their solution to work.

If that's not the case, criticize away, and certainly let us know if you have a clear reason to believe this specific project is a scam. But keep the goal in mind. It certainly set off some alarm bells for me, but when I read through the site it all made sense.
An Evolutionary Explanation of the Placebo Effect
There's going to be a point where taking a scooter becomes more attractive for low income people (it's already half the price of a lyft), and then there will be a point where owning your own $400 scooter or $100 bike will make more sense rather than relying on the rental (which is normalizing the idea of riding an electric scooter/bike through a city). I wonder if these companies have dug their own grave.
>> keep news sites and Olympic committee from recognizing Taiwan as a separate nation

> No, they don't want to be a separate nation. It's a more complex situation than that. Taiwan considers itself as the Republic of China, where they consider the government in Beijing to be illegitimate, and reject communist rule.

Tell that to the currently-ruling Democratic Progressive Party (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Progressive_Party#P...):

> The current official position of the party is that the "Republic of China (Taiwan)" is an independent and sovereign country whose territory consists of Taiwan and its surrounding smaller islands and whose sovereignty derives only from the ROC citizens living in Taiwan (similar philosophy of self-determination), based on the "Resolution on Taiwan's Future" in 1999. It considers Taiwan independence to be a current fact, making a formal declaration of independence unnecessary.

It is a more complex situation, but your view is dated. Taiwan has to maintain the fiction that it still supports a one-China policy, because to do otherwise and declare independence would invite Beijing's wrath: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan#PRC...