skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Puzzle solvers: Cryptoquote, Sudoku, Wordle.
Display a chart that combines MyNetDiary and Fitbit logs.
Correlate 1M bride & groom birth signs.
Create election database from phone book.
Battleship program (hard rules)
Chart GQ EMF-390 EMR (electro-magnetic radiation) detection logs.
Log oil furnace thermostat cycles (uses parallel & joystick ports).
Convert county grave database to HTML pages for Website
It's a classic story. I tried to organize my notes/data/knowledge using existing apps, but none of them fit my needs, so I built an app which does fit my needs: https://github.com/zadam/trilium/
A modest change in housing temperature alters energy expenditure in mice
Chances are that each ingredient of most of your glass jar products have had a lengthy and hot journey through a long stretch of plastic first.
How did you market your waiting list? 1000+ signups is a good number.

From the YC FAQ: https://www.ycombinator.com/faq#shouldI-1

"On average, 40% of the companies we fund in each batch are just an idea. Most don’t have any revenue."
Crypto has certainly gotten the money, celebrity endorsements and tech talent to go mainstream. However, after a decade in the zeitgeist, the only use case that's emerged is fraud. Even the govts that went all in on crypto have not seen any benefit. I think the tech is cool, but after the 3rd major multi-billion crash why would people still believe in it?
Here's two of mine:

A while back, I wrote a command-line dice rolling program[1] that handles a bunch of esoteric dice notation syntax, both because I was getting into a D&D game with friends, and because I wanted to practice writing a non-trivial parser. (My D&D group pressured me into buying real dice anyway after I rolled five consecutive 1s in a single session.)

My current keyboard is an Ultimate Hacking Keyboard, which I like very much, but the one thing I miss from a more traditional layout is the nav cluster (arrow keys, plus the 6 keys above them). Of course these are accessible via the Mod layer on the UHK, but when I need to do something like Control+Shift+Right to select text, adding Mod into that as well becomes a bit much, so I'd prefer to have dedicated keys for these. So, I recently ordered a keyboard kit that is just the 10 nav cluster keys, and my next small project is to assemble it.

[1]: https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/roll
Pretending that people aren't being disenfranchised from voting as a coordinated campaign in the US is to have blinkers on. It has a long and storied history that hasn't ended[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_Unite...
The same that happens in medicine happens in college textbooks - and other forms of high margin, but relatively fixed/finite initial investment and stable cost to produce.

American scholars write some of the most respected textbooks in the world, they are then sold in US colleges for $100-400/each. The same book is then sold in SE Asia and Africa for $10-40/each.
It actually might be video games, modern entertainment, and modern work in general. Not because of the content but because men are sedentary.
I chose a diuretic as a beverage of choice and skipped the "phytoestrogen or flight" response :p

I'm sure that made someone laugh :)
> If GitHub's HTML changes to a dynamic React-powered div-soup, that might be the end of browser extensions and userscripts.

But that feels more like a failure of user script developers (myself included). Why don't we have great tooling for modifying React apps (or do we but I don't know about it?)? The amount of them is already high and only going to increase.

For modifying the Tidal UI I had to use MutationObservers, tied to how the components will render. It's bad, I'd rather modify the React app more directly, but hey, it does work reliably (albeit only because the app doesn't change much): https://gist.github.com/solarkraft/edd9d49bcf0f548b1aa285da7...

Can we do better?
As a lay person, it might be difficult. As a well funded VC, I'd expect due diligence beyond the level of 'let me see your balance sheet' before investing millions of dollars.

One particular item of fraud was the claim that their machines were on helicopters in US-led war zones. Okay, show me the contract details for this, or some kind of evidence this is actually true, and then I will verify with the counter party to ensure it's not completely bologna.

Not to mention the entire concept of 'nano-tainers' and doing blood work with a single drop of blood seemed physically improbable, and literal Nobel level scientists would need to be involved, people with decades of experience in the field, not a random college dropout.

> all public all the time but only to someone physically nearby you photo sharing idea (of color) would work either?

I can't see the appeal of that whatsoever. At least with instagram or whatever you can have followers, and then monetize those followers one way or another. On the flip side, it might be an interesting avenue for prostitutes and drug dealers to advertise their services discretely in public places.
I have the same question. Kraken's main product is a 400$ "software defined radio for applications such as radio direction finding and passive radar" [0].

At that price point they'd have to sell quite a few of these to make a living. So who's buying these, and what for?

[0]: https://www.krakenrf.com/product-page/krakensdr
Bro-science dictates that muscles peak at 35, so that would agree with you being stronger than 20 year olds (but not weaker that 50s).
The Cost of Going Cashless
I'm well aware. I also recall a shockingly large portion of the population thinking that the US government was being too restrained and that every Muslim country should have been nuked. If nothing else, I think the other nuclear powers would be a lot more nervous if the American public were in direct control of those nukes. It simply isn't safe.

If we had been under a direct democracy at that time, the inter-personal pressure to conform would have been even greater. As it stands, the opinions of your fellow citizen are relatively low stakes because they aren't the ones actually calling the shots, and they know you aren't either. This indirect nature of representative democracy is conducive to political tolerance at the inter-personal level.
> the answer is unlikely to involve kings and more likely involves changing the system that gives them the opportunity to be kings.

Certainly true. Unfortunately, we don't seem to be able to reach the consensus needed to make such changes to the system. Hence we have to ask instead "What can I do?"
I have the exact same confusions and questions as you. I think maybe they consider "dark matter" to be anything for which the source is not publicly available and so cannot be analyzed by security tools that don't have access to the private sources.

I also agree with your "wouldn't it make more sense" definition. From the perspective of a developer concerned about the security and robustness of their own deployment, "dark matter" would be anything that ends up in my container that I don't actually need to run the app in the container.
There was an interesting paper I read related to this topic, aaaand... I can't find it right now. It could have been this one: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/a-short...
> My experience is also that large proportion of hires can barely program at all

This seems like an oft repeated myth, but you say it's your personal experience, so I'm really curious what you mean by this. These are folks you've seen in SWE who just like, not opening any PRs? Just pretending to do busy work while some nice coworkers do their assigned tasks? How does this work?
So a container that, say, builds nginx from source and doesn't delete the source tree is considered full of dark matter because so many files are not installed from the package manager?

That appears to be a difficult definition.
Balanced but defined by your genes. My natural balance may be higher in estrogen and DHT for example, than someone else’s. My receptors can be more or less sensitive to some hormones. That explains why some people can feel great and some terrible with same lab results.
You could say it’s just not being done right, but at some point, if so many people keep trying it and it still doesn’t work, maybe the problem is the approach itself.
Good. It still needs to get lower, to 0, or even better to a slow decline.
> High T has not been proven to be higher aggression

Has it not? it seems like there's pretty clear consensus that they are positively correlated.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23843821/
OpenAI Invests in AI Organizer App Mem to Bring Order to All
Stress lowers T levels as well.
Any chance you publish the source code?

This is exactly what I’ve been looking for and couldn’t find anything and was going to just build myself. I’ve been exporting from Notion to Anki and it’s been a pain.

My worry is that the developer will shut down and I’ll lose all my cards.

Edit: beautiful iPhone app, laying in bed playing with it
> Imagine if JP Morgan Chase's entire value was in JP Morgan Chase stock,

It's way worse. JPM stock pays dividends in dollars. The yield on FTT is more FTT.
When you see these school shooters that look like they are manic do you think they have high testosterone or low testosterone? Low testosterone leads to severe anxiety and depression in men as others have stated. I would not associate elevated (or normal) testosterone levels with violence, many of the PEDs that lead to violent outbursts are causing those outbursts due to the specific compound that is being used to raise testosterone, not the testosterone itself.
where is the brave sympathizers who say "forking firefox is pita so the team decided to use chromium"...

if these people, librewolf people can fork and use firefox, why can't brave? oh so they have problems with firefox ideologically while helping google be the monopoly is fine. okay
My mother refuses to uses computers/smart phones but loves seeing pictures I take. I built PostcardMailer.us to quickly send her/other relatives/friends postcard photos.

I got a bunch of weird Tor signups so I turned off new sign ups. But a handful of family and friends have accounts and we send each other postcards.

It is the most embarrassingly bad Rails codebase I can claim, but it has Just Worked for 4 years. I did a complete rewrite with “best practice” React and learned Golang for the backend. And never launched it because the Rails site works fine.
If anything it's only going to increase as competition gets slightly tougher.
If you think you've turned off all "telemetry" spyware in a Firefox build, you're probably wrong.
Interesting info but would it be ok to make the title less click baity by avoiding the needless full caps?
My current one is https://limnology.co/ , organizing the top 70k educational youtubers in 20 languages. Youtube's channel discovery is pretty bad, and I wanted an easy way to find new channels about the topics I'm interested in. Still a work in progress as the problem turned out to be a lot harder than I thought.
> it's all about identity. We know how to handle identity for hundreds of years already.

Well.. most developed countries do. But for America specifically, it has been a contentious matter.
Thanks so much for your feedback. We'll check the timezone issue.
I made an online sailing navigation simulator (https://8bitbyte.ca/sailnavsim/). Originally it was just to "scratch a few itches" at the time, but I've found I keep coming back from time to time to make more changes and add little things here and there whenever I have some ideas: dealing with interesting data sets (geographical, meteorological), different programming languages (I've added some Go and Rust since originally starting), computer performance experiments, and so on. And being able to participate in virtual sailing races with others has also been a nice bonus that I never anticipated when first starting this project.

Some light technical details and links to much of the project's code can be found here: https://8bitbyte.ca/sailnavsim/code.html
A Bluetooth dongle for my Fully standing desk and an accompanying MacOS app to replace the default wired remote for height adjusting. The original remote was pretty large, with a thick cable and I never found a good place to put it where I wouldn’t accidentally bump into it with my chair.
Most recently I hacked together a cat feeder that dispenses food from a hopper by weight. It's built into a nightstand and controlled only with a web interface hosted on an ESP32.

Almost all the parts were lying around (motor+gearbox from a broken neck massager, a small pocket scale, a broken servo), so it leant itself to getting things done 15 minute busts of activity without having to order and wait for alot of parts.
Excess adipose tissue
While harsh prison sentences don’t work for most offenders in this case for psychopaths they work just fine
I’ve used an approach to copy only the shared libs from the build container to the production container. This not only gets rid of most of this “dark matter” but results in much smaller containers!

https://github.com/williamcotton/express-c/blob/master/demo/...
Imagine a person that started serious strength conditioning at 40. He will be much stronger at 50 than average 18 yo football player if he „follows the program” ;) yes, it does accumulate a lot over time.
This line of reasoning is dangerous, limiting our reproduction through social means is much less dangerous than if it’s in inflicted on humanity biologically.
I don’t believe it.
A core concept of the Swiss democracy is how every decision (in theory) is made locally. It works primarily on three levels - Gemeinde, Canton and Federal. I don’t see why it couldn’t work the same in the US.

FWIW, I pay most of my taxes to the Gemeinde and Canton. About 3% goes to the Federal state, which I assume is mostly to the (compulsory) military.

It seems to me as a foreigner that a large part of the U.S. problems(and indeed the world) is the concentration of power to the U.S. federal state.
Why admit to a logical fallacy on a public forum?
I'm the author and maintainer of `cheat`, which started life (and continues life) as a "scratch your own itch" project:

https://github.com/cheat/cheat

I wrote it because I often forgot the shell commands that I needed to use on a daily basis, and realized that I wasted a lot of time Googling the same thing over and over.
I take it you're not very familiar with the Daily Mail.
My personal conspiracy theory is a coordinated submarine RE investing strategy from ultralarge private accounts, designed to destabilize Western economies.

The "obvious" answer of "housing bubble rollover" is so much more boring, though...
I’d rather say it’s end of “growth at all cost” era than big tech. Businesses will go back to the basics of optimization of unit economics, being efficient, steady growth and such. Which on the contrary means more emphasis on tech, not less.

Remember that much of the tech foundations for 2010s success were laid in mid to late 2000s. I saw it from within Amazon as AWS was building the core infrastructure components that went on to become independent services in 2010s. So I expect 2020s to go through similar phase. Maybe AI? Robotics? VR/AR? I don’t know.
Do you honestly think any government level actor couldn't find engineers to make this from scratch?
During the 2000 days most startups were dying left and right, I got friends what were fired multiple times, when joining companies that they thought to be on the safe side.

Myself I took the opportunity to just improve my degree with an internship at CERN.

Later in 2008 while not being fired, I enjoyed the merge that Nokia went through with Siemens, and a few side effects from that, as they tried to keep going in a market with uncertainties.
Ah that must be an American term, in the UK we would say 'matching sock' or similar.

Still it doesn't make much sense. If someone's wearing odd socks they obviously put them on at home. Why would they be in the lunchbox. And what was in the lunchbox that made Lucy cry?

Also thinking about it, coffee is a weird thing for a kid at school to wish for. I think that was another reason I suspected Prince had embellished it. Kids will make up yummy or fantastic things to eat but coffee is unlikely to be one.

Obviously if it was called Starfish and Pee Pee it would have been unlikely to be regarded as such a classic song. Prince knew what he was doing in the poetry sense but not in the 'realistic things for kids to talk about' sense.

I bet 'side order of ham' is by prince too.
One could ask this same question of any terrible, unethical thing.

The reasonable expectation is that a digital assistant will work for its user and not the corporation that sold it. The corporation is trading on this expectation to exploit its users.
FTX – Fight for your right to ponzi
A made guitar chord-melody arrangement generator that uses jazz leadsheets (melody + chord symbols) as input: https://chordmelody.io/

I always thought the process was tedious but systematic enough to automate, and to some extent I think I was right. Here’s a video of one of the arrangements: https://youtu.be/F3h_yQOM_Jg
>> Digital assistants do not exist to serve you or your interests. You should assume that your every interaction with one will be exploited in some way for someone else's benefit, or leaked and/or sold to some third party without your knowledge, or both.

Correct. Siri is Apple's tool, not yours despite appearences:

https://youtu.be/Ag1AKIl_2GM?t=57
Kudos to your effort! I think I will be next in line, over time, with similar post. Everything I’ve tried is just not working (in full). From now great experience, it seems team sizes need definitely different approaches and also it seems people building those tools don’t really have much experience in what works and what doesn’t across orgs and team sizes. To be honest, I strongly believe it’s not possible to build one size fits all solution anyways for project management, and on the other hand I also believe a tool for project management should have ultra strong vision and less flexibility.. with a space then for different tools/methodologies for people to choose from instead of trying to have one tool that fits (not) all.
> Other studies have shown that men’s testosterone levels drop when holding an infant, or even a baby doll, and that the level goes up again after divorce.

I see this as a significant component.

Both of my grandfathers had little to no relationship with their children. Some of it due to the fact that they spent more than half of their waking hours outside - usually working.

My father and generally men of his generation participated somewhat in child rearing, but not to a large extent.

Meanwhile I'm here changing diapers, bathing our child, playing with them etc. and this is also, gradually, becoming the norm.
My critique:

I had to deal with about 10 clicks worth of modal dialogs before actually being able to use the browser.

Distracting home screen which took about 5-7 highly focused clicks to turn off.

Keeps prompting me to become default browser even after I say no.

Does not allow me to set my own search engine.

I think this browser needs a lot of work to live up to its claims of "enhances focus" and "hyper minimalistic".
Correlated. Just like squares are correlated to rectangles.

Proof that T causes high aggression in isolation, in humans, thus far, has not been decisive. There is no consensus on this. Looking at the absence of the inverse (low T decreases aggression) would tip a few things.
I got tired of of doing the same setup and deployment work every time I started a new Django project, so I made Djangogoboot.

https://github.com/apreche/djangogoboot
While, I agree with the sentiment, the daily mail is an outrage based publication - is there not a better link ?
"The article was clearly timed to coincide with the US elections. That's why it was published the day before the election!"

That's the same "conspiracy theory" he's talking about..
That's really really cool.
As someone who's studied this quite a bit, I believe the answer is actually rather counterintuitive, and it is: changing culture.

While most people assume the direction of causality goes from testosterone to personality (higher testosterone leads to higher aggression), plenty of evidence shows it also goes in the opposite direction -- adopting aggressive/dominant attitudes, strength training and boxing, etc. leads to higher testosterone.

For my grandfather's generation, getting into fights (as adult men) was a thing that happened not infrequently. Having your manhood questioned was something you remained vigilant against. And yes, your handshake was firm because it showed dominance, the same way throwing around insults was a lot of the conversation. And it obviously went along with all of the sexism, homophobia, racism, etc.

But culture today is different. You work in teams, you get along, you're open to diverse points of view. You're rewarded for collaboration, not dominance. With most people you shake hands with, a firm handshake is going to freak them out, not assert confidence -- "what the hell is his deal?" Throwing around insults as the basis of conversation isn't how conversation works anymore.

So I'm actually pretty convinced it's changing culture that's leading to lower testosterone. And I see no problem with this either -- there seems to be a widely shared belief that this is a problem because it will somehow lead to more difficulty conceiving, lower reproductive success, etc. But there's zero evidence that men as a whole are having problems conceiving. And even if it did become a problem (which there are no signs of), it's obviously something evolution would fix real quick.
Thanks for your feedback. We're aware that we're in a very saturated and competitive market, and the product needs to be GREAT, not just good.
What tool in your life would you call a secret superpower?
Any thing that makes you feel as though you can "fly". That makes you faster or saves you effort in a way that feels particularly unreal and sublime.

Can be anything human-made, from a piece of software to a well designed gardening tool.
Amazon has been really hit or miss for me lately, so I wanted to find other sites that sell high quality stuff and don’t have fake reviews or counterfeits. I looked for somewhere that had a list of them but couldn’t find much. So I’ve started a small collection of the ones I know and like.
https://zochre.com

In the past I’ve built more complicated products to scratch itches (mostly PM related). This one is kinda fun cause it’s so stupidly simple.
Split America up into Swiss-sized chunks with Swiss-sized responsibilities (no nukes! no NATO) and it could work. But that won't happen.
> Usually the work crosses several layers in at least one place

You are doing it wrong then. It's basically a violation of SRP. Your changes should touch only one layer. If it's not, you have fragile abstractions.

I agree there are a number of cases when you introduce a new thing you should thread implementation through all layers. But not for maintenance and bugs (common case).

> Too much "clean code" will make a single layer no longer fit in working memory even at an "overview" level.

But why you need to keep it in memory? Do you keep all OS APIs? Or standard library? They are other layers you use and have no issues with broad interface. Your application layers is the same thing.
Ugh, it's probably climate change, or some PFAS chemical is wrecking everything.
Bitfinex is levering ETH to maintain the Tether peg
I can't help but think that the regulators have just triggered the Streisand effect in this case. The components cost for this type of system has sunk through the floor. As in the case of PGP, I suspect that development outside of the US will take place, and we'll end up having to "import" the very technology from "experts" outside of the US while the internal pool of experts move on to other less forbidden fruit. Thus we'll lose any leadership we had her in the US.