skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had some Euros left over from a trip last summer. I put them in an envelope, put my super secret generated code on a piece of paper, and dropped it in the mailbox. A week later, my Mullvad account was credited with the extra time.

I've been a Mullvad customer for a couple of years now.

I actually have a wireguard connection right on my pfsense router, so I can selectively send traffic to the VPN at a network level using firewall rules. It's awesome.
This is the answer. Use any fleeting motivation to construct the habit. Do not rely on “feeling like it”. Once you’ve created the habit, it will feel uncomfortable not exercising.
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It's similarly detached from the continent, and while there are now more boats making the direct trip, Brexit has had an impact on supply chains between Ireland and the continent (though not the level of trade – just how long it takes to move stuff around since a lot of stuff used to flow seamlessly by truck through the UK).
Mullvad is the only mainstream VPN that doesn't have seriously questionable credibility. Not even Proton VPN is OK - investigations uncovered it's just white-labeled NordVPN. I am grateful Mullvad actively proves their commitment to integrity, because there isn't an alternative
you said:

>How can a business be price gouging and barely making money at the same time?

and I explained it. The profit margin of the store is driven by (1) gross margins, and (2) inventory turnover.

no one's alleging that they're gouging on every item. So gouging on a few produce items has almost zero effect on the overall margin.
Hopefully they contribute to meaningful open source projects or start some of their own. We really could use more contributions to more projects.
If you watch the video, they explain how 1) none of the videos that they pulled clips from to make the highlight reel were age restricted, 2) this exact situation occurred last year, and the youtube rep assured them this was a mistake and it wouldn't happen this time, 3) the Youtube rep once again reassured them that this was absurd, 4) after reaching out to the rep and being told their complaint was being reviewed, videos that were years old suddenly became age restricted, 5) the rep apologized and explained that the new age restrictions were as intended.

This means that even if you have 2 million subscribers and a youtube rep for support, asking google for help is just as likely to ruin you as actually fix anything.
There is a ton of money parked into savings accounts due to the high interest rates and the fear of recession.

As things improve all this money will look for employment.
This is... pretty much entirely false. You don't need SMS permissions to get access to the filesystem. Also, SMS access (like most sensitive permissions in modern Android) is disabled by default when you install the app, so GP's list is just a list of permissions Emacs can theoretically request, not permissions it actually has on install. (Not sure what functionality Emacs has that requires SMS access, but I'm guessing there is some optional feature that lets you send texts or something.)

Generally these days when Android apps request permissions they don't need it's because they're either old or poorly written; not because Android doesn't have more granular APIs available. For example, applications requesting full file system access when all they need is the ability to read and write to a user-selected file (which requires absolutely zero permissions now thanks to the documents provider API) is a personal pet peeve of mine. Ditto for services that ask for permission to run continuously in the background when they could just use WorkManager or similar, or IOT apps that ask for location permissions when they could be using the Nearby Connections API.
> 5. Authors and the smartest people of our time aren’t writing internet comments
The internet, which we ALL read, including the smartest people of our time is written entirely by people with time to waste. Oh and marketers too.
We have chosen to fill our head with their thoughts.

Although I'm definitely not one of those, plenty of the smartest people out there are posters. Posting is universal.
> Perhaps that's just a reflection of my lack of experience with PowerShell

Obviously.

If you create pwsh script that is longer then equivalent bash script and more confusing, then you are doing it wrong. One almost never parses string in pwsh, unless string parsing is your primary task itself. Contrary, in bash, you always parse text, no matter what you want to do, which is defocusing and hard to maintain, and has cross-OS problems even in *nix land (solaris vs red had comes to mind and their respective ls/stat output which differs).
> multi-threading for every button, to reduce the lag when drawing the UI

Maybe it wasn't needed for those internal apps, but for consumer electronics I wish everyone reduced input feedback lag.
brew install --cask MonitorControl
This attitude continues to perplex me. "There's already plastic in the ocean" is not a justification for adding more plastic to the ocean.
But it doesn't actually put you through: you have been shadow ghosted!
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26633792
I had the same thing happen to me. I signed up to ebay for the first time, sold a single item before I had everything filled out (I was surprised at how fast my inventory moved). I couldn't enter in my payment information (Chase Bank) and my SSN wouldn't validate on their website for whatever reason. In fact, it seems like I am in this predicament because the website wouldn't function properly. Now I am out the several thousand dollars for the inventory I moved and I have no course of reconciliation. Any attempts at customer service end up in useless call centers who "cannot help me as we need to reduce fraud in their marketplace". Fraud? I sold and shipped the item. They must need money so bad they took mine.
US Defense is known to be heavily bloated. They spend millions or even billions on projects that just end up in the dumpster.

Spending shouldn't be taken at face value. If the Chinese develop 1 perfect rocket for attacking Taiwan and then produce 1000s at low cost, they can just saturate the whole island and destroy any resistance by sheer force.
Cornwall - last stop on the line...
> I am still struggling to get back to a decent baseline.

First, if you want to radically change your life by no longer taking stimulants, you need to recalibrate what you expect your life to look like.

You know they change how you think and behave, which is why you took them, and so it’s a given that your life just won’t look the same without them.

It’ll take time, but you need to figure out what your life can look like without them and make that your baseline. You’re always going to have an “additional strain on your emotions” when you try to make an unmedicated life look like a medicated life.

Maybe you work less or on different things. Maybe your home is less organized. Maybe you nap more. Maybe you’re friendlier and more empathetic with people you care about. Maybe you have a dozen slowly progressing hobbies instead of one diligent passion. Maybe you exercise or meditate more. Maybe you chill with woo hippie vibes instead of chasing life as a type-A achiever. Who knows. As you adapt, try to identify positive changes and define those as the new baseline you’re measuring yourself against.

You didn’t need medication in the first place. It’s a choice you made to live a certain kind of life. Now, you’re revisiting that choice and are pursuing a different kind of life. That’s exciting! But you have to embrace that rather than fear it, or you’re just going to torture yourself.
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If the neural network gets good enough that no significant work is required for the final product then I imagine you could change some pixels in the output and call it a "touch up". We're not there yet of course but ultimately how much effort does a touch up require to warrant a copyright?

Is the touch up creative? Fixing blurry faces/hands seems like replacing a rusty pipe with a new one.

For the musical piece, copyright probably expired or has no one to defend it today.

At least with performance art, the effort of your derived work is easier to gauge. Your musical abilities and voice are unique to you and what, I think, is being copyrighted. You don't normally claim total ownership of the covered piece. Sam Smith got sued a couple times for his work (notes, not lyrics) being too close to others in what he claimed were original pieces.
Is Windows That Bad?

I do not have a technical answer. Telemetry shenanigans aside which Fedora appear to be adding as well, all the mainstream operating systems can be used for development. I think it comes down to which you are most comfortable with and have the tooling you are most experienced with. I've seen people use all of the above successfully.

I think that OS choice would matter more if your job depended on maintaining said OS as an OS maintainer, dog-fooding so to speak and even then using something else would not be a show stopper.
This is interesting to me (I'm also a PhD student with research interests related to privacy and anonymity). Yesterday I was thinking something similar about the distinction, in terms of negative mental health effects, between places like HN where most of us are pseudonymous (if not anonymous) and places like Facebook, Instagram, etc. where your real persona is more of a factor and is usually tied to real photos of yourself, your friends, your home, etc. Like you, I also grew up on pseudonymous forums starting around age 12. I've always found forums like this to be somewhat addictive, but I think not nearly as addictive as Facebook and Instagram are for many people. I think it helps that I don't suffer in-real-life social consequences for what "warner25" writes on here, nor for who does and doesn't see it, and I could easily abandon this pseudonym tomorrow. So maybe that's healthier?

I'm just struggling with the idea because it runs counter to a couple other ideas: First, that social networking with people you actually know is the good part while broadcasting to the world through social media to collect likes and followers is the bad part. Second, that anonymity and pseudonymity bring out the most toxic behavior in people, so things like "real name" policies are better.
Does the term have the same connotations in German?
So you are arguing that residential densification and a increase in housing supply will lead to

1. Rent increase

2. Consumption price increase

3. Big real estate will use thugs and trickery to force people to sell

4. More people in the community leads to less friends
It's the heart of the problem. Prop 13 means there's zero financial downside to appreciating home values which leads to NIMBYs on steroids.
> R is too specific and it lacks the vast ecosystem of Python

That's the first time I've ever heard this criticism of R: most staunch R critics will acknowledge R's vast breadth and depth of statistical libraries outclasses Python. Python has far more general use programming libraries (so deploying models is easier) and used to have a slight advantage in ML specific libraries, but there aren't major differences nowadays between the two ecosystems.
This is what I've seen talking to startups. Lots of seed round companies needing to build up a team fast to try to secure a series A before it's too late. Most of them completely insane (with occasional good ones in there) with ideas that clearly have no reasonable profit model.

It's undoubtably a great time for startups to get talent, but startups as we know them today tend to be very hungry for VC money, which is drying up rapidly. I would be very hesitant to join one unless the match was really good.
The non-conforming cities lost zoning authorities to the state: not that they no longer have zoning at all.
What do you use to make the beep sound? Is your computer always on?
it's not the elevator it's, a speaker inside the elevator. nobody's hacking any elevators with this.
Have people not realized that crypto is a scam?
> If that's the case, when was the last time the size, responsibilities and revenues of the government have meaningfully decreased in a permanent manner?

What government are you talking about? The U.S. government? Any government anywhere?

Governments change all of the time. Look at the end of the Soviet Union for a recent example.
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Yep a lot of debate even here focus only on tariffs and benefits splits where the principal issue is that fruits and vegetables have a seasonality and as a civilisation we should be more cognizant of that.
> Amazon customer service isn't what it once was, but it's still better than 99% of the industry

Your experience with Amazon's customer service and my experience with it are completely opposite.
> we have increased the minimum password length to 48 characters.

Isn't this complete overkill? I suppose this effectively mandates the use of a password manager, but I wonder where the 48 number came from.
Grandpa gets forced out by increased rent, yes.

Increased housing supply almost universally decreased housing prices.

If you don't want renter Grandpa to be forced out, build more
You miss a big piece. These cities all allow new office spaces and thereby new jobs, since that brings in tax revenue. They just don’t allow new housing, so people pay astronomical prices, commute from far away, or live with entire families sharing spaces designed for single people. For an area that claims to care about the environment and the welfare of immigrants, the lack of building is selfish, greedy, and immoral and one of my biggest disappointments about where I grew up. I’m glad to see this being fixed at the state level and state law superseding local law.
> I'd better spend my time writing a different shell.

That is funny and shows tremendous lack of understading of shell complexity. Perhaps your own OS next ?
How Acquirers See Your Company
The code that wasn’t there: Reading memory on an Android device by accident
I use it (Mullvad, specifically) to download videos I want to watch that online services make too onerous to purchase easily.
Base is built on Optimism's OP Stack (1). Optimism is a Ethereum Layer 2 network. As an optimistic rollup, it can allow for much cheaper transaction fees. The tradeoff is that while it inherits security from the Ethereum Layer 1 chain, it does have a bigger attack surface since it is dependent on 2 blockchains.

Coinbase will support the Base chain in their exchange, thereby giving it some utility out of the gate.

1. https://stack.optimism.io/
Because people pay, that’s why. But you’re free to disrupt that economy by offering these simple apps for free!
No! The alternative is explicitly to unban the kind of housing that there's demand for. Single-family zoning prevents capitalism from doing its job properly by limiting developers' ability to respond to demand for high-density and low-income housing. Getting rid of most single-family zoning wouldn't make it illegal to build single-family homes, but as the article says regarding Santa Monica, developers are eager to build high-rises and denser housing.
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Show HN: C++ test framework in under 100 lines of code
They normally do that if they think you have another ebay account.

Are you sure you didn't have an account from years ago somewhere?

If they have any evidence of you having two accounts, they will ban all except the oldest one. And they will refuse to tell you this.

If you have a father/mother with an identical name (happens frequently in some communities), then you have to share an account with your father/mother to not hit this restriction.
There is also the page for Sphaleron [1] (only 60,200 Google Search results); good name for a start-up: sphaleron.io — hypothetical technologies made real.

The sphaleron is probably tied to proton decay [2], which is probably the saddest and most sobering possible fact in the entire universe: all this is fundamentally temporary, it will all go away, even the protons.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphaleron

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_decay
Why?

We have limited resources. We have to be smart about what to research. If the hypothesis is widely discredited, we should not be sciencing it, because that means something else is not being scienced.

Should we also be glad if an astronomy department starts seriously researching the geocentric model instead of exoplanets?
The professor is leveraging the reputation of the institution to augment their own in the eyes of the jury, and they're being paid a handsome fee for doing so. This fee won't be paid to the institution at all. Any organization on the planet has standing to sue you if you use their name for your own profit, whether you are affiliated with them or not. Maybe that's unconscionable, but I'd be far more concerned if that weren't the case; where anyone could use anyone else's name and not be liable for fraud, impersonation, or defamation.
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I’ve tried KDE neon on the MacBook, and it was great! A bit overwhelming with the customisations, but overall more user friendly than latest macOS imo. However, I had experienced several fatal crashes, so didn’t feel safe investing more effort into it.
An accusation brought to the FTC by an organization whose founding mission statement is that all of the problems in the farm industry are because of monopolistic corporations. Only a single member of their board/staff even owns a farm.

It's literally their mission to make this claim.
HN hates crypto because the people making the most money are charismatic and risk-takers, which is the antithetical to the corporate engineer personality
The only reason it is beyond capacity is because the ability to expand capacity has been blocked. The bay is nowhere near maximum possible density.
Sorry, I could not get what is the meaning of 12 ? From your knowledge base we LangChain it to get the right context and ask answer. How do you envisage a solution of this sort work ? Happy to learn and make it better.
> Another reason given was they wanted to monitor communications from the satellite gear. This implies to me that it was either not encrypted or they were able to decrypt it.

Doesn't this suggest it really was civilian?
And in a couple years, I bet it could video-call me from a spoofed number and look and sound just like her.
I'm not sure how common pure remote is going to be. I see a lot more hybrid, which gives greater flexibility, but still involves being within an hour or two drive of an office.

Furthermore, for people already living in, say, the Bay Area, they probably have friends and/or family there and it's not like the Bay Area is a hellhole so the default for a lot of people is to stay there, in spite of the high housing prices, rather than move to a cornfield in Iowa.
> I had some Euros left over from a trip last summer. I put them in an envelope, put my super secret generated code on a piece of paper, and dropped it in the mailbox.

Oh awesome. I have some EUR left over as well. You can't send cash from the US to Sweden via mail right?
sounds very interesting! especially for founders that just started managing a team
I hope soon.
Is someone able to translate this into plain English for someone who's not au fait with crypto jargon?
Ugh I use it on my android TV 48 character password would kill my use case
I had a fun experience too last year. After not using my account for ages I sold a few items. Was sceptical because unlike in the old days, ebay would relay the money now and keep it a few days.

However, everything worked fine, got my money, except that there was this one item where the buyer just didn't pay. When I contacted him after a week they said they're traveling and would pay a week later, so this repeated for a while until I finally have up. So I wanted to cancel the transaction, but it turned out you can only do this within 30 days. The FAQ just states after that, I should resolve the issue with the buyer. According to them, they also didn't have an option to cancel. So I had this open transaction in my ebay profile which I could only mark as payed for, but not remove in any way. Two months later it was still there. I logged in just now to check, and it is finally gone.

Ebay is full of these half-baked workflows and broken functions. It is mind boggling how even today there still seems to be at least three different UI styles, depending on what part of the site you interact with. One "modern" theme that is very flat, has no borders around anything, then a somewhat older one with more boxes and lines and smaller margins, and yet another one that looks even older.

Oh and now that I think of it, I have one stored search in my account that I cannot delete. Everytime I do and refresh the page, it is back again.
Yes, they do, that's why their foot traffic has been declining.
Buy a house in Japan. Housing shouldn’t be a nest egg.
In defence of vultures, nature’s early-warning systems and holy to many people
If you honestly believe that aqueducts and roads are outside the scope of human technology then you might be in the wrong line of work
You can't be punished for parody or speech itself, but you can be punished if you break any laws by publishing that speech. I don't see any laws broken by the Yes men example.

It is reasonable for the police to believe that the law was broken in this case, due to the 911 calls and similar disruption that could reasonably be expected to happen in this case, and the judges agreed, which is why his legal bid to sue the police failed.
If they sell their home and leave. Being forced out of your community is a rather perverse definition of “getting rich.” A wealthy refugee is a refugee nonetheless. That’s what getting rich means in this context— replacement.
The Case for “Software Criticism” (as in “film criticism”)
Software may be the defining cultural artifact of our time. So why isn’t there a culture of critical analysis around it?
NightJet trains from Zurich to Barcelona and Rome were indeed planned to run from 2024, but this will probably be delayed because the Swiss Federal Railways won't receive subsidies they were expecting: https://www.srf.ch/news/wirtschaft/ausbau-des-nachtzug-netze... (article in German)
HN hates crypto because the perception at least is that people making money in crypto are just gambling and/or riding a Ponzi scheme bubble. HN likes people who make money by actually creating value.

HN also tends to hate conventional fiat currency based financial capitalism for the same reason.
"Careful deliberation" was 2 minutes? lol
As things improve big tech will start hiring again.
"Having a routine" is exactly what doesn't work with ADHD. We can't do routine. Anything but this. Some of us are struggling with brushing teeth every day, or showing up at work. Even though when hyperfocused, we can do a week's work in a day, or successfully prepare for a difficult exam in a night, but doing something regularly — that's something we absolutely don't have.
This will be exacerbated by the low mortgage rates which most homeowners are locked in for the next 20+ years. There should be a way to negotiate with the lender holding my mortgage to let me move it to another house for some increase in basis points which would result in a win-win for both sides.
I don’t understand what your argument is? I’m not denying that other countries developed but my (admittedly very poor) understanding of development economics is that there are some vague theories of ways that countries might develop but many attempts to develop have been stymied in practice in different ways in different countries in different places all around the world.