Hacker News: paulette449

New comment by paulette449 in "Geneva makes public transport temporarily free to combat pollution spike"

paulette449 — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:09:28 +0000

Yes, true here in Lyon, 2hrs away from Geneva.

New comment by paulette449 in "Yes I Will Read Ulysses Yes"

paulette449 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 13:53:52 +0000

I read Ulysses last year and enjoyed it but this "companion" book was indispensable:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/ulysses-annotated-revised-and-e...

But also the free (online) Joyce Project with hyperlinked annotations:

http://m.joyceproject.com/chapters/telem.html

I wish I'd bought this version when It came out. It's pretty expensive now.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-cambridge-ulysses-the-1922-...

And I cannot recommend Frank Delaney's Re: Joyce podcast enough, sadly he passed away before completing the project

https://blog.frankdelaney.com/re-joyce/

New comment by paulette449 in "The Zach Attack Scratch 'N Solve Puzzle Pack"

paulette449 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:08:02 +0000

Great to see they've hit their target but I've been burned so many times on Kickstarter, I just walk away.

New comment by paulette449 in "Google is burying the web alive"

paulette449 — Tue, 27 May 2025 07:54:54 +0000

Thanks for sharing. I've been thinking of creating a non-revenue online guide to my new city, Lyon, France, but I've been concerned that I'd only be feeding the AI machine.

New comment by paulette449 in "Secret Deals, Foreign Investments: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm"

paulette449 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:34:25 +0000

"the level of popular education is actually declining. What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked on as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect."

New comment by paulette449 in "Show HN: Make your YC application stand out (Spring 2025 edition)"

paulette449 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 18:10:11 +0000

Early commenters, the site is satire. Pls don't read a snippit and rush back here to vent.

New comment by paulette449 in "Show HN: Make your YC application stand out (Spring 2025 edition)"

paulette449 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 18:09:09 +0000

You should've read on. The site is satire. The "quote" from the Truthfully AI "founder" is hilarious.

New comment by paulette449 in "The next time Wikipedia asks for a donation, ignore it (2022)"

paulette449 — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 02:41:29 +0000

After reading this one-sided article, I checked out the rest of the website. Sadly I did not find evidence to support their statement that they "have no allegiance to any political party or tradition." And this article is a prime example. Ever since the right discovered that Wikimedia makes donations to "social justice" groups, they've been gunning for it. This hit piece is one of many.

New comment by paulette449 in "Ask HN: Has anyone opened a physical business (store, coffee, food)?"

paulette449 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 20:02:38 +0000

Great advice, thanks

New comment by paulette449 in "Honeycrisp apples went from marvel to mediocre"

paulette449 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 17:09:45 +0000

I have a potted miniature lime tree that spends 8 months of the year outdoors and the NYC winter indoors. It's easy to maintain and every year it produces more limes. This year I got at least 30. They taste unbelievable especially versus store purchased. Highly recommended.

Ask HN: Has anyone opened a physical business (store, coffee, food)?

paulette449 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:16:06 +0000

I'm retiring early next year (early 50s, with sufficient income, not rich) and looking to do something completely different that scratches my entrepreneurial itch but also has a social, non-office element to it. I'm always inspired when I visit Japan by the small, owner-run speciality businesses you find everywhere.

I'd love to hear from those who've done similar things. What went right and wrong and what would you do differently.

Thanks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42297615

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New comment by paulette449 in "Kenya and "the decline of the greatest coffee" (2021)"

paulette449 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:03:21 +0000

> A few years ago, my girlfriend and I started a small coffee shop in Hanoi as a fun side project

Did it end up being the fun side project you expected?

New comment by paulette449 in "A day and night running round a track"

paulette449 — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 05:50:40 +0000

For anyone in the northeast, i can recommend Three Days At The Fair [1], the longest duration of which is actually 6 days and the course is a 1 mile loop around a state fair ground in New Jersey. I did a mere 12 hour option on the final weekend, and the suffering of those competitors on their 5th/6th day is something i will never forget. Sideways leans, some quite pronounced, others moving backwards to alleviate pains developed moving forwards etc.

Why do they do it? Well, the camaraderie is incredible. Much of the course is lined where runners have pitched their tents/campers/chairs and the support, sharing of food, stories and beer make it a unique event. The shortest duration is 6 hours and you’re not obliged to run more than a single loop/mile if you don’t want to.

[1] - https://sites.google.com/site/njtrailseries/fair

New comment by paulette449 in "An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker"

paulette449 — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 08:22:57 +0000

I have just finished reading Carmilla [1], a vampire novella by another Irishman, Sheridan LeFanu, which pre-dated Dracula by 25 years. I much preferred it to Stoker's book.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmilla

New comment by paulette449 in ""Traffic Violence": The Grifters Go After Cars"

paulette449 — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 03:12:51 +0000

Not a comment on the term being discussed but i do have a problem with the charts used in the article: “vehicle deaths per million residents …” and “US death rate from motor vehicles per hundred million miles traveled”. Both graphs show a declining trend. But of course that’s how an unscrupulous writer could hide rising data, by charting against an even faster trend and not just showing data in the raw. i don’t know if that was a deliberate ploy here but it did annoy me that i had to go and find out whether deaths by cars are actually increasing or not. So i googled and discovered:

“Drivers Hit and Killed More Than 7,500 Pedestrians Last Year, Most Since 1981, New Projection Shows” [1]

And by that point i was just as bothered by the questionable use of data as i was by the questionable use of language.

[1] https://www.ghsa.org/resources/news-releases/GHSA/Pedestrian...

New comment by paulette449 in "Safer roundabouts are replacing traffic signals (2023)"

paulette449 — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 19:42:20 +0000

I spend a lot of time near Manchester, VT where there are a handful of roundabouts including two in quick succession, one of which is as small as it is busy. The problem, based on my observations, is that many Americans have no idea how to use roundabout, nor how to signal through them. I feel unsafe every time I'm in the roundabout and have nearly been T-boned multiple times by people feeling they have the right to enter the roundabout regardless of existing motorists already being there. The Yield sign before the roundabout is ignored.

New comment by paulette449 in "I didn't touch a thing – just some cables and a monitor – and my computer broke"

paulette449 — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 03:40:08 +0000

A guy i worked with called me over to try to help him figure out why his apple wireless mouse wasn’t working. I replace the batteries, restarted bluetooth, restarted the computer - i’d spent quite a bit of time working thru my mental checklist when the guy just started moving the mouse furiously, as if he expected that would re-animate it, and the cursor. It didn’t. But out of the corner of my eye i noticed the cursor moving on a screen two desks away, a desk whose occupant was out to lunch. I asked the inevitable question and the guy admitted that his mouse had stopped working, figured the batteries had run out (they had) and he was in a hurry so he grabbed somebody else’s mouse instead. To this day i don't know whether i’m more flabbergasted that he omitted to mention this when he first called me over, or that he thought the act of placing a mouse in front of his computer was all it took for the pair to communicate.

New comment by paulette449 in "Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More"

paulette449 — Wed, 22 May 2024 19:00:09 +0000

Hiding behind a throwaway account allows you to make false statements, unless you can substantiate the "most of the money" comment. Wikimedia Foundation breaks down its expenditure here:

https://wikimediafoundation.org/support/where-your-money-goe...

I'm sure what poster is referring to was "discussed" previously in the link below. I use parentheses because it descended into flames pretty quickly:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33170710

New comment by paulette449 in "A billionaire dinner party points to a political realignment in Silicon Valley"

paulette449 — Wed, 01 May 2024 21:36:15 +0000

Exactly. The "realignment" in the article heading is clickbait. The article describes a group of right-leaning tech leaders meeting over dinner at one of their houses.

New comment by paulette449 in "Amazon is filled with garbage e-books, this is how they get made"

paulette449 — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 01:31:37 +0000

"Dollar General Winklevi"

Amazing