HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

horstmeyer

131 karma · joined September 26, 2017

submissionscomments
horstmeyer··on Being Poor (2005)
I think it's probably close to the time the market closes, so they give away food cheaper that they would have to throw away otherwise.
horstmeyer··on A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of SpaceX
Money buys politicians.
horstmeyer··on Praise for Alpine Linux
That's cool! It is already possible to allow installation of many wheels in a hacky way: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3969#issuecomment-2473819...

But that's a pretty bad idea in most cases I guess. Good to see that Musl might be supported properly.

horstmeyer··on Praise for Alpine Linux
It's pretty popular to install Python C-extensions from packages, called wheels. Otherwise you need to compile from source, which means you need build dependencies. So Python and Alpine doesn't really go that well together. In my experience debian-slim as Docker base image is also small, and less painful.
horstmeyer··on I made a $2M funeral startup and became a monster
You weren't a monster, just an effective capitalist.
horstmeyer··on As Amazon deforestation hits 12 year high, France rejects Brazilian soy
There are some people with the means. Someone like Jeff Bezos could pull it off, instead of or in addition to shooting rockets into space. He could offer Brazil jobs (moving some Amazon centers there for example), he could raise the cash to "rent" the Amazon, and he also has the tools at his disposal to control that the agreement is honored, by analyzing satellite data for example. He might even be able to turn that into another profitable business, using the same technology for monitoring crops or similar. If he offers a good enough package, Bolsonaro could not refuse it.
horstmeyer··on Motorcycle airbag vest will stop working if you miss a payment
Just watch this. Should be all the evidence you need.

https://youtu.be/6nOwDAel38g

horstmeyer··on One Year of TILs
I like haroopad for editing markdown, especially the option to export styled html is nice. Another nice editor (with a different scope, it's a note taking app) is Joplin. You can even paste an image and it will get inserted into the markdown as file.
horstmeyer··on Calibre – E-Book Management
I'm pretty sure it does for me. I think it's probably a package that it uses. I'll check tomorrow and let you know.
horstmeyer··on Calibre – E-Book Management
Okular can open ebooks. Maybe it does what you want.
horstmeyer··on My three-year-old has taught me the value of talking to strangers
I found that very poetic and beautiful.
horstmeyer··on Florida state of emergency with millions of gallons of “radioactive wastewater”
Thank you! Very interesting and frightening.
horstmeyer··on A CO2 capture solvent with exceptionally low total costs of capture
Yes and trees only store CO2 while they are alive. Once they die and rot, it's released back into the environment. Also monocultures with fast groing trees that ideally can be harvested come with their own problems. Planting trees is good way to do something now, but it's not going to solve the problem forever.
horstmeyer··on Florida state of emergency with millions of gallons of “radioactive wastewater”
Do you have some more information about where those old ponds are located? Thanks!
horstmeyer··on Young Goldman Sachs bankers ask for 80-hour week cap
Goldman & Sachs is a notorious money making machine that's optimized to squeezing as much money as possible out of everything they deal with. They will do everything they can get away with to achieve that. Where do you think the 50 million bonuses are coming from? And of course individuals who sign up for it know what they're getting into and why.
horstmeyer··on Young Goldman Sachs bankers ask for 80-hour week cap
No sympathy. They are horrible people doing horrible things for detestable motives. Nobody forces them except their greed and vanity.
horstmeyer··on Podman: A Daemonless Container Engine
Could you maybe provide a small example of the relevant part of the gitlab CI definition? I assume you run kaniko inside a Docker container on the runner?
horstmeyer··on macOS to FreeBSD migration a.k.a. why I left macOS
I don't use Windows, but from the comments it seems that Windows just forcibly reboots after some time. I'm sure your Fedora workstation will ask you to reboot, but not just do it without you triggering the action.
horstmeyer··on AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock
This is very funny and very sad at the same time!
horstmeyer··on Plugin hybrids in new emissions scandal: test show higher pollution than claimed
They have to carry the batteries around which are heavy.
horstmeyer··on Tools for Better Thinking
> 1. It could easily come across as "my time is more important than yours".

Well yes, if someone comes to me to ask for help, that means they weren't able to solve it by themselves, but expect me to have the skills, knowledge or experience to help them solve it. So my time working on this problem is obviously more valuable than theirs, because I'm expected to fix something they weren't able to.

So I think it's fair to ask them invest the time to provide a proper description of the problem, before I invest time to help them.

horstmeyer··on Gitlab 11.10 Released
What about just using `docker-compose exec` to get into the running API container, and then executing the tests inside of that, against localhost? Not as pretty as properly testing from an outside container, but seems by far the easiest way to solve this problem.
horstmeyer··on Show HN: Flatfile – a drop-in CSV / XLS importer for web apps
What? There is a pricing link at the top. And why would you prefer to have information hidden from you until someone else chooses to show it to you? Maybe a product is prohibitively expensive? I personally like to be able to view the pricing before I bother going through the sales pitch.
horstmeyer··on Show HN: JQBX – Social Listening Web/Mobile App
Oh, I just noticed that the currently playing track is shown next to a comment. So I can figure out the first case. But if I'm e.g. driving and can't check the playlist right now it would still be useful to be able to check later what was playing at a specific point in time.
horstmeyer··on Show HN: JQBX – Social Listening Web/Mobile App
I have a feature request :) Would it be possible to show the time a track has started to play in the history? Someone made a comment about a track he was going to play next, but I only read it ~20 minutes later so I don't know which track he was referring to. Maybe this would also be interesting in cases where you can't check the current playlist right now but want to know which track was playing at a specific time.
horstmeyer··on Show HN: JQBX – Social Listening Web/Mobile App
Very cool! I'm impressed! Even just as a replacement for the Spotify UI.
← PreviousPage 2 of 2