skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The molecules in the coffee are constantly changing and rearranging themselves. That change is a physical manifestation itself.

So time is a perspective in the same way that thinking of a cup of coffee as an object is a perspective. Both exist as something that can be observed in reality, and you're the one that clumps several billions of observed phenomena (changing molecules) into something observed (either a cup, or a second, depending on what you fixate upon).
You can try capital one 360 account. It allows you to create virtual accounts for different categories. It doesn’t have all the features you desire, but is better than most other banks in this respect.
My impression was that most credit unions and small banks had pretty limited online banking, headaches with ATMs (not that I use them as much these days), etc. They are too small develop those services in-house, so I imagine they buy them as SaaS? Are they good enough now? I have Wells accounts I'd be happy to jettison...
> But now I'm thinking that I probably couldn't find a bank anywhere under closer and more intense scrutiny.

I thought that like 2 scandals ago... But they keep appearing on the news with more... Maybe they are not done airing out their dirty laundry.
The Joys of (py)Solr in 2018
it lets me cite myself easily. "I read somewhere that X" is much less useful than "on such and such a date, person X wrote this oped in Y that asserted Z and i thought that was interesting..."
If it catches your spit when you pronounce sounds like "p" and "t", and catches your sneeze particles, it's likely to be pretty helpful.
On the contrary, deregulation (of banks and otherwise) is all the rage, and has been for some time (as another commentator noted, many 2008-era regulations are already being repealed). What I don't understand is how the deregulation is going to only improve things for small businesses, not allow large ones to be even more ruthlessly exploitative. Especially since the trend in many other industries (that aren't nearly as tightly regulated as banks) has been for large companies to absorb smaller ones.
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I beg to differ.

> Waving a 2-inch-thick printed version of the social network’s user agreement, Senator Lindsey Graham quoted a line from the first page, then intoned: “I’m a lawyer, and I have no idea what that means.”

1) Two inch thick I've read some pretty long books in my time but that takes the cake. Most people these days don't even have enough attention span to read a complete internet article. How do you expect them to plough through hundreds of pages of legalese?

2) “I’m a lawyer, and I have no idea what that means.” Do I even need to say any more?
Eh, you can choose to believe Zuckerberg here. I personally have no faith Facebook will voluntarily permanently delete someone's data when they close an account. They have shown very little prior behavior that would lead me to find his statements on this to be trustworthy.
While I can understand the basic concepts behind theories like this, I much prefer to live in my very human bubble of ignorance. I just don't feel like dealing with the existential dread.
Failing to do #1 makes you The Ugly American [1], which has always been my analogy for it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ugly_American
I’m pretty sure that Google, Facebook, Twitter et al., stick to acting as platforms because they are relying on years of legal precedents which protects them from liability of any abuse carried out by users.

If however they start curating content or being especially controlling then they risk being classed as a normal publisher, and as such liable to additional regulations or damages based on actions of their users and/partners.

This is why Facebook is in a bind about “fake news” being shared on their network. If they remove it then they will be accused of not being an impartial platform. So instead, at best, they have to algorithmically cross reference posts with other reliable content sources to “flag” to the user that the shared article “may” be inaccurate. Unless that post contains a bit of naked flesh, it ain’t being taken down.
True, the database is the key here. we are still in Beta and our database grows every day!
https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/t...

> TypeScript 2.6 introduces a new strict checking flag, --strictFunctionTypes.

> The --strictFunctionTypes switch is part of the --strict family of switches, meaning that it defaults to on in --strict mode.

> Under --strictFunctionTypes function type parameter positions are checked contravariantly instead of bivariantly.

> ...(etc.)
There was an interesting article on here last week about trying to replicate primitive carpentry for archaeological purposes. An illustrative example of the why was that in their first attempt they broke all their stone axeheads in the first hour; after they got some practice they were able to estimate the acreage they could clear with their techniques. Reconstructions both tell you what you got wrong and provide new information about the capabilities of our ancestors, as well as providing context on the archaeological remains.
Yes but what happens when everyone at a stadium tries to get on the same tower?

But the fault doesn't completely lie with the telcos. Getting permission to build a tower can take years.
Good for you. If you can afford it, go for it. But I'd still use something like par2 over each of your backups.
The problem is that carriers are terrible at this kind of thing. For example, here in Canada, Rogers, Fido and Bell support RCS.

Rogers/Fido use Google's Jibe infrastructure, but Bell uses Samsung infrastructure.

The result is that if you're on Fido, you can't send text messages using RCS to your contacts on Bell because there's no interoperability between their infrastructure and Jibe. How insane is that?
I use Nextcloud Bookmarks [1] and Floccus [2] to sync the bookmark toolbar on Firefox/Chrome. I like to host my own, I don't need to sign into a 3rd party, and it's more cross-platform than browser sync.

[1]: https://github.com/nextcloud/bookmarks

[2]: https://github.com/marcelklehr/floccus
Well, taxes go towards some stuff I appreciate... plus I would probably be thrown in jail. So not sure that is a solution :p
None of that disproves his point. Google Talk could have been WhatsApp, very easily. They were in a position to make it happen before WhatsApp had even started development - Google Talk had enjoyed a meteoric rise and dominance over the messaging market for 4 years before WhatsApp came out, and it took WhatsApp quite a bit of time past 2009 to gain the steam it did.

The fact that they failed to capitalize on it is what has allowed WhatsApp and others to become as big as they have. If Google hadn't messed it up, everyone would be using Google Talk, even in the 3rd world.
> We have "legalese" for the same reason we have programming languages.

The intended purpose of "legalease" is to eliminate ambiguity and to clearly outline terms and conditions, however it's often used to introduce ambiguity and obfuscate the actual intent of terms and conditions or to redefine existing known and understood laws.

"Legalese" is a programming language that allows unsafe pointers. It's compiler not only permits but encourages the use of preprocessor directives to redefine variables and operators. Everything is globally scoped. Nothing is protected. Everything can be overridden. Multiple inheritance is expected.

Pretty much everything we advocate against in a programming language is permitted and encouraged in "legalese".
A dev manager I work with insists that one of the best indicators, along with all the usual things you try to suss out about a software development candidate is whether or not he does any software development in his spare time. Not everyone who's good does, but there's a good correlation between people who would be good at writing software, and people who do it for fun.

So I would take writing software for fun as a plus, but would not take not writing software for fun as a minus.
My mother opened my first bank account at HSBC a long time ago. Then the recession happened and their regional branches got bought out by First Niagara, the shittiest and most customer-service-time-deaf corporation I ever had the displeasure of dealing with. (And then we learned through the news that HSBC actively assisted drug money laundering in South America, woohoo) Fortunately they were then bought out by KeyBank, although now I just use a local credit union.

Throughout all of that, my local tellers and bank staff remained. They are probably the friendliest and most helpful bank staff I ever encountered. It’s a shame they had to go through all of that. Probably more irate customers than I had to deal with them.
C'mon, this is Wells Fargo we're talking about! They'll hit you with the fees whether the account was closed or not.
Agreed. The only reason I have an account with a large bank (BofA) is for safe deposit box. Otherwise I use a local bank (Cambridge Savings Bank, MA) and have been very happy with their services.
Quite a while even with mass-production figured out. Graphene is a horrendous carcinogen and environmental hazard.
> Finally, it is a money system mainly used by organized criminals to launder money.

Citation needed.
I heard this discussed in NPR as a reasonable fine because “it hit their profits but they still made money that quarter” and “the CEO steppe down”.

How is that enough when so many people had their life totally screwed? It should decimate their profits and high ups should serve federal time.

Id executives don’t fear the government over something so egregious were opening the door to more of the same.
> I should be able to partition my money into several lightweight accounts - one for groceries, one for home expenses, investment, etc

Heck not even real "Accounts" (in the traditional banking sense) but just "funds" or "virtual accounts." I should be able to put $5/month into a "waste of money" fund, and then flag specific transactions against that balance when I use it, or as you said have a virtual credit card that goes straight out of my virtual "waste of money" fund.

It really is surprising how little innovation occurs in the banking space. I want more tools to track expenditures and money usage, silo-ing money virtually is an obvious way to do that, but yet nobody really offers it!
I usually watch the video twice, first with no captions and second with them on. I also like trying to figure out what he's doing in each part, but he uses the captions to explain a lot of interesting things that I didn't catch/understand.
The UK actually has a bunch of 'challenger banks' that are doing cool things like this.

I use Monzo which, a few month ago added support for 'Pots' - super lightweight mini bank accounts that let you partition up your money. Among others, I have a Holiday pot and a Savings pot. They even have this early stage feature where if you name a pot "Coin Jar" they'll automatically round up transactions to the nearest £ and transfer it to that pot.

Using something like Monzo is like night and day compared to the products from the big banks.
It is easy to forge a cashiers check. Even if it is real, it is possible to erase the name on it and put something else on. Or you could have a fake id that makes it seem like you are really the person who it was written to. Those are just the types of fraud that come to mind immediately, those who work in banks probably know of more.
Interesting! I never looked at it that way...
All the things you describe could result in an amazingly improved experience for customers, letting them better control their finance, and understand where their money goes.

Sadly, this is not how banks become rich. Banks become rich by letting their customers spend a lot of money they don't have, then charging them insane interest rates that will often result in them paying back multiple times what they originally owed.

Having moved to the US from a country where the idea of a credit card is close to inexistent (people take loans to buy a car or a house, or start a business - but certainly not to buy a TV), it took me a while to fully wrap my head around how insane the credit system was in the US, and how its only outcome can be very rich and powerful financial institutions leeching money from average citizens.
For me faster.js was faster for 2 seconds then it became slower and slower in Firefox
The Lies of Rachel Carson
You can honor expertise while acknowledging bias and still come up with empirically correct conclusions (otherwise I wouldn't be a scientist) that are based on relatively basic shared values. Expertise is an antidote to propaganda when people think critically about the problems at stake. As the author notes, David Foster Wallace was right that cynicism is lethal; but cynicism can also be enabling in those who are free thinkers. The article raises important points about how we got ourselves into this mess. Good reading. As usual it occurs to me that the goals of scientific exploration are as universal as we get because they aim to (a) discover the unknown and (b) to make the world better through discovery. Take that, humanists!
Mix and match, according to criticity and max affordable data loss: multiple locations, multiple solutions, multiple local copies (e.g. one cloud solution + DVD + NAS). See: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/
Well good companies are one which write same CRUD apps Nth time. And then in few months/years they either shutdown or join forces with a bad company.
> There are a few things I could name off the top of my head that would overnight dramatically improve technology

Could you name a few? This is HN after all, we like to get technical.
Reread carefully my characterization of AOP.

Cross cutting concerns allow you to insert a certain line of code in "file 1 at line 223 and file 2 at line 400" because these lines match a certain type safe regexp.

Monad transformers accomplish nothing remotely close to that.
IANA thermodynamicist, but I suspect the resulting system could not be more efficient than either the heat pump or the pyroelectric charge pump by itself. So if this conversion process is really that great, you would end up replacing your heat pump with it instead of combining them.

I think this only applies if we're constraining the temperatures to typical summer outdoor/indoor cooling applications. Different technologies are going to have different temperature ranges at which they are most efficient, so for something like steam power generation multi-stage systems are common.
Is the coverage/range and rate of speed at range much better for 5G vs. 4G/LTE? I don't think most people need (much) more speed over wireless so much as better/more coverage and better speed at lower signal.

Also, it's about relative cost... what about data caps? If they intend to compete with wired in home connections for things like set top (online streaming), they'll need a compelling story, and not running out of your allotment or being throttled after watching a couple 4K movies in the evening less than a week into your billing cycle.
As possible? Of course; nobody can be against that, but people will disagree about what’s possible.

I don’t think that means they should be more narrowly defined than they are now. That would mean a permanent weapons race between those finding and exploiting loopholes and the government, with those having access to the smartest lawyers (= the richest) staying ahead of the law.

For example, if “income” would be restricted to money received in exchange for services, companies would start paying in goods, for example by providing “free” housing, cars, etc. if the government includes such things in the
law, companies could start paying out in gold, rather than money. When that gets included, companies could sell special (extremely cheap, no voting rights, must sell when leaving the company) shares to personnel, and pay most of the salary in dividends. That list is endless. Companies could start operating under the flag of Liberia, claim that they don’t pay you for work done, but that they charge you for the use of their machines, and that you sell them the stuff you made with them, etc.
> Prices, in fact, should drop with more demand and thus flexible supply adapting. Cheaper by the volume.

Housing isn't a flexible supply and isn't much cheaper by the volume (if anything, it can become more expensive because of the space).

Personally that's my biggest issue with UBI. If it's not taken together with incentive to build suburbs/other cities that will make people want to go further away... most of it will go toward rent because you will all compete for a better location (I don't know for you but I waste 2 hours a day to go to works, I could lower that to 30 minutes a day for less than 1000$ a month, that's for sure).

We already see this effect in the cities that attracted startups. They got higher wages (which can be seen as "basic income" essentially because there was already a similar job done for less money close to there), which made housing price to go much higher.
Google ‘Zuckerberg lie to congress’.

You’ll find that there were plenty of statements that were on the line, crossed it or omitted key detail.
Saying ‘I don’t know’ is also a lie if you do know, and there was a lot of that.

https://theintercept.com/2018/04/11/mark-zuckerberg-is-eithe...
If you are archiving it may be for long times (think "museums", "data vaults" etc). Finding another copy 200 years later may be difficult.
Good. That's generally the only way the general public can counteract the abusive behavior of entrenched and powerful organizations.

A common tactic used by large businesses is to stay silent and ignore public outrage, because the public usually doesn't have the time, money, or energy to maintain the pressure of the public voice against a single target. By ignoring the outrage most of the time the public moves on to the next scandal and the original abusive behavior can continue unchallenged as the "new normal".

If you're seeing a pattern of outrage, that's a sign that people are very angry and might - if luck is on their side - actually force one change in the public interest.

For a longer explanation of this topic, I recommend Jim Sterling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6lvDL4cNdM (strong language)
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."—Arthur C. Clarke
No, it requires a change in heat levels - you have to heat and cool the film on a rapid cycle while applying a varying electric field.
Different banks have different levels of service. Often times a local, non-national branded, bank will have the services and service you might expect from your banker. Of course if they get to successful they get sucked into a bigger non-service oriented bank.

Wells Fargo seems to be particularly bad about things. I had a 'lifetime free checking account' with a local bank that ended up getting bought by Wells Fargo. About 3 years in to having my Checking there they tried to charge me a fee for it. I pointed out it was 'lifetime free' and they agreed to honor that when they bought the previous bank. They acquiesced and for the next year it was free. Then the fees started up again. Another call, another mea culpa, and quiet. Then the fees started up again. At that point I severed my banking relationship with them. (which I suppose is what they wanted)
it's a CFPD fine.. so it goes into their Civil Penalty Fund, and it's required to be used for victim compensation, and where that's not practical, the remaining funds are used for consumer education and financial literacy programs.

By law, those are the only things the CFPD can spend this money on.

Civil Penalty Fund Rule:
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/payments-harmed-con...
I only know horror stories from Wells Fargo. My only experience was wanting to break a $100 bill. I went up to the teller and asked for change, and they could not break the bill for a non-customer. Mind blown. I just walked next door to the grocery and bought a $1 thing of gum.

My favorite terrible story was a founder I know. His company just got funded and he got is first paycheck in a while, and he deposited it his Wells account. Well, he had a second account that was requiring payment, so they drained his primary account to level out the other account without telling him. He found out when his wife called him saying she was unable to buy groceries. Oh, and this was Christmas.
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If I'm buying a house and discover that the owner built it all by himself, I would immediately begin looking elsewhere.
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But code allows for Plain English: Comments. And nobody writes code without clear comments right? Right? Dear god please tell me you people aren't doing that!?
what instruction set are the cores? or are they eBPF ASICs essentially? :D
The thing that is tricky though is that the changes in state are affected by the the state's own state regarding the state of the state change.

Put another way:

My writing this comment is changing the state of our universe. I'm writing it because I perceive the state change. If time is solely illusion then there would be no difference in the state between Tick #145 and Tick #146, but there is and it is this comment, which means that the universe (or at least our universe) is dependant on something that you all say doesn't exist.

I'm not saying you're all wrong, but it is a pretty surprising thing if it's true and modal realism is false.
It is strange, why ArangoDB isn't mentioned often on HN, or in this thread. It is multi-model (KV, document, graph) database (with transactions) and I have been happily using it for a while now.

Haven't scaled it yet to any large installations, so I can speak about how well it does that.
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The deregulation we've seen is deregulation being pushed by people with ties to big banks. Not all regulation (or deregulation) is created equally...
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/

If you can spare the time to create yet another forum account, head over to the unofficial forum and post the specs of the PCs you had issues with. Some of the posters on the forum are using very new hardware with NVMe SSD storage &c.
No but Indian society carries this a little too far. Women in your neighborhood are always around to slander other women if they come to home late from work, or if they hang out with a male colleague.

Relatives are quick to tell you, some times even through sadistic remarks about things they don't like. You also seem to become an object of ridicule in case of failure.

Other irrational expectations include wedding expenditure, gifts and other show off stuff. Even clothes. You won't believe how many people seek social approval and standing from these things.

In case of exams and lay offs, the kind of discussion going on here. Many people play out the whole thing as some gory dead doomsday outcome, after which you would never be worthy of anything ever. Of course this doesn't do well for conformists, they just get anxious and end up taking these extreme decisions.
It would be VERY easy for Amazon to put per/seller labels on all (or at least most) packages, so that they could filter out specific sellers, even with the mingled stock.
We have standardized nutritional labels in the United States and I would like to see a similar standard for terms and conditions. Icons could be part of it but also leave room for text and listing of what common data (email, ip, name, etc.) the service will collect and how they will use it.
If you make heavy use of Spark there is still no better language/ecosystem than Scala.
Honestly? Because the whole article reads like it was written by the sort of socially oblivious person who doesn't work well in a team.
Semi-related: If you have any entities (power company, cell phone provider, etc..) setup to directly pull their payments from your account, these can cause the account to re-open, and then overdraft. Be careful.