skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It's simple: overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. It's slow death." — Major Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell)
You cannot solve racism through racism.
> how systems interact and their performance characteristics

Let’s bring these aspects into the fold of mathematical modelling then.
The decision affects private entities that accept some form of federal financial assistance (this is language from Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act), not private entities writ large. Granted, that is still a big bucket.
Startup with specific banking needs: Multiple DBAs
Background:
We are a DE Corporation that operates multiple lines of business, each with a respective DBA/Assumed Name (all legally registered). Think Acme, Inc. that operates DBAs such as "Acme Landscaping", "Acme Tree Cutting", or "Beta Car Wash". We have 10+ active DBAs, generating 10k+ rev per month.

Our DE Corporation only has one Tax ID (EIN) and all of our DBAs are associated with that EIN, per law.

The Problem:
We have multiple vendors that require our DBAs to have their own bank account. Specifically, they need bank statements that show "Beta Car Wash" NOT Acme, Inc. Our vendors are large bureaucratic institutions that will not budge on this requirement, we've tried.

We currently bank with Mercury (big fans) but they do not support opening multiple accounts utilizing the same EIN. We were super bummed to learn that they don't support this. They will only allow one name per EIN. :/

Our current alternative is to simply open a DBA account with completely separate banks, for each DBA. Obviously, this is tedious and we want to avoid it.

Our ask:
Do any of you have experience with this same problem? Do you know of other alternatives? Other banks that do support this use case?

Thanks!
I'd love to know the story behind the photo on the "meet the team" page. It's got my eyes very interested in it
I was interviewing a person and in post interview meeting with HR and managers, HR made a comment like "this would be the first hire from country X"

After the meeting I noticed that I am the first person that was hired from my country. I am still wondering if a similar comment was made about me as well
I have since half a year or more problems with some PayPal payments - no matter which browser I try.
Reddit cannot survive without its moderators. It cannot
I like that things like this exist even if I recognize that they are not for me. For some class of system I am sure these languages will shine. It reminds me of Julia - every time I come across it I love the idea of it but I have no personal use for it. I'm always interested in reading articles on dependent type languages like Coq and Idris but I haven't even tried to write a "Hello, World!" in them.

I may just be jaded with promises of sufficiently smart compilers. I actually hold out more hope for AI code assistance than I do for easy-to-use formal verification.

It is a bit like Esperanto or something like that. Maybe I am just brain damaged from growing up in a world with English and other messy spoken languages but my intuition suggests that perfectly structured languages are possibly the wrong approach.

Even though at the time I wanted xhtml to win the battle of structured formats for the web, in hindsight I now believe messy html 5 was the way to go.

> We still get buffer overflows and integer overflows. The compiler still cannot tell when our loops will terminate (yes, this is possible). Aliasing is still a complete unbridled mess.

As strange as it sounds, I've learned to love the flaws. I don't see my job in life is to remove every possible source of error. There seems to be a balance point where the cure is worse than the disease and I wish to find that balance point rather than some theoretical perfect.

So I do hate those things listed. But so far, the balance point for me is with languages that sacrifice perfectly solving those problems.
What do you subscribe to on PBS? Didn't even know they had a subscription program.
This is simply untrue and you are unlikely to find any country that has such absolute policies codified in their law.

The example you give, Germany, has its own form of affirmative action codified under the Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz which permits employers to give preferential treatment to ethnic groups subject to structural disadvantages or underrepresentation. Germany uses the term "Positive Action" in their legislation:

http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/77201/93329/F6...
I've been thinking of the output as fanfiction/fan art. It shares many of the same complications regarding the ownership of ideas, commerical intent of writing, competition, and copyright. Fanfiction is generally a protected form of expression, but requires the work to be "transformative". Unlike with parodies and critisisms, fanfiction can be much harder to distinguish from original work. From that perspective, a large amount of the output of LLMs is so generic, that it's not possible to attribute it to one person. It's like trying to find the original author of "Once upon a time".

https://theinnisherald.com/the-other-once-upon-a-times-a-his...
Insurance is cheaper than tracking hardware.
If you do this sort of thing more than once ever, look at the feedgnuplot tool (http://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot). It'll make your life easier
It's not so much that you see a slightly different "down," but that space itself is changing such that the distance between e.g. your head and feet is (very) slightly altered.
Poverty has a huge impact on childhood accomplishment. If someone is a regular A student while dodging bullets with a mother on crack, they are probably a much stronger human than someone who comes from an upper middle class family and gets valedictorian, is class president, does volunteer work and won a teen writing award or some-such.
The whole scammers thing is true. We have faced it with SourceLair. Thankfully there is 3DS 2 now and you can be super strict with which transactions you can accept. IMO the safest way to go is accept transactions, where you have no liability.

Also, using a SaaS service providing a complete checkout experience can make this super easy for you.
I'm not surprised this would be most people's decision. Why trust RedHat any more, when they've been shown to keep making things more expensive and harder for users? If you have to switch, just get away from them entirely.
Defining anything is a hard problem, but the English word "consciousness" clearly refers to multiple distinct phenomena. There is literally no point in talking about if animals have consciousness if you don't pinpoint whether you mean:

- Whether animals are asleep or awake (conscious or unconscious)

- Whether animals have subjective experience / qualia

- Whether animals are self-aware

Etc. etc.

Once you narrow down then you can try to precisely define the topic or not, but without narrowing down, it's pointless.
awww man! here we go again, impostor syndrome kicking in.
It's much, much slower productivity wise than using the orm. Like 10x slower.

Why TF would I use json? There's a reason I picked a relational database. Nonsense.
When I read things like the second paragraph above, I start to wonder if maybe I am actually a terrible programmer because I only ever learned what you might generously call “applied computer science” aka only the languages commonly used in typical workplaces (Java, PHP, Ruby, JS) and none of the CS classics. Does anyone else without the so-called ‘academic’ languages foundation ever feel this way when you see people on HN always writing about Lisp and its peers?
> But then why the entire detour with race? Why not just.. well, let poor people come first?

Because the state apparatus systematically oppressed people by race. If poor smart white kids succeed but smart black kids do not, this is a failure of the policy goal to repair the harms to black families, and black communities.
> More and more people have dashcams now for this reason. Of course those can be used against you as well.

Most dashcams can track speed too. When I was shopping for a dashcam, many of the reviews/comments said that the first thing they do when configuring their new dashcam is turn off the speed caption (sure it can still be calculated from the visuals if needed, but that's a lot more work). Last thing you want when you're using dashcam video to show someone else was at fault in an accident is their insurer to say that you were 2mph over the speed limit and therefore partially liable.
IntelliJ. To name a few features I've not been able to get in VS Code or have had a worse experience:
- debugger

- refactoring (extracting functions and variables, renaming across entire project etc.)

- context aware selection (expand selection from cursor logically)

- stack trace / error parsing

- comparing anything (diff selection with clipboard for example)

- DB schema support even in SQL formatted as strings (e.g. when using psycopg) directly from DB by just connecting to a DB

- find in files (I've never seen a VS code user have an easy time finding stuff)

Etc.
Why is it that people keep on flogging dead horses?
It's far too soon to say. But I think it's easy to overthink these kinds of "will this hurt my career" questions. It will affect your career in some way, certainly, but hurt? It's impossible to say.

It also entirely depends on what sort of career you want. There are a million flavors of software engineering careers. Some flavors will be affected much more than others.

Where I work, our manager announced their new AI policy: use it if you want, but the company won't be paying for it. 3/4ths of the engineers in my location have no plans to use it at all.
Naw in another 500 they'll be antigravbarrows
I think “look” is a misnomer here. It wouldn’t really look like anything, as it’s fundamentally all of space-time that is being stretched and rippled.

There’s nothing to really see as such.
The best method of college entrance is whats done in east asia. China does the Gaokao (hard SAT), and students list their university preferences and filters students into colleges based on their score and their preferences. Japan takes entrance exams for a university. These seem like infinitely fairer methods than the US where they try and correct for disadvantage in a variety ways.
Haha, that was before we signed up for Midjourney and tried to convince Dall-E to create "two middleaged dudes in a white hall building a spaceship" with our faces as a seed.

We figured, it's bad enough to be comical again :-)
You're worried about skin color being used as a determining factor, but you were admitted based on zip code. That's trying to admit disadvantaged people, but not doing so based on skin color. So maybe in this specific case, they're already looking at it with more nuance? Or at least a different axis than skin color?
not this?
grep -ve 'test/|tests/|idlelib|turtledemo'
I prefer to let people make their own choices, otherwise the alternative might just be to ban everyone from doing everything even remotely dangerous anywhere on the entire planet (who's laws will apply?)

If people want to do risky things, that's their business.
Yes. That is the problem I am referring to. They can bump the api version, removing the non-privileged APIs the AOSP stuff used, and move the implementation of the new privileged API into a proprietary blob.

This is how location services work. Location has an obvious local-only fallback, but it is broken in practice. I imagine they can break phone calls/sms/rcs equally badly using the same technique.
I had more issues with stripe than PayPal... PayPal user for 15 years (maybe that time gives me some grace with their systems?) And no issues minus the botched move from S- subscriptions to I- subscriptions.

Stripe let me take 3 weeks of preorders then told me they were going to hold on to my money for 4 months (may be more or less I can't remember) because the payments were suspicious.

I then had invoices from suppliers to pay but not the money from customers to pay it.

Never touched stripe since.

I've tried to move to Arden but they require 1 million gross which I'm not doing.

Braintree (also PayPal) won't respond to sign up requests or emails.

So yeah I'm sticking with PayPal after 15 years. Oldest still active subscription is 9 years I think.

But if they did suddenly close my account my company wouldn't recover, scary thought.
Astronomers detect ‘cosmic bass note’ of gravitational waves
Harvard and UNC are well intentioned but they are trying to fix inequities which start much earlier.

They sit at the end of 12 years of schooling for applicants, where the quality of that schooling and the level of funding for extra curricular activities will have been vastly different based on where that student lived and which school they attended.

Trying to fix this problem at the college admissions level creates the unintended effect and consequence that Asians and whites who are objectively better academic candidates get rejected in favor of non white/Asian candidates with lower academic scores. That is wrong and it's discrimination on the sole basis of the color of your skin.

The real fight needs to be about fixing our education system so every kid of every race and everywhere gets the same high quality education. It means giving parents school choice to take their kids to private school instead of the poorly run public schools that may be near them. It means raising the standards for training teachers so they can have real workable educational tools to make sure their students succeed.

You can't fix this broken system with more racism, and it was wrong to try to do so.
I just saw the stats from a medical school— I believe it was UCSF but correct me if I’m wrong— where the average Asian reject had higher scores than the average Black/Hispanic accepted applicant
Considering that sugar and excess consumption of carbohydrates is the number 1 health problem around the world, is it possible that the risks of low calorie sweeteners are not sufficient to outweigh the benefits of low calorie sweeteners?
Yeah in which case I think you are fine skipping racket or lisp for that matter
As soneca demonstrates, credit can be extended using instant payment systems, without the need for credit card rails (very similar to Buy Now Pay Later).
> Have things been made right by now? I have no idea.

Ask any black person and there's your answer.
Not compared to literally any non-Electron text editor. It's barely faster than native full IDEs.
US Supreme Court strikes down race-based college admissions
But if affirmative action is racism, then you can't solve racism at all.
Deep Sea Implosions in Slow Motion – How Fast Things Break?
Figma has a great post on how they handled multi-player syncing using CRDT's.
https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology...
> In any case, it may be easy to see what is meant by "amygdalas" but it is not right. "Amygdalae" is the right form of the word, whether you want to take it from Latin, Greek, or, indeed, English.

If you take a foreign word from (say) Latin and use it in English, you also do not use Latin declension forms of it, so why use Latin plural form of it? I think it makes more sense to form plural using English grammar rules.
Crew of Virgin Galactic first commercial spaceflight
There are primarily two requirements that must be followed in order to maintain corporate protection:

1) The Rule of the Prudent Person. Board members are trusted individuals and this protection is provided as it is assumed that the board member will act reasonably for the best interest of the business. The prudent person rule essentially states that board members are protected from personal liability as long as they act “as a reasonably prudent person under the same or similar conditions”. So basically, if your peers would think you acted contrary to your duty, then the protection may not be available.

2) Duty of Loyalty. As a board member, conflicts of interest should be avoided. Therefore, the protection otherwise provided may not be there if actions or decisions are made to benefit yourself instead of the business. Commonly, this occurs when a board member votes in favor of an action to provide himself or his family with financial gain or support a business venture he owns. Keep in mind, while financial gain is a typical motive, it is not required to breach the duty of loyalty.

https://bgswlaw.com/incorporation-personal-liability-protect...
The astronauts weren't informed with the problems with the boosters, either. The recovered hardware said the seals were frequently failing at ignition (as it goes from ambient to 1000 psi), just not to the point of destruction.
I prefer the new way, to me it's explicit about the type of Object that can be passed in.
This is all speculation but reading the mothers account my impression was that what he really wanted was the speedcubing world record and that this was the lure.
> Myself the truly distasteful part is the use of neotame (a follow-on to aspartame) on animal feed, to get animals to eat feed that they normally would not; for instance, if the feed is rancid or otherwise in a condition/taste that normal animal instincts, would have the animal reject the food...

True for human food as well. Maybe it’s not rancid, but food science can make terrible ingredients taste great. Take Doritos. It’s just cornmeal (animal feed) plus a ton of artificial flavoring that is incredibly well dialed in to make them delicious and even addictive.
Thanks for pointing out the Conal Elliott talk. Just watched it, very nice talk. I found myself nodding to pretty much everything he said, except of his fondness for dependent types. Each time he says "dependent types", I just replace it in my mind with "logic". I think he will transition eventually: Types (Haskell) -> Dependent Types (Agda) -> Logic (Practal), hehehe.
> Poor White and Asian kids still beat out poor Black and Hispanic kids academically on average

Why is that the case?

For Asians, I don't see what systemic privilege they could have that would need to be compensated away?
But as he says, that's not actually how it works. Lots of companies have RH on critical systems, and Cent/Rocky/Alma on less critical, because they can't afford to have RH everywhere.

So why would you think they would now go RH everywhere, especially after losing Cent and having to switch to Rocky/Alma, instead of going to Debian/Ubuntu or SUSE and not having to worry about it?

Not to mention that new admins and even current admins using Cent/Rocky/Alma at home to learn and play - now they can't.

There definitely was a platform effect, and now they have killed it.
> they’re appointed by the government for life.

“In good behavior”, actually.

> There’s literally nothing the public can do (short of revolution) that impacts their jobs.

Political pressure on Congress to impeach a particular justice, or exercise its power to adjust the scope of the appellate jurisdiction of the Court, as well as taking direct extralegal action against specific judges are all acts “short of revolution”.

> Historically, no Supreme Court justice has ever been impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate. It’s been around 200 years (1805) since the last attempt was even made.

No, 1805 was the only successful impeachment of a Supreme Court justice, though no conviction occurred in the Senate. The last attempt (counting only those where there is some official action in the House directed explicitly directed at impeachment) was far more recent, 2019 against Justice Kavanaugh (H.Res. 560).
Taking the same texts and having the same books mean nothing since the point of tests is the grades so what matters is if they had the same grades or not
This is extremy misleading. Statins actually directly block cholesterol synthesis UPSTREAM of coenzyme-q10 (ubiquinol) synthesis.

Statins ultimately deplete your mitochondria of the ubiquinol they need for energy production.

Mitochondria-rich muscles feel it first.
Show HN: SaasRock KB – Open-Source Knowledge Base Builder with Wysiwyg Support
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Water isn't dangerous but if you were dropped into the middle of the ocean you would probably drown. Does that mean you must swear off water because it's proven to be dangerous since people drown in it?
Additionally WRT disabilities we actually need disabled people (i.e. pregnancy) in order for society to continue!
MIT's acceptance rate for women is more than double that of male applicants (11% v 5%)?
For those, like me, who had no idea what you’re talking about. From Wikipedia:

> In 1984, President Ronald Reagan announced the Teacher in Space Project, and McAuliffe learned about NASA's efforts to find their first civilian, an educator, to fly into space. NASA wanted to find an "ordinary person," a gifted teacher who could communicate with students while in orbit. McAuliffe became one of more than 11,000 applicants.

…

> On January 28, 1986, McAuliffe boarded Challenger with the other six crew members of STS-51-L. Only 73 seconds into its flight at an altitude of 48,000 ft (14.630 km), the shuttle broke apart, resulting in the deaths of all seven crew members
I think the we give you stock, you give us money, we spend that money hiring is the a pretty common event.
So it can't fold on itself and form a wormhole that bridges light?
> Why not just.. well, let poor people come first? Would the goal suddenly not be met if poor smart white kids get into good schools, too? Who loses in this case?

Universities would do this instead of affirmative action if it would lead to the same result. But it wouldn't. It would help poor Asian students. And it would hurt the URMs who are not poor. They currently benefit from strong affirmative action programs but would fare much worse under a program like you describe.
> They might also turn the $7 into a requirement to watch YouTube at all, and show ads anyways.

Yep. All cable channels started out ad-free. When cable was introduced, the cost was $35/mo for all channels (there were no movie channels initially), justified by not having ads.