Hacker News: TwelveNights

New comment by TwelveNights in "Interactive Hiragana chart with audio"

TwelveNights — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 06:23:53 +0000

Mandarin is a spoken form of Chinese. So Mandarin and Cantonese, for example, share the same character set (Chinese). There's also traditional vs simplified Chinese, technically; they're similar with some differences in how they're written. Japanese also has some differences which can be confusing because a lot of application developers just use the Chinese character sets for kanji: https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/

One other thing about Chinese is that TV shows and movies usually have hard-coded subtitles while airing because the spoken versions of the language can be very different from one another. Including the text makes it more accessible to a wider audience regardless of what "dialect" is spoken in the show.

New comment by TwelveNights in "CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking news”"

TwelveNights — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 19:18:44 +0000

I've always thought that Twitter adopted the same line of thinking, preventing tweets from being editable.

New comment by TwelveNights in "I started a paper website business"

TwelveNights — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 20:15:15 +0000

I like using paper to journal about my day or write about random thoughts I might have that I'd like to flesh out further through writing. A few inconveniences of writing it though is that you might want to selectively share some stuff from time-to-time, lack of ability to add media (though a portable printer kinda solves this problem), and having a limit of space, relying on indexing journals when they fill up. A lot of the caveats are solved by privately blogging, though I do miss writing instead of typing everything.

Something like this is almost a sweet spot of keeping the paper version as a "draft copy" while being able to enrich a digital version of your journal. As someone in the thread mentioned, being able to have private pages would likely encourage people to try it out for their journalling purposes. Otherwise, the project looks amazing!

New comment by TwelveNights in "The Endless Work of Trying to Win Yourself a New Life"

TwelveNights — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 23:55:37 +0000

There was a TV show in Japan where a man had to stay in a room until he managed to win $10000 of value in sweepstakes. I wouldn't say you can make a full-time job out of trying to win sweepstakes, since he ended up staying in the room for about a year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasubi#Denpa_Sh%C5%8Dnen_teki_...

New comment by TwelveNights in "Sodium rutin extends lifespan and health span in mice by 10%"

TwelveNights — Mon, 31 May 2021 23:46:55 +0000

I have heard of some people experiencing sensitivities to MSG, but as the exception and not the norm.

New comment by TwelveNights in "Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer"

TwelveNights — Mon, 31 May 2021 00:30:36 +0000

The Persians also have an expression for "drunkenness and truthfulness", masti o rasti. مستی و راستی

New comment by TwelveNights in "std::latch"

TwelveNights — Fri, 21 May 2021 17:18:23 +0000

The ptrdiff doesn't have to be signed. I'm pretty sure negative numbers aren't used in this context.

New comment by TwelveNights in "[dead]"

TwelveNights — Mon, 17 May 2021 17:28:39 +0000

I really hope that the actual study gives more details about how this research was conducted. This article is way too sparse and seems more like a marketing post for the company that did the research.

New comment by TwelveNights in "DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized"

TwelveNights — Fri, 14 May 2021 16:23:12 +0000

One way I've seen discussed on HN is by sending varying amounts to N different accounts, where some are owned by you / affiliates and others are not. In a sense, paying for obfuscation of which accounts are actually owned by you.

New comment by TwelveNights in "Why I Work on Ads"

TwelveNights — Thu, 06 May 2021 20:33:51 +0000

I've always thought that the value provided was in comparison to old-school advertising techniques, such as through physical media or broadcast-style presentation formats. Nowadays, even if some Youtube ads seem like a crapshoot, it's still much more focused than television.

New comment by TwelveNights in "Establishing Twitter's Presence in Africa"

TwelveNights — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 18:47:17 +0000

HN has always felt rather US-centric and IMO it really reflects in the response that this type of news gets.

For Twitter, increasing its international presence and talent pool is a big win. The community stands to benefit in the opportunities the tech giant can provide.

New comment by TwelveNights in "Volt: A reactive web framework where your Ruby code runs both server and client"

TwelveNights — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 06:23:41 +0000

I noticed that too. The copy on the casino site is especially odd.

Opal Ruby to JavaScript Compiler It is source-to-source, making it fast as a runtime. Opal includes a casino comparison compiler (which can be run in any browser), a corelib and runtime implementation. The corelib/runtime is also very small.

New comment by TwelveNights in "The economics of vending machines"

TwelveNights — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 13:58:57 +0000

The only thing missing in OP's calculation is the cost of employees. Maintaining a fleet of 250 vending machines alone doesn't seem very possible.

New comment by TwelveNights in "People expect technology to suck because it sucks"

TwelveNights — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 16:43:27 +0000

While nobody expected books to have variable font sizes, the fact that ebooks do allow it to be adjusted means that people with deteriorating vision may still read them.

New comment by TwelveNights in "Ask HN: Are there bots on GitHub too?"

TwelveNights — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 19:37:59 +0000

Any credentials that are pushed to GitHub are as good as immediately compromised.

New comment by TwelveNights in "Ask HN: Why is the AWS console UX so bad?"

TwelveNights — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 19:35:12 +0000

Not an answer, but there's something about large companies updating their UI/UX that always makes it worse. Same goes with Jira. If there were any specific reasons to doing these re-styles, I'd love to know too.

New comment by TwelveNights in "Ask HN: Does Anyone Want AGI?"

TwelveNights — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 19:05:16 +0000

I'm concerned about the effect on people who find meaning in the work they do. It's similar to how AlphaGo caused Lee Se-dol to retire. Once AI surpasses humans, a lot of work will seem meaningless, even if it previously gave meaning to people's lives.

New comment by TwelveNights in "Being OK with not being extraordinary"

TwelveNights — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 18:43:04 +0000

Looking at extraordinary people can be both encouraging and disheartening. I've always wanted to practice drawing after seeing all the incredible things that extraordinary people can make. However, the more you dig into something, the more that chasm between you and the peak seems to widen.

The one point I appreciate about this article is how it points out that there are physical constraints that come with being extraordinary. With the example of drawing, reaching a higher level of understanding could be possible with more time dedication, though I personally may want to use my time for other purposes.

New comment by TwelveNights in "Ask HN: What’s your daily/weekly routine?"

TwelveNights — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 16:27:20 +0000

- Get up half an hour before the work day

- Coffee, sometimes something to eat from the kitchen

- Lightweight (email, meetings, planning) work until lunch

- Lunch with the fam

- Development / design / planning work for the rest of the day (with some breaks)

- Dinner with the fam

- Chill

The last activity varies from day-to-day, though.

New comment by TwelveNights in "Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis"

TwelveNights — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 17:12:52 +0000

I think in this case the wax lining on the pines would be moreso a property of the object rather than the apparatus through which we see the object.