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Show HN: Reflect on last year and plan 2023
Hey HN,
I want to share with you my latest project, the Mental Garden Yearly Reflection. It is a guided introspection in the form of a Notion template that helps you learn from last year, and for deciding how to spend the next one.

For the past three years, I've used the time between Christmas and New Year for reflection, and it had a profound positive impact on my life. As a result, I moved to France and learned French, started playing the trumpet in a big band, and quit my job to pursue my own projects. Without the yearly reflection, I don't think I would have made any of these changes. It has been truly valuable for making meaningful changes in my life.

There are already a few tools out there that help you do an end-of-year reflection (for example the Year Compass [1](https://yearcompass.com/)), but I wasn't really satisfied with any of them. They focus on aspects that aren't really important to me, and they don't include areas that I'd love to think about. I therefore created this guided introspection (primarily for myself) – so I can think about the areas that are important to me. I hope you find it valuable, too.

In the future, I'd love to turn this into some kind of web-app. You could pick the areas that are important to you, and ask follow-up questions based on the answers. You could then spot year-over-year trends. The most exciting feature for me would be receiving regular emails that remind you of your own answers. For example, say you wrote what you value about your own family. A few months later, you would get an email with this text you wrote. It's like an inspirational newsletter – but with your own insights. And then why stop at "yearly" reflection – this would be awesome on a monthly basis, too!

I'm curious about your thoughts and feedback about the template and my vision. It would fill me with absolute joy if someone uses this.

Have a great last week of 2022, and see you in 2023!

With gratitude,
Marc

PS: No need to signup, there is a direct link on the download page.
That means there was a higher level problem in the dishwasher that caused that part to repeatedly break. Why couldn’t the higher level problem be solved?
Instead of disposable plastic razors (Schick, Gilette, etc.) I recommend getting a safety razor and a big pack of blades (I use Merkur). You will save yourself thousands of dollars over the course of a lifetime - and avoid generating a ton of waste. Maintenance is pretty much just cleaning the razor with vinegar every few weeks.

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

If you have the time/desire for it, a straight razor is also an option. It takes much more expertise and time, though, so I would start with the safety razor first.
> That saved enough money to pay for the drill press I used.

Tangential, but I’ve found this type of thing occurs pretty regularly. Where the economics of the industry have pushed the maintenance cost down to only a bit over the labour, and the actual equipment cost is somewhat negligible, so for an enterprising homeowner you get do the work yourself and end up with some equipment that you can use in the future for effectively nothing.

Most recently, I bought a house with an irrigation system. Learned that in our cold climate they need to be blown out before winter to avoid freezing. Called around and was quoted $250. Went on YouTube and learned the general concept, went to Home Depot and bought an air compressor and an irrigation system adapter for $275, and did it myself in an afternoon.
Any new name in town? My perception is that 2022 is pretty much web2 stagnation due to a lot of things.
Computers: convention vs. configuration; how configurations break reliability
Please rip on my blog post as much as possible
“ … I love
all waste
And solitary places; where we taste
The pleasure of believing what we see
Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.”
I imagine "spammer" here is not an email spammer, but either e.g. a comments spammer (a bot trying to post links in comment forms to game google), or a generalized thought shortcut meaning something like "a bot/botnet crawling a website for nefarious purposes in a high-traffic way with abusive disregard for the site's computational and bandwidth resources".
The Vim enlightenment for me, was to let go of Vim.
Modern IDEs with Vim support: bless you. XCode got finally Vim -keybindings also.
CLion and other IntelliJ -ides have great Vim support, VSCode also.

Sometimes I still use Vim only when editing some old school stuff or just simple files though, for my development journals I still always use Vim.
Except this is more like using a hammer for screws because you've been swinging a hammer for 20 years and don't feel like using a screwdriver.
You can do that right now by subscribing to their Workspace Individual plan.
A lot of people have zero confidence in their ability to troubleshoot things and won't even attempt it. Calling a professional will probably cost $100 just a starting point for a house visit.

So they from that perspective a janky power cord and burnt out motor both fall under the same category of "it doesn't turn on".
How much time spent diagnosing the problem, researching the fix, and finding the right part?

Also, what about the time spent learning all the info and knowledge necessary to be able to do the above?

There is always more to the cost equation than immediately obvious.
I've repaired multiple gas stoves for people. The SiC element which heats up to ignite the gas fails over time. My neighbors were just replacing their stove every time this happened until I showed them how to do it.
Certain vacuum cleaners.

There are still vacuum cleaner repair shops in many cities. But they're often hard to find because they don't have the money to advertise or a web site.

If you're a DIY person, look at Dyson. People on HN like to complain about Dyson vaca because they're expensive. But they're also a good example of right-to-repair.

Mine recently had a problem and I found out that almost every part of it can be ordered online, even though it's older. And when my part arrived, disassembly was simple, and the instructions clear. It even came with new screws.
Not to say what you stated doesn’t make sense but you avoided answering the question completely and just kept swirling around the tangent statement in your first paragraph without going anywhere.
Credit Card Processing Company Exposed 9M Transaction Records Online
That sounds about right.

My mother had a washing machine for 25 years and it had only had a couple of belts replaced.

Her new washer failed within a year, and has been replaced by a washer that has also failed within a couple of years.

Electronics failure in both. The control board is expensive. Not like a $25 belt.
> since computers will be able to translate natural language into machine instructions with 100% effectiveness

So they will translate imprecise natural language to buggy business logic, great. :)

In my experience, between envisioning a new product/feature (at the product management level) and actually implementing it (at the engineering level) there's always the stage where the engineers discover that the PM's requirements and acceptance criteria are not precise enough and there are dozens of edge cases where additional input by the PM is needed in order to decide how the software should behave.

Sure, the AI could recognize those edge cases, ask the PM for what they want, and therefore help them spec out the entire application in natural language. That spec will then become the source of truth, i.e. the thing to version-control. I'm not sure this would be a very efficient process, though. At the end of the day, natural language will always be ambiguous and so, in the same way as the language of RFCs is regulated, one might need to restrict oneself to a more well-defined subset of natural language that avoids ambiguities as far as possible. But then you're essentially back to programming.
"But it's not real censorship unless it's the government doing it! Corporations and institutions can ban/deplatform whoever they want!"

(Well, at least until an 'evil conservative' controls a significant platform, it seems...)
On a basic technical level, it would be not difficult at all.
IMO the challenge would be in getting enough critical mass to make the manufacturing cost effective, and getting enough people to reasonably believe there would be future support for it, therefore making it an attractive consideration for purchase.

So the issue is not the technology so much as the distribution and marketing of it.
Kitchenaid Stand Mixers. The parts can be bought from Kitchenaid directly for reasonable costs and from my experience no special tools are needed. Lots of videos online too.
Islam is not a race.
Marriages.
We had them on a repeating task to call our shop on Wednesday and remind our forgetful technicians to take out the trash. Sometimes the techs would still forget. I was thinking about giving Magic access to the CCTV to verify it actually got done so we could have a non smelly work space...

We eventually canceled due to the phone calls being billed at 15 minutes each (which is still fair, we are too small of a company to justify the cost).

Overall, i think something like magic needs to stay for the long haul.
Sharpening is one of the few things on all those life skills lists that's actually worth it. Stones aren't expensive, it's reasonably doable although way harder than people say.
Ah good to know
See also:

Ask HN: What is your strongest contrarian opinion?

60 points by shamoo on Sept 17, 2021 | 375 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28565919
Carrot weather app is very customisable to show the information you want
I just checked on 2 homes and yes they made changes to the estimate. I can prove this because I scrape their site and store the data for display in Home Assistant.
Sorry to disappoint you, but https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/blob/184056d3112cef8...
From a fun / teaching / learning point of view - I get it. As others are saying however, the secondary learning that you want is that sometimes a database is the right solution.

For example, a student could learn that they need to use a API (with all of the API problems: latency, server down, throttling, blah blah blah) when all they really need to do is download a sqlite file, hook up sqlite to their application, run one query - and have a vastly simpler application. This could be as little as 10-50 lines of code. Never underestimate the power of shipping data via sqlite files.
Forestry has been on my radar for a long time but never had a need to use it https://forestry.io/

The big draw for me is it's just Hugo/Gatsby/Jekyll underneath, and the output files can be delivered anywhere that will host static files (CloudFlare pages does this really well, as does Netlify).
I find that you generally get a better shave with a safety razor as well. The multi-blade razors which are commonly sold today get clogged up with beard hair and scratch my face.

I purchased my razor about 15yr ago now, and am still working through the first $25 worth of razor blades.
As of yet nonexistent tech just supports my point.
That just pushes the problem onto the user. There is lots of well-documented problems with C versioning. Just saying "don't change the size, order, alignment or layout of anything ever" isn't a great option, it can be done (Microsoft has done a pretty good job) but it requires infinite foresight and is very expensive.

Swift allows libraries to naturally evolve while maintaining comparability. Most things that you would expect to work (add a new field) just work. Good luck adding a new field to `jmp_buf`. It's effectively impossible to do in an ABI compatible way. The fact that C's ABI is stable/backwards compatible doesn't help.

Basically a backwards compatible ABI is the absolute minimum requirement for making backwards compatible libraries. Having more options removes heaps of complexity for library authors.
Just do stock rotation. Bring stock in, release old stock to hospitals and such where it will be used right away.
Artificial Intelligence Is Stupid and Causal Reasoning Will Not Fix It
Your first sentence:

>Maybe it will help people actually do their due diligence and demand more from the companies they invest in.

Does that refer to investors (like Sequoia Capital etc) who owned shares in ftx etc? Or to ordinary account holders who were just using ftx as a broker?

I ask because those are two very different groups. And I think people's sympathies rest almost entirely with the second group...
Yes, fairly straight forward with normal tools:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pxODVsgHRfc
I do about an appliance repair per year for me, one of our parents, or a close friend. It’s shocking to me how ready someone is to buy a $900 washer instead of replacing < $50 of wear parts. (Many times it seems they never even ask themselves “could this be fixed?” In the most recent case, the lint trap and duct needed a good cleaning, no parts.)
How about: https://developer.apple.com/weatherkit/
I frequently repair tools.
If a handle breaks, I have a bamboo plant that I periodically harvest from that makes surprisingly good handles for e.g. garden shovels.
My wife had a pair of small scissors with a broken handle that I repaired with lashings saturated with CA glue.
Stuff like shower mats can be sunned out to kill mold, but they will eventually just need to be thrown out.
Does something in this raw data distinctly separate collaborators from "common people"? It's a travesty that they left the devices and the data behind, but I can't see anything in the article clearly stating that the 2632 identities found in those devices either all belonged to collaborators, or was "tagged" in order to discern them. So how would the Taliban positively identify them without having access to the complete refined/processed database that these raw biometrics went into?
I watched my dad do handy things when growing up so I have a default mindset that anything can be fixed or at least jury rigged.

Today even though most such repair is not worth my time per se, I want my son to grow up seeing dad figure out how to do stuff so he also expects himself to be able to figure out whatever comes up.
I used it last week. They did a bunch of calling around searching for out of stock parts. Still works great.

83489 is their sms.
> not the times the US president did things like suggest to the public, on live national tv, that consuming bleach could cure Covid.

That's not what he did: https://eu.statesman.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/...

"A question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposedly we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. (To Bryan) And I think you said you’re going to test that, too. Sounds interesting, right?"

He continued.

"And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful."
likely inherent to the design
My Merkur safety razor broke after 10 solid years of use - I guess I over-torqued the handle/head screw and pulled the screw out of the head.

I have been meaning to drill out the head and use a bolt in the spirit of this thread, but will probably just buy a new one.
> I think the workers on Ellis Island often made up last names when speaking to hurried immigrant families.

This is not true. The Ellis Island workers recieved the names in written form from the ships passenger lists. But many immigrants changed their names after arriving in the US for convenience or to better integrate in society.
"I read the loss of the Rose Bowl through the work of the French philosopher Jean-Pierre Dupuy, a longtime Stanford professor and a friend and mentor to former Gov. Jerry Brown."

Really?

Anyway, I always considered the Big Ten a Midwestern conference, not an Eastern one. USC and UCLA joining the Big Ten puts me in mind of Woody Hayes in tie-dyed tee shirt.
One search on internet and a YouTube. 10 min.

The video was published by a parts supplier, their site had a model search. 5min.

Knowing how to fix things, handy with tools and stuff...been working on that a little over 40 years.
This is a big one. Disposable razors are an epic waste of money. I spent £30 on a good quality safety razor which will last forever, and spend another £4/year on blades.
I don't disagree that using the right tool for the job is important. In fact, that's kinda what I was going for - don't try to make the problem fit your preferred tool, rather, use the right tool.
Show HN: The most fake Commodore 64
Lots of the more analogue electronic stuff that stopped working "for no reason" can often be repaired very easily (might require some basic soldering skills.) Just opening up the device and following the wire will often reveal that it is something banal, like the wire not being tightly secured somewhere.
Then why would you recommend a device that breaks and the company offers no support for repairs?
I'd have the same concerns. Fortunately our research is in several peer-reviewed journals, like the Lancet and the Journal of Clinical Medicine. We list our research on our homepage: https://geneticure.com/#article
> There are few things that a government can do which is unforgivable, and brazenly lying to the faces of its citizens is one of them.

That's a pretty naive position and by its definition one shouldn't trust any government on earth.

Government exists to provide glue for societies when individual motivation is insufficient or harmful.

These situations are generally pretty serious (national health crisis, economic failures, intelligence, war) and thus require triage.

"The first casualty when war comes is truth" isn't actually pointing to an absolute devaluing of truth: it's noting that suddenly there are many other goals that people perceive as more important than truth. E.g. preservation of national sovereignty, prevention of casualties, maintaining civil morale, etc.
Vintage Telephone 1950's. Using the Telephone Party Line [video]
Programmers and UI designers should observe there two common use cases:

1: dates close to the current date, such as flight dates, meetings, delivery dates.
2: birth dates and similar (wedding date, start of employment), often a long time ago.

For “near future” dates, date pickers are somewhat handy because you can see the day of the week, and glance the number of days compared to other dates.

For date of birth, date pickers are useless. You don’t need to pick anything, you will just know it by heart in most cases and you can type it fast enough.

Programmers like date pickers, because you can’t choose nonexistent dates, you can’t confuse day/month number, and you can’t enter ambiguous 2 digit years. And they like consistency, so the same design is used for all use cases.

Please realize that consistency != usability.
If it's not a consumable item, and it's not completely worn out beyond the point of no return, it can almost definitely be repaired. Exceptions are rare.
He won't see that. It is best to email hn@ycombinator dot com to reach Daniel.
Big part of the appeal is keeping your hands on the home row all the time, without having to reach for the arrow keys. HJKL for movement makes all the difference for keeping focus on the writing, not having to reach out to the arrow keys when wanting to move or communicate motion.

This combined with the excellent text manipulation features right there from the keyboard, without leaving to menus, being able to just flow with the Vim -keybindings, and in all different IDEs and editors that support Vim -support, it's just great.
If a car is 5 meters from a wall going at 80mph straight into it, the car will 100% crash into a wall.

No ice conditions needed.

The example with icy conditions though is that once your car noticeably lost traction you know perfectly well you are no longer in control and that there's nothing you can do to save yourself rather than betting on getting lucky.
It makes sense. One queen gives birth to all the young so they’re effectively all the same unit. Protecting the unit means survival, letting the hive get destroyed means certain death in the winter for any individual who survives.
It may be just a bug. Amazon is to big to do such things on purpose.

There is a valid case to use the cam while Support:

Fraud detection (hehe. Several accounts, but same face. Duked!)

If you need to show something.

Some people, like hearing & speaking disabled, may want to see & be seen for support reasons.

After disabling, is it still possible to use the app? If not, it's a bug. If yes, then start another ticket and ask them that :)

I don't want to have the big 3
ad-network-providers on my phone (ama, Goog, meta) as they're earning money with insights into the users. Because of that, I disabled all official apps on my phone and if I'm in need to use their service, I use my browser. Browsers also allow the most functions, that an app may want. But usually, I'm asked whether I want to allow. The best part, if I do not consent, the website still works as intended (because the main target of a Website is stationary desktop and a lot of computers aren't equipped with a cam. So, no cam, must still work).

So, it's up to you. You have the power of choice. Use it wisely you must (master Yoda, 247 BC)

Still terrifying. Do you have a possibility to apply some kind of a videofilter to hide your face? On Samsung I can blur the background and do some basic effect, if I reconcile properly.
I suspect it’s gpt-speak.
What people individually think has little to do with who is considered an ally and who is considered an enemy. These are decisions made by our "representative" governments which ultimately shapes society. In a democracy your voice is defined by what you vote for. As people keep voting for people that are more than happy to buddy buddy with anybody, regardless of how awful, so long as they are geopolitically obsequious, then that is the status quo of "society."

And there will always be war for the same reason there will always be murder. I would argue that rather than trying to frame a society around the concept of preventing war, it may be more pragmatic to try to minimize the impact of war such that otherwise minor conflicts between two nations don't end up dragging the entire world to war, for what is always framed as some greater good, but invariably just results in exponentially more death and destruction with far less than nothing to show for it.
What are some examples of muslim majority countries that allow women to not wear one?
If you can afford them, pay to win games can be fun. Games are more fun when the players are invested. The alternative "play thousands of hours to win" favors children and the unemployed and is unfair in its own way.

Having a high end mtg deck is like having a membership at a private golf club, it gives you access to other players who also are willing to invest good money into the game and take it seriously. My main modern deck is something like $500 and in theory I could sell it and get some of that back down the road. I couldn't imagine shuffling a deck worth 100k+ though.
Nice revisionist history, but the CDC and other government actors where absolutely telling people not to use masks, buy masks and were in fact confiscating privately owned masks from people early in the pandemic.