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The journey of Finlook began while searching for a personal finance app to help get a sense of where my money was being spent. Most apps I found offered the convenience of automatically syncing and categorizing transactions but fell short on privacy.

Typically a personal finance app would collect data, analyze it and most likely use it for advertising purposes. While there are apps in this space that are offline and keep your data private, they require manual entry for every transaction. That means more time being spent inputting and categorizing data.

Frustrated, I set out to see if it was possible to build a finance app that provides the convenience of syncing to your bank accounts without the need to know who you are or what you spend on. This led to the development of Finlook, a personal finance app that values your privacy.

Finlook is packed with the tools you’d come to expect from a personal finance app, just a lot more private. The app collects the bare minimum to keep your device in sync with your financial accounts, translating to zero personal and financial information being stored on its servers.

Finlook’s features include:

Flexible and Smart Categorization: Your transactions are automatically synced and categorized from over 10K U.S financial institutions. Easily make adjustments and group related transactions using labels.

Bills and Subscription Tracking: Identify and keep track of your recurring expenses and get notified of upcoming payments.

Fast and Powerful Search Tools: Offline storage provides you with super fast search and filtering tools whenever you need it.

Privacy and Security: No user accounts. Data stays on your device. Strong encryption.

For more information about the app and how it works, check out https://finlook.app

Finlook is currently available on App Store and Google Play Store in the US and is free to try for one month.

I would love to hear your feedback, questions and suggestions!
Evidence in iPhone Health app sends man to prison for killing wife
Original announcement of what would become Rust (2010) [pdf]
In all fairness, people like parents with young children, pets, etc. find time changes disruptive. That said, there are good reasons to shift schedules in mid latitudes and daylight saving time is a good way to do that if you don't want 4am sunrises in the summer or heading out in the pitch black in the winter.

The reality is that if you don't do daylight savings, you're not going to have a collective switch in schedules and you're going to have to deal with what, for most, is sub-optimal sunlight.

Personally, I don't care much now because I mostly set my own schedule. But I'd have hated eliminating daylight savings when I was on a more fixed schedule.
Certainly not this winter, but who knows, maybe in december. Not very likely though: december is generally not cold enough. There has been only one Elfstedentocht in december in its whole history.
i wish I could downvote or report this threat of violence
According to their mining map[1], 35% of the global hashrate happens in Xinjiang. From Wikipedia, it looks like most major power stations in Xinjiang are coal driven[2].

10% is in Sichuan, which appears to be largely hydro-driven[3].

1: https://cbeci.org/mining_map

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_power_stations_i...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_power_stations_i...
Bitcoin provides very few of the services that regular banking systems do, and to a far, far smaller audience. Unless that's taken into account, such a comparison is meaningless.
Yes. Holding gold in the US was illegal due to executive order 6102.

There's no need for mental gymnastics of blaming energy. Just one powerful guy says "no" and poof, its illegal. Now laws or logic required.

There was an exception for collector coins and jewelry
If you freed all those resources, you could equivalently reduce fossil fuel consumption (up to 0%, of course). So I say it matters very much.
Isn't any breaking change the same as creating a new language?

There will be two similar yet different languages in use until everyone migrates to the new version. This process could happen quickly or not at all.
UKE (Polish FCC) uses OSM as a backgroud layer for such map [1]

But I think data about internet speed does not belong in OSM, if this is what you mean. It'd be better to have it in another database.

[1] https://wyszukiwarka.uke.gov.pl/
Not quite, there are ways. The Diablo mod community is an excellent example: before the debug symbols were found on the psx release, the common method was to inject instructions directly into the binary. Similarly, Fallout and the Infinity engine games have mods that patch binaries and replace DLLs.
It's not mental gymnastics to have a legitimate concern about energy usage.
No it shouldn't. IDEs come and go.
But a heat pump gives you about 0x the amount of bitcoin.
Combined world governments going after miners is the best thing could happen to Bitcoin. Difficulty would drop allowing people to mine from general purpose computers again, which is a huge incentive. Then things will scale up again.

The toothpaste is out of the tube. Nothing can be done.
If you are using `npm i` instead of `npm ci`... you are also guilty of this.
There's a bit of discussion in `osm_ch` that from March on, the SwissTopo data will be free OpenGovernmentData: https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/swisstopo/free-geodata.htm...

The debate is what 'free' means :)
I'll bite.

One way to look at it is that with a portfolio of investments you want to spread your risk amongst different classes. If you are securing an IT system then you have defence in depth. If you produce medical devices you want to have physical and logical locking mechanisms (see Therac-25). The US style is to make everything elected: judges, sheriffs, presidents, governors, DAs and school boards are all elected. Which means that they are all vulnerable to the same class of failure.

Note: This particular role mentioned in the article, of providing consent/impact to certain broad classes of legislation, are not included in my argument above. I'm merely replying to your statement that an elected official is always better suited to all roles.
It won't and even BTC enthusiasts have given up on that. They narrative is now that BTC is a "store of value".
That is not my standard for "serious". But my standard for "expelled from society" is actually that they be expelled from society.

I agree that the social penalties for racism can be serious. Although I look forward to you naming 3 people who because of teenage postings lost their "career and all or almost all [their] friends", because again I think you're being hyperbolic in a way that undermines your point.

However, I also think that racism is serious. Perhaps this seems crazy to you, but I'm much more concerned with the many lives destroyed by racism (very much including actual murder) than I am with the social consequences racists (very rarely) experience.
But will that heat pump mine bitcoins for me?
This wonderful tutorial is the same I used to learn Pthreads around 10 years ago.

The training section of the LLNL website [1] offers a lot of solid tutorials; I used the OpenMP and MPI ones for my Parallel Computing class some years ago and they helped me to sistematically learn (and learn to apply) the material. I love them!

[1] https://hpc.llnl.gov/training/tutorials
> There's no way to remap a "global package identifier" to the entry point (e.g. remap import from "package" to "../path/to/mymodules/package/index.mjs") on the Browser-side.

I think what you're looking for is `require.resolve` [1].

```mjs

import { createRequire } from "module";

const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);

const path = require.resolve("package");

console.log(path);

>> ../path/to/mymodules/package/index.mjs

```

1: https://nodejs.org/api/esm.html#esm_no_require_resolve
Instagram says its algorithm won’t promote Reels that have a TikTok watermark
Even if all of Bitcoin uses renewables, that's demand for renewable energy that drives prices up, which will lead other energy consumers to either pay more or pick less expensive non-renewable energy sources instead.
After all the Bitcoin is mined, it will be the greenest crypto currency, yes?. What if we just accelerated the mining, or made them all available at once. Problem solved? Truth be told, I really don't know what I'm talking about. It just sounded good in my head.
> how will Bitcoin become a usable currency

It won't, it's just a speculative asset.
If the signature reqt is attached to the package metadata, the new package just removed it. If it's part of their custom build system, what signs third party packages? Would it just sign the new one anyway, because how does it know which ones should have PayPal internal signing? Or are you proposing manual controls? shudder

Channels and priorities embedded in the package tools are a better approach, combined with something like Artifactory. Some channels might require packages are signed, and possibly monotonically versioned.
At least in Europe, the lowest prices (even negative sometimes) for electricity are when renewable energies are producing a lot (e.g. when there's a storm in the north sea). If bitcoin mines are plugged on the real time market of electricity they would have an incentive to turn on when there's a lot of renewable energy produced. Assuming mines optimize their mining schedules on that, there's a scenario in which it could even help soak up the low prices and push investments into renewables.
When it comes to visual acuity for TV watching, doing calculations while basing yourself on their suggested '20/20 vision'=1/60 of a degree, is probably wrong (on average) :

https://www.homecinemaguru.com/can-we-see-4kuhd-on-a-normal-...

(The real limit seems only to start around 310 pixels/degree !)
> Change my mind.

Well, personally, I'm still convinced Bitcoin is going to crash at some point. It doesn't work well as an actual currency because transfer times/fees are too high.

I don't know if that will happen in one year or 20 years though.
Well it's mostly held together by trust and (in the commercial case) warranty. That said there's so many potential entry points for malicious actors it's not even funny anymore (esp. in desktop computing)...

I try not to think about it too much and have faith in the powers that be
I'm tired of this BS about Bitcoin and pollution. So tired that yesterday I wrote this [0]. Of course you might be in complete disagreement with me, but please read it and let me know what you think. Be kind. I am trying to have a good conversation about it, not to impose my view.

[0]: https://simon.medium.com/bitcoin-and-pollution-the-definitiv...
If this trend continue we may well seal our fate by crunching useless numbers at a global scale for the sake of greed and because we seem incapable of trusting each other.

If this was written in a novel we'd deem it a bit too much on the nose really.
Damn, I knew the governments hated cryptocurrencies and will try to shut it down at some point, but I haven't realized there was such hostility towards it.
break the hash algo...?
It's a nice experiment, but but the impatient poephttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=968gVUAY9Mg&t=7m40s

The first part is a discussion about refractive index, the details of the experiment are discussed in the second part.

Some detail of the explanation are slightly wrong. If you start with a setup like in this experiment with water over a layer of sugar, after some time you will get the gradient to make the experiment. But if you wait too much the diffusion will mix everything evenly, and the light will not blend.

It's not caused by the difference of density, but the difference of density will help to maintain the gradient for some time anyway.
You're welcome!

I went for Telegram because I saw it working well for similar projects and it lets me reach the people directly, instead of them having to come to a site.

For the people that don't use Telegram I have a blog too and a newsletter at https://bloc.noicejobs.com
Now, you know these things aren't going to happen, not in any quantity to make the slightest difference.

So why even suggest it?

Strong regulation is the only solution. The Magic Invisible Hand just is not working.
No, they won't be wrong, because the TZ database includes historical data & will know that DST was still in effect at the time you saved the timestamp.

[Ed. Nevermind, sorry, I see you're referring to a future point. My bad. You're right.]
It is basically impossible to get imprisoned in the UK for mere verbal racism, and highly racist opinions are posted in the newspapers all the time. Even the "gas the jews" Nazi dog guy was only fined £800 and it didn't stop him standing for election.
Was there a fabric shortage in the 90s?
that ship has sailed long ago. it is now seen as a replacement for gold and a hedge against inflation
Electricity is 100% efficient in a resistance heater, in that all the electricity used is turned to heat. However, it is considerably more expensive per unit heat than natural gas, even though you may only get 70-90% efficiency with your boiler or furnace. A heat pump can be even more efficient, though. An electric heat pump can be more than 100% efficient, in that each watt of electricity can be used to move more than 1 watt of heat into your home using the heat pump.
What the fuck is a "Quantum Demon"?
This is true and still is. Most larger ISP will have Speedtest servers in their infrastructure. I remember installing one of their servers in 2010 in the ISP I was working for at the time. The thing it doesn't mask is last mile type issues. So if the node you're on in an HFC is oversubscribed and you start complaining about it, and can show this during peak hours using their own Speedtest server, they'll likely shuffle RF or split the node to relieve the congestion. In that case it does have value. You can also select the server you want to test against so it's not hard to validate speeds and latency outside of the, potentially, local-only test.
Less of a waste of money than what Mozilla spends on CEO/middle management.
This depends on what you’re measuring the efficiency with respect to though, right? Cost-wise, yeah, natural gas outperforms electricity everywhere I’m aware of. On a grid powered entirely by renewable energy though, there’s a meaningful sense in which the electrical method is “more efficient”
This blog from Mozilla [1] explains why rendering CSS is such a complex process.

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/inside-a-super-fast-css-en...
If you want to build a foundation for machine learning, it sure helps to have a bunch of learning machines sitting around. :)
An Alexander Hamilton quote is reaching pretty deep. Ever stop and wonder why you would quote that and not the Constitution directly?

It’s because democracy doesn’t appear anywhere in the constitution. The law of the land, the very document that establishes our form of government doesn’t mention democracy, do you think it’s an accident or oversight of the founding fathers?

Article 4. Section 4:

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government...
For those in a similar situation which want this for Europe, too, use http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl, which has worldwide coverage.
Does that work like the plastic tape electric fences?

If you are fencing horses or similar animals today you probably use plastic tapes or ropes that are embedded with metal fibers.

You might look at one and think there's not much metal but I think the zap feels stronger from the tape than from the old fashioned wires and the animals seem to agree.

In that application there isn't a lot of current, but it is charging up the fence as a capacitor and storing even more energy in the plastic dielectric than would a wire in open air. The voltage might be able to jump a tiny airgap, so you don't need a "good" connection by normal standards.

That tape usually works between you (e.g. as an animal) and the ground and there is a return path to the charger through a metal stake driven into the earth.

I have thought about making a "Thundershock Pikachu" plush that uses two strips of that of that tape to be the positive and negative if it doesn't like the way you handle it.

Are you imagining something that works like that but scaled for charging phones?
Can you successfully mine bitcoin with one computer these days?
I think you misspelled remarkably. It's actually spelled "terribly".
I agree with you - the complexity is that the division between 'doing science' and 'making decisions based on science and other factors' isn't necessarily clear. The simplest expression of this is choosing which of (possibly conflicting) papers to listen to. Drug companies have their version of this where they cherry pick clinical trials with results they like.
It seems [0] that roughly 40% of crypto mining uses renewables. Yesterday I wrote a lengthy post about the topic [1], if you're keen to know more.

[0]: https://www.smart-energy.com/renewable-energy/renewables-pow...

[1]: https://simon.medium.com/bitcoin-and-pollution-the-definitiv...
Paul Kagame accuses the West of hoarding Covid-19 vaccines
Ask HN: How to get most out of Masters in Computer Science program?
I will be attending Masters in CS program(non-thesis) at a mid-tier US university. What are few important things I should pay attention to? One thing I can think of is networking which helps in making good connections with people.
Cool, I guess this fast function in our code that is measured in ms is of same badness as this slow function in our code that is measured in days.

Given that we are not interested in what these functions do, my choice would be to optimize the fast function.

Electricity used by Argentina generates massive amounts of destruction and pollution. The electricity used by Bitcoin is probably not even close.
You seem to be making a few statements based on gut feeling instead of hard numbers. While I also think (opinion, I have no facts to back it) that being outside is safer than staying indoors, I don't think organizing an event is safe.

I mean the Netherlands got their first major outbreak thanks to carnaval last year, which is a partially outdoor event. Another one, in the US, the Sturgis motorcycle rally created a big wave in spreading the 'rona (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6947e1.htm)
>Electricity is one of the most inefficient ways to heat a
dwelling.

This is not true. Resistive heating is inefficient indeed but not all forms of conversion of electricity are inefficient. Geothermal pumps are very efficient for instance and use electricity only, they can be assisted directly by solar (PV) too.
> you are the densest bunch I've ever met

Indeed!
Understanding the Tradeoffs with Elixir Typespecs and Dializer
Well played. Flutter does seem to be the top-dog in cross-platform development (even when adding Xamarin) but it's a Google product, so use at your own peril.
Off chain through Liquid or Lighting networks.
Bitcoin is Crypto 1.0.

There are better ways to do this. But people remain infatuated with Bitcoin.
Well back in my day we put hay in our clogs and had to ice skate uphill.
My military service helped me thrive in a corporate career
> It's a good practice to have a local cache of all the third-party dependencies you use, available to both developers and CI infrastructure.

We have that, it's called Java and .NET, but apparently solved problems aren't interesting anymore.
Science never tells you "what" to do. But it does tell you what is happening (e.g. Drinking water in area X will reduce your life expectancy by y% or change your odds of cancer Z by v%).

"Politicizing science" happens a lot, is terrible, and is stoppable, and must be a goal. Denying global warming is "politicizing science," saying "vaccines cause autism [when studies show they don't]" is politicizing science. Saying "Covid is no worse than a flu" is politicizing science.

This specific case is about EPA not being able to release numbers for a chemical that is KNOWN to be toxic (and epa is years/decades behind the science already) [1]

Your stance is weirdly reductive/defeatist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid
IMO it isn't. However, I do see a huge for sending large transactions. In that sense, I don't find it too crazy that Tesla is accepting Bitcoin, because buying a Tesla is a large transaction.

IMO a niche use though.
I've found the Nat Geo waterproof maps to be quite good. Between the "Trails Illustrated" fold-up maps and the "Topographic Trail Guides", the east coast is pretty well covered.

https://www.natgeomaps.com/trail-maps

I also use Gaia GPS as a planning tool. Fiddle with routes on the laptop, then load the relevant map squares on the phone for offline use. It has the NatGeo maps, plus several other sources, available for overlay. With this, my NatGeo paper maps largely become backups.
Not likely in the digital age perhaps, but I'm sure there must have been places that have got their names changed because tertiary resources called them thus.

And of course there is the classic “you are now called 'X' because I've got a (bigger) gun and/or bring [what I consider superior] civilization”, but that's a rather different beast (e.g., Formosa, Batavia, New Zealand, Ayers Rock).
Consider the position of someone who believes bitcoin adds zero(or even negative) value, but consumes astronomical amounts of, often dirty, electricity while the world faces a climate emergency. Further, since this is a technical forum, all of this work to compute trillions of SHA hashes. On the flip side you have a bunch of peopple who rely on bitcoin as an investment vehicle and are therefore very invested in its continued growth.

It's understandable that emotions run high about this topic imo
Explain how the US is a democracy without providing the definition of a Republic and renaming that form of government as a democracy to suit your arguement.
Not according to this comparison https://github.com/ohler55/compare-go-json.
One argument I've heard it's that it increasing the power demand beyond what renewables can handle. Reducing total power consumption would be more ideal.
App converts ebooks to audiobooks with AI (NTTS)
Especially when the economic value provided by that consumption is virtually zero (net negative with externalities).

I liked the idea of bitcoin when it came out, but as per usual things have just gotten out of hand from there.
It won't

It won't for small transactions. Buying a car or a house with BTC could still be viable in the future.
Cryptography is not blockchain.

Blockchain is a very heavy technology that solves the Consensus Problem. That's amazing, but almost no real world problems except cryptocurrency has a Consensus Problem.

For almost everything else, there are much simpler, easier-to-understand and _far_ computationally lighter cryptographic solutions that aren't blockchain.
As someone who routinely sets meetings for people in multiple timezones, let me say this isn't confusing.

All the calendaring tools I use or am aware of, at this point, keep up with time zone correctly (or have so far). I set the meeting for, say, 10 CST, and it's clear to my colleagues in Seattle that it will be 8 for them, just as it's clear for my coworkers in DC that it'll be 11.