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> Obviously they’d rather the company hire more workers and charge them s little extra.

It's happened the other way around - self checkout didn't exist, and when it was introduced prices didn't drop even though employment expenses are now lower. There isn't even an incentivising discount for using the self-checkout.

I've seen people have no end of problems with self-checkout systems, and would rather I have an experienced and 'expert' human dealing with the scanning and check-out part that I can also interact with.
Sure, but fixing the bigger problems, such as stress in the workplace, would have many more benefits.

Ans as far as the analogy goes, it might be hard to fix the entire surface of the earth, but that's a strawman, because we have plenty of urbanised and indoor areas where you don't need shoes.

What's the easiest? To cover the entire earth in asphalt, or make all cars be 4wd?
You should look into aquatic ape theory, it might explain why we feel so good when we swim. One of the ideas is that swimming required us to develop breath control, which was a prerequisite for developing speech.
Simply applying the rules would have worked just fine here.
Sure. In Scotland for example, municipal banks are everywhere. North Lanarkshire, West Lothian, North Ayrshire, Clydebank, and East Dunbartonshire Municipal Bank all take deposits and lend to borrowers. They do everything you'd expect a commercial bank would do.
NB: Versage.com is offline.

https://web.archive.org/web/20151004225940/https://verasage....
<picture> isn't supported by IE 11 so for the moment this isnt really an option for us that need to support people with legacy browsers.
In addition to being big, slow, and bureaucratic, don't forget that they're also expensive, are bad at some very basic things like online banking, and don't have a wide array of products. (They're not so great at stock portfolios, for example).

Having lived in Germany, Austria, and the UK, I was shocked, upon arrival here, how thin the network of bank banches and ATM machines is, while at the same time cash plays a much bigger role than in other top-tier industrialized nations, and point-of-sales cashless payment systems seem like they are from the previous century. I don't know the extent of the stratistical facts around this anecdotal evidence, but I've often heard visitors from other top-tier industrialized nations comment in the same way (like visitors from the Netherlands, Scandinavia, etc.)

Sparkasse (the city-run public banks) are pretty much the only bank with a branch network that's dense enough that you can live in a suburb, exurb, or rural town and have a bank branch somewhere near where you live. The other banks have branches and ATM machines only in major population centers. All non-Sparkasse banks, taken together, have less than half the ATM machines that Sparkasse has, and Sparkasse exploits that fact by charging card-holders from other banks for cash withdrawals.

So, Sparkasse has a monopoly-like situation on the supply of cash, and considering how cash plays a way more important role than it does in the U.S. or other parts of Europe where cashless payment systems are much more prevalent, this is a very bad situation.

So, the net effect, in my opinion, is that, in Germany, taxpayer money is used to sustain a banking monopoly that makes it hard for private business to compete and creates a situation where the banking industry can sustain a price level that's higher than what exists in nations with a free market, to the detriment of the consumer/citizen. -- This really shouldn't be happening, in my opinion, in a country that sees itself as a free market economy and is often described as the economic powerhouse of Europe.
Whats the Sanskrit equivalent of 'Sati'?
Here in Sweden it has been very clear for the last 20 years that banks consider anything non-digital to be legacy and aspects of banking that should be closed down to reduce costs. They know where the profits are and where it scales.
>"my point is that intelligence being heritable in individuals does not directlt imply that we can now use genetic techniques to improve the average IQ"

Depending on what you mean by 'genetic techniques', it sure does. Here's a genetic technique: Test everyone for IQ and only breed the top ten percent. Average IQ will obviously improve. This is just old fashioned selective breeding. It can be done, and in fact has been done (unintentionally) in places like Israel, where average IQ is notably higher.

Whether that would unbalance society in some sense ("lose the ability to do carpentry") is another question.
I think society is actually unbalanced now; we have more stupid people than we need because new technologies have shifted the IQ demands upwards. There's no use for dumb brutes any more; we have machines to do the physical work they used to do. But we have tons of use for smarty-pants; so much that we can't get enough of them. Increasing average IQ wouldn't unbalance society; it would re-balance it to the new demands of the modern world.
Starving predators survive together, but maybe only in math-land
This article fails to even mention the most important part of municipalities wanting their own banking system: Not giving money to banks.

In the early 2000s San Francisco found that we were paying we were paying (I think it was Wells Fargo) for the privilege of making interest off of us. We weren't making interest, but the fees were forever going up.

When we came within just a few votes of creating a bank, we miraculously got a better deal.

Considering that these big banks aren't really working in the public interest and are instead playing "too big to fail games" , any bank big enough for our business will never actually have any legal or moral incentive to act in our best interest.

Also consider the unbanked. America's banking system is the least fair in the world. Banks which use chexsystems to force poor people into the world of payday loan banking, just shouldn't have the right to federal funds, let alone local funds.
That's not really necessity unless you can show that the current values for those 3 are insufficient and that an Axx transition will produce big gains in at least 2 of those 3 areas, is it?
Even if native apps compiled and written for the Axx architecture have better energy and thermal performance, what about all the x86 apps that have to be emulated? There'll be a tax for that. It could be worse.
Intel-based macs are probably wasting some power that Axx would theoretically not waste, and Axx might theoretically have better thermals, but there's not some massive demand for Apple to upend the whole ecosystem like that. Does Apple have competition threatening to steal their lunch because Macbooks' battery life isn't long enough? Not really, no?
> Can you explain what you mean by "DivisionRing? Really?"?

My guess is that OP is saying that PureScript’s DivisionRing compared to Haskell’s Fractional is neither practical nor pragmatic.

> For me personally using something heavyweight and bolted-on like GHCJS […]

In my experience the majority of Haskellers agree that GHCJS is not the way to go wrt. web apps.

But I’m not convinced that inventing a new language that’s almost identical to Haskell is the right solution.
From the article is sounds like most of those cases are banks drilling open the boxes and putting the contents into storage. A better and stricter inventory system with strict and punitive regulation is what is needed, not some technical gadget.
Useful service:)
After listening to Thich Nhat Hanh answer questions in a 3 hour long Google Talk, I realized mindfulness's goal of removing pain also aimed to remove all the little dramas of the human experience. Some people think of mindfulness as a kind of cure to unhappiness, when it's really just a drug, or tool, wrapped up in "Wisdom of the East" woo packaging. Don't just "do mindfulness", because it's not a cure-all.
Beitar Jerusalem owner ready to sue 'racist' fans
Indeed you are not aware as you have not been there.
It's in a border of an old forest.
It's known that it kills bird.
The visual pollution is really important and those who value technology and convenience over beauty have already done disastrous things to my country.
It needs to stop.
To imagine that the transition from ppc to x86 is remotely comparable to a present-day x86-to-ARM transition is utterly absurd. Basically everything has changed: Hardware architectures, software architectures, OS design, etc. The amount of software out there for x86 macs is massive and end users are going to expect all that stuff to work (even if they'll grumble and accept it when Apple tells them that only 50% of it will work). You're also having to maintain compatibility with a massive set of third party hardware used by creatives, developers and enthusiasts - are you gonna run those drivers in an emulator? In kernel mode?

This would be an undertaking beyond any past one, because in the past computers were much simpler and Apple controlled a bigger part of the picture. Now they're shipping elaborate GPUs and hardware stacks that mash together chips from various vendors and there's a ton of third party hardware and software all working on top of it. If they don't keep most of that working users won't stand for it. Something like "we need to get AMD or NVIDIA to provide us a top-tier video driver for the Axx instruction set and convince them not to demand a king's ransom for it" would not have been an obstacle in the PPC days but it's unavoidable now unless they want to ship their own GPU too (which they could do, but again, compatibility)
I've done mindfulness and am ongoing CBT therapy and saying they are related is kind of wrong.

Both:

1. Are a method that aim to reduce suffering

2. Focus on habits and

3. Observation of the current self

But they are really not the same, or related on a practical level.
"Europe" covers too many countries and supermarkets to make such a generalisation, I feel. In Estonia at our local supermarket the self-checkout lanes / machines are often extremely busy, and also introduce the chance of getting stuck behind a number of people who have problems using the machine or who are just slow.

We know who are the fastest operators at the 'manual' check-out, and it's easier to watch prices as they are scanned when one doesn't also need to be doing the scanning.
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Extended effort to push up a lambda function and not have to worry about automating deployment and configuration and patching and monitoring and upgrading and fail over-ring and, yes, scaling? Maybe its just me but I'd rather not see the backend of a server ever again for anything other than development.
You can already play with Valhalla.

https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/valhalla-dev/2019-Ju...
A lot of things are very odd about the way the HN website works, including most of the underlying JavaScript (see image object URLs for GET requests).
Meaning the insurance premium will be higher? I mean if X keeps it, Y insures it, then X loses it, Y still has to pay up, so you're covered. The only difference between X=Y or X!=Y could be in the premium that Y commands.
Is there a proper alternative to CSS for sprite sheets yet?
A centralized, trusted authority does a good job until it doesn't.
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I think I got to that stage by pure luck for a brief moment two decades ago when I kept looking at a dot above my bed very intentionally.

Never could reach that feeling ever again. But, it was transforming in the way that I humbly accepted that there are mystical cognitive states that are not produced by drugs.
The lack of this hassle is a big part of what has attracted me to Azure.

I had a list at one point, not much VPC and IAM Roles, but routing tables, CIDR blocks, NAT Gateways, I can't remember what all else.

I just remember thinking that, while such configuration options might be powerful in the right hands, if you expect your application developers to manage all that, your cloud services are designed at the wrong level of abstraction.
In reality, array lookup is not O(1). It's orders of magnitude faster to do random lookups in an array that fits in L1 cache than one that doesn't. The cache hierachy makes array lookups O(log(n)) or possibly even O(sqrt(n)).
QuickBit Data Exposure Incident Report [pdf]
Good but I wouldn't give it a try unless I see working code repo which has working REST server along with basic SQL database driver integration.

Test suite integration and project build tips would be nice.
Never mind "too big to fail", small banks are often "too small to succeed"!

Spain used to have a network of city banks called the cajas. They suffered from exactly the sort of cronyism people here are worrying about, and the financial crisis blew almost all of them away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_bank_(Spain)
> However, if the city lends with a lower repayment rate, that's just a subsidy. I think the government needs to spend on affordable housing, but this just seems like a way of doing it inefficiently (but sneaking it by taxpayers who don't notice it since the city isn't "deciding" to spend money on affordable housing).

It does feel like that's the (mostly unstated) goal here.
Exposed Mongodb instance found on shodan, https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/quickbit-databa...
Thanks, explaining anatta as set theory is a great analogue.
Could you give more details on how the machine caused lung failure? I am thinking of getting a CPAP for my family. Would like to do more research on it.
thanks! didn't know about xdotool
The book in question was also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20496643

I hope everybody knows that the title is a Sartre reference. http://rickontheater.blogspot.com/2010/07/most-famous-thing-...
> not have to worry about automating deployment
How do you validate your code before deploying to production? If you test in environments besides production how do you manage configuration settings for the different environments (i.e. a db connection string)? How do you avoid patching? Almost any code I've written takes dependencies on 3rd party libraries and those will often have security vulnerabilities (usually some time after I wrote the code).
For a UK take on this see: http://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2013/02/23/the-simple-plan-...

The trick is that the local authorities are already paying 100% of the rent for a large category of people, so they might as well cut out the middleman, own the houses, and pay the statute-guaranteed money to themselves.
Bellingcat to me looks like a way for intelligence agencies to announce their results to the world without saying how they figured this stuff out.

It's very easy to do this 'open source journalism' if you already have the answers via an NSA tipoff.
As far as I know, only a handful of banks in Stockholm still have safe deposit boxes. I even tried to start a safety deposit box business as a private non-bank related thing. I can´t even begin to describe to you what type of regulatory hurdles and red-tape I was faced with when trying to get that up and running. It´s pretty clear at this point that the entire system here is trying its hardest to reject everything of a non-digitalized and traceable nature.

For the longest time I used to believe that it is because Sweden is first to embrace new "technology". I have now come to understand now that it is something completely different and it will come back to bite this country in the ass in the not too distant future. I would be surprised if our economy even survives another decade without some serious restructuring.
> I find the twisted reasoning in this comment shocking and I don't really know what to say. It is a kind of twisted reasoning that I've only seen in people who were high on strong narcotics and were carried away by waves of wishful thinking and delusions, or, again, extreme persecution complex.

I'm curious how something that is entirely a flamewar gets so many upvotes? Where's @dang with their admonishments?
I see, thanks for the reply.

But you have to admit there is some utility in designing a language from the ground up to target browsers.

I’ve never understood the OCaml and Haskell people’s obsession with creating half baked JS generators that produce less than great web apps. And I completely get the backend guys desire for a proper language when they are forced by their companies to do web stuff. But that cross platform stuff has repeatedly been an unfulfilled pipe dream. Not only JS to mobile but systems/server languages to web.

I’ve been looking for a proper functional and typed replacement to JS for years and Purescript is the only one I’ve seen that is close to being as good as the Vue/React apps I get paid good money to develop for a living. https://lumi.com is a good example of a modern web app being built by the main PS creator.

I’m hoping one of you smart Haskell people solves this problem before I get old having to use JS.
and I wonder how easy it is to make people type the British slang for cigarettes.
Yeah, I would expect the premium to be higher if the insurer knows there's not much incentive for the bank to protect the item.

Also I consider a loss and insurance payout to be worse than no loss and no payout. Because it's a hassle to do the paperwork and rebuy items. And there might be sentimental items that a payout doesn't fully replace. So it's best to have a system that reduces the chance of a loss.
> There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself. https://wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

i.e. you make libraries, frameworks, engines, tools, languages; develop new formalisms like kleene algebra, relational algebra, longest common subsequence, levenshtein distance.

Though it turns out this automation/amplification, at least of some tasks, is itself a very difficult, time-intensive, yet non-mechanical drudge...

Drawing is fun. What happens after 10 years?
Yes, they do make it incredibly easy for you to do node, you know what else they do?! They make it completely insecure by default.

If you don't know what I mean by that, then you should probably go with a serverless architecture instead of whatever your company has going right now.
Building Out ProtonMail Spoofed Infrastructure with Creation Timestamp Pivoting
Sounds like a comment from the Shoplifting reddit which was full of people proudly showing the things they stole and posting excuses why them being a thief is someone else’s fault. It’s since been closed.
That's true.

I think they are harming themselves by doing this because they can't really enjoy the moment and just "be" there.

I rarely take pictures because I always think "there's already awesome pics of this on the net" and also when I'm back I don't want to overwhelm people who want to see them with a collection of "just 1000 photos of me in front of the Louvre".

Of course I'd love to have a picture of me standing in front of Taj Mahal but in the end it's not so important. The pictures people haven't seen yet are much more interesting (to me), especially places where tourists don't want to be or perspectives they shouldn't see.

E.g. the "Golden Beaches" in Bulgaria. Stay in the tourist zone and you'll have the typical beaches, hotels, bars etc. But the exciting part of the area is when you leave this "paradise" and see the massive destruction tourism, the hotel lobby etc. bring to nature and the people.

Seeing these scenes changed my mind and I realized I'd never want to do "all inclusive" at the places where all people go again.

I think people need more stable personalities so they can break out of their "hive-mind-thinking" and start sensing their environment and enjoying themselves without the constant feedback of "the hive". Behaviour like this reminds me of the Lemmings and the Borg.
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And in all likelihood the insurance will be provided by another company and sold by a different department.
> Price controls for food: it'll work this time!

Very cheap food is working right now in the USA thanks to incredible subsidies, and it is flooding the world market with tons of cheap food.

Agriculture is hugely subsidized in the US, to the point that corn is so worthless it's cheap enough to add or inject into everything.

Meanwhile, the USDA manages supply through bulk buys via the Agricultural Marketing Service which it then dumps on schools, low end neighborhoods (Government Cheese being the most famous case of USDA food dumping), food banks, etc.
I don't think you do.

You want the risk (bank malfeasance) and risk manager (insurance company) widely separated (agency risk, moral & morale hazard, conflicts of interest, etc.).

The insurer should demand and receive rights to collect damages from the bank.

The bank itself can insure that risk independently.
I agree with this 100%. The only logical reason yes is job security and that's about it.
I guess I will be downvoted for this but it always amazed me that so many people in HN are religious when it comes to mindfulness, Buddhism and meditation.

There is no scientific proof that there is any difference between relaxing in an chair and meditating following a strict form. The core is: it is very good to give the brain a brake in our busy times.

But it is also proven that it can be dangerous to give the brain a break when you have a troubles mind. Things can emerge from the depths which you should find help for.

A nice writeup about this is an article from 2016:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mindfulness-wellbein...

But there is also more recent recearch that backs this up.

So: meditation/relaxing can be very good to reduce stress and to think more clearly.
But take care: "Meditation is not a therapy"
Let the Post Office operates as a bank. City level bank has too small of a scope to be efficient. Post Office has the network, infrastructure, and branches in place that can easily expand into financial services. Japan's Post has banking service and it has work well.
Way back when, Safeway’s 10c off per gallon rewards would just continue stacking up. I saved up until my discount was more than the price of gas, and got myself a free tank.

I’ve always wondered how much it would have let me pump. The limits I’ve seen on pumping have always been on the dollar amount, presumably because they verify they can charge that amount before you start pumping.
I find the characterization of RDS Aurora as not proven, or unstable, as odd.

I thought it looked like one of the more mature-seeming choices on the market.

Any thoughts?
GitHub used to be an open and free platform for everyone, but it has decided to restrict Iranian accounts from contributing and being part of the open-source ecosystem. Although we understand GitHub might make this decision under the pressure of US government, we were expecting more respectful action from GitHub.

Github restricted our access to private repositories suddenly, but at very least we wanted Github to warn us before limiting our access.

GitHub's team decided to take one step further and restrict us based on our Nationality no matter where we are living, while they were able to just restrict our IP addresses like other US-based companies.

thanks
they are forcing notarization in the next OS-X update. this means they can eventually force bitcode.
What about for bursty workloads? Lambda seems to really shine there.
That's why I recommend containers, because automating deployment and config would be the same regardless of destination, right? Monitoring also seems to be the same if you're using built-in cloud stuff.

As for scale, I think that's massively overstated. Servers are really fast and most apps aren't anywhere near capacity. Even a $10 digitalocean server is plenty of power, and there's no cold starts. Even YC's advice is to focus on features and dev speed, and worry about scaling when it truly becomes an issue.
Perhaps a lack of hubris creates an unshakeable belief rather than a projected / maintained belief built on assertion and bluster that gets questioned when things start going wrong?