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Ask HN: If you had a time to work on an app but don't have time what would it be
As the title mentions, If you had a week or 2 to work on a tech/app, but don't have the time, what would it be? If you have any ideas, please share them as I am looking for inspiration on what to work on during my available time.

Note: Tech stack is not a limitation.
It's been breaking by life.

"Your browser is obsolete. Go shoot yourself. Have a nice day."
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Building REST APIs with Platformatic DB
Never heard of this before, but I have fond memories of my grandmother sipping Greek coffee with a piece of Cretan gruyere.
For fun I stitched together a map of my hometown from older fire insurance maps ( taken in 1914 ) Ironically much of the downtown area was destroyed by a fire two years later.

https://www.joeycato.com/stuff/paris-texas-1914/
How do you read the cat microchip with the flipper?
And flying to another planet that happens to be completely inhospitable is somehow cheaper or easier?

When you realize there are no hospitable planets, besides earth, within our solar system - you will realize there is no escaping the problems we have created here on earth. No, they must be solved, not avoided.

There is no future where any of us alive today, or for many, many generations (dozens, maybe hundreds or thousands, if it's even possible) will be capable of traveling to another system with potentially hospitable planets.
Sorry if I wasn't clear, I was agreeing with you! Yes precisely for indexing (plus just a fixed column size that wastes no space).
Not having enough work is what you’d have with an influx in unskilled labor.

Again. I’m not trying to say that immigration will cause Hoovervilles or that it’ll cause a similar situation. You’re correct - the Great Depression was a very different situation. I’m just trying to bring an analogy of a situation with some of the same structural similarities. It’s not a perfect analogy but it’s meant to highlight the risk of laissez faire immigration (which I’m generally more in favor of) coupled with poor planning / bad policies on the infrastructure side. I think we’re in agreement that there are structural risks at opening up the border in certain ways at the same time as we have a clearly bad housing situation and matching political crises.
You can inspect, alter and debug any website too. (Minification makes this annoying but there are ways around this) The refresh button does delete all your modifications though.
I want to learn to type telex on Vietnamese so I made a super simple app: https://0-sv.github.io/viet-typing-tutor/

I still have to add a lot of words though, any feedback is welcome
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>> To fix the system we need the folks inside it to understand the system.

Nope. The American justice system does not control itself. It is bound by laws and codes of practice dictated to it by outsiders, those good-idea people who's entire understanding of law comes from a highschool history or civics class they barely remember. It is as bad as it is because the general public honestly want it that way. Rough and violent justice is baked into American culture as much as guns and alcohol.

>>Part of that is education.

I agree, but it isn't the people in the system that need an education. It is the voting public outside who need the better understanding.
The more industrialized the nation the more women are able to control how many kids they have, and in many cases have to have fewer because they need to be able to work full time.

This isn't "children of men", this is educated workers choosing to not have kids and instead have a higher standard of living.
> Don't like it? Use Privacy Pass or pick another set of compromises

Nah. I'll just not use the website. They obviously don't want me there anyway.
> evidently a poor platform for files that need transactional updates made to them by multiple users at once

What makes this the case?
Also, some people try to somehow make you feel guilty because you have no money problems. Others who have not much to spend are very thankful for a small practical gift.
My respect to the author for the principled position.
People appear to be working to live and not living to work! This is an outrage!! They need to be working harder and longer and improving our sacred GDP
I mentioned something not volatile that I knew would trigger you to go off on some rant about the backing. That's the part where your trope is really tired.

> But not as a percentage of transactions.

Source? In your eyes, 100% of crypto is criminal, but that's not reality, by a long shot. So, if you're going to call it all criminal, I want a source for that. I know my transactions aren't and I pay all my taxes on it, so do what you will with that data point.
A single Chrome install is easier to identify than a single Firefox install with default settings. Firefox is also an outlier in terms of global browser traffic (3-5% for normal websites).
A lot of that can go out the window when they are placed in the position of power (rather than the professor) and are surrounded by existing officers. If I remember right, there are some studies about police group dynamics as a factor in the type and severity of force used (group size was positively correlated with level of force).
Understandable somewhat - I always wondered like how they afforded all the bandwidth etc to host all those images and allow the direct linking. As with reddit, nuts to all the lurkers. Want to use a service, at least log in to it even if not going to pay.

I was eternally grateful for that direct linking option, very useful on forums etc and even paid for an account. Then they removed the pay option years ago. Never understood it. I want to give you money! They had their reasons and it simplified some things but whatever.

Someone mentioned reddit buying them, yeah that should have been on the table from the start when reddit started hosting their own images, but I guess someone shot it down in the name of independence.
If you're using a database, use something like Postgres that has this functionality built in[0]. You can store IPs, networks, etc. in a native format that has all sorts of functionality available out of the box.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-net.html
See for example, the group arrested for selling devices that allowed people to take control of their own Nintendo Switch systems[1].

Although, after digging into the story, it looks like they may have also operated an illicit app store containing cracked IPs, so that situation is a little murky.

[1] https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/04/nintendo-hacker-ga...
I wonder where the root of this is. Puerto Ricans do this as well "Café con queso"
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. I think what you're saying makes a lot of sense.
Do you believe the reasons why the current model is failing creators is for lack of good technological tools? Because I personally believe the issues are more anthropological than technological which is precisely why I don't have much hope.

Better tools can improve the situation probably, I can't say for certain because I never dived into this space but I don't think they'll solve all the issues.

I'd love to be proven wrong though. I really do.
Website design main page. Bright vibrant neon colors of the rainbow slimes, slime business, kid attention grabbing, splashes of bright neon colors. Professional looking Website page, high quality resolution 8k
I only accepts tokens of friendship in most expensive currency: time. I do hate getting presents and vastly prefer to just go for a beer or barbecue or something
Good luck opening that can of worms on Hackernews
I’m quite fond of the EV1 - in some ways, it was the predecessor to the Chevy Volt (which also was unfortunately discontinued). The Volt powertrain wouldn’t have been possible without GM’s innovation, which also inspired many other manufacturers to invest in R&D on EV and hybrid technologies.

There’s a documentary called “Who Killed the Electric Car” (2006) which is fantastic. EV1, you have a special place in our hearts!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F
I'm from Bulgaria, and I would've thought I would know about this (one of my grandmothers is from Greece), but would check.

I was actually looking for more different ways to flavor my coffee - not just heavy cream, or butter, but something else.

So might try both yours, and what the article suggested!
> As in you were in that very thread?

Looks like it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/patientgamers/comments/11vw6qp/post...
There are many less inhumane ways of treating clients than CF does. Just because you needed them to protect your host doesn't justify their abuse of power.
>I think all the high valuations are money laundering

Yes, but the same can be said of most of the art world, and that has survived for Millenia.
It's not possible for Obama's mother to have been living outside the US 5 years before his birth. She only met Obama Sr 2 years before little Barack was born.

(Not that facts or logic matter to birthers, but anyway)
I actually have the same issue
If it was a solid platform for this I imagine SQLite would work already!
It is mostly the dark current (which is reflected in the values you would get if no light is hitting the CMOS sensor) which is affected by temperature. However, its effect scales with the exposure time. Since night time astrophotography requires long exposure times, this would require recalibration (see also @bdigiifh's post). However, for typical daytime use the effect is much less significant.

Some CMOS sensors or the surrounding electronics components on the PCB can heat up significantly while the sensor is in use.

If the sensor has a configurable gain (which is the hardware amplification applied before digitizing the voltage measured for each pixel), then you probably want to characterize the pixel-to-pixel variation for each gain level.
This could dramatically increase the value of a degree for a foreigner. I'm curious what some of the effects would be--an increase in tuition rates for foreign students? A corresponding reduction in the number of US students who are able to get admission to US universities? Obviously some of these effects could be limited by regulation, if desired (i.e., universities could be restricted from admitting more than their allotted number of foreign students). Is it right to concede to the university our shared public power of granting residency?
Relevant: https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2022/papers/p17-blacher.pdf
I think that the most remarkable thing about the website is exactly its cultural force, even while being near universally maligned by traditional media and the "polite" sides of the internet. No where else can you "get away with" saying something that you couldn't elsewhere, and suffer absolutely 0 consequences for voicing actually controversial opinions. Everything there is anonymous, unverifiable, and yet oftentimes it rings more true than what you might here from a "reputable" source.
There is a remarkable paragraph in the report:

"On March 9, SVB lost over $40 billion in deposits, and SVBFG management expected to lose over $100 billion more on March 10. This deposit outflow was remarkable in terms of scale and scope and represented roughly 85 percent of the bank’s deposit base. By comparison, estimates suggest that the failure of Wachovia in 2008 included about $10 billion in outflows over 8 days, while the failure of Washington Mutual in 2008 included $19 billion over 16 days. In response to these
actual and expected deposit outflows, SVB failed on March 10, 2023, which in turn led to the later bankruptcy of SVBFG."
Poor guy needs to realize the heat will melt the plastic insulation and cause the wire to fall apart where it is suspended.

Also, the insulation will not be up to the need and he will get shocked if he touches the hot, melted insulation.
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Website design for slime. Professional looking, high-quality, 8k, brightest neon colors of the rainbow slimes, splashes of neon colors in background, kid attention grabbing, eye catching
If you need a quick analysis of the bill, I tangentially wrote one on my blog:

https://mzuo.ca/2023/04/04/analysis-of-gpt-4-competence-in-a...

The intention was to analyze ChatGPT-4's performance on dense legal language.
(No relation to the poster, ChumpGPT, though it's amusingly coincidental.)
Yes? Political liberalism goes well beyond the narrow understanding that exists within the US, wherein the label has grown to be largely incoherent/redefined to mean whatever is mainstream within the Democratic Party.
Hey Luca!

Is the data stored in all regions at all times?

Also, what about pricing?
I usually have 3 decent (not super cheap, but nothing expensive, 40-80€) pairs at a time, they usually last around 10 years, with taking them to get fixed once or twice.
In the nonobvious interactions with tech department, when I was a kid, I discovered that jingling keys would change the channel on my grandparents' TV that used an ultrasonic remote.
> Rust is a small blip in the radar compared to C/C++ even Pascal,

c++ sure, but Pascal? rust is being actively integrated into the linux kernel and windows libraries. Thats not even including surrealdb or any of the other crypto projects out there.
The Xbox 360 still lacks any meaningful software hacks and it will be old enough to vote in November.
Wow! Gotta visit a place in LA that sells these - https://www.google.com/search?q=caf%C3%A9+con+queso+los+ange...

Thanks!!!
> Most Linux and Unix systems include Perl by default

So what's important is that the system already has the language installed and so it's not worth considering options you need to install yourself.
A TDCS device. Trans-cranial Direct Current Stimulation, mostly experimental, somewhat proven for short-term depression and cognition improvement. Motivation was my solution would be simpler and easier to control as well as include triple safety.

I had little trust for the Chinese IC steered devices nor the early US attempters at pop market that refuse to describe even their safety approach.

Pleased with my personal results. Would not openly recommend doing it, because the DIY route as well as adopting TDCS do require that you can competently read medical studies. At least half of those I browsed fail good science test even at first glance.

And then of course the manufacturers and sellers are even worse, such as they are quite good at parroting misquotes of study results for marketing and PR.

Next plan is build an ECG and my own medical ultrasound, although with that one it is probably best to wait for about 5 to 7 years till the new-tech ultrasound generators get to market.
Machine Learning, Linear Algebra, and More: Is SQL All You Need? [pdf]
> What kinds of things are you paying for, though? Consider there's a subtle, unintentional message if you insist on paying for their $20 burger and drink: "This $20 is a big deal to you, but not to me." Unless they are dirt poor, they can probably pay for themselves for most things.

I mean if you are stubborn enough you'd find anything innocent to be malicious but I'd wager most people would think nothing of it unless you do it every single time and also refuse reciprocal offers
I'm trying to decode a cursor value from Twitter response data to save for later and continue pagination from that point. (All relevant data is provided in the gist)

Most data in the response is straightforward, e.g. `VXNlcjoxMzM0NDM4MTczMzc2NTMyNDgw` is just b64 and resolves to `User:1334438173376532480`, but I'm not sure how to go about decoding the cursors.

At first glance both top/bottom cursors look to be b64 encoded as well, e.g. `HCaGgNGh3pi80C0AAA==`. I put them into https://base64.guru/converter/decode and it tells me it's of type *application/octet-stream*.

What steps should I take to decode this value further?

I know Twitter uses Apollo, so looking through their docs on cursor-based pagination https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/pagination/cursor-b... I see that they suggest using previous values in the data to create a unique cursor. I've tried using a bunch of values from the data as the crib text in CyberChef, but I'm not getting anywhere.

target profile: https://twitter.com/whatcatsdid
endpoint: `/UserTweets`
b64 decoder: https://base64.guru/converter/decode
general tool: https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
Reading about Sun Ray reminds me of Bryan Cantrill's oldest online DTrace talk [1], particularly the story of how a GNOME 2 stock ticker applet overloaded a Sun Ray Server, and how Bryan used DTrace to find the culprit.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgmA48fILq8
In Brazil it is common.
The root is maybe that fat makes caffeine to spike less and last longer.
This very much reminded me of the cheese in coffee (actually any hot beverage) culture in Colombia [1]. The same basic premise that the cheese softens but does not melt. Imparts a little extra flavor to the coffee but the best part for me is the cheese absorbs the liquid resulting in an awesome tasting cheese with unique texture. The first time I was introduced to this I thought the locals were trying to trick a silly foreigner into putting cheese into their coffee. Another favorite of mine in Colombia in putting achiras (like small cheesy bread sticks) in coffee [2].

[1] - https://www.roastycoffee.com/cheese-in-coffee/

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achira_(biscuit)
I'm disappointed 0b doesn't work.
Where would you like to store and read your newsletters?
Before I started taking mitigation steps [0] yes. Sometimes my monitors or keyboards would shut off or get frozen and wouldn't work until I power cycled them. I broke my Ethernet port once when I blindly stuck a USB cable into the Ethernet port and gave it a big zap. I had a lot of other gremlins which I can't conclusively blame on ESD but I eliminated other possible causes. ESD protection isn't perfect and degrades every time it's used. I was giving multiple painful shocks per day.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35744965
We are a part of the world, not a foreign entity. From the point of view of evolution, if our existence eliminates a bunch of other species, that's how natural selection works.
This misanthropic view of us as intruders in nature is just a throwback to weird ancient cults, it is just basically religion, not reason.
Maybe!

If you hate writing cmake/make/vcpkg/conan bs, and want to be able to git clone and build (almost) any project, without installing anything beyond rust+cargo... rust will be nice to use.

If you hate the idea of class hierarchies to try and describe behavior and would prefer to attach behavior to any type through traits... rust will be nice to use.

If you like the idea of having generics checking on said traits at compile time with sensible messages rather than the duck typed macros also termed templates with their horrendous error messages... rust will be nice to use

If you like the idea that the compiler verifies for you at compile time the concept of ownership while giving out references, ensuring 1 mutable reference and 0 immutable references, or N immutable references are allowed, while also ensuring the variable being referenced lives longer or as long as the references... rust will be nice to use

If you love spending time debugging invalid references/pointers, races, and more then rust isn't going to nice to use.
> hardly any agriculture is sustainable

humans have been doing it for 1000's of years. that is a much longer record of sustainable success than anything else we know of.

there isn't any particular reason to think that industrial agriculture will fail any time soon. the worst case scenario is that it becomes more expensive over time. we spend <5% of our GDP on food, so even a 10X increase in raw production cost would be survivable.

we massively over produce food (30% of corn burned as gasoline off the top, another large percentage of soy and corn used as animal feed, huge amounts of waste) and the biggest nutrition problem we have is obesity.

the US has huge amounts of underutilized marginal land simply because there is no reason to use it. we already have way too much food.
This is correct. It proves you're willing to jump through hoops and not think enough for yourself, since being creative often means diverging from the grading criteria.
I am pretty sure I had the same keyboard and plasma globe!!!! IIRC, you could also get the keyboard to play when you set it on top of the SCSI external CDROM drive that came with my mac 2400c.
Should, and modern code probably are. However there are a lot of old construction that doesn't meet modern standards.
My dad's car had velour interior. Anytime the humidity was below 50%, expect the car to zap you and to be zapped touching door handles. I assume there are/were numerous gas station fuel fires from cars with velour upholstery.
I said that because SEO (or your entire reply) has nothing to do with either the OP or my post said, your reply sounded like an argument, sorry if I misinterpreted.

But please don't change the topic to something irrelevant.
So, if somebody so wishes to take down a website they dislike, we should just put up with it? If a state actor DDoSes a journal documenting war crimes, we just ask them nicely to stop?
I always took out my earphones or turned down/off speakers while doing computer modifications. I want to hear things like that fans are spinning, how busy the hard drive is if the screen is not yet working... in a computer repair shop I noticed others didn't do the same and that's when I realized that I was subconsciously doing this in the first place. Nowadays I do less of that messing around, but also there's SSDs and quiet laptops. Either way, yeah I totally get you.

Relevant / you might enjoy: ping -a
> On March 9, SVB lost over $40 billion in deposits, and SVBFG management expected to lose over $100 billion more on March 10.

March 9th and 10th were the Thursday and Friday before SVB collapsed.

On March 8th, Goldman Sachs advised SVB to go public with non-binding stock commitments [1][2]. The stock dropped, the commitments vanished, and then it plummeted. Because SVB was pretending its 70¢ bonds were worth $1, it had clearly lost the faith of big investors, and it couldn't go to the Fed; it was illiquid and insolvent.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/7e7fdddb-724c-42fd-98ee-5d7248d53...

[2] https://ir.svb.com/news-and-research/news/news-details/2023/...
Is there anything else you would consider as a serious alternative to python for filling this niche of scripts greater than 25 lines
> All that it shows is that you had enough money to pay for 4 years of college.

No, it also shows you can show up on time for those years, and regularly complete a series of reasonably complicated intellectual tasks on a deadline.

> If that were the only criteria then holding on to a job for 4+ years should count for 1000x more than a college degree, because at least you are accountable for results.

No, college is far more standardized, and the students have their performance evaluated throughout, which can then be easily provided in a digested form.

The main issue with college is that many people who could complete the requirements can't, only because they don't have the money.
The first miata was 2,200lbs, the current miata is 2,300lbs
This butchering of statistical reasoning is so poor I have to assume it is a troll

But in case it’s genuine, consider vast differences in gun ownership, homicide rate, and… honestly so many other things it’s just annoying to list them.
I think you're probably right, but at the same time, I'm finding myself a member of that second group now that it's been framed that way.
> I don't think it's realistic for you to expect your jeans to last a lifetime.

> I buy decent jeans once a year.

WHAT? I have jeans I got 10 years ago and are still good. And they weren't even expensive