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If 1 in 8 kids experiences food insecurity, then it's likely that there are at least some, maybe 1 in 100, who are starving, however you define it.

Also, there are two kinds of starvation: in one case the quantity of food is insufficient, in the other its quality is. Eating fries with soda in great quantity every day could still starve a growing kid.

He worked as a clerk while he designed his machine. It was 8 years after that, in his 30s, that he went to school again, and he chose to study accounting, not math, science or engineering. I think he knew exactly what he wanted and did exactly that. Except maybe dying of pneumonia at 39.

> That sounds... vaguely inefficient to me?

It is, and this is (at leat part of) the reason Egyptian hieroglyphs went extinct.

On the other hand, while Chinese characters may also seem overly complicated and inefficient for the uninitiated, the fact that they are still in widespread use is proof for their efficiency. You don't have to learn any language to see that.

Exactly. That's what patents are for. No need to be secretive.

Put the Free Speech Flag on your website. Its colors represent an illegal number.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Flag

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

Yes. After pressing Alt+space then R, the first pressing of an arrow key selects the border you want to move, let's say the left. You can then move that with the left/right arrows. If you press up or down in this state, it will, again, select the corresponding border to work on.

Alt+space brings up the window menu. Press R to resize, or M to move the window with either the arrow keys or by moving the mouse pointer. Finalize with Enter, cancel with Escape.

> So much time wasted could be recovered by a simple RMA form.

Maybe that's the goal? To discourage the return of merchandise? They think customers rather write off the loss, than waste half an hour.

The authors write this in the conclusion of their paper:

> Thus, we anticipate that our results and conclusions are valid for a broad class of systems and may open routes to many future enterprises including the structuring of fluids, the visualization of chemical traces, the assembling of functional objects like actuators or drug carriers, information storage, and numerous artistical applications. Finally, our results could also be used to prepare desired initial states for future colloid experiments, e.g., on collective diffusion. Drawing fine lines, durable patterns, and individual letters into water was only the first step.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202303741

Quantum Technology Recruiting Inc. (https://ca.linkedin.com/company/quantum-technology-recruitin...)

Our guy, Alex Rhatushnyak, is listed as employee.

BTW, this is the first result on DuckDuckGo. (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=qtr+company+canada)

Is it time to switch? ;)

The first winner DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A COMPUTER!

    Q: What if I can (significantly) beat the current record?

    A: In this case, submit your code and win the award and/or copyright your code and/or patent your ideas. You should be able to monetize your invention beyond the HKCP. This happened to the first winner, a Russian/Ukrainian who always had to cycle 8km to a friend to test his code because he did not even have a suitable computer, and who now has a lucrative job at QTR in Canada.

http://prize.hutter1.net/hfaq.htm#fame

You can just prop the door slightly open, and use convection, if possible. It sounds energy inefficient, but when you are drying, not just heating, you also have to replace that humid air in the oven.

Copying a comment of user cperciva from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8411614:

> more than once I was approached by people who wanted me to help implement their projects. But I have always refused just because I think I'm not good enough. [...] have you ever done that?

Absolutely. I'd say that 90% of the time that I've been offered consulting work, I've turned it down because I know it would require some skills -- web design, graphics, SQL, linux, ruby, C++, etc. -- which I know I don't have.

I have a reputation for being very good at what I do, and it is certainly true that there are some things I am very good at... but a large part of that is that I don't do the things which I'm not very good at.

> how do you deal with self-doubt?

If you're a generalist, there's almost certainly going to be someone else who is a better generalist than you. If you specialize, it's not hard to find a niche in which you are one of the leading experts in the world -- because the group you're being compared against is losing the 99.9999% of people who never looked at that particular niche. So I'd recommend looking for a niche; because once you're the world's leading expert on something, it's pretty hard to doubt your competence in that area.

The galaxy is on Orion's belt.

Scott Aaronson made a comic with Zach Weinersmith that explains quantum computing in an entertaining way:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3

There's a famous story that's a good example here, I think: George Dantzig solved two open problems in statistical theory, which he had mistaken for homework after arriving late to a lecture at university.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dantzig

> In 1939, a misunderstanding brought about surprising results. Near the beginning of a class, Professor Neyman wrote two problems on the blackboard. Dantzig arrived late and assumed that they were a homework assignment. According to Dantzig, they "seemed to be a little harder than usual", but a few days later he handed in completed solutions for both problems, still believing that they were an assignment that was overdue. Six weeks later, an excited Neyman eagerly told him that the "homework" problems he had solved were two of the most famous unsolved problems in statistics. He had prepared one of Dantzig's solutions for publication in a mathematical journal. This story began to spread and was used as a motivational lesson demonstrating the power of positive thinking. Over time, some facts were altered, but the basic story persisted in the form of an urban legend and as an introductory scene in the movie Good Will Hunting.

My only assumption that would need citation (that I cannot give, I admit) is that currently the proportion of shady users is much higher on Tor than on the general Internet. From here, it's pure and simple logic: as more users transition to Tor (asymptotically all of them), this proportion can only decrease.

Thanks for addressing this, this is great to hear!

This is true and already reality, no need for hypotheticals. There are exit nodes serving child porn right now, yet, the operators are not prosecuted.

The child porn traffickers and other problematic users are all on Tor already. With the growing number of users their proportion will only decline.

Yes, I did read your comment before answering. Note: I commented on points you brought up IN your edit.

Let me break it down for you:

>> I would need someone to help me verify that sound works.

> You could use a microphone to record the output and plot it using Audacity.

>> but why? I don't hear so why?

> What if unknowingly you do have working audio, cranked up to 11, while browsing PornHub?

What do you mean by that?

On the other hand, if projects like this, as a side effect, increase the number of relays, and normalize using Tor, it's a win for everyone. Quiet should pay for a few servers to be used as relays and exit nodes, and also encourage users to do so, or to donate to that.

Calligraphy is an art form. The good thing about art is that you can't argue with it. Practice for the beauty!

You could use a microphone to record the output and plot it using Audacity.

What if unknowingly you do have working audio, cranked up to 11, while browsing PornHub?

- Elsevier is envious?

Unfortunately, Fastmail addresses are re-used "after a few weeks" the subscription ends. I lost mine like this.

https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000279581-Ex...

https://www.deadmansswitch.net/ is a quick, easy, free option. Maybe not as good as a lawyer, though.

Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=deadmansswitch.net

In? What does it mean to be in if it has no surface? Let's try something probabilistic instead! (Mahalanobis distance?)

Documentation and educational material is where Racket is unbeatable: https://docs.racket-lang.org/index.html.

The performance is around Python / general scripting level; perfectly acceptable.

As you guessed, DrScheme became DrRacket.

You can find more info at https://www.racket-lang.org, presented much better than I could do here.