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You could use JRuby

I thought these captcha companies made money by selling image classification services? Isn’t it possible that someone wanted these dice images classified for some machine learning project to do with dice?

Playgrounds are also supposed to be a place where kids learn to take risks and find their boundaries. Many of todays playgrounds are so safe that kids aren’t learning to take risks.

There’s a great book called The Coddling of the American Mind. It talks about play grounds safety, cancel culture, and many of the topics covered in this thread. I recommend it for everyone, but especially parents.

I use https://git-secret.io for this. But it's not user friendly enough to be used for everyday web browsing and account access. I personally use it to store things like root passwords or reset tokens, which I very rarely access.

I have preschool aged kids in Long Island. They have been to class for 3 days in the past 5 weeks. Every time they return to school there’s another student or teacher who tests positive and the class is closed for 10 days. Last year they missed 8 weeks of school. The impact is detrimental to the children and incredibly challenging for parents.

I would also recommend The Color of Law. Its about how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation. The content can be a little dry at time, but lots of interesting data and history.

This is why I'm excited about Djed (https://djed.xyz). Input Output Global (creator of Cardano) has been researching stable coins and drafted a pretty extensive white paper on their solution (https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1069.pdf). The white paper also include a mentions for how they will prevent bank runs.

I use a service called OnDMARC (https://ondmarc.redsift.com/)for managing email spoofing/delivery. They have a suite of tools for managing and monitoring spf/dkim/dmarc. Nothing you couldn’t do yourself, but they make it easy. They also have a couple of cool extras like “dynamic spf” which lets you expand beyond the standard spf record length.

I’ve read about anti facial recognition glasses. Does anyone know if they actually work?

Related thread on bio hacking and insulin from a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27661637

If you’re in search of a Skymall alternative, check out Hammacher Schlemmer (https://www.hammacher.com/).

The brand has existed for over a hundred years, they have a physical store in NYC, a website, and a catalog (still being sent out).

I just looked at a few products for sale on their homepage: make sure not to miss the transparent canoe or the kickball dart board.

> Merriam-Webster treats the phrases couldn't care less and could care less as synonymous, both meaning "not concerned or interested at all." "Couldn't care less" is the older and more obvious phrase grammatically, but it has been confused for so long that both are now defined.

Thanks for your feedback. However, I’m going to stick with Webster on this one. Let’s also not forget that English has always been a hodgepodge of language mashups and slang.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/could-couldnt-...

The only way to fail life is by ending it too soon. I feel obligated to say that if you’re feeling suicidal that you should contact a hotline or meet with a mental health expert. You might want to meet with an expert regardless as it could help you work on how you see yourself and the world around you.

Normal is a trap. Societal norms are a trap. Don’t worry about what other people your age are doing. Worry about what makes you happy. Period. I’m in my late 30s and I have friends who are still single, friends who are unemployed, and a friend from elementary school who still lives at home with his parents. The thing they all have in common is a positive outlook, an interest in learning, a desire to do the things they enjoy, and to not care what society thinks of them. My single friends travel by themselves because they want to see the world and aren’t going to wait for a partner. My friend who lives with his parents is basically broke and has had a pretty tough life. But he has lots of hobbies and a tiny group of quality friends.

I personally try not to let things get in the way of the stuff I enjoy or want to do. Just before the pandemic I went to a concert alone. By my assessment I was the only person there not with a friend. I had a great time seeing a band I really like and dancing all by myself. Maybe I looked silly, but I don’t care. Plus I likely won’t see any of those people again and I’m not important enough for anyone to remember me anyway.

Maybe look into joining some in person communities related to things you enjoy. Math and computers are fine communities, but branch out. Some of my good friends are actually people I met a decade ago at the now defunct HN NYC meet up. I actually work for one of those people now.

Social situations can be stressful and awkward, but like anything else the more you do it the easier it tends to get. You may not leave every meetup with new contacts but it’s at least a way to have personal interactions and spend some time talking about things you are interested in or are passionate about. But you do have to put yourself out there. Another comment suggested some public speaking programs, do one those to help get over some of the social anxieties.

You don’t sound like a failure in life. It sounds like you are just craving a bit more from yours. I know it’s not easy, but try putting yourself out there by doing some of the things you enjoy. If that list is short, do some hobby experimenting. Take a group painting class, join a bowling league, take a cooking class, learn to surf, etc. You never know what you’ll discover or who you’ll meet along the way.

I’ll help get things started… My email is in my profile. Let’s chat one night or I’ll teach you how to play Settlers of Catan if you've never played.

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I’m pretty sure I just saved a previously returned item from this fate. I bought something just yesterday from Amazon labeled as “new, but with a damaged box”. The item was heavily discounted, I think around 40% off. I could care less what the box looks like or if the individual parts aren’t wrapped perfectly if the item is in good working condition.

It was 2006 and I was working at CollegeHumor, my first job after graduating from college. During my first week I dropped the production database. I thought I would be fired…

I ended up working there for 4 years and eventually managed the backend engineering team. I haven’t dropped a production database since.

I’m a big fan of this book. It’s largely about the cancel culture, over protection, and how the voice on college campuses has been changing. How we went from college being a safe place for open debate and discussion to an environment which is becoming less welcoming of differing opinions and perspectives. The authors try to identify the origins of the change and use data and statistics to back up their claims. I thought it was an interesting read and recommend it for parents and non parents alike. The last quarter of the book does talk a lot of parenting and the idea of free range kids.

How does this even end up on the SEC or IRS radar? $1.4M seems like a blip in the grand scheme of things.

> More than 9,000 law enforcement officers were involved, sifting through 27 million messages that were sent on via the app over the 18 months of the operation.

I’m impressed they were able to keep this under wraps with 9k police officers involved.

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Early movers will snatch up the currently open remote positions. If remote really becomes the standard then companies who want to remain competitive will have no choice but to adapt and adjust policies.

Sounds like it. Now they just need to make a call to another country in the Five Eyes to get the data.

I’m not exactly sure sure why I’m being down voted for pointing out that candidates cancelling offers can also have an impact, especially for start ups. If I’ve said something that offended someone, I’m sorry. But HN is supposed to be a community where you can play devils advocate, offer differing opinions and opposing views.

For the record I don’t think it’s wrong for a candidate to pull out if they found something better. It’s all just a part of the game. All I intended to do was bring to light that everyone is guilty for playing and optimizing for their own self interest, and not just the corporations.

I feel for this candidate and I’m sorry he has to go through this. However, candidates aren’t innocent in all of this either. I’ve been on the other side in the hiring seat where candidates accept an offer and then cancel in the days leading up to starting. This comes after closing out the remaining candidate pipeline and telling potentially qualified candidates that the position was filled. It’s not a good look to have to go back to a candidate to let them know they were the second choice. Maybe there’s less sympathy because it impacts a company and it feels victimless. But it can be painful and expensive for a small startup to have to restart the process.

Something is valuable because someone else also believes it has value. Have you considered that people put their money in Bitcoin to avoid it being stolen by nefarious/oppressive governments or to hedge against inflation or as speculative investment that Bitcoin will offer additional use cases in the future? Those all seem like legitimate use cases to me.

I don't disagree that it's an underground economy, but that's only because it hasn't hit the mainstream. But being underground doesn't necessarily mean nefarious or illegal. Those bad actors definitely exist in the Bitcoin economy and all other economies. But without some data I'm having trouble coming around to the idea that the majority of Bitcoin is used for illegal purposes.

For better it worse, the primary use case of Bitcoin is as a store of value. I find it misleading to tell people that the “primary use-case is facilitating nefarious business”. Do you have some data to back up a statement which says that the vast majority of Bitcoin is used in that way? I’m not suggesting there aren’t bad actors out there. But there are plenty of bad actors who deal in fiat as well. But this was the point I was trying to make. The nefarious actors are an edge case.

I also find it strange. The same thing could be said of airplanes, slow cookers, and propane tanks.

Exactly 33 days ago I sent 8 letters from Long Island, New York. 7 of the letters were destined for New York City (a 40 min drive from its origin) and 1 letter destined for Georgia. Within the first seven days 6 of the letters arrived, 5 to NYC and the 1 to GA. Letter #7 arrived in NYC 3 weeks after being sent. As of today letter #8 still hasn't arrived or been returned.

This reminds me of blade computing from the 90s!

Is anyone trying to make homes out of plastic lumber? Like the material from the Trex decks and Polywood tables. My understand is that those are 100% recycled materials, solid, and a decent alternative to wood.

Comparing the Coinbase market cap and the total market value of Bitcoin is not comparing apples to apples. Just in the last 24 hours $74B worth of Bitcoin has traded hands. The entire purpose of Coinbase is to facilitate that exchange and take a cut for doing so. If the trade rate doesn't change the entire "market cap" dollar value of bitcoin will trade hands every two weeks. Being responsible for facilitating a sizeable percent of those transactions is pretty awesome and very valuable.

With that said, I think they are overvalued at $100B. Not because of the total market cap size of crypto, but because their revenue doesn't justify a valuation that high.