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Hi everyone,
Back several weeks ago, while working in the office, I suddenly felt bored with my Mac. There are so many great apps and tools that I use every day, but it seemed that something lively and chill is missing.

Then, I got back home, and I remembered the old days when I was in middle and high school. While I was studying, my puppy usually slept around on the floor. Those were some of the peaceful moments that I had.

Then I came up with the idea of building a Mac app to have a sleeping pet on the menu bar. Besides, this tiny pet can remind you to take a break too. ^^

This is a paid app ($3.99) with the following features.

- A list of 12 pets (now 16) that are exclusively designed

- Remind you to take a break and get back to work better

- Freely select the reminder time: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, or 60 minutes

- Choose your favorite break reminder quote

- Minimalistic design with no dock icon

- Compatible with Dark Mode

- Compatible with all modern macOS versions

- More pets are added to the list

If you are one of our users, please feel free to send me a request for your favorite pet if it is missing. I am going to include it in the next version for you.

If you are interested in the whole process of building this Mac app, you can read the story here.

https://quangctkm9207.medium.com/a-story-behind-building-my-...

Thanks for reading, and have a nice day!
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>”For what it’s worth, Pew says that roughly half of Latinos have reported experiences of discrimination.”

It’s likely the half that votes left and is told on a daily basis they are being discriminated against.
I too have wondered about this. Not sure why we didn’t do something like this from the beginning. Is this even feasible?
On the other hand, NATO etc. have been exercising the non-pacifist option in Afghanistan for the last 20 years or so, with very few results to show for it.
Yeah i have read this before. I was thinking a big opportunity of coastal communities would be hydrogen from electrolysis but that lead to the reading about molocule size…nothing is easy.
Yes, you pay the tax at the pump like everybody else buy you may get a refund for certain acitvities like [1][2] in some provinces, notably Ontario.

1. https://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/bulletins/gt/1_2001.html
2. https://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/refund/pto/index.html

Also there's the situation in some EU states where truck operators are eligible for rebates on diesel tax:

https://www.eurovat.eu/en/diesel-tax-reclaim

In this case I think they just use the vehicle and refill documents. But the truck operators still need to report the drivers' working times per EU state because of the different labour laws in each EU state [3].

3. https://trans.info/en/key-changes-for-the-road-transport-industry-in-europe-in-2021-216319
I wonder if this "nephew" that Richard Helms recommended for possible CIA recruitment, in the document below, is the husband of Laili, a well-known liaison to the Taliban:

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80B01676R0002001...

Serendipitous (frankly an amazing temporal co-incidence) that I discovered the above document randomly clicking through the FOIA archives at this time of Talibanistan.
https://trimread.org/articles/352
I can't find it online because of all the current mouse freezing issues but I recall that the very old macs (late 80s) would freeze on mouse down until you let go of the button.
Photo of the honorable Prime Minister of Australia (only the Treasurer at the time however), Scott Morrison, proudly holding up a lump of coal in Australia's parliament.[0] I believe "don't be scared" was what his party said to the opposition at the time.

And Barnaby Joyce, the deputy Prime Minister and leader of the conservative Nationals who stand for Christian family values, holding the very same lump of coal[1]. At this time, 2017, he probably hadn't yet publically admitted to having an affair with one of his assistants - who later got pregnant[2].

If Australia's political class hadn't already jumped the shark, this was it.

[0]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-14/scott-morrison-holds-...

[1]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-07/barnaby-joyce-holds-a...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/feb/07/barna...
Oh come on, that clerk is probably just tired of people returning the durian thinking that it was spoiled. It really is something that a lot of people won't like but might pick based on looks.
Horrible software is why my Razer is in a box of unused wires. I am now sporting a Redragon that they have not even bothered to change the USB PID/VID, so it reports as a Pixart mouse (devkit?).
On the one hand I agree, on the other hand it is a fact of nature that clothing displays a message. I think demands that clothes should not be significant are simply unrealistic.

I think even if police suspect somebody, they should still treat them with respect, though. That is the real issue.

You can not ask the police to never suspect anybody - that would make their jobs impossible and ridiculous.
In principle agree, but I recently switched to a Logitech G Pro X Superlight to use exclusively as a work mouse, and for me the 63g weight trumps everything about “business” mice. Over the years I’ve owned MX Masters, Marathons, Triathlons, Microsoft mice and others. The Superlight - for me personally - is substantially better for work applications than any other mouse I’ve ever used. It’s so comfortable and precise. Kicking myself for not switching earlier.

EDIT: Subject to my comments above about Logitech software on Macs.
Probably pretty good but not better than modern cars.

In the 2000s one of the car magazines tested top trim (big engine, race package, etc) classic muscle cars on modern tires and they put down respectable numbers, not better than 00s cars, but respectable.

Suspension and chassis stuff hasn't come all that far since the 90s so high end cars of that era should be able to handle very respectably compared to modern stuff. The differences are more apparent at the low end. Modern crossovers handle very respectably for what they are.

Obviously modern stuff will always win in a straight line because power levels increased massively over the past 20yr.
Yeah this whole conversation has been totally bizarre. The only thing new here is tagging matches on the device prior to uploading to the backend. But a huge amount of discussion is going to fears of illegal content monitoring in general.
Im comming from a liberal country, but even here the support is only limited to the first year you lost your job.

You are supposed to use that time and money to rebrand yourself or find a new work in your field.

Thinking about it as the main source of income sounds weird.
Wait what, G Hub is a Electron app?! Well, that explains why the software felt odd/off compares to Logitech Gaming Software.

I have G600, the software works in my MBA M1 but it couldn't pick up my mice. Because G600 is connected through the mini dock station dongle.
That's ridiculous. If I need help,I don't need to wait 24 hours for a standup. I'll just go ask right away
If you think that Poland, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania share the same socio-economic status, population distribution, and cultural/lifestyle factors as Sweden then I think you are the one who is engaging in motivated reasoning. The reason we keep looking at Sweden and comparing it to its neighbors is that they are a perfect example of the success of lockdowns in preventing high death rates at the start of Covid. Anyone who claims otherwise seems to be either delusional or deceptive.
>It's a little thing called democracy

Two wolfs and a sheep voting on what's for dinner, you mean.
There are actually a lot of good and decent people there, including children. People that have hopes and dreams for a better life. People who, if given the chance, would love nothing more than to raise their children in a peaceful country with all of the things you take for granted in your industrialized country.

That isn't a naive and stupid question, it's a heartless and insensitive one. Just because they can't make you an iPhone doesn't mean they should be left for dead.
> just self-host your email

I have a personal domain name that I host email through Protonmail. It is super easy to set up and I do not have any delivery issues.
Follow the problem and then follow the money.

You don’t have to have the perfect or right solution to start talking to people.

Decide what area you think companies might need help
In a very general sense. — I’m going to improve HR software and then go from there.

It’s a lot easier to find a probable that you lived. Ever found a broken process at work? Ever had to automate some kind of process? Start there and talk to people.

Talk to enough people you will notice threads of commonality. That’s where to focus. From there you need to find out where there is budget.

People have this fantasy that you’re sitting in the back yard and you go… wait a minute that’s it!! And that probably happens but it’s usually a long fact finding mission before you figure it all out.
The PM brought coal into a standing of the government to talk about how pro coal they were. https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2017/feb/09/scott-m...
The fuel excise and these road usage charges are not equivalent, because the former is charged by the states and the latter by the Federal Government just into general revenue.

We already pay registration fees which are supposed to be a road usage tax. While they have cried poor about the loss of a tax they don’t even collect, at the end of the day this is literally just a cash grab by some States. (Luckily mine isn’t even talking about doing it, but I just think anything to discourage EVs is so idiotic policy and I really hate it being justified by half-truths and misleading info about the fuel excise).
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/YR0Y8

https://archive.is/NrIZZ
This might create a niche market for mu metal iPhone cases.
The backward V is not even the whole of Europe, just Britain and its former dominions. It means nothing in mainland Europe.
Yes. And it will evolve into a fairly benign endemic virus just like its cousin: the common cold coronavirus.
I’m genuinely agnostic on your question, either of those possibilities strike me as roughly equally plausible.
>It would be more of a fools errand to try and halt (or slow) the inevitable world-wide transition to electric cars.

I don't even see that as inevitable...
Reminds me of https://github.com/utterance/utterances

"A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues. Use GitHub issues for blog comments, wiki pages and more!"
In a sense, he's right that Facebook needs someone to provide content for them. But Facebook has billions of someones to do that for them. They don't need any particular someone, and there will still be plenty of someones left over even if they screw everyone over.

This is why a company being too much bigger than its clients is an antitrust issue regardless of market share; B2B competition isn't the only thing that matters. A market must respond to signals from consumers to be healthy, and it won't do that if the individual customers are insignificantly small compared to the companies in that market. In such a market, collusion between the market leaders becomes more valuable than competition.
As long as the carbon contained in that methane comes from environmental carbon, rather than fossil carbon, the net effect on CO2 levels is 0.

If a tree absorbs CO2 to grow, dies, gives off methane and that methane eventually turns back into CO2, it's not a problem. That's just the natural carbon cycle.

The problem is that we're constantly injecting more carbon from deep underground into that carbon cycle. It's why biofuels are essentially carbon neutral.
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I love using Firebase Auth: https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth
sell mouse movements to drug companies so that they know who to show Parkinson disease ads to...
For anyone interested in open hardware mice, I have to recommend Ploopy: https://ploopy.co/

Plug-and-play, flash your own firmware if you like. Current models ship with QMK (open firmware), although I believe my older trackball didn't, I'd have to flash it.

I have both a left-handed trackball (rare!) and a right-handed mouse from them, I like to alternate.

Two obvious complaints:

- They're really expensive

- They're 3D-printed, which means manufacturing isn't polished. My trackball had a sticky mousewheel, which I ultimately had to buy a replacement for and swap out. My mouse has some rough edges I haven't filed down yet, and the 3D-printed texture may not be for everyone.

The good news is that it's easy to make replacement parts and repairs yourself!

Still, I wish they would make mass-produced versions with more conventional and precise manufacturing techniques, just with the option to 3D-print your own parts if you feel like it / need to. Maybe that would bring the price down while also improving build quality.
This is true for core instruction but not sports and other extracurricular, which are Pay-fors in many parts of the US. Robert Putnam's "Our Kids" (great book!) is eloquent on the costs and consequences.
Also found on this website... https://productivityhub.org/2021/07/28/do-not-date-marry-or-...
Is there a reason why? Does OSX lock down the driver subsystem or something?

Personally I don’t have a fancy mouse (just a cheap wired Microsoft one) because it’s hard to find good ambidextrous mice. So it probably just uses standard mouse drivers.
No, I am saying that roughly 1% of over-70s died of covid the last two years, then 10x that.
"The coronavirus"?

News to me. There isn't a "the".
I’ve always said if the “what” is compelling enough the customer won’t care about the “how”… like you said too many people fall in love with the “how”
Why would they need that when they already have low level access to your computer?
Yes.

Way better than 10 rich wolves and their 200 expert advisor pet-wolfs deciding for 350 million sheep, which is the "solution" to the "big problem" of majority rule.
Or the Fortune 100 corporations want to profit of the millions of people who own crypto and want to own crypto.
Most of the problems mentioned can be solved with a little bit of teaching - teach these "average users" how to get their data (email, photos, etc) backed up in a usable way and use a personal domain name as their email address, and most of these problems go away.
That's UK thing, maybe Commonwealth. I think virtually non-existing in rest of Europe
>You are not a horse. You are not a cow.

No, you are sheep.
Rolling his own doesn't mean custom algos. It means he will use the buildin language functions and/or external packages for that functionality while manually piping all of the pieces together.

He is not asking for trouble..
Here is what the Kaiser Foundation says about the U.S.:

> Almost all (more than 9 in 10) COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths have occurred among people who are unvaccinated or not yet fully vaccinated, in those states reporting breakthrough data (see Figure 2).

More: https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-vaccine-breakthrou...
Battery cells generally have a rating on their maximum charge and discharge rate which is specified as a time: 1C means the battery will charge in an hour, 0.5C means two hours and 2C means half an hour. The nice thing about this is that it then doesn't really matter how you arrange the cells into a battery (whether you put them in series for a high voltage or parallel for a high current): the maximum charge time will remain the same, assuming you don't introduce any bottlenecks. It also means that larger battery packs have a higher peak charging power. It's not very difficult with modern EV batteries for the charger connection itself to become that bottleneck: this is the kind of area where higher voltages will improve charging.

Higher voltages are also beneficial for other reasons: it reduces the amount of copper and weight you need in the car, enables smaller and cheaper motor designs (though you need more gearing as the motor RPM will also increase), and as power electronic devices improve, allows more efficient and cheaper electronics. Higher current systems do not at all scale in the same way, since with higher current there's basically no way other than just adding more material to carry it, and all that material tends to be heavy and expensive copper (or aluminium). High voltage, on the other hand, is getting easier and easier to handle as technology progresses.
Lots of companies seem to spend money on non-business related things, so there seem to be some provisions for that in the usual shareholder agreements?

Many art exhibitions seem to be sponsored by financial institutions, for example.
So that would seem to suggest the spike protein used in the vaccines is in fact cytotoxic - harmful to human tissue?
They're fine with comparing countries all over the world with each other....

But when it comes to Sweden the one country that disproves their narrative it has to be just a neighboring countries.

It seems so disingenuous to me.
Are you referring to the default Apple corded mouse they ship with iMacs or the Magic Mouse? Magic Mouse is nice, but of course isn’t for everyone. I have it for my dev machines but trying to use it for playing most types of reaction style games is a nightmare. BootCamp driver compatibility is also not really there. I have never been able to get my Magic Mouse to scroll using the touch motion on Windows, for instance.
> Oh, but those are not your money, strictly speaking: when you make a deposit, you surrender the legal title to the cash

You don't own the $10 cash bill in your pocket either. It's just a promissory note from the central bank.

When you deposit that $10 cash, you're not surrendering legal title, you're transferring liability. Switching from one third party to another.

Debating what that really means is where the discussion gets interesting. But rather philosophical. Pragmatically, you own money in a bank account the same way as you own it in cash.

Have fun with the turtles all the way down!
Yes, this is why I don't buy Razer equipment anymore. No, I do not want to sign up for a Razer account so I can control my DPI settings!

Not only that, it automatically installed the software somehow when I plugged it in, which I didn't want.
In the US, they cannot arrest you without probable cause. They can however detain you while they figure out what's going on.

Imprisoning is a much later step after being arrested. When you're arrested you may end up in a holding cell, or you may not.
If anything, Teslas are bought by enthusiasts. Tech entusiasts, not car enthusiasts, but enthusiasts nonetheless.

Regular people definitely care how well their cars are put together, right after they care about the car's 1) price and 2) look.
I understand the rant but I would like to hire someone who are good at solving problems (of any kind) and can detect the edge cases very well and without deep math or competitive programming knowledge, it's not possible at all these days.

However, I am an undergrad myself and sometimes I take pride in being a generalist, spent my fair share of time on every abstraction layers of CS possible. Now that I'm in my final year, I'm concentrating to know more about *nix system internals, doing a thesis on Computer File Systems and occasionally doing Competitive Programming to be a better problem solver.

I understand the rant.
...Logitech?
Also, many of those debating and getting their toes wet in crypto are not necessarily predicting it will work, they’re just hedging their bets in case it does. For example I’ve got about 3% of my Investible wealth in crypto. If it tanks to zero I wouldn’t consider myself “wrong”.

Crypto skepticism is still a fairly mainstream position, it’s not unique to HN.
Hey there, I work at scite and yes it defenitly can.

In general we have "who is funding what research" data here (https://scite.ai/institutions).

We don't really have a freindly way for you to produce a heatmap readily from that so feel free to DM me or email us if you want something like that.

For "who is peer reviewing what projects and project categories" that is super interesting.... with open peer review these days that is probably doable.
I believe you can get a system like that (all-in-one motor + battery + controller)

I've seen those used on electric kick scooters that are still supposed to feel like a kick scooter, i.e. no throttle lever or controls on the handlebars.

Kostka, the local kick scooter manufacturer sells those: https://www.kostkakolobezky.cz/hill/920-elektrokolobezka-kos...
No, a per-km charge is really regressive and poorly designed. People in regional areas need to drive much further but have worse maintained roads and don’t cause anything like the congestion metro drivers do, and don’t cause anything like the road wear the big trucks do. A state like Victoria shouldn’t be charging somebody driving in, say, South Australia either.

To do it properly, you’d need different zones (higher charge in congested areas for example), but that would require creepy GPS tracking, or creepy ANPR everywhere. Really not a road we want to be going down as a society I think.

They could just double the cost of rego for everyone if they’re so concerned about not getting a tax they don’t get already (Fed Govt does).
The best applications I delivered over the last couple of years were in Symfony 2 to 5. MVC with some jQuery sprinkled on top and it did the job. Want API because the company suddenly wants an app?

No worries, add the RESTbundle and now your controllers are returning JSON or XML rather than Twig rendered html.

Around 2014-2015 I was worried that I missed the Angular or Meteor or Knockout or Ember or something..JS boat but then quickly realised my customers didn't care about JS frameworks and wanted business flows automated and solved.

Now I see NextJS or something solving problems Symfony solved 10 years ago and I just chuckle.
Online Shoppers Don’t Always Care About Faster Delivery
> For those holding software patents, they have to also list all ideas they have around that. > Because there are patent trolls who check for new patents, and then file patents around that, creating a mine field so tight that you cannot even use your own invention.

This is something I never understood. When someone submits those type of patents, the patent officer most certainly knows the 'prior art' original patent exists. So why is this not patent 'obviousness'?
What are you all doing to secure the user content? To ensure the content isn’t exfiled
Why do you need to be sold on Deno?
Almost a decade and the echo chamber here is still missing the boat on the most revolutionary asset of the millennia. Bitcoin is a bullshit tester and it proves most people here know very little about practical applied economics.
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As LinuxBender wrote (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28274924), there are ways to do this

Credit card, SSN/tax ID, scans of Passport/ID card - some of this is done by online-only financial services (eg Petalcard)

There's also tools like DocuSign, multifactor authentication mechanisms (SMS + TOTP app + email, etc)

If the service/tool is only "supposed" to verify certain types of accounts, you might require the use of specific format email addresses, too (has to end .gov, .edu, nytimes.comm etc) - this can lend itself to organizational verification (gonna be harder to spoof (and therefore easier to verify) harvard.edu than blurblebuck.me)
I used Logitech mouse on a Mac few years ago. I used Windows PC to configure it and it remembered all stuff inside. I did not install anything on Mac, it just worked. It's a pity to hear that they broke it.

I used Asus mouse. It was truly underwhelming, even on Windows. It did not remember its settings, instead some "driver" software applied those settings on Windows startup, which caused mouse device to disappear for a few seconds every time I booted my computer with annoying plug-out, plug-in sounds.