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Ask HN: How to know where to direct consumer abuse complaints? (tech, banks)
I have been having so many issues with banks (especially neo-bank 'startups' that are just selling out and getting acquired by existing institutions). These are becoming a huge headache for me personally, especially in terms of data longevity, i.e. Simple, etc. and also with their parent group BBVA. (all records deleted from existence for my existing Simple account, not ported over to the new BBVA 'account equivalents').

In general, I just feel like my previous decisions to use services because they ostensibly would simplify my life have lead me down a road that is seemingly impossible to reverse. Trying to balance books is a nightmare because all the transaction entries on these ledgers have 16 character descriptions, and just suddenly interrupting services is also problematic because I realize that one key piece of information is on a service I rarely use.

I feel like, for example, BBVA's execution of a transfer from my account with them to <OTHER BANK>, and then waiting to charge the ACH fee a week later, so that it breaks their requirements to close an account - that must be a violation of some law, right? Deliberately structuring the timing of transactions to get around a client request to close an account is absurd, and yet this is being done. Despite being a client of an institution that was eaten up by another institution, this feels predatory and extremely disruptive to daily life.

Banks are covered by the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, but what about other abuses? Like a SaaS company continuing to charge you despite cancellations. Does FTC cover consumer protections that aren't financial services specific?
> when it basically apparently doesn't run on laptops

i had an old laptop that runs just fine (albeit with a tiny bit of fiddling). you're free not to believe me though, it's your opinion after all.

> requires us to pretend that it's in the same class as those other OSes?

lmfao, did they ever?

shut up and get your shit together.
> The person that replied was a female judge, that said what the company is doing is fixing historical distortions so it is fine.

Literally millions of men have died to save women and children from Titanic times, or in wars, if not still (just look at all the construction, electrical, mining jobs where there's no regard for "diversity" or lost lives)... Can we fix that "historical distortion" too? :eyeroll:
I did some quick search, and found few ones. You can search for similar ones -- these are beaten topics and have been discussed, blogged, done in length.

- More Meaningful Typography from List Apart, https://alistapart.com/article/more-meaningful-typography/

- Responsive typography with Modular Scale: Create meaningful proportions in your design using SASS, https://www.bugsnag.com/blog/responsive-typography-with-modu...

- How to Establish a Modular Typographic Scale, https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/how-to-establish-a-m...

- https://www.modularscale.com is a tool to define your scale

- The Cicada Principle, revisited with CSS variables from an industry Design + Engineering guru/goddess, https://lea.verou.me/2020/07/the-cicada-principle-revisited-...

- https://utopia.fyi/blog have some good articles, more modern and relevant to the new CSS such as Clamps.

I had fun with Cicada - beautiful background patterns, which you yourself cannot predict. I was looking for my presentation on "Design with Mathematics, and Patterns" (or something in that line) but I think I may have lost it like many other open source files from before Github.
Not stupid at all, good luck!

Why are you checking, by the way?
A good reason to _not_ be snarky about these tools is that they can be helpful for people with certain dexterity disabilities.
But that's just a basic page with some stock photos...
I have an strategy of two pronunciations for my name (Jaime, it's a Spanish name):

- Quick chats, like answering your name at Starbucks, talking with the electric company on the phone, etc. I use directly the English pronunciation of my name (like Jamie). It's faster, easier and who cares, frankly... Gratefully, I can now use "wrote as Lanister" and fix some writing problems

- With more meaningful relationships, like coworkers or acquaintances that I will be talking several times, etc, the only thing that I care about is an honest try. Most people tends to have problems with the ending vowel, and the initial "hard H" sound, so it sounds more like "Hi-me", but that's absolutely no problem. Different languages have different sounds, and I mispronounce things all the time. All I care about it's the other person putting a bit of effort into it, but that's about it...
It seems like you're actually being uncivil and unthoughtful, and actually upset because other people have different viewpoints, which you are calling "climate change denial", when I doubt anyone here actually denies that the climate is changing.
Compile your software
I know the OECD is supposedly a respected institution, but I love how nonsensical nearly every item on the list here is.

Just comparing these two, they say the US is below the OECD average lifespan while Japan is significantly above. Yet Japan is near the bottom end of the health chart and the US is near the top. Japan and Korea are below Brazil and Mexico in health. I find that... questionable, to say the least.

Also interesting how Japan has one of the lowest violent crime rates in the world (possibly only Singapore is safer), yet Japan is in the middle of the chart and not far above the US. Somehow the UK is considered safer than Japan.

Makes me wonder how exactly they calculate everything. Loads of wonky results there.
I read the first link and some supporting links like “a pathway to equitable math instruction”:

https://equitablemath.org/

This is…. Reprehensible
Even better, you can pass it in a JSON array, and use the built-in JSON functionality to iterate through it. I started doing this in SQLite, and it made some queries a lot cleaner.
I ~think~ thought officially you should buy a black and white license.
Is this why I can't find the opening ceremony on YouTube?

I've tried searching for a couple of days and couldn't find anything, just found some 5minute long summaries.

I've stopped caring, I'm always curious to see at least some event but this year they seem to have way too much friction in place for something that I'm really not that interested in.
True, however Microsoft is not to blame for the management errors of others, and there are other spreadsheets on the market still.

Except instead of trying to be the C++ of Spredsheets, they target Go like capabilities, and then wonder why business keeps adopting Excel.
What about rz, is it same as ř in Czech? Good luck with this letter to any native English speaker. :-))
i am intrigued by Zig and have been following it for a while. But i plan on seriously trying it out after the following are availabe; self hosted compiler, http server (or at least a standardized interface) in stdlib and a package manager. Otheriwse the language would not be productive for my needs.
It's funded via a license fee. Operates under a model of public service broadcasting.
See also the book, "The Chinese Typewriter: A History" By Thomas S. Mullaney [1] for more on the history of Japanese and Chinese typewriters.

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chinese-typewriter
Extended with Lambda, PowerQuery and AddOns.
True, very true. You should have been there with the limitations we had with an arcane CMS they inherited. Every front-end code was not even allowed to interact directly with the back-end. We wrote routines for it to be sucked in, chewed up and spit out. What you see is the final by-product of that gimmickry. I'd still say, really good work by the team with such restraints and limitations -- no real data, all mocks. And yes, I had 45 days to execute and walk out.
So since standfords cs 101 course is in youtube it means its a bad course? gtfo out of here with your stupid commentary
Where did the 'heat dome' term come from? Is it actually a new kind of weather phenomenon (the Wikipedia page is from this year) or just a new term the media has been (ab)using instead of calling it a heat wave as they would before?
> If you know the name is from an Indian language, read "a" as the "u" in "putt"

Please stop making up stuff like "an Indian language". If you mean Hindi-Urdu and that language family, then just call it that, don't subtly encourage people to think that is the language for all of India.
If hardware acceleration is fixed then user experience can see night and day difference. Unfortunately if anything to be seen from Raspberry Pi or other SBCs HW Acceleration seems like Nuclear Fusion due to different graphics API, standards, application/HW support etc.
TL;DW: Apple deletes inconvenient truths from their forums. They also only cover flexgate[1] repairs to 13" 2016 MacBook Pro models[2], despite the issue affecting the 15" 2016 model as well as 2017 models[3].

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/News/12903/flexgate

[2] https://support.apple.com/13-inch-macbook-pro-display-backli...

[3] https://www.macrumors.com/guide/flexgate-macbook-pro-display...
Robotz! iCare
>Mhm, the last 2 German startups I worked for basically went to the US very quickly after originally targeting the German market

Same thing happens in video games. Consider French studio Dontnod; other than its first game Remember Me (set in a futuristic setting), five of its six other games (including the Life is Strange series) are set in contemporary US and the sixth in 1920s London. The US/English-speaking market is just too big to bypass unless there's a compelling reason.

(A good example of a compelling reason is fellow French studio Asobo, which put out the widely praised A Plague Tale set in France during the Black Plague. A sequel is coming, but the main bread and butter of the studio nowadays is Flight Simulator 2020, which is "set" nowhere and everywhere.)
Moving SciPy to the Meson build system
Stop writing on Medium.
Is that a "recent" development? I remembered that from a few years back when I played around with Haiku in a VM, tried to port some programs and poked around in the kernel source out of curiosity.

It would explain, why I couldn't find that "how to build the toolchain" page anymore through some quick browsing and posted the Wikipedia reference instead. I guess somebody(TM) should update the Wikipedia page then.
> Some of the notable drawbacks: [...]

Wow, that's really, really bad. Thanks for calling attention to that.

> currently the download sizes are absurdly large, since you need to pack a large amount of functionality in .js/.wasm (over 10 MB, actually)

Just wait till someone uses this to build their desktop-only Electron app.
> The PC-9801 featured a standard resolution of 640×400, which would not be surpassed as a standard in the west until the release of VGA and Macintosh II in 1987.

Small niggle: this isn't quite true. The Amiga 1000, released in 1985, supported a graphics mode at 640 x 400 (NTSC) and 640 x 512 (PAL) standard resolutions that on a standard TV would display interlaced (leading to flickering), but could be displayed without the flicker with a "flicker fixer" and a multisync monitor. The Amiga also supported overscan resolutions so these pixel counts could be exceeded on both the horizontal and vertical axes (I forget by how much though).

As I say, a small niggle, but a niggle nonetheless.
'Dove', AI Method That Learns Deformable 3D Objects by Watching YouTube Videos
Well, if the current events tell us we're in a crisis, were we also in a crisis a century ago? Two centuries ago? Three centuries ago? We can look in history books and see the same kinds of events happening back then. If they indicate a crisis now, don't they also indicate the crisis was happening back then?
I seem to recall having attachments to steering wheels being illegal in Sweden. This makes me wonder if this wheel won't be illegal in a lot of places.
Indeed, survival of the species with no regard to the happiness of the members therein. I think we can do better ourselves at this point, which would be in itself arguably part of evolution.
This is much worse than any PR campaign.
I feel the same way. I avoid the problem by pronouncing my (Dutch) name the way an American would pronounce it when introducing myself. (If there happen to be other Dutch people present, they'll figure it out, as it's a common name)
Hope so!

Found the page I was thinking of: https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/Pinepho...

Very much "not supported".
"Or visit our sponsor NSFW"

Well that's one way to monetize your in-depth blog posts about the history of Japanese typewriters.
Lack of gatekeeping and general accessibility of software development is the beauty of this profession.
You can install a Wikipedia locally. Not sure if a children's version exists
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I decided to try out Haiku last week. I was positively surprised how fast the whole process was. Installer loaded, system was installed and rebooted in about 20-30 seconds (not accounting for human I/O latency). And this was in a VM with SATA disk backing.

Makes you yearn for simpler times.
Even better, because some of those deals include MSDN, when Excel users grow beyond VBA, they just get VB.NET installed and keep doing AddOns in .NET.
Seriously curious, where do you live where you can take a baby to a bar? I’ve never heard of such a thing.
Hacker news doesn't let you write paragraphs and publish a URL.
> First, if you can remember only 3 things:

> Zh is like a J sound (as in "Jam")
> X is like a Sh sound (as in "Shot")
> Q is like a Ch sound (as in "China")

This is very useful to know, but I have a question. When converting the original characters into English, why didn't the creators of this system choose letters which more closely match the native pronunciation? For example, why "Qi" instead of "Chi"?
We put street signs on highways in Ohio. Quite handy for knowing whether you're in the correct lane, as it doesn't have the ambiguity that overhead signs can have.

Of course, we do also have overhead signs as a backup and for longer-range visibility. But it's more likely that the overhead signs are useless due to a setting sun than that the on-road ones are due to snow. The streets with on-road signs are very high priorities to plow, so the on-road signs are going to be visible unless it's a very bad storm where you probably shouldn't be on the road, and if you are you're probably going home and already know which lanes to be in.

I'm not saying this should be done for every road; it works best for roads known by a number (I-71; US-23; OH-315, etc.) where you don't have to read a long name. But it's not an daft as idea as it might sound.
The gulf in coverage quality between BBC and Eurosport is unbelievable. I actually enjoy Eurosport and their continued coverage of fairly-niche sports (mainly cycling for me), but it's clear that they just don't have the infrastructure or depth to cover an event like an Olympics or World Cup. The BBC are experts.

Lots of the events aired on Eurosport are just feeds; no commentary it analysis.

I think it's a huge error, viewership will decrease and the sports that usually get a boost from TV coverage will struggle.
Nor when they've received millions in grant money.
Many countries have passed laws to phase out incandescent bulbs, including the US (in 2007) and the EU. [1]

Though the laws typically have many exceptions and take effect over time, so saying “incandescent bulbs are illegal” is a somewhat strong statement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_ligh...
As a comment I read said, the fear isn’t that this is the new normal, the fear is that it isn’t, and worse is to come.
The creator has been making youtube videos for years. It's his medium of choice.
"climate change denial" has become a term that has a more nuanced meaning that what the literal words say. It for example also includes viewpoints that deny that human influence is the main driver of climate change ("the climate has always been changing"), or the viewpoints that the effects of climate change are not bad, or even desirable ("CO2 is good for plants").
I've fantasized about building a tool that sits in the background and watches the user do their work. When the tool detects a repeated sequence of actions, it pops up a GUI prompting the user to automatically turn them in to a macro. I want this to work on the OS level, not just within a single app, because I suspect it would be most useful orchestrating work between multiple apps. Has anyone found a tool like that?
Time for Geater London to join the devolved nations, BBC Scotland, Wales, Ulster, and Foyle are still available.
> Fact is: Developers are incapable of self organising, and would drown overnight without management's stiff hand.

Heard of Linux?
Its a shave "ice" stand and its going to be in the 50000.xyz range, thank you very much
in case you are interested: In germany (DE) the regulator offers 5G (actually technology neutral) offers local, campus licenses at a very low price:
https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Sachgebiete/Telekommunik...

1 year, 10MHz, 1km2 residential-> 1300€
Robe de mariée plissage textile
Reminder: what is happening now is the result of past emissions and will keep happening year after year no matter what. After humanity finally stops emitting greenhouse gases, it will not get better, it will just stop getting worse. The earlier we act the less bad the consequences.
They introduced Lambda, M Code and PowerQuery instead.

I guess F# like is modern enough.
After years of looking at it, I've been using borg for almost a year now, and I've already replaced rsnapshot with it pretty much everywhere. I'm very happy with the deduplication feature (that's my main motivation for switching), but the performance and ease of use are very appreciable too. Actually, performance might be as much as a game changer for me as deduplication (though a less expected one), as I find myself doing and automating backups way more often than before. I also enjoy the ability to do append-only backups which mitigate the risks of losing already save data because of bug / malware.

I've been expecting more and more from it, and at this point, there are only two things I wish would be better supported:
- deduplication across several machines (you can already backup several machines to the same repository, but it's not efficient);
- builtin redundancy to deal with bitrot.

I'm still using rsnapshot for secondary backups, as I can't afford a bug in backup software, but I'm considering switching to restic for that, as it provides deduplication as well and doesn't share code with borg.
Even if the green party got in it wouldn't make much difference because they have all been pedaling the lie that we don't need to change our lifestyles.
Adam Ondra Is the World’s Most Accomplished Climber. He May Not Win a Medal
For some reason I don't know, the Japanese entertainment industry is quite against globalization. I don't know if it's the fear of losing control over their product (through digital copies) or an archaic mindset. They have a lot of products that are demanded all over the world and they are letting those opportunities to go to waste. Only very recently I have seen some movement in this regard, like the portal created by Shueisha Inc. to publish mangas online.
A $1M Purchase for a Piece of Digital Land – What Is Decentraland?
JS13kGames - HTML5 and JavaScript Game Development Competition in just 13 kB
Yeah if you got the first two, I automatically assume DMARC is used too. But am not familiar with "UCE"?

Also did you have to research your IP/domain that your VPS sits behind? Domain blacklists, and avoiding them, seems pretty straightforward. But I've heard mixed things about VPS ips, some mail services could block whole networks from VPS providers while others don't care as long as you don't spam?
Private jets will be taxed for the first time under the EU’s new climate plan
I'm afraid I don't know the joke about Bourbaki and Lang, could you please share it?

I do have a possibly relevant joke:
A math student asks his professor how to visualize a result in 7-dimensional space. The professor responds:
"It's easy. I visualize the result in n-dimensional space, then simply take n = 7."
I have also heard of my TL say "maybe we can get budget for a new hire if we look for a woman, since we lack any women in the department"
I’ve fixed production bugs by removing code copied verbatim from the PHP manual. It looked like the clueless previous developer had copy pasted code from all over the place until the code sort of did what it was supposed to do. The code snippets by itself were ok, the composition created numerous bugs.
I don't think this and many other myths about Japan have been debunked nearly enough yet. For instance, the "there is zero crime in Japan" myth which I still see and hear repeated almost daily both by Japanophiles and the Japanese themselves.

Actually, I don't think there is any other culture in the world today where the reality differs so much from the myth-based image, and in almost every single aspect.

One reason is that the focus of serious Western journalists has shifted towards China nowadays, and Japan has fallen to the wayside, mirroring its economic slump.

The gap that this created has been filled with the views of American teens and twens who became interested in Japan through its pop culture. And of course, if you are an impressionable young person from a rural part of the US who moves to the center of Tokyo, you'll think you've moved to the future. But on close inspection, the technological prowess in Japan often begins and ends with little speakers and screens blaring a 24h loop of ads.

Most of what is written about Japan nowadays is the work of Japanophiles with very little interest in actual research or comparison. There are only a handful of books about Japan worth reading: "The enigma of Japanese power" by van Wolferen (quite long and dry), and "Japan - A reinterpretation" by Patrick Smith (more to the point and more casually written), as well as "Demons and Dogs" by Kerr.
> I could see you point about restrictions on the young

What point? I made no such point. Nowhere did I advocate for "restrictions". It's stone cold fact that "I am also safer when the people who I meet are also vaccinated" - if there's an implication from that, you go ahead and make it.

> but now placing the burden for other people's health on people who aren't vulnerable

Welcome to "living in a society" and "collective action problems". You are going to have to get used them.

> It's simply up to the vulnerable populations to get the vaccine.

It's simply up to smokers to refrain from smoking around the rest of us. it's simply up to drivers to not drive drunk. Again, welcome to living in a society. We can't "go it alone".
That's a much better example! I'm not sure how to accurately describe the w/wh difference in text. A comment in this thread suggested that it's like prepending a "h", like "hwhen" which is actually incorrect - this exists but it's what you'd do as part of an over-the-top impression of an old fashioned upper class accent :) In reality the pronunciation is just like blowing a tiny little bit of air when your mouth makes the shape for the "w". I didn't know it was largely just a Scottish/Irish thing nowadays, though.

Also while we're all gathered in our shared appreciation of pronunciation weirdness I have one more "wh" example. Where I'm from (Northeast Scotland) English words following a "wh-" pattern are transformed in the local dialect to be spelled and pronounced differently as "f-". So "fit" instead of "what" ("fit like?" = "how's it going"), "far" instead of "where" ("far dae ye bide" = "where do you live") etc. Dialects are weird :)
Finding the debris in that forest might result in a nice Sword I rekon.