Hacker News: selfie

New comment by selfie in "Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles"

selfie — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:13:54 +0000

Build it and they'll come? At least one end has to be somewhere people want to be, right? A line from London into the countryside makes sense. You can live in the countryside and work in London. A line from nowhere to nowhere is a chicken/egg problem. Now if one end is an Airport and another is a new community who will have jobs at the airport, that might work.

New comment by selfie in "The failure of the Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee"

selfie — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 05:20:12 +0000

Yeah, you can pick a year of your choice, and find a story like this.

New comment by selfie in "Tell HN: Ever think of applying to YC? Do it this weekend for S24"

selfie — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 23:14:27 +0000

Yeah, if PG takes me out for a steak, I will believe it :-). An email that cost $0.000001 on SES, nah!

New comment by selfie in "Tell HN: Ever think of applying to YC? Do it this weekend for S24"

selfie — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 23:13:14 +0000

That means nothing though. If you (N=1) apply to Google and get rejected but take a Facebook job, it doesn't mean people shouldn't apply to Google.

New comment by selfie in "Who's hiring that's impactful, doesn't suck, and isn't morally bankrupt?"

selfie — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 07:55:56 +0000

Gitlab?

New comment by selfie in "Build Club AI Accelerator (Sydney, AU, Then SF)"

selfie — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 05:06:36 +0000

https://www.buildclub.ai/accelerator

Perhaps is the better link. It talks about the perks.

New comment by selfie in "Show HN: Vapi – Convince our voice AI to give you the secret code"

selfie — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 03:21:03 +0000

I think so - I started doing a binary search >50000 -> <75000 -> <65000 -> <55000 -> <52500 then wondered if it was 50000, so guessed that. It said I was right, well done, the answer is indeed 02563!

New comment by selfie in "Show HN: An app that takes your money if you don't reach your goals"

selfie — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 01:27:06 +0000

Do you take the money, or do your users split it between their friends and you take a cut?

The take the money one has been done (Beeminder, and others probably), but sure different flavours are welcome.

The split with friends I haven't seen. That would be pretty cool, especially if you can do it without needing to pay banks a txn fee, or perhaps a tiny one (maybe you take a 5% of profits fee from participents, or similar). Crypto is the other option (!).

The split with friends is great becuase

* People less likely to lie to friends than a SaaS. Which is good for both parties.

* Social motivation and financial motivation.

* If you lose it's like losing a game of poker with mates, not a big deal (as long as you kept the stakes reasonable).

Build Club AI Accelerator (Sydney, AU, Then SF)

selfie — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 01:24:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.buildclub.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40082539

Points: 1

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New comment by selfie in "Insatiable: A life without eating"

selfie — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 01:16:05 +0000

Spill the beans. That statement by itself sounds like the byline of a 5G/flat earth crank.

New comment by selfie in "Covid infections are causing IQ drops and years of brain aging, studies suggest"

selfie — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:36:57 +0000

Except chronic fatigue / long covid could affect IQ as tested. It might be that you have the CPU but the power supply isn't up to voltage, so to speak, so the CPU has to run slow.

New comment by selfie in "Sleep apnea: Mouthguards less invasive, just as effective as CPAP"

selfie — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 07:46:22 +0000

I guess it's kinda funny

New comment by selfie in "Sleep apnea: Mouthguards less invasive, just as effective as CPAP"

selfie — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 08:00:39 +0000

I assume you are not aware of it, because of being asleep. Maybe it happens in deeper sleep?

New comment by selfie in "Sleep apnea: Mouthguards less invasive, just as effective as CPAP"

selfie — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 07:59:29 +0000

Can you refute this?

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/can-mouth-tap....

New comment by selfie in "Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown"

selfie — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 22:42:13 +0000

Vercel!! Watch out for you bill now this is being hugged. Hopefully you are not using like they pester you to do.

New comment by selfie in "How I prepare a talk for a tech conference (2022)"

selfie — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 22:40:43 +0000

Yes this sort of thing! There was one posted on HN back where the speaker says, in the middle of other context fairly deep in, recognise this number? 3.14159265358779323846264338327950288419, and then shows that it isn't actually Pi, (one of the digits is swapped, he may have swapped a different digit to me). Nice joke because is reminds us to challenge assumptions too!

New comment by selfie in "The Battle to Define Mental Illness (2010)"

selfie — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 22:37:14 +0000

So, this: https://xkcd.com/435/

New comment by selfie in "How I prepare a talk for a tech conference (2022)"

selfie — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 01:04:27 +0000

I like a joke that is about the subject matter. A subtle pun that makes a smile but doesn't interrupt the flow at all. Another way to make it entertaining is make it a story. Forget jokes, make it about how you had to mop up the leaks in the server room as an intern before getting to the rack that had the crashed hard disk. Or something.

I remember the first meme like presentations back in 2002 at work and I hated it. It's like stop learning, now you have to find this picture funny (maybe it was some star wars reference, and I haven't watched them), and we will get back to it. It was cringe!

New comment by selfie in "Htmx and the Rule of Least Power"

selfie — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 00:33:07 +0000

Render is a different thing in both places. Server Renders is ... formatting a sequence of bytes. Hopefully your templating engine is optimized and it is a low cost operation. Rendering on the client is obviously more involved as it requires actual rendering on the screen using the graphics drivers.

On the other side of the scale, React has overheads like a virtual dom.

It is a complicated question as to what is most performant, who bares that cost, and so on.

New comment by selfie in "Show HN: My $1k self-install, off-grid solar backup build for renters"

selfie — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 22:23:13 +0000

How is self install possible if you are not a licensed electrician. Something like this could shock someone if not earthed properly, for example.