sheeeep86
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1 year ago
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on: Ask HN: What book had a big impact on you as a child or teenager?
I really liked the book 'Sophies world' it was a nice overview of western philosophy, written from the perspective of a teenager that is learning about the topic.
sheeeep86
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2 years ago
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on: Essence: A desktop OS built from scratch, for control and simplicity
Nice and detailed demo. What will take this from toy to a product to daily driver?
I love the idea of all application windows being able to be moved into tab groups. Are there window managers that do similar things?
sheeeep86
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2 years ago
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on: Amazon announces 'Bedrock' AI platform to take on OpenAI
Used this and Github Copilot. I turned code whisperer off even though it's free because it was causing extra mental load to look through all these bad recommendations.
sheeeep86
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3 years ago
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on: Cigna saves millions by having its doctors reject claims without reading them
You can attack the management, but also you should look at the people doing the action. If medical doctors participate in such a scheme I feel that the medical schools should strongly consider revocation of degrees as an option. Clearly these doctors are violating their oaths.
sheeeep86
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3 years ago
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on: Consider Using CSV
You could have the advantages of both worlds by having one json object per line. You could stream process, and you could structure more complex objects and have consistent escaping.
sheeeep86
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3 years ago
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on: Talk = GPT-2 and Whisper and WASM
It's interesting that the english language model is loaded and it's clearly trying to pronounce things in a spanish way.
sheeeep86
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3 years ago
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on: The Exceptionally American Problem of Rising Roadway Deaths
I would love to see these numbers correlated with the number of large pickups that are driving on the roads. These types of cars offer no pedestrian safety and are more and more common in the US.
sheeeep86
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How would I send 1 dollar to everyone on Earth?
This is the most likely route I can think of which could actually work
sheeeep86
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3 years ago
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on: Making iron from sand [video]
Thank you for this, I always knew that if I had to restart civilization from scratch I would have to go without anything digital because I understand the way thing work abstractly, but I could never make it happen. At least now I can think back on this video and wonder what magical tricks he did during those moments when the scene fast forwarded and magically progress was made.
sheeeep86
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3 years ago
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on: California went big on rooftop solar. Now that’s a problem for landfills
I disagree, not installing solar and heatpumps will increase the energy consumption of the house, potentially for the entire lifetime of the building. Installing them makes it cheaper to live in the building, increases the home value and pays off in years, so really it should be a no brainer. Some countries offer special financing for the costs of energy efficient building, this would be a better option at addressing your concern than removing the requirement.
sheeeep86
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What small library or tool do you want that doesn’t exist?
A tool to quickly collaborate on an email response, like googöe drive but for a short period of time and throw away.
We used to ise etherpad and pther tools and drive for bigger emails, bit they are both not ideal.
sheeeep86
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4 years ago
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on: Big cars are killing Americans
Busses and trucks are operated by professional drivers with more training and higher standards for vision and health.
These drivers tend to know how to stay out of dangerous situations and how to react when they do come up.
sheeeep86
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4 years ago
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on: Big cars are killing Americans
I have also experienced this buying behavior first hand when a colleagues spouse had an avoidable accident with the kid on board. The thought was - My partner cannot drive, so I need to buy a bigger car so that they dont endanger my kid.
The US needs regulation and more driving training to protect the other traffic participants. While we are at it also safer bike lanes and walk ways and crossings.
sheeeep86
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4 years ago
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on: Show HN: I wrote a local-first notes app for Mac, with data longevity in mind
Looks beautiful and well thought out, I look forward to trying it out
sheeeep86
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4 years ago
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on: How men live without working in America
Not working is only part of this, many of the people are still working, just not in traditional jobs. Investing and selling drugs both need some amount of effort.
I have seen some other statistics about the hourly earnings of drug dealers, etc and the numbers were quite low for low ranking dealers.
sheeeep86
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5 years ago
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on: The Consequences of Moving from Industrial to Financial Capitalism
This is the best summary of the article.
There are very few actual numbers in this, just a lot of generalizations about what happens in the US based on reading the news from afar.
sheeeep86
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5 years ago
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on: Show HN: Getting AWS STS Credentials from GSuite Credentials
This is great, I don't understand why there are not more reusable cloud formation templates and similar building blocks that make this easy to do.
sheeeep86
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5 years ago
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on: The Economics of Christmas Trees
We got our 1,7m large Christmas tree in Germany for 13 Euros, I simply don't understand how it could have been worth to let it grow for many years at this price.
sheeeep86
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved your quality of life?
How so?
sheeeep86
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5 years ago
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on: Atlassian moving to cloud-only, will stop selling server licenses
Where is the data hosted? Somehow it feels like the devs are located close to the data and don't notice the lag. And for me in central Europe, some requests must travel across the world and back.
