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South Korean willingness is also a question mark for re-unification. From polls and interviews I've heard with young South Koreans, both the culture divide and the economic burden make them unenthusiastic about the idea.

Perhaps a slow process that starts with closer economic and social ties?
At least as of mid-last-century, Koreans as a whole prefer a united, mildly communist Korea that doesn't need to turn into a reclusive militarized Korea to defend itself from American aggression and can freely participate on the world stage. South Korea only came into existence because the US was terrified of more countries' populations deairing communism. Had the US's military fortunes been a bit different, it would have been a Vietnam or a China or a Cuba or something.

Now, if the world's greatest superpower is stationing soldiers in your country for decades and demanding performative capitalism for your country to not be constrained by tariffs and sanctions and travel bans, you're going to be real excited about performative capitalism.
I think it is completely because of Trump. He is unpredictable. He is in charge of a nation with the capability to carry out his threats. He talked to North Korea in the sort of bombastic way they talked to the U.S. for decades. This was a sudden change for the U.S. and certainly was unnerving to North Korea.

I think North Korea must be quite weak too. They don’t appear stronger to me but I’m no expert on the matter. I wonder how much longer that regime can maintain power. It’s lasted a lot longer than I thought it would be able to so there must be a high level of resiliency in terms of preventing rebellion and regime collapse.
Ask HN: Recommendations for UK accountant familiar with US tax law?
A bit of a reach, but I figure maybe someone on HN might be in a similar position.

I’m a US citizen living in the UK on a 5 year visa. I do software consulting for US clients and bill the through my US corporation, while doing the actual work sitting at a desk in the UK.

I need to talk to a UK accountant who is familiar with the intricacies of both the US and UK tax systems.

If anyone has been in a similar position and found a good accountant, I would appreciate a reference or introduction.

Would also be curious to hear other’s experience in this situation, but ultimately I need to talk to a professional.
This is a 1% engineer? The guy who can't spell "prosper"?
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Unless the blast was much stronger and hit distant equipment never meant to be affected which is difficult to replace. Of course the bombs aren't developer/stored at a test site, but without proper test site they still might not be entirely usable in an ICBM or in a submarine, and too large to fit into a bomber to pose any non-local threat.
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It seems programming bottoms up is the only way to go - consider coding with your bottoms down, quite embarrassing.
The war is over when the people who would fight it say it's over. If the US and ROK are willing to leave Kim in power, then it's over regardless of the freedom of the DPRK population.

Just like we are not at war with Iran, or Russia, or Eritrea, or a dozen other dictatorships around the world.
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The minute it is solved, I expect.
British banks are developing a bit a of a habit for massive IT failures. Moving is fine but someone else will fail next month.
I can only imagine the bad actors that must be hammering TSB's websites and interfaces as we speak, trying to find and exploit holes...
This is fantastic! Love the poetry and optimism.
this doesn't turn biology upside down in any way.
> On the contrary, they seem stronger.

I think this is it. After all this time, they were never going to surrender; it has to be something that can be pitched as a voluntary agreement between equals that doesn't compromise NK sovereignty.

It can only be "the end of the beginning". The war isn't even formally over yet. I wouldn't expect elections in Kim's lifetime, but perhaps he can become merely an ordinary dictator like Turkmenistan.
It lumps them together in the same breath, obviously hoping to draw an equivalence in the minds of readers in order to make their preposterous proposition less offensive. Wielding identity politics as a means of creating marketing buzz is flatly vile.
> I'm not sure how EV certs have continued to be a thing for so long.

EV certs are currently the cash cow of certificate authorities. If you'd take away EV certs it would become apparent that there's no valid business model for CAs any more.

So the whole CA industry kinda depends on keeping the illusion that EV is a valid concept.
The physical display is still 60 fps. Frankly, CRT displays used to be only 60-80 fps.

I still think that there are much longer (and noticeable) delays in the terminal emulators themselves, dwarfing the compositing and display delays.
It would take a lot more effort to edit a paper bank statement compared to a PDF one
The most efficient way to look crazy is to actually be crazy.
Absolutely, but to use books as the example here - should we ever send people to jail for owning a book? Like, just sitting in their home library - should you ever go to jail for one? If yes, why yes? If no, what if the book is Mein Kampf? What if it contains graphic descriptions of child rape? What if it contains nuclear codes for US army stockpile? What if it describes how to make bombs and conduct terrorist attacks?

Or maybe....we should look at who is distributing material that we have a problem with, and target it there? As a society we should never be putting people in jail for just owning a certain piece of information, would you not agree?
A large prime is notable and hence is included in public databases.
Well before the system migration they rented their online services from LLoyds, and it it was great. Also if you go into a TSB branch they're really good. So until now, I've been happy.
With all the nukes and missiles, Kim pressed for better terms.

The end of war, os innevitable, this year, or years to come, and he knows he can win this war. But at least he can go down with more in his pockets.
You definitely can do a run on a bank where you can't log in - you come to the office (or mail a registered letter) with written instructions to transfer all your money elsewhere and close the accounts, and legally they have a quite limited time to comply, I believe one or two business days at most, until various EU consumer protection laws for financial products kick in.

Furthermore, there's a lot of process for switching banks that can be done by the customer through the bank they're switching to. While your savings may be stuck in TSC for some days, you don't need to go to TSC at all if you'd choose to switch your wages and recurring bill payments to somewhere else, you just go to the new bank.
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Not really disagreeing with you, but taking it even further:

A "written death threat" is not "illegal". I've seen plenty of such threats written on the boundaries of military sites or even electricity substations. Delivering death threats to a person may constitute illegal harassment, but so might delivering love letters. It all depends on the circumstances.
North and South Korea agreed to work on formally ending the Korean War
What changed? Nothing.. China is slowly but steadily working on its plan to push the US as far away from their borders as possible. Next step Afganistan or Taiwan.
"Do not request a bean from a BeanFactory in a destroy method implementation!"

User friendly error message of the year!

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Undortunately with this solution you’re still storing the same amount of information as you’d normally do. It’s just encoded as offsets into pi’s decimal expansion.
You can’t cheat entropy.
I'm using this, they recently increased their free storage to 250gb.
From what I understand LPDDR4 as part of Cannon Lake is directly affected by this delay.

Do we have confirmation of this? It seems startling to release yet another generation of laptop CPUs without this... but I admit I can’t find anything to to the contrary.

Pretty much anyone building mid-to-high-end laptops must be livid.
That's curious, I'd have thought Cobol would be more appropriate for a bank.
I agree, however I had bills to pay, it's the end of the month.
Hmm. I'm not sure why my comment above is getting downvotes. It seems like a perfectly rational response to the very interesting insider revelation posted by the parent.

To be honest I'd suspected this for a while based on conversations with female friends, and had therefore considered shutting down the relevant accounts. Now I've had it confirmed, it's simply provided the push I needed: why continue to do something that's mostly an unsatisfying waste of time when I could spend that time on something more interesting instead?

And, whilst I realise you were being sarcastic, what's to mourn for anyone? Certainly nothing for me.
Ask HN: How do you work with AWS?
I'm using AWS Toolkit for Eclipse (https://aws.amazon.com/eclipse).

How do you work when you need to develop new things? What is your workflow?
Meh, I don't believe this.. A deal can always be made.. The old owner surely had a price (because everyone has a price) that could have been met to keep the existing systems up and running.

TSB just chose to screw their customers, and make them pay for the problems, rather than spend the money to pay for the problems themselves.
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I tried doing that, but then I realized that I can't even select-copy-paste the data from PDF, after which I decided to continue with paper statements... there's no real advantage to PDF if I can't even export the data!
> More seriously, I would definitely move my money somewhere else if I had an account there.

I've switched banks over far far less. I don't know how TSB has any customers left when this is done.
My point wasn't about Ubuntu or not but rather about this so called "threat model" that is the reason behind the lack of automatic updates.

The threat model is simply not valid for the security model that users who use a package manager follow.

Don't get me wrong supply chain based threat models including the source and intermediates are a valid concern.

But you already accept those risk by using a package manager and a managed repo which contains the source code and or binaries for the applications you want.

Not providing automatic updates to protect me from Mozilla won't reduce the risk when the risk from the package manager and the managed repo is just as high if not higher it just increases the overall risk as now I need to ensure that I follow their release cycle closely to make sure that my browser is always up to date.
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One should note that North Korea is now in a position where they can appear to make generous concessions. They are a nuclear power, and there is no way they will ever give that up, no matter how much they promise they will. They have done it in the past and will again.

In case it isn't clear, "denuclearization" means the removal of the US nuclear shield from the Korean peninsular and from Japan.

For those who aren't aware, the current US/Japan alliance guarantees the US nuclear arsenal will protect Japan (and South Korea)[1]. That is why those countries haven't pursued their own nuclear arms program.

This will be a big problem.

If North Korea offers to denuclearize then there will be huge pressure on the US to withdraw from South Korea.

North Korea is utterly untrustworthy on this of course, but that's a hard argument to make if they appear to be making reasonable concessions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_umbrella
Any mostly female community on the internet inevitably gets overrun with men trying to provide their perspective. /r/twoxchromosomes on Reddit is now 75-80% male in the comments, or more.
Also, once a company reaches $200k/month they're likely to move to a more powerful ecommerce platform like Shopify.
Ironically, before they merged in the 90s, Lloyds had a terrible computer system, and TSB was market-leading in major bank IT customer systems, at least from a customer POV. Then they didn't learn and continue with TSB's IT systems and management, but became more lloyds instead. Sadly, this new TSB is likely only in name anything like the old one.
Socrates and Plato worked together, as did Plato and Aristotle. Was Aristotle too young to connect with Socrates or did they meet?

The Impressionists.

The Lost Generation with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Elliot, and everyone passing through Paris.

Bebop in the 40s and 50s.
Being a contributor or accessory to crime is also ordinarily punishable and accounts for this.
Size of the index would just be log2(index), right?
"A medical database." What medical database?

You mean, like a database of patient records compiled by a hospital? No, most countries have laws on how those medical records can and can't be used.

A database of DNA of felons collected by police departments where the DNA is also tested for genetic conditions? Barring any specific laws preventing that specific scenario, I don't see why that would be illegal.
I'm surprised no one mentioned the solution, buy bitcoin..
That's not PDF's fault, just like you can't blame Git for developers not signing their commits.
Thank you. I will consider doing that. I will have to create or find a relevant dataset that's small enough for those concepts but I guess that'll help rather than jumping straight to random forest or gradient boosting.
In much the same way that the word “fire” itself is not illegal, but shouting it in a crowded theatre may be.
Not really? The paper statement is usually just a printout of the PDF.
This should make the Librem 5 a more attractive phone in France: https://matrix.org/blog/2017/08/24/the-librem-5-from-purism-...
Most places have indecency laws which cover things like video of murders and extreme pornography; privacy laws that make acquisition and retention of data/imagery illegal; etc..
Oh this looks great. I loved L.I.S.P. I did plan to dust off my French and try the second edition. But I'm sure I'll enjoy this just as much.
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Assuming that pi is a normal number [1], its digits are uniformly distributed. Therefore the density of a given binary sequence of length N in pi’s binary expansion is 2^-N.

So on average, the offset for a given binary sequence will be on the order of 2^N (I’ve used some hand-waving here). You need N bits for that, you you’ve gained basically nothing.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number
Should possession of anything be illegal?
If it prevents duds then it's worth the effort.
Car registrations are required. You are allowed a choice of owning a vehicle knowing what it requires. Sample of your DNA and fingerprints is not a requirement when we are born.
Thus I find the comparison not adequate.
Nope, law is pretty clear on this one: people can take things from trash.
Exactly.. you have clearly under-tested code that is in debug mode printing out all sorts of detailed error messages and systems team that is overloaded with errors and problems to triage. Talk about a ripe target.
That is stuff of nightmares
But is today's South Africa the same thing as the previous South Africa which had nuclear weapons? Are the people who authorised and developed South Africa's nuclear weapons still living in that part of the world?
There is a somewhat unhealthy obsession with antibiotic resistance. The problem is not as scary as it may sound. It turns out that antibiotic-resistant strains are much weaker than normal strains in the absence of antibiotics (because they use a great deal of resources to be antibiotic resistant), and they tend to disappear quickly.
By using lambda calculus, interaction nets, something equivalent, is my guess.
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NK was without nukes for the last five decades and experienced three changes in power in that time.
He needs to drone a few more Americans over seas to beat Obama
>(so now I know what the backend written in)

Since ever internal pages like your accounts, transfers etc had suffix .jsp so that's not a secret.

It's interesting to see that credit cards work fine, but debit cards and online statuses don't. I'm also lucky to have emergency funds on Monzo and in cryptocurrencies.
Expressing n is as hard as expressing the original data.
On the other hand there's this: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43894394 They'll be out of the test grounds for a while. And it's not like their launches went great.
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I hate learning about all these extinct species we used to eat. I mean, they must have been super tasty. Stop tantalizing me and start Jurassic Porking these things already.
South Korea thanked him and said he had a big role. It's definitely not 100% on him but he had a large role
Let us the police collect this data and ask everyone who is honest person to add their DNA to it. I have no problem adding my DNA to such resource but when this data is obtained without my knowledge or permission it is the same as stealing.
Can pi be recursive then? Can it contain itself? I think not.
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Ah, I seem to be very behind on the news coverage then! I didn't know about all that.

I remember it being unclear in the first week or two whether it had been an accident or not, followed by some sketchy details that implied it might have been a cover up. I have not heard much since.

Thanks for the heads up, I of course don't mean to be apologetic at all for the crime, I was surprised at what seemed to be a significant change from the direction the case had been progressing, but this sounds like I was misinformed.
For what exactly? What specifically do you mean by "computation", above?
> I can't get past that on a personal level, the decision-makers, in particular Kim Jong Un's family, are responsible for many people's suffering and deaths, which I would think would make them fear too much freedom among the survivors. People hunted Nazis for generations. Wouldn't the North Korean decision-makers fear being hunted?

My own background is Ireland, where the peace deal included an amnesty that has largely been respected. People from the same organisations that killed and tortured now walk the corridors of power joking with each other about who killed who's cousins; plenty of citizens aren't too happy about that, but twenty years of peace beats the alternatives.
The problem for Nvidia is they do NOT do the entire stack. So Google has the ability to better optimize and here we are seeing those results as using TPUs is about 1/2 the price of Nvidia hardware.

Baggage is a company thing. Google really has been an AI company since in the late 90s when Larry Page was asked about using AI to improve search and he replied he was using search to make AI happen.

Ha! When you amortize you are still spending money and you saying this really bothers me and is such a problem.

Too many look at things like you do and why companies get into problems. Capitalizing is not magic.

BTW, Google is also going to be able to iterate much quicker as the AI breakthroughs happen and come out with new versions that should stay well ahead of Nvidia.

The dynamics of the chip business have changed. Use to be companies bought chips from someone and then put them in to servers and sold the servers.

The problem is the company making the chips are NOT running the chips and do not have any skin in the game or the data needed to improve.

Now we have companies like Google making the chips and also running the chips and why we see power footprint being the focus far more than the past.

We will see all the big operations including Amazon make their own chips more and more.

A perfect example if Capsule networks replacing some uses of CNNs. Google with Hinton developed the Capsule network approach and will be supporting it far faster then you will see from Nvidia.

Then there is the canonical framework for AI being TF.

All of this was theoretical advantageous for Google and now we get to see they appear to be real with the pricing of the TPUs being about half of the cost of using Nvidia.
We (you) are conflating issues. Creating, distributing, profiting from, and possessing are all separate issues. Possession of information of any kind should not be illegal, as information is in and of itself not harmful; It's how you use it which should confer liability. If I download instructions on making a nuke, for example, that shouldn't be illegal. It should be illegal to make a nuke, to use a nuke, and to distribute them onward, but not to own them.
bank IT is a systemic risk waiting to happen

The same thing happened with Tangerine.ca when they launched their new website late last year. Tangerine is owned by one of Canada's "big 5" banks, Scotiabank.

For at least a week after the launch, users were experiencing login errors, timeouts, incorrect balances and features not working. Backend code exceptions would bubble up to the surface. It was ugly.

But even with the backend issues ironed out weeks later, users continue to lament about the horrible new UI, which over 6 months later, is still a UX nightmare on desktop web browsers.

Reading the 400+ Facebook comments on their "launch day post (they since removed the post from the timeline) is quite an eye opener.

Apparently they did minimal testing and disregarded all user feedback during the beta phase.

The comments are still accessible from the post photo here:
https://www.facebook.com/TangerineBank/photos/pb.46798899664...
I expect that, when the dust settles, we'll see an insider account of how this all went wrong, including inexperienced developers, management ignoring numerous warnings, and an intractable disaster of a codebase.

Edit: Turns out I missed the most important factor. According to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16939848, they had brought in IBM.
North Korea was always completely driven by internal politics, that's what happens in a nation that completely isolates itself from its neighbors.

So it stands to reason that its internal political climate finally worked its way around to peace and trade.

And the geopolitical utility of buffer states has been steadily eroding over the last few decades.
You spend a lot of time as your character in the game... It's maybe nice to give yours an unique look.

The high prices just come from the money that you theoretically need to unbox a rare one. I wonder however who does actually buy those.
A link without a million irritating ads.

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Supposedly the prosecution - in an English-style law system - has to convince the court beyond reasonable doubt that it was intended to be used for wrong.
Ah yes, I am behind on news coverage. I was following the BBC who don't seem to have covered all the details. Sounds fairly conclusive then!
I have to admit... this is the first time in my life I've considered peaceful reunification as a realistic possibility.
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