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plibither8on WhatsApp Outage

I'll be that commenter this time, all green here! https://metastatus.com/

plibither8on Veritasium: The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong [video]

Did you just learn this word too from another recent thread on HN? I did, haha!

plibither8on YouTube punishes ad-blocker users with slower videos on non-Chrome browsers

You're getting downvoted, but I was thinking the same thing. Could someone explain why that might not be the case?

plibither8on datetime.utcnow() is now deprecated

> India has half-hour timezones

If that's messy, consider Nepal's timezone that's on the 45-minute mark (UTC+5:45).

plibither8on Thunderbird 115.4.0

Whatever happened to their Android plans?

plibither8on Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers

Yes, netdata FTW! You might need to perform some manual configuration to enable sensor data collection though, like installing `lm-sensors`.

plibither8on Signtime.apple: One-on-one sign language interpreting by Apple

> Here if I understand you don’t get access to support but to an interpreter who will call the support for you. It’s of no interest if you don’t know ASL

I might receive some slack here, but I gave it a try (I don't know ASL). Within 5 seconds of clicking the button, I was connected to a live human, with both my video and sound, as well as the other person's, turned on (although I did have the ability to switch them off). There was no intermediate step to filter out spam calls. I did cut the call quickly though to avoid wasting their time!

plibither8on Signtime.apple: One-on-one sign language interpreting by Apple

Agreed! However, I also wonder what their ratio of spam vs. actual ASL-requiring-customer calls is. Since it's so easy and quick to connect to a real human with comolete audio and video enabled on both ends, won't it be prone to abuse?

The more such a service gets attention from regular media (instead of the niche, targeted audience it aims to serve), I fear it'll be another case of "why we can't have good things".

plibither8on Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager

Yep, that's one of its deficiencies! For me, something like GPT helps in triaging and "cleaning up" bulk of the transactions, with little micro-categorization left to be manually done.

plibither8on Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager

> What software have you used that does this?

I wrote my own script that uses the GPT API. For automating bank transcation downloads, it's just a cronjob that runs ever X hours and scrapes the information from the banking website.

plibither8on Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager

Not to be that guy that tries to force LLMs into everything, but after automatically importing bank transactions, LLMs like GPT are very powerful in extracting information from the ill-formed, non-standard, transaction description, and subsequently classifying it. You can help train it by manually identifying and classifying the first few, and let it do the rest of the job. I've tried it out myself and works well for me!

plibither8on Google Maps Testing New Apple Maps-Inspired Map Style

Interesting. I have an inherent distrust with reviews and descriptions on Google Maps, at least for where I live (India). I usually resort to other services to look for good restaurant/hotel recommendations.

plibither8on Google Maps Testing New Apple Maps-Inspired Map Style

One of my biggest irks with Google Maps is how aggressively it shows pins for hotels, bars and restaurants, even on their search results map. Do users really feel the need for this constant in-your-face advertisement?

But as I type this, I realized Google is primarily an ad business and whatever will drive that revenue will get pushed further. Oh well.

plibither8on Oral cancer drug kills 100% of tumors in vitro and in animal models

> Look at that molecular structure. Incredible.

I first thought it was a joke because of the two "HN" bonds hah, pardon me.

plibither8on The subtle magic of tsnet

Yes! This is way more readable, thank you.

plibither8on Thunderbird 115 “Supernova”

I think that's an exceptionally reductive and cynical take, without providing any real reasons for the hate, or how this update will reduce your usability of the application.

plibither8on Tell HN: iOS converts units for highlighted text

Staying consistent with their brilliant UX and smart design choices, I like Telegram's approach/solution to chat bubble selection. The first long-press selects the entire bubble, bringing up message-specific options, and second long-press on the substring initiates finer text selection.

https://telegram.org/blog/scheduled-reminders-themes#redesig...

plibither8on The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

The linked article is 10 years old, and the situation on ground has changed a lot, specifically due to concentrated efforts by the central government to prevent tax evasion. I'm not aware of the figures, and a majority chunk of income-earners still doesn't pay income tax, but it's most definitely much less than the 97% that you mentioned.

Tax evasion as I know it, and as has been informed to me by many financial consultants I've talked to, is now increasingly difficult. You really need to have back-channel contacts with the right people and spectacular know-how of the loopholes to pull it off. I'm talking about large-scale evasion here, but much of it stands true for small-scale as well.

plibither8on HSBC to buy SVB UK for £1

Hah, if it's split then they essentially bought it for 50 cents.

plibither8on HSBC to buy SVB UK for £1

Can someone explain who pockets this £1, or how this is formally transferred? Is it at all transferred or is the price just for bookkeeping?

plibither8on Universe 25, 1968–1973 (2022)

Fredrik Knudsen did an amazing video on the "Mouse Utopia Experiments": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgGLFozNM2o

plibither8on Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?

Just commented about my setup here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34207417 :D.

Definitely worth the slight effort, for all the gains.

plibither8on Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?

I've been using and paying for Bitwarden for almost two years now. However recently I purchased a Raspberry Pi, so now I've completely shifted to self-hosting Bitwarden (using Vaultwarden[0]) on it. On top of it, I've attached a custom subdomain to the server through Cloudflare Tunnel, so even behind non-static IP address it works well (with SSL).

No privacy or security issues now since I own all my data, no subscription fees, and no complaints till now with the self-hosted setup. Definitely would recommend!

[0] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

plibither8on India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN

I appreciate the humility, but would suggest updating your original comment to reflect this, since it is one of the top comments on the page. If the edit button is not there, you can reach out to dang via email.

plibither8on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2022)

Location: UTC+0 to UTC+7 (India) Remote: Yes (preferred)

Willing to relocate: Yes (depending on location)

Technologies: Fullstack web development, Node.js, TypeScript, React, HTML/CSS/JS, Golang

Résumé/CV: https://resume.mihir.ch

Email: hn-username at gmail

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Hey, Mihir here! Currently I'm a final year undergrad at IIIT Delhi, and set to graduate in May '23. I'm looking for full-time opportunities.

I'm primarily a fullstack engineer (Node and Go), with a focus on frontend. I've previously interned at Devfolio[0], Pabio (YC S21)[1], and Sourcegraph[2]. Apart from that, I've been an author, maintainer and contributor to various popular opensource repos[3] (such as the browser extension Refined Hacker News ;)).

I go by 'plibither8' on most networks. Visit my website[4], and connect with me on LinkedIn[5].

[0] https://devfolio.co

[1] https://pabio.com

[2] https://sourcegraph.com

[3] https://github.com/plibither8

[4] https://mihir.ch

[5] https://linkedin.com/in/plibither8

plibither8on WhatsApp goes down for users globally

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

Might not be the best "source", but there's clear evidence of it being done in the past.

plibither8on Show HN: I have built a library of screenplays for movies and TV shows

This is brilliant and I've been looking for something like this for a LONG time, thank you!

Quick request: the experience would be even better if we could search for words/phrases within the screenplays of a particular episode/series/movie. Many times I randomly have a not-so-popular dialog in my head from a TV show or movie, and then find it incredibly difficult to find which particular scene it was from.

plibither8on Taildrop

What a coincidence, just mentioned the comment you're refering to on a separate comment on this post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33187258

plibither8on Taildrop

Hah, these dismissals remind me of the comment on Dropbox's initial Hacker News post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

plibither8on Lessons learned building an ML trading system that turned $5k into $200k (2019)

Previously discussed (914 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21647038