skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never did that and will never do that (at almost 50 y/o); I was raised with Christianity but no-one could answer my questions at a very young age so I have no faith which means I have 1 go at this life. So no offices, suits, bosses, jobs, meetings or whatever. I had 2 kind of stressful years in my life and I am well off; I do whatever I want and is good for my family. I think it's a good score. It helps living in the EU; I never had to worry about living on the streets which makes some decisions easier.
Yeah, also, most of the world used to pay a bill using a cheque. The Americans have to do everything backwards, and they pay a check using a bill.
PS: found some example code in the github project which seems to take care of the special Windows situation:

https://github.com/soasis/text/blob/main/examples/documentat...

Unfortunately this doesn't look so simple anymore.
I am in France and I always paid house works (roof, floor etc..) in cheques,because it doesn't require me to add a new recipient to my online bank account, which always takes couple of days, and then hangs there until i remove it.

There is also a special type of cheques (inconveniently amd generically named "cheque de banque") , which blocks the amount entirely on the issuer side, which guarantees that receiver will actually get the money. Quite useful when you don't want to walk around with huge pile of cash, because bank wire takes days and you don't want to make one before seeing the goods
> Because risk. Rich, privileged people can try different things with zero risk of becoming destitute

You can do that as well in many EU countries. Without being rich.
Looking at old navy versus gap - gap no longer has any point of differentiation from their sister store. Why would I want to spend more at the gap for the same cheap quality as at old navy? The clothes are generic, and there’s not anything that the Gap has that makes them cooler, better designed, or a better value than something anywhere else. Looking broader Uniqlo at least has some points of differentiation with their sizing and styling, and primark beats the gap and everyone else on price.
Uno – the “unit” for dimensionless quantities
For me that depends on the position in the market. I doubt some of the major clothes designers feel quite the same way.
One of the essential points of this video is that it is pretty difficult to explain the science behind this.

But if you want to know more about it, instead of watching the video you should probably read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird_(land_yacht)
There are plenty of well known drugs, some illegal without a prescription some illegal entirely, which mimic parts of alcohol's effects. For example GHB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Hydroxybutyric_acid

There are also attempts to specifically create drugs that will be identical to alcohol but without the negatives. Whether that will ever come to fruition, and be legal, I don't know. For example https://www.menshealth.com/uk/nutrition/a30117412/alcohol-ha...
EU Privacy Watchdogs Seek AI Biometrics and Facial Recognition Ban in Public
Universal income would be a next step in that.
Why would the USPS not simply block the letters, or go to Steve and tell him "stop sending illegal checks".
Or add a letter to the outgoing letters saying "This letter almost certainly contains a counterfeit check. Don't cash it and then send on part of the money."

Even if you never arrest the people behind it, you can frustrate their efforts to the point where it is no longer effective for them.
Fecal records show Maya population affected by climate change
Why more incidents is no bad thing
We only did a few internal NN and LSTM implementations in the past, we should probably evaluate the new pytorch stuff soon. But as you can imagine a lot of our time was consumed by modelling pandemic-induced dynamics (which is especially at longer forecast horizons are much more driven by assumptions rather than by data/models).
I've written a little bit about why NameCheap is so beloved by scammers. See https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/05/why-do-scammers-love-namech...

They allow anonymous payments and they're slow to respond to takedown requests.

They've started monitoring registrations now - so you can't register domains like `hsbc-co-uk.biz` without going through some extra checks.
Big IT company which specializes in yada yada here. We did years ago our own migration away from Notes (>100k accounts), and also for customers. Painful? Probably. But it can be done.
This kind of argument is often made, but it is wrong.

>> As an individual, there isn't really anything you can do. Going vegetarian doesn't help.

These words are expressed as absolute. "isn't really anything" ... "doesn't help"
Yet the reality is such activities are positive in a small way. They may be far from sufficient, but they are not nothing.

To be clear I am not arguing that individual action alone will be sufficient, nor am I against collective action enforced by rules where appropriate. It's just the tenor of your post is wrong. We can have both individual and collective action. And individual action alone, even if insufficient, is certainly not nothing. Less GHG emitted is better than more. Even at micro-scale this remains true.
A bunch of different scales is used in different cultures and traditions around the world.

The choice of a scale is an interesting combination of universal math and tradition. Scales are built from intervals which a are basic ratios - 1/2, 2/3, 3/4 etc., but the choice of how many and which steps to include differs. But you cant just make up arbitrary scales, they still have to be based on intervals.

Western music traditionally uses a 7-note scale. The 12-note scale is really a clever hack, because it allows some instruments to play a whole range of different 7-note scales by using different subsets if the 12-note scale. But the music is still based on a 7-note scale, which is indicated by the letters and music notation.

Your question assume the historical and culture specific parts of music are "ugly" and only the universal and fundamental properties "matter". I fundamentally disagree - much of our enjoyment of music is due the cultural context and tradition.
Does anyone know if any way to transfer money is anything as good as Faster Payments Service in the UK? No limit, free for customer, transfers usually happen in <100ms (unless you have a shit bank that holds onto the money). Works 24/7.

Actually cheaper to send people a penny with a comment attached than send an SMS :D

It's a dream, other than the UX issue of not being very easy to set up new recipients as you need to know account details and generally there's a lot of friction to prevent fraud/mistakes (ie, it wouldn't be very good at a shop).
Might have been the Sega Saturn. That one had lots of chips?
I have little doubt that a lot of people are abusing furlough, both employees and employers. It was a good idea but it needs to end.
> Now FDroid has addressed that

Out of loop, what changed?
GitHub Having Problems Again
In contrast, SimCity on the SNES was surprisingly playable.
I get the motivation and can sympathize, but this cannot really be a solution and I doubt it will have an effect.

PS: personal opinion: vice is a mostly horrible magazine with mostly horrible authors writing about mostly horrible people. It is hard not to dislike them against the backdrop of such a ridiculous law. But I understand its readers getting trapped in a social media dream world where this is a real problem...
This is very good example of how science should work. Someone makes a (somewhat counter-intuitive) claim. Someone else does not believe it. There are some discussions and experiments, and there is a common conclusion.

This is a nice video to teach some critical thinking.
That's the next step for Amazon Prime: 0-click shopping. Just buys stuff from your recommendations every month and sends it to you.
It's fascinating what's possible.

For example, we know more about the chemical composition of other galaxies than we know about the centre of the earth. Just because we can infer so much from their light spectrum.

(For empirical information about the centre of the earth, we are basically limited to seismic data and perhaps the magnetic field and bumps in gravity?)
Now I'm wondering if there is something like the "what Andy giveth, Bill taketh away" for mobile communications?
In the summer of '99, when I was 11, my father asked me to reverse engineer a proprietary data format because he would be needing that a couple of months later. He showed me how I could manipulate the data using the proprietary software, and how to inspect the changes using a hex editor. It went very slow, and I'm sure answering my questions and explaining it cost him more time in the end, but I learned so much at a young age and he was really happy with the results. Knowing that it was actually useful made it all the more interesting for me.

If I recall correctly he gave me 100 guilders (about $50) for a couple of days of work. The data format was for HP ChemStation, good memories.
That is pretty decent for an affiliate scam.
> In order to have a higher temperature than the CMB a black hole would have to be really small with a mass about half of that of the moon.

Either that, or you just wait a couple eternities for the CMB to cool down enough.
Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSearchParams
> ...its weapon of monopoly is effectively change...

Rather novel weapon. This won't work, rapid change will just leave the large base of web developers behind. Tutorials and practices based on the Old Way hang around for decades.

Google putting out a standard is only going to help them if it is (a) in demand by web devs and (b) competitive with the old way of doing things.

I don't particularly like web apps, but they are a new field and rapid change in the standards is not really a sign of monopoly.
An obvious red flag for me is always an opening message with "I'm interested in X", where "X" is verbatim copied off the title of the ad.
The US drug industry used to oppose patents – what changed?
> <script> blocks are not written in JavaScript, but rather a language with the same general syntax but different semantics

One could argue that React's hooks are the same: they look like JS but change JS semantics.

However, your point is still valid.
Could you elaborate on what living non-traditionally looked like for you? What was your thought process going off script, and what made you decide to change course back to a regular job?
It is not just gravitational waves, they look at light, with telescopes (visible, infra and ultra), spectrographs, interferometers, radio signals, gamma rays...

Then they combine all that info to come up with cohesive theories. LIGO just by itself would be almost useless.
This is a very self-centered and US-centric attitude. You assume that everyone who wants to work from home only does it to have a "king-like lifestyle". Some of us don't have the privilege to be able to get non-remote jobs that easily, for example because we live in another country and traveling/moving isn't an option, or because of many other factors like social anxiety making remote work much less stressful and allows us to be more productive, especially if given the option to just write in a text chat (e.g. Slack) rather than forcing verbal communication, eye contact and all.
Well, if the result had turned out the other way, we might have seen some practical effects, because it would overturn some well-established theories that we also use for predicting more practical things.
Making milk relevant for all ages is one of the main reasons for cheese existing in the first place.
The Evolutionary Wonders in the Deep Sea
I believe monks used to make and consume "beer" too, but it had a low alcohol content. I think this had something to do with preservation? - like the alcohol and/or yeast purified the water, or at least provided an indicator of bad water.

There used to be something called "small beer" that was also v low in alcohol content, made from the same grain as a regular beer, but mashed/drained a 2nd time to get any remaining sugars.
Does your dream trend toward paying less for clothing which cost 1-10 EUR to produce or paying 100-200 EUR for clothing for which people were paid reasonably to produce?

There's plenty of the latter out there if you're looking for it[0].

[0] https://www.fairwear.org/programmes/living-wage
> For me, monochrome == binary.

As with the Simpsons meme: mono=mono, chrome=colour. So one colour, in two shades or more.
Why Did YouTube Censor Discussion of Ivermectin?|Bret Weinstein and Lex Fridman
In the Netherlands we often use Tikkie (and there are a few other apps that work the same.) With this, we use an app that generates a link that we send to the person using whatever method suits, that link takes them through their bank auth flow to make the payment, and you have it in a second or so. This is intended for person-to-person generally and you don't need their account number. All free.

If it's something to be invoiced, the invoice will have their IBAN and a reference code to add, which works more like you describe.
Researchers document quantum melting of Wigner Crystals
Totally agree.

You just need good enough quality and prevent total catastrophes that would drive customers away.

A lot of the time it is about making sure that stuff just works and not about testing edge cases - in my current company we did not really care about edge cases and I don't remember when we had an issue because of something like that. Mostly issues are popping up because people don't understand how things work or how they should work.

People not understanding how things work leads to "exercise machine" metaphor, because to keep all people updated with knowledge is hard work that needs to be done every working day and it is hard work that costs a lot of money. For this "test-automation" and "low-code" solutions are promising that you can put your domain knowledge into such "exercise machine" and have it regardless if you keep people or let them go, if they spend time learning about system or not. Which is a false premise just like "excercise machine" giving six-pack without much work.
Sad that first movie in space will be not porn. Instead of kind of making something useful it would be better to discover true human nature in such unusual conditions.
Duolingo S-1
Representing music in all of its relevant dimensions (scale, time, polyphony, melodic patterns, dynamics, etc.) is a very interesting and still not optimally solved problem. It is e.g. relevant for machine learning based systems for musical composition or improvisation; with transformers there was a big progress made compared to nearly thirty years of stagnation. And this is not about "exotic" compositions associated with the composers you mentioned, but about any kind of popular or classic music. The "necklace" representation of scales (also used in the referenced site) is an interesting one since it allows to e.g. represent modulation by rotation and/or mirroring. You rarely meet it in traditional music education. Such representations lead to useful insights about music if one wants to deal with it algorithmically. And there are many people here (including me) who do.
PathQuery looks a lot like GROQ [1], which is the query language used by the Sanity data store [2]. For example, one of the queries in the paper:

@entities
.[/type == (Id(/ museum ) , Id(/ theme_park ))]
.{
id: ?cur
require name: /name.[TextLang() == en ]
@merge : events::GetInfo()
}

can be written something like:

*[type == "museum" || type == "theme_park"] {
id,
name: select(name[lang == "en"] => name),
...{
// GROQ doesn't have functions, so GetInfo()
// would need to be inlined here
}
}

PathQuery is of course a lot more complex, but the basic structure seems very similar. One thing GROQ does not have yet is recursive querying of the type needed to traverse graphs, but this is on our roadmap to implement.

We've published a public draft specification for GROQ, and hoping it will be adopted by more tools. For example, we already have an open-source JavaScript implementation of it.

(Disclosure: I work on GROQ at Sanity.)

[1] https://github.com/sanity-io/GROQ

[2] https://www.sanity.io/
I guess it's just a natural variable name. If you're into Vue you might as well call it data :)
fwiw, it probably depends on the bank and the customer. I used to work for a large insurance company in London. There I could (and did) authorise 6 digit transfers to new accounts with just a fax with the (perpetually busy) directors signature. One time the bank made a mistake, and one simple phonecall from me was all it took to resolve (with no verification of who I was - unless they did some callerid check?). The level of customer service was astonishing to me, but that account was probably worth it to the bank to eat any fraud until it got too serious.
Also remarkable how universal the subdivision of time (egyptian 24 hr day, babylonian 60 min hr et)

But adoption of the metric system has stalled so clearly in the short term there are various competing forces
Anybody know why a paper like this doesn’t include a date?
Yeah, there was direct advice on communication style in this conversation. Just very candidly delivered.
Well, good luck. I lost all hope and trust in C++ Standard committee. I gave up.
I think it's mostly because they don't really have much in terms of features to separate them from Chrome. It's almost always more a thing about just not wanting to use Google, and bundling some extension-level features into the core browser (ad block, mouse gestures, this sort of thing).
I, too, was fascinated by a "web without browsers" (or with other kinds of browsers, really) until i stepped into the community and realized that community was a proto-nazi cesspit full of misogynistic attitudes.

Maybe now that times have passed, people have died who posthumously admitted their preferences for white supremacy (and heavily bitcoin-supported that), and whole projects have been renamed, there can be a more inclusive community built around browserless web? For those who haven't followed, i'm refering to Woob (previously Weboob). I'd be interested in other people's feedback about that community lately, the ideas are great!
Dunno... maybe 2-3x markup at most? Obviously removing the child and quasi slave labour from the production process.
The owner of one of the oldest craft brewers in my area once told me that "nothing that can hurt you can grow in beer." I don't know if this is completely true, but this might render fresh water with many types of dangerous pathogens safe to drink.

One famous story of historical excess drinking is associated with the U.S. constitution...

https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/george-washint...

Finally, there is an easy method for most people reduce their impulse to drink temporarily by the use of the opioid blockers naltrexone or nalmefene. These can be used either for a goal of reduced-compulsion abstinence or long-term controlled drinking.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naltrexone#Alcoholism
Just a few weeks ago I read that some reader of HN wants to see Disneyland in Iraq.

Here is the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27340031

I think you are mis-representing what they said.
List of free privacy-conscious apps
The work of art in the age of second-order observation
Anecdotally, my SMS scammers have gotten so lazy these days and that they are just sending me IP addresses to click

Unsurprisingly, the IP addresses all resolve to Russia
But note that only one octave is covered in the examples. There are musical styles (e.g. Jazz) where a scale extends over more than one octave, e.g. you have to extend the system to e.g. 24 or 36 places.
AML and KYC Solutions Development in 2022
AML software is used in the legal and finance sectors to help organizations detect and investigate malicious activities pointing towards money laundering.
To ensure compliance, organizations require advanced AML software that can scan through a transaction or a series of transactions in real-time from different perspectives and pick out suspicious activities with efficiency and accuracy.
AML software assists in the prevention of money laundering and financial crimes through automated screening, risk management, and continuous monitoring. The software should effectively recognize malicious transactions based on both static and flexible sets of rules.
Additionally, anti-monitoring software should receive alerts via API or email to identify and quickly respond to malicious activity and high-risk transactions from clients.
Using Artificial Intelligence enables the system to improve the process of monitoring transactions. AI and advanced ML algorithms can automatically monitor vast amounts of media lists and sanctions and rapidly notice possible financial crime risks.
Excellent! I installed a similar plugin for facebook that disables the news feed and it worked wonders. I can still access my messages and invitations which is what keeps me locked in, but facebook itself is now a boring site that I never use for procrastination.

I wish I had a solution for this here site. I've tried noprocrast several times but it doesn't really work for me, I always end up disabling it.
You have, quite understandably, misunderstood that document.

What's actually going on there are still about 250k paper cheques but that document was generated during the period when they were consolidating from an older system which actually cared about physical pieces of paper to ICS, an "Image Clearing System" ie banks scan the cheque and work with just image data. The American victims in the HN linked story already have image clearing, that doesn't fix anything except it saves the banks a small amount of money.

The document shows volumes dwindling at two legacy paper cheque handling organisations C&CCC and BBCCL because those firms literally no longer exist today, the document was produced by Pay UK, their successor in practice, which replaced their paper processes with images. But end users still write and receive physical cheques, it's just that banks don't want to spend money on physically moving cheques. The actual volume of cheques stayed at around 250 000 per year, average value of a cheque about £1500 (so "Buy a used car" money, but not "Buy groceries" money or "Buy a house" money) and total value about £400M (or £400 billion if the obvious typographical error in the column headings is true...). I expect data for 2020 will be very different, due to the pandemic, but that document is for 2018 and 2019.

Cheques are still gradually going away in the UK, I didn't write a cheque in the past five years and most of my accounts have no way to draw cheques against them. But that document isn't the evidence you thought it was.
Andorra approved the emission of euro coins with a depiction of the coronavirus
Can't stick to one:

- I thought I was ugly but it was my lack of positivity and unpleasant demeanor that were.

- Women: treat as people like you want to be treated (duh heh), the young ones "hate" you = they like you, the signals are shriekingly-obvious once you know, most are really sweet.

- There isn't much that is black and white. Maybe math and code.

- The way things really work depends on the interests people.

- Have friends in low places.

- Most people give too many fucks about what others think about them.

- Avoid people and groups who talk about others and anyone who delves into sharing drama.

- End interactions with people with cluster B issues. The self-esteem movement did create many narcissists.

- Hard work has no intrinsic value. It only has value when applied wisely and the value is captured.

- Shame, blame, pity, and guilt are useless emotions.

- Anxiety, and most fears, are nothing.

- YOLO. Better do what you want in this life today rather the "right" time.

- Internal locus-of-control is the only way to go. You're responsible to make it happen.