skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe drug tourism has little impact, but 24% of adolescents report that they’ve used it in the past year, and 41% report they’ve tried it. With it being illegal, there’s no doubt that a fair amount of money is being moved around society shadily because of it.

Source (from 2015): https://www.dst.dk/da/informationsservice/blog/2015/12/narko...
You have to pay for Windows.

Quote from their website: “ Base and Performance configurations ship with Windows 10 Home pre-installed and Professional ships with Windows 10 Pro pre-installed. You can also load your own operating system later, like a Linux distribution.”
What is already happening is private equity is buying up farms in the west to get their water, and cities are doing it too.
Yeah, just use flags and confuse the fuck out of multilingual countries. Belgium has Dutch, German and French as official languages. So what would a Belgian flag mean? What flag should I choose?

If I choose the flag from the Netherlands to get Dutch, I'll probably be confused by a whole bunch of terminology since the dutch of different countries differs vastly more than the English from different countries.

"People who complain about flags are nitpickers" is a perfect way to say "I grew up in a gigantic monoculture where you can drive 5 hours in any direction without encountering a different language, if you ignore the natives"
And spectacular symphony orchestras.
Yea, I think that’s more a risk of dropping the last 1% in value rather than a significant risk to current prices.

The real issue for current owners is Crypto seems to have lost it’s grip on the popular imagination. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=bitcoin What happens from here is likely a question of utility rather than speculation.
I have a script for the same purpose too, but I prefer a black-and-white 1-bit palette for that fax look. Here's my version -- note that it uses graphicsmagick, img2pdf, optipng, and pdftk. Also enforces A4 so some of you may want to change that. For fun it's doing the page processing in parallel to speed up a bit with large documents.

#!/bin/bash

# Adds a bad scanning effect to PDF files.

if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
echo 1>&2 "Usage: $0 input.pdf output.pdf"
exit 3
fi

convertPage() {
# PDF filename in first parameter, page in second
file=$1
page=$(($2-1))
png=$(printf "pdf2scan-page-%05d.png" $2)

# Convert PDF page to black and white PNG
gm convert -density 300 "$file"[$page] +dither -rotate 0.35 +noise Gaussian -type bilevel -fill white -fuzz 90% -colors 2 $png

# Optimize PNG
optipng -silent $png
}

export -f convertPage

# Read number of pages
pages=$(pdftk "$1" dump_data | grep NumberOfPages | sed 's/[^0-9]*//')

# Loop through pages and convert in parallel
for i in $(seq 1 $pages)
do
echo "$1":::$i
done | parallel --eta --colsep ':::' convertPage {1} {2}

# Create PDF from PNGs
img2pdf -o "$2" --producer "" --pagesize A4 pdf2scan-page-*.png

# Remove temporary files
rm pdf2scan-page*

For a cleaner 1-bit look without noise and rotation, use "gm convert -density 300 "$file"[$page] +dither -colors 2 -type bilevel -fill white -fuzz 40% $png".
When dealing with Lithium cells, the less software the better. If there's need to change dis/charging parameters from software, then that must be done behind a hardware protection with higher priority, so that the users still have control but cannot play outside safety limits.
Not implementing a hardware safety seems really a bad deign choice to me.
I'd counter that getting bullied is a critical component of learning social skills.

Put rails on it with teacher or parent supervision, so it doesn't get out of hand and the worst excesses can be avoided.

But if children can't navigate social situations... they grow up into the adults we are literally talking about.

(Said as someone who had a difficult time socially as a child, and put in and continue to put in considerable work to improve myself)
Good in terms of process engineers, poor compared to FAANG SW Engineers.
What with their lifestyles (along with other wealthy) climate change and an overpopulated planet, I don't think life extensions over the normal range make much sense.

Better invest in healthier living within the normal window. (in other words a robust body and mind till the time comes).
> If they can’t prove or won’t attest in writing they are vaccinated, the person will be fined $685.

Papers please.
I think that's part of the (dark) joke - "freedom" being the reason that the United States always gives before destabilizing a region and propping up corrupt dictators or puppet democracies which are anything but "free."
Author of the blog post here. Thanks, it was a quite long project, but the device have a pretty simple and plain architecture that made it easy. Todays consoles are much harder to hack, due to multiple layers of encryption and protection.
Osmocom is a thing, but no idea how good it is. I've seen articles about people running cellular networks with it.
Most users on a Zoom call aren't screensharing so I don't think this math remotely works out here.

That said, even when users of a minority platform impact the experience of a broader community you're still going to make development resource tradeoffs based on userbase. Honestly, I think Linux punches way above its weight here because software developers are much more likely to be Linux users than normal people. That said, when development for your platform is happening in developer's free time or in between official priorities*, making things easy is perhaps even more important.

*I don't know if this specifically happening at Zoom, but this kind of thing is not uncommon when it comes to Linux support in commercial apps.

EDIT: Fixed formatting
"Social media made you all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it." -- Mike Tyson
Oh wow, I don't recall ever hearing about purelymail.com. i will check them out; thanks!
Pretty sure from other discussions I have seen that it's only the DIY version that has an option for no OS, then you install Linux yourself
To jump on the bandwagon of giving advice, I would recommend green tea or for a stronger effect L-Theanine capsules.

There are things that make you faster, caffeine, prescription meds, Red Bull, blow, fast paced techno.

And things that make you slower, green tea, marry Jane, booze, different prescription meds, brainfm, chill beats.

I’m beginning to find slower and quieter is better for me.
You can make money off ipv6: it allows for better tracking, which is why Google, Facebook and friends are all ipv6 ready.
In that case, I can say mail-in-a-box is easy, however it does work kind of like an appliance and expects that the server is only being used for mail-in-a-box.

You could move whatever's on your VPS now to a new one, and then put mail-in-a-box on the old one that's had the consistent IP?

Alternatively, you could set up inbound forwarding to a personal e-mail (most registrars include free e-mail forwarding IME -- if yours doesn't, transfer it over to Namecheap), and then use an SMTP service for outbound mail from your domain (you could use Mailgun, SMTP.com, and many others). All of your inbound mail will be free, and if you find that you need to respond with your domain, you'll be paying way less than $6/mo for your outgoing.
If they could do that, why haven't they already?
BTW:

Original implementation of DirectAccess (Always-On, transparent VPN) in Windows Vista required working IPv6 connection, this was extended with HTTPS-over-v4 backup tunnel support later on when MS found out how hard it was to get consumer v6 in 2007. Inside of DirectAccess, connectivity is pure v6 still.

In fact, since NT6, Windows is IPv6-first system in many aspects, and Microsoft made news last year when they complained that they couldn't disable v4 on guest wifi at many offices due to non-Microsoft visiting workers having issues connecting to their VPNs due to software that didn't work with NAT64/DNS64.
>...Seems like if the market just naturally achieved efficiency, you'd grow water intensive crops in places that were not constrained on the resource.

What does preferential treatment by the government have to do with the market? If the farmers didn't get water at a heavily discounted price from the government, they likely wouldn't be able to grow such water intensive crops and the crops would be grown in places that were not contained on the resource. Heck, they even grow rice in CA!
My experience with a lot of the UB-is-bad crowd is that they don't have much of an appreciation for semantics in general. That is to say, they tend to react to particular compiler behavior, and they don't have any suggestions for how to rectify the situation in a way that preserves consistent semantics. And when you try to pin down the semantics, you usually end up with a compiler that has to "do what I mean, not what I said."

A salient example that people often try on me, that I don't find persuasive, is the null pointer check:

void foo(int *x) {
int val = *x;
if (!x) return;
/* do real stuff */
}

"The compiler is stupid for eliminating that null check!" "So you want the code to crash because of a null pointer dereference then." "No, no, no! Do the check first, and dereference only when it's not null!" "That's not what you said..."
If you see my response above, the method I use removes that annoying caveat. Outbound emails are signed and validated using the custom domain through AWS SES and you don’t get “behalf of” label.
Great pitch and inspiring story. I've been involved with a few startups that failed. So, I know a lot about humility and hard work. Basically, my first starup we were naive. It ended with an acquisition which was ultimately worth nothing. The startup that acquired us raised a lot but ultimately failed as well and I personally turned off the lights (by means of shutting down our AWS stuff). After that, I consulted for a while to make money and then got involved again with another startup. But this time with the wisdom of hindsight.

I've got a good feeling about my latest effort (tryformation.com) where I am the CTO. For the first time, I have a combination of talent around me, a market that is showing actual interest in what we do (and paying us), and a level of control over our product, tech, and road map that means it is really my job to not mess this up. It's still super risky but there's a good chance I can make it work this time. I rebooted the product (rebuilt it from scratch), I've defined our product and vision and took ownership of the product roadmap. And it's working. We are closing deals and getting positive feedback from our early customers. This year is critical for us.

Early revenue is super hard without significant funding. Accepting pizza money from some accelerator helps a little but it's really not about the money usually but about getting some coaching, advice, and building a network around your company of people that can help you. If you are doing SAAS, you need sales people. And not just any people but good ones. A warm introduction can make all the difference you need.

Of course the trick is picking the right accelerator. YC, Techstars (for which I have mentored), and a few others stand out as being awesome. In our case, we actually joined the Bosch Startup Harbour program in Berlin, which helped us build relationships with German industries. Some of those are now becoming customers and a few others might follow. So, good value for us. We did not give away equity and we did not receive a lot in terms of cash. But it helped us a lot.
Anything that touches a lot of files?
... but also the vector space can be infinite (like position q or momentum p) which are very familiar but you can take the trace integrating over both q and p to get the density of states. There is a community in chemical physics that does this all the time and here is a run-of-the-mill paper that uses the method.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263170709_Wavepacke...

Roughly a wavepacket which is localized in both q and p propagates on a path similar to a classical particle located at q, p and you can use trick to do quantum mechanical calculations based on the classical mechanics. It is not a method of investigating the "classical quantum correspondence" but rather a method of calculating QM quantities.
The guy from Inkdrop [0] makes a living with his note-taking app. He also has a YouTube channel [1] which I found very relaxing.

[0] https://www.inkdrop.app

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/devaslife
> you’d need to know the South American countries

True, but perhaps high school students should know the nations of the world, at least enough to have memory jogged when given 70% of the letters and some misdirection in word endings.

> (I think the answers were Argentina and Paraguay)

Incorrect.
Binance.us is a joke (as a “free” US citizen, I am of course not permitted [ed: by my government’s regs] to use the original site.)

I recently tried to change my email address. I failed. It’s a customer support interaction, because who would want to change their email address, right?

So they sent me back through their KYC verification Whig was unable to accommodate the fact that I have moved to another state since I initially registered and have a different driver’s license (because who would move, and who would get a new drivers license, amiright?)
John Martin used Bukowski as a cash cow basically. Bukowski's books funded other books that flop which John Martin's company published.

https://www.poetrynw.org/interview-serious-books-a-conversat...

It would be interesting to see how John Martin would explain those edits. They just look so bizarre, some invert the meaning completely, others are just petty edits to change stuff just for the heck of it.

It's like there was a love-hate relationship between the two. In interview I found above, John keeps talking about himself when asked how the two of them hit it together, or how it was like seeing Bukowski rise and his response was basically "It was great, but look how much work I was doing".

One could almost write a book about their relationship just based on the edits and reading into them all kinds of interesting things. It's like John hated the drinking and the vulgarity and try to correct some of it, but ended up ruining the work in the process.
Some states do an annual safety inspection of vehicles - it's usually more or less "do your turn signals, brakes, and head lights work". Nowadays some states also need to do an emissions check. Some states require it every other year, some states I guess don't really require it at all?
The finance sector has a long history of deprecating loss terms.

The US no longer has "depressions". Those used to be commonplace.

Actually, the first term was "panic", That was gradually replaced with "depression". After the Great Depression (1929--1941), the term "recession" came into use.

The Wikipedia list itself is titled "recessions":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unit...
This is the version you are looking for: https://frame.work/laptop-diy-edition
Will it ever run Doom?
The nice thing about where they've located that Intel site, purely in terms of housing cost, is that you can get there quickly from plenty of cheap small towns. I'd live in Columbus if I worked there, but you could certainly go in the other direction without too much of a commute.
calling the bottom is a fools game
With universal healthcare you can start to work on environment as well. There should be no "food deserts" in the richest country in the world but this is the reality we are in. HFCS should be curtailed so that as a regular citizen at any income level, you have access to food with real nutrition and can easily avoid sugar.

[1]:https://www.aecf.org/blog/exploring-americas-food-deserts

It starts with Universal Healthcare (to stop the so called "bleeding") but expands with cooperation with the FDA to eliminate the symptoms that cause people to fall into these addictive habits. The end result should be lower health costs for you and everyone else and an overall more dynamic society (since a healthy society can work better than an unhealthy society).
Create a startup and disrupt them with a new technology.
I agree with everything you're saying, but disagree with the reason.

The US federal government has to be too loose about keeping track of citizens specifically to avoid looking too fascist. One of your many American rights is to have no ID at all. Protecting that right for two dozen people makes everything extremely complicated for the rest of us.
>if you consider that bootstrapping is building a business without external funding

Yes. Yes, we do.

You didn't bootstrap, period.

Also, what a strange hill to die on ...
Plenty of people do this.

Go onto any software listing site (eg. Softpedia or AlternativeTo), pick a not-a-brandname commercial product and chances are that it will be a single-person project. From things that are really well-polished and look like a team effort to pimped-up crappy weekend projects. Lots and lots are made and run by a single individual.

Whether they sell well is an altogether different question, but it's generally not hard to make several $k per month off a decently useful consumer desktop software. All depends on the size of the niche, the fit (read, specialization) of the product, its quality and the amount of marketing effort.

This business model is still often referred to as "shareware", so if you want to find communities of people that are involved in it, that'd be the keyword to search for.
Dave Chappelle lives on a 60 acre farm... that's a nice place to live in any state
Note that the model is implemented in GAMS[1], a proprietary language focused at constrained optimization problems (think Matlab, but more niche). This makes it a non-starter for most interested outsiders.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Algebraic_Modeling_Sys...
Right, sure, silicon valley doesn't know how to turn a profit.

/s
Why don't landlords currently figure out a tenant's salary and charge exactly that amount in rent? Competition will still exist in a UBI society.
Can you explain. You left off your reference, but are you saying boa refuses to pay legit checks or what exactly?
Way Up in the Middle of the Air
United States does not have regulation for cryptocurrencies. They also do not have classification for cryptocurrencies.
There is https://www.4dayweek.com/
This is almost cool, unfortunately the product itself (a network of bots to allow websites to be scraped when they obviously don't want to be) seems a little shifty. For example, put these three exhibits together:

Exhibit 1: The ScrapingBee terms and conditions state "We assume that you use the Website Platform and Services legally and ethically and that you have obtained permission, if necessary, to use it on the targeted websites and/or other data sources." This is even backed up with an indemnity clause in which the user has to cover ScrapingBee for any third-party legal claim arising out of their use of the product.

Reference: https://www.scrapingbee.com/terms-and-conditions/

Exhibit 2: ScrapingBee explicitly advertises a feature allowing you to get Google search results via an API call. These results are presumably generated by scraping Google's search pages:

Reference: https://www.scrapingbee.com/features/google/

Exhibit 3: Google's own documentation explicitly states that automated querying is prohibited, so if you use this advertised ScrapingBee service, you are naturally violating Google's terms, and could be liable to cover ScrapingBee's legal costs if Google decide to come after them.

Reference: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guideline...

$1MM in ARR is all well and good, but there's a limit to how large this business can grow without being pursued by the websites whose scraping they are enabling, and in the case of Google, explicitly promoting.
Isn’t this sort of circular? If very low-level, I mean in/out, lgdt, etc, were exposed as v8-bare-metal modules, it would be as simple as require() then.

t = require(“awesome-8253”)
p = require(“pio-node”)
// cast your usual 0x42, 0x43, 0x61 spells
Checkout the MIT class: Biology Secret of Life by Eric Lander, who is a mathematician turned geneticist who led the Human Genome Project. He teaches in an axiomatic way, which I think many here would appreciate.

I found the teaching to be way better than any high school class, which is the biology background for most people.

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-biology-the-secre...
I thought you were in the US.

By federal law, you cannot be charged more for smoking a cigarette every four months. You can be charged more for smoking with more regularity. There is a binary cutoff, but the level isn't zero (feds have a minimum level, but states can impose higher ones.). You may want to consult a lawyer if this is something that is really happening and concerns you. Plus, you certainly should consult a lawyer before you change your answer on a the form, in case you are in a grandfathered plan or some other special case.
Guided DevOps Meditation [video]
This is flat wrong, Crypto is one of the hardest places to launder money.
This comment betrays a lack of understanding of how it works at even the most basic level..
But lua is typically used as an easy scripting language for non-programmers...
Here are some cases of mass 'hacking' of Telegram. The problem with Telegram is these 'hacks' give attackers access to entire Telegram chat histories, unlike E2E apps like Signal, WhatsApp, Wire etc.

[1] Brazil politicians' Telegram 'hack' of 2019

https://www.wired.com/story/brazil-hacker-bolsonaro-car-wash...

[2] Iran Telegram 'hack' of 2016

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-cyber-telegram-exclu...

[3] Israeli cryptocurrency executives' 'hacked' on 2020 including their Telegram

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/.premium-exclu...

[4] Moxie Marlinspike of Signal app on Telegram

https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1474067549574688768

Hack is in quotes because all involve SMS interception.
Moving to Ohio was one of the worst decisions I made in my life. Dayton is proud of its history of innovation but most of the innovators left for California 50 years ago where innovation was allowed. What's left is the lumbering bureaucracies and sprawling empires that grew from the innovators' products: NCR, the GM plant, Otis.
Your premise is incorrect. Workspace shows no ads, and the privacy policy is extremely clear on the data in Workspace not being used for any kind of ad targeting.
This^ is not me but I am curious. Why is this being downvoted?
The point isn't to prevent a skilled attacker. The point is to prevent casual lying and low-skill fraud. Most people who lie/cheat/steal do so because it's easy or because they're dumb. Your QR code idea will cost more money to implement and won't block skilled attackers either, as it doesn't take a genius to figure out a way to get mail from a mailbox you don't own.

Utility bills are the DMV's equivalent of a cheap lock. A smart attacker can pick the lock, and a determined attacker can cut it off. But the majority of thieves are walking around looking for unlocked car doors instead.

Do you really think DMV asks for a copy of a utility bill because it's a good way to suppress your rights? I would think that there are plenty of more effective ways to do so, if that were actually their goal.
Same thing happened to SWIM when doing the binance.com one.
This is the molecule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISRIB
I mean, if you are going to count campuses, Penn State has like 20+ alone.
That's a good point, however I think it's not hard to come up with a different example that shows how compilers assume that pointers aren't NULL. Like,

void function(struct x *ptr) {
ptr->x = 1;
if (ptr == NULL) {
some_big_chunk_of_code();
}
}

The idea is that this could be the result of inlining, where the inlined code does a null check, but in the context it's being inlined into, we already know ptr is not null.