skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Circa 2003 I learned first hand that payments from bank accounts (i.e. bank transfers, standing orders, and debit card transactions) were backed by a paper cheque from your bank to the recipients bank - at least within the UK.

The big(ger) banks owned fleets of enormous OCR machines that could read and sort cheques at hundreds per second, and hundreds of employees to read the cheques that the machines couldn't. I was on a team that were supporting the rollout and testing a new set of these machines.

I don't know if this is still the case today, but I was surprised then to learn they were still paper backed.
majyutsu doesn't do apple art as much nowadays, but you can find some of his older work on his blog here http://ringomajyutu.blog3.fc2.com/
Interesting.
How does this compare to various browsers "web audio" implementations?
In UK you can write a handwritten latter: please transfer £100K to a spesific bank account" and fax it to the bank, they will do it
Very cool. Especially the code that moves pieces out of the way as other pieces jump over them or are removed from the board! A lot of programming in that.
An In-Depth Look at How a Mob Stormed the Capitol
I'd like to see a bit more explanation why the "UTF-8 Everywhere" (https://utf8everywhere.org/) advice is poor?

Outside Windows APIs, UTF-16 is pretty much irrelevant (yes there are a few popular languages around which jumped on the UNICODE bandwagon too early and are now stuck with UTF-16, but those languages usually also offer simple conversion functions to and from other encodings - like UTF-8).

UTF-32 has its place as internal runtime string representation, but not for data exchange.

UTF-8 has won, and for all the right reasons. UTF-16 is a backward compatibility hack for legacy APIs, and UTF-32 is a special-case encoding for easier runtime-manipulation of string data.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/what-5-sigma-means-042342... 95% means 2-sigma, when it comes things like the Higgs boson, they announced the results with 5-sigma certainty, which is a very good indication of statistical significance and confidence.
Are you searching for the best digital marketing agency in Egypt?
tech village
Web design company in Egypt,Mobile App Design and
digital marketing agency in Egypt that offers services
like web hosting, and SEO
That’s definitely not true. Every bank interaction is verified with 2FA. They had these cool personal small PIN devices that you inserted your card into, which generates a OTP that you read over the phone.

It’s mostly just app-based now, but they still exist.

https://images.app.goo.gl/BJ6CGR4foeQhRmhw8
> Is your 'live on the interest from half the earnings of 11 years as an engineer' going to cover $500k in 20 years time?

Most people won’t ever be able to do that, no matter how much they save of what they earn.

Also, cost of living is another huge factor here. Housing isn’t always as expensive as it is in the Bay Area, and some countries have good (even sometimes great) free education. Heck, in some, you are paid to attend the top schools.

FU money isn’t about being rich. It’s about being able to keep living the life you want even in the event you were to tell your boss or the world to fuck off.

So… in this… everyone’s goal would be different, and yours is not his?

If my kids wanted to go to a half-million dollars university, I’d just burst out laughing and ask them how they expect to pay for that. If they were to reply that they expected me to, I’d probably laugh them out of the room.
Everybody is in its own bubble. You can be working in tech and be under the impression that Microsoft Office or SAP aren't used anymore.
SpaceX delivers 88 satellites to orbit for first time in 2021
True. Much of the above article's analysis of scales applies equally well to an analysis of rhythm, and the circle-bead diagrams for scales he uses are still the best pictograph method ive seen to get a visual impression of a beat over a single bar

-- bar a.k.a. scale
None. I’ll just keep developing things that people might want to use, money or not.
That sounds insane. What's the average processing time on a payment in that case?
In my experience (and I have a great deal of that), true product Quality is dependent upon an endemic cultural philosophy of an organization; not a single tool or technique. It's a shared discipline, and a cultural imperative.

It's like those ads for exercise machines, where professional athletic models, who train for five hours a day, and drink broccoli smoothies for lunch, are shown using a machine for a couple of minutes, with the inference that the machine is the reason for their washboard abs.

The Quality formula is hundreds; if not thousands, of years old. Software development is just another context.

There are significant costs to doing real Quality, which is the main reason that more people don't do it.

One of the biggest costs, is that there isn't really that much money to be made, doing superb Quality. You get to sell to snooty customers, and feel smug, but there just ain't that many people that are willing to pay the premium for top Quality.

Dreck sells. People who get truly rich, seldom do so, selling Quality. The ones that do, have that endemic culture. It's really difficult (and expensive) to maintain that; especially at scale. Lots of humbling and hiring expensive, cranky old craftsmen that can be difficult to work with.

Lot of broccoli smoothies.
I don't get the focus on the Chinese if we talk about surveillance in the education system. What is currently done in schools and university made me pretty glad I am done with it. It is just irresponsible to violate privacy of pupils and students and if administrators cannot keep up with technological development, they need to employ more competent people or make place for those that can raise to the challenge.

Not saying it would be easy, but the current "solutions" aren't acceptable.
Free and freemium tools to help you build your fintech company
Agreed, many issues are boiled down to some quirk or incentive of engineers, leaving pretty much the entire business apparatus out of the analysis.

Like, if a game has a female character with huge breasts, it’s because devs are horny. Well, someone had to conceive of that character, iterate through sketches, design the models, biz people had to sign off on everything, etc.
There is even more to it than that.

Business thinks that you can do test automation in a vacuum without any domain knowledge and without knowing the system.

You always need people to understand the system, to understand the automation and to keep domain knowledge in house.

If your whole QA team leaves and you have automation (or even documentation) - you are still in deep shit because hiring new people and training them on the system will still be needed and only then they can learn to run the automation. They still need to spend time reading documentation and understanding it, because that something is written down or documented does not mean other person has the same understanding of it and the same reference framework to use that documentation.

Well you can hire some new people and let them run automation built by previous team but ... good luck with that.
Agreed, although they're not at the same price point in the market and haven't run into problems yet, at least not here in the UK. There was a period in time where Gap rapidly expanded and had stores almost everywhere. Once the shoppers deserted the brand, the logos themselves became a problem itself, at least for those of us that were bothered by it :) The logos/branding can be good, but also a massive negative once its no longer a desirable brand.
That's fair - my intention was to say that non-engineers aren't any worse than engineers. I've seen the same puzzled look and demands from development teams that are requesting changes from other development teams.

Open source projects are rife with developers demanding the near-impossible from contributors/maintainers, etc. (but plenty of examples people not being dicks as well)

Additionally, they can often be worse (toxic) about it precisely because they are developers themselves, and so think they have that understanding and start acting the alpha.
you're right, on every point
Founder of Nordigen.com here. We're gathering a list of free/freemium tools that make life simpler for founders that are starting a fintech startup. If you have any suggestions for the list, please let me know.
China's Didi worth $68B after U.S. debut
Coronavirus vaccine: why it's important to know what’s in the placebo
Multiple business days for clearance. This was before BACS and SWIFT, so now I am assuming we don't have the same paper trail.

A transaction would show up on the system as pending pretty promptly, so you could do your accounting etc - but they wouldn't clear until the cheque was received.
I am lactose intolerant just like my father and usually avoid milk, but traditionally my family did not avoid it.

I can increase my tolerance to milk gradually, but I find no benefit in doing so, because I can drink up to 200 ml of milk without major issues, I can eat cookies, icecream and so on without major problems.

The only time I had major problems was when I used milk protein powder, but I switched to whey protein at that time and learnt that I was lactose intolerant.

My point is lactose intolerance doesn't have to be all or nothing.
I think the GP was invoking the fact that a cheque can be written on anything in the UK (though not true anymore for all banks I think) - see https://www.theregister.com/2010/04/09/plywood_cheque/ .

Not sure if you can fax those cheques though.
I think it is used as foundation for DQL[0], the query language of Dgraph.

But in and of itself, GraphQL isn't really built to query graph databases as you said.

[0] https://dgraph.io/docs/query-language/graphql-fundamentals/
Isn't the BBC typically pretty good at maintaining old URLs? An example: a BBC article on the 9/11 attacks, published on that day: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1537469.stm
The author claims that the UTF-8 Everywhere manifesto makes people think that they don't need to implement anything but UTF-8 (which is false and not even what the manifesto actually says). I think that the author's claim itself is also false.
Slightly off topic, but why on earth has the website's designer chosen to put light grey text on a white background?
A cotton t-shitt doesn't contain 'chemicals', but a synthetic one is obviously made of microplastic, and it's manufacturing process might produce them and release them .
I don't think anyone is interested in stealing small code snippets. It's easy enough to rewrite them. Where GPL does matter is in complete products. In other words, it's never "if only we could use this GCL-licensed function", it's almost always "if only we could link this GPL-licensed library or executable".

And this GitHub co-pilot in no way infringes on full codebases.
Common misconception among who? Certainly not free marketers -- the classical 19th century argument is that if prices don't equalize supply and demand, then you get unmet supply or unmet demand. Or, you get the state using force to compel supply or depress demand. Look at what happened after the Black Death. In Western Europe you get wage increases. In Eastern Europe, where the aristocracy thought this was unfair, you get serfdom. When John Stuart Mill (who first clearly articulated the idea of supply and demand) said that supply and demand should be allowed to determine labor supply in the West Indies, Thomas Carlyle declared that economics was "the dismal science", and called for bringing back slavery.

Look at Diocletian's "Edict on Maximum Prices", which set maximum prices in response to currency debasement. Did it work? The consensus seems to be "no".

The idea of inequality in bargaining power is Econ 101, which introduces a whole plethora of terms for the phenomenon -- monopoly, monopsony, oligopoly, oligopsony, market power, etc.
Right to repair rules will extend lifespan of products, government says
Post Vietnam, has there ever really an American identity? It seems like there’s a sort of “politicians compromised so there must have been more shared culture” assumption.
I'd have no issue paying 100-200 EUR for clothing if it wasn't for the constant stream of news reminding me, that the people who made my clothes are payed less than a dollar per week and getting sick while doing so.
I come from Eastern Europe from a mountain village where cattle/sheep raising used to be a big thing and I'm lactose intolerant but not completely intolerant, I can gradually increase my tolerance.

People in my village didn't just drink a lot milk like town folks do today, they'd use mostly fermented milk, and a lot of cheese -- their favorite drink is wine.
> And in practice raising superintelligent children who can clone themselves and rewrite their minds is not a thing we know how to do.

We could learn to. Through trial and error.

Even though a too big mistake means creating a psychopathic superinterlligent child who can clone itself, rewrite turns mind and easily hack the few American ICBMs not protected by the wondrous safety of floppy disks.
If you feel like the other commenters clarified anything for you, I'd like to throw a new bit of confusion back into the mix ;) https://strandbergguitars.com/eu/boden-true-temperament/ this guitar actually sounds more "in tune" than a standard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-penQWPHJzI
I love those kind of plugins. I myself use Unhook[0], which works really well.

[0]
- https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/youtube-recommen...
- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unhook-remove-yout...
It is also possible that they read just about anything on mathematical music theory, where representing chords as sets of integers modulo twelve is standard.
The basic idea here is extremely good. Test your applications under realistic circumstances.
Many web pages load an insane amount of URL's which result in horrible behavior. This site lets you experiment with what happens when results load slow or not at all.
I am convinced that (organised) religion has done far more harm to the world than good.
"employer needs to accommodate employee needs with regards to health and safety."

Back when I was young, we'd loose a finger or three on occasional workshift and never complained! Just plaster over them and get back to work!

That's after walking 13 miles to the factory, in a blizzard, uphill, both ways!
11 Actions Everyone Can Do to Improve Their Cloud Native Security Posture
sure fam

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12053168/how-to-properly-output-a-string-in-a-windows-console-with-go
https://github.com/intellij-rust/intellij-rust/issues/766
https://bugs.python.org/issue44275

etc etc
Nice work.

Personally I use uBlock Origin plugin to hide elements I don't want to see on any website, and that made Facebook less "enjoyable" with no like buttons and reaction counts, no news feed, and no account photos and names (I took it a bit far I know). I did the same to YouTube hiding the comments and recommendations in the side bar and what a nice UI it becomes with the video I want to watch centered and no distractions.
Show HN: Display Your Google Calendar Entries as Sortable Event-List-Table
I've created some time ago this handy little Widget to fetch Google Calendar Entries via API and output as an sortable Event-List-Table at your Website.

It's coded in reactJS and support even old Browsers like IE10

It's free to use (MIT License), hope you guys will have some benefit of using it.

What do you think about this?
>Scammers really have stepped up their game

Here's an innovative one. I got an sms impersonating my cell phone provider telling me they're going to change my plan.

They'd decided which one is the best for me but I have until next month to chose one 'of the new plans' clicking on a bit.ly link. That links points to an Amazon affiliated link, and it's totally unrelated to my provider.
So far, these posts are fluff, but this does not mean that just because humanity did not succeed in mathematically understanding harmony in the early twentieth century that it must be impossible.
I think it improves their credibility. They did approve it after some consideration. https://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/peter-wolodarski-om-kritik...

Newspapers have positions on free speech and human rights, but they are not supposed to be are not political crusaders who shut down everything they don't approve.

If being adult who understands nuances is not being credible, this world is wrong.
Yes, for quite some time.

Bitcode is signed by Apple Store for watchOS and tvOS applications.

Additionaly Google is now copying Application thinning that has existed for years on iOS.

By the way, UWP Apps on Windows Store work in a similar way.
You should be angry with yourself and Sony too.
Of course Prophet is a Python library, thus the Monty Python's Life of Brian reference:

"Now you listen here. He's not the messiah. He's a very naughty boy. Now GO AWAY!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_kKAeh6qyc&ab_channel=dinge...

"Yes, we are all individuals!" "Yes, we are all different!" "I'm not.":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHbzSif78qQ&ab_channel=lucas...

Prophets:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmyuE0NpNgE&ab_channel=radia...

Life of Brian:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Life_of_Brian

Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_the_Messiah_(He%27s_a_Very...
This would've been a better link:

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/reddit-top-200
If it works I'll get two. Miss playing chess with my old roommate from college. Online works, but it would be too cool to have it sitting still on my desk only to get distracted from work by a piece moving.

The app seems a bit optimistic though.
Mildly interesting that they are basically all self-help books. On that entire first page, I can only see one fiction book (about sixty down) - and of course, it is a comic book!
Hash maps that don’t hate you
There is no default life script. Everyone is a myth legend. A hero. You can't fault an opinion piece like the posted article, but there's a chink in this thinking. Such opinions - give agency early and it will yield dividends not just for the individual but for humanity as a whole appeals to our most primal human conundrum: our sense of purpose and our destiny in life. The idea of the one individual making geometrically disproportionate impact for all humanity is mythologised. And it's an error. The flip-side of this myth is the ugly face that if we as a society stop producing such myth legends (the original author claims it might have stopped after ca 1968) we are failing as humanity, or worse that if you do not become that myth-legend you are unworthy of respect, or dignity. This is a terrible way to look at things. I do agree about the author's powerful comment that kids (adolescents) today are hardly considered useful for any form of vocational education outside the cookie-cut education systems. But can you orchestrate this paradigm like the CCP did in the late 60s/70s forcing urban kids to learn farming as part of their education? Or is it a naturally existing societal affordance to enable such evolution in kids?

There are many unspoken mythical legends living today, huddled in their numbered and anonymous cubicles. There are many unknown engineers who've done crucial work within their own boundaries of "scripted life" to prevent bridges from collapsing or payroll runs to be corrupted (just in time). No one hears about them. No one celebrates them. But there are billions of us on this planet achieving myth-level brilliance daily just by being responsible parents. Or just by being simply kind to fellow humans.

There is no default scripted life.

Edited: added "Or just by being simply kind to fellow humans."
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/06/the-future...

> If I use app bundles, can I still publish through multiple distribution channels/app stores?

> Yes, there are multiple ways to achieve this. You can either use the same app signing key everywhere or use unique app signing keys for different channels, including a unique app signing key for Google Play. You can either build and sign artifacts for all distribution channels locally or you can download distribution APKs from Google Play for use on other channels. Distribution APKs downloaded from Google Play, either via the app bundle explorer in Play Console or via the Play Developer API, are signed with the same key used by Play App Signing.
Probably because you're only registering domains within lax TLDs.

Certain TLDs (like those under .uk, .cn, .jp, or .sg for example) requires more documents in theory - and at least with other domain name providers like Gandi, they asked for my ID and a letter from my company stating that I indeed was authorised to be a representative for that company, plus proof that the company exists (it's easy in the UK because it's already in a public database anyway, so we just send our company number and proof that we're that company), to verify that it is indeed me, authorised by my company, when registering at .uk (and similar arrangements for ccTLDs with similar requirements).

Namecheap on the other hand... well, they just trust you, period.
I dev in Firefox. It’s great! The tooling’s really good. It’s subtly different from Chrome and you’ll feel a twinge of friction moving, but by and large, it’s easy.

Just shut it down and restart it every couple of days because it’s memory usage isn’t as tight.
I understand this article's point, but I think it's nonsense, to be honest. It seems like it's saying something, but, really, it's not. It might even be making its readers stupider, sadly.

Walt Disney, Leonardo DaVinci, Steve Jobs, et. al. had gigs at 13, so now we draw grand conclusions about how shitty kids have it today?

Nah. Doesn't credit.

Even accepting as given the undemonstrated premise of the article, that society today has fewer "onramps" for children to contribute, what conclusion can be drawn from that?

Do we really have fewer (let us call them) extreme contributors today?

Have all extreme contributors had childhood onramps, or are those cited in the article cherry-picked examples?

Are all adults who worked as children demonstrably greater contributors as adults than those who did not? Or are they about equivalent?

We need answers to those questions before asserting anything at all about how society is failing its children.

Now, let us turn our attention to the question of childhood today versus that of even pre-1970. A child today is by all measures safer and healthier than a child of any time in the past: child mortality, disease, environmental pollution, heavy-metal poison, homicide, abuse, all down globally as well as in the US.

Let us take as given (not demonstrated, but why not, for the sake of argument) that somehow the rate of extreme contributors is lower now than in the past. Is it really the lack of child labor or is there something else causing this (again, so-far imaginary) problem? Just concluding "lack of avenues to contribute is the problem" could create other problems without addressing the root cause.

Definitely, give kids who are eager to take on adult responsibilities some, and let them figure out how much they can handle. Let them fail safely, or succeed wildly, but let them be kids.

That's a great message, but it does not need to be couched in terms of some grand societal failure. That part is bullshit.

Furthermore, I suspect that there is no formula to making these extreme contributors other than (continue) to make society a better, safer, healthier, wealthier context for children to contribute, or not, as they will.

What is up with HN promoting articles advocating working 13 year olds? Here's another, just as nonsensical: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27675603
Future Jist 32
I've literally done it a few weeks ago.

You can authorise a BACS transfer on a business bank acccount with a fax if you use Natwest