skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Exactly same as with paper ones, but with fewer steps.

Actually with more steps.

Paper statements:

Bank generates paper statement on appointed day (work/time input by bank)

Bank packages paper statement in envelope and mails it (work/time input by bank)

Postal service delivers paper statement to my mailbox (work/time input by postal service)

I open paper statement (work/time input by me)

I scan paper statement (work/time input by me) (also can be optional if one prefers simply filing paper statements)

Electronic statement PDF's on bank website:

Bank (maybe) sends an email saying "your statement is ready"

I receive the email

I have to now open my password manager (work/time by me)

I have to log into bank website (work/time input by me)

I have to navigate to the "download your statement area" (which was designed to make the process of accessing the electronic statement as obtuse as possible) (work/time input by me)

I have to download the pdf (hopefully one click for me, but still a bit of work/time by me)

I have to rename the downloaded pdf to fit my filing convention (since, at best, it downloads as "statement.pdf" from the bank)

The major time input on my part with paper statements is the "scan" part, all the rest happens without any involvement of time, energy, or remembering it is "time" on my part.

The electronic statement download requires I actively expend time and effort to "go to their website, log in, find the download section, find the statement, and initiate the download".

What I want to see, but no bank offers it, is exactly the same flow as the paper/postal service, but substituting "email" for "postal service" and "pdf" for "paper". I upload a GPG public key, bank does the work of encrypting the pdf using my key and emailing me a copy (which makes "electronic statement" the same as paper, they do the work of remembering it is time and initiating the transmission). Then I save the pdf attachment from the email, decrypt it, and file it (saving the "scan" step from the paper copy flow).
Ask HN: Banned and Unbanned by YouTube Repeatedly
Anyone know someone who can help?
Job requirements are meaningless. They've always listed a bunch of skills you may or may not use to scare off those who are underqualified. Hopefully few companies actually believe there's an engineer capable of being good at everything from devops to frontend.
Where would you park it? I have not been to Finland, but here in Spain it would not fit in many parking spaces. Not to mention narrow roads where they can’t physically fit
Afraid of the big bad Linux desktop? Zorin 16.1 is here
As a teacher (CS and Math) for over a decade, I agree with much of this. I will only add that, as far as grading is concerned, I think the long-term incentive for the teacher is actually to put almost no effort in at all. There is no pay or status increase for teachers who are tough, consistent graders. In fact, some of the most revered teachers I’ve known essentially hand hold their students to a guaranteed A in the class. At first, principled teachers may stick to tough grading, but as the years go by and they watch their friends easily make 3x more in industry, the incentive to just put a check mark on every paper is about the best you can do to close that benefit gap.
I wish I had read this essay before the start of every year in high school and college. It would have saved me a lot of frustration, and helped me understand why things are this way.
> you: if I don’t give you a good rating in this survey will you get fired?

> customer service agent: yes

you: if I give negative feedback on the survey will any bank procedures change?

customer service agent: no

/me gives good marks because the agent was friendly, despite having no ability to accomplish things and the effective memory of a goldfish with a ticket system.

This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but to the sound of hold music.
Recommended Reading: The first TikTok war
most indie games have shallow content as well... you are probably just cherry picking the top of the iceberg.
Ha, the same happens to managers.

Unless you have a power to remove cheaters, you will have to throw rules at them. At expense of everyone else.

I still hold the line, but do suffer sometimes.
Grading is not dissimilar to setting up arbitrary metrics on a business or an engineering team.

People will find ways to optimise for the metric.

If you give bonuses based on number of commits created or number of tickets closed you'll end up with a lot of useless commits and tickets.

If the only thing that matters in order to pass a course is to do an exam, people will optimise for that. If someone doesn't like the subject or doesn't like the teacher or doesn't like being taught (especially disagreeable boys), they will happily skip the subject and just try to get a passing score.

In university I was already working as a professional developer and I attended only a few classes I cared about and hacked my way out of exams with a mix of cheating and cramming the night before.

I enjoyed all the project work instead and I excelled at that. But that was worth just 1-2 points out of 30. Why was I forced to memorise bullshit I didn't need and that I would have not remembered 3 seconds after the exams in order to get a piece of paper saying I graduated? Isn't being able to do the projects more important than that?

When I hired people with degrees from "good schools" I was always surprised to realise how little were they able to get done on their own. I quickly stopped even checking their qualifications as they're completely worthless for anything related to work.

If I had to reform education I would make it totally based on projects. There would be no grades or titles when you get a job, just an increasingly longer list of projects you worked on.

When I was in school I had to take a Latin class. I didn't want to take it but I picked the best course according to my interest - and unfortunately it had Latin.

I spent those lessons secretly working on my own projects, then I downloaded a bunch of famous texts with their translation and I just wrote a J2ME application to look things up and used it for 5 years (Mobile internet was very expensive back then and searching on the internet would have been way harder).

After I finished my written finals in all the subjects, luckily my score was already high enough not too pass, even if I got zero at the oral exam and I kind of bullshitted my way through that last exam.

Was there any point in trying to force me to learn something? Why do we put people in this situation?
> trial and error is the slowest learning strategy

But that's what they do now! I can't see any alternative to that, but people could be given an increased range of learning possibilities.
Healthcare was only ever offered as a perk because employers could pay for it pre-tax instead of post tax, but individual employees could not do the same with their own money.

That was always stupid and didn't make sense, it's not because the labor/employment relationship used to be different.
Larry Niven. Protector.

Human eats mutagenic yam. Among various changes, it greatly augments intelligence.

The first thought of a Protector, just awakened from his mutative trance, is, "Wow, I have been really really dumb".
Ask HN: What's Your Opinion on Rivian?
Wondering if anyone here on HN has strong views on Rivian. Tesla vs. Rivian, Amazon's stake/electric fleet, and just the company in general and its valuation. IIRC it isn't a remote friendly company, which I saw as a major con for SWE when I interviewed there awhile back. But I'm interested in hearing more about what people think of the company in general as an investment.
Just say no to Uber recruiters.
what's the difference between having the code running in ring0 in a ROM vs the code running in ring0 from UEFI?
I'm not sure how I feel reading this from the magazine that put the Boston bomber on its cover like he was a rock star.
I should have know that, thank you.
Furthermore, most of the people attending are being paid by their employers to do so. The number of tech-related events I would attend on my own dime and vacation could be counted on one hand with fingers to spare.
Another possibility is that email is sometimes unencrypted, email clients vary in how secure they are, and some regulation says they have to care about this because privacy.

But who knows, making stuff up like you and I did isn't evidence. At best it gives you an idea of the range of possibilities.
The first thing to understand is that the goal in teaching is not to evaluate anyone's skills. The goal in teaching is to make sure that students learn things. From a teacher's perspective, the evaluation part is entirely a hack to make sure that they do.
I miss Simple. I liked it ever since finding it in a sponsored content slot on the new Digg. I cobbled together something like the Goals feature with spreadsheets, but it's not the same.

As for BBVA->PNC, I had to get the CFPB involved just to get confirmation that my account was closed.

https://old.reddit.com/r/BBVABank/comments/pypk87/good_news_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/BBVABank/comments/r53cjt/it_was_ano...

The "courtesy" waiver of the fee for the opt-out paper statement not one Simple abductee asked for ends in April, so we'll see how that goes.
The testing is for a combination of knowledge of the subject and ability to apply it in practice.
Lig’de 67 puanla en yakın rakibi İttifak Holding Konyaspor’un 15 puan önünde liderlik koltuğunda oturan ve şampiyonluk yarışında en büyük avantaj’a sahip olan bordo-mavililer, bu akşam saat 19.00’da Göztepe’yi ağırlıyor.
I would actually say, "almost nothing" in movie terms means, "human scale almost nothing" all the way to perhaps, "cost of a house". We all have phones, video editing software is free, there's plenty of distribution channels. If you want to make a movie for "almost nothing", you can do so.

Doesn't mean it's going to be good, or that anyone wants to see it.

Is this a peculiar concept? We all work OSS every day, right?
Charles Schwab has been great for me. Specifically for the stuff in the article, statements back to when I opened it in 2012 are available in my portal and their bill pay worked flawlessly for me. On top of that, they have US based customer support, they refund atm fees, and their fees are about the lowest out there.

The only downside that I've run into is that they don't have branches that take cash deposits.
Data Lakes are ridiculously expensive. The benefits are almost never worth it these days given how efficient data transformation workflows are now.
I need this, "I gots to has this!", but...
There's only a newsletter, where do we preorder or do a deposit?
I don't know about you, but in my 10-year career so far, the amount of cash compensation I've earned is orders of magnitude higher than the actual liquid compensation I've received from equity actually becoming worth something. tl;dr I got lucky and won the startup lottery, but it didn't pay out nearly as much as the cash compensation I've earned.

Am I in the minority here? I doubt it.
most good movies of this decade still suck compared to good movies 20 or 30 years ago.
Biden got the U.S. out of Afghanistan, is that playing an "isolationist game" too? Sometimes good policy is just good policy.
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China markets in turmoil as Russia ties add to list of risks
Eh, the bigger banks I use have slicker websites, but not necessarily more functional websites.

Of course, we're talking about thousands of small institutions, they're going to vary wildly.
A Better Phone Interview for Software Engineers
Tangential: The article mentions Chesterton's Fence. I clicked the link to learn what that means and didn't find it (it's just a link to the guy's Wikipedia page). But check out the beautiful signature of this Chesterton fellow!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#/media/File...
It can be used to offer an explanation for those things, there are other frameworks that can as well
Does anyone else feel that you may know why new movies sucks, but you cannot talk about it?
> Do you ever feel like you’re forced to teach topics you know won’t benefit students?

Normally, professors teach things they have some expertise in, and they're biased to think that this is useful to students.

Besides, it's often very debatable whether something is useful or not. For instance, I used to teach things such as theory of computation, automata theory, and similar so-called theoretical classes. You could debate ad nauseam whether this benefits students or not. Some would argue it's useless and students should do more javascript labs, other think that these are the foundations of our field, unlike the latest JS framework which will be obsolete in 2 years.

Some of my colleagues go to great length to convince students that the class they teach is useful, but I'm not convinced this is necessary. I've noticed that students are happy as long as they think they learn something from the class, and that the class is neither too hard or too easy. They don't question the utility of the class if the teacher manages to make the topic fun. For instance, labs, exercices, exams, should be of gradual difficulty, so each student feels they can make progress. This is challenging to achieve when the class audience is heterogenous.

So rather then the choice of topic, what had happened to me was that I disagreed with the way the topic was taught. In my university, sometimes we would work in team with little saying on the class syllabus, labs, exams... This can be frustrating and I'd just leave the team.
The list of technologies and responsibilities makes me anxious even though I held senior roles few times. My one workplace in fact was so demanding - it had high employee turnover and I left it with a bang. If I had the ability to sport these efficiently for 8h per day and 5 days a week (but I doubt 40h is sufficient in such workplace), I would prefer to set up various personal projects yielding passive income and capital gains (stocks, crypto, ads, whatever).
Oh now that's a good question. I'm thinking 1994, because of which radio station I was listening to and I wasn't sick of them yet... Now I wish I had a written note of it.
Really? these counts as news now? I knew propaganda on both sides were absolutely atrocious but these takes a new level with shitty meme-tier jokes that were forwarded around in 90's.
> I don't really want universal healthcare [...]

Most common definitions of "universal healthcare" say it is a system that assures that all citizens of some political grouping (country, region, state) have access to healthcare without it being an undue financial burden.

If you also use such a definition, then I'm curious what citizens you think should not be assured of such access?

If you are using a different definition, then I'm curious what that is.
Update: the underlying study was withdrawn - it was flawed primarily because it compared outpatient patients on Ivermectin with hospitalised patients on Remdesevir
In Praise of Slow Media
I don’t think it has anything to do with trends. It’s about $$. Web UIs are infinitely faster to develop, there’s typically better tooling (larger ecosystem), and there’s many developers which means you can get them cheap.

The counter though is that Web UIs have struggled and continue to struggle with performance - specifically the RAM usage is insane for what the equivalent native UI. RAM is tightly coupled with standby time in sleep since RAM is the most expensive component at that phase. Turning off banks of RAM is important but you can’t do that if the banks are still in use.
The Weakness of the Despot – Stephen Kotkin
Looks like the 58x is better than DT 77 though without using eq

This one of those things drives you insane so many choices
> This problem isn't a teaching problem. Evaluating someone's skills in any respect or context is basically an intractable problem.

You're not engaging with author's argument. The author explicitly assumes for the sake of argument that perfect evaluation is possible. He's saying that even under this unrealistic assumption, teacher policies that naively look draconian are in fact hard to avoid given reasonable teacher effort.
I thought about something like that too but than there are dialogues which are already hard to understand because they're not loud enough just before you get blasted with sound effects again...well yeah..one more reason why I don't go to the movies so much anymore.
As a student I’ve taken computer science classes with and without some kind of autograder. I’ll say that depending on how it’s set up it can be complete nightmare fuel. In one class I recall that 3/4 of my time was formatting comments correctly to not trip the chest detection that came from not “properly attributing” the code I wrote.

Also the assignments were written to the autograder. So instead of saying “write a method that does X” it would say “write a method named NAME that takes in XYZ parameters and outputs exactly in QRS format”.

After having taken so many open-ended assignment classes that really hurt my brain.
Census Vulnerability Exposes 10k OAuth Tokens, Thousands of User Records
Whenever I read about these bio power plants I wonder how this would scale. PV panels have no moving parts, they are just inert slabs on metal and minerals, meant to run for decades with little maintenance. But these bio reactors are alive and require constant maintenance and, I presume, feeding to some extent.
There is such a system in the long run, it's called the free market.

If you can consistently outperform your peers while both parties have complete information, it's a sign of having some advantage.

Free markets are never perfect locally, but on a galactic scale they are pretty close, so the superior groups and will dominate.
I've had this conversation only there was a lot more inarticulate screaming because going through stress related issues on other things that the bank was just the thinnest layer of icing on.
Surely the whole point of Watchmen was that superheros aren't better than other people. For the last couple of decades cinema's been reinventing (male) superheroes as "complex characters" with flaws, moral weaknesses and questionable motivations.

Like you say, maybe I'm remembering selectively but I think that's less the case for Black Widow, Captain Marvel or Wonder Woman than it is for Iron Man, Superman or Batman.

Can you imagine Marvel greenlighting a female-led equivalent of Logan?

For what it's worth, I now regret saying anything, and will try to restrain myself from saying anything else.
I don't understand why Apple is the only company anywhere near their quality of laptop. I don't even care if it's MacBook expensive, I just want a laptop near as physically good as a MacBook, but with Linux and Windows support. Thinkpad doesn't really come close. Why is there no competition here?
Are you working for Uber?

Software development is like metalworking. It can be used to make a gun or a bicycle with equal ease, it's what you choose to build, not how.
I am guessing some kind of vivado replacement is in the works? As it stands now your product seems to be fully offline+CLI - pretty please just tell me how you can get revenue from that?!

That said, I am going to get a PYNQ-Z2 just to try this out!
Btw, quick glance at the tutorial says Z1.. can I assume Z2 would be barely an inconvenience?
Plenty of indie games have stunning visuals and lame cookie cutter gameplay.
Meta’s NPE Team launches a new tasks app, Move, for group organization and todos
Thank you for the kind words! I might see if I can clean it up and at least get an export to gig feature working.
OK, but those weren't the ones setting box office records either. The new Star Wars were terrible, still made truckloads of money, and will also be remembered 50 years from now, just because of the franchise.
The legal implications of remote working cross-border
Voting machines are bad. Their use makes it easier to commit fraud. However, those claiming fraud in the 2020 elections claimed "absolute proof" of fraud (Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy's, words) when they were demonstrably bluffing.

It is both the case that voting machines can be compromised and that we know the most well-advertised claims of election fraud in the 2020 election are themselves fraudulent.

https://blog.erratasec.com/2021/11/example-forensicating-mes...
There are additional optimizations like using C's printf without any extra arguments, the compiler will replace that with a call to puts, which doesn't have the formatting code. You can see this in Compiler Explorer.

https://godbolt.org/z/dvdzE4M6T
I suggest anyone who read this post to scroll down the webpage, and once past the comment section - see the first article that was previously posted by the author, titled "Why did Russia attack Ukraine...".

Reading that post should tell you how smoothly you're being manipulated.
Try Chime. Its not a bank.
Considering I was able to get to six figures without a degree, I think programming is a pretty good gig.

Let's just say you're an auto mechanic, odds are you do work on your own cars as well.

I do wish more programming interviews were about side projects instead of Leetcode. I still struggle with Leetcode interviews, but I'm not willing to sacrifice my hobbies.

It's fun to make mobile apps, it's not fun ( for me) to solve Leetcode questions.
> The first thing to understand is that the goal in teaching is not to evaluate anyone's skills. The goal in teaching is to make sure that students learn things.

No, both learning and certification of learning (in a way legible to 3rd parties) are real and proper goals of teaching.
I have no doubt that Jobs was a business guru. But I think his advice is way off. (disclosure: I am on even a millionaire, so don't listen to me)
For my second year final coursework for compilers, I webscrapped GodBolt
This article actually describes both reduction-in-force (lay-offs) and firing. I've had the unfortunate experience to do both during my career and I can tell you that, for me, it's very painful to lay-off someone even if it's just because they're not the strongest performance in the group. On the other hand, firing someone who deserves it actually creates feelings that are closer to relief (not firing someone who deserves it is probably the worst thing I've ever observed for a team's morale.)
Me too.

I'm not sure, but I think that when I looked into it, I found out that Code started from a level or two lower, but doesn't go up as many layers of abstraction as TEOCS.
Why would it need to be in-kernel? What advantage does that serve?

For what it’s worth there’s JavaScriptCore (at least for mobile) which is the only way to do JIT on iOS. It’s constantly criticized as being slower than competing JavaScript JITs while Apple counters that it’s an important security barrier.
Feel free to offer some actual evidence or statistics.
That seems qualitative, rather than quantitative. Similar to how we use voter sample polling. Objectively speaking, I believe you'd have a hard time quantifying that assertion. Most people seems to take that position based on the loudest voices and personally held convictions rather than raw numbers. Quantifying the majority would require polling every single scientist that works in the field, which is likely not possible. I continue to consider the arguments of the many camps in that field, as the science is not settled and is constantly changing as we gain understanding of our own genetic makeup.