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laxkon Our interfaces have lost their senses

We can say whatever we want, but aesthetically the site just delivers. :)

laxkon Amazon now discloses you're buying a license to view Kindle eBooks

if paying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.

laxkon Ask HN: How to Safeguard a LLM to SQL Prompt from SQL Injection?

DB Level:

- Create SQL credentials for LLM queries that will have limited access (exclude sensitive fields, tables, views etc) and read-only access.

- Use SQL views to avoid/exclude access to specific fields.

App Level:

- Use SQL linters and treat input as a regular user input.

- Convert the SQL query string into a query tree, escape ALL fields and then assemble the query back.

laxkon Cognitive load is what matters

TL;DR:

- use principles as guidelines not gospel

- optimize for readability/maintainability

- and for the love of all that's holy, don't build stuff you don't need yet.

BTW, any other old-timers remember when we just wrote code without worrying if it was SOLID enough? Those were the days...

laxkon Show HN: TideCloak – Decentralized IAM for security and user sovereignty

How does TideCloak's decentralized key architecture relate to W3C DID standards [1]? Do you see TideCloak aligning with DID Core principles in future development?

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/

laxkon Beekeepers halt honey awards over fraud in global supply chain

You've somehow overgeneralized it. This is of course fructose, but with much better properties. :)

Just facts [0]:

- honey contains antioxidants, amino acids (the building blocks of proteins) and vitamins and minerals, such as Thiamin, riboflavin, pyridoxin, vitamin A, niacin, panthothenic acid, phyllochinon, vitamin E, and vitamin C

- honey also has been successfully used for wound and burn healing. (If you grab a frying pan or burn your hand/skin, apply honey, there will be no blisters or peeling skin.)

- honey consumption reduces risk factors of cardiovascular diseases

[0] https://sugarscience.ucsf.edu/the-sweet-science-behind-honey...

laxkon Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?

The funniest thing about all this is that everyone around knows about the employees’ salaries, except the employees themselves, and at the policy level it is often written that you do not have the right to disclose this information.

laxkon Ask HN: Books That Dramatically Transformed Your Programming Skills

What programming language are you interested in?

Usually you can go to GitHub, find a project with a lot of stars for the language you want and start browsing the code. It is worth paying attention to the general attributes of good codebase: tests, documentation, build automation. If all this is there, then most likely you will definitely find something interesting or new for yourself.

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If you want to remove information: please remove everything about me.

laxkon Ask HN: Time to kill at work; what to do?

5 hours later:

$700M paperclips... :-|

Any docs about Yomi models? What is it about at all?

laxkon Stop Building Stingy Apps

IMO It should be a policy rule of app stores: - The application/service MUST provide a function to export user data (bla bla bla).

laxkon Ask HN: Do you homeschool?

I recommend familiarizing yourself with John Holt, who played a monumental role in promoting homeschooling in the United States. His influence reached many, including my own family.

For more information on John Holt's work and perspectives on homeschooling, you can visit his website. https://www.johnholtgws.com/books-by-john-holt

Homeschooling offers a unique opportunity for bonding with your child and allows you, as an adult, to learn what you might have missed during your own childhood. :) It's a chance for personal growth and development. While homeschooling is certainly a commitment and can be challenging, its rewards are significant. Homeschooled children often stand out from the crowd. They exhibit high levels of curiosity, aren't afraid to ask questions, and can be quite challenging for any teacher – in a good way, of course!

laxkon PagerDuty to Lay Off 7% of Staff; Revenue Officer to Exit

Is it just me who finds PD very complicated and not very intuitive to use?

laxkon Ask HN: What are some good ways to waste time?

2 days! do not click the link.

laxkon Ask HN: Go vs. Python (Docker SDK)

What is the best Go SDK examples for you?

laxkon We're going to need a lot of solar panels

The question here is how to distribute it around the world?

laxkon Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter

In most cases they use automatic follow-up systems and if you answered then the system will stop automatically route to you next e-mails.

laxkon Go 1.16 Release Notes

You can try to use https://github.com/githubnemo/CompileDaemon, it is pretty stable and just works at least on Linux/OSX.

laxkon Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods

Where do you live?

laxkon Ask HN: Will tech be saturated in 10 years?

I would't say that security is a quite sector. Just google IT security innovation and you will see a lot of movements.

laxkon Ask HN: Due to global warming, where would you move to or avoid?

What is about Lyme disease?

laxkon Many Swiss farmers use honor system to sell their products

It is pretty common in Vermont and it is not only about veggies (meat and poultry too). You can just write a check or pay by cash and take change(if you need) from the cash register which is open. It is not based on the honor system (pay as much as you want) but on decency and trust, you have to weight everything and calculate price for goods by yourself but there is no one who is watching you.

It seems to me that such a system makes people show their best. Surely there is a percentage of people who may not act very well, but I believe that there are more good people anyway.

laxkon Beating hash tables with trees? The ART-ful radix trie

If somebody need a good/fast/well optimized Go implementation of the ART, check this out: https://github.com/plar/go-adaptive-radix-tree (disclosure: I'm the author)

laxkon Mailinator launches Disposable SMS

I'm almost ready to run updated version of https://tempophone.com. You will be able to buy numbers and send/receive text messages in private mode.

laxkon Ask HN: HN Is Blocking Private Internet Access

I could confirm, it doesn't work behind PIA if you're logged in but it works if you aren't. Try to open in a private/incognito mode.

laxkon Sublime Text 3.0

Probably they just need to add a Donate button for people who wants give more than license fee only.

laxkon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2017)

    Location: US, California

    Remote: Yes

    Willing to relocate: No

    Technologies: Most recent Python/Django, GoLang, Java, JavaScript, ReactJS, RESTful Web Services, AWS, Linux, CI, CD, Vagrant, Docker, Ansible, VirtualBox, and many others. I'm always willing to learn something new.

    Résumé/CV: https://goo.gl/qzH4rK

    Email: laxkin (at) gmail (dot) com

laxkon Algorithm That Makes Preschoolers Obsessed with YouTube

One solution is to use a chromecast device (or similar devices), you can control everything(content, amount of time) from your phone.

laxkon Algorithm That Makes Preschoolers Obsessed with YouTube

My son is smart enough to change DNS IPs to google public DNS servers and the most ridiculous thing is that he studied it on the khanacademy site. :)