Hacker News: onefuncman

New comment by onefuncman in "Accounting For Developers, Part I"

onefuncman — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 17:22:45 +0000

> conceptual meaning consistent across all accounts.

Except programmers quite often get the conceptual meaning wrong and incorrectly generalize further. Credit and debit just mean increase or decrease in account balance. You cannot know how it affects liabilities or assets without knowing what type of account is being modified.

New comment by onefuncman in "Accounting For Developers, Part I"

onefuncman — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 17:19:21 +0000

> When an account is CREDITED, this always represents an increase in liabilities[0] (or equivalently, a decrease in assets).

> When an account is DEBITED, this always represents an increase in assets (or equivalently, a decrease in liabilities).

This is where you're wrong. You can credit and debit Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable. If you credit AP, you're increasing liability, if you credit AR, you're increasing assets.

New comment by onefuncman in "The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN"

onefuncman — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 07:16:50 +0000

Try https://colab.research.google.com/

New comment by onefuncman in "Botspam apocalypse"

onefuncman — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 06:54:31 +0000

I want to run a honeypot for doing more research on bots and the economics for them, but I get bogged down quickly in the planning stages. I should just start with a vulnerable wordpress site or something.

New comment by onefuncman in "Alpine Linux is reducing dependencies on Busybox"

onefuncman — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 06:21:16 +0000

My golden rule of sys admin is if you can't fix it, you reformat and replace it.

If you reproduce the error, congrats, now you get to figure out where to file the bug report with reproduction steps.

New comment by onefuncman in "“No convincing evidence” that depression is caused by low serotonin levels"

onefuncman — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:40:33 +0000

almost like life is an MVP that could pivot at any time

New comment by onefuncman in "Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company"

onefuncman — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 06:47:40 +0000

Whoops! As a result of your action, your userbase has now hyperfixated on follower counts as a proxy for status.

New comment by onefuncman in "Employee’s unwanted birthday party nets him $450k after lawsuit"

onefuncman — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 17:41:45 +0000

TFA links to another article on the same story that has more details, claiming that the violence was entirely imagined / hypothetical

https://linknky.com/news/2022/04/14/man-awarded-450k-after-f...

New comment by onefuncman in "We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA"

onefuncman — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 23:33:15 +0000

A few (but not too many) years ago I inherited a custom compilation of python2.x to make unicode strings work properly. You made the right call, lol.

New comment by onefuncman in "The new White House memo on zero trust is a strong signal"

onefuncman — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 20:53:55 +0000

You're missing the point. There is no internal network in this new model.

New comment by onefuncman in "Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates"

onefuncman — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 21:33:22 +0000

This didn't happen all of a sudden in Sept 2021. The flu vaccine has always been about harm reduction and began seeing widespread civilian use in 2007-2008.

New comment by onefuncman in "Show HN: I learnt how to use WebSockets, made something beautiful/terrible"

onefuncman — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 21:16:27 +0000

what broke?

New comment by onefuncman in "Pelosi defends stock trading by lawmakers. ‘We are a free-market economy’"

onefuncman — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 17:00:41 +0000

It's actually not. Any product making medical claims is regulated by the FTC under deceptive advertising. https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/statutes/federal-trade-commi...

New comment by onefuncman in "Release of AWS CDKv2 and Construct Hub"

onefuncman — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 01:58:37 +0000

> maybe this has improved?

Yes, you can recover a Cloudformation stack from any status nowadays. Ex: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/cloud...

New comment by onefuncman in "Security issue related to the NPM registry"

onefuncman — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 02:26:54 +0000

are you really using private keys without a passphrase in 2021?

New comment by onefuncman in "How to build a second brain as a software developer"

onefuncman — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 22:21:02 +0000

I go back and forth between doing this on a daily or weekly cadence, but it's also the only thing I've found to keep being useful over time. I always get a wild hair to try and write Markdown or something but really I just end up writing text and it's fine. The most meta I ever get is adding additional keywords for me to search later.

New comment by onefuncman in "Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California"

onefuncman — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 20:53:57 +0000

Shouldn't Signal be required to produce all the encrypted data stored for this user, in case law enforcement are able to get the associated private keys off the suspect's phone?

New comment by onefuncman in "Show HN: Visualizing a Codebase"

onefuncman — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 22:09:25 +0000

I used Gource to visualize a hackathon, we had everyone start from a templated repo so it was really easy to show the entirety of participants coding activity (albeit at a macro level)

New comment by onefuncman in "How I store my files"

onefuncman — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 19:25:20 +0000

I put my 1Password vault on Dropbox specifically because I can install both apps via iOS store on a new phone and bootstrap my setup with just 2 passwords.

iCloud is actually too hard to recover in case of hardware loss, I don't recommend it to anyone.

New comment by onefuncman in "Good Riddance, TurboTax. Americans Need a Real ‘Free File’ Program"

onefuncman — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 15:23:17 +0000

https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes found via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26330902

for an actual e-file it's a lot more complex, is called MEF https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/modernized-e-file-progr...